151 quotes found
"The real events that have happened to me have been fucked up, not my mind!"
"I was 27 years old the first time I died. I remember there was white everywhere. There was war and I felt alive, but really I was dead."
"Sometimes I think we live through things only to be able to say that it happened. That it wasn't to someone else, it was to me. Sometimes we live to beat the odds. I'm not crazy even though they thought I was. I live in the same world as everyone else. I just saw more of it, as I'm sure you have. They'll find my body tomorrow. You can check it out if you don't believe me. I've seen life after my death, and I'm telling you this because it's the only way to help you and your daughter have a better life of your own. Jean, you're gonna pass out one day smoking a cigarette and burn to death. Your daughter grows up living the same sad life you're living right now. And she misses you so much. Sometimes life can only really begin with the knowledge of death. That it can all end, even when you least want it to. The important thing in life is to believe that while you're alive, it's never too late. I promise you, Jean, no matter how bad things look, they look better awake than they do asleep. When you die, there's only one thing you want to happen. You wanna come back."
"For me... that is a really difficult question Dr. Laurenson, because the world around me is shrinking... and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are comin' to see me today, and they're not bringing flowers which... just makes it real difficult to get organized."
"Terror has a new name."
"Adrien Brody - Jack Starks"
"Keira Knightley - Jackie Price"
"Kelly Lynch - Jean Price"
"Jennifer Jason Leigh - Dr. Lorenson"
"Kris Kristofferson - Dr. Thomas Becker"
"[crying while sitting on the floor of the mental hospital, holding a dead cellular phone] ...Wendy, it's me, please don't hang up, please! I just wanted to say that... I'm so sorry for what's happened... I'm so lonely here, I want to go home... I just want to hold you, I want to hold my baby... can you forgive me... can you forgive me?"
"It says here that 19 were committed due to disappointed expectations, Hank, they're talkin' about you."
"Madness is just overactive curiosity."
"The icepick method. Insert a thin metal pipette into the orbital frontal cortex. Enter the soft tissue of the frontal lobe. A few simple, smooth, up-and-down jerks sever the lateral hypothalamus... all resulting in a rapid reduction of stress for our little patient here. Total time elapsed? Two minutes. Only side-effect? Black eye. Recommended treatment? Sunglasses."
"[reading the asylum journals] He came into her room at night wearing a black robe. He'd take her and drive her to a wooded area where her grandparents and her mother were, and they'd all have black robes on. They'd take them off and group orgies would ensue... and then they'd bring out the newborn. She was forced to watch as her mother would cut the baby's heart out with a stone dagger. She'd drink the blood; others would eat the flesh. The grandfather and father would fuck her repeatedly. She was forced to have abortions and cook the aborted fetuses."
"Peter Mullan - Gordon Fleming"
"David Caruso - Phil"
"Stephen Gevedon - Mike"
"Josh Lucas - Hank"
"Brendan Sexton III - Jeff"
"Jurian Hughes - Mary Hobbes"
"Larry Fessenden - Craig McManus"
"Paul Guilfoyle - Bill Griggs"
"Charley Broderick - Security Guard"
"[narrating] Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train was moving while sitting still? Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the '60's. Or maybe I was just a girl... interrupted."
"[to Lisa] I've wasted a year of my life here. Maybe everyone out there is a liar. And maybe the whole world is stupid and ignorant. But I'd rather be in it. I'd rather be fucking in it, than down here with you."
"[narrating] Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is... Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever. They were not perfect, but they were my friends and by the '70s, most of them were out living lives. Some I've seen, some never again, but there isn't a day my heart doesn't find them."
"I know what its like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in, but you can't. How you hurt yourself on the outside, to try to kill the thing on the inside."
"[to Susanna] You think you're free? I'm free! You don't know what freedom is! I'm free! I can breathe! And you - you're gonna go choke on your average fuckin' mediocre life!"
"[Southern accent] Razors pain you, Rivers are damp / Acid stains you, Drugs cause cramps / Guns aren't lawful, Nooses give / Gas smells awful, Ya might as well live."
"[to Daisy about going to Florida] I am going to be the Cinderella at Walt Disney's new theme park, Susanna's gonna be Snow White. You can come if you want, you can be the Cocker Spaniel that eats spaghetti."
