An ex-con with a reputation tries to go straight by working as a handy man for a reclusive actress but this is unfortunately not the wish of London's underground crime lord.

Jordan: See you're not allowed to do more than one thing which is why a polymath such as myself prefers to do nothing.
Gant: You really think I'm gonna to let you walk free 'round this fucking planet? It ain't gonna happen.
Mitchel: See, what you have to understand is that if I were a gangster - Rob - you would be the first to fucking die. I wouldn't work for you. I would kill you and take everything you've got - if I were a gangster. That's why you don't want me to be a gangster. Nobody wants me to be a gangster. 'Cause I couldn't stop if I started. Do you get it?
Mitchel: Don't ask again.
Jordan: It's a nice day if you like that sort of thing.
Jordan: Please bear with me. I'm making all this up. I'm a model of efficiency.
Gant: You know what the most powerful fucking thing is?
Mitchel: Yeah, knowing what can go wrong. For anybody, at any fucking time. Do you know that?
Mitchel: Were you an actor?
Jordan: Am.
Jordan: I'm resting.
Charlotte: Do you know what a woman's for in film?
Mitchel: Go on, then.
Charlotte: What this job is that I'm supposed to want?
Mitchel: I'm listening.
Charlotte: A woman is there to get the hero to talk about himself. About his hopes, about his fears, maybe even about his fascinating, fucking childhood.
Charlotte: It's the Cape Canaveral of shitty marriages.
Dr. Raju: My wife was a very shrewish woman. I told her finally, I love you, but I want to enjoy my life. She was more outraged by that than anything I'd ever said to her.
Charlotte: Do you like violence?
Mitchel: I will hurt someone before they hurt me.
Gant: You're an accessory now. It's a little like being married, you know, it's for life.
Jordan: I fancy celebrities are rather like the Olympians of old.
Mitchel: Work's what you do when you'd rather be doing something else, right?
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Jailer: [to Mitchel] You. You're out.
[last lines]
Whiteboy: Heard you been lookin' for me...