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Stella Days (2011)

Stephen Rea: Brendan McSweeney

Stella Days

Stephen Rea credited as playing...

Brendan McSweeney

Quotes6

  • Brendan McSweeney: The bishop is a plain speaking man.
  • Fr. Daniel Barry: I will tell him you said so.
  • Brendan McSweeney: Have you given any thought to the effect these pictures will have on people?
  • Fr. Daniel Barry: Oh, I have, Brendan. They will be a source of enlightenment and entertainment to young and old alike.
  • Brendan McSweeney: Bishop Hegarty might not agree with all that.
  • Fr. Daniel Barry: You shouldn't assume to know the bishop's mind.
  • Brendan McSweeney: I have serious moral objections to this enterprise.
  • Fr. Daniel Barry: Well, go to confession then.
  • Brendan McSweeney: There are people in this town struggling to put bread on the table, and what are we offering them? A picture house!
  • Fr. Daniel Barry: The soul is fed by many things, Brendan.
  • Brendan McSweeney: You still want to go back to Rome?
  • Fr. Daniel Barry: They made a twenty eight year old the head curator after I'd been promised that position. He was an Italian of course. I still have my pride.
  • Brendan McSweeney: So you kicked up a bit of a fuss.
  • Fr. Daniel Barry: OH! I did. And I ended up here.
  • Brendan McSweeney: It could have been worse. You could have ended up in the Aran Islands.
  • Fr. Daniel Barry: Saint Patrick would have had a hard time with you.
  • Brendan McSweeney: Saint Patrick?
  • Fr. Daniel Barry: Wasn't he an outsider?
  • Fr. Daniel Barry: "Into the light of hope... The glorious future, that belongs to you, to me and to all of us."
  • Brendan McSweeney: Saint Francis of Assissi.
  • Fr. Daniel Barry: Charlie Chaplin. The Great Dictator.

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