home

Absolute Power movie line quotes

Tim Collin: Mercy.
Luther Whitney: I'm fresh out.

[after Collin disguised as a doctor tried to kill Kate with an injection]
Luther Whitney: [disguised as a doctor also holding a lethal injection against Colin's neck] I didn't mind when you tried to shoot me at the restaurant. But I did mind when you rammed my daughter off the hill back there.
Tim Collin: [pleading weakly] Mercy.
Luther Whitney: I'm fresh out
[plunges the injection into Colin's neck]
Tim Collin: [groans as he dies]
Kate Whitney: [starts waking up in hospital bed] Daddy?
Luther Whitney: [softly] Go on back to sleep, honey.

[after seeing a smiling/lying Alan Richmond on TV]
Luther Whitney: [snarls] I'm not running away from you, you whore.

Luther Whitney: [seeing a Alan Richmond conference on TV] Turn that off.
Airport Bartender: In just a second.
[prepares Luther's drink, and as Luther seems to really stare at it, the bartender turns the TV off]
Luther Whitney: On second thought, turn it back on.
Airport Bartender: But you just said ...
Luther Whitney: Yeah, yeah. I know what I said.

[upon seeing Seth arrive]
Luther Whitney: So, do you want my confession now, or after coffee?

[after the restaurant shooting Luther's disguised as a cop]
Luther Whitney: All right. Calm down. Let's not lose our heads. Everyone remain calm.
[turns to camera to reveal that he's disguised and then exits through the back door of the restaurant]

Luther Whitney: [yet disguised again goes up to some very fancy building where door guy stands]
Luther Whitney: [gives him a package] For Gloria Russell.
Doorman: Do I have to sign anything.
Luther Whitney: [walking away] No, I trust you.

Bartender Red: Your life could be a whole lot simpler if you could learn to operate a VCR.

Luther Whitney: You're the only family I have.
Kate Whitney: Luther, you don't have me.

Michael McCarty: ...You are a salesman, sir.
Walter Sullivan: Selling sin is easy.

Luther Whitney: Go down a rope in the middle of the night? If I could do that, I'd be the star of my AARP meetings.

Luther Whitney: I've got to go have my pacemaker checked, it has been so exciting talking to you.

Medical Examiner: Looks like he tried to strangle her.
Seth Frank: He strangled her, then he went to the door to shoot her from behind?
Medical Examiner: He also inspected her vagina.
Seth Frank: He did WHAT? Why?
Laura Simon: Maybe he didn't remember that he did her.
Seth Frank: A strong burglar with a weak mind. Obviously another open-and-shut case.

Seth Frank: Why does he bother to dig a slug out of the wall when he knows there's already another one stuck in her head?
Laura Simon: Uh, different from the one in her body?
Seth Frank: Two guns means two burglars. They broke in together, they both went out the window? That's bullshit! And by the way, why did he, or they, go out the window in the first place when he, or they, got in by breaking a zillion-dollar security system?

Repairman: Just part of my job.
Seth Frank: I hate it when people say that. "Just part of my job." It IS your fucking job.

Kate Whitney: Do you know what it's like to be the only kid in the first grade who got to talk about visiting day?

Kate Whitney: Why'd you come?
Luther Whitney: I couldn't have my daughter thinking I was a murderer.
Kate Whitney: No, I mean why did you come to the restaurant this afternoon? You must have suspected something, or else you wouldn't have been prepared.
Luther Whitney: My daughter wanted to see me.

Kate Whitney: Why didn't you go to the police? That's what innocent people do.
Luther Whitney: Sure. And that nice young man who was just here, he'd take my word over the President of the United States's?
Kate Whitney: Well, why should I believe you?
Luther Whitney: Because I swear to you, Kate. I swear to you on Mattie's grave. Yeah, that's right. Your mother's grave, I'd kill myself before I lied about that.
Kate Whitney: Oh Jesus, Luther.
Luther Whitney: Yeah, I know.

Gloria Russell: Allen, did you have sex with her?
Allen Richmond: I... I don't know.
Gloria Russell: Bill, I need you to examine her.
Bill Burton: I'm no gynecologist.
Gloria Russell: I just made you one!
Bill Burton: Oh, Christ...

[Looking at Christy's body]
Walter Sullivan: I'd been married to my Rebecca for forty-seven years. When she died, I decided I never wanted that pain again. One thing I knew about Christy, she was going to outlive me.

Luther Whitney: You heartless whore!

[while staking out the cafe, waiting for Luther to show up]
Bill Burton: [offering] Tums?
Seth Frank: [holds up a roll] Got my own.

Bill Burton: I should've called the police that night but I was weak. You convinced me to stay silent. I regret that. Know this: every time I see your face, I wanna rip your throat out.