My Favorite Performances of 2000 (Male)

Master Li Mu Bai - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
"I've already wasted my whole life. I want to tell you with my last breath that I have always loved you. I would rather be a ghost, drifting by your side as a condemned soul, than enter heaven without you. Because of your love, I will never be a lonely spirit."

Chow Mo-wan - In the Mood for Love
"I sometimes wonder what I'd be if I hadn't married. Have you ever thought of that?"

Patrick Bateman - American Psycho
"I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?"

Javier Rodríguez - Traffic
"You like baseball? We need lights for the parks, so kids can play at night. So they can play baseball. So they don't become burros para los malones. Everybody likes baseball. Everybody likes parks."

Honorable Mentions:
Franky Four Fingers - Snatch
Harold Longbaugh - The Way of the Gun

Gal - Sexy Beast
"Oh, yeah. Bloody hell. I'm sweating in here. Roasting. Boiling. Baking. Sweltering. It's like a sauna. Furnace. You can fry an egg on my stomach. Ohh, who wouldn't lap this up? It's ridiculous. Tremendous. Fantastic. Fan-dabby-dozy-tastic."

Chuck Noland - Cast Away
"I'm sorry, Wilson. Wilson, I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"

Leonard Shelby - Memento
"We all lie to ourselves to be happy."

Ulysses Everett McGill - O Brother, Where Art Thou?
"Pete, it's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart."

Don Logan - Sexy Beast
"You're the problem! You're the fucking problem you fucking Dr White honkin' jam-rag fucking spunk-bubble! I'm telling you Aitch you keep looking at me I'll put you in the fucking ground, promise you!"

Teacher Kitano - Battle Royale
"So today's lesson is, you kill each other off till there's only one left. Nothing's against the rules."

Harry Goldfarb - Requiem for a Dream
"You are beautiful. You're the most beautiful girl in the world. You are my dream."

Honorable Mentions:
Paul Allen - American Psycho
Tobias Jacobs - Girl, Interrupted

Commodus - Gladiator
"The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. Striking story! But now, the people want to know how the story ends. Only a famous death will do. And what could be more glorious than to challenge the Emperor himself in the great arena?"

Mickey O'Neil - Snatch
"I bet ya can box a little, can't ya sir? Aye, you look like a boxer."

Lo - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
"A faithful heart makes wishes come true."

Elijah Price - Unbreakable
"Do you know what the scariest thing is? To not know your place in this world, to not know why you're here. That's - that's just an awful feeling."

Gerry Fleck - Best in Show
"Not that... Not that I didn't have quite the reputation myself. I was known by, you know, "some", to be quite the Casanova."

Russell Hammond - Almost Famous
"From here on out, I'm only interested in what is real. Real people, real feelings, that's it, that's all I'm interested in, from here on out."

Tyrone C. Love - Requiem for a Dream
"Hey, baby, I don't care if the motherfucker's growing hair just so long as we get our bread."

Honorable Mentions:
Shorty - Scary Movie

Maximus - Gladiator
"Are you not entertained?! Are you not entertained?! Is this not why you are here?!"

Robert Wakefield - Traffic
"If there is a war on drugs, then many of our family members are the enemy. And I don't know how you wage war on your own family."

Pete Hogwallop - O Brother, Where Art Thou?
"Well hell, it ain't square one! Ain't nobody gonna pick up three filthy, unshaved hitch-hikers, and one of them a know-it-all that can't keep his trap shut."

Teddy - Memento
"You don't want the truth. You make up your own truth."

David Dunn - Unbreakable
"You are like me. We can both get hurt. I'm just an ordinary man."

Rob Gordon - High Fidelity
"What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?"

Riddick - Pitch Black
"All you people are so scared of me. Most days I'd take that as a compliment. But it ain't me you gotta worry about now."

Honorable Mentions:
Chris Varick - Boiler Room