Favorite Drama Quotes
If we wanted applause, we would have joined the circus.
Jack O'Donnell
It's got horses in it, it's a Western.
Lester Siegel
You're worried about the Ayatollah? Try the WGA.
Lester Siegel
Lester Siegel: The saying goes, "What starts in farce ends in tragedy."
John Chambers: No, it's the other way around.
Lester Siegel: Who said that exactly?
John Chambers: Marx.
Lester Siegel: Groucho said that?
Argo fuck yourself.
Lester Siegel
Look, if you're going to do this, you're going to do this... You can't build cover stories around a movie that doesn't exist. You need a script, you need a producer.
John Chambers
[to Tony Mendez] You need somebody who's a somebody to put their name on it. Somebody respectable. With credits. Who you can trust with classified information. Who will produce a fake movie. For free.
John Chambers
[to Tony Mendez] The whole country is watching you, they just don't know it
Jack O'Donnell
If I'm going to make a fake movies, it's going to be a fake hit.
Lester Siegel
[after quizzing the hostages on their fake bios and the one hostage paused] Shoot him, he's an American Spy!
Tony Mendez
Bad news, bad news. Even when it's good news, it's bad news. John Wayne in the ground 6 months and this is what is left of America.
Lester Siegel
Tony Mendez: We are responsible for these people.
Jack O'Donnell: What we are is required to follow orders.
