My Favorite Performances of 2007 (Male)

Anton Chigurh - No Country for Old Men
"What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?"

Daniel Plainview - There Will Be Blood
"Did you think your song and dance and your superstition would help you, Eli? I am the Third Revelation! I am who the Lord has chosen!"

Jesse James - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
"I haven't been acting correctly. I can't hardly recognize myself sometimes when I'm greased. I go on journeys out of my body and look at my red hands and my mean face and I wonder about that man who's gone so wrong. I've been becoming a problem to myself."

Andrew 'Andy' Hanson - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
"I've seen heaven, Gina. it's a nice place to stay."

Honorable Mentions:
Gust Avrakotos - Charlie Wilson's War

Ed Tom Bell - No Country for Old Men
"I always figured when I got older, God would sorta come inta my life somehow. And he didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I would have the same opinion of me that he does."

Honorable Mentions:
Hank Deerfield - In the Valley of Elah

Nikolai Luzhin - Eastern Promises
"Forget any of this happened. Stay away from people like me."

Prof. Walter Vale - The Visitor
"You can't just take people away like that. Do you hear me? He was a good man, a good person. It's not fair! We are not just helpless children! He had a life! Do you hear me? I mean, do YOU hear ME? What's the matter with you?"

Dewey Cox - Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
"I think I'm doing okay for a 15 year old with a wife and a baby."

Paul Avery - Zodiac
"Methinks our friend's a tad bit fuckered in the head."

Lars Lindstrom - Lars and the Real Girl
"I was talking to Bianca, and she was saying that in her culture they have these rites of passages and rituals and ceremonies, and, just all kinds of things that, when you do them, go through them, let you know that you're an adult? Doesn't that sound great?"

Paul Sunday / Eli Sunday - There Will Be Blood
"Don't bully me, Daniel!"

Frank Lucas - American Gangster
"The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room."

Robert Ford - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
"You know what I expected? Applause. I was only 20 years old then. I couldn't see how it would look to people. I was surprised by what happened. They didn't applaud."

Honorable Mentions:
Patrick Kenzie - Gone Baby Gone

Michael Clayton - Michael Clayton
"I'm not the guy you kill. I'm the guy you buy! Are you so fucking blind that you don't even see what I am? I sold out Arthur for 80 grand. I'm your easiest problem and you're gonna kill me?"

Jack Doyle - Gone Baby Gone
"I honor my child with this division. So that no parent has to go through what I've known. This child. That's all I care about. I'm gonna bring her home."

Kirill - Eastern Promises
"He is no driver, he is the undertaker."

Simon Skinner - Hot Fuzz
"I'm a slasher! I must be stopped! A slasher... of prices!"

Robert Graysmith - Zodiac
"I... I need to know who he is. I... I need to stand there, I need to look him in the eye, and I need to know that it's him."

Robert Capa - Sunshine
"So if you wake up one morning and it's a particularly beautiful day, you'll know we made it. Okay, I'm signing out."

Seth - Superbad
"You know when you hear girls say 'Ah man, I was so shit-faced last night, I shouldn't have fucked that guy?' We could be that mistake!"

Charlie Prince - 3:10 to Yuma
"For a one-leg rancher... he's one tough son of a bitch."

Honorable Mentions:
Jake Mazursky - Alpha Dog
The Stranger - 30 Days of Night

Steven - Trick 'r Treat
"Ah. Smashing jack-o'-lanterns? Stealing candy? It's okay. Believe it or not, I was just like you when I was a kid. Till my dad set me straight, that is. See, my dad taught me tonight is about respecting the dead because this is the one night that the dead and all sorts of other things roam free - and pay us a visit. Sorry. All these traditions, jack-o'-lanterns, putting on costumes, handing out treats, they were started to protect us, but nowadays... No one really cares."

Mark Loring - Juno
"I never said I'd be a good father."

Honorable Mentions:
Adam Leavitt - The Kingdom

Charlie Fineman - Reign Over Me
"You're a good husband Alan. You remind me of me."

Llewelyn Moss - No Country for Old Men
"If I don't come back, tell mother I love her."

Honorable Mentions:
Detective Trupo - American Gangster
Chief Buchwald - In the Valley of Elah
Dr. William Block - Planet Terror