145 quotes found
"[after his friends said he didn't have the balls to do the experiment] You bring the equipment, I'll bring my balls."
"Today is a good day to die."
"[doing CPR] One one thousand, two one thousand . . . what comes next?"
"Philosophy failed. Religion failed. Now it's time for medical science to try."
"Everything matters, everything we do matters."
"Somehow we've brought our sins back physically. And they're pissed."
"C'mon, Billy Mahoney. C'mon... Gimme your best shot. I dare ya. I fuckin' dare ya."
"Hello, I'm nice, he's nice, we're both fucking lunatics. Can I come in, please?"
"[talking to the tombstone of Billy Mahoney] Wake up you little shit, you got company!"
"[talking about the experiment] I did not come to medical school to murder my class mates no matter how deranged they might be."
"[dictating a diary entry into his tape recorder] Halloween morning. Rotting pumpkins. Burning leaves. Black cats mating like rats in the alley. It was as if . . . it were as if we felt no fear, as if we were already dead and had nothing to lose by dying. Or perhaps it was because we had lived life so well, and loved life so much, that we fancied ourselves immortal, overwhelming the powers that be with the force of our passion for science. [long pause] Or maybe we were just fucked in the head."
"Good thing I didn't flatline. My 350-pound babysitter would be chasing me for the half-eaten pastrami sandwich I stole from her."
"David Labraccio: [about his death experience] It's like being paranoid without the fear. Like being watched."
"David Labraccio: Die to be a hero someday if you want to, but don't die to be a celebrity."
"Rachel: [as she's about to "flatline" in their experiment] See you soon."
"Winnie Hicks: [the little girl in his mind to David Labraccio] Hey, fellatio! Got a match? Well, I do. Your face and my ass. Your breath's made of buffalo fart. You don't know jack SHIT! BUTT-WAD, NEEDLE-DICK, COCK-BITE, JACK-OFF, LIMP-WRIST, CORN-HOLE, BANANA-BREATH, SHIT-BIRD, BIRD-TURD, TURD-FACE, KISS-ASS, BROWN-NOSE, MACHO-WIMP, LIMP-DICK, FART-FACE, TURD-MERCHANT! What's the matter? Gonna cry? Cry-baby Davie. Cry Cry Cry! SHIT-FACED, RAT-TURD, ASS-LICKING, SON-OF-A-BITCH."
"Joe Hurley: This is not the kind of shit I want on my transcript."
"Joe Hurley: Excuse me, I don't want to ruin anybody's evening, but are we in the room with a dead man?"
"David Labraccio: [screaming at a religious stained-glass portrait] I'm sorry.. we trespassed on your… fucking territory. God! I'm sorry!"
"Some lines shouldn't be crossed."
"Kiefer Sutherland - Nelson"
"Julia Roberts - Rachel Mannus"
"Kevin Bacon - David Labraccio"
"William Baldwin - Joe Hurley"
"Oliver Platt - Randy Steckle"
"Kimberly Scott - Winnie Hicks"
"Joshua Rudoy - Billy Mahoney"
"Benjamin Mouton - Rachel's Father"
"Hope Davis - Anne Coldren"
"What's wrong with this picture? There's no TV! Have you seen a TV, Mike? I haven't seen a TV. Do you know what it means when there's no TV? No MTV."
"You need sunglasses to talk on the phone? Are you freebasing, Michael? Inquiring minds want to know."
"Look at your reflection in the mirror. You're a creature of the night, Michael. Just like out of a comic book. You're a vampire, Michael! My own brother, a damn blood-sucking vampire! You wait 'til Mom finds out, buddy!"
"Don't kill me, Mike. I'm basically a good kid, so just don't kill me."
"It's that girl from the boardwalk. Is she one of them?... [Star floats up] She's one of them! And don't tell me it doesn't make her a bad person, Mike!"
"[to Star] Don't kill anybody until we get back to you!"
"Let's start with the little one. First come, first staked."
"Holy smoke, it's the attack of Eddie Munster!"
"We don't ride with vampires. [Realizes that they're just outside of the Vampires' cave] We do now."
"Holy smoke, Vampire Hotel."
"I think I should warn you all, when a vampire buys it, it's never a pretty sight. No two blood suckers go out the same way. Some yell and scream, some go quietly, some explode, some implode. But all will try and take you with them."
"[to Alan] How much you think we should charge out of this?"
"[entering their cave] Not bad, huh? This was the hottest resort in Santa Carla about 85 years ago. It's too bad that they built it on the San Andreas Fault. In 1906, when the Big One hit San Francisco, the ground opened up and this place took a header right into the crack. So now, it's ours."
"That's what I love about this place. You ask, and then you get."
