Mickey Rourke: Edmund

Masked and Anonymous

Edmund

Edmund: There will be no more stupidity. There will be no more mistakes. It's a new day. God help you all.

Edmund: They didn't get a big star. Big stars think it's too dangerous here. Big stars - they like doing benefits; but, only if the benefits are being held in places where they won't get shot at. Man, let me ask you. Have you ever met any big stars with a set of nuts? Huh? With any big balls? Any God damn brains and charisma? No? No? My man, big stars they like - they like it safe. They don't like to put their life on the line for a cause that they don't understand. I mean, who does, huh?

Edgar: Did you hear who the headliner is?
Edmund: Look, I like Beethoven - and Stravinsky. Schubert's really good. Modern music doesn't do much for me. And, quite frankly, it doesn't do much for the President, either.
Edgar: Well, at least it's not some banjo player.

Edmund: You know how it is, Jack. When inferior people want to revolt, they do. And when they become equal, they want to be superior.

Jack Fate: I remember your Ma. A wonderful lady. She used to ask permission before she did anything.
Edmund: Yeah, before she'd cut a leaf off a flower, she'd ask permission.
Jack Fate: Couldn't wash away the real dirt, though.
Edmund: Nah, nobody could.

Edmund: The President is dead.
Jack Fate: [singing] I'm beginning to hear voices and there's no one around, I'm all used up and I feel so turned-around, I went to church on Sunday and she passed by, And my love for her is taking such a long time to die, And I'm waist deep in the mist, It's almost like, I don't even exist...