My Favorite Performances of 2005 (Male)

Barbara Covett - Notes on a Scandal
"Bottom line is... we're around each other an'... this thing, it grabs hold of us again... at the wrong place... at the wrong time... and we're dead."

Honorable Mentions:
Skip - Lords of Dogtown

Tom Stall - A History of Violence
"Richie... I'm here to make peace. Tell me what I got to do to make things right."

Harry Lockhart - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
"I peed on the corpse. Can they do, like, I.D. from that?"

Bernard Berkman - The Squid and the Whale
"What is it about high school, you read all the worst books by good writers."

John R. Cash - Walk the Line
"Now I've asked you forty different ways and it's time you come up with a fresh answer."

Avner - Munich
"There is no peace at the end of this."

Jack Twist - Brokeback Mountain
"I wish I knew how to quit you."

Gay Perry - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
"You don't get it, do you? This isn't "good cop, bad cop." This is fag and New Yorker. You're in a lot of trouble."

Truman Capote - Capote
"More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones."

Richie Cusack - A History of Violence
"You could do something, I guess... You could die, Joey."

Honorable Mentions:
Stan - Syriana

Justin Quayle - The Constant Gardener
"Fuck you, Donohue! This is bandit country."

Bennett Holiday - Syriana
"We're looking for the illusion of due diligence, Mr. Pope."

Nick Naylor - Thank You for Smoking
"My job requires a certain... moral flexibility."

Jeff Kohlver - Hard Candy
"Well, you look older than you are and you certainly act older than you are."

Marv - Sin City
"I'll stare the bastard in the face as he screams to God, and I'll laugh harder when he whimpers like a baby. And when his eyes go dead, the hell I send him to will seem like heaven after what I've done to him."

Julian Noble - The Matador
"Sorry about the cock thing, it's kind of a conversation stopper."

Bob Barnes - Syriana
"Innocent until investigated? That's nice. It's got a nice ring to it. Bet you've worn some miles on old sayings like that. Gives the listener the sense of the law being written as it's spoken."

Steve - Munich
"Don't fuck with the Jews."

John - Next Door
"I would never do anything to hurt you... Not deliberately."

Hank Chinaski - Factotum
"I finally got hired at a bicycle supply warehouse. I had to demean myself to get that one. I told them that I liked to think of my job as a second home."

Honorable Mentions:
Officer Ryan - Crash

Carl Fogarty - A History of Violence
"You should care about what I want, Mrs. Stall, because I want something from your husband that might affect you, might change your life."

Yuri Orlov - Lord of War
"There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is: How do we arm the other 11?"

Honorable Mentions:
David Spritz - The Weather Man

V - V for Vendetta
"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."

Brendan Frye - Brick
"Throw one at me if you want, hash head. I've got all five senses and I slept last night, that puts me six up on the lot of you."

John Hartigan - Sin City
"An old man dies. A young woman lives. A fair trade. I love you, Nancy."