Empire of the Sun (1987)

Nigel Havers: Dr. Rawlins

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Quotes 

• Jim : If the Americans land, the Japanese will fight.

  Dr. Rawlins : You admire the Japanese?

  Jim : Well, they're brave, aren't they?

  Dr. Rawlins : That's important, is it, Jim?

  Jim : It's a good thing if you want to win a war.

  Dr. Rawlins : But we don't want them to win, do we. Remember, we're British.

  Jim : Yes. I've never been there.

• [Nurses attempt to wake a sickly man] 

  Jim : Can I have his shoes when he's dead?

  Dr. Rawlins : God you're a pragmatist, Jim.

• Jim : Dr. Rawlin, do you remember how we had helped build the runway? If we die like the others, our bones would be IN the runway. In a way, it's OUR runway...

  Dr. Rawlins : No it's THEIR runway, Jim! Try not to think so much! Try not to THINK so much!

• Dr. Rawlins : It's a good thing you're friends with Basie. He's a survivor.

  Jim : That's because he only drinks boiled water.

• Dr. Rawlins : What about your English prep? Just think of it as - the antidote.

  Jim : [rapidly]  We-are-never-sure-of-sorrow, And-joy-was-never-sure, To-day-will-die-to-morrow, Time-stoops-to-no-man's-lure, With-love-grown-faint-and-fretful, With lips but...

  Dr. Rawlins : No, no, no, no, no. Try to learn it as a poem. It's not just a string of words, you know.