My Favorite Performances of 2002 (Male)

Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting - Gangs of New York
"He was the only man I ever killed worth remembering."

Monty Brogan - 25th Hour
"No. No, fuck you, Montgomery Brogan. You had it all, and you threw it away, you *dumb* *fuck*!"

Honorable Mentions:
Sheldon Mopes - Death to Smoochy
Will Graham - Red Dragon

Charlie Kaufman / Donald Kaufman - Adaptation.
"I loved Sarah, Charles. It was mine, that love. I owned it. Even Sarah didn't have the right to take it away. I can love whoever I want."

Barry Egan - Punch-Drunk Love
"I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine."

Buscapé - City of God
"What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out war. The City of God was divided. You couldn't go from one section the other, not even to visit a relative. The cops considered anyone living in the slum a hoodlum. People got used to living in Vietnam, and more and more volunteers signed up to die."

Frank Abagnale Jr. - Catch Me If You Can
"Brenda, I don't want to lie to you anymore. All right? I'm not a doctor. I never went to medical school. I'm not a lawyer, or a Harvard graduate, or a Lutheran. Brenda, I ran away from home a year and a half ago when I was 16."

Honorable Mentions:
Amsterdam Vallon - Gangs of New York

John Rooney - Road to Perdition
"Let's drink to Danny's honor. Let's wake him to God and hope he gets to heaven at least an hour before the devil finds out he's dead."

Warren Schmidt - About Schmidt
"Relatively soon, I will die. Maybe in 20 years, maybe tomorrow, it doesn't matter. Once I am dead and everyone who knew me dies too, it will be as though I never existed. What difference has my life made to anyone. None that I can think of. None at all."

Ryu - Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

Richard Brown - The Hours
"I've stayed alive for you. But now you have to let me go."

Michael Sullivan - Road to Perdition
"Peter was just... such a sweet little boy, you know? And you... you were more like me. And I... didn't want you to be."

Honorable Mentions:
Carl Hanratty - Catch Me if You Can

Chuck Barris - Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
"I came up with a new game-show idea recently. It's called The Old Game. You got three old guys with loaded guns onstage. They look back at their lives, see who they were, what they accomplished, how close they came to realizing their dreams. The winner is the one who doesn't blow his brains out. He gets a refrigerator."

Jacob Elinsky - 25th Hour
"My student. I, I kissed her."

Honorable Mentions:
Dean Trumbell - Punch-Drunk Love
Freddy Lounds - Red Dragon

Frank Abagnale Sr. - Catch Me If You Can
"Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse."

Norman Osborn - Spider-Man
"Misery, misery, misery - that's what you've chosen. I offered you friendship, and you spat in my face."

Walter Finch - Insomnia
"You're a good man. I know that. Even if you've forgotten it."

Honorable Mentions:
Seymour Parrish - One Hour Photo

Maguire - Road to Perdition
"I shoot the dead. Dead bodies, that is. I don't kill them."

Jim - 28 Days Later
"Oh, great, Valium. Not only will we be able to get to sleep, but if we're attacked in the middle of the night, we won't even care."

Zé Pequeno - City of God
"Where do you want to take the shot? In the hand or in the foot?"

Elvis Presley - Bubba Ho-Tep
"Get old, you can't even cuss someone and have it bother 'em. Everything you do is either worthless or sadly amusing."

John Laroche - Adaptation.
"Look, I'll tell you a story, all right? I once feel deeply, you know, profoundly in love with tropical fish. Had 60 goddamn fish tanks in my house. I skin dived to find just the right ones. Anisotremus virginicus, Holdacanthus ciliaris, Chaetodon capistratus. You name it. Then one day I say, "fuck fish". I renounce fish. I vow never to set foot in that ocean again. That's how much "fuck fish"."

Honorable Mentions:
Conklin - The Bourne Identity

J. Jonah Jameson - Spider-Man
"They're crap. Crap, crap, megacrap. I'll give you two hundred bucks for all of 'em."

Spider - Spider

Frank Slaughtery - 25th Hour
"I'm Irish. I can't get drunk, all right? I know exactly what I'm saying."

Burnham - Panic Room
"I spent the last 12 years of my life building these rooms specifically to keep out people like us."