Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film) Quotes

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film) is a television show that first aired in 1970 . Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy completed its run in 1970.

It features Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Robyn Slovo as producer, Alberto Iglesias in charge of musical score, and Hoyte van Hoytema as head of cinematography.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom, France, and Germany. Each episode of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film) is 127 minutes long. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film) is distributed by Focus Features.

The cast includes: Gary Oldman as George Smiley, David Dencik as Easterhase, Kathy Burke as Connie Sachs, John Hurt as Control, Mark Strong as Jim Prideaux, Simon McBurney as Oliver Lacon, Colin Firth as Bill Haydon, Stuart Graham as Minister, Tom Hardy as Ricki Tarr, Svetlana Khodchenkova as Irina, Benedict Cumberbatch as Peter Guillam, Toby Jones as Percy Alleline, Ciarán Hinds as Roy Bland, and Roger Lloyd-Pack as Ben.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film) Quotes

Colin Firth as Bill Haydon

• (Colin Firth) "What the hell are you doing up here?"

• (Colin Firth) "I thought I'd pop down and catch a glimpse at the new girl before Bland gets to her."
• (Benedict Cumberbatch) "Ah, yes, Belinda the Blonde."

• (Colin Firth) "Karla said you were very good, the one we had to worry about. But you do have a blind spot. And if I was known to be Ann's lover, you wouldn't be able to see me straight. And he was right, up to a point."

• (Colin Firth) "It's become so ugly --"

• (Colin Firth) "As I said, you may f*** me but you still have to call me "Sir" in the morning."

Ciarán Hinds as Roy Bland

• (Ciarán Hinds) "For twenty-five years we've been the only thing standing between Moscow and the Third World War."

Mark Strong as Jim Prideaux

• (Mark Strong) "Best watcher in the unit, I'll bet. As long's he's got his specs on, aye?"

• (Mark Strong) "I've known a lot of Bills in my time. They've all been good ones. Whatcha good at?"

• (Bill Roach) "I made this for you, sir."
• (Mark Strong) "I don't want you hanging around here anymore. Keep away from me from now on. Go and join the others."
• (Bill Roach) "But --"
• (Mark Strong) "Just bloody join in, will you?"
• (Mark Strong) "Go and play. Damn you."

John Hurt as Control

• (John Hurt) "All I want from you is one codename: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier --"
• (Gary Oldman) "-- Spy."

• (John Hurt) "We have a rotten apple, Jim."

• (John Hurt) "It'll take us five hours to get drunk on this monkey's piss."

• (John Hurt) "I know that Moscow has planted a mole, and I know it is one of five men."
• (John Hurt) "Alleline: Tinker. Haydon: Tailor. Bland: Soldier. We leave out "Sailor", too much like "Tailor". Esterhase: Poorman."
• (Mark Strong) "And the fifth?"
• (John Hurt) "Smiley."

• (John Hurt) "You weren't followed?"
• (Mark Strong) "No."
• (John Hurt) "Better come in."
• (John Hurt) "Trust no one, Jim. Especially not in the mainstream."

Gary Oldman as George Smiley

• (Gary Oldman) "He's a fanatic. And the fanatic is always concealing a secret doubt."

• (Gary Oldman) "I know who it is. It's Karla."

• (Gary Oldman) "Where did you get this?"
• (John Hurt) "I didn't. Percy and his little cabal walked in with it."
• (David Dencik) "Look, Control --"
• (John Hurt) "Shut up."
• (Colin Firth) "Style, appalling. Blatantly a fabrication from beginning to end. Just could be the real thing."
• (John Hurt) "Smiley is suspicious, Percy."
• (Gary Oldman) "Where did it come from? What's the access?"
• (Toby Jones) "A new secret source of mine."
• (Gary Oldman) "But how could he possibly have access?"
• (Toby Jones) "He has access to the most sensitive levels of policy making. We named the Operation Witchcraft."
• (John Hurt) "Well, Percy and his pals bypassed us Smiley. Gone straight to the minister. Percy has been allowed to keep the identity of his new friend top secret."

• (Gary Oldman) "We're not so different, you and I. We've both spent our lives looking for the weakness in one another's systems. Don't you think it's time to recognize there is as little worth on your side as there is on mine?"

• (Gary Oldman) "Now is the time."

