The Quiet American (2002)

Brendan Fraser: Alden Pyle

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• Alden Pyle : I trusted you. Thomas.

  Thomas Fowler : Always a mistake with a woman involved.

• Alden Pyle : Have you had a lot of women, Thomas?

  Thomas Fowler : You start out by being promiscuous and end up like your grandfather... faithful to one woman.

• Thomas Fowler : I have never thought of myself as a correspondent, just a reporter. I offer no point of view, I take no action, I don't get involved. I just report what I see.

  Alden Pyle : But you must have an opinion.

  Thomas Fowler : Even an opinion is a form of action.

• Alden Pyle : [to Phuong]  I'm in love with you.

  Thomas Fowler : Shouldn't you be on one knee?

• Thomas Fowler : [incensed on Alden's part in a bombing]  Doesn't it bother you?

  Alden Pyle : [Distraught]  What I saw made me disgusted, but if it keeps out the communists it's necessary.

• Alden Pyle : [from the trailer]  Are you married?

  Thomas Fowler : Yes

  [points to Phuong] 

  Thomas Fowler : ... But not to her!

• Thomas Fowler : [referring to Phuong]  Are you married yet?

  Alden Pyle : No, I figured I'd wait until we got home and do it properly.

  Thomas Fowler : You don't mind living here improperly?

  Alden Pyle : [with a flash of annoyance]  It's hard to talk to you if you're going to be so cynical.

• Thomas Fowler : I drive through the streets, and I care not a damn, The people they stare, and they ask who I am.

  Alden Pyle : And if I should chance to run over a cad, I can pay for the damage if ever so bad.

• Thomas Fowler : [referring to General The]  He tried to kill you on the road to Saigon.

  Alden Pyle : No Thomas, he tried to kill you.

• Thomas Fowler : Liberty is a western word. How do you define it for the Vietnamese?

  Alden Pyle : The freedom to choose.

  Thomas Fowler : OK, you give them that, they vote and they elect Ho Chi Minh.