Atomic Blonde - Wikiquote (2025)

Atomic Blonde is a 2017 action thriller film about an undercover MI6 agent who is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.

Directed by David Leitch. Written by Kurt Johnstad, based on the novel The Coldest City by Antony Johnston and Sam Hart.

Talents can be overrated.

• [to Bremovych as he dies] Did you really think I was going to give you that list?... Before you die, I want you to get this through that thick, primitive skull. I never worked for you. You worked for me... Every false intel I gave you, a rip in the iron curtain. Every piece of intel you gave me, a bullet in my fucking gun. I want my life back.

• You know those movies where the picture just starts to slow down... and melt? Then catch fire? Well, that's Berlin.

• You can't un-fuck what's been fucked. You know, a beautiful Italian girl once said to me, "David, you can't unfuck what's been fucked." Women are always getting in the way of progress, aren't they?

• So, what have I learned after all this time? After all the sleepless nights, lying to friends, lovers, myself? Playing this crooked game in this crooked town filled with backstabbers and four-faced liars? I'll tell you what I've learned. One thing and one thing only. I fucking love Berlin!

• Ironic. The news will tell them there will be no more secrets. But you and I, we both know that's not true. This world is run on secrets.

Chief 'C': I'm putting you on leave, effective immediately. We'll start the next decade well rested.

Lorraine Broughton: C? What should I wear... for my tea with the queen?

David Percival: Let me help you with your bags.

[opens the trunk of the upside down car with luggage falling out]

Lorraine Broughton: Fucks sake!

David Percival: [dragging a henchman] Russians are fucking heavy...

Lorraine Broughton: Five minutes on the ground, and I'm already made.

David Percival: You're not made.

[throws Russian into his car]

Lorraine Broughton: They knew my name.

David Percival: That's troubling.

Lorraine Broughton: ...and yours.

David Percival: Probably surprising.

Lorraine Broughton: [punches waking Russian in the face] Great fucking start, Percival...

Lorraine Broughton: I've read your file. I've also read your dog file. So let's cut the crap, shall we? This whole hungover, show-up-late, don't-know-which-way-is-up act, I'm not buying it. I trust you about as far as I can throw you.

David Percival: "It's a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver."

Lorraine Broughton: Niccolo Machiavelli. It was on your shelf.

David Percival: Oh my God, I think I fucking love you!

Lorraine Broughton: That's too bad.

Delphine Lasalle: When you tell the truth, you look different. Your eyes change.

Lorraine Broughton: Thanks for the warning.

Lorraine Broughton: You've got some balls breaking in here.

David Percival: You should see my balls. Then you'd be really impressed!

Lorraine Broughton: Where the fuck are you?

David Percival: Don't shoot, I've got your shoe!

James Gascoine: You know, I always thought if I was caught it would be by one of the best. But you're not the best, are you Bakhtin? You're the biggest fucking cunt in the KGB.

Yuri Bakhtin: Sticks and stones, Jimmy.

Coroner: I will not release this body without the correct information.

Lorraine Broughton: It's a simple mistake.

Coroner: Miss Lloyd, in Germany, we don't make simple mistakes.

Lorraine Broughton: You went to the KGB to take me out. You were too fucking scared to do it yourself.

David Percival: Too smart, more like.

Lorraine Broughton: Are you going to lie till the very end?

David Percival: [laughing, gulps, gasps] Truth and lies. People like us don't know the difference.

Lorraine Broughton: No, we know the difference, David. We choose to ignore it.

Emmett Kurzfeld: Let's go home.

Lorraine Broughton: That sounds good.

Emmett Kurzfeld: "Cocksucker?" Really?

Lorraine Broughton: [chuckles] I'm glad it was convincing.

• Charlize Theron - Lorraine Broughton
• James McAvoy - David Percival
• John Goodman - Emmett Kurzfeld
• Til Schweiger - The Watchmaker
• Eddie Marsan - "Spyglass"
• Sofia Boutella - Delphine Lasalle
• Roland Møller - Aleksander Bremovych
• Jóhannes Jóhannesson - Yuri Bakhtin
• James Faulkner - "C", head of MI6.
• Barbara Sukowa - the coroner
• Toby Jones - Eric Gray

• Atomic Blonde quotes at the Internet Movie Database