The Old Guard Best Quotes – ‘Are you good guys or bad guys?’

Starring: Charlize Theron, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Matthias Schoenaerts, KiKi Layne, Marwan Kenzari, Veronica Ngo, Luca Marinelli

OUR RATING: ★★★½

Story:

Netflix’s fantasy action directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, based on the comic book of the same name. The story centers on a group of mercenaries, who are all centuries-old immortals able to heal from any wound, led by a warrior named Andromache of Scythia or Andy (Charlize Theron). Just as they find a new immortal, Nile (KiKi Layne), has “awakened”, they realize their secret has also been exposed, and must now fight to keep their identity a secret.

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Our Favorite Quotes:

'Just because we keep living, it doesn't mean we stop hurting.' - Booker (The Old Guard) Click To Tweet 'Today, I put this on your wound. Tomorrow, you help someone up when they fall. We're not meant to be alone.' - Celeste (The Old Guard) Click To Tweet 'It's not what time steals, it's what it leaves behind. Things you can't forget.' - Andy (The Old Guard) Click To Tweet

Best Quotes

[first lines; as we see Andy lying on the ground riddled with bullets]
Andy: I’ve been here before, over, and over again, and each time the same question. “Is this it? Will this time be the one?” And each time the same answer. And I’m just so tired of it.

[as they meet with ex-CIA, Copley]
Copley: You haven’t aged a day, Booker.
Booker: Trust me, I have.

[as they’re on a rescue mission to help a group of kidnapped children]
Andy: Everyone still with me?
Booker: Yeah.
Andy: Joe?
Joe: Very pi**ed off.

[after they realize Copley set them up on a fake rescue mission]
Andy: I knew this was going to happen. I said it.
Nicky: We did it right, Andy. For the right reasons.
Andy: And what did it get us, Nicky? What? Nothing. We’ve done nothing! The world isn’t getting any better! It’s getting worse!

Andy: They know who we are. They know what we are. We have to find Copley. We have to tie this thing off.
Booker: And then what?
Andy: And then nothing. The world can burn for all I care. I’m done.

[after Nile survives having her throat slashed and the group share her dream]
Andy: It’s been over two hundred years. Why now?
Nicky: Everything happens for a reason, boss.

[referring to Nile]
Nicky: You can’t tell me you don’t remember what it was like. Whoever she is, she’s confused, and she’s scared, and she’s more alone than she has ever been in her entire life. We all remember what it was like. She needs us.

[after Copley shows footage of Andy and her team coming back to life to Merrick]
Merrick: I need all of them, Copley.
Copley: I think I can get you one.
Merrick: No. No, not one. All.
Copley: These are extraordinary individuals. They are extremely resistant to capture.
Merrick: Well, consult with Keane, make a plan, make it happen. And quickly, before my competitors get wind of this.

[as Nile is about to be taken to be tested on, Andy intercepts and knocks out the soldiers]
Nile: Who are you?
Andy: Andromache the Scythian.
[Andy knocks Nile out]
Andy: But you can call me Andy.

[after Nile tries to escape from Andy and Andy shoots her in the head]
Nile: You shot me.
Andy: I did. I need you to get back in the car please.
Nile: This isn’t real. No. None of this is real.
Andy: You haven’t figured this out yet? You can’t die!

[Nile stabs Andy in the shoulder]
Andy: F***! Can you please not do that again?
[she takes out the knife and tosses it aside]

Nile: Who are you?
Andy: I lead a group of immortals. An army, I guess. Soldiers. Fighters like you. Look, you’ve got questions, kid. I get it. You want answers? Get back in the car.

Andy: You’ve got blood in your hair.
Nile: I wonder why?

Andy: [to Nile] Well, sometimes you got to work with people you don’t want to eat with.

[over the phone]
Andy: I have the new one.
Booker: And?
Andy: Well, she stabbed me, so I think she has potential.

Nile: So why is this happening to me?
Andy: I wish I knew.
Nile: You said you had answers.
Andy: I didn’t say you’d like them.

Andy: Are you praying? God doesn’t exist.
Nile: My God does.
Andy: You know, there was a time when I was worshiped as a god.
[the plane shakes as it hits turbulence]
Andy: Was that Him? Don’t worry, I can’t do s**t like that. None of it means anything anyway.

Nile: You said there were others. How many?
Andy: Four.
Nile: You’re an army of four? So that’s why you took me? So I could join your army?
Andy: Yeah.
Nile: No. This is some bulls**t. You must have hypnotized me, or drugged me, or something. And that was a blank that you shot me with.
Andy: And I was the one who cut your throat. Right?

