The Best Luke Bracey Quotes

Alexander: Whether or not you and I are enemies is completely up to you.
JJ: What's your name?
Alexander: My name is Alexander Kessel.
JJ: You say that like I should know it.
Alexander: And now that you do, you will never forget it.
JJ: How about I just call you asshole?
Alexander: [chuckles] You know, usually it takes a woman a second to reach that conclusion.
JJ: Nothing usual about me.

Alexander: Do you know anything about the fall of Rome? When the barbarians massed outside the city gates they did unspeakable things to try and force the Romans to let them in. Exitus actum probat. The result justifies the deed.

Sgt: [if you] Plan on getting wet this weekend, make sure you put on a hat.
Corporal: Next!
Sgt: I don't want anyone comin' back pissin' cream.
Smitty: What, you don't want none for your coffee, Sarge?

Alexander: I'm not complaining. I was the product of a failed society. A society that consistently rewards money and ignores everything else.

Smitty: [to Doss about his upbringing while in foxhole] I learned how to hate quick. I learned how to judge people quicker -- and I got you very wrong.
[Desmond smiles and nods in appreciation]

Smitty: After what we've just been through... any sane man would be screaming for a weapon.
Desmond: Well, I never claimed to be sane.
[smiles]

Sgt: [referring to the knife impaled into the top of Smitty's foot] Who placed the knife there, Private?
Smitty: It was an accident, Sarge. We was playin' Stretch.
Sgt: I'm heartened by the knowledge you did not place it there with intention.

Smitty: You ain't gonna to eat them?
Desmond: I don't eat meat. Help yourself.
Smitty: Of course you don't.

Smitty: [referring to a picture of Dorothy] That's one heck of a dame. You know you're fightin' out of your weight class with her, don't you?
Desmond: [chuckles] Yes, I do. Don't tell her that.
Smitty: She'd be much happier with a man like me anyway.
Desmond: Yeah, until she got to know you.
[laughs]
Smitty: [laughs] Ah, I'm an asshole sometimes.
Desmond: Sometimes?
[both laugh]

Alexander: My fellow Americans, I am Alexander Kessel, son of trust fund billionaire, Alexander Kessel Senior, who you may also know is the current utterly unqualified US ambassador to the United Nations. Now, my associates in Russia control 16 nuclear missiles, and I control the only interceptor missiles that are capable of stopping them. Sixteen American cities have been targeted. 300 million of you will die. One city will be destroyed first so that the rest of you can watch in horror. Missile team one... fire.
[computer voice]
Alexander: Missile launch detected. Missile launch detected. Missile launch detected. Intercept launch expires in 12 minutes.
[Alexander Kessel]
Alexander: Now in 12 minutes, that missile I just launched, will pass over my head, at which point, it will be too late for this interceptor to catch it. But which city has been chosen? Is it yours? Wherever it lands, there's no time to run. You can't flee. If you guessed Los Angeles, congratulations. The City of Angels has 23 minutes left to live.
[panicked chatter]
Alexander: Wait a second. Once Los Angeles is gone, And the fear of every American is at its peak... We're not closing yet... .I will launch a second wave of 15 nuclear missiles. San Francisco, Seattle, Las Vegas, Cincinnati, Dallas, Denver, Memphis, Chicago, St. Louis, Atlanta, Boston, Philadelphia, Miami, New York. And of course, Washington DC. Today... America dies in a paroxysm of fear. America is the greatest lie ever told. American exceptionalism? Maybe once. When the founders got rid of kings. When they declared that all men are created equal. Now they say ours are United States, but when was that true? Was it true during the Civil War? Or Jim Crow? Hell, is it true now? You know, this national lie, it's a festering wound, and it's fatal. There's no Band-Aid to patch it. No, the only way to save our nation and the promise it once held is to erase it. Start over. So maybe then, when we are staring at each other from across the rubble, we will all agree that this time we're going to get America right.