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Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer in The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)

Michael Douglas: Charles Remington

The Ghost and the Darkness

Michael Douglas credited as playing...

Charles Remington

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Quotes9

  • John Patterson: Have you ever failed?
  • Charles Remington: Only at life.
  • Charles Remington: Well, I'm a very considerate man. My mother taught me that.
  • [Samuel laughs]
  • Charles Remington: Now, what the hell you laughing about? You don't think I'm considerate?
  • Samuel: I don't believe you had a mother.
  • Charles Remington: Oh, you're right. The devil has come to Tsavo. Look at me! I am the devil.
  • John Patterson: You don't enjoy killing, do you?
  • [Remington ignores the question by taking a swig from his flask]
  • Hawthorne: Then why do it?
  • Charles Remington: Because I've got a gift.
  • Hawthorne: I wouldn't have thought bravery would be a problem for you.
  • Charles Remington: Well, you hope each time it won't be... But you never really know.
  • [after they discover the Lion's Den filled with skeletons, and are terrified]
  • Charles Remington: Lions don't do this. Lions... never had a lair like this. They're doing it for the pleasure.
  • John Patterson: They'll know we've been here.
  • Charles Remington: We have an expression in prize fighting: "Everyone has a plan until they've been hit." Well my friend, you've just been hit. The getting up is up to you.
  • Charles Remington: [melancholy] My life was shaped because someone invented gunpowder, and that's what took me around the world. But the memory that I wanted, that was the family that I lost.
  • John Patterson: You know Charles, you're a rather cheerful fellow when you get to know you.
  • [all start laughing]
  • Abdullah: [gun to his head] I am a man of peace!
  • Charles Remington: You sound like a man who wants to live.

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