"I loved you once, but now you belong with the dead. I am Anck-es-en-Amon, but I... I'm somebody else, too. I want to live, even in this strange new world."

"Burn the scroll, man. Burn it! It was through you this horror came into existence."

"If I could get my hands on you, I'd break your dried flesh to pieces!"

"I think with all the technology today, kids wouldn't buy [a mummy wrapped in bandages]. That's sort of one of the things about the first Mummy movies that always amazed me. Looking back on them now, why were people scared of the mummy? Surely, you could just run away from this guy that's walking around the neighborhood in pajamas and bandages. It'd be easy just to run away from him, so we have to hype it up a bit and create a whole new mummy."

"Boris Karloff - Ardeth Bey / Imhotep / The Mummy"

"Anck-es-en-Amon, my love has lasted longer than the temples of our gods. No man ever suffered as I did for you. But the rest you may not know. Not until you are about to pass through the great night of terror and triumph. Until you are ready to face moments of horror for an eternity of love."

"[to Helen Grosvenor dressed as his beloved Princess Anck-es-en-Amon] It was not only this body I loved, it was thy soul. I destroy this lifeless thing! Thou shall take its place but for a few moments and then... RISE again, even as I have risen!"

"I see a safe journey, I see a safe return."

"Religion is poison."

"Many films have been made on Tibet, such as Bernardo Bertolucci's Little Buddha (1993) and Jean-Jacques Annaud's Seven Years in Tibet (1997). Do these films reflect reality? The Dalai Lama responds: “I can talk about Kundun (1998), the Martin Scorcese film, for which Harrison Ford and his wife came to see me. I took the opportunity to correct the errors, particularly the fact that it did not adequately depict the horrors that the Tibetan people have had to endure since 1950. In fact, Harrison Ford and his wife began to cry when I told them some of these horrors. » Since then, this great actor has become a devotee of Tibet and even managed to release Riching Geyde, a Tibetan guide arrested by the Chinese when he tried to give Western tourists information about human rights in Tibet . “This is why,” notes the Dalai Lama, “that these films, however Hollywood they may be, have allowed the world to become aware of the plight of the Tibetan people. He adds: “I actually saw Little Buddha by Bertolucci, and I really liked it, even if, as a disciple of Prince Gautama, I cannot imagine that an actor, however good he may be, can embody what the Buddha represents. But at least this film introduced Buddhism to the West – and that's great. » And he concludes with a smile: “Do you know that to counterbalance the film Kundun, which was a worldwide success, the Chinese made their own version of Kundun, which was so bad that even Chinese audiences didn't like it? ""

"I read the script and liked its simplicity, the childlike nature of it, that it wasn't a treatise on Buddhism or a historical epic in the usual sense. It's just too much to know about Tibet and China and their relationship over the past fifteen hundred years. That was all incidental. What you really dealt with was the child and the child becoming a young boy and the boy becoming a young man —his spiritual upbringing, and this incredible responsibility which he inherits and how he deals with it on the basis of nonviolence. And the concept of him escaping and taking Tibetan culture and religion with him to the rest of the world."

"I will liberate those not liberated. I will release those not released. I will relieve those unrelieved, and set living beings in nirvana. ... Thus by the virtue that has collected through all that I have done may the pain of every living creature be completely cleared away."

"They have taken away our silence."

"[to himself] I've put my future in the hands of a vegetable."

"Claire Timkin: Mr. Richards, this store has never been more successful, and it's all due to Jonathan Switcher. I don't care if he puts a rubber glove on his head and runs naked around the store screaming: "Hi, I'm a squid!""

"Roxie Shield: [notices Jonathan with Emmy, suddenly surprised] Jonathan, you're riding around town with a mannequin on the back of your motorcycle! What is wrong with this picture?!"

"Captain Felix Maxwell: [after Emmy, as a mannequin, has flipped off him and Mr. Richards] Enough of this surveillance crap! Captain Felix Maxwell takes this from no mannequin!"

"Jonathan Switcher loved talking to his work, but he never expected it to talk back. Now his life's heading in a different direction."

"Sometimes life is strange and wonderful... he's strange and she's wonderful. She may be a mannequin, but he's no dummy."

"Just because Jonathan Switcher has fallen in love with a piece of wood, it doesn't make him a dummy."

"Some guys have all the luck!"

"When she comes to life, anything can happen!"

"Mother, there's got to be a better way. Please, gods. Please help me find it."

"[introducing herself] My name is Ema Hesire, but you can call me Emmy."

"[to Jonathan, coming to life] When you were making me, didn't you feel a certain inspiration? Almost like your hands were moved by force not of this world? You made this body so that I could come to life!"

"Tonight, we're gonna do something special, something that this store has never seen before!"

"You've got good hands. I liked the way they felt when you were putting me together."

"[looking at a stereo system playing] Where do they hide all the musicians?"

"[to his boss] I'm fired, pick up my paycheck on the way out, never come back..."

"[seeing Mannequin Emmy in a store window] It's you! I wanted to take you home, but they wouldn't let me. You know you're the first thing I've created in a really long time that made me feel like an artist."

"I must be losing my mind. I guess all artists fall in love with their work, but you just seem so special."

"[on the phone] Mom, lemme ask you, did I ever do anything really strange as a child? Is there any history of insanity in the family?"

"Why don't we stick to good old-fashioned hand tools for the time being, okay?"

"I'm not the same guy I used to be. I finally found a place where I belong."

"[introducing himself] Hollywood. Hollywood Montrose. Ooh! Doesn't it just sing!"

"[to Jonathan] At least, she'll never tell you that your hips are too fat."

"Diets don't work! It's those jelly doughnuts. They call to me in the middle of the night: "Hollywood! Hollywood! Come and get me, Hollywood!" I can't stay away from them. It's like you and women's dressing rooms."

"Rumor Control has it that the board wants to fire your little behind. You let me in there at those so-and-sos. I'll straighten them out, tout de suite. How can they think of firing you?"

"It's obvious to this country girl that you're an A-number one creative freak. Imagine pretending you're a stock boy when you're a major artiste. I am so jealous."