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Gary Oldman in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

Tom Hardy: Ricki Tarr

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Tom Hardy credited as playing...

Ricki Tarr

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Quotes13

  • Ricki Tarr: They're going to kill me.
  • George Smiley: Who is?
  • Ricki Tarr: Your lot. Or their lot, whoever gets me first. I'm innocent. Within reason.
  • Ricki Tarr: Mr Guillam, I'm sorry I was out for so long.
  • [Guillam attacks Tarr]
  • George Smiley: Ricki's been helping us, Peter! He's been telling us all about his adventures.
  • Peter Guillam: He's a double, George! There is no mole! Irina's been locked up by Moscow!
  • [turns on Tarr]
  • Peter Guillam: I stole that, because of you! I spied on my own, because of him! Do you know how that makes me feel?
  • Ricki Tarr: She told me she had a secret, the mother of all secrets...
  • Ricki Tarr: Everything the Circus thinks is gold is shit made in Moscow.
  • [Alleline's telex arrives from London]
  • Ricki Tarr: Read it aloud.
  • Ben: "Personal for Tarr from Alleline: require clarification before meeting your request. Quote, 'information vital to safeguarding of the Circus', unquote, does not qualify, send further information."
  • Ricki Tarr: [laughing maniacally] That's the way, Percy boy! You keep stalling. I warn you, Ben, we've got some really lousy people in this outfit, I wouldn't trust a fucking one of them!
  • Ricki Tarr: [to Smiley] I want a wife and family, I don't want to end up like you.
  • [from trailer]
  • Ricki Tarr: [about Irina] She had information concerning a double agent. What she told me was sensational...
  • Tufty Thesinger: You're supposed to have gone. London station has been onto me, wondering what the hell it is you're doing.
  • Ricki Tarr: Fuck off.
  • Ricki Tarr: [jumps at a butcher's cleaver slamming down]
  • Ricki Tarr: All it said was "We read you".
  • Ricki Tarr: Everything MI5 thinks is gold is shit, made in Moscow.
  • Ricki Tarr: It was good work. I couldn't've done better myself.
  • [from trailer]
  • Ricki Tarr: I needed to see you.
  • George Smiley: Why?

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