Andy: [to Nile] Listen, kid. You already believe in…
[points above to indicate God]
Andy: You should just keep following that illogic. You’re already on board with the supernatural.

[after fighting with each other and Andy breaks Nile’s arm and leg]
Andy: You see? You’re already healing faster.
[Nile watches in shock as her arm and leg heal]
Andy: Is this real? I got people that love me. People that are going to worry. I’m a Marine. They think I went AWOL.
Andy: You’re not a Marine anymore. They’re going to lock you up.

[after meeting the rest of the team]
Nile: So are you good guys or bad guys?
Joe: Depends on the century.
Nicky: We fight for what we think is right.

Nile: How are you all in my dreams?
Joe: We dream of each other. They stop when we meet.
Nile: Why?
Nicky: I believe it’s because we’re meant to find each other. It’s like destiny.
Booker: No, more like misery loves company.
Andy: What he said.

Nicky: It used to take years to track a new one. Booker was the last. 1812.
Nile: No way.
Booker: Yeah, I died fighting with Napoleon.
Nile: So you’re even older than him.
Joe: Mmm. Nicky and I met in the Crusades.
Nile: The Crusades?
[points to Joe]
Nicky: The love of my life was of the people I’ve been taught to hate.
Joe: We killed each other.
Nicky: Many times. Yeah.

Nile: You’re the oldest.
Andy: Yeah.
Nile: So how old are you?
Andy: Old.
Nile: How old?
Andy: Too old.

Nile: So we really never die.
Andy: Nothing that lives lives forever.
Nile: But you said that we were immortal.
Andy: I know what I said. And we mostly are, but we can die. And one of us did. He was a warrior, just like us. A long time ago. One day your wounds just don’t heal up anymore, and we don’t know when, or why.

Nile: I dreamed about a woman locked in an iron coffin, under the sea. She kept drowning, and then coming back to life. She was hammering her bloody fists and knees against the iron. She felt like something insane, something furious. But she kept fighting, and she kept drowning.
Nicky: Her name was Quynh.
Joe: She was one of us. The first immortal Andy found. They had been alone so long, when she found her Quynh had given up. Way back, it was her and Andy. Before me and Nicky, it was just the two of them.

[flashback to Andy and Quynh after they’ve been captured]
Quynh: I’ve never been burned alive before. What do you think it’s going to be like?
Andy: Excruciating.
[they both laugh]
Quynh: Just you and me.
Andy: Until the end.

[after we see Andy and Quynh were separated and Quynh was drowned in an iron coffin]
Nicky: After Andy escaped, we spent decades searching for her, or anyone on that ship who could tell us where she was cast off.
Joe: She’s lived with that guilt ever since, but she blames herself for Quynh’s fate.
Nile: Why do you blame yourself?
Andy: I lost a soldier.

[referring to Quynh]
Nile: I feel her pain. Her rage. She feels crazy.
Joe: Over five hundred years in a box, at the bottom of the ocean, would make anyone insane.
Nicky: That’s the reason why we dread capture. To spend eternity in a cage.

Nile: I don’t want this. I don’t want any of it.
Andy: I know. I know.
Nile: There isn’t one good thing in any of this.
Andy: I know this is hard. But it’s happening whether you want it or not. I know you’re scared, Nile. Me and those three men in there will keep you safe.
Nile: Like Quynh?
Andy: We’re all you’ve got.

[as Andy goes after Copley and Merrick’s men after they’ve been ambushed]
Andy: Wait for my signal.
Nile: What signal? What does that even mean?
Booker: [chuckles] You’ll know it when it comes.

[as he sees Andy killing Merrick’s men]
Copley: Mr. Keane, I strongly recommend that we leave right now.
[they all quickly leave the surveillance van]

Nile: Let’s move!
Booker: Wait for the signal.
Nile: How the hell can you even tell?
[there’s suddenly an explosion]
Nile: Oh.

[referring to all the dead bodies of Merrick’s men]
Nile: Andy did all this herself?
Booker: Yeah. That woman has forgotten more ways to kill than entire armies will ever learn.

[after Nicky and Joe have been captured by Merrick’s men]
Soldier: What is he? Your boyfriend?
Joe: You’re a child. An infant. Your mocking is thus infantile. He’s not my boyfriend. This man is more to me than you can dream. He’s the moon when I’m lost in darkness and warmth when I shiver in cold. And his kiss still thrills me, even after a millennia. His heart overflows with the kindness of which this world is not worthy of. I love this man beyond measure and reason. He’s not my boyfriend. He’s all and he’s more.
Nicky: You’re an incurable romantic.
[Merrick’s men then watch in shock as they kiss]

[to Nicky and Joe]
Merrick: Ah, gentlemen, welcome. I am truly honored to meet you. Together, we shall do such things. What they are yet, I know not, but they shall be the terrors of the Earth. Or rather the saviors. Lear. Shakespeare.

