My Favorite Performances of 2012 (Male)

Mud - Mud
"There are fierce powers at work in the world, boys. Good, evil, poor luck, best luck. As men, we've got to take advantage where we can."

Honorable Mentions:
Killer Joe Cooper - Killer Joe
Dallas - Magic Mike
Danny Buck - Bernie
Ward Jansen - The Paperboy

Lucas - The Hunt
"I want a word with Theo. Look into my eyes. Look me in the eyes. What do you see? Do you see anything? Nothing. There's nothing. There's nothing. You leave me alone now. You leave me alone now, Theo."

Freddie Quell - The Master
"You're the bravest girl I've ever met. Now stick it back in, it fell out."

Terje Orheim - The Orheim Company
"We can thank a few men for this, Jarle. That we can have this life that we have. Me and you and... mom."

Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln
"I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop."

Lancaster Dodd - The Master
"If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world."

Hans - Seven Psychopaths
"Have some pride, in yourself. Have some faith in Jesus Christ as your lord and dont tell this scumsucking motherfuckers nothing."

Captain Sharp - Moonrise Kingdom
"I'm sorry for your loss. Anyway, that's what you're supposed to say."

Honorable Mentions:
Old Joe - Looper

Calvin Candie - Django Unchained
"Gentlemen, you had my curiosity, now you have my attention."

Whip Whitaker - Flight
"This is going to sound real stupid coming from a man in prison. But for the first time in my life, I'm free."

Jackie Cogan - Killing Them Softly
"This guy wants to tell me we're living in a community. Don't make me laugh. I'm living in America, and in America, you're on your own. America's not a country. It's just a business. Now fucking pay me."

Luke - The Place Beyond the Pines
"He's my son and I should be around him. I wasn't around my Dad and look at the fuckin' way I turned out."

Raoul Silva - Skyfall
"What is this if not betrayal? She sent you off to me, knowing you're not ready, knowing you're likely die. Mommy was very bad."

Dr. King Schultz - Django Unchained
"Mister Candie, normally I would say "Auf wiedersehen," but since what "auf wiedersehen" actually means is "'till I see you again", and since I never wish to see you again, to you, sir, I say goodbye!"

Mickey - Killing Them Softly
"I was drinking before you got out of your father's cock. Don't tell me what I do."

Honorable Mentions:
C.I.A. Director - Zero Dark Thirty

Billy - Seven Psychopaths
"You can't let the animals die in a movie... only the women."

Vilain - The Expendables 2
"You wanna kill me like a man? Or you wanna kill me like a sheep? So. What's it going to be? Man or sheep?"

Honorable Mentions:
Luc Deveraux - Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning

Captain Molyneux / Vyvyan Ayrs / Timothy Cavendish / Korean Musician / Prescient 2 - Cloud Atlas
"Outside, fat snow flakes are falling on slate roofs and granite walls. Like Solzhenitsyn, labouring in Vermont, I shall beaver away in exile. Unlike Solzhenitsyn, I shan't be alone."

Thaddeus Stevens - Lincoln
"Trust? Gentlemen, you seem to have forgotten that our chosen career is politics."

Jenko - 21 Jump Street
"One particle of unobtainium has a nuclear reaction with the flux capacitor - carry the '2' - changing its atomic isotoner into a radioactive spider. Fuck you, Science!"

Honorable Mentions:
Mike Martingano - Magic Mike
Aaron - Haywire

Terri Hooley - Good Vibrations
"When I look out at youse all gathered here, it confirms something I've always felt. When it comes to punk: New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the Reason!"

Frankie - Killing Them Softly
"John, there's ten I can do. I know of at least ten I can do but then after I'm gonna have at least eight hot ginzos out looking for me."

Honorable Mentions:
Joe Stafford - Argo

Dr. Henry Goose / Hotel Manager / Isaac Sachs / Dermot Hoggins / Cavendish Look-a-Like Actor / Zachry - Cloud Atlas
"Fear, belief, love phenomena that determined the course of our lives. These forces begin long before we are born and continue after we perish."

Django - Django Unchained
"Kill white folks and they pay you for it? What's not to like?"

Sam - Moonrise Kingdom
"Poems don't always have to rhyme, you know. They're just supposed to be creative."