My Favorite Performances of 1999 (Male)

Jeffrey Wigand - The Insider
"There are times when I wish I hadn't done it. There are times when I feel com... compelled to do it. If you asked me, would I do it again, do I think it's worth it? Yeah I think its worth it."

Frank T.J. Mackey - Magnolia
"What am I doing? I'm quietly judging you."

Honorable Mentions:
Dr. William Harford - Eyes Wide Shut

Frank Pierce - Bringing Out the Dead
"I'm sick, Tom. I need a cure. Vitamin B cocktail, followed by an amp of glucose and a drop of adrenaline. Not as good as beer, but it's all I got."

Honorable Mentions:
Tom Welles - 8MM

Tyler Durden - Fight Club
"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."

Cole Sear - The Sixth Sense
"I see dead people."

John Coffey - The Green Mile
"Please boss, don't put that thing over my face, don't put me in the dark. I's afraid of the dark."

John Malkovich - Being John Malkovich
"But how can you make it weep when you yourself are not weeping? Don't do that bullshit again."

Tom Ripley - The Talented Mr. Ripley
"I always thought it would be better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody."

Honorable Mentions:
Loki - Dogma

Malcolm Crowe - The Sixth Sense
"I think I can go now. Just needed to do a couple of things. I needed to help someone; I think I did. And I needed to tell you something: You were never second, ever. I love you. You sleep now. Everything will be different in the morning."

Lowell Bergman - The Insider
"Ordinary people under extraordinary pressure, Mike. What the hell do you expect? Grace and consistency?"

Honorable Mentions:
Tony D'Amato - Any Given Sunday

Agent Smith - The Matrix
"You hear that Mr. Anderson?... That is the sound of inevitability... It is the sound of your death... Goodbye, Mr. Anderson..."

Narrator - Fight Club
"You met me at a very strange time in my life."

Andy Kaufman - Man on the Moon
"I hate sitcoms, George. They're just... stupid jokes... and canned laughter! And you don't know why it's there, but it's there. And... and that's DEAD people laughing! Did you know that? Those people are dead!"

Officer Jim Kurring - Magnolia
"I can't let this go. I can't let you go. Now, you... you listen to me now. You're a good person. You're a good and beautiful person and I won't let you walk out on me. And I won't let you say those things - those things about how stupid you are and this and that. I won't stand for that. You want to be with me... then you be with me. You see?"

Marcus - Bringing Out the Dead
"Don't tell me about the Good book now, son. I'll preach heaven and beat the hell outta you."

Morpheus - The Matrix
"This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."

Victor Ziegler - Eyes Wide Shut
"Listen, Bill. Nobody killed anybody. Someone died. It happens all the time. Life goes on. It always does, until it doesn't. But you know that, don't you?"

Shigeharu Aoyama - Audition
"It's hard to overcome that experience, but, someday you'll feel that life is wonderful. That's life, isn't it?"

Rubin Carter - The Hurricane
"Hate put me in prison. Love's gonna bust me out."

Dickie Greenleaf - The Talented Mr. Ripley
"You know, without the glasses you're not even ugly."

Honorable Mentions:
Ted Pikul - eXistenZ

Ghost Dog - Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
"It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this."

Colonel Frank Fitts - American Beauty
"Don't you laugh at me. Now, I will not sit back and watch my only son become a cock-sucker!"

Kit Ramsey / Jiff Ramsey - Bowfinger
"Oh, gosh, I'm really hoping to get a career running errands. That'd be a major boost for me."

Honorable Mentions:
Rayford Gibson - Life

Paul Edgecomb - The Green Mile
"I just can't see God putting a gift like that in the hands of a man who would kill a child."

Bill Lumbergh - Office Space
"Oh, and remember: next Friday... is Hawaiian shirt day. So, you know, if you want to, go ahead and wear a Hawaiian shirt and jeans."