The Journey (2016 film) Quotes

The Journey (2016 film) is a television program that first aired in 1970 . The Journey ended in 1970.

It features Mark Huffam, Nick Hamm, and Piers Tempest as producer, Stephen Warbeck in charge of musical score, and Greg Gardiner as head of cinematography.

The Journey (2016 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of The Journey (2016 film) is 94 minutes long. The Journey (2016 film) is distributed by IFC Films.

The cast includes: Colm Meaney as Martin McGuinness, John Hurt as Harry Patterson, Toby Stephens as Tony Blair, Timothy Spall as Ian Paisley, and Freddie Highmore as Jack.

The Journey (2016 film) Quotes

Timothy Spall as Ian Paisley

• (Paisley Junior) "You'll be at the airport in sixty minutes. Just say nothing."
• (Timothy Spall) "I haven't talked to him in thirty years, another another hour isn't going to be any trouble."

• (Timothy Spall) "And this is Martin McGuinness, former chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army."
• (Colm Meaney) "Allegedly."

• (Timothy Spall) "I despise everything you have done, so I do."
• (Colm Meaney) "I despise everything you stand for, so I do."

• (Timothy Spall) "Mr McGuinness, I haven't been to the pictures since 1973."
• (Colm Meaney) "Seriously? What did you go to see?"
• (Timothy Spall) "I didn't see anything. I was protesting outside."
• (Colm Meaney) "1973? What would have got your goat in 1973?"

Colm Meaney as Martin McGuinness

• (Colm Meaney) "That, eh, deer -- that was an accident?"
• (Freddie Highmore) "We have highly trained wildlife."

• (Colm Meaney) "Our protocols dictate that senior figures of opposing parties must fly together. It lessens the chance of either side firing a ground to air missile or --"

• (Colm Meaney) "Just give me the phone, will you? Extend the olive branch."
• (Timothy Spall) "Well, I'd imagine you'd be more familiar with Special Branch."

• (Colm Meaney) "Politics is a long game, Rory. You have to stay the course. Everything we want, we will get. Maybe not today or tomorrow, it may take another thirty years -- believe you me, I would not talk to that old bastard if I didn't think we were going to get there."

• (Colm Meaney) "We will fight them on the beaches, so we will."
• (Timothy Spall) "I had a dream, so I had."

• (Colm Meaney) "So, fifty years married? You get less for murder."

• (Colm Meaney) "When did you realize who he was?"
• (Timothy Spall) "From the moment he opened his mouth."
• (Colm Meaney) "How did you know?"
• (Timothy Spall) "Because I'm not naive. And also because he claimed never to have heard of me. Everyone's heard of me."

• (Colm Meaney) "If big Ian doesn't say yes now, we are just pissing in the wind."

• (Colm Meaney) "We are on the verge of something the wider world will applaud, but our own people will hate."

• (Colm Meaney) "I apologize for nothing."
• (Timothy Spall) "That's a true politician. Never apologize."

• (Colm Meaney) "You have no reason to trust me, and I have no reason to trust you, but we need a leap of faith. And you are all about faith. If you follow your logic, if God has put you here with me, he either means to kiss me or to kill me. And thou shan't kill."

John Hurt as Harry Patterson

• (John Hurt) "You are young, aren't you? Twenty five, twenty six -- so, old enough that you should know who these men are. They are the Troubles. They are civil war. They are anarchy."

• (John Hurt) "I've retired three times. I've had more comebacks than Sinatra."

• (John Hurt) "Fifty years of marriage -- It's rumoured it's the last time he said yes to anything."

• (John Hurt) "This time is the first time I really felt yes, there is a chance, we can do this."
• (Toby Stephens) "Do you say this to all the prime ministers?"
• (John Hurt) "Of course. Only this time I mean it."
• (Toby Stephens) "Why now?"
• (John Hurt) "Oh, because -- young men fight for the hell of it, but old men care about their legacy."

Freddie Highmore as Jack

• (Freddie Highmore) "I always thought the IRA was led by that guy with a beard and a pipe, you know? So where do you fit in?"
• (Colm Meaney) "You might call me -- the acceptable public face."

Toby Stephens as Tony Blair

• (Toby Stephens) "What?"
• (John Hurt) "Shut his eyes as soon as he got in. Been like that for the last ten minutes."
• (Toby Stephens) "Oh, bloody hell."
• (John Hurt) "He's eighty one. And he hasn't been well."
• (Toby Stephens) "Thatcher operated on four hours sleep and a pact with the devil, Paisley has the energy of ten men half his age. This is just his way of not engaging. Wake him up."

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