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Name of the Rose Film Quotes

Sean Connery as William of Baskerville in The Name of the Rose (1986)

 
 
William of Baskerville: Adso, if I knew the answers to everything, I would be teaching theology in Paris.
The Abbot: We found the body after a hailstorm, horribly mutilated, dashed against a rock at the foot of the tower, under a window which was, uh, how shall I say this? I trust…
William of Baskerville: Which was found closed.
The Abbot: Somebody told you?
William of Baskerville: Had it been found open, you would not have spoken of spiritual unease – you would have concluded that he’d fallen.
The Abbot: Brother William, the window cannot be opened! Nor was the glass shattered, nor is there any access to the roof above.
William of Baskerville: My dear Adso, we must not allow ourselves to be influenced by irrational rumors of the Antichrist, hmm? Let us instead exercise our brains and try to solve this tantalizing conundrum.
Jorge de Burgos: Laughter is a devilish wind which deforms, uh, the lineaments of the face and makes men look like monkeys.
William of Baskerville: Monkeys do not laugh. Laughter is particular to men.
Jorge de Burgos: As is sin. Christ never laughed.
William of Baskerville: Can we be so sure?
Jorge de Burgos: There is nothing in the Scriptures to say that he did.
William of Baskerville: And there’s nothing in the Scriptures to say that he did not. Why, even the saints have been known to employ comedy, to ridicule the enemies of the Faith. For example, when the pagans plunged St. Maurice into the boiling water, he complained that his bath was too cold. The Sultan put his hand in… scalded himself.
[after seeing a rat while searching for a secret route to the library]
William of Baskerville: The rats love parchment even more than scholars do. Let’s follow him!
William of Baskerville: She is already burnt flesh, Adso. Bernardo Gui has spoken: she is a witch.
Adso of Melk: But that’s not true, and you know it!
William of Baskerville: I know. I also know that anyone who disputes the verdict of an Inquisitor is guilty of heresy.
William of Baskerville: But what is so alarming about laughter?
Jorge de Burgos: Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith, because without fear of the Devil there is no more need of God.
William of Baskerville: I too was an Inquisitor, but in the early days, when the Inquisition strove to guide, not to punish. And once I had to preside at a trial of a man whose only crime was to have translated a Greek book that conflicted with the Holy Scriptures. Bernardo Gui wanted him condemned as a heretic; I – acquitted the man. Then Bernardo Gui accused *me* of heresy, for having defended him. I appealed to the Pope. I – I was put in prison, tortured, and… and I recanted.
Adso of Melk: What happened then?
William of Baskerville: The man was burned at the stake and I am still alive.
William of Baskerville: The only evidence I see of the antichrist here is everyones desire to see him at work.
Adso of Melk: Do you think that this is a place abandoned by God?
William of Baskerville: Have you ever known a place where God WOULD have felt at home?
Adso of Melk: And what was the word you both kept mentioning?
William of Baskerville: Penitenziagite.
Adso of Melk: What does it mean?
William of Baskerville: It means that the hunchback undoubtedly was once a heretic. Penitenziagite was a rallying cry of the dolcinites.
Adso of Melk: Dolcinites? Who were they, master?
William of Baskerville: Those who believed in the poverty of Christ.
Adso of Melk: So do we Franciscans.
William of Baskerville: But they also declared that everyone must be poor, so they slaughtered the rich. Ha! You see, Adso, the step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief.
Adso of Melk: [looking at the Hunchback] Well, then, could he not have killed the translator?
William of Baskerville: No. No, fat bishops and wealthy priests were more to the taste of the dolcinites, hardly a specialist of Aristotle.
William of Baskerville: We are very fortunate to have such snowy ground here. It is often the parchment on which the criminal unwittingly writes his autograph. Now, what do you read from these footprints here?
Adso of Melk: Master? Have you ever been in love?
William of Baskerville: In love? Yeah, many times.
Adso of Melk: You were?
William of Baskerville: Yes, of course. Aristotle, Ovid, Vergil…
Adso of Melk: No, no, no. I meant with a…
William of Baskerville: Oh. Ah. Are you not confusing love with lust?
Adso of Melk: Am I? I don’t know. I want only her own good. I want her to be happy. I want to save her from her poverty.
William of Baskerville: Oh, dear.
Adso of Melk: Why “oh dear”?
William of Baskerville: You *are* in love.
Adso of Melk: Is that bad?
William of Baskerville: For a monk, it does present certain problems.
Adso of Melk: But doesn’t St. Thomas Aquinas praise love above all other virtues?
William of Baskerville: Yes, the love of God, Adso. The love of God.
Adso of Melk: Oh… And the love of woman?
William of Baskerville: Of woman? Thomas Aquinas knew precious little, but the scriptures are very clear. Proverbs warns us, “Woman takes possession of a man’s precious soul”, while Ecclesiastes tells us, “More bitter than death is woman”.
Adso of Melk: Yes, but what do you think, Master?
William of Baskerville: Well, of course I don’t have the benefit of your experience, but I find it difficult to convince myself that God would have introduced such a foul being into creation without endowing her with *some* virtures. Hmm? How peaceful life would be without love, Adso, how safe, how tranquil, and how dull.
William of Baskerville: [after finding the secret room of books in the tower] How many more rooms? Ah! How many more books? No one should be forbidden to consult these books freely.
Adso of Melk: Perhaps they are thought to be too precious, too fragile.
William of Baskerville: No, it’s not that, Adso. It’s because they often contain a wisdom that is different from ours and ideas that could encourage us to doubt the infallability of the word of God… And doubt, Adso, is the enemy of faith.
William of Baskerville: My venerable brother, there are many books that speak of comedy. Why does this one fill you with such fear?
Jorge de Burgos: Because it’s by Aristotle.
William of Baskerville: [Chasing after Jorge who runs with the Second Book of Poetics by Aristotle intending to destroy it] But what is so alarming about laughter?
Jorge de Burgos: Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith because without fear of the Devil, there is no more need of God.
William of Baskerville: But you will not eliminate laughter by eliminating that book.
Jorge de Burgos: No, to be sure, laughter will remain the common man’s recreation. But what will happen if, because of this book, learned men were to pronounce it admissable to laugh at everything? Can we laugh at God? The world would relapse into chaos! Therefore, I seal that which was not to be said.
[he eats the poisoned pages of the book]
Jorge de Burgos: In the tomb I become.
[he tosses the book at the candle, which ignites a fire that destroys all the books in the abbey tower]
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Finding Forrester Film Quotes