"Note that the poem is a quote from Dorothy Parker's "Résumé" (1925)"
"Based on a true story."
"The crazy thing is, you're not crazy."
"Sometimes, the only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy."
"Winona Ryder - Susanna Kaysen"
"Angelina Jolie - Lisa Rowe"
"Jared Leto - Tobias 'Toby' Jacobs"
"Brittany Murphy - Daisy Randone"
"Clea DuVall - Georgina Tuskin"
"Angelas Bettis - Janet Webber"
"Whoopi Goldberg - Valerie Owens, R.N."
"Joanna Kerns - Annette Kaysen"
"Christina Myers - Nurse Margie"
"Alison Claire - Nurse Gretta"
"When I say that all woman are dazzling beauties, they object. This one's nose is too large... the hips of another are too wide, perhaps the breast of a third, they are too small. But I see these women for how they truly are: Glorious... radiant, spectacular and perfect because I am not limited by my eyesight. Women react on me the way that they do Don Octavio because they sense that I search out the beauty that dwells within them until it overwhelms everything else. And then they cannot avoid their desire: to release that beauty and envelop me in it."
"Every woman is a mystery waiting to be solved, but a woman hides nothing from a true lover. Her skin color can tell us how to proceed. A hue like the blush of a rose, pink and pale, and she must be coaxed to open her petals with a warmth like the sun. The pale and dappled skin of a redhead calls for the lust of a wave crashing to the shore so we may stir up what lies beneath her and bring up the foamy delight of love to the surface. Although there is no metaphor that truly describes making love to a woman, the closest is playing a rare musical instrument. I wonder...does a Stradivarius violin feel the same rapture as the violinist when he coaxes a single perfect note from its heart?"
"There are only four questions of value in life, Don Octavio: What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for? And what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love."
"I just feel as though we've surrendered our lives to the momentum of mediocrity."
"I want to know what your dreams and your hopes are that got lost along the way while I was thinking about myself."
"Step right up. Now showing for the first time: Cesare, the miraculous, twenty-three years of age, has for these twenty-three years been sleeping -- night and day -- without a break. Before your very eyes, Cesare will awaken from his death-like rigidity. Step right up. Step right up."
"Cesare! Do you hear me? It is I calling you: I, Caligari, your master. Awaken for a brief while from your dark night."
"Ladies and Gentlemen, Cesare will now answer any question you like to put to him. Cesare knows every secret. Cesare knows the past and can see into the future. Come up and test him for yourselves."
"I must know everything. I must penetrate the heart of his secret! I must become Caligari!"
"You fools, this man is plotting our doom! We die at dawn! He is Caligari!"
"Look! There is Cesare. Never ask him to tell your fortune; it will mean death for you."
"Man in the Garden: Everywhere there are spirits ... They are all around us ... They have driven me from hearth and home, from my wife and children."
"Title card: That night saw the first of a series of mysterious crimes."
"Asylum director: At last I recognize his mania. He believes me to be the mythical Caligari. Astonishing! But I think I know how to cure him now."
"The most amazing story ever screened."
"You must become Caligari."
"A THRILLING FANTASTIC PHOTO-PLAY"
"Dr. Caligari and his mysterious slave - the black and white phantom who lives in a cabinet and goes forth in his sleep to do his master's bidding. the weirdest characters ever seen on the screen and the most daringly different picture ever seen."
"Werner Krauss - Dr. Caligari"
"Conrad Veidt - Cesare"
"Friedrich Fehér - Francis"
"Lil Dagover - Jane"
"Hans Heinz v. Twardowski - Alan"
"Rudolf Lettinger - Dr. Olsen"
"Logic is overrated."
"He said you're next."
"You're one of us now."
"Dr. Grey: It's good to be God. I love you."
"Because someone is dead doesn't mean they're gone."
"Not Alone."
"Dr. Miranda Grey Is An Expert At Knowing What Is Rational, What Is Logical, What Is Sane... Until The Day She Woke Up On The Other Side."
"Halle Berry -Dr. Miranda Grey"
"Robert Downey Jr. - Dr. Pete Graham"
"Charles S. Dutton - Dr. Douglas Grey"
"John Carroll Lynch - Sheriff Bob Ryan"
"Penélope Cruz - Chloe Sava"
"Bernard Hill - Phil Parsons"
"Dorian Harewood - Teddy Howard"
"Bronwen Mantel - Irene"
"Kathleen Mackey - Rachel Parsons"
"Matthew G. Taylor - Turlington"
"Michel Perron - Joe"
"Andrea Sheldon - Tracey Seaver"
"And here is our Freida, Queen Of The Artichokes."
