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Paul Newman, Helen Hunt, Ed Harris, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright, Dennis Farina, Aidan Quinn, and Joanne Woodward in Empire Falls (2005)

Ed Harris: Miles Roby

Empire Falls

Ed Harris credited as playing...

Miles Roby

Quotes10

  • Tick Roby: [to Miles] This is John Voss. Uncle David said we needed a new busboy.
  • David Roby: [to Miles] Take a look at Brian. He looks like a walking appetite suppressant!
  • Brian: [stumbles into back kitchen area] Hey, Miles!
  • Miles Roby: Brian, come here for a minute.
  • [looks at Brian's infected face]
  • Miles Roby: You gotta go home!
  • Brian: What do you mean? I can't help it! Something bit me. I can still work.
  • Miles Roby: Yeah, but people got to eat here.
  • [takes Brian's busboy bin]
  • Miles Roby: Go home!
  • Miles Roby: How does it feel, Francine? To know your husband shot himself in the head rather than spend one more minute on this earth with you?
  • Francine Whiting: What can't be cured must be endured.
  • Miles Roby: What can't be cured must be avenged.
  • Janine Roby: Miles, when you were a kid, did you ever imagine...
  • Miles Roby: What?
  • Janine Roby: I don't know... more?
  • Miles Roby: Don't feel bad, Darlin'. No one ever imagines less.
  • Miles Roby: I think Father Tom is making off with the cash box again.
  • Father Mark: Yeah, I know. Don't worry, Ms. Koss will fetch him.
  • Ms. Koss: Come back here, you old bat! Father Tom! Father Tom! Bring that back!
  • Father Mark: Who says God has no sense of humor?
  • Bea: It's not that I think it's a bad idea, Miles. Like I told you, I'm game. But it's going to mean war. That woman will come after us.
  • Miles Roby: Fuck her. Let her come.
  • Francine Whiting: What you really hate is the fact that I know you better than you know yourself.
  • Miles Roby: Well, maybe I'll surprise you one day.
  • Father Mark: [about Max] He'd steal from God?
  • Miles Roby: Yeah, he's pretty fearless as far as God's concerned. I don't know whether he's an atheist or he just thinks he'll be able to bullshit God like he does everybody else.
  • David Roby: [referring to Walt] Tell me something, Bro - Why do you allow him in here?
  • Miles Roby: I think he just comes in here to make sure I know there's no hard feelings.
  • David Roby: He steals your wife, and there's no hard feelings?
  • Miles Roby: Some sins trail their own penance.
  • Miles Roby: [referring to Max] He becomes a public nuisance when he tires of being a private one.

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