Tin Man (2007)

Alan Cumming: Glitch

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Quotes 

• DG : I'm DG. This is...

  Cain : I know, a head-case.

  Glitch : I have a proper name... and when I remember it I will tell you.

  DG : What's a head-case?

  Cain : It's what the state does to re-educate criminals. Remove their brains, and keep them trapped inside their own heads. Ain't that right, convict?

  Glitch : Whoa, I ain't no convict!

  [hesitates] 

  Glitch : And just in case I am, it was a bogus charge, a frame job, I'm sure of it!

• Cain : It amazes me that you once influenced the queen.

  Glitch : I know, me too!

• DG : [after hearing screaming]  Did you hear that?

  Glitch : Yes... no.

• DG : Hey, you knew my mother.

  Glitch : I knew I wasn't an idiot!

  [to Cain] 

  Glitch : Or a convict!

• Glitch : [walking over to a piece of furniture]  There is something so *familiar* about this...

  [takes the sheet off the harp] 

  Glitch : No.

• Cain : [entering tavern to meet the Seeker]  I don't like the looks of this place. Why don't you guys wait outside? I'll cut the deal myself.

  DG : No, I think we should -

  [dwarf shoves his way between the group] 

  DG : - stick together. I feel very safe with you guys.

  Glitch : Really? I don't.

• DG : [seeing Glitch hanging from the ceiling]  What are you doing...

  Glitch : up here? The little ANKLE-BITERS, thought it would be funny to keep me hanging around. Untie me, and I might have the last laugh.

  [DG hesitates] 

  Glitch : Come on doll, if mom and pop really are on the road to central city, you're falling further and further behind.

  DG : You know the way?

  Glitch : Sure, though, it's kind of hard to give directions from up here. Unless you have a better offer?

• DG : [referring to the device stuck in the wooden post]  What is it?

  Glitch : A TDESPHTL. A tri-dimensional energy stored projected holographic time loop. Nifty little thing... Hey, I think I invented it...

• Raw : [about Cain]  Brave man... good man... Tin Man...

  Glitch : Oh, I might have known you were a Tin Man, with that attitude!

  DG : What's a Tin Man?

  Glitch : It's what they call police in Central City.

  [hesitates] 

  Glitch : Or, at least, I think it is...

• Glitch : [to the angry cyborgs]  We were just passing through... we were just passing through... we were just passing through...

  [Cain hits him and he stops] 

• Glitch : [about the girl in the mirror]  That's Azkadellia. Marbles or not, evil like that you don't forget.

• Glitch : You've been sleeping for hours... like a baby with his pacifier.

  Cain : I thought you were dead.

  Glitch : Ditto. You know, I may have saved you from hypothermia, but um,

  [holds up the horse toy] 

  Glitch : this is what saved your life. It stopped the bullet.

  Cain : DG?

  Glitch : Azkadellia.

  Cain : Raw?

  Glitch : Ah, I don't know I can't find him. Either they took him too, or he's dead. Or...

  Cain : Maybe he ran away.

  Glitch : You know you really should do something about that BITTER cynicism of yours Cain!

  Cain : Why? Someone's gotta keep your wide-eyed optimism in check.

  [silence] 

  Cain : Hey, Glitch?

  Glitch : What?

  Cain : I owe you one.

  Glitch : [smiles]  You know Cain, professional psychiatric help is only a crow's call away these days. I think someone like you with your issues with masculinity, and what we call it the boy scout syndrome...

• Glitch : I'm not saying they called me 'Twinkle-toes' but I cut quite a rug... Oh, you can make a face Cain, but here was a time I was a *terrific* dancer. She may have taken my brain, but *rhythm* that comes directly from the...

  Cain : [interrupting]  Do you have any bright ideas how to get in there?

  Glitch : I mean, I don't mind taxing my half a brain for DG, but just *once* I'd like someone to admire me for my *rhythm*. Which, as I was saying before I was so *rudely* interrupted, comes directly from the *soul*.

  [Cain gives him the look] 

  Glitch : You know, Cain, sometimes you make me feel just like those ladies at the dance, like I blend right in with the wallpaper...

  Cain : [looking at Longcoats]  That's not a bad idea.

  Glitch : [surprised]  Wanna dance?

  Cain : I'll lead, you follow.

• Cain : [after taking out several Longcoats]  You're a deep well, Glitch.

  Glitch : It's all about rhythm.

• Glitch : [to Azkadellia, about DG]  Leave her alone.

• Glitch : [surrounded by Papays]  It's almost dinner time!

• Raw : Papay once peaceful.

  Glitch : Yeah? Well now the only 'peace' they're interested in is a *piece* of us!

• Toto : The time to leave is now.

  Cain : Sorry Pooch, but this is where we part company.

  Toto : Part?

  Cain : With the Mobats in the sky and the Longcoats on our trail, I don't have time to figure out what your angle is in all this.

  Toto : My 'angle' is her mother sent me to help her.

  Cain : And you did. I'd even thank you, if I knew who you were...

  Glitch : Whoa, Mister-Suspicious! This is the man... dog...

  [whispers] 

  Glitch : thingy... that helped us escape!

• Glitch : [to Azkadellia about the queen]  Show some respect!

  Azkadellia : The queen's reign ends today.

• Man in audience : Mystic Man, answer me this: What is the meaning of life?

  Mystic Man : That question is as timeless as the moons. We must seek to serve the forces of the universe in all our humanity, and all our humility.

  [Azkadellia's vapors are being sprayed] 

  Mystic Man : First, we must inhale the magic...

  Glitch : This is the man with all the answers?

  Mystic Man : ...and HOLD IT, HOLD IT...

  Glitch : He's out of his mind, literally!

  Mystic Man : ...AND YOU KNOW THE MEANING OF LIFE!

  [laughs] 

• Glitch : [to DG]  Gotta be careful not to lose your marbles.

  [laughs] 

  Glitch : But ah, since the sorceress made her medicos take mine, well, you flick the abacus.