Up in the Air (2009)

Actors

• Cozy Bailey (actor)
• Casey Bartels (actor)
• Jason Bateman (actor)
• George Batten (actor)
• Courtney Benjamin (actor)
• Michael Bentele (actor)
• Kourtney Brown (actor)
• Wayne E. Brown (actor)
• Ed Callison (actor)
• Brian Carney (actor)
• George Clooney (actor)
• Lamorris Conner (actor)
• Kevin Crawford (actor)
• Jeremy Curran (actor)
• Kojo Asiedu (actor)

Genres

• Drama
• Romance

Taglines:

The story of a man ready to make a connection.
Arriving this December
From Paramount Pictures comes the story of a man ready to make a connection
Arriving soon

Quotes:

Ryan Bingham: [on getting through airport security] Never get behind old people. Their bodies are littered with hidden metal and they never seem to appreciate how little time they have left. Bingo, Asians. They pack light, travel efficiently, and they have a thing for slip on shoes. Gotta love 'em.::Natalie Keener: That's racist.::Ryan Bingham: I'm like my mother, I stereotype. It's faster.

Ryan Bingham: [End of closing monologue] The stars will wheel forth from their daytime hiding places; and one of those lights, slightly brighter than the rest, will be my wingtip passing over.

Ryan Bingham: How much does your life weigh? Imagine for a second that you're carrying a backpack. I want you to pack it with all the stuff that you have in your life... you start with the little things. The shelves, the drawers, the knickknacks, then you start adding larger stuff. Clothes, tabletop appliances, lamps, your TV... the backpack should be getting pretty heavy now. You go bigger. Your couch, your car, your home... I want you to stuff it all into that backpack. Now I want you to fill it with people. Start with casual acquaintances, friends of friends, folks around the office... and then you move into the people you trust with your most intimate secrets. Your brothers, your sisters, your children, your parents and finally your husband, your wife, your boyfriend, your girlfriend. You get them into that backpack, feel the weight of that bag. Make no mistake your relationships are the heaviest components in your life. All those negotiations and arguments and secrets, the compromises. The slower we move the faster we die. Make no mistake, moving is living. Some animals were meant to carry each other to live symbiotically over a lifetime. Star crossed lovers, monogamous swans. We are not swans. We are sharks.

Natalie Keener: Hungry much?::Ryan Bingham: Our business expense allots forty dollars each for dinner. I plan on grabbing as many miles as I can.::Natalie Keener: Okay, you got to fill me in on the miles thing. What is that about? You're talking about, like, frequent flyer miles?::Ryan Bingham: You really want to know?::Natalie Keener: I'm dying to know.::Ryan Bingham: I don't spend a nickel, if I can help it, unless it somehow profits my mileage account.::Natalie Keener: So, what are you saving up for? Hawaii? South of France?::Ryan Bingham: It's not like that. The miles are the goal.::Natalie Keener: That's it? You're saving just to save?::Ryan Bingham: Let's just say that I have a number in mind and I haven't hit it yet.::Natalie Keener: That's a little abstract. What's the target?::Ryan Bingham: I'd rather not...::Natalie Keener: Is it a secret target?::Ryan Bingham: It's ten million miles.::Natalie Keener: Okay. Isn't ten million just a number?::Ryan Bingham: Pi's just a number.::Natalie Keener: Well, we all need a hobby. No, I- I- I don't mean to belittle your collection. I get it. It sounds cool.::Ryan Bingham: I'd be the seventh person to do it. More people have walked on the moon.::Natalie Keener: Do they throw you a parade?::Ryan Bingham: You get lifetime executive status. You get to meet the chief pilot, Maynard Finch.::Natalie Keener: Wow.::Ryan Bingham: And they put your name on the side of a plane.::Natalie Keener: Men get such hardons from putting their names on things. You guys don't grow up. It's like you need to pee on everything.

Alex Goran: He broke up with you over text message?::Ryan Bingham: That's kind of like firing someone over the Internet.

Flight Attendant: Would you like the cancer?::Ryan Bingham: What?::Flight Attendant: Would you like the can, sir?

Ryan Bingham: I thought I was a part of your life.::Alex Goran: I thought we signed up for the same thing... I thought our relationship was perfectly clear. You are an escape. You're a break from our normal lives. You're a parenthesis.::Ryan Bingham: I'm a parenthesis?

San Francisco Manager: [interviewing Natalie for a job] So, what happened?::Natalie Keener: How exactly do you mean?::San Francisco Manager: You graduated top of your class. You could have had your pick of employment, including right here. Instead, you went to Omaha to... fire people for a living?::Natalie Keener: Challenging work.::San Francisco Manager: I'll say. I couldn't imagine doing that day in and day out. Not in this climate.::Natalie Keener: I... followed a boy.::San Francisco Manager: I guess we've all done that at some point in our lives.::[the manager pauses and picks up a letter from his desk, showing it to Natalie]::San Francisco Manager: This guy says I'd be lucky to have you.::Ryan Bingham: [voiceover, reading the letter] To whom it may concern: I can't begin to count the number of people I've fired in my lifetime. So many that I've forgotten what it's like to actually hire someone. We've never met, but I know you'd be lucky to have Natalie Keener. My advice? Take her and don't look back. She'll be the best decision you've made in a long time.::San Francisco Manager: [holding his hand out] I sure hope he's right.::[Natalie springs to her feet and shakes hands, gathering her composure and trying not to smile too broadly]

Ryan Bingham: Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it's *because* they sat there that they were able to do it.

Natalie Keener: Can you stop condescending for one second or is that one of the principles of your bullshit philosophy?

Bingham, Ryan Filmography

• Sanchez
  2010, role: actor , character name: Coke Head #5

Bingham, Ryan Filmography

• U B Da Judge
  2012, role: actor
• The 82nd Annual Academy Awards
  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself - Winner: Best Original Song
• Crazy Heart
  2009, role: actor , character name: Tony

Bingham, Ryan Filmography

• NEW: March Mayhem
  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself