My Favorite Performances of 1995 (Male)

William Somerset - Se7en
"Ernest Hemingway once wrote, "The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part."

Neil McCauley - Heat
"Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner."

Honorable Mentions:
Sam 'Ace' Rothstein - Casino

Easy Rawlins - Devil in a Blue Dress
"A man once told me that you step out of your door in the morning, and you are already in trouble. The only question is are you on top of that trouble or not?"

Honorable Mentions:
Hunter - Crimson Tide
Lt. Parker Barnes - Virtuosity

Colonel Brandon - Sense and Sensibility
"I knew a lady very like your sister - the same impulsive sweetness of temper - who was forced into, as you put it, a better acquaintance with the world. The result was only ruination and despair. Do not desire it, Miss Dashwood."

Nicky Santoro - Casino
"I lost control? Look at you, you're fucking walking around like John Barrymore! A fucking pink robe and a fucking cigarette holder? I lost control?"

Wong Chi-Ming - Fallen Angels
"The best thing about my profession is that there's no need to make any decision. Who's to die... when... where... it's all been planned by others. I'm a lazy person. I like people to arrange things for me. That's why I need a partner."

Lt. Vincent Hanna - Heat
"I'm angry. I'm very angry, Ralph. You know, you can ball my wife if she wants you to. You can lounge around here on her sofa, in her ex-husband's dead-tech, post-modernistic bullshit house if you want to. But you do not get to watch my fucking television set!"

Mouse Alexander - Devil in a Blue Dress
"You just said don't shoot him, right? Well I didn't, I just- I choked him. Easy, look- if you ain't want him killed, why'd you leave him with me?"

He Zhiwu - Fallen Angels
"They say that love can change a man. I start to find myself looking better and more charming, and suddenly I discover that I'm turning blonde."

Capt. Ramsey - Crimson Tide
"We're here to preserve democracy, not to practice it."

Honorable Mentions:
Harry Zimm - Get Shorty
John Herod - The Quick and the Dead

Chris Shiherlis - Heat
"For me the sun rises and sets with her, man."

Honorable Mentions:
Bruce Wayne - Batman Forever

David Mills - Se7en
"You're no messiah. You're a movie of the week. You're a fucking t-shirt, at best."

Honorable Mentions:
Jeffrey Goines - 12 Monkeys

Edward Ferrars - Sense and Sensibility
"I-I've come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is, and always will be, yours."

Nick Reve - Living in Oblivion
"Great! I freak out in your dream, I freak out in my dream, no wonder I'm so fucking exhausted."

Honorable Mentions:
Buscemi - Desperado
Danny McGrath - Billy Madison

Michael Cheritto - Heat
"Hey slick, see that shit comin' outta their ears? They can't fucking hear you! Cool it!"

Honorable Mentions:
Max Peltier - Strange Days
Dewitt Albright - Devil in a Blue Dress

Matthew Poncelet - Dead Man Walking
"I just wanna say I think killin' is wrong, no matter who does it, whether it's me or y'all or your government."

Chili Palmer - Get Shorty
"Rough business, this movie business. I'm gonna have to go back to loan-sharking just to take a rest."

Jim Lovell - Apollo 13
"Gentlemen, it's been a privilege flying with you."

Keaton - The Usual Suspects
"How many times you been in a lineup? It's always you and four dummies. PD are paying homeless guys $10 a head half the time. And there's no way they'd line five felons in the same row. No way."

El Mariachi - Desperado
"You know, it's easier to pull the trigger than play guitar. Easier to destroy than to create."

James Cole - 12 Monkeys
"I am insane. And you are my insanity."

Honorable Mentions:
John McClane - Die Hard with a Vengeance

Jack Swigert - Apollo 13
"So long, Earth. Catch you on the flip side."

Lenny Nero - Strange Days
"See... I can get you what you want, I can. I can get you anything, you just have to talk to me, you have to trust me. You can trust me, 'cause I'm your priest, I'm your shrink... I am your main connection to the switchboard of the soul. I'm the magic man... Santa Claus of the subconscious. You say it, you think it, you can have it."

Verbal - The Usual Suspects
"After that my guess is that you will never hear from him again. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist. And like that... he is gone."

Honorable Mentions:
John Doe - Se7en

Tito - Living in Oblivion
"Have you ever had a dream with a dwarf in it? Do you know anyone who's had a dream with a dwarf in it? No! I don't even have dreams with dwarves in them. The only place I've seen dwarves in dreams is in stupid movies like this!"