The Rum Diary (2011) quotes

Director
Bruce Robinson.

Cast
Johnny Depp.
Aaron Eckhart.
Amber Heard.

American journalist Paul Kemp takes on a freelance job in Puerto Rico for a local newspaper during the 1960s.

I thought you said you had a TV.
– Paul Kemp
No, the guy across the alley has a TV. I have binoculars.
– Sala

Oscar Wilde once said, “Nowadays, people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
– Paul Kemp

Your tongue is like an accusatory giblet!
– Paul Kemp

How does anyone drink 161 miniatures?
– Lotterman
Are they not complimentary?
– Paul Kemp

Do you smell it? It’s the smell of bastards. It’s also the smell of truth.
– Paul Kemp

There’s no such thing as a liberal. A liberal is a commie with a college education thinking negro thoughts.
– Mr. Zimburger

Do not confuse love with lust, nor drunkenness with judgment.
– Sala

This country was built on genocide and slavery. We killed all the black guys over here and then we shipped in new black guys of our own. And then we brought in Jesus like a bar of soap.
– Moburg

You’re high, you fool! Drink some rum.
– Sala

You can’t fire me, you owe me money, and you better pay it or I’ll go to the roof and turn this place into an insurance claim.
– Moburg

How much do you drink?
– Lotterman
I suppose at the upper end of social.
– Paul Kemp

I tend to avoid alcohol.
– Paul Kemp
When I can.
– Paul Kemp

Why did she have to happen? Just when I was doing so good without her.
– Paul Kemp

Beasts of obesity. Asses that wouldn’t feel an arrow. The great whites. Probably the most dangerous creatures on earth.
– Paul Kemp