1923
Sundays on Paramount+1923 Quotes
Whitfield: What a structure. Inspired by the lodge in the park, I presume.
Jacob: Other way around.
Well, what a mess you've made of my family. And what an embarrassment you've become to yours.
Arthur's Father
Jack: Maybe that's your purpose, too. Be a mother to those that ain't got one. A teacher to those who need lessons. We choose our purpose. Word you're lookin' for is destiny, and if you want to give God a good laugh, you tell him what you think your destiny is.
Elizabeth: And if I can't ever have children?
Jack: Then you can't have children.
Elizabeth: And you'll never be a father.
Jack: I guess it ain't my destiny. You're my destiny.
Elizabeth: You just said you can't choose destiny. You chose me.
Jack: One look at you, and I had no choice at all. Destiny. Look at all the things God had to give you to choose me. Poor judgment, bad vision, terrible taste in men. We take what life gives us. It's all we can do.
I ought to arrest you for assaulting a police officer, but I don't want those filthy fuckin' kids in my squad car.
Officer
Whitfield: As I'm sure you're aware, if I'm not repaid by the end of the year, the deed reverts to me.
Cara: We have done no harm to you. Why would you do this to us?
Whitfield: Because I can. I'm a businessman. The word decent doesn't apply to me.
You may question the marriage, sir, but difficult to question their sincerity.
Captain
Banner: You keep sendin' boys to do man's work, Dutton. I guess if I was as old as you, I'd send boys, too. This don't end in a court. It ends in a field in front of your fuckin' house.
Jacob: If that's where you want to die, I'm more than happy to help you out.
Alex: Most people long their whole lives for this and never feel it.
Spencer: No.
Alex: What a tragedy.
Only a banker would consider a mortgage a luxury.
Jacob
They've been trying to kill me since they took me. I don't believe in later. I believe in right now.
Teonna
Jack: They put the bosses of the mining companies in charge of regulatin' the mines?
Jacob: I'll tell you all you need to know about politics, son.
Jack: You're in politics.
Jacob: I'm in law enforcement.
Jack: Well, you enforce the laws you push through.
Cara: Jack.
Jack: I ain't complainin'. I'm just sayin' it's the same thing. You're a cattle man in charge of regulatin' cattle. Am I wrong?
Jacob: There's this theory that these scientists came up with after studyin' tribes in India and Africa, South America. The smaller tribes didn't have any government. Didn't need any. They could sit down and talk out their problems, decide where to plant crops, to hunt. They was just a big family, really. But when the number of people got up around 500, if there wasn't any government, the strongest people would take advantage of the weakest every time, without fail. They would enslave, rape, steal, enrich their lives at the expense of other people's lives. Government's man's ways of tryin' to control our behavior, but it can't be controlled. It's what we are. Sooner or later, the kind of people that would enrich themselves at your expense will use the government to do it, and mark my words, one day, they'll create laws to control what we say, how we think. They'll outlaw our right to disagree if we let 'em. I created the commission to protect the way this family provides for itself, how it protects the land.
Cara: You know how to bake a cake?
Elizabeth: No.
Cara: I can remedy that.
