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The Beekeeper (2024) Best Movie Quotes

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Starring: Jason Statham, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Josh Hutcherson, Bobby Naderi, Minnie Driver, Phylicia Rashad, Jeremy Irons

OUR RATING: ★★★☆☆

Story:

Action thriller directed by David Ayer and written by Kurt Wimmer. The Beekeeper (2024) centers on Clay (Jason Statham), whose brutal campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as “Beekeepers”.

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Adam Clay: Heard the expression kick the hornet’s nest?


 

Adam Clay: I just wanted to thank you for putting up with me, and all of my bees.
Eloise Parker: This place was crabgrass and weeds, and you brought it back to life. You’re a blessing.
Adam Clay: No one’s ever taken care of me before.


 

Mickey Garnett: [to his call-center staff] I hope you f***ing clowns are paying attention. You stick to the script, but not so much that you sound like a goddamn robot.


 

Eloise Parker: You know, I think I should call the bank.
Mickey Garnett: You know what? You’re probably right. But there goes my job. And there goes all your data.


 

Agent Verona Parker: [to Clay] Now, who the f*** are you, and what are you doing in my mother’s house?


 

Agent Verona Parker: [referring to Eloise] Suicide? You can’t be serious. That woman loved life more than anybody I know. But by all means, let’s just completely ignore the big white dude in her house with a knife.


 

Agent Verona Parker: What the f*** were you doing in my mother’s house?
Adam Clay: I was bringing her a jar of honey.
Agent Verona Parker: A jar of honey. Who the f*** are you? Winnie-the-Pooh?
Adam Clay: I keep bees.

The Beekeeper 2024 Movie Quotes
'Being old can be a lonely thing. Turn a certain age, you cease to exist. Cease to matter. Used to be a part of life, of the family. Part of the hive, I guess you could say.' - Adam Clay (The Beekeeper) Share on X

 

Agent Verona Parker: [referring to Eloise] She got scammed. Somebody emptied out all her accounts, her savings, her retirement. Got every penny. Maxed out all her cards.


 

Adam Clay: Taking from an elderly person is as bad as stealing from a child. Maybe worse. Someone hurts a child, there are parents. People who care, ready to step in. Someone hurts an older person, sometimes they’re left to face the hornets alone. Because either it goes unnoticed, or no one cares.


 

Adam Clay: I need to take care of the hive.
Agent Verona Parker: You’ve been up all night.
Adam Clay: The hive is more important.


 

Lewis: This is private property, and you’re trespassing.
Adam Clay: I’m going inside. I’m going to burn it down.
Lewis: Yeah. That’s not happening, buddy. You’re not going any-f***ing-where except right the f*** back the way you came.


 

Lewis: Buddy, I’m counting to three.
Adam Clay: One, two, three. There, I did it for you.


 

Adam Clay: [to the call-centre staff] Everyone, I need your attention, please. Repeat after me. I will never steal from the weak and the vulnerable again.


 

Adam Clay: [to the call-centre staff] To help you keep that promise, I’m going to burn this place to the ground.


 

Adam Clay: I’m a Beekeeper. I protect the hive. Sometimes I use fire to smoke out hornets.
Mickey Garnett: This is a multi-million dollar operation, a**hole. Okay? So, you can’t come up here white-knighting s**t.


 

Adam Clay: Mr. Garnett. I don’t care if your friends here live or die. The next call from your little phishing scam to this call center will make a spark across these wires. And given all of the gasoline fumes in here, I promise you, anything alive in here won’t be.


 

Mickey Garnett: [to Derek] It seems we had a disgruntled customer.


 

Mickey Garnett: The call center is gone. I’m standing here staring at a thirty million dollar building, it’s now a giant f***ing ashtray. Four people didn’t get out.
Derek Danforth: You’re telling me that this a**hole burnt the entire building down and dropped four f***ing bodies? Yeah, that’s not exactly a disgruntled customer, is it?


 

Mickey Garnett: What if I find this guy? Then what?
Derek Danforth: You get a wrecking crew together and you go Goodfellas on him.


