The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie
"Here come two words for you. Shut the fuck up"
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- The whole movie is quotable, but the one iconic quote is the exchange where the Duke tells Jack he is a grown man with control over his own words and gets two words back; it is hilarious and timeless and the one said most often.
- A special shout-out, less profane than the rest, to 'see you in the next life' and the astonishing ending: Jack hangs up on Eddie, lets the Duke go and starts walking off saying it would have been a nice coffee shop, the Duke presses the money on him as a gift rather than a payoff since Jack had already let him go, and the exchange about not knowing he had money follows; these two will never be friends, which is why there could never be a sequel, with the Duke bound for a tax haven and Jack staying a bounty hunter and probably not seeing his kid for years, unchanged but with a moment of recognition.
- Earlier, during Apex Mountain, Eddie's phone rant about being told to go fuck himself, including telling himself to, is named a second-favorite quote in the movie.