Twelve Monkeys Movie Quotes
Jeffrey Goines
There's no right, there's no wrong, there's only popular opinion.
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Jeffrey Goines
There's the television. It's all right there - all right there. Look, listen, kneel, pray. Commercials! We're not productive anymore. We don't make things anymore. It's all automated. What are we *for* then? We're consumers, Jim. Yeah. Okay, okay. Buy a lot of stuff, you're a good citizen. But if you don't buy a lot of stuff, if you don't, what are you then, I ask you? What? Mentally *ill*. Fact, Jim, fact - if you don't buy things - toilet paper, new cars, computerized yo-yos, electrically-operated sexual devices, stereo systems with brain-implanted headphones, screwdrivers with miniature built-in radar devices, voice-activated computers...
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James Cole
All I see are dead people.
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Dr. Owen Fletcher
Kathryn, you're a rational person. You're a trained psychiatrist. You know the difference between what's real and what's not.
Dr. Kathryn Railly
And what we say is the truth is what everybody accepts. Right, Owen? I mean, psychiatry: it's the latest religion. We decide what's right and wrong. We decide who's crazy or not. I'm in trouble here. I'm losing my faith.
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James Cole
I am insane. And you are my insanity.
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[James Cole found a spider and knows he's got to take it with him, let's it crawl over his hand while deciding what to do with it]
Jeffrey Goines
You know what crazy is? Crazy is majority rules. Take germs, for example.
James Cole
Germs?
Jeffrey Goines
Uh-huh. In the eighteenth century, no such thing, nada, nothing. No one ever imagined such a thing. No sane person, anyway. Ah! Ah! Along comes this doctor, uh, uh, uh, Semmelweis, Semmelweis. Semmelweis comes along. He's trying to convince people, well, other doctors mainly, that's there's these teeny tiny invisible bad things called germs that get into your body and make you sick. Ah? He's trying to get doctors to wash their hands. What is this guy? Crazy? Teeny, tiny, invisible? What do you call it? Uh-uh, germs? Huh? What? Now, cut to the 20th century. Last week, as a matter of fact, before I got dragged into this hellhole. I go in to order a burger in this fast food joint, and the guy drops it on the floor. Jim, he picks it up, he wipes it off, he hands it to me like it's all OK. "What about the germs?" I say. He says, "I don't believe in germs. Germs is just a plot they made up so they can sell you disinfectants and soaps." Now he's crazy, right? See?
[James Cole finally takes the spider into his mouth, Jeffrey Goines is either too deep into his talk or unimpressed by this and continues his talk as if nothing happened]
Jeffrey Goines
Ah! Ah! There's no right, there's no wrong, there's only popular opinion. You... you... you believe in germs, right?
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Jeffrey Goines
All the doors are locked too. They're protecting the people on the outside from us from the people on the outside who are as crazy as us.
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Dr. Kathryn Railly
Cassandra in Greek legend, you recall, was condemned to know the future but to be disbelieved when she foretold it. Hence the agony of foreknowledge combined with the impotence to do anything about it.
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Wallace
Hey... is that the cops? I'm an innocent victim in here! I was attacked by a coked up whore and a - a fuckin' crazy dentist!
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James Cole
Oh, wouldn't it be great if I *was* crazy? Then the world would be okay.
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L.J. Washington
I don't really come from outer space.
Jeffrey Goines
Oh. L. J. Washington. He doesn't really come from outer space.
L.J. Washington
Don't mock me my friend. It's a condition of mental divergence. I find myself on the planet Ogo, part of an intellectual elite, preparing to subjugate the barbarian hordes on Pluto. But even though this is a totally convincing reality for me in every way, nevertheless Ogo is actually a construct of my psyche. I am mentally divergent, in that I am escaping certain unnamed realities that plague my life here. When I stop going there, I will be well. Are you also divergent, friend?
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[first lines]
Title Card
...5 billion people will die from a deadly virus in 1997... /... The survivors will abandon the surface of he planet... /... Once again the animals will rule the world... / - Excerpts from interview with clinically diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, April 12, 1990 - Baltimore County Hospital.
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James Cole
Look at them. They're just asking for it. Maybe the human race deserves to be wiped out.
Jeffrey Goines
Wiping out the human race? That's a great idea. That's great. But more of a long-term thing. I mean, first we have to focus on more immediate goals.
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James Cole
I'm here about some monkeys.
Jeffrey Goines
Monkeys?
James Cole
Monkeys. Yes. Twelve of them.
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James Cole
I want the future to be unknown. I want to become a whole person.
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[last lines]
Astrophysicist
You might say that *we're* the next endangered species - human beings.
Dr. Peters
I think you're right ma'am. I think you've hit the nail on the head.
Astrophysicist
Jones is my name.
[Shakes his hand]
Astrophysicist
I'm in insurance.