"Initiation's over, Michael. Time to join the club!"
"Now you know what we are. And now you know what you are. You'll never grow old, Michael. And you'll never die. But you must feed."
"Lucy, you're the only woman I ever knew who didn't improve her situation by getting divorced."
"Rules! We've got some rules around here. Second shelf is mine. That's where I keep my cocktail peanuts, my Diet Pepsi and my double-thick animal crackers. Nobody touches the second shelf but me. Now, there's another rule around here, and I want you to pay very close attention to it. Don't touch anything. Everything is exactly where I want it."
"[as Michael comes home in the morning] Looks like I wasn't the only one who got lucky last night."
"Michael Emerson: [upon seeing Grandpa's workroom, filled with deer heads and other animals] Talk about the Texas Chain Saw Massacre."
"Lucy Emerson: [to Sam] I can never sleep with the closet door open, either. Not even a crack. Sam, this is a terrible thing to admit, but I think that one of the reasons I divorced your father was because he never believed in the closet monster."
"Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It's fun to be a vampire."
"Being wild is in their blood."
"[from TV spot] In California you'll find fun, romance... and vampires."
"Jason Patric - Michael Emerson"
"Corey Haim - Sam Emerson"
"Dianne Wiest - Lucy Emerson"
"Barnard Hughes - Grandpa"
"Edward Herrmann - Max"
"Kiefer Sutherland - David"
"Billy Wirth - Dwayne"
"Brooke McCarter - Paul"
"Alex Winter - Marko"
"Jami Gertz - Star"
"Corey Feldman - Edgar Frog"
"Jamison Newlander - Alan Frog"
"Chance Michael Corbitt - Laddie Thompson"
"That's it. She's dead. She's been dead a long fucking time and nobody gives a shit but you."
"You're not gonna kill me. You don't have it in you."
"[holding a picture of Welles' wife and daughter] What I could do with faces like these on film. On second thought, why would I need their faces?"
"If there was no honor among perverts and pornographers, the whole fucking business would fall apart."
"[dying from a gunshot wound to the neck] This is wrong, something's wrong. Oh, God, not like this. I'm supposed to have something more cinematic. Kill them, Machine... kill them all. [dies]"
"[after removing his mask for the first time] What'd you expect? A monster?"
"You know the best part of killing someone? The look on their face. It's that look. Not when they're threatened. Not when you hurt them. Not even when they see the knife. It's when they feel the knife go in. That's it. It's surprise. They just can't believe it's really happening to them. She had that look, the girl, when she knew it wasn't just porno."
"I wasn't beaten. I wasn't molested. Mommy didn't abuse me. Daddy never raped me. I'm only what I am. And that's all there is to it! There's no mystery. Things I do, I do them because I like them! Because I want to!"
"[watching a video of Machine torturing a woman] Oh, he's a lover, man... definitely loves what he does for a living."
"I can hook you up, though. You name the vice I name the price."
"[On selling porn] I don't buy it. I don't endorse it. I just point the way."
"He's a producer-slash-director-slash weirdo. He's like the Jim Jarmusch of S & M."
"So you got a wife and a daughter and a nice little yellow house and a dog named 'Shep'. What the hell are you doing here?"
"There's things that you're gonna see that, that you can't unsee. They get in your head and they stay there."
"Hey! It's like a gas station, you pay before you pump!"
"Dance with the devil, the devil don’t change. The devil changes you."
"If someone never saw or sold a snuff film, they shouldn't give a damn what I ask about it, if they have they got a right to be nervous."
"I'll never get tired of hurting you, Eddie!"
"Can you tell me if you had to make a choice... if you were forced to choose... between imagining her out there somewhere living a good life... being happy... but you don't know... you never find out... or the worst being true... her being gone... but you know... you finally know what's happened to her."
"Hello, Machine! Love your work!"
"Why do you think people like the Christians hire people like me? To invite us to their dinner parties? It's our job to clean up the mess. To wipe their royal asses."
"You know the only difference between you and me? I will survive this and profit by it, whereas you, you will not."
"You can't prepare for where the truth will take you."
"You are never prepared for the truth."
"Be careful when you kill a monster, that you don't become one yourself."
"Some doors should never be opened."
"Nicolas Cage - Tom Welles"
"Joaquin Phoenix - Max California"
"James Gandolfini - Eddie Poole"
"Peter Stormare - Dino Velvet"
"Anthony Heald - Daniel Longdale"
"Chris Bauer - George Higgins/Machine"
"Catherine Keener - Amy Welles"
"So you're born in the capital of the world and you can never escape. And that's how it is because that's how everyone wants it to be. It is all about want. No one needs anything here. It is about when you wake up in the morning and the snow is already coming down and it's bright between the buildings where the sun falls but already dark where the shadows are. And it's all about the want. What do you want? Because if you don't want something you've got nothing. You are adrift. You're washed away and then buried under the snow in shadow. And when in the spring the snow melts, no one will remember where you were frozen and buried. And you will no longer be anywhere."