Merrick: We brought a cancer drug to the market last quarter. It’s already saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Yet, in development, it killed a quarter of a million lab mice. Now, I didn’t ask for their little permissions. I’m not going to ask for yours.
Joe: He thinks you’re a mouse, Nicky.
Merrick: There’s genetic code inside you which could help every human being on Earth. We’re morally obliged to take it.

Booker: [to Nile] Just because we keep living, it doesn’t mean we stop hurting.

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Nile: Why us?
Booker: That way madness lies.
Nile: I thought you were the brains of this outfit.
Booker: [laughs] Tell you what I do wonder, is why you? And why now?

Nile: How old is Andy?
Booker: Well, she says she doesn’t remember. And she may not. I don’t know. But what I do know is she was alone for a long time before she found anyone like her. A very long time.

Booker: The only way is forward now.
Nile: What do you mean?
Booker: You’ll always and forever be the young woman right there. But everyone around you, everyone you love, is going to grow old, is going to suffer, is going to die. And if you try to touch their lives, well, they will get to learn your secret. They will beg you to share it with them, and you won’t be able to. And they won’t believe you of course. And they will tell you that you don’t love them. That your love is weak, or selfish. And you will never forget the hate and despair in their eyes. And you will know what it is to lose everyone you’ve ever loved.

[as Andy’s wounds are taking longer to heal and Celeste helps her]
Celeste: Stitches would be better, but this will help.
Andy: You haven’t asked.
Celeste: Your business is yours. You need help. What does it matter why? Today, I put this on your wound. Tomorrow, you help someone up when they fall. We’re not meant to be alone.

[referring to Merrick as Kozack is brutally testing on Nicky and Joe]
Nicky: You will not be able to give him what he wants.
Dr. Meta Kozak: You think I go too far? That I am unethical?
Nicky: I would say immoral.
Dr. Meta Kozak: I believe this can change the world.
Nicky: A fine justification. I’ve heard it so many times before.

Andy: You come from warriors.
Nile: Yeah. I do.
Andy: I can’t remember what my mother looked like. Or my sisters. None of them.
Nile: Time steals it all away, I guess.
Andy: It’s not what time steals, it’s what it leaves behind. Things you can’t forget.

Andy: I gave up searching for her. I made Quynh a promise and I broke it. I’m getting Joe and Nicky back. Whatever it takes.
Nile: Whatever it takes?
Andy: Yes.

[as Andy and Booker are planning to get Nicky and Joe back]
Nile: I can’t do this.
Andy: Yes, you can.
Nile: I mean, I’m not doing this.
Andy: You’re one of us now. We would do the same for you.
Nile: I never even had a choice.
Andy: None of us had a choice. There isn’t a choice.

Nile: The day I died, I killed the guy that killed me. They try to condition us, you know? Thousands of hours of training. Two shots, quick kill. But they can’t teach you how to live with it.
Andy: You’ve got to feel it, Nile. Every one.

Nile: I saw what you did in that church. All those bodies. Is that supposed to be me? Is that what we’re supposed to do, and we don’t even know why?
Andy: You think knowing is going to make you sleep better at night?
Nile: I can’t be that.

[after Andy lets Nile leave to go back to her family]
Booker: Where’s Nile?
Andy: You and me, Book. Now and always.

[after Andy and Booker confront Copley, and Booker shoots her]
Andy: You set us up?
Booker: Please listen.
Copley: When my wife died, I devoted myself to your work. I learned your secret history, written in the margins, passed on like legend. What was dismissed as a myth was, in fact, immortality. You could help end needless suffering.

Copley: Humanity needs you to share your gifts.
Andy: Humanity can screw itself.

Andy: Why?!
Booker: If Merrick can discover how we keep living, he might find a way how to end it. That’s what you wanted.
Andy: Oh, Book. What have you done? Not like this, Book.

[after seeing that Andy’s bullet wound is not healing]
Booker: Andy, look at me. Look at me. Why didn’t you tell me?
Andy: It wouldn’t have changed anything.

Merrick: You’re a bloody mess.
Andy: Now, how old are you?
Merrick: Come closer and I’ll tell you.

