“The Rum Diary” quotes

“This country was built on genocide and slavery. We killed all the black guys over here and then we shipped in new black guys of our own. And then we brought in Jesus like a bar of soap.”
Giovanni Ribisi - Moberg

“Ride yourself a trade wind...”
Michael Rispoli - Sala

“- Kemp: I thought you said you had a TV.
- Sala: No, the guy across the alley has a TV. I have binoculars.”
Johnny Depp - Kemp
Michael Rispoli - Sala

“There are very few places on this island I decline to visit, but the toilets frequented by sailors on the west side of Candado Pier is one.”
Michael Rispoli - Sala

“- Kemp: So many hotels you can't see the sea.
- Lotterman: You can see the sea by checking into the hotels.
- Kemp: Pay to see the sea?
- Lotterman: What's the matter with that? You're paying to be in the dream...”
Johnny Depp - Kemp
Richard Jenkins - Lotterman

“- Kemp: You know what I think? I think we're drinking too much rum.
- Sala: There's no other way.
- Kemp: I'm getting double ashtray, and double salt pot.”
Johnny Depp - Kemp
Michael Rispoli - Sala

“- Moberg: Maybe I can interest you gentlemen in something else.
- Kemp: Like what? Death?
- Moberg: Like the most powerful drug in the history of narcotics. I'm not at liberty to discuss or disclose; all I can tell you is: this stuff is so powerful, they give it to communists.”
Giovanni Ribisi - Moberg
Johnny Depp - Kemp

“Your tongue is like an accusatory giblet!”
Johnny Depp - Kemp

“Why don't you go die a slow and agonizingly painful death?”

Giovanni Ribisi - Moberg

“Human beings are the only creatures on Earth who claim a God, and the only living thing that behaves like it hasn't got one. Does the world belong to no one but you?”
Johnny Depp - Kemp

“Do not confuse love with lust, nor drunkenness with judgment.”
Michael Rispoli - Sala

“Beasts of obesity. Asses that wouldn't feel an arrow. The great whites. Probably the most dangerous creatures on earth.”
Johnny Depp - Kemp

“Do you smell it? It's the smell of bastards. It's also the smell of truth.”
Johnny Depp - Kemp

“- Kemp: What's your name?
- Chenault: Let's keep that a secret.
- Kemp: But I don't even know it.
- Chenault: Then you'll keep it even better.”
Johnny Depp - Kemp
Amber Heard - Chenault

“There's no such thing as a liberal. A liberal is a commie with a college education thinking negro thoughts.”
Bill Smitrovich - Mr. Zimburger

“Practically every major corporation hides its money offshore. And that is good news for us, because we are the the shore.”
Johnny Depp - Kemp

“You can't fire me, you owe me money, and you better pay it or I'll go to the roof and turn this place into an insurance claim.”
Giovanni Ribisi - Moberg

“- Lotterman: What do you know about horoscopes?
- Kemp: Nothing.
- Lotterman: Ah, well, if I can write one, you can.”
Richard Jenkins - Lotterman
Johnny Depp - Kemp