The Outfit (2022)

Mark Rylance: Leonard

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• Leonard : I'm not a tailor; I'm a cutter.

• Leonard : If we only allowed angels to be customers, soon we'd have no customers at all.

• Francis : Oh, are you a doctor now too?

  Leonard : I was in the war.

  Francis : At your age?

  Leonard : The other war.

• Leonard : [narrating]  It's at the finishings that you must come to terms with the idea that perfection is a necessary goal, precisely because it is unattainable. If you don't aim for perfection, you cannot make anything great. And yet true perfection is impossible.

• [first lines] 

  Leonard : [narrating]  To the naked eye, a suit appears to consist of two parts, a jacket and trousers. But those two seemingly solid parts are composed of four different fabrics. Cotton, silk, mohair, and wool. And those fabrics are cut into 38 separate pieces. The process of sizing, forming, conjoining those pieces, requires no fewer than 228 steps.

  [puts his kettle on to boil] 

• Leonard : When a mistake's been made, I've always found it best to simply be up-front about it.

  Francis : English, I didn't cut the boss' pants too short, I shot his son in the face.

• [last lines] 

  Leonard : Its not perfect. You have to make your peace with that.

  [leaving his shop] 

  Leonard : How? Well, you sit at your board, you lay out your tools, and you start again.

• Leonard : I want so bad to be good.

• Richie : Why'd you come here then?

  Leonard : The war.

  Richie : What, Kruats bomb your place?

  Leonard : Worse. They're called blue jeans.

• Leonard : You cannot make something good until you understand who you're making it for. All clothing says something.

• Mable : Come with me.

  Leonard : No.

  Mable : No, come with me. You can show me things you've already seen.

  Leonard : You will not spend you best years taking care of my remaining few.

  Mable : I was taking care of myself just fine, you know. Oh, yes.

  Leonard : Knowing you, I'm quite confident you'd have seen to the burials of each each and everyone of those murders. But then .. you'd no longer be pretending to be one. Would you?