Mr. Nice (2010)

Rhys Ifans: Howard Marks

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• Howard Marks : A dealer is really just someone who buys more dope than he can smoke. And I have to say, I'm ashamed, I tried to smoke it all. There was just too fuckin' much of it.

• Jim McCann : Now, the Provos can't be involved in any of this shite. If they find out, I'll be shot. You'll be shot, we'll all be fucking shot.

  Howard Marks : So we don't sell the stuff in Ireland.

  Jim McCann : You'd better not be selling anything here. Could you get us some filthy films? Condoms? The priests have made them illegal. They wanna charge us a kid a fuck.

• [Voice over] 

  Howard Marks : The next morning I woke up famous. I was now pursued by the IRA, the DEA, Customs and Excise, the police and the press.

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  Howard Marks : Every time I crossed the border, I'd get a religious flash and an asexual orgasm.

• Howard Marks : Am I a criminal now?

  Judy Marks : If you break a law that's wrong, that can't be a crime. Not in a moral sense. Why is it against the law? Why make something illegal that expands your consciousness, makes you think? Makes you wanna fuck.

• Howard Marks : In the papers they call people who sell drugs pushers. You know, like you've got to try really hard to get rid of it. Doesn't really work like that, does it?

• Patrick Lane : You need to explain this big lot of money?

  Howard Marks : Yeah.

  Patrick Lane : Sounds like you need a bent accountant.

• Hamilton McMillan : Still the same old Howard. What about the ladies? Still having the old success?

  Howard Marks : Look, I'm with Judy now. She's pregnant.

  Hamilton McMillan : But that wouldn't inhibit you, would it?

  Howard Marks : What? Chatting up other women?

  Hamilton McMillan : Not for narcicistic pleasure. For Queen and country.

  Howard Marks : What the fuck for then, Mac?

  Hamilton McMillan : For Queen and country.

  Howard Marks : Are you... asking me to be a spy?

• Howard Marks : [Voice over] 

  Howard Marks : You know, people ask me... They say, "It looks like a glamorous life, being a drug dealer. It looks like a lot of fun." And I reply, "Don't do it unless you are prepared never to be a grass."

• [Voice over] 

  Howard Marks : Don't do it unless you are prepared never to be a grass. However, appearing to co-operate is another matter.

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  Howard Marks : I staged my own abduction, so my Dad wouldn't forfeit bail. You don't forfeit bail if you've been kidnapped.