• (Gary Oldman) "After today, Peter, they have to assume they're watching you. If there's anything you need tided up, now's the time."

• (Gary Oldman) "I need you to do something for me. You have to assume they're watching you --"

• (Gary Oldman) "We are not so very different, you and I. We've both spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another."

Toby Jones as Percy Alleline

• (Toby Jones) "Arabs. You can rent one but you can't buy one. Right Bill?"

Tom Hardy as Ricki Tarr

• (Tom Hardy) "She had information concerning a double agent. What she told me was sensational --"

• (Tom Hardy) "Read it aloud."
• (Roger Lloyd-Pack) ""Personal for Tarr from Alleline: require clarification before meeting your request. Quote, 'information vital to safeguarding of the Circus', unquote, does not qualify, send further information.""
• (Tom Hardy) "That's the way, Percy boy. You keep stalling. I warn you, Ben, we've got some really lousy people in this outfit, I wouldn't trust a f***ing one of them."

• (Tom Hardy) "Everything the Circus thinks is gold is s***."

• (Tom Hardy) "She told me she had a secret, the mother of all secrets --"

• (Tom Hardy) "Mr Guillam, I'm sorry I was out for so long."
• (Gary Oldman) "Ricki's been helping us, Peter. He's been telling us all about his adventures."
• (Benedict Cumberbatch) "He's a double, George. There is no mole. Irina's been locked up by Moscow."
• (Benedict Cumberbatch) "I stole that, because of you. I spied on my own, because of him. Do you know how that makes me feel?"

• (Tom Hardy) "I needed to see you."
• (Gary Oldman) "Why?"

• (Tom Hardy) "I want a wife and family, I don't want to end up like you."

• (Tom Hardy) "They're going to kill me."
• (Gary Oldman) "Who is?"
• (Tom Hardy) "Your lot. Or their lot, whoever gets me first. I'm innocent. Within reason."

Simon McBurney as Oliver Lacon

• (Simon McBurney) "There's a mole, right at the top of the Circus. And he's been there for years."

• (Simon McBurney) "It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?"

Kathy Burke as Connie Sachs

• (Kathy Burke) "Don't come back if it's awful. I'd rather remember you all just as you are."

• (Kathy Burke) "I don't know about you George, but I'm feeling seriously under-f***ed."

• (Kathy Burke) "It was a good time back then."
• (Gary Oldman) "It was a war, Connie."
• (Kathy Burke) "A war we could be proud of."

Benedict Cumberbatch as Peter Guillam

• (Benedict Cumberbatch) "You got clearance for that?"
• (Colin Firth) "Well, I'm not bloody chaining it up outside. Mind you, probably no better off in here with this bunch of bloody cut-throats, they'll have the gold out of your teeth."

Svetlana Khodchenkova as Irina

• (Svetlana Khodchenkova) "I have something to trade. Something big."

Stuart Graham as Minister

• (Stuart Graham) "I thought Lacon had made it clear to you: keep your nose bloody well out of Witchcraft's business."
• (Gary Oldman) "It's Lacon's advice I'm following."
• (Gary Oldman) "You told me to follow in Control's footsteps."
• (Stuart Graham) "I wouldn't consider that sound advice, given the mess Control left us with. It has taken Alleline; and if I may say so, myself; this long to get us back in the game."
• (Gary Oldman) "The man Alleline and the others meet is called Polyakov. You believe his role is to bring information from Witchcraft to you. His real role is to receive information from the mole, to take back to Karla."
• (Stuart Graham) "That -- that's not possible."
• (Gary Oldman) "Made possible, by you, in the house which you persuaded the Treasury to pay for."
• (Stuart Graham) "Witchcraft's intelligence is genuine. It's been gold."
• (Gary Oldman) "It's just enough glitter amongst the chickenfeed. Control didn't believe in miracles, and he didn't believe in Witchcraft. But you were lazy, and you were greedy, and so you hounded him out of the Circus and you let Karla in. You've opened negotiations to exchange intelligence with the Americans --"
• (Gary Oldman) "What they tell the Circus, they'll be telling the Kremlin. Witchcraft's information, the "gold" Karla let you have, it wasn't to lure you. It was to lure the Americans. Now -- do you want to take credit for that?"

David Dencik as Easterhase

• (David Dencik) "Things aren't always what they seem."

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