My Favorite Performances of 1996 (Male)

Sydney - Hard Eight
"I do not wish to sacrifice my life for John's well-being. But I will sacrifice this money for mine because you have asked me. Because after this, I will have done all I can for John and for myself. I'm going to ask you with all the heart and sincerity that I have, please do not put a bullet in me."

Carl Showalter - Fargo
"Hey, you're there in 30 minutes, Jerry, or I find you, Jerry, and I shoot you and I shoot your fuckin' wife and I shoot all your fuckin' children and I shoot them all in the back of their little fuckin' heads! You got it?"

Jerry Maguire - Jerry Maguire
"Don't worry, I'm not gonna do what you all think I'm gonna do, which is, you know, FLIP OUT!"

Honorable Mentions:
Ethan Hunt - Mission: Impossible

Mark "Rent-boy" Renton - Trainspotting
"Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?"

Aaron / Roy - Primal Fear
"I got you. You the lawyer. Well, you sure fucked this one up, didn't you, counselor! Looks to me like they're gonna shoot ol' Aaron so full o' poison it's gonna come out his eyes!"

Honorable Mentions:
Alan Isaacman - The People vs. Larry Flynt

Vaughan - Crash
"The car crash is a fertilizing rather than a destructive event."

Honorable Mentions:
Sonny Rose - Hit Me

Jerry Lundegaard - Fargo
"Well, heck! If you wanna... If you wanna play games here, I'm working with ya on this thing here, but... Okay!"

John Finnegan - Hard Eight
"I will fuck you up if you fuck with me, ok? I know three kinds of Karate: Jujitsu, Aikido, and regular Karate."

Tonny - Pusher
"Hey fish! Do you often get pussy?"

Francis (Franco) Begbie - Trainspotting
"That lassie got glassed, and no cunt leaves here till we find out what cunt did it."

Chip Douglas - The Cable Guy
"Free cable is the ultimate aphrodisiac."

Rod Tidwell - Jerry Maguire
"I wanna make sure you're ready, brother. Here it is: Show me the money. Oh-ho-ho! SHOW! ME! THE! MONEY! A-ha-ha! Jerry, doesn't it make you feel good just to say that! Say it with me one time, Jerry."

Bob Wolverton - Freeway
"Well that's an open ended discussion Vanessa dealing with deep philosophical ramifications, something you can hardly grasp. In fact take it from me, a professional, Vanessa, you're an absolute fucking moron!"

Honorable Mentions:
Freddie Lee Cobb - A Time to Kill

Frank - Pusher
"Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ejaculated a girl in the face, and she wanted you to piss it off?"

Spud - Trainspotting
"It's a nightmare. She told me she didn't want our relationship to start on a physical basis as that is how it would be principally defined from then on in."

Jimmy - Hard Eight
"Don't! Don't! Don't fuckin' do that! You understand? I can see right through that shit! You look at me as some idiot, huh? I know you do. I know you. You old guys, you old hoods... you think you're so fuckin' above it... so high and mighty. What am I to you? Some loser? Not with a gun in my hand."

Honorable Mentions:
Carl Lee Hailey - A Time to Kill

Carl Petrovic - The Daytrippers
"The Europeans may have been imperialist, but they knew how to make a building."

James Ballard - Crash
"After being bombarded endlessly by road safety propaganda, almost a relief to have found myself in an actual accident."

Stu - Scream
"Did you really call the police? My mom and dad are gonna be so mad at me!"

Trent - Swingers
"You're so money and you don't even know it!"

Mickey Knox - Natural Born Killers
"It's just murder. All God's creatures do it. You look in the forests and you see species killing other species, our species killing all species including the forests, and we just call it industry, not murder."

Seth Gecko - From Dusk Till Dawn
"I don't want to hear anything about "I don't believe in vampires," because I don't fucking believe in vampires, but I believe in my own two eyes, and what I saw, is fucking vampires."

Shakes - Sleepers
"The future lay sparkling ahead, and we thought we would know each other forever."

Dignan - Bottle Rocket
"How does an asshole like Bob get such a great kitchen?"

Gaear Grimsrud - Fargo
"You're a smooth smoothie, you know?"