Donald Sutherland
- Highest Rated: Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia (2007)
- Lowest Rated: Puffball (2008)
- Birthday: Jul 17, 1935
- Birthplace: Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
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Certainly one of the most distinctive looking men ever to be granted the title of movie star, Donald Sutherland is an actor defined as much by his almost caricature-like features as his considerable talent. Tall, lanky and bearing perhaps the most enjoyably sinister face this side of Vincent Price, Sutherland made a name for himself in some of the most influential films of the 1970s and early '80s.A native of Canada, Sutherland was born in New Brunswick on July 17, 1935. Raised in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, he took an early interest in the entertainment industry, becoming a radio DJ by the time he was fourteen. While an engineering student at the University of Toronto, he discovered his love for acting and duly decided to pursue theatrical training. An attempt to enroll at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art was thwarted, however, because of his size (6'4") and idiosyncratic looks. Not one to give up, Sutherland began doing British repertory theatre and getting acting stints on television series like The Saint. In 1964 the actor got his first big break, making his screen debut in the Italian horror film Il Castello dei Morti Vivi (The Castle of the Living Dead). His dual role as a young soldier and an old hag was enough to convince various casting directors of a certain kind of versatility, and Sutherland was soon appearing in a number of remarkably schlocky films, including Dr. Terror's House of Horrors and Die! Die! Darling! (both 1965). A move into more respectable fare came in 1967, when Robert Aldrich cast him as a retarded killer in the highly successful The Dirty Dozen. By the early '70s, Sutherland had become something of a bonafide star, thanks to lead roles in films like Start the Revolution without Me and Robert Altman's MASH (both 1970). It was his role as Army surgeon Hawkeye Pierce in the latter film that gave the actor particular respect and credibility, and the following year he enhanced his reputation with a portrayal of the titular private detective in Alan J. Pakula's Klute.It was during this period that Sutherland became something of an idol for a younger, counter culture audience, due to both the kind of roles he took and his own anti-war stance. Offscreen, he spent a great deal of time protesting the Vietnam War, and, with the participation of fellow protestor and Klute co-star Jane Fonda, made the anti-war documentary F.T.A. in 1972. He also continued his mainstream Hollywood work, enjoying success with films like Don't Look Now (1973), The Day of the Locust (1975), and Fellini's Casanova (1976). In 1978, he won a permanent place in the hearts and minds of slackers everywhere with his portrayal of a pot-smoking, metaphysics-spouting college professor in National Lampoon's Animal House.After a starring role in the critically acclaimed Ordinary People (1980), Sutherland entered a relatively unremarkable phase of his career, appearing in one forgettable film after another. This phase continued for much of the decade, and didn't begin to change until 1989, when the actor won raves for his starring role in A Dry White Season and his title role in Bethune: The Making of a Hero. He spent the 1990s doing steady work in films of widely varying quality, appearing as the informant who cried conspiracy in JFK (1991), a Van Helsing-type figure in Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1992), a wealthy New Yorker who gets taken in by con artist Will Smith in Six Degrees of Separation (1993), and a general in the virus thriller Outbreak (1995). In 1998, the actor did some of his best work in years (in addition to the made-for-TV Citizen X (1995), for which he won an Emmy and a Golden Globe) when he starred as a track coach in Without Limits, Robert Towne's biopic of runner Steve Prefontaine. In 2000, Sutherland enjoyed further critical and commerical success with Space Cowboys, an adventure drama that teamed the actor alongside Tommy Lee Jones, Clint Eastwood, and James Garner as geriatric astronauts who get another chance
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Highest Rated Movies
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Uprising
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Don't Look Now
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Klute
94%
Filmography
Movies
Rating |
Title |
Credit |
Box
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Year |
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83% | A Reindeer's Journey | Narrator | — | 2019 |
84% | Ad Astra | Col. Tom Pruitt | — | 2019 |
44% | American Hangman | Actor | — | 2019 |
50% | The Burnt Orange Heresy | Actor | — | 2019 |
Backdraft 2 | Ronald Bartel | — | 2019 | |
52% | Measure of a Man | Dr. Kahn | — | 2018 |
37% | The Leisure Seeker | John | — | 2018 |
11% | Basmati Blues | Gurgon | — | 2018 |
38% | Milton's Secret | Grandpa Howard | — | 2016 |
