My Favorite Performances of 2010 (Male)

Teardrop - Winter's Bone
"You don't wanna go around Little Arthur's askin' them people about anything they ain't offered to talk about. That's a real good way to end up et by hogs... or wishin' you was."

Eduardo Saverin - The Social Network
"You better lawyer up asshole, because I'm not coming back for 30%, I'm coming back for EVERYTHING."

Teddy Daniels - Shutter Island
"You know, this place makes me wonder... Which would be worse - to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?"

Honorable Mentions:
Cobb - Inception

Dicky Eklund - The Fighter
"This is your time, all right? You take it. I had my time and I blew it. You don't have to. All right? You fuckin' get out there, and use all the shit that you've been through, all that fuckin' hell, all the shit we've gone through over the fuckin' years, and you put it in that ring right now. This is yours. This is fuckin' yours."

Mark Zuckerberg - The Social Network
"You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook."

Damon Macready - Kick-Ass
"Tool up, honey bunny. It's time to get bad guys."

Rooster Cogburn - True Grit
"The ground's too hard. If they wanted a decent funeral, they should have got themselves killed in summer."

The Father - Let Me In
"Maybe I want to get caught."

Aron Ralston - 127 Hours
"Don't lose it. Aron, do not lose it."

Terry Hoitz - The Other Guys
"I'm like a peacock, you gotta let me fly!"

Honorable Mentions:
Micky Ward - The Fighter
Holbrooke - Date Night

Ulrik - A Somewhat Gentle Man

Thomas Leroy - Black Swan
"This is your moment, Nina. Don't let it go."

King George VI - The King's Speech
"Fuck. Fuck! Fuck, fuck, fuck and fuck! Fuck, fuck and bugger! Bugger, bugger, buggerty buggerty buggerty, fuck, fuck, arse!"

Warwick Wilson - The Perfect Host
"You can't kill me, I'm having a dinner party."

Omar - Four Lions
"I swear, cousin bro, I may ask you to blow yourself up, but I would never ask you to piss in your own mouth."

The Policeman - Let Me In
"Are you a Satanist? Are you involved in some sort of cult?!"

Honorable Mentions:
Laeddis - Shutter Island
Chuck Dooney - Defendor
Joe Rothman - The Killer Inside Me

Chuck Aule - Shutter Island
"I don't know, boss. How can you believe a crazy guy?"

Honorable Mentions:
Paul - The Kids Are All Right

Frank Darbo - Super
"You don't butt in line! You don't sell drugs! You don't molest little children! You don't profit off the misery of others! The rules were set a long time ago! They don't change!"

Eames - Inception
"You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling."

James Coughlin - The Town
"If we get jammed up, we're holding court on the street."

Cyrus - Cyrus
"Your hair - the light's hitting your hair in this great way. It's like a crippled tree reaching for heaven."

Hans - Troll Hunter
"I once saw a troll try to eat its own tail. His head between his legs, he tried to suck down his own tail. He started gagging on it, tipped over, and rolled down a hill like a wheel."

Wallace Wells - Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
"Scott, you know I love you. But I need my own bed tonight. It's for sex."

Owen - Let Me In
"Do you think there's such a thing as evil?"

Doug MacRay - The Town
"No matter how much you change, you still have to pay the price for the things you've done. So I got a long road. But I know I'll see you again - this side or the other."