Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978 - Movie Quotes

Dr. David Kibner We came here from a dying world. We drift through the universe, from planet to planet, pushed on by the solar winds. We adapt and we survive. The function of life is survival.

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Matthew Bennell [dials his phone] I'll get the police.

Telephone Operator [voice] Police.

Matthew Bennell Officer, I'd like to report four bodies in my backyard.

Telephone Operator Wait right there Mr. Bennell.

Matthew Bennell How do you know my name?

Jack Bellicec [Jack's eyes widen with fear] Hang up, Matthew.

Matthew Bennell [into the phone] I didn't tell you my name.

Jack Bellicec Hang up!

Matthew Bennell [hangs up the phone] I didn't tell them my name!

Nancy Bellicec That's because they're all part of it. They're all pods, all of them!

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Elizabeth Driscoll I have seen these flowers all over. They are growing like parasites on other plants. All of a sudden. Where are they coming from?

Nancy Bellicec Outer space?

Jack Bellicec What are you talking about? A space flower?

Nancy Bellicec Well why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?

Jack Bellicec I've NEVER expected metal ships.

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Mr. Tong No, no... she alright. She betta now. Much betta now.

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Elizabeth Driscoll Yep, Boccardo's pills. He eats it like candy... or used to. Take some.

Matthew Bennell What are they?

Elizabeth Driscoll Speed. They'll keep us awake.

Matthew Bennell How many are you suppose to take?

Elizabeth Driscoll It says take one.

Matthew Bennell Take five.

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Matthew Bennell [Bennell has just removed a small indistinct object from a stock pot with a pair of tweezers] What is that?

Cook A caper.

Matthew Bennell Nope.

Restaurant Owner You presume to tell me what is in the stock?

Matthew Bennell It's a rat turd.

Restaurant Owner A what?

Matthew Bennell A rat turd!

Restaurant Owner [sniffs the "caper"] A caper!

Matthew Bennell A rat turd.

Restaurant Owner [sniffs again, now angry] A CAPER!

Matthew Bennell If it's a caper, eat it.

[the restaurateur sheepishly demurs]

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Dr. David Kibner Face it, Bellicec, you got some friends who enjoy playing practical jokes.

Jack Bellicec I don't have any friends, Dr. Kibner.

Dr. David Kibner Then, some enemies.

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Matthew Bennell [Elizabeth and Matthew are captured by snatchers in the Health Department office. Kibner gives them sedatives, so that they can be snatched while asleep] Listen, we're not the last humans left. There are people who will fight you. They will find out what you're doing here.

Elizabeth Driscoll They'll stop you.

Dr. David Kibner In an hour... you won't want them to. In an hour, you'll be one of us.

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Elizabeth Driscoll Matthew, we'll never be able to stop them!

Matthew Bennell Yes, we will.

Elizabeth Driscoll We can't! Look it, they control the whole city.

Matthew Bennell We'll find a way somehow.

Elizabeth Driscoll Oh, Matthew, I can't go on! I wanna go to sleep. I can't stay awake any more.

Matthew Bennell You have to. You have to stay awake.

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Elizabeth Driscoll I hate you.

Dr. David Kibner There's no need for hate now. Or love.

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Jack Bellicec It's a big conspiracy.

Matthew Bennell What's a conspiracy?

Jack Bellicec Everything.

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Dr. David Kibner Elizabeth, could you please tell me, in your opinion, what is going on?

Elizabeth Driscoll People are being duplicated. And once it happens to you, you're part of this... thing. It almost happened to me!

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Elizabeth Driscoll I keep seeing these people, all recognizing each other. Something is passing between them all, some secret. It's a conspiracy, I know it.

Matthew Bennell There can't be a conspiracy!

Elizabeth Driscoll Matthew, I'm telling you something is going on here.

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Elizabeth Driscoll [Matthew finds that she has fallen asleep and has become a pod] There's nothing to be afraid of. They were right. It's painless. It's good. Come. Sleep. Matthew.

[Matthew begins to back away]

Elizabeth Driscoll Matthew. Matthew!

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Matthew Bennell What is that supposed to be?

