The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Quotes (2011)

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Henrik Vanger Soon you will know us all only too well, with my apologies.
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Mikael Blomkvist I can't find something you've been unable to find in forty years.
Henrik Vanger You don't know that. You have a very keen investigative mind.
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Henrik Vanger You will be investigating thieves, misers, bullies--the most detestable collection of people that you will ever meet: my family.
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Henrik Vanger Someone in the family murdered Harriet, and for the past 40 years, has been trying to drive me insane.
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Henrik Vanger I sat down to dinner. It was then that I noticed: Harriet wasn't there. And she wasn't there the next morning, or the next...or the next 40 years.
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Mikael Blomkvist I've got absolutely no idea who these people are or how they're connected to the death of a sixteen year old girl, but they must be somehow. What we're going to do is find out who these people are, what happened to them, and what these Leviticus verses have to do with anything.
Lisbeth Salander [gets up and begins walking away]
Mikael Blomkvist What're you doing?
Lisbeth Salander Getting started. You can keep talking if you want.
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Lisbeth Salander How exactly was she killed?
Officer I hope you don't mind me asking: when was the last time you ate?
Lisbeth Salander I have a high metabolism, I can't put on weight.
Officer That's not why I'm asking. I'm asking, because it is better to look at what I am about to show you on an empty stomach.
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Martin Vanger [to Blomkvist] Everybody knows why you're here.
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Erika Berger Our credibility isn't dead yet.
Mikael Blomkvist [wryly] Mine is.
Mikael Blomkvist [sighs]...I'm tired. I'm gonna go home and crawl under the duvet for a week.
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Mikael Blomkvist I just want to get a clearer sense of what Harriet was like.
Anita Vanger She was...very messed up. Some days she'd be putting on makeup, wearing the tightest sweater that she had to school, and then she'd be studying her bible like a nun.
Mikael Blomkvist So what do you think happened to her?
Anita Vanger Everyone knows what.
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Dirch Frode We both know nothing's going to come of this don't we.
Mikael Blomkvist No...no we don't know that.
Dirch Frode What?
Mikael Blomkvist We don't know that nothing will come of it.
Dirch Frode What do you mean?
Mikael Blomkvist I may have found something.
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Nils Bjurman How many partners have you had in the last month? And how many of those were...men?
Lisbeth Salander [stares at Bjurman]
Nils Bjurman It's regulation, I have to ask these things.
Lisbeth Salander Write what you want.
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Nils Bjurman [to Lisbeth] You do something for me, I do something for you.
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Officer Why would a young lady like you want to know about such an awful murder?
Lisbeth Salander It interests me.
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Mikael Blomkvist I must have alarmed you, showing up like this--
Lisbeth Salander If you touch me I'll more than alarm you.
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Lisbeth Salander Something wrong with the report?
Dirch Frode No, it's quite thorough. But I'm also interested in what's not in it.
Lisbeth Salander There's nothing "not in it".
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Henrik Vanger The accident had...nothing to do with Harriet. And yet everything.
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Nils Bjurman Why do you need such an expensive computer?
Lisbeth Salander I shouldn't even have to ask, I should have control of my money.
Nils Bjurman And you will, once you learn to be sociable. Can you do that?
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Gustaf Morell The fact that I never found a body was not surprising. You can't dig up an entire island. But neither could I find the motive. Was it spontaneous; was it calculated? Did she know something someone wished she didn't?
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Mikael Blomkvist Lisbeth--oh, can I call you Lisbeth? I want you to help me catch a killer of women.
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Mikael Blomkvist Rape, torture, fire, animals, religion...am I missing anything?
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Dirch Frode Under duress, people do many things that are out of character.
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Dragan Armansky [referring to Lisbeth] She's had a rough life. Can we please not make it any rougher?
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Henrik Vanger Someone killed her, someone on the island that day. Someone close enough to know what she used to give me each year on my birthday.
Henrik Vanger [shows Blomkvist the rows of pressed flowers mounted on the wall] Those are from her, and the rest...from her killer.
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Mikael Blomkvist CAAAAT!
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Gustaf Morell What kind is it?
Henrik Vanger I don't know. White.
Gustaf Morell And the frame?
Henrik Vanger Dark.
Gustaf Morell And no note...
Henrik Vanger No.
Gustaf Morell I'm so sorry Henrik.
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Mikael Blomkvist [walks into Lisbeth's apartment uninvited]
Lisbeth Salander Hey! Who do you think you are?
Mikael Blomkvist I'm the guy you know better than my closest friends do.