42% | Forsaken | Rev. Clayton | — | 2016 |
The Hunger Games: Complete 4-Film Collection | Actor | — | 2016 | |
70% | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 | President Snow | $254.7M | 2015 |
Pirate's Passage | Screenwriter Producer Capt. Charles Johnson | — | 2015 | |
69% | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 | President Snow | $295.5M | 2014 |
51% | The Calling | Father Price | — | 2014 |
55% | The Best Offer | Billy | $85.9K | 2014 |
89% | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | President Snow | $336.7M | 2013 |
7% | Assassin's Bullet | Ambassador Ashdown | — | 2012 |
84% | The Hunger Games | President Snow | $408M | 2012 |
56% | Treasure Island | Flint | — | 2012 |
Dawn Rider | Pop Mason | — | 2012 | |
69% | Horrible Bosses | Jack Pellit | $117M | 2011 |
40% | The Eagle | Uncle Aquila | $19.5M | 2011 |
53% | The Mechanic | Harry McKenna | $29.2M | 2011 |
Jock The Hero Dog | Narrator | — | 2011 | |
Man On The Train | The Professor | — | 2011 | |
The Con Artist | Kranski | — | 2010 | |
For Love of Liberty | Actor | — | 2010 | |
Out of the Shadows | Narrator | — | 2010 | |
50% | Astro Boy (AstroBoy) | President Stone | $19.6M | 2009 |
0% | Puffball | Actor | — | 2008 |
11% | Fool's Gold | Nigel Honeycutt | $70.2M | 2008 |
Stonehenge Decoded | Narrator | — | 2008 | |
Last Continent | Narrator | — | 2007 | |
83% | Trumbo | Actor | $28.6K | 2007 |
100% | Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia | Actor | — | 2007 |
64% | Reign Over Me | Judge Raines | $19.7M | 2007 |
Behind the Mask | Actor | — | 2007 | |
68% | Aurora Borealis | Ronald Shorter | — | 2006 |
17% | Land of the Blind | Thorne | — | 2006 |
14% | An American Haunting | John Bell Sr. | $16.3M | 2006 |
39% | American Gun | Carl Wilk | — | 2006 |
35% | Ask the Dust | Hellfrick | $0.7M | 2006 |
Baltic Storm | Actor | — | 2005 | |
86% | Pride and Prejudice | Mr. Bennet | $38.3M | 2005 |
62% | Lord of War | Col. Oliver Southern | $24.1M | 2005 |
Interlude | Actor | — | 2005 | |
24% | Fierce People | Ogden C. Osborne | — | 2005 |
Human Trafficking | Bill Meehan | — | 2005 | |
Salem's Lot | Richard Straker | — | 2004 | |
Frankenstein | Capt. Walton | — | 2004 | |
70% | Cold Mountain | Reverend Monroe | — | 2003 |
73% | The Italian Job | John Bridger | $106M | 2003 |
73% | Fellini: I'm a Born Liar | Himself | — | 2003 |
20% | Big Shot's Funeral | Tyler | — | 2003 |
Five Moons Plaza (Piazza delle Cinque Lunes) | Actor | — | 2003 | |
Path to War | Clark Clifford | — | 2002 | |
100% | Uprising | Adam Czerniakow | — | 2001 |
45% | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | Dr. Sid | — | 2001 |
The Big Heist | Jimmy Burke | — | 2001 | |
91% | Panic | Michael | — | 2000 |
16% | The Art of War | Douglas Thomas | $29.5M | 2000 |
78% | Space Cowboys | Jerry O'Neill | — | 2000 |
Bear Island | Frank Lansing | — | 2000 | |
Spiral, The (La spirale) | Actor | — | 2000 | |
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows | Actor | — | 2000 | |
The Hunley | Gen. Beauregard | — | 1999 | |
29% | Free Money | Judge Rowsenberger | — | 1999 |
27% | Instinct | Dr. Ben Hillard | — | 1999 |
Behind the Mask | Dr. Bob Shushan | — | 1999 | |
10% | Virus | Captain Robert Everton | — | 1999 |
79% | Without Limits | Bill Bowerman | — | 1998 |
60% | The Assignment | Jack Shaw/Henry Fields | — | 1997 |
40% | Fallen | Lt. Stanton | — | 1997 |
0% | Shadow Conspiracy | Jake Conrad | — | 1997 |
Natural Enemy | Actor | — | 1997 | |
66% | A Time to Kill | Lucien Wilbanks | — | 1996 |
Hollow Point | Lawton | — | 1995 | |
Younger & Younger | Jonathan Younger | — | 1995 | |
57% | Outbreak | General Donald McClintock | — | 1995 |
88% | Citizen X | Col. Mikhail Fetisov | — | 1995 |
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All | Capt. William Marsden | — | 1994 | |
58% | Disclosure | Bob Garvin | — | 1994 |
26% | The Puppet Masters | Andrew Nivens | — | 1994 |
88% | Six Degrees of Separation | Flan Kittredge | — | 1993 |
Bethune: The Making of a Hero | Dr. Norman Bethune | — | 1993 | |
Red Hot | Kirov | — | 1993 | |
0% | Benefit of the Doubt | Frank | — | 1993 |
Shadow of the Wolf | Henderson | — | 1993 | |
Dr. Bethune | Actor | — | 1993 | |
The Setting Sun | Bureaucrat | — | 1992 | |
35% | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Merrick | — | 1992 |
The Railway Station Man | Roger Hawthorne | — | 1992 | |
Quicksand: No Escape | Murdoch | — | 1992 | |
84% | JFK | X | — | 1991 |
Scream of Stone | Ivan | — | 1991 | |
74% | Backdraft | Ronald Bartel | — | 1991 |
Buster's Bedroom | O'Connor | — | 1991 | |
Long Road Home | Actor | — | 1991 | |
Eminent Domain | Josef Borski | — | 1991 | |
80% | A Dry White Season | Ben du Toit | — | 1989 |
17% | Lock Up | Warden Drumgoole | — | 1989 |
Lost Angels | Dr. Charles Loftis | — | 1989 | |
National Gallery of Art | Paul Gauguin | — | 1988 | |
The Rosary Murders | Father Bob Koesler | — | 1987 | |
Apprentice to Murder | John Reese | — | 1987 | |
Oviri (The Wolf at the Door) | Paul Gauguin | — | 1986 | |
10% | Revolution | Sgt. Maj. Peasy | — | 1985 |
Ordeal by Innocence | Dr. Arthur Calgary | — | 1985 | |
40% | Heaven Help Us | Brother Thadeus | — | 1985 |