[referring to Andy]
Copley: Mr. Merrick, look, if it’s true, and she’s somehow not immortal anymore, then she might not survive the testing. This will be murder.
Merrick: As if the CIA never disappeared anyone. As if they never conducted covert research.
Copley: No. No, this is not what we agreed.
Merrick: We don’t stop.

Nicky: All things die.
Merrick: What was that?
Nicky: Everything has to die, Mr. Merrick. The only reason we haven’t, is that it’s not our time yet. If it’s now Andromache’s, nothing you can do will stop it.
Merrick: You’d be surprised by what my products can do. I will carve slices off you for years to get what I want. Your time is coming.
Nicky: As is yours.

[after Nile returns to help Andy and the team, but finds Copley]
Copley: She saves a life, two, three generations later, we reap the benefits.
Nile: She’s in it. She can’t see it. But you could. You could, and you gave them up.
Copley: I thought it could be the end of disease. I thought it could be the end of suffering. She couldn’t talk at the end, my wife. She couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t do anything. It was supposed to be a gift to the world.
Nile: It wasn’t your gift to give.

Joe: [to Booker] You selfish piece of s**t!
Nicky: Joe, leave it. Please!
Booker: What would you know of the weight of all these years alone?
Joe: You’re a very pathetic man, Booker.
Nicky: Joe, stop.
Booker: You and Nicky always had each other, right? And all we had was our grief.
Joe: Well, now you have even more.

[after Copley helps Nile to get to the team to rescue them]
Booker: No, just leave me here.
Nile: No man left behind.
Joe: Well, there’s always a first time. He’s nothing but a traitor. That’s…
Andy: Stop! This is not the time for it. We don’t get a say in when it ends. We never have. But we can control how we live. And to be honest, Book, you and I, we’ve been doing a s**t job of it. Now, get up. Let’s go.

Andy: We stop Merrick here and now, or he never stops coming after us.
Nicky: Andy. Are you sure?
Andy: This changes nothing. We walk out of here like always. Together. Let’s get this m*therf***er.

[as they find Merrick’s office to kill him]
Andy: Wait for the signal.
Nile: This going to be like the last signal?
Andy: Go big or go home.

Nile: Stay tight to me, okay? I’ll protect you.
Andy: I go through first. I always go first.
Nile: Andy, put on the damn armor.
Andy: It’s like Nicky said, “If it’s my time, it’s my time.” If this doesn’t work out, next time, you go first.

[as the rest of the team go after Merrick]
Nile: You okay?
Andy: Yeah, I’m fine. It just hurts. Actually, everything hurts.
Nile: Well, wait until tomorrow.
Andy: [laughs] I can’t wait.

Joe: You shot Nicky. You shouldn’t have done that.
[then he proceeds to kill Keane]

Andy: I think you showed up when I lost my immortality, so I could see what it was like. So I could remember.
Nile: Remember?
Andy: Remember what it was like to feel unbreakable. Remarkable. You reminded me there are people still worth fighting for.

Andy: I know how I want to spend the time I’ve got left.
Nile: You’re going to spend it with us, Andy.

[after they’ve killed Merrick]
Andy: Play dead, m*therf***er.

Nile: I talked to Copley. Said he could fix it. Make it look like I was killed in action. My family will mourn, but they’ll be able to move on. It’s just like what we did with my dad. I just really want to hear my mom’s voice one more time.
Booker: You’re a good kid, Nile. And you’re going to be great for the team.

[referring to the team’s decision on Brooke’s betrayal]
Andy: There’s got to be a price. One hundred years from today, they’ll meet you here. Till then, you’re alone.
Booker: I hoped for less, but I expected more.
Andy: Nile was going to let you off with an apology.
[they both laugh softly]
Booker: Just give her some time.

Andy: I’m going to miss you.
[Booker embraces her]
Booker: I won’t see you again.
Andy: Have a little faith, Book.

[referring to all the information he’s collected on them]
Copley: This is only what I’ve found going back the last hundred and fifty years or so. When you think about how old you are, the good you’ve done for humanity becomes exponential.
Nile: Maybe this is the why, Andy.

Andy: It’s nearly impossible to disappear in the world we live in today. There are too many people like you who can bend it to your will. Too many with bad intentions. We don’t have all the answers, but we do have purpose. And you’re going to help us. When we leave a footprint in the sand, in the snow, in the ether, you’re going to sweep it. You’re going to protect us from those who want to put us in cages, and you’re going to help us find those jobs that are best suited to us.
Joe: She’s not asking.
Copley: I’d be honored.
Andy: Then let’s go to work.

[last lines; six months later in Paris a drunk Booker finds Quynh in his apartment]
Quynh: Booker. It’s nice to finally meet you.

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