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Henrik Vanger The enemies of my friends, are my enemies.
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Dragan Armansky [awaiting Lisbeth's arrival] It's possible we could wait forever.
Dirch Frode You called her and spoke to her didn't you?
Dragan Armansky That doesn't mean much.
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Dragan Armansky She's one of the best investigators I have, as you saw in the report.
Dirch Frode But?
Dragan Armansky I'm concerned you won't like her. She's different.
Dirch Frode In what way?
Dragan Armansky In every way.
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Mikael Blomkvist [confronting Armansky] Herr Frode was kind enough to share your report with me. The investigator's name-- [points to Lisbeth's name] that is her name, yes? See, I can't find any record of her, and I'm pretty good at that kind of thing.
Dragan Armansky Would it really matter what her name is?
Mikael Blomkvist Well it would if I wanted to speak to her, yes.
Dragan Armansky That's against policy.
Mikael Blomkvist You sure?
Dragan Armansky Just like your sources, you understand.
Mikael Blomkvist Ok. Here's a name for you. [grabs one of Armansky's business cards, flips it over and scribbles a name] My sister. She's also my lawyer. She'll be contacting you.
Mikael Blomkvist [pointing to the background report] There are things in here that can only have come from one place.
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Mikael Blomkvist What are you doing?
Lisbeth Salander [on Mikael's computer] I'm reading your notes.
Mikael Blomkvist They're encrypted.
Lisbeth Salander Please. Have some coffee.
Mikael Blomkvist We're going to have a serious discussion about what's yours and what's mine.
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Henrik Vanger The clock is ticking. I need your help.
Mikael Blomkvist Doing what?
Henrik Vanger Officially, assisting with my memoirs. But what you'll /really/ be doing, is solving a mystery.
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Erika Berger Usually when I wake up in a cold bed it's at home.
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Lisbeth Salander [asked her opinion of Blomkvist] He's clean in my opinion.
Dirch Frode You mean he's hygenic?
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Henrik Vanger Isn't it interesting how the fascists always use the word freedom?
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Nils Bjurman I feel a bit badly about how we had left it last time--
Lisbeth Salander Me too. [pulls out a taser and electrocutes Bjurman]
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Lisbeth Salander [tattooing Bjurman] Lie still. I've never done this before...and there will be blood.
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Mikael Blomkvist Any problem finding the place?
Lisbeth Salander Everyone knows who and where you are.
Mikael Blomkvist That's comforting...
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Isabella Vanger [to Blomkvist] Go back to Stockholm. When we need a biography written by a libeled journalist, we'll know where to find one.
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Harald Vanger I don't close my doors to anyone. They just don't visit.
Mikael Blomkvist Maybe if you redecorated.
Harald Vanger What, hide the past like the rest of them, under a shiny veneer? I'm the most honest of all of them.
Mikael Blomkvist Your family?
Harald Vanger Sweden.
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Lisbeth Salander I made a friend. I mean one that you'd approve of.
Holger Palmgren [raises an eyebrow]
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Plague [Lisbeth hands him money] I am on welfare, not administering it. This is not enough.
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Lisbeth Salander [as Martin flees] Can I kill him?
Mikael Blomkvist [nods]
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Martin Vanger You know what's harder than shooting someone? Just missing.
Mikael Blomkvist Well it didn't work. I'm here.
Martin Vanger Ah, but Mikael, it did work. You're here.
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Martin Vanger [to Mikael] It's funny how the fear of offending is greater than the fear of pain. You knew something was wrong. You knew you would end up strung up in the basement. Yet you came back. And all I had to do was...offer you a drink.
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Dirch Frode Your report is light in another area, his personal life. Anything you chose not to disclose?
Lisbeth Salander Nothing that warranted inclusion.
Dirch Frode Is that a yes or a no?
Dragan Armansky I think what Lisbeth is trying to say, and I agree, is that everyone has a right to a certain amount of privacy.
Dirch Frode Not in this case. I need to know whether he has any traits that I might consider unsavory, even if she does not.
Lisbeth Salander He's had a longstanding sexual relationship with his co-editor of the magazine. It wrecked his marriage, but not hers. Sometimes he performs cunnilingus. Not often enough, in my opinion.
Dirch Frode ...no, you were right not to include that.
Lisbeth Salander I know.
  • In today's dollars
    Domestic $102,363,771
    Foreign +128,793,970
  • = total worldwide gross $231,157,741
  • - a reported budget of $90,000,000
  • = a 156.8% net profit of $141,157,741
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