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Invasion of the Body Snatchers Movie Quotes

Dr. Miles J. Bennell They're here already! You're next! You're next, You're next...!
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Dr. Miles J. Bennell 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.
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Dr. Hill Get on your radios and sound an all points alarm. Block all highways, stop all traffic, and call every law enforcement agency in the state.
[on phone]
Dr. Hill Operator, get me the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Yes, it's an emergency!
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Ambulance Driver We had to dig him out from under the most peculiar things I ever saw.
Dr. Hill What things?
Ambulance Driver Well, I don't know what they are; I never saw them before. They looked like great big seed pods.
Dr. Hill Where was the truck coming from?
Ambulance Driver Santa Mira.
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Dr. Miles J. Bennell 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.
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Becky Driscoll Is this an example of your bedside manner, doctor?
Dr. Miles J. Bennell No, ma'am. That comes later.
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Becky Driscoll I don't want to live in a world without love or grief or beauty, I'd rather die.
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Dr. Miles J. Bennell This is the oddest thing I've ever heard of. Let's hope we don't catch it. I'd hate to wake up some morning and find out that you weren't you.
Becky Driscoll [laughs] I'm not the high school kid you used to romance, so how can you tell?
Dr. Miles J. Bennell You really want to know?
Becky Driscoll Mmm-hmm.
[Miles kisses Becky]
Dr. Miles J. Bennell Mmmm, you're Becky Driscoll, all right!
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Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman Love, desire, ambition, faith - without them, life's so simple, believe me.
Dr. Miles J. Bennell I don't want any part of it.
Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman You're forgetting something, Miles.
Dr. Miles J. Bennell What's that?
Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman You have no choice.
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Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman 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.
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Stanley Driscoll Is the baby asleep yet, Sally?
Nurse Sally Withers No, but she will be soon. And there'll be no more tears.
Stanley Driscoll Shall I put this in her room?
[referring to the alien seed pod he is carrying]
Nurse Sally Withers Yes, in her playpen.
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Charlie Give up! You can't get away from us! We're not gonna hurt you!
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Charlie [mob chases Miles to the highway] Let him go. Nobody will ever believe him.
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Wilma Lentz There's no emotion. None. Just the pretense of it. The words, the gesture, the tone of voice, everything else is the same, but not the feeling.
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Dr. Miles J. Bennell Even these days, it isn't as easy to go crazy as you might think. But you don't have to be losing your mind to need psychiatric help.
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[from trailer]
Dr. Miles J. Bennell Listen to me! Please listen! If you don't, if you won't, if you fail to understand, then the same incredible terror that's menacing me WILL STRIKE AT YOU!
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Becky Driscoll Miles, why don't you call Danny? Maybe he can help.
Dr. Miles J. Bennell Danny? No. The way he was behaving last night... I'm afraid it's too late to call Danny too.
Becky Driscoll Well, what are you going to do?
Dr. Miles J. Bennell Get help. I hope whatever's taking place is confined to Santa Mira!
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Dr. Miles J. Bennell [Upon learning that Becky is also divorced] Well, I guess that makes us lodge brothers now...
Dr. Miles J. Bennell Except that I'm paying dues while you collect them.
Becky Driscoll [laughing] Oh, Miles!
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Dr. Miles J. Bennell Drugs dull the mind - maybe that's the reason.
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Dr. Miles J. Bennell And so I ran. I ran, I ran, I ran! I ran as little Jimmy Grimaldi ran the other day.
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Dr. Miles J. Bennell [having returned from finding that large numbers of pods are being grown in greenhouses, to Becky who, exhausetd, had fallen asleep in his absence] 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.
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Dr. Miles J. Bennell [cautiously] Who are you?
Dr. Hill I'm Dr. Hill, from the state mental hospita...
Dr. Miles J. Bennell I AM NOT INSANE!
[guards grab him]
Dr. Hill Let him go!
Dr. Miles J. Bennell Listen, Doctor, now you must listen to me, you must understand me, I'm a doctor too, I am not insane! I am NOT insane!
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Dr. Ed Pursey [after Dr. Bennell asks if he knows Becky] Yes, I brought her into the world.
Dr. Miles J. Bennell You did us all a favor.
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Jack Belicec Stop trying to rationalize everything, will ya? Let's face it, we have a mystery on our hands!
Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman Sure you have. A real one! Whose body was it, and where is it now? A completely normal mystery. Whatever it is, it's well within the bounds of human experience, and I don't think you ought to make any more of it.
