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Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor in The Ghost Writer (2010)

Pierce Brosnan: Adam Lang

The Ghost Writer

Pierce Brosnan credited as playing...

Adam Lang

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  • Adam Lang: Spare me the bleeding-heart bullshit! Do you know what I'd do if I was in power again? I'd have two queues at airports: one for flights where we'd done no background checks, infringed on no one's civil bloody liberties, used no intelligence gained by torture. And on the other flight we'd do everything we possibly could to make it perfectly safe. And then we'd see which plane the Rycarts of this world would put their bloody kids on! And you can put that in the book!
  • Adam Lang: Hello. Who are you?
  • The Ghost: I'm your Ghost.
  • Adam Lang: Right.
  • Ruth Lang: Don't worry, he isn't always such a jerk.
  • Adam Lang: [to Rycart on television] You cheeky bugger!
  • Adam Lang: [Makes a flicking gesture at a Dictaphone until it's removed]
  • Adam Lang: I should sound confident. Not defensive, that'd be fatal. But I shouldn't be cocky. No bitterness, no anger, and don't say I'm pleased at this opportunity to clear my name or any balls like that.
  • Adam Lang: What do you think, Ruth?
  • Ruth Lang: I think it's a terrible idea. You'll look as though you're America's whipping boy, running - crying home to daddy.
  • The Ghost: You did a lot of acting?
  • Adam Lang: Some.
  • The Ghost: It must have been good training for politics, acting?
  • Adam Lang: It was a good way to meet girls.
  • Adam Lang: You know the worst thing about my life? You get so out of touch. Everything's done for you. You don't drive, you don't carry money. If I need cash, I have to borrow it from the protection boys.
  • The Ghost: This is the kind of details we need in the memoirs.
  • Adam Lang: I couldn't put that in. People would think I was a complete idiot.
  • The Ghost: No, not at all. No, this shows what it's like being Prime Minister. That's exactly what the readers want to know. How does it feel to run a country? How does it feel to be so cut off? How does it feel to be so hated?
  • Adam Lang: Oh, thanks a lot.
  • The Ghost: And - so loved.
  • Adam Lang: If the British government wants to hand me over to this kangaroo court, then sod them!
  • Adam Lang: What did he say?
  • Ruth Lang: He was having dinner with the Vice President. That bloody Bly woman wouldn't even give him the phone.
  • Adam Lang: So, his marriage to you must have been pretty vital, your knowledge and your contacts in the party.
  • Ruth Lang: And I thought he married me for my body.
  • The Ghost: It's on the Internet.
  • Adam Lang: I've never heard such utter balls in my entire life!

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