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[first lines]
James Cole
Jose - psst! Jose, what's going on?
Jose
Bad news, man
James Cole
Volunteers?
Jose
Yeah. And they said your name.
[pause]
Jose
Hey, maybe they'll give you a pardon, man.
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Jeffrey Goines
There was this guy, and he was always requesting shows that had already played. Yes. No. You have to tell her before. He couldn't quite grasp the idea that the charge nurse couldn't make it be yesterday. She couldn't turn back time, thank you, Einstein! Now, *he* was nuts! *He* was a fruitcake, Jim!
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Jeffrey Goines
Sorry. Uh, sorry. I, I, I got a little agitated. The thought of, uh, escape had crossed my mind, and then suddenly - suddenly - suddenly I felt like bending the fucking bars back, and ripping out the goddamn window frames and eating them - yes, *eating* them! Leaping, leaping, leaping! Colonics for everyone! All right! You dumbasses. I'm a mental patient. I'm *supposed* to act out! Wait'll you morons find out who I am! My father's gonna be really upset, and when my father gets upset, the ground SHAKES! My father is God! I worship my father!
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Jeffrey Goines
When I was institutionalized, my brain was studied exhaustively in the guise of mental health. I was interrogated, I was x-rayed, I was examined *thoroughly*.
[turns head and coughs]
Jeffrey Goines
Then, they took everything about me and put it into a computer where they created this model of my mind. Yes! Using that model they managed to generate every thought I could possibly have in the next, say, 10 years. Which they then filtered through a probability matrix of some kind to - to determine everything I was gonna do in that period. So you see, she knew I was gonna lead the Army of the Twelve Monkeys into the pages of history before it ever even occurred to me. She knows everything I'm ever gonna do before I know it myself. How's that?
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Dr. Kathryn Railly
Wh-wh-where are we going?
James Cole
Philadelphia.
Dr. Kathryn Railly
That's more than a hundred miles! We can't...
James Cole
That's why I can't walk there.
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James Cole
She's not honey babe, she's a doctor. My psychiatrist. Understand?
Charlie the Hotel Clerk
Whatever gets it up for you, Jack.
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Jeffrey Goines
Who cares what psychiatrists write on walls?
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James Cole
This is a place for crazy people. I'm not crazy.
Dr. Owen Fletcher
We don't use the term "crazy," Mr. Cole.
James Cole
Well, you've got some real nuts here.
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Louie
Where'd they send you?
James Cole
1990.
Louie
'90! How was it? Good drugs? Lots of pussy? Hey, Bob, you do the job? You find out the big info? Army of the 12 Monkeys?
James Cole
I was supposed to be 1996.
Louie
Science ain't an exact science with these clowns but, they're getting better. You're lucky you didn't end up in ancient Egypt!
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Dr. Kathryn Railly
What is the matter with your leg?
James Cole
Got shot.
Dr. Kathryn Railly
Shot! Who shot you?
James Cole
I don't know. It was some kind of war. Never mind. You wouldn't believe me anyway.
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Jeffrey Goines
...and if you forget one thing, I will have you shaved, sterilized, and destroyed!
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James Cole
I remember being afraid for that little boy. All alone, down that well, not knowing if anybody's going to get him out. First time I was ever really afraid when I was a kid.
Dr. Kathryn Railly
What do you mean, when you were a kid?
James Cole
Never mind. It's just a prank, a hoax. That boy's hiding in a barn.
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Jeffrey Goines
Telephone call? Telephone call? That's communication with the outside world. Doctor's *discretion*. Nuh-uh. Look, hey - all of these nuts could just make phone calls, they could spread insanity, oozing through telephone cables, oozing into the ears of all these poor sane people, infecting them. Wackos everywhere, plague of madness.
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James Cole
I'm looking for the Army of the Twelve Monkeys.
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Dr. Kathryn Railly
If you don't turn yourself over to the police, they're going to, to kill you, then they're going to shoot me too because I'm going to be the accessory to murder.
James Cole
You're all gonna die.
Dr. Kathryn Railly
Nobody is going to die! You're not going to save the world, okay? You're delusional. You've made all this up out of bits and pieces in your head.
James Cole
No.
Dr. Kathryn Railly
Yes! Let me give you an example. You know Jeffrey Goines. You were both patients at County Hospital at the same time.
James Cole
Jeffrey Goines was a fruitcake!
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Dr. Kathryn Railly
You had a bullet from World War I in your leg, James! How did it get there?
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Dr. Leland Goines
My God, Jeffrey. You truly are insane.
Jeffrey Goines
No I'm not.
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Jeffrey Goines
You are a total nutcase, completely deranged, delusional, paranoid. Your thought process is all fucked up. Your information train is jammed, man!