 

Derek Danforth: Did you f*** this up? Are you f***ing crying right now?
Mickey Garnett: I’m not crying. I’m bleeding.
Derek Danforth: Bleeding? Why are you bleeding? What do you mean, bleeding?
Mickey Garnett: [referring to Clay] My fingers on my right hand. He cut them off.

The Beekeeper 2024 Movie Quotes

Adam Clay: Who do I have the pleasure of speaking with?
Derek Danforth: F*** you. That’s who. You burned down my million-dollar f***ing call center.
Adam Clay: Now I’m going to burn you down.


 

Adam Clay: You haven’t told me your name.
Derek Danforth: I told you my name. It’s f*** you. Mr. F*** You. And you better f***ing remember it. Because you don’t burn me down. I burn you down. You understand me? You are f***ing with forces that you cannot comprehend.


 

Adam Clay: You sound young. I bet you don’t have estate planning.
Derek Danforth: I’m f***ing twenty-eight years-old. Why would I need that?
Adam Clay: I’m about to show you.


 

Wallace Westwyld: And the only thing you know about him is he says he’s a beekeeper.
Derek Danforth: Yeah, it’s like his whole brand or whatever.


 

Wallace Westwyld: [to Derek] For someone who has elevated f***ing up into an art form, this might well be your Mona Lisa.


 

Wallace Westwyld: You’ve disturbed a Beekeeper.
Derek Danforth: Oh. Oh, okay. So f***ing what? What do I care if the guy keeps bees?
Wallace Westwyld: If a Beekeeper says you’re going to die, you’re going to die. There’s nothing I can do, or anybody else to stop it.


 

Wallace Westwyld: You’re a drowning man. Do you know that?
Derek Danforth: You’re scared.
Wallace Westwyld: Dead right I’m scared. Terrified. So should you be.


 

Derek Danforth: Wallace, just tell me what the f*** this guy is.
Wallace Westwyld: He’s probably the last pair of eyes that you’re going to sneer at.


 

Agent Verona Parker: This dude is former military all day.
Agent Matt Wiley: No hits. I’m telling you. Either he’s never been printed, or Adam Clay doesn’t exist. Which is terrifying to me because he’s probably in a classified program.


 

Director Janet Harward: Why are you calling me on the “never call this line” line?
Wallace Westwyld: This is priority one, Janet.
Director Janet Harward: Well, if it was priority one, I would know about it.


 

Wallace Westwyld: Well, Director Harward, my young friend, seems to have caught the unwanted attentions of, I don’t know how else to say this. Of a Beekeeper.
Director Janet Harward: Wait, a Beekeeper Beekeeper?
Wallace Westwyld: As in.
Director Janet Harward: Well, that’s not good.
Wallace Westwyld: No, it’s not.


 

Director Janet Harward: The current active Beekeeper is aware of the issue and is going to be taking things from here. You can rest easy, old friend.
Wallace Westwyld: Oh, no. Janet. The current active Beekeeper is a f***ing lunatic who should have been removed months ago. God help us now.


 

Anisette: [to Clay] You’ve been a busy bee. You’re supposed to be retired.


 

Agent Verona Parker: Did you know that you know a lot?
Agent Matt Wiley: Yes, I do. It’s because I minored in math. I’m a pretty smart guy actually.


 

Wallace Westwyld: Well, there are programs even I wasn’t privy to. Like the Beekeepers. The honeybee has always had a special relationship with humanity. A sacred relationship. Why? No bees, no agriculture. No agriculture, no civilization. Our nation is not unlike a beehive, with its complex systems of workers, caretakers, even royalty. If any of the beehive’s complex mechanisms are compromised, the hive collapses.


 

Wallace Westwyld: Someone a long time ago decided that a mechanism was needed to keep our nation safe. A mechanism outside the chain of command, outside the system. Its one mission, to keep the system safe. Beekeepers are given all resources, empowered to act on their own judgment. For decades, they have quietly worked to keep the hive safe. That is, until now.

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Wallace Westwyld: It appears that a retired Beekeeper has gone off program and is acting in what he mistakenly believes is the hive’s best interest.


