Bad Times at the El Royale Quotes

  • Father Daniel Flynn: Miles, I fell down. I'm old. Shit happens, get the whiskey.

  • 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."

  • Father Daniel Flynn: I'm not really a priest.

    Darlene Sweet: Yeah, no shit.

  • Billy Lee: Howdy.

  • Laramie Seymour Sullivan: First time at the El Royale?

  • 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.

  • [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.

  • Billy Lee: [before he is shot by Miles] Easy there, altar boy...

  • Father Daniel Flynn: Alright, yeah, I think it's some kind of pervert hotel.

  • 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.

  • Dwight Broadbeck: Sir, we have a problem.

  • Billy Lee: It all starts with a simple choice.

  • Billy Lee: Pick a color, red or black.

  • 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.

  • Billy Lee: Tonight we get to be our own gods.

  • Rose Summerspring: It's not up to us.

    Emily Summerspring: Who's it up to, Rose?

  • Darlene Sweet: That money is ours.

    Father Daniel Flynn: ...That money is ours.

  • Miles Miller: I can't do it. I can't kill no more people.

  • Darlene Sweet: You spend your life getting shook you learn how to spot a shaker.

  • [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.

  • [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]

  • [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]

  • Billy Lee: Sometimes the memory of a man matters more than the man himself.

  • Miles Miller: I've done horrible things.

    Father Daniel Flynn: So? So has everybody.

  • Laramie Seymour Sullivan: Damn, boy, where you been? Waitin' in this lobby so long I could use a shave. What's wrong with you?