Oldboy Quotes

Dae-su Oh: Even though I'm no more than a monster - don't I, too, have the right to live?

Dae-su Oh: If they had told me it was going to be fifteen years, would it have been easier to endure?

Dae-su Oh: When the melody turns on, gas comes out. When the gas comes out, I fall asleep. I found out later it's the same Valium gas the Russians used on those Chechen terrorists.

Dae-su Oh: Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone.

Woo-jin Lee: What I am isn't important. WHY is important.

Woo-jin Lee: Remember this: "Be it a rock or a grain of sand, in water they sink as the same."

Dae-su Oh: How's life in a bigger prison, Dae-su?

Dae-su Oh: [Dae-su is about to use a clawhammer to yank out someone's teeth] Each one I yank out will make you age for one year. Ready to talk?

Dae-su Oh: [after a very messy beating] Anyone here with an AB blood type, raise your hand.

Dae-su Oh: [after a huge fight] As I expected, I can't get along with anyone today either.

Woo-jin Lee: Dae-su Oh talks too much.

Woo-jin Lee: I'm going to kill every woman you love until you die. You're notorious for not protecting your women.

Woo-jin Lee: You really are the very monster I created, aren't you? But you won't find out the "why" of this if you kill me. Fifteen years of being curious would go to waste.

Woo-jin Lee: You want to torture me, but I can simply kill myself first. Do you want revenge, or do you want the truth?

Dae-su Oh: [holding up a sign] I'VE BEEN BUGGED. PLEASE FIND IT.

Woo-jin Lee: Your tongue got my sister pregnant! It wasn't Woo-jin Lee's dick; it was Dae-su Oh's tongue!

Woo-jin Lee: Your gravest mistake wasn't failing to find the answer. You can't find the right answer if you ask the wrong questions.

Dae-su Oh: If by any chance Mido should find out the truth, you son of a bitch, I'm going to rip you limb from limb. And your remains will never be found. Why? Because I'm going to swallow every last bit.

Woo-jin Lee: And now... now, what joy will I have left to live for?

Mi-do: I love you... Oh-Daesu

Dae-su Oh: I thought I'd lived a simple life. But I've sinned too much

Mr. Park: You see, they say that people shrivel up because they have an imagination. So, don't imagine anything, you'll become brave as hell.

Mr. Park: [hands Dae-Su a business card while grinning a big gold-toothed grin] This dentist is really good.

Mi-do: Very lonely people that I met... they all hallucinated ants at one time.

Dae-su Oh: Erasing my memory and telling me to find the truth was cowardly. I won. So die like you promised.

Dae-su Oh: Please. Don't tell Mido. What has she done wrong? You know it was all my fault... I have committed an unforgivable sin, against your sister. And I also... Did you wrong. But, please leave Mido alone... If by any chance Mido finds out the truth, you son of a bitch, I'll tear you limb from limb. And your remains will never be found. Why? Because I'm going to swallow every last bit.

Dae-su Oh: Revenge is good for your health, but pain will find you again.

Dae-su Oh: [on receiving three chopsticks with his prison rations] All I could think about in that moment was the guy in the next room was eating with only one chopstick.

Dae-su Oh: If you stand aimlessly at a phone booth on a rainy day, and meet a man whose face is covered by a violet umbrella, I'd suggest that you get close to the TV.

Dae-su Oh: You need not worry about the future, Imagine nothing.

Dae-su Oh: [after getting knocked over and taking a drag of a cigarette] "Dick-shit"... a new word. Television doesn't teach you swear words.

Woo-jin Lee: My sister and I loved each other, despite everything. Can you do the same?

Woo-jin Lee: My sister and I loved each other, despite everything. Can you two do the same?