"Tell me kind words and gentle deeds will tame him!Enter the cage or your Quaker lies!"
"I have a fascination to see the loonies in their cages."
"Being rich and important is a disease I do not wish to catch."
"All for people who don't know I'm trying to help them."
"Sensational Secrets of Infamous Mad-house EXPOSED!"
"Boris Karloff — Master George Sims"
"Anna Lee — Nell Bowen"
"Billy House — Lord Mortimer"
"Richard Fraser — Hannay"
"Glen Vernon — The Gilded Boy"
"Ian Wolfe — Sidney Long"
"Jason Robards Sr. — Oliver Todd"
"Leyland Hodgson — John Wilkes"
"Joan Newton — Dorothea the Dove"
"Elizabeth Russell — Mistress Sims"
"Frankie Dee — Pompie"
"Rigo, a patient - I keep him in a trance. Sometimes he gets out - does terrible things."
"A strange case - but I deal in strange cases!"
"I have only one guest chamber - but no doubt we can make the gentlemen comfortable."
"Caliban - see that the guests have the USUAL attention!"
"My servant - don't allow him to frighten you - the poor creature is dumb!"
"I am Dr. Edwards - the owner of this sanitarium. We were overpowered and imprisoned here by my patients. Our lives are in constant peril."
"Ziska, who was once a famous surgeon, controls the others...Caliban imagines he's Ziska's slave - Rigo is dangerous, while Dan is quite harmless ..."
"They must have built those devilish traps and devices after they imprisoned us."
"I've found a hidden passage - - it goes straight down into the dark!"
"A mystery thriller and a love adventure. The romance of a boy and a girl in a mansion of hidden motives. A film you'll want to see all over again."
"You'll Guess! You'll Gasp! You'll love it!"
"Lon Chaney — Gustave Ziska"
"Johnny Arthur — Johnny Goodlittle"
"Gertrude Olmstead — Betty Watson"
"Hallam Cooley — Amos Rugg"
"Charles Sellon — Russ Mason"
"Walter James — Caliban"
"Knute Erickson — Daffy Dan"
"George Austin — Rigo"
"Edward McWade — Luke Watson"
"Ethel Wales — Mrs Watson"
"Herbert Prior — Doctor Edwards"
"Matthew Betz — Detective Jennings"
"After she tried to kill herself the first time, Dolores told me she... she had an insect living inside her brain. She could feel it clicking across her skull, just... pulling the wires, just for fun. She told me that. She told me that but I didn't listen. I loved her so much."
"Sanity's not a choice, Marshall. You can't just choose to get over it."
"It's my job to treat the patients, not their victims."
"This is a game. All of this is for you. You're not investigating anything. You're a fucking rat in a maze."
"You're smarter than you look, Marshal. That's probably not a good thing."
"Fifty years from now, people will look back and say, "Here, at this place, is where it all began. The Nazis used the Jews, Soviets used prisoners in their own Gulags. And we - we tested patients on Shutter Island.""
"Warden: You're as violent as they come. I know this, because I'm as violent as they come. If the constraints of society were lifted, and I was all that stood between you and a meal, you would crack my skull with a rock and eat my meaty parts. Wouldn't you?"
"Some places never let you go."
"Someone is missing."
"Leonardo DiCaprio - Teddy Daniels/Andrew Laeddis"
"Mark Ruffalo - Chuck Aule/Lester Sheehan"
"Ben Kingsley - Dr. John Cawley"
"Max von Sydow - Dr. Jeremiah Naehring"
"Michelle Williams - Dolores Chanal"
"Emily Mortimer - Rachel Solando 1"
"Patricia Clarkson - Rachel Solando 2"
"Jackie Earle Haley - George Noyce"
"Ted Levine - Warden"
"John Carroll Lynch - Deputy Warden McPherson"
"Elias Koteas - Andrew Laeddis"
"Ruby Jerins - Little Girl"
"Robin Bartlett - Bridget Kearns"
"Christopher Denham - Peter Breene"