Eastern Promises Quotes

Eastern Promises is a television show that first aired in 1970 . Eastern Promises stopped airing in 1970.

It features Paul Webster; Robert Lantos as producer, Howard Shore in charge of musical score, and Peter Suschitzky as head of cinematography.

Eastern Promises is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of Eastern Promises is 101 minutes long. Eastern Promises is distributed by Focus Features.

The cast includes: Naomi Watts as Anna, Viggo Mortensen as Nikolai Luzhin, Vincent Cassel as Kirill, Donald Sumpter as Yuri, Tatiana Maslany as Tatiana's Voice, Jerzy Skolimowski as Stepan, Sinéad Cusack as Helen, Mina E. Mina as Azim, Armin Mueller-Stahl as Semyon, and Josef Altin as Ekrem.

Eastern Promises Quotes

Viggo Mortensen as Nikolai Luzhin

• (Viggo Mortensen) "Dasvidaniya, Anna Inanovna."

• (Viggo Mortensen) "Kirill, we don't kill little babies."

• (Viggo Mortensen) "Anger is dangerous. It makes people do stupid things."

• (Viggo Mortensen) "Okay. Now I'm going to do his teeth and cut off his fingers. You might want to leave room."

• (Viggo Mortensen) "Are you finished cutting his hair?"
• (Viggo Mortensen) "I thought you might want $6.50 from his pocket."

• (Viggo Mortensen) "I'm the driver."

• (Viggo Mortensen) "I need you to take Semyon out of the picture. I want you to arrest him."
• (Donald Sumpter) "Arrest him for what?"
• (Viggo Mortensen) "Rape. The girl was 14."
• (Donald Sumpter) "And of course she will testify?"
• (Viggo Mortensen) "She is dead, but she had Semyon's baby. If you can prove baby was his, and girl was underage, that is statutory rape. You have baby, you need Semyon's DNA. For poetic reasons, I suggest you take his blood."

• (Viggo Mortensen) "Sometimes, if things are closed, you just, open them up."

• (Viggo Mortensen) "Stay alive a little longer."

Tatiana Maslany as Tatiana's Voice

• (Tatiana Maslany) "My name is Tatiana. My father died in the mines in my village, so he was already buried when he died. We were all buried there. Buried under the soil of Russia. That is why I left, to find a better life."

Mina E. Mina as Azim

• (Mina E. Mina) "Semyon recommends this place for business meetings, because you can see what tattoos a man has. Come on, we have a lot to cover. Let's cook."

• (Mina E. Mina) "He says "Christmas." So I say to him,"
• (Mina E. Mina) ""Should we go shopping?""
• (Mina E. Mina) "The kid's 16. He says, "But uncle, it's Christmas.""

Naomi Watts as Anna

• (Naomi Watts) "So you've read the diary. How can you keep doing what you're doing?"
• (Viggo Mortensen) "I'm just a driver."

• (Naomi Watts) "Have you ever met a girl named Tatiana?"
• (Viggo Mortensen) "I meet lot of girls named Tatiana."
• (Naomi Watts) "She was pregnant."
• (Viggo Mortensen) "Ah, in that case; no, I've never heard of her."
• (Naomi Watts) "She died on my shift."
• (Viggo Mortensen) "I thought you did birth?"
• (Naomi Watts) "Sometimes birth and death go together. She came in with needle punches all over both arms. Probably a prostitute, at the age of fourteen. Do you think Semyon's son knew her?"
• (Viggo Mortensen) "I am driver. I go left, I go right, I go straight ahead; that's it."

• (Naomi Watts) "How did you get in here?"
• (Armin Mueller-Stahl) "There are always open doors, Anna Ivanovna."

• (Naomi Watts) "Why are you doing this, why are you helping us?"
• (Viggo Mortensen) "I can't become king if someone else already sits on the throne."

Vincent Cassel as Kirill

• (Vincent Cassel) "He is no driver, he is the undertaker."

Armin Mueller-Stahl as Semyon

• (Armin Mueller-Stahl) "So, you know where I am -- and now I know where you are, Anna Ivanovna."

• (Armin Mueller-Stahl) "I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my rules and I drank vodka. Tomorrow I will translate it, and then I will bring what I've done to your home."

• (Armin Mueller-Stahl) "It's always good to have someone who I can trust, to do simple tasks. In this business, sometimes the biggest danger comes from the most stupid things."

• (Armin Mueller-Stahl) "Soyka had brothers."
• (Viggo Mortensen) "Kirill has me."

Jerzy Skolimowski as Stepan

• (Jerzy Skolimowski) "Anna, how is it that your boyfriend wasn't here to carve?"
• (Naomi Watts) "I don't live with Oliver anymore, Uncle Stepan. Living back here for a bit."
• (Sinéad Cusack) "For as long as you want."
• (Jerzy Skolimowski) "I knew he would run away from you."
• (Naomi Watts) "He didn't run away. Christ, you make me sound like a burning building."
• (Jerzy Skolimowski) "Black men always run away."
• (Sinéad Cusack) "Oh Stepan."
• (Jerzy Skolimowski) "I'm not allowed to be honest?"
• (Sinéad Cusack) "He was a doctor, Stepan."
• (Naomi Watts) "What has that got to do with anything?"
• (Jerzy Skolimowski) "It's not natural to mix race and race. That's why your baby died inside you."

Josef Altin as Ekrem

• (Josef Altin) "Arsenal, Arsenal."

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