Revolution Revisited | Actor | — | 1985 | |
Le Fleuve Aux Grandes Eaux | Actor | — | 1984 | |
The Trouble with Spies | Appleton Porter | — | 1984 | |
0% | Crackers | Weslake | — | 1984 |
Savage and Beautiful | Actor | — | 1984 | |
69% | Max Dugan Returns | Brian Costello | — | 1983 |
Threshold | Dr. Thomas Vrain | — | 1983 | |
81% | Eye of the Needle | Faber | — | 1981 |
Gas | Nick the Noz | — | 1981 | |
89% | Ordinary People | Calvin | — | 1980 |
Nothing Personal | Roger Keller | — | 1980 | |
A Man, a Woman and a Bank | Reese | — | 1979 | |
88% | Murder by Decree | Robert Lees | — | 1979 |
73% | The Great Train Robbery | Agar | — | 1979 |
93% | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Matthew Bennell | — | 1978 |
Les Liens de sang (Blood Relatives) | Carella | — | 1978 | |
90% | National Lampoon's Animal House | Prof. Dave Jennings | — | 1978 |
53% | 1900 (Novecento) | Attila | — | 1977 |
81% | The Kentucky Fried Movie | Clumsy | — | 1977 |
50% | Le Casanova de Fellini | Giacomo Casanova | — | 1976 |
67% | The Eagle Has Landed | Liam Devlin | — | 1976 |
50% | End of the Game (Der Richter und sein Henker) (The Judge and His Hangman) | Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied | — | 1975 |
60% | The Day of the Locust | Homer | — | 1975 |
Shadow Catcher | Narrator | — | 1975 | |
S*P*Y*S | Bruland | — | 1974 | |
Dan Candy's Law | Dan Candy | — | 1974 | |
97% | Don't Look Now | John Baxter | — | 1973 |
Lady Ice | Andy Hammon | — | 1973 | |
60% | Steelyard Blues | Executive Producer Veldini Jesse Veldini Producer | — | 1973 |
F.T.A. | Screenwriter Actor Producer | — | 1972 | |
67% | Johnny Got His Gun | `Christ' | — | 1971 |
94% | Klute | Klute | — | 1971 |
60% | Little Murders | Minister | — | 1971 |
85% | M*A*S*H | Hawkeye Pierce | — | 1970 |
Alex in Wonderland | Alex Morrison | — | 1970 | |
The Act of the Heart | Father Michael Ferrier | — | 1970 | |
76% | Kelly's Heroes | Sgt. Oddball (tank commander) | — | 1970 |
83% | Start The Revolution Without Me | Charles, Pierre | — | 1970 |
33% | Sebastian | American | — | 1969 |
Joanna | Lord Peter Sanderson | — | 1968 | |
The Split | Dave Negli | — | 1968 | |
88% | The Dirty Dozen | Vernon Pinkley | — | 1967 |
50% | Billion Dollar Brain | Actor | — | 1967 |
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors | Dr. Bob Carroll | — | 1965 | |
86% | The Bedford Incident | Pharmacist's Mate Nerny | — | 1965 |
50% | Die! Die! My Darling! | Joseph | — | 1965 |
Castle of the Living Dead | Sergent Paul/Witch/Old Man | — | 1964 | |
Promise Her Anything | Baby's Father | — | 1964 | |
La cripta e l'incubo (Crypt of the Vampire)(Terror in the Crypt) | Sergent Paul/Witch/Old Man | — | 1964 |
TV
Rating |
Title |
Credit |
Year |
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The View
1997
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Guest |
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Today
2017
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Guest |
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78% |
Trust
2018
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J. Paul Getty |
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60 Minutes
1999
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Appearing Guest |
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ICE
2016-2018
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Pieter Van De Bruin |
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Crossing Lines
2013-2015
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Michel Dorn |
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The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson
2005-2014
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Guest |
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Treasure Island
2012
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Flint |
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Moby Dick
2011
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Father Mapple |
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The Graham Norton Show
2007
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Guest |
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86% |
Pillars of the Earth
2010
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Bartholomew |
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68% |
Dirty Sexy Money
2007-2009
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Tripp Darling |
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82% |
Commander in Chief
2005-2006
|
Nathan Templeton |
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The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
1992-2014
|
Guest |
|
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American Experience
1988
|
Narrator |
|
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85% |
The Simpsons
1989
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Voice |
|
The Avengers (1961)
1969
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Jessel |
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Crossing Lines
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Michel Dorn |
