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Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor in The Ghost Writer (2010)

Olivia Williams: Ruth Lang

The Ghost Writer

Olivia Williams credited as playing...

Ruth Lang

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Quotes7

  • The Ghost: Did you ever want to be a proper politician in your own right?
  • Ruth Lang: Of course, didn't you want to be a proper writer?
  • Ruth Lang: [to bodyguard] If we meet any terrorists, I'll text you.
  • The Ghost: Look, l'm sorry. l should never have stayed in a client's house. lt always ends up with...
  • Ruth Lang: With you fucking the client's wife?
  • The Ghost: You ought not to be written out of history.
  • Ruth Lang: Why not? Most women are.
  • The Ghost: Then I'll reinstate you. I'll put in all the occasions that he's forgotten.
  • Ruth Lang: How kind, like the boss's secretary who remembers his wife's birthday for him.
  • Ruth Lang: I feel like the wife of Napoleon on St. Helena.
  • Ruth Lang: Who are you?
  • The Ghost: I'm your ghost.
  • Adam Lang: Right...
  • Ruth Lang: Don't worry, he isn't always such a jerk.
  • Ruth Lang: I suppose even ghosts must have feelings.
  • The Ghost: We are sensitive spirits.

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