 

Pettis: Can’t somebody just pick up the phone and tell this yahoo to stand-the-f*** down?
Wallace Westwyld: That’s the one thing Beekeepers don’t do. Stand down. Not unlike bees themselves, Beekeepers keep working until they die.


 

Wallace Westwyld: If you were in the same room, he would kill you. With enough of you, then maybe you just might in fact be able to kill him before he accomplishes his goal.
Pettis: What would that be?
Wallace Westwyld: To kill his way to the top of the hive.


 

Agent Verona Parker: Here’s another interesting factoid.
Agent Matt Wiley: Thank f***. You know, I was getting sick of enjoying my peaceful thoughts.


 

Adam Clay: I figured I’d give the firefighters a break. I’ve put them through enough already.


 

Adam Clay: I don’t want to injure anyone who’s innocent and non-involved. But it is what it is.


 

Pettis: Not a good day to drag innocent people into this.
Adam Clay: These a**holes? They’re not innocent.


 

Pettis: I’m just the guy they call when there’s a problem. And you are our problem.
Adam Clay: Goddamn right, I’m a problem.


 

Boston SWAT: I don’t know what this guy is, but nobody can do what he’s done.
Agent Verona Parker: He’s just a Beekeeper.


 

Adam Clay: I’d respect you more if you look people in their eyes when you steal from them.


 

Rico Anzalone: They’ll kill me.
Adam Clay: I’ll torture you, then kill you.


 

Adam Clay: You’ve stolen hundreds of millions from people who’ve done nothing but work hard all their lives. She was an educator, a mom. Dedicated her whole life to helping people. Yesterday, she shot herself because you took two million from a charity she ran. She was the only person who ever took care of me.


 

Rico Anzalone: I told you they were untouchable.
Adam Clay: Nobody’s untouchable. Sometimes when the hive’s out of balance, you have to replace the queen.


 

Agent Verona Parker: We have laws for these things.
Adam Clay: You have laws for these things until they fail. Then you have me.


 

Derek Danforth: You said these guys were the f***ing best. Why are they all dead?
Wallace Westwyld: You kicked the beehive, and now we have to reap the whirlwind.


 

Derek Danforth: [to Westwyld] I’m paying you so much f***ing money, and your advice is to call my mother?


 

Agent Verona Parker: Mr. Clay does keep honey bees. He admires their willingness to sacrifice themselves for the greater good. Our concern is that Clay believes that Derek Danforth is the defective offspring of a queen, thereby Clay will strike at the heart of the problem and become a queen slayer.


 

Derek Danforth: [to Westwyld] How is any of this my fault? Wasn’t your supersecret CIA data mining software supposed to, I don’t know, maybe filter out un-f***ing-stoppable killing machines?


 

President Danforth: You’re a good looking kid. You really are. You know that?
Derek Danforth: What does that mean?
President Danforth: It means that God doesn’t give with both hands.


 

President Danforth: Got to go run the free world.
Derek Danforth: Don’t burn it down.


 

Agent Verona Parker: [as he’d about to kill Clay] What are you doing? He’s not even armed.
Lazarus: Armed? As long as this m**herf***er’s breathing, he’s armed.


 

Lazarus: To “bee” or not to “bee”? Isn’t that the bloody question?
Adam Clay: I think I’ll take to “bee”.


 

Lazarus: You’re just a man.
Adam Clay: I know.


 

Wallace Westwyld: Beekeepers live for the good of society.
Adam Clay: I’m retired. This is personal.
Wallace Westwyld: All the more reason to stop. Go back. Live a quiet life. Making honey for your neighbors.
Adam Clay: That’s all I wanted. My neighbor’s dead.


 

Adam Clay: [to Westwyld] We wouldn’t need Beekeepers if it wasn’t for men like you.


 

Adam Clay: [to Parker] You decide who you work for. For the law or for justice.
Derek Danforth: F*** this. Bye, Mom.
[just as he’s about to shoot his mother, Clay shoots and kills him, after which Parker lets Clay escape]

 


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