Rat (2000)

Pete Postlethwaite: Hubert Flynn

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Hubert : Seventy years ago, me grandfather, Hubert Flynn Foster, set out from his home in the County Wexford, and joining north over the hills and valleys of Whitlock, until he came to Dublin City.

  Hubert : I remember once, when I was a chiseler, he caught me whittlin' up against the wall. And he told me if I behaved like a dog, I might turn into a dog. And then he was off on one of his old yarns about people he knew that turned into goats and weasels. Of course we ran afoul, he said, of more than his prayers. But sometimes, in and among the ramblings, there'd be a grain of truth.

• Hubert : You know, I think I like the black rats best of all. They have this wonder sense of rhythm.

• Hubert : This Felix, what do you think if him?

  Marietta Flynn : I don't know. He spends a lot of time in the toilet.

• [last lines] 

  Hubert : Conchita, this is my woman...