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Paul Rudd in The Catcher Was a Spy (2018)

Quotes

The Catcher Was a Spy

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  • Sam Goudsmit: And so, the madness becomes real - We have to kill Werner Heisenberg, and I am to be a part of it.
  • Moe Berg: No one wants to kill Heisenberg.
  • Sam Goudsmit: Yeah? Then kidnap him! Send in spies to Germany and kidnap him.
  • Robert Furman: Ah, you've read too many spy novels.
  • Sam Goudsmit: I've never read a spy novel.
  • Robert Furman: It's not that easy to kidnap somebody.
  • Sam Goudsmit: Ah yeah, you mean killing is easier.
  • William J. Donovan: You're an unusual man Mr. Berg, you speak 7 languages, you're an athlete, you're more than up to the physical requirements of the job...
  • Moe Berg: What job?
  • William J. Donovan: Are you a Jew?
  • Moe Berg: Jew-ish.
  • Estella: And the reason that I love you is you're the farthest thing from a normal man than anyone would ever think of.
  • Moe Berg: I'm good at keeping secrets.
  • Title Card: In 1938, German scientists split the atom for the first time and the nuclear age was born.
  • Title Card: The Nazis gave the task of building an atomic bomb to Noel Prize-wining physicist Werner Heisenberg. In response, the U.S. Government sent a Jewish baseball player to assassinate him.
  • Title Card: His name was Morris "Moe" Berg.
  • Moe Berg: [after wild sex on the piano] That was great, but, uh, I have to go now. I've been invited on a barnstorming tour of Japan. It's important!
  • Estella: More important than me, you mean.
  • [pause]
  • Estella: Say it ain't so, Moe!
  • William J. Donovan: I don't know what god you believe in, Berg, if any. But I'll be asking mine to keep an eye on you.
  • Jerry Fredericks: How are your knees?
  • Moe Berg: What do you mean?
  • Jerry Fredericks: I figure a professional ballplayer's getting 4F. Bad hinges.
  • Moe Berg: My knees are as passable as my Italian.
  • Bill Donovan: It's Probability 101. You multiply the likelihood of the event by the consequence. 5% chance you're going to stub your toe in the dark, you take the chance. Walk to the bathroom without turning on the lights and waking your wife... A 5% chance of losing the war to a weapon like this? You do what has to be done.
  • Sam Goudsmit: Which is?
  • Bill Donovan: We kill Heisenberg.
  • Estella: [saying goodbye] I really wanted us to be perfect. That's all.
  • Moe Berg: We are.
  • Estella: Liar.
  • [first lines]
  • Moe Berg: I've never killed a man if that's what you mean.
  • Martinuzzi: It's not as hard as you might think.
  • Moe Berg: Depends on the man.
  • Martinuzzi: Which man? The target, or the man doing the killing?
  • Moe Berg: [scoffs] Both.

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