Chef It is cervelles en matelote.

Matthew Bennell In English, what would I be eating if I ate that?

Chef Ah. Calves' brain in red wine.

Matthew Bennell Red wine and what else?

Restaurant Owner Mais, c'est impossible. It's impossible. It's a secret, Mr Bennell.

Matthew Bennell You don't have any secrets from the Department of Health, Henri.

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Dr. David Kibner It's like there's some kind of a hallucinatory flu going around. People seem to get over it in a day or two. All I can do is treat the symptoms.

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Jack Bellicec Where's Homer, where's Kazantzakis, where's Jack London?

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Jack Bellicec Here I am, you pod bastards! Hey, pods! Come and get me you scum!

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Matthew Bennell Do you want to go see my friend David Kibner?

Elizabeth Driscoll The psychiatrist?

Matthew Bennell Not like that. Talk to him. He would put things into perspective. -...

Elizabeth Driscoll I'm not crazy.

Matthew Bennell No, no, no. I'm serious. He would eliminate whether Geoffrey was having an affair, or had become gay. Whether he had a social disease, or had become a Republican. All the things that could have happened to have made you feel he had changed.

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Jack Bellicec The rest of the world is trying to change people for to fit the world. I'm trying to change the world to fit people.

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Nancy Bellicec Matthew? Matthew.

Matthew Bennell [turns around and sees Nancy walking towards him. He points at her and screams in the alien scream]

Nancy Bellicec No!

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[while Matthew drives Elizabeth through the city, a crazed man runs up to their car]

Elizabeth Driscoll Look out!

[Matthew slams on the brakes, but the man's head still strikes the already broken windshield. Unfazed, the man immediately proceeds to pound on the windshield for attention]

Matthew Bennell Oh, my God, oh my God! Lock the door! Lock the door!

Running man [panicked shouting] Help! They're coming! They're coming!

Elizabeth Driscoll Maybe we should help him.

Running man Help! Help! They're coming! They're coming! Listen to me! Listen!

Matthew Bennell No, he's smashed out of his skull.

Elizabeth Driscoll He's terrified.

Running man Help me! You're next! Please!

[the man moves to the driver's window]

Running man Please! You're next! We're in danger!

[he tries the door handle, but it's locked]

Running man Please, listen ot me! Something terrible! Please!

[he looks over his shoulder, then back]

Running man You're nex- Here they are!

[he starts to run off, but still shouts at them]

Running man They're already here! Help! You're next! They're coming! They're coming!

[he runs around the corner as a crowd chases him]

Matthew Bennell He must have done something.

[a horn sounds, brakes screech, a thud his heard, and Elizabeth gasps involuntarily]

Matthew Bennell [noting the approaching motorcycle with siren] The policeman will help.

[They make the turn and see a throng of expressionless people standing silently over the man's dead body in the street. The policeman waves them by]

Elizabeth Driscoll Oh, my God! That poor man. What was he talking about?

Matthew Bennell I'll phone a witness report in when I get to the bookstore.

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Nancy Bellicec Did they let you read your poems?

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Jack Bellicec Matthew, do you have a gun?

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Elizabeth Driscoll How are we gonna get out of here?

Matthew Bennell Through the door. Come on.

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Matthew Bennell What's this?

Elizabeth Driscoll Speed, it'll keep us awake.

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Matthew Bennell [getting rid of Jack] There's a woman over there who wants to discuss your book.

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Mr. Tong My wife - sick.

Matthew Bennell What's wrong with her?

Mr. Tong She wrong.

Matthew Bennell She's not right?

Mr. Tong That not my wife.

Matthew Bennell You mean, she's...

Mr. Tong No, no. Different. That not my wife!

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Nancy Bellicec I've been wandering among 'em for hours. They can be fooled.

Matthew Bennell How?

Nancy Bellicec Don't show any emotions. Hide your feelings.

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Elizabeth Driscoll I know this is gonna sound insane.

Matthew Bennell What?

Elizabeth Driscoll Geoffrey is not Geoffrey.

Matthew Bennell How do you know?

