Ewan McGregor credited as playing...
The Ghost
- The Ghost: I really don't think this is a good idea.
- Richard Rycart: You have no choice.
- The Ghost: Emmett must have told Lang I've been to see him.
- Richard Rycart: So what's he going to do about it? Dump you in the ocean?
- The Ghost: Well it happened before.
- Richard Rycart: Which means it can't happen again. He can't drown two ghost writers, for God's sake. You're not kittens.
- The Ghost: Well don't tell me you're going to read it now.
- Richard Rycart: Not all of it, just the beginning. There's something very important about it.
- The Ghost: Yeah, it's the cure for insomnia.
- Amelia Bly: How's it going?
- The Ghost: [beaming] Pretty well. He keeps calling me 'man'!
- Amelia Bly: He always does that when he can't remember someone's name.
- The Ghost: You wouldn't happen to know if there are any flights leaving the airport tonight, would you?
- Motel Receptionist: Not unless you've got your own private jet.
- The Ghost: Ah, I lent it to my butler.
- Motel Receptionist: Haha, oh you Brits!
- [first lines]
- The Ghost: You realize I know nothing about politics.
- Rick Ricardelli: You voted for him, didn't you?
- The Ghost: Adam Lang? Of course I did, everyone voted for him. He wasn't a politician, he was a craze.
- The Ghost: [reading the first words of Adam Lang's manuscript] "Langs are Scottish folk originally and proud of it. Our name is a derivation of 'long', the Old English word for tall, and it is from North of the border that my forefathers hail." Fuuuck.
- The Ghost: I'd never guess you smoked.
- Amelia Bly: I only allow myself one. In times of great stress or contentment.
- The Ghost: Which is this?
- Amelia Bly: Very funny.
- The Ghost: Forty thousand years of human language, and there's no word to describe our relationship. It was doomed.
- Rick Ricardelli: [after hearing the writer's been mugged] You're still okay to fly tonight?
- The Ghost: God's sake, Rick, I'm in shock.
- Rick Ricardelli: Well, here's another shock for you: for one month's work on a manuscript that's already written, Rhinehart, Inc. is willing to pay you $250,000 plus expenses. Window seat or aisle?
- Rick Ricardelli: This is a great opportunity for you. Plus the money's good, your kids won't starve.
- The Ghost: I don't have kids.
- Rick Ricardelli: I do.