Sean Connery as William Forrester in Finding Forrester (2000)


Forrester: Bolt the door, if you’re coming in.

Jamal: Women will sleep with you if you write a book?
Forrester: Women will sleep with you if you write a bad book.

Forrester: Whatever we write in this apartment stays in this apartment.

Forrester: The key to a woman’s heart is an unexpected gift at an unexpected time.

Forrester: You’re the man now, dog!

Forrester: *Punch* the keys, for God’s sake!

Jamal: I was wondering if I could bring you more of my stuff. Or maybe I could write something else.
Forrester: How about 5,000 words on why you should stay the fuck out of my house!

Forrester: In some cultures it’s good luck to be wearing something inside-out.
Jamal: And you believe that?
Forrester: No, but it’s like praying: what do you risk?

Forrester: No thinking – that comes later. You must write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing is… to write, not to think!

Forrester: Let me ask you a question… those two foul shots at the end of the game… did you miss them, or did you *miss* them?
Jamal: Not exactly a soup question, now is it?

Forrester: My name is William Forrester.
[points to ‘writers wall of fame’ pictures]
Forrester: I’m that one.

Jamal: Man, fuck you William! You wanna know what the real bullshit is? How about you let me take on this one cause you’re too damn scared to walk out that door and do something for somebody else. You’re too damn scared, man! That’s the only reason.
Forrester: [throws glass against wall and breaks it] You don’t know a goddamn thing about reason; There are no reasons! Reasons why some of us live and why some of us don’t! Fortunately for you, you have decades to figure that out!
Jamal: Yeah, and what’s the reason in having a file cabinet full of writing and keeping the shit locked so nobody can read it? What is that man? I’m done with this shit.

