Hellboy (2004)

Jeffrey Tambor: Tom Manning

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Quotes 

• Hellboy : Are you okay?

  [manning nods weakly. Hellboy brings out a cigar and fires up his Zippo] 

  Hellboy : You'd better stay here. I'll find a way out. We'll come back for you.

  Tom Manning : You call that thing a cigar?

  Hellboy : Yup.

  Tom Manning : You never, ever light a cigar that way.

  Tom Manning : [he digs out one of his fine cigars, cuts it and hands it to Hellboy]  Use a wooden match. It preserves the flavor.

  Hellboy : [he lights it for him and Hellboy grins]  Thank you.

  Tom Manning : [smiles]  My job.

• Tom Manning : Let me tell you - let me tell you something about the Bureau of...

  Television Host : Paranormal Research and Defense.

  Tom Manning : ...of Paranormal Research and Defense: there is no such thing.

  [cut to BPRD headquarters in New Jersey] 

• Tom Manning : [two government agents have died under Hellboy's command and Manning is displeased]  You know what my problem with you is? You're reckless. Those two men trusted you to lead them as a team. Where were you?

  Hellboy : I knew those men better than you did.

  Tom Manning : Ah, I see. That makes it all right then.

  Hellboy : No, it doesn't make it all right, but I stopped that thing, didn't I?

  Tom Manning : Yeah, that's what you do. That's why we need you. You have an insight. You know monsters.

  Hellboy : What are you trying to say?

  Tom Manning : This whole thing is a farce, because in the end, after you've killed and captured every freak out there - there's still one left: you.

  Hellboy : [sighs and acts natural]  Manning, I wish I could be more gracious, but...

  [furiously pulls a machine from off the floor, lifts it and heaves it in Manning's direction] 

• [in a large cemetery, searching for Rasputin's mausoleum] 

  Tom Manning : Where are you going?

  Hellboy : To ask for directions.

  [opens an amulet] 

  Hellboy : Come on, find me a talker...

• [on TV, Manning is confronted with the latest picture of Hellboy] 

  Tom Manning : I have a question. Why is it, in these pictures, pictures of aliens, UFOs, the yeti, Hellboy, why is it they're always out of focus?

  [audience laughs] 

• Tom Manning : So, how many escapes, this year alone? Five!

  Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm : Tom, he's our guest, not a prisoner!

  Tom Manning : Yeah, well, your guest happens to be six-foot five, bright red, has a tail, and is government funded.

• Tom Manning : Hey, fish stick. Don't touch anything.

  Abe Sapien : I need to touch it to see.

  Tom Manning : See what?

  Abe Sapien : Past, future. Whatever this object holds.

• Hellboy : Let me ask her directions...

  Tom Manning : What did it say?

• Tom Manning : Have you found them yet?

  Hellboy : I got 'em right below me. Matter of minutes.

  Tom Manning : Okay, good. Could you hurry up, because it's a... it's a little spooky in here.