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The Saint
1962-1969
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Wood McCleery |
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The Undoing
2020
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Franklin Renner |
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QUOTES FROM Donald Sutherland CHARACTERS
- President Snow
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It's the things we love the most that destroy us
- President Snow
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It's the things we love the most that destroy us.
- Katniss Everdeen
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It must be a fragile system if it can be brought down by just a few berries
- President Snow
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It is indeed--but not in the way you imagine.
- Katniss Everdeen
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How should I imagine?
- President Snow
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You should imagine thousands upon thousands of your people dead...this town of yours reduced to ashes, imagine it gone, buried under dirt, made radioactive as if it had never existed like District 13. You fought very hard in the games miss Everdeen, but they were games...would you like to be in a real war?
- President Snow
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It's the things we love most that destroy us.
- Billy
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Human emotions are like works of art. They can be forged. They seem just like the original, but they're a forgery.
- Virgil Oldman
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Forgery?
- Billy
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Everything can be faked, Virgil. Joy, pain, hate, illness, recovery, even love.
- Harry McKenna
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You're a goddamn machine. You see things. You view people differently than I do, differently than anybody does. But you have a problem, Arthur. You need companionship.
- Arthur Bishop
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I have you Harry
- Harry McKenna
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Oh, then you're in deeper shit than I thought.
- Monroe
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I lost your mother after twenty-two months of marriage. It was enough for a lifetime.
- Billy
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Emotions are like work of art. They can be forged they seem just like the original but they are forgery.
- President Snow
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Your hair looks lovely, darling. When did you start wearing it like that?
- Snow's Granddaughter
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Everyone at school wears their hair like this now, Grandpa.
- President Snow
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While you and Peeta are on tour, you need to smile, you need to be grateful, but above all, you need to madly end it all in love. You think you can manage that?
- Katniss Everdeen
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Yes.
- President Snow
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"Yes" what?
- Katniss Everdeen
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I'll convince them.
- President Snow
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No. Convince me.
- Jack Pellit
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Life is a marathon and you can't win a marathon without putting a few Band-Aids on your nipples.
- President Snow
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Let it fly, Ms Everdeen. Let it. Fly.
- President Snow
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Your hair looks lovely, darling. When did you start wearing it like that?
- Snow's Granddaughter
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Everyone at school wears their hair like this now, Grandpa.
- President Snow
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Are all of you happy about the capitol? After all we are your gods.
- President Snow
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"They're holding hands. I want them dead."
- President Snow
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They're holding hands. I want them dead.
- President Snow
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Let it fly.
- The Professor
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Schubert appeals to my sense of failure.
- President Snow
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You fought very had in the Games, Miss Everdeen. But they were games. Would you like to be in a real war? Thousands of your people dead. Your loved ones....Gone.
- President Snow
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You fought very had in the Games, Miss Everdeen. But they were games. Would you like to be in a real one? Thousands of your people dead. Your loved ones....Gone.
- Dr. Thomas Vrain
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It won't be long before you leave this room with a heart as good as God ever made.
