Inside Men (TV Mini Series)

Episode #1.4 (2012)

Steven Mackintosh: John

Quotes 

• Chris : You'd end a life for money?

  John : And you'd end one for revenge? No. No, I never wanted the money. You and Marcus, you had the greed. You wanted the better life. You wanted to take something you hadn't earned. Something you had no right to. No. No, all I wanted... All I wanted was to see it through. Being rich didn't matter. Being caught didn't matter. I just knew... I just... knew I couldn't go back to being... him.

• Olivia Doyle : [as John reads The Gruffalo to her]  Why are they scared of him? He's just a mouse.

  John : Hmm. Well, he's a very clever mouse. He's created this whole other creature, this ogre, who doesn't really exist, but everybody in the forest is scared of.

  Olivia Doyle : That's lying. Lying's wrong.

  John : Actually, it is and it isn't. You see, if you tell the truth your whole life, and... other people will trust you, but that's about it. They won't consider you. Won't even remember you three seconds after you left the room. And the truth? Generally speaking, it won't always get you where you wanna go.

  [reopening the book] 

  John : Now, where were we?

• John : Why are we meeting here?

  Gina : Because I don't want you in my house.

  John : [to Marcus]  You asked her?

  Gina : I am in the room. That high-pitched, slightly chavvy voice, it's me.

• John : I never knew that. You have to take a number to be measured for shoes. That's ridiculous.

  Kirsty Coniston : Obviously, all parents buy school shoes on the same day. A lesson for us all.

• Kirsty Coniston : It suits you.

  John : What's that?

  Kirsty Coniston : Being a father. Since she came into our lives you changed. Grew stronger. Assertive. Somehow, you became the man I always wanted you to be.

  John : I needed something to fight for.

  Kirsty Coniston : Don't go back. I'd take one night with you over a lifetime with him.

• [first lines] 

  John : [voice-over]  You can't always see it coming. You can't plan everything. Some elements will come down to chance. Some decisions have to be made in the moment.

• John : I... I thought she was...

  Gordon : Don't ask. There are some people even the mighty Gordon cannot force redundancy on. We're a male-dominated world and we have to accept the occasional garnish of vagina, right?

  John : Uh... Well, I guess.

  Gordon : It's going to be fine. Give her a shit office, meaningless title. Three months from now, she'll be pregnant, even if I have to do it myself.