The Boxer

The Boxer Quotes

Young Danny Flynn is released from prison after 14 years after "taking the rap" for the IRA and tries to rebuild his life in his old Belfast neighborhood.

Joe Hamill: Grow up. Grow up! Stop living in the past and get your head into the future!
Maggie: [to Joe, her father] My marriage was over before Liam was even born... I'm the prisoner here. You and your politics have made sure of that!
Danny: I'm not a killer, Maggie, but this place makes me want to kill.
Harry: [Seeing Danny for the first time in fourteen years] You're out!
Danny: [after a pause] Good behavior.
Harry: [Sarcastically] You were never accused of that before.
Maggie: [Liam burned down Danny's gym] What the hell did you think you were doing?
Liam: I saw you. I saw you with him.
[Glares at his mother]
Liam: You're going to run away with him, aren't you?
Maggie: [Sits down next to him] No. I'm gonna stay right here with you.
Liam: I don't want to see him ever again.
[Gets up and leaves]
[last lines]
Policeman at Checkpoint: Where are you going?
Maggie: We're going home.
Maggie: I do have a mind of my own, Danny. I know very well I might be losing it, but I do have a mind of my own.
Danny: You still have it.
Maggie: What?
Danny: My soul, for what it's worth.
Danny: You're a dangerous fucking woman, Maggie.
Danny: I'm not a killer, Maggie. This place makes me want to kill.
Joe Hamill: It's as though the Brits want this ceasefire to fail.
Danny: We can't keep doing what we're doing, you know.
Maggie: What are we doing?
prison officer: [to Danny as he is leaving] Fourteen years not long enough for yuh?
Danny: [to Maggie] I've lived with your face in silence for fourteen years. It's hard to talk to the real you.
Maggie: That was a warning shot they fired at you.
Joe Hamill: [about the shootings disturbing the peace] Last night didn't help. It didn't help.
Danny: [to Maggie] Give us a hug. You're a dangerous fuckin' woman!
Danny: I'll leave if you ask me to.
Maggie: If *I* ask you?
Danny: For fourteen years I was locked up, my feelings were locked up inside me.
Ike Weir: [to Danny about Harry] You did him a favor, and he'll never forgive you for it.

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