Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 film)

"[voiceover] It started — for me, it started — last Thursday, in response to an urgent message from my nurse, I hurried home from a medical convention I'd been attending. At first glance, everything looked the same. It wasn't. Something evil had taken possession of the town."

"[discovering that Becky is also divorced] Well, I guess that makes us lodge brothers now...except that I'm paying dues while you collect them."

"[voiceover] Sick people who couldn't wait to see me, then suddenly were perfectly all right. A boy who said his mother wasn't his mother. A woman who said her uncle wasn't her uncle."

"[voiceover] Driving home, I had a lot of questions and no answers. How could Jimmy and Wilma seem so normal now? Surely I had done nothing to cure them. Maybe they wanted me to feel secure, but why?"

"In my practice, I've seen how people have allowed their humanity to drain away. Only it happened slowly instead of all at once. They didn't seem to mind... All of us — a little bit — we harden our hearts, grow callous. Only when we have to fight to stay human do we realize how precious it is to us, how dear."

"Keep your eyes a little wide and blank. Show no interest or excitement."

"I've been afraid a lot of times in my life. But I didn't know the real meaning of fear until... until I had kissed Becky. A moment's sleep, and the girl I loved was an inhuman enemy bent on my destruction. That moment's sleep was death to Becky's soul, just as it had been for Jack and Teddy and Dan Kauffman and all the rest. Their bodies were now hosts harboring an alien form of life; a cosmic form, which to survive must take over every human man! So I ran! I ran! I ran as little Jimmy Grimaldi had run the other day. My only hope was to get away from Santa Mira, to get to the highway, to warn the others of what was happening!"

"Help! Wait! Stop! Stop and listen to me!... These people who're coming after me are not human!"

"Look, you fools, you're in danger! Can't you see?! They're after you! They're after all of us! Our wives, our children, everyone! THEY'RE HERE, ALREADY! YOU'RE NEXT!"

"Don't just sit there measuring me for a straightjacket, do something! Call for help! Oh, what's the use?!"

"Doctor, will you tell these fools? I'm not crazy. Make them listen to me before it's too late."

"You know her uncle, Uncle Ira?...Well Miles, she's got herself thinking he isn't her uncle. She thinks he's an imposter or something."

"They're like huge seed pods!"

"The mind is a strange and wonderful thing. I'm not sure it will ever be able to figure itself out. Everything else maybe, from the atom to the universe. Everything except itself."

"[describing a body he found] It's like the first impression that's stamped on a coin. It isn't finished."

"They come from another world!"

"YOU'RE NEXT!"

"There was nothing to hold onto — except each other."

"Incredible! Invisible! Insatiable!"

"Kevin McCarthy - Dr. Miles J. Bennell"

"Dana Wynter - Becky Driscoll"

"Larry Gates - Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman"

"King Donovan - Jack Belicec"

"Carolyn Jones - Theodora 'Teddy' Belicec"

"Jean Willes - Nurse Sally Withers"

"Ralph Dumke - Police Chief Nick Grivett"

"Virginia Christine - Wilma Lentz"

"Tom Fadden - Uncle Ira Lentz"

"Kenneth Patterson - Stanley Driscoll"