Dr. Miles J. Bennell Look, I wouldn't if I hadn't looked in Becky's cellar! How do you explain away the body I saw there?
Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman I don't think you saw one there.
Dr. Miles J. Bennell You don't think I saw one here, either?
Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman I know you did because three others saw it too.
Dr. Miles J. Bennell But I dreamed up the second one?
Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman Doctors can have hallucinations too.
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Dr. Harvey Bassett Oh, Doctor Hill.
Dr. Hill Dr. Bassett. Well, where's the patient?
Dr. Harvey Bassett I hated to drag you out of bed at this time of night.
Dr. Miles J. Bennell [screaming from behind door] Will you let me go while there's still time?
Dr. Harvey Bassett [to Dr. Hill] You'll soon see why I did.
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Dr. Miles J. Bennell Will you tell these people I'm not crazy?
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Dr. Miles J. Bennell [grabs Dr. Bassett] Doctor! Will you tell these fools I am NOT crazy? Make them listen to me while there's still time!
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Dr. Miles J. Bennell Well, it started, for me it started last Thursday. In response to an urgent message from my nurse I'd 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.
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Dr. Miles J. Bennell What'll you have? We're pushing appendectomies this week.
[Becky laughs]
Dr. Miles J. Bennell I don't know, maybe I clown around too much, pretty soon my patients won't trust me to prescribe aspirin for them. Seriously, what's the trouble?
Becky Driscoll It's my cousin.
Dr. Miles J. Bennell Wilma? What's the matter?
Becky Driscoll She has a, well I guess you call it a delusion, you know her uncle, Uncle Ira?
Dr. Miles J. Bennell Sure, I'm his doctor.
Becky Driscoll Well Miles, she's got herself thinking he isn't her uncle.
Dr. Miles J. Bennell How do you mean? That they're not really related?
Becky Driscoll No, she thinks he's an impostor or something, someone who only looks like Ira.
Dr. Miles J. Bennell Have you seen him?
Becky Driscoll I just came from there.
Dr. Miles J. Bennell Well, is he Uncle Ira or isn't he Uncle Ira?
Becky Driscoll Of course he is, I told Wilma that but it was no use.
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Dr. Miles J. Bennell Isn't this Jimmy Grimaldi?
Grandma Grimaldi Yes, Doctor, can I talk to you a moment?
[to Jimmy]
Dr. Miles J. Bennell You know I almost ran you down this morning? You've got to be more careful.
[Jimmy breaks away and runs, Sally catches him]
Dr. Miles J. Bennell Hey! Hey hey hey hey hey, slow down now, school isn't as bad as all that.
Grandma Grimaldi School isn't what upsets him, it's my daughter-in-law. He's got the craziest idea she isn't his mother.
Jimmy Grimaldi [in hysterics] She isn't! She isn't! Don't let her get me!
Nurse Sally Withers No one's going to get you, Jimmy.
[Jimmy sobs hysterically]
Dr. Miles J. Bennell How long has this been going on?
Grandma Grimaldi An hour ago I found him hiding in the cellar having hysterics, he wouldn't tell me anything until I started to phone his mother. That's when he said Anna wasn't his mother.
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Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman You say it as if it were terrible. Believe me, it isn't. You've been in love before. It didn't last. It never does. Love, desire, ambition, faith... Without them, life is so simple. Believe me.
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Becky Driscoll I can't do it, I can't, can't, can't go on.
Dr. Miles J. Bennell Yes, you can.
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Becky They're like huge seed pods!
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Dr. Miles J. Bennell We're not the last human beings left. They'll find out about you. They'll destroy you, somehow.
Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman [smirks] By tomorrow you won't want them to. By tomorrow you'll be one of us.
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Dr. Miles J. Bennell [after he is unable to convince Dr. Kauffman] Well. You win. Pick up the marbles.
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Dr. Miles J. Bennell A doctor's wife needs the understanding of an Einstein and the patience of a saint.
Becky Driscoll And love?
Dr. Miles J. Bennell I wouldn't know about that. I'm just a general practitioner. Love is handled by the specialists.
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Dr. Miles J. Bennell I know a bank where the wild thyme blows.
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Dr. Miles J. Bennell I know a bank where the wild thyme grows
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Actors Who Said Iconic Phrases
Whit Bissell
Robert Osterloh
Larry Gates
Kenneth Patterson
Sam Peckinpah
Virginia Christine
Everett Glass
King Donovan
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