Red Sparrow (2018) quotes

Director
Francis Lawrence.

Cast
Jennifer Lawrence.
Joel Edgerton.
Matthias Schoenaerts.

Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to ‘Sparrow School,’ a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.

She made a fool out of you , Ivan.
– General Korchnoi

Every human being is a puzzle of need. You must become the missing piece, and they will tell you anything.
– Matron

Great family, I have.
– Vanya Egorov

The Cold War did not end, it merely shattered into a thousand pieces.
– Matron

You killed me.
– Vanya Egorov
Didn’t I do well, Uncle?
– Dominika Egorova

American! American! Don’t shoot!
– Nate Nash

I think one day you will understand.
– Dominika Egorova
No, I don’t think I will. Some things can’t be sacrificed. We don’t throw people away.
– Nate Nash

You are special. You have a gift like me. You see through people. You see them for what they really are. You do this for me, and I’ll let you go if that’s what you want.
– Vanya Egorov
But I feel you won’t.
– Dominika Egorova
This is what you are meant to do.
– Vanya Egorov
Yes, Uncle.
– Dominika Egorova

You sent me to whore school!
– Dominika Egorova

We’ll always be their whores. Unless, of course, we have something they want. If I were you I’d find something.
– Marta

And what is it you want from me?
– Dmitri Ustinov
All I ever wanted was to be a dancer. Ever since I was a small child. And I would take the bus to rehearsal after school. And I would look out of the windows at the people going about their lives. Going to work, half asleep. And I would tell myself, I’m not like them. And I never will be. Because I’m special I want to be special again.
– Dominika Egorova

You were dancing for them because they were letting you I mean, you see it now, right? You belong to them pretty much your whole life. So, Dominika, work with me. Make this something that you own for the first time in your life. And make them, make them fucking pay.
– Nate Nash
What is it you want from me?
– Dominika Egorova
Whatever you can give us.
– Nate Nash

He tried to rape me.
– Dominika Egorova
And your honor is worth depriving Russia of a promising cadet?
– General Korchnoi
It was never my intention to deprive Russia of anything.
– Dominika Egorova