North Country (2005)

Richard Jenkins: Hank Aimes

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• Hank Aimes : My name is Hank Aimes and I've been a miner all my life. And I've never been ashamed of it until now. You know when we take our wives and daughters to the company barbecue, I don't hear any of them calling them those names like bitches and whores and worse. I don't see anyone grab them by their privates or drawing pictures of them on the bathroom walls, it's unspeakable. Unspeakable! So what's changed? She's still my daughter! It's a heck of a thing, to watch one of your own get treated that way. You're all supposed to be my friends, my brothers. Well, right now I don't have a friend in this room. In fact the only one I'm not ashamed of is my daughter.

• Josey Aimes : You act like I'm stealing. I work damn hard every day, same as you.

  Hank Aimes : Oh, now you're the same as me.

  Josey Aimes : Oh no, there's a few differences. You don't go to work scared of what they write about you on the walls, or what kind of disgusting thing you might find in your locker. You don't gotta be scared that one of these days you'll come to work and get raped.

• Hank Aimes : [to Josey upon announcing her desire to work at the mine]  You wanna be a lesbian, now?

  Karen Aimes : [innocently]  *I* wanna be a lesbian.