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Jeffrey Goines
My father's going to be very upset when he hears about this! And when my father gets upset, the ground SHAKES!
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Dr. Peters
I think, Dr. Railly, you have given your alarmists a bad name. Surely there is very real and very convincing data that the planet cannot survive the excesses of the human race.
Dr. Kathryn Railly
This is true.
Dr. Peters
Proliferation of atomic devices, uncontrolled breeding habits, the rape of the environment, the pollution of land, sea, and air. In this context, isn't it obvious that Chicken Little represents the sane vision and that Homo Sapiens' motto, Let's go shopping! Is the cry of the true lunatic?
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Dr. Kathryn Railly
[Kathryn has just sent a voice message to the phone number James had]
James! It's okay! We're crazy! I left a message to the carpet cleaning company saying, 'Feel free to conduct an investigation at second avenue at the secret headquarters of the twelve monkeys. There the ones who are going to do it. I can't do anything more now, I have to go, have a Merry Christmas.'
James Cole
[He mirrors what she says]
... secret headquarters of the twelve monkeys. There the ones who are going to do it. I can't do anything more now, I have to go, have a Merry Christmas.
Dr. Kathryn Railly
[Confused, as she gestures to the phone booths]
T-there's no way you could have heard me f...
James Cole
They got your message.
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James Cole
[In 1990, James is being interviewed by a panel of mental health doctors and trying to explain the situation]
1996 is the past too, listen to me!
[the panel of doctors look at James with skeptical expressions]
James Cole
What I...
[James realizing this isn't going very well]
James Cole
... what I need to do is make a telephone call. I can straighten this all out if I can make a telephone call.
Dr. Owen Fletcher
[Very skeptical]
Who would you call? Who would straighten everything out?
James Cole
The scientists. They'll want to know they sent me to the wrong time.
[Dr Fletcher just nods]
James Cole
I can leave a voice mail message that they monitor from the present.
[Panel has mixed facial expressions]
James Cole
Can I just make one telephone call please?
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James Cole
So now it's not about the virus at all. It's about following orders, doing what you're told.
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Geologist
[after James Cole informs the scientists that he was sent to the wrong year]
What did you do with you time Cole? Did you waste it on drugs? Women?
James Cole
They forced me to take drugs!
Microbiologist
Forced you? Why would someone force you to take drugs?
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Jeffrey Goines
My father is God! I worship my father!
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[while driving, they hear a news report about a police mobilization]
James Cole
No. I thought it was about us. I thought maybe they'd captured us and arrested me.
[Kathryn looks at him and he gives a small smile]
James Cole
Just a joke.
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Jeffrey Goines
Why don't we forget about my psychiatrist and concentrate on the task at hand?
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Dr. Kathryn Railly
He's sick. He thinks he comes from the future. He's been living in a carefully constructed fantasy world and that world is starting to disintegrate. He needs help!
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Dr. Peters
It doesn't even have an odor.
[holds the open vial under the nose of the officer...]
Airport Security No. 1
That's not necessary, Sir...
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Dr. Kathryn Railly
In a few weeks, it will have started or it won't. If there're still football games and traffic jams and TV shows and armed robberies, we're going to be so glad, we'll be thrilled to see the police.
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Jeffrey Goines
Do you realize where he thinks he comes from?
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Raspy Voice
Why would I pull out my teeth, Bob? That's a no no.
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Poet
Yet among the myriad microwaves, the infrared messages, the gigabytes of ones and zeros we find words, bytesized now, tying you even in silence, lurking in some vague electricity, but if we but listen we hear the solitary voice of that poet telling us
[beep beep beep - Railly's pager]
Poet
, "Yesterday this day's madness did prepare, tomorrow's silence, triumph of despair. Drink! For you know not from whenst you came nor why. Drink! For you know not why you go nor where."
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James Cole
I love this air. Oh, such wonderful air!
Dr. Kathryn Railly
What is wonderful about the air, James?
James Cole
Very fresh. No germs.
Dr. Kathryn Railly
Why...
[giggles]
Dr. Kathryn Railly
why do you think there aren't any germs in the air?
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James Cole
Is this real or one of my delusions?
Dr. Kathryn Railly
This is definitely real.
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female voice
[over PA] Today at 07:00 there are socialization classes according to paragraphs 23A and 96A of chapter six of the permanent emergency decree.
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bumper sticker
[on the car Cole and Railly have stolen] LOVE ANIMALS, DON'T EAT THEM!
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Dr. Leland Goines
Jeffrey. Jeffrey. I know that's you. I recognize your voice. I also know all about your warped little plan. That lady, your psychiatrist... She told me. I didn't believe her. It just seemed too crazy, even for you. But just in case, I took steps to make sure you couldn't go through with it. I don't have the code anymore, Jeffrey. I don't have access to the virus. I took myself out of the loop. Too late. Too late.
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