The Forger (2012)

Alfred Molina: Everly Campbell

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• Everly : The judge asked me to house you in the hope that you might benefit from some tutelage from me. Personally, I think you're a born loser who's gonna squander his talent before he realizes its full potential.

  Joshua : Wow. That was some, uh... that was some motivational speech.

• Everly : When you've stopped smoking crack, call me from planet Earth.

• Joshua : My mom never noticed I was good at anything.

  Everly : Hm, your mother.

  Joshua : I wonder what she's doing right now.

  Everly : Probably takin' drugs in an alleyway somewhere. Oh, geez, what? You're gonna cry now?

• Everly : You take a painting by a particular artist, a lesser known work of little value; you strip it and then paint a forgery of a more valuable work over it.

  Joshua : Wow, I guess you have this thing down to a science.

  Everly : Many paintings hanging in great museums are forgeries.

  Joshua : Really? Like, even famous ones?

  Everly : You better believe it.

• Everly : You're gonna be so rich you can buy yourself a new mom.

• Everly : This kid is screwed up in the head. He is an emotional wreck. You know how hard a life in art is. Forgery isn't perfect, but he could make a living at it. I'm giving him a way so he never has to worry about money. Yeah, I'm tinkering, but the little bastard doesn't even know how lucky he is.