The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)

Michael Douglas: Charles Remington

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Quotes 

• John Patterson : Have you ever failed?

  Charles Remington : Only at life.

• Charles Remington : Oh, you're right. The devil has come to Tsavo. Look at me! I am the devil.

• Charles Remington : Well, I'm a very considerate man. My mother taught me that.

  [Samuel laughs] 

  Charles Remington : Now, what the hell you laughing about? You don't think I'm considerate?

  Samuel : I don't believe you had a mother.

• [after they discover the Lion's Den filled with skeletons, and are terrified] 

  Charles Remington : Lions don't do this. Lions... never had a lair like this. They're doing it for the pleasure.

  John Patterson : They'll know we've been here.

• John Patterson : You don't enjoy killing, do you?

  [Remington ignores the question by taking a swig from his flask] 

  Hawthorne : Then why do it?

  Charles Remington : Because I've got a gift.

• Charles Remington : We have an expression in prize fighting: "Everyone has a plan until they've been hit." Well my friend, you've just been hit. The getting up is up to you.

• Hawthorne : I wouldn't have thought bravery would be a problem for you.

  Charles Remington : Well, you hope each time it won't be... But you never really know.

• Charles Remington : [melancholy]  My life was shaped because someone invented gunpowder, and that's what took me around the world. But the memory that I wanted, that was the family that I lost.

  John Patterson : You know Charles, you're a rather cheerful fellow when you get to know you.

  [all start laughing] 

• Abdullah : [gun to his head]  I am a man of peace!

  Charles Remington : You sound like a man who wants to live.