"[about Dale] She is the only evidence of God I have seen with the exception of the mysterious force that removes one sock from the dryer every time I do my laundry."
"There are several quintessential moments in a man's life: losing his virginity, getting married, becoming a father, and having the right girl smile at you."
"Blowtorch, anyone?"
"You know, there are more people in law school right now than there are lawyers on the entire planet? Think about that."
"[repeated line] Love sucks."
"I enjoy being afraid of Russia. It's a harmless fear, but it makes America feel better, Russia gets an inflated sense of national worth from our paranoia. How's that?"
"Never trust a woman who says she isn't angry."
"[to Jules] You know Jules, there is the brink of insanity and then there is the abyss, which obviously you have fallen into."
"[to Leslie] Yeah, once. Junior high, I played bongos in this band and I fell in love with the lead singer. She sang "We've Only Just Begun" as sweet as Karen Carpenter. So, one night, I got high on this cheap malt liquor, and I pledged my love to her. And the next day she ran off with a bass player named Ringo. So, I turned in my bongos for a battered Underwood typewriter."
"[to Naomi] Well, for your information, I happen to be in love with someone, only they don't know it, okay?"
"We won't even remember this tomorrow."
"Love, love, you know what love is? Love is an illusion created by lawyer types like yourself to perpetuate another illusion called marriage to create the reality of divorce and then the illusionary need for divorce lawyers."
"Do not hand that man a blowtorch."
"[to Jules] So, you lost your job? I've lost twenty of them since graduation, plus a wife and kid, and, in a new development this morning, a handful of hair in the shower drain. [puts a blanket on her] That's better. You know, this smells to me like a little bit of self-created drama. I should know; I've been starring in a few of my own."
"Jules, you know, honey... this isn't real. You know what it is? It's St. Elmo's Fire. Electric flashes of light that appear in dark skies out of nowhere. Sailors would guide entire journeys by it, but the joke was on them... there was no fire. There wasn't even a St. Elmo. They made it up. They made it up because they thought they needed it to keep them going when times got tough, just like you're making up all of this. We're all going through this. It's our time at the edge."
"Hey! Hey, take your hands off my wife."
"Join the club. You know, no one was buying this together-woman-of-the-eighties stuff anyway."
"No diet works. The only way to lose weight in the thighs is amputation."
"You wanna know what's great? Last night, I woke up in the middle of the night to make myself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and you know, it was my kitchen, it was my refrigerator, it was my apartment...and it was the BEST peanut butter and jelly sandwich that I have had in my entire life."
"[voiceover] I can't remember who met who first or who fell in love with who first. All I can remember is the seven of us always together."
"It is tomorrow."
"I'm not afraid to commit. I have to have something for myself first before I can share it with you."
"I just wish everything could be like it used to be, all of us friends."
"You break my heart. Then again, you break everyone's heart."
"I'm just so tired, Billy. Never thought I'd be so tired at 22."
"I don't know why you're both so worried... So, I bop him for a couple of years, get his job when he gets his hands caught in the vault, do a black mink ad, retire in utter disgrace, then write a best seller and be a fabulous host on my own talk show..."
"Come sit down and chillax."
"[to Leslie] Leslie, did I tell you? I'm sorry. I went to see my boss. I thought I was getting fired. Instead, the man took me to dinner."
"[about her stepmother] It turns out cremation costs just as much as the non-torching method. If I don't come up with a cheaper solution, I'm gonna end up a bag lady. Of course, I'll have alligator bags."
"Who wants to suck back a few Bloody Marys at St. Elmo's, on me?"
"They thought they'd be friends forever, but forever couldn't last."
"The passion burns deep."
"The heat this summer is at Saint Elmo's Fire."
"You can always count on your friends. Don't ever let the fire go out."
"Emilio Estevez - Kirby "Kirbo" Keager"
"Andrew McCarthy - Kevin Dolenz"
"Rob Lowe - Billy Hicks"
"Judd Nelson - Alec Newbury"
"Ally Sheedy - Leslie Hunter"
"Demi Moore - Julianna "Jules" Van Patten"
"Mare Winningham - Wendy Beamish"
"Andie MacDowell - Dale Biberman"
"Martin Balsam - Mr. Beamish"
"Joyce Van Patten - Mrs. Beamish"
"Jenny Wright - Felicia"