Jack Taylor (TV Series)

The Guards (2010)

Iain Glen: Jack Taylor

Quotes 

• Jack Taylor : How come, no matter how long since you've seen the family, nor how much distance you've put between you, they can always push your buttons? Answer: because they installed them.

• Passerby : Ah Jack, I know your father; Paddy, Paddy Taylor, man of subtlety and taste, is he not?

  Jack Taylor : He had his moments.

  Passerby : One deduces, from the use of the past tense, that he is no longer with us.

  [pause] 

  Passerby : Or worse, in England.

• Father Malachy : You still drinking?

  Jack Taylor : You're still smoking.

  Father Malachy : Me and Bette Davis.

  Jack Taylor : She's dead.

  Father Malachy : My point exactly.

• Father Malachy : [meeting Jack at a road intersection]  Ah, Jack! Great news, I gave up smoking.

  Jack Taylor : And I gave up drinking.

  [they move along in opposite directions, Father Malachy takes another pull at his cigarette] 

• Jack Taylor : My father used to say: "Your mother means well". She didn't. Not then. Not ever.

• Jack Taylor : To be a Finder requires patience and pig-stubbornness. The latter is my strongest point.

• Jack Taylor : [having pulled over a government car]  Get out!

  Minister's Driver : [rolling down his window]  Have you any idea who you are talking to?

  Jack Taylor : Yeah, you're the gobshite that screwed the nurses.

  Minister's Driver : [gets out of the car]  Brazen pup! I'll have your job. You know what's going to happen now?

  Jack Taylor : Yeah. I know exactly what's gonna happen now.

  [punches him right in the face] 

• Mrs. Taylor : You'll come to nothing, like your father.

  Jack Taylor : With that vote of confidence, Ma, it's no wonder I drink.

• Jack Taylor : [narrating]  In reality, time doesn't pass, we pass. I think that's one of the saddest things I ever learned. And God knows, anything I have learned has been the hard way.

• Jack Taylor : [accepting a job]  I can't promise anything.

  Anne Hennessy : Why are you a drunk?

  Jack Taylor : Why do you want a drunk to help you?

  Anne Hennessy : They say you're good because you've nothing else in your life.