My Favorite Performances of 2008 (Male)

JCVD - JCVD
"It's hard for me to judge people and it's hard for them... not to judge me. Easier to blame me. Yeah, something like that."

Ray - In Bruges
"There's a Christmas tree somewhere in London with a bunch of presents underneath it that'll never be opened. And I thought, if I survive all of this, I'd go to that house, apologize to the mother there, and accept whatever punishment she chose for me. Prison... death... didn't matter. Because at least in prison and at least in death, you know, I wouldn't be in fuckin' Bruges. But then, like a flash, it came to me. And I realized, fuck man, maybe that's what hell is: the entire rest of eternity spent in fuckin' Bruges. And I really really hoped I wouldn't die. I really really hoped I wouldn't die."

Bobby Sands - Hunger
"I have my belief, and in all its simplicity that is the most powerful thing."

Joker - The Dark Knight
"All you care about is money. This city deserves a better class of criminal. And I'm gonna give it to them!"

Chad Feldheimer - Burn After Reading
"Osbourne Cox? I thought you might be worried... about the security... of your shit."

Honorable Mentions:
Benjamin Button - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Randy 'The Ram' Robinson - The Wrestler
"The only place I get hurt is out there. The world don't give a shit about me."

Kirk Lazarus - Tropic Thunder
"I know who I am. I'm the dude playin' the dude, disguised as another dude!"

Honorable Mentions:
Tony Stark - Iron Man
Nathan Gardner - Charlie Bartlett

Ken - In Bruges
"Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf. I think I'm heading home."

Harvey Milk - Milk
"If it were true that children emulate their teachers, we'd have a lot more nuns running around."

Scott - Happy-Go-Lucky
"You know, you can make jokes while you're driving, Poppy, but you will crash and you will die laughing."

Saul Silver - Pineapple Express
"Let's roll, man! I'm done with the woods! Let's go! C'mon, man, let's get the fuck outta here!"

Honorable Mentions:
Scott Smith - Milk

Charles Bronson - Bronson
"You don't want to be trapped inside with me sunshine. Inside, I'm somebody nobody wants to fuck with do you understand? I am Charlie Bronson, I am Britain's most violent prisoner."

Honorable Mentions:
Handsome Bob - RocknRolla

Father Brendan Flynn - Doubt
"There are people who go after your humanity, Sister, that tell you that the light in your heart is a weakness. Don't believe it. It's an old tactic of cruel people to kill kindness in the name of virtue."

Frank Wheeler - Revolutionary Road
"All I know April is, I want to feel things. Really - feel them, you know. How's that for an ambition?"

Honorable Mentions:
Roger Ferris - Body of Lies

Harry - In Bruges
"An Uzi? I'm not from South Central Los fucking Angeles. I didn't come here to shoot twenty black ten year olds in a drive-by. I want a normal gun for a normal person."

Paul - Rachel Getting Married
"All you young people who applauded can go fuck yourselves!"

Oskar - Let the Right One In
"Are you a vampire?"

Leonard Kraditor - Two Lovers

Staff Sergeant William James - The Hurt Locker
"There's enough bang in there to send us all to Jesus. I'm gonna die, I wanna die comfortable."

Les Grossman - Tropic Thunder
"First, take a big step back... and literally, FUCK YOUR OWN FACE!"

Walt Kowalski - Gran Torino
"Get off my lawn!"

John Givings - Revolutionary Road
"The hopeless emptiness? Now, you've said it. Plenty of people are on to the emptiness; but, it takes real guts to see the hopelessness. Wow."

Arthur - JCVD
"John Woo! What an ass! You're the one who brought him to the US. Without you, he'd still be filming pigeons in Hong Kong!"

Harry Pfarrer - Burn After Reading
"Who the fuck do you work for, you fucker?"

Ip Man - Ip Man
"You watch your countrymen get beaten to death. Where's your dignity?"