I've been doin' this for too many years...
Any Given Sunday (1999)
TONY
A screenplay character in Any Given Sunday (1999).
- lines
- 285
- words
- 4,645
- scenes
- 37
- dialogue
- 26%
- avg words / line
- 16
- shortest / longest
- 1 / 177
source review flagged 1 dialogue line
Sample dialogue
-.. As we get older, some things are taken away... well, that's part of life, but you only learn that when you lose something. You find out that life is this game of inches! So's football. Because the margin for error in either game, football or life, is so small... so small, guys. One half-step too late or too early and you don't quite make it. One half-second too slow or too fast and you don't quite catch it ‘cause it's half a fingertip away. The inches we need are everywhere around us, they're in every break of the game, every minute, every second. Mandrake forgot that. He was grabbing for miles when he only needed inches. And on this team there are no shortcuts. There are no more Doctor Mandrakes. On this team we fight for that inch! We tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch! We claw with our fingernails for that inch "cause when you add up all those inches, that is what makes the fucking difference between winning
scene 77, source scene 78 — INT. SHARK LOCKER ROOM - LOCKER ROOM #1 - FOLLOWING 214Yeah, Tony D'Amato.
scene 9, source scene 10 — INT. BAR/RESTAURANT - NIGHT (10:30) 99Blame me, not Julian. It was my call.
scene 14, source scene 15 — INT. LIVING ROOM - CONTINUOUS ACTION - DAYI know. But we need to talk about this. I think you got a great future in football but first off we gotta deal with some basics. Like if the play book is too complicated we can simplify it for you --
scene 41, source scene 42 — INT. TONY D'AMATO'S HOUSE - LATE DAY/NIGHT 170You think you're gonna tell me what to do?! Your father never told me what to do! AND YOU'RE NOT GONNA START NOW, YOUNG LADY!
scene 68, source scene 69 — INT. SHARK CENTER - D'AMATO'S OFFICE - LATE NIGHT 207
Bookends
So, Miss P., I look forward to seeing you next year across those Sidelines... and calling it what it always was and still is: a ame. Let's keep it that way... So long, everybody.