My Favorite Performances of 2006 (Male)

Frank Costello - The Departed
"One of us had to die. With me, it tends to be the other guy."

Cutter - The Prestige
"Now you're looking for the secret. But you won't find it because of course, you're not really looking. You don't really want to work it out. You want to be fooled."

Honorable Mentions:
Theo Faron - Children of Men

Peter Evans - Bug
"It's a surveillance tool. It's a microchip that's been implanted in the skin of every human being born on the planet since 1982. The test group for the prototype was the People's Temple! And when the Reverend Jim Jones threatened to expose them, he and every member of his church were assassinated!"

Solomon Vandy - Blood Diamond
"He is my son. I am his father. I must go find him. Go ahead, shoot me if you want, but I will go find him."

General Tadamichi Kuribayashi - Letters from Iwo Jima
"If our children can live safely for one more day it would be worth the one more day that we defend this island."

Dieter Dengler - Rescue Dawn
"I never wanted to go to war. I just wanted to fly."

Honorable Mentions:
Alfred Borden - The Prestige

Theodore Faron - Children of Men
"I can't really remember when I last had any hope, and I certainly can't remember when anyone else did either. Because really, since women stopped being able to have babies, what's left to hope for?"

Honorable Mentions:
Dalton Russell - Inside Man

Dan Dunne - Half Nelson
"Change moves in spirals, not circles. For example, the sun goes up and then it goes down. But everytime that happens, what do you get? You get a new day. You get a new one. When you breathe, you inhale and you exhale, but every single time that you do that you're a little bit different then the one before. We're always changing. And its important to know that there are some changes you can't control and that there are others you can."

Borat - Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
"You telling me the man who try to put a rubber fist in my anus was a homosexual?"

Honorable Mentions:
Jean Girard - Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

Billy Costigan - The Departed
"You sit there with a mass murderer. A mass murderer. Your heart rate is jacked, and your hand... steady. That's one thing I figured out about myself in prison. My hand does not shake... ever."

Honorable Mentions:
Danny Archer - Blood Diamond

Gene - Rescue Dawn
"You just got to keep thinking protein, lots of protein."

Ronnie J. McGorvey - Little Children
"I'm gonna be good now."

Frank - Little Miss Sunshine
"I'm glad you're talking again, Dwayne. You're not nearly as stupid as you look."

Le Chiffre - Little Miss Sunshine
"Weeping blood comes merely from a derangement of the tear duct, my dear General. Nothing sinister."

Phillip - Reprise
"Do i really want to expose the world to this?"

Robert Angier - The Prestige
"No one cares about the man in the box, the man who disappears."

Capitán Vidal - Pan's Labyrinth
"Go ahead, Serrano, don't be afraid. This is the only decent way to die."

Lazarus - Black Snake Moan
"God put you in my path and I aim to cure you of your wicked ways."

Harold Crick - Stranger Than Fiction
"This may sound like gibberish to you, but I think I'm in a tragedy."

Honorable Mentions:
Ricky Bobby - Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

Richard Hart - Notes on a Scandal
"I knew who you were when we met. You were young. I knew it might get tough, but I was prepared. You're a good mother, but at times you've been a fucking lousy wife. Why didn't you come to me? You could have told me how lonely you were. You never trusted me to help you. I'm not saying I was so fucking fabulous, but I was here."

Park Gang-Du - The Host
"Yeah, she goes to Dangsan School... she's deceased... but she's not dead. I mean, she died, but she's still alive."

Owen Davian - Mission: Impossible III
"Who are you? What's your name? Do you have a wife? A girlfriend? Because if you do, I'm gonna find her. I'm gonna hurt her. I'm gonna make her bleed, and cry, and call out your name. And then I'm gonna find you, and kill you right in front of her."

Det. James 'Sonny' Crockett - Miami Vice
"Luck ran out. This was too good to last."

Nigel - The Devil Wears Prada
"Let me know when your whole life goes up in smoke. Means it's time for a promotion."

Huo Yuanjia - Fearless
"Zhensheng, promise me you won't seek revenge. Revenge will only bring us more bloodshed. Please, that's not what I want."