Elizabeth Driscoll I know. I mean, on the outside Geoffrey is still Geoffrey, but on the inside - I can tell that there is something different. Something is missing.

Matthew Bennell What?

Elizabeth Driscoll Emotion, feelings. He's just *not* the same person. Really, you know what I mean? I know it sounds crazy.

Matthew Bennell Yeah. I know what you mean, I think.

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Elizabeth Driscoll Do you think it's true that if you think you're losing your mind, then you're not? Well, I hope so.

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Elizabeth Driscoll Matthew, I've lived in this city all my life, but somehow today I felt - everything had changed. People were different. Not just Geoffrey, but everybody. Yesterday it all seemed normal. Today everything seemed the same, but it wasn't. It was a nightmare. It really became frightening. It was like the whole city had changed overnight.

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Matthew Bennell What did the mad dentist do this time?

Elizabeth Driscoll I don't know. He was just weird.

Matthew Bennell He's crazy. All dentists are crazy.

Elizabeth Driscoll Are you late?

Matthew Bennell No.

Elizabeth Driscoll He was weird not the way he usually is.

Matthew Bennell That can only be an improvement.

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Katherine He isn't my husband! It's someone who looks like him. He's an impostor!

Dr. David Kibner Now, Katherine, he's your husband. You know him and I know him.

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Dr. David Kibner I've heard the same damn story this week from six patients. People are changing. They're becoming less human. It's happening all around us.

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Stan Nancy, shut the music off.

Nancy Bellicec It's for the plants, Stan.

Stan Screw the plants. I hate the music.

Nancy Bellicec It's wonderful for my plants. They just love it. Plants have feelings, you know, just like people. It's fascinating. This type of music stimulates the growth of the plants. They've done tons of experiments on it.

Stan Come on, Nancy. Turn the music off.

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Dr. David Kibner It's like there's some kind of hallucinatory flu going around. People get over it in a day or two. All I can do is treat the symptoms.

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Dr. David Kibner You're jumping to a bizarre conclusion. That this man you live with has been replaced by somebody else. Isn't it more likely you want to believe he's changed because you're really looking for an excuse to get out?

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Dr. David Kibner Oh, people, will you please listen to yourselves? Will you listen to what you're saying? I can deal with a body being moved. I can even deal with a body getting up and leaving, but when you start talking about his other body, her other body, I mean, people being duplicated - will you listen to how that sounds.

Elizabeth Driscoll Don't you think we know how insane this sounds! But what do you think we're doing? Do you think we're making it up?

Jack Bellicec Well, what are you having trouble accepting? Do you believe that my body looked like me - and do you believe that her body looked like her?

Elizabeth Driscoll Do you think we've all gone crazy?

Nancy Bellicec You are trying to make us believe that we are seeing things. Why are you trying to do that?

Dr. David Kibner All I'm trying to do is help. You call me in the middle of the night, you ask me to come here and help. That's all I'm trying to do.

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Nancy Bellicec We recommend the 15-minute soak in Calistoga volcanic ash, that's followed by an Aqua-Surge whirlpool dip.

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Jack Bellicec I'm not getting a thing here. Where is the - I'm not getting any news here. Isn't there a 24-hour news? I would think you'd have a very good reception up here on the hill.

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Matthew Bennell Go on. I'll catch up with you. Go on, keep on running! Don't stop! Go on!

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Nancy Bellicec Oh, of course! This is just the same way those rockets landed thousands of years ago, so those spacemen could mate with monkeys and apes and create the human race. It's happening now!

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Dr. David Kibner Don't be trapped by old concepts. You're evolving into a new life form.

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Elizabeth Driscoll But what happens to us?

Dr. David Kibner You'll be born again into an untroubled world, free of anxiety, fear...

Elizabeth Driscoll Wait.

Dr. David Kibner Hate.

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Dr. David Kibner Don't you see? People stepping in and out of relationships too fast because they don't want the responsibility. That's why marriages are going to hell. The whole family unit is shot to hell.

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Nancy Bellicec Mr Gianni, you've been sitting in that mud too long. It is possible to overdo it, you know.

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Nancy Bellicec Here, Sweetie.