- President Snow
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Her entire species must be... eradicated.
- President Snow
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Her entire species must be eradicated.
- Plutarch Heavensbee
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Her species, sir?
- President Snow
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The other victors. Because of her, they all pose a threat. Because of her, they all think they're invincible.
- President Snow
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(On Katniss Everdeen) She has become a beacon of hope for them. She has to be eliminated.
- President Snow
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She has become a beacon of hope for them. She has to be eliminated.
- President Snow
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Her entire species must be eradicated.
- Plutarch Heavensbee
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Her species, sir?
- President Snow
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The other victors. Because of her, they all pose a threat. Because of her, they all think they're invisible.
- President Snow
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The other victors. Because of her, they all pose a threat. Because of her, they all think they're invincible.
- President Snow
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(on Katniss Everdeen) She has become a big kind of hope for them. She has to be eliminated. What do you think?
- President Snow
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She has become a big kind of hope for them. She has to be eliminated. What do you think?
- Plutarch Heavensbee
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I agree. She should die, but in the right way and the right time.
- Ronald
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You look like your dad.
- Duncan Shorter
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You do too.
- Ronald
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I'm better looking......Grandpa's little helper.
- Ronald
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I'm better looking.Grandpa's little helper.
- X
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''He Must Die.''
- X
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He must die.
- President Snow
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Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is fine, as long as it's contained.
- Seneca Crane
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So...
- President Snow
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So, contain it!
- John Bridger
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I trust everyone, It's the devil inside them I don't trust.
- President Snow
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Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is fine, as long as it's contained.
- Warden Drumgoole
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Frank, this is hell and I'm going to give you the guided tour.
- President Snow
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Welcome! Welcome! Welcome Tributes! We salute you!
- President Snow
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Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear.
- Oddball
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But for 1.6 million dollars, we could become heroes for three days.
- Oddball
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Why don't you say something rightous or hopeful for a change? [to Moriarity]
- Moriarty
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Crap! [to Oddball]
- Big Joe
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Well then, why the hell aren't you up there helping them? [fix the tank]
- Oddball
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answers: (laughs) I only ride em I don't know what makes em work.
- Oddball
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[answers] I only ride em I don't know what makes em work.
- President Snow
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An eleven?
- Seneca Crane
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She earned it.
- President Snow
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She shot an arrow at your head.
- Seneca Crane
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She shot the apple.
- President Snow
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Near your head.
- President Snow
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I like you. Be careful.
- Seneca Crane
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Who doesn't like an underdog?
- President Snow
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I don't.
- President Snow
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Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, alot of hope is dangerous. This fact is fine, as long as it's contained.
- Seneca Crane
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So...
- Effie Trinket
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So, contain it.
- President Snow
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Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, alot is dangerous. This fact is fine, as long as it's contained.
- Seneca Crane
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So...
- President Snow
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So, contain it.
- President Snow
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Hope is the only thing more powerful then fear.
- Seneca Crane
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I mean, everyone loves a good underdog!
- President Snow
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I don't.
- Father Bob Koesler
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Say five Our Fathers and five Hail Mary's. If it'll help, say the rosary [after hearing a distressed friend's confession].
- Father Bob Koesler
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Say five Our Fathers and five Hail Mary's. If it'll help, say the rosary. [after hearing a distressed friend's confession]
- Oddball
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I'm grabbing some waves.
- Vernon Pinkley
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Very pretty, General. Very pretty. But, can they fight?
- President Snow
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" By the way, I know about the kiss. "
- President Snow
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By the way, I know about the kiss.
- President Snow
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"On the seventy-fifth anniversary, as a reminder to the rebels that even the strongest among them cannot overcome the power of the Capitol, the male and female tributes will be reaped from their existing pool of victors."
- President Snow
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On the seventy-fifth anniversary, as a reminder to the rebels that even the strongest among them cannot overcome the power of the Capitol, the male and female tributes will be reaped from their existing pool of victors.
- President Snow
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Welcome, and Happy Hunger Games.
- Effie Trinket
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I just love that. Ladies first, Primrose Everdeen.
- Oddball
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A Sherman can give you a very nice... edge.
- President Snow
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And so it was decreed that each year the twelve districts of Panem shall offer up in tribute one young man and woman between the ages of twelve and eighteen to be trained in the art of survival and be prepared to fight to the death.
- Aquila
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Hold the circle!
- Dr. Sid
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Remember what happened to Galileo? They threw him in jail because he said the earth was not the center of the universe. That could happen to us.
- Dr. Sid
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Remember what happened to Galileo? They threw him in jail because he said the earth was not the center of the universe. That could happen to us.