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Father Daniel Flynn: Miles, I fell down. I'm old. Shit happens, get the whiskey.
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Miles Miller: This is not a place for a priest, Father. You shouldn't be here.
Laramie Seymour Sullivan: We might need to work on your sales pitch, son. "The El Royale: no place for a priest."
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Father Daniel Flynn: I'm not really a priest.
Darlene Sweet: Yeah, no shit.
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Billy Lee: Howdy.
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Laramie Seymour Sullivan: First time at the El Royale?
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Miles Miller: You have the option to stay either in California or Nevada.
Laramie Seymour Sullivan: I always wanted to stay in the honeymoon suite, even though I'm not currently on my honeymoon.
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[about Billy Lee]
Darlene Sweet: He talks so much he thinks he believes in something, but really he just wants to fuck who he wants to fuck.
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Billy Lee: [before he is shot by Miles] Easy there, altar boy...
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Father Daniel Flynn: Alright, yeah, I think it's some kind of pervert hotel.
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Billy Lee: Did you think you could just take what's mine and I wouldn't come a-huntin'?
Emily Summerspring: She ain't yours.
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Dwight Broadbeck: Sir, we have a problem.
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Billy Lee: It all starts with a simple choice.
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Billy Lee: Pick a color, red or black.
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Billy Lee: So, Miles, what is this? Some sort of pervert hotel?
Father Daniel Flynn: The kid can't answer you, you tied his mouth shut.
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Billy Lee: Tonight we get to be our own gods.
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Rose Summerspring: It's not up to us.
Emily Summerspring: Who's it up to, Rose?
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Darlene Sweet: That money is ours.
Father Daniel Flynn: ...That money is ours.
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Miles Miller: I can't do it. I can't kill no more people.
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Darlene Sweet: You spend your life getting shook you learn how to spot a shaker.
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[assessing the driveability of their smashed getaway truck]
Father Daniel Flynn: Will it run.
Felix O'Kelly: [as truck engine sputters] Let's go with yes. Think the new guy is bent or stupid?
Father Daniel Flynn: I'm goin' with stupid, but I can be persuaded.
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[last lines]
Darlene Sweet: Thank y'all for coming to listen to me tonight. It means a lot to me.
[Darleen spots Doc in the Reno lounge's seats and smiles]
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[Billy Lee initiates a sadistic game of life-or-death roulette, gambling the lives of Emily and Miles]
Billy Lee: Pick a color, Em, I'm not asking again. Pick a color. Pick a color.
Emily Summerspring: Red.
Billy Lee: I guess that makes you black, altar boy.
Miles Miller: What? No, no, no!
Billy Lee: Come here. You got some prayers, you can say 'em now.
[Billy removes the gag from Miles' mouth]
Miles Miller: Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. I have done so much worse than you know.
Father Daniel Flynn: Kid...
Miles Miller: Father Flynn, I have sinned and I repent. Forgive me, Father. I have sinned and I... Father, please!
[Billy realizes 'Father Flynn' isn't a real priest]
Billy Lee: Do you want to tell him, or do you want me to do it?
Darlene Sweet: Miles...
Miles Miller: Please! Forgive me, Father!
Billy Lee: He's not a fucking priest, kid!
[the roulette ball lands on black]
Billy Lee: Well, it looks like the Lord hasn't forsaken you yet.
[Billy shoots Emily]
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Billy Lee: Sometimes the memory of a man matters more than the man himself.
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Miles Miller: I've done horrible things.
Father Daniel Flynn: So? So has everybody.
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Laramie Seymour Sullivan: Damn, boy, where you been? Waitin' in this lobby so long I could use a shave. What's wrong with you?
Bad Times at the El Royale Quotes
Extended Reading