The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)

Mel Gibson: Skinner

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• Detective Skinner : No matter how strange or despicable you act, I can do one better, because I work for the government!

• Dixie : Somebody's trying to kill me.

  Detective Skinner : If they succeed, I'll come see you again.

• Detective Skinner : I could play the violin and wipe my own ass all at the same time.

• Detective Skinner : Special Agent Skinner. I'm a detective.

  Dixie : You got some Oragel? This fucking cavity's going into my brain. Morphine, Motrin, Tylenol, anything? Come on, you call yourself a dentist?

  Detective Skinner : Detective. Teeth, gums, gingivitis are out of my line.

• Tom Tom : Why did you call me an idiot?

  Detective Skinner : Wild guess...

• Detective Skinner : You'll do, take me to his room

  Tom Tom : who... who... who...?

  Detective Skinner : What are you an owl? The dead guy, Israel Goldstein

  Tom Tom : Izzy

  Detective Skinner : Is he what?

  Tom Tom : Izzy was he

  Detective Skinner : Right, Izzy, let's go

  Tom Tom : [pointing upwards]  Geronimo

  Detective Skinner : Geronimo, Hi-Ho, let's go

  Tom Tom : [smirks]  Hi-Ho

  Detective Skinner : [turns to a bystander]  What is he, an idiot?

• Dixie : Since I wasn't officially in the band, you know how it goes, it ain't easy.

  Detective Skinner : Yeah, sure. That's not exactly why I'm here. Israel Goldkiss was pushed from the roof. That makes you a suspect.

  Dixie : Jesus bleeding Christ! Are you paying attention? I'm talking The Beatles, here. The Fab Four. John understood. That's why they had him killed, you know? Now they're trying to kill me, because they finally realised who's behind all those songs. But I ain't seen no royalties.

  Detective Skinner : Yeah, that's tough. But either you cooperate, or I book you.

  Dixie : I've been doing nothing but cooperate my whole fucking life. That's what it's all about to be in a band. I'm not saying they weren't creatively involved... but most of the time, they were off with that Maharishi. You know, India, whatever, you know. There I was, all alone in the studio with my brilliant ideas... Thank God I had George Martin. George... Oh, that album in particular, we grew together like this, me and George.

• Detective Skinner : Questions tell them what we're thinking. And free answers are worthless.

• Charley Best : You amaze me. After all that you're gonna arrest some two-bit Indian hustler for murder based on the desperate testimony of this, uh, skateboard riding halfwit.

  Detective Skinner : I knew you'd catch on eventually.

• Detective Skinner : No, don't be so fucking stupid.

  Tom Tom : I am fucking stupid.

• Geronimo : [thinking]  You could see right away he was special. Even before he told you.

  Detective Skinner : My name is special agent, detective J.D. Skinner of the FBI.