How Harry Became a Tree (2001)

Colm Meaney: Harry

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Quotes 

• Harry : Crippled for life is fine. Actually, you're not to kill him. Crippled is better. Practise aiming to cripple the cabbages, not to kill them.

• Harry : A man is measured by his enemies.

• Harry : You muist have a strong enemy, son. Otherwise it's too easy to destroy him.

• Harry : [to Gus who is still in his bunk in the loft]  Get out of that stretcher. Look at you! Half the day gone. Come on! Is there dinner in it?

  Gus : There is not! I don't feel like being the cook anymore. Get George O'Flaherty to fetch you in a woman if you want your dinner handed up to you.

• Harry : As my Annie - god rest her soul - always said, the future of this country, if it has any future at all, lies in cabbages.

• Harry : [to Gus]  Gobshite!

• Harry : Right, you're my witness! You're my witness. You saw him turn on me and beat seven shades of shite out of me.

  Maeve : There isn't a mark on ya.

• George : You owe me. I want paid.

  Harry : Well, the cabbages are sold. The money is spent. You can't take feathers of a frog.

• Harry : [bending down over the corpse at the funeral]  Say something. Say anything at all.

  [a smile appears on the face of the deadvbody in the casket] 

  Harry : So that's your game, is it? You think you can give Harry Malony the slip that easy?

• [First lines] 

  Harry : [Voice over]  I had the dream again.

  Gus : [Voice over]  What dream?

  Harry : [Voice over]  About the tree.

  Gus : [Voice over]  A tree?

  Gus : Da? What tree?

  Harry : I turned into a tree.