Movie Info
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michael Stuhlbarg, Alison Pill, Jake Lacy, John Lithgow, Sam Waterston
Story: Political thriller directed by John Madden. Miss Sloane (2016) centers on Elizabeth Sloane (Jessica Chastain), a ruthless and highly successful political strategist who exposes the cutthroat world of DC lobbyists working on both sides of the gun debate. Deploying her notorious skills, and driven by a desire to win at all costs, she jeopardizes those closest to her, and puts her own career at risk.
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Top Miss Sloane Quotes
Elizabeth Sloane: Lobbying is about foresight. About anticipating your opponent’s moves, and devising counter measures. The winner plots one step ahead of the opposition and plays her trump card just after they play theirs. It’s about making sure you surprise them, and they don’t surprise you.
Elizabeth Sloane: Jane, we go to school to prepare us for the real world.
Jane Molloy: I’m not sure I like the real world.
Elizabeth Sloane: Is this the reputation I’ve garnered? Gold medalist in ethical limbo?
Elizabeth Sloane: The current system is so porous, it floats.
Elizabeth Sloane: I work on behalf of causes I believe in. That’s how I sleep at night.
George Dupont: You don’t sleep at night. You sit and obsess about winning, no matter the cause.
Rodolfo Schmidt: I’ve just watched you extricate yourself from three conversations to use the ladies’ room in the space of thirty minutes.
Elizabeth Sloane: You busted me. I’m incontinent. Write it up.
Rodolfo Schmidt: D**dos are illegal in Texas, but Joe Public can walk into a sports store and walk out with a shotgun.
Elizabeth Sloane: That would explain the low rate of d**do-related murders in Texas.
Franklin: I read ethics regs when I want to look busy.
Elizabeth Sloane: When this town guts you like a trout and chokes you with your own entrails, don’t come sniveling to me.
Daniel Posner: [to Elizabeth] I work for the one ethical lobbying practice on the Hill, and I wind up defending the poster child for the most morally bankrupt profession since faith healing.
Elizabeth Sloane: If you want to break the ice, do it with insight.
Elizabeth Sloane: “Cynical” is a word used by Pollyannas to denote an absence of the naivety they so keenly exhibit.
Rodolfo Schmidt: Public opinion is overrated.
Elizabeth Sloane: My instructor told me I was reckless, I lacked due care and attention. Knew then and there I had a career in politics.
Elizabeth Sloane: Welcome to America, where you’ll wait six months for an X-ray, but, hey, you can buy an AR-15 in five minutes flat.
Elizabeth Sloane: Pussyfooting isn’t memorable. Sound bites are.
Elizabeth Sloane: [to Forde] I pay you so I can imagine a life I chose to forego in the pursuit of my career.
Elizabeth Sloane: It’s good practice to keep your circle small. In this town, no matter where you are, you’re never more than two feet away from a rat.
Evelyn Sumner: [to Elizabeth] The only thing you’re missing is a d**k.
Elizabeth Sloane: “Because it says so in the Constitution, the Bible, or my horoscope,” it’s not a winning argument! It’s a ripcord. An intellectual equivalent of a yellow, pant-pi**ing wimp cowering behind mommy’s skirt.
Elizabeth Sloane: I understand you have feelings, and a life, but I have no duty to them. I have a duty to the cause, and if the two conflict, there will only ever be one winner.
Rodolfo Schmidt: Were you ever normal? As a child? Or were the twisted thought processes in your mind hard-wired in the womb? Because I’m having a really hard time understanding how somebody gets to this.
Elizabeth Sloane: Guess I’m just a piece of work.
Elizabeth Sloane: I grew up lying, Forde. Didn’t want to. I had to. That’s why I excel at it. It’s a skill I would’ve happily traded for a normal life.
Forde: Normal’s overrated.
Daniel Posner: Daniel Posner, Head of Legal.
Elizabeth Sloane: Liz Sloane, contemptible liability. And amateur lip-reader. Whose idea were the glass walls? Seriously?
Esme Manucharian: I’ll keep fighting, Elizabeth. Wherever I can make a difference. But as far as possible away from you. You crossed the line when you stopped treating people with respect. You’re smart enough to know that. You just don’t care.
Elizabeth Sloane: Sometimes we act, not for ourselves, but because we believe plainly and simply it is the right thing to do.
Elizabeth Sloane: Prison’s not so bad if you don’t have a p**is. We don’t shank each other, we form self-help groups. There’s a black market in lip gloss.
Elizabeth Sloane: Career suicide is not so bad when you consider the alternative is suicide by career.