Forrester: I have an homeland that I have not seen for too long.
Jamal: Oh, you mean Ireland?
Forrester: Scotland, for God’s sakes!
Jamal: I’m messing with you, man.

Forrester: Writers write things to give readers something to read.

Jamal: Did you ever enter a writin’ contest?
Forrester: Yeah, once.
Jamal: Did you win?
Forrester: Well of course I won!
Jamal: You win like money or somethin’?
Forrester: No.
Jamal: Well, whadchu win?
Forrester: The Pulitzer.

Jamal: I ain’t seen nothing change.
Forrester: You ain’t seen nothing? What the hell kind of sentence is that?

Forrester: What’s your name?
Jamal: Jamal Wallace.
Forrester: Sounds like some kind of marmalade. How old are you?
Jamal: I’m sixteen.
Forrester: Sixteen? And you’re black. It’s remarkable.
Jamal: “Remarkable”? It’s remarkable that I’m black? What does me being black have to do with anything?
Forrester: You don’t know what to do right now, do you? If you say what you really want to, I may not read any more of this. But if you let me run you down with this racist bullshit… what does that make you?
Jamal: I’m not playing this game, man.
Forrester: I say you are playing it. An expression is worth a thousand words. Perhaps in your case, just two.

Jamal: Opens the letter
Forrester: Dear Jamal, Someone I once knew wrote that we walk away from our dreams afraid that we may fail or worse yet, afraid we may succeed. You need to know that while I knew so very early that you would realize your dreams, I never imagined I would once again realize my own. Seasons change young man, and while I may have waited until the winter of my life, to see the things I’ve seen this past year, there is no doubt I would have waited too long, had it not been for you.
 
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The Avengers Film Quotes

Sean Connery as Sir Augustus de Wynter in The Avengers (1998)


Sir August de Wynter: Take India. You can have a good 10 inches overnight, there.

Sir August de Wynter: Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable.

Sir August de Wynter: “John Steed.” What a horse’s arse of a name.

Sir August de Winter: You will buy your weather from me! And by God you’ll pay for it.

Sir August de Wynter: A man with an umbrella is a man praying for rain.
John Steed: And a man without one is a fool.

Sir August de Wynter: Weather is no longer in God’s hands but in mine.

Sir August de Wynter: Rain or shine, all is mine!

Sir August de Wynter: [addressing the world leaders] Now is the winter of your discontent!
 
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Outland Film Quotes

Sean Connery as Marshall William T. O’Neil in Outland (1981)

Marshal William T. O’Neil: Are you Dr. Lazarus?
Lazarus: Yes. Take two aspirin and call me in the morning. That’s a doctor joke.

Marshal William T. O’Neil: I’d like a report of all the incidents in the last six months. I’d like it soon, or I might just kick your nasty ass all over this room. That’s a marshal joke.

Rudd: *You’re* supposed to protect *us*! You’re the police. It’s your *job*! Where are your men?
Marshal William T. O’Neil: My men? My men are shit.

Marshal William T. O’Neil: How deep are you in?
Security Sergeant Montone: Not too deep… I’m paid to look the other way.
Marshal William T. O’Neil: In other words you don’t do anything bad, you just don’t do anything good, do you?

Lazarus: Your wife is one stupid lady. You wanna go and get drunk?
Marshal William T. O’Neil: Yes…
Lazarus: At least you have SOME sense left.

Station Manager Sheppard: If you’re looking for money, you’re smarter than you look. If you’re not, you’re a lot dumber.
Marshal William T. O’Neil: Then I’m probably a lot dumber.

Marshal William T. O’Neil: Hey, Sheppard. Guess what I just found in a meat locker.
Station Manager Sheppard: Y’know, I have a feeling that you’ll tell me even if I don’t guess.
Marshal William T. O’Neil: 250 pounds of hamburger named Yario that works for you. I also found your shipment of PDE. So, I threw the hamburger in the jail, and the PDE in the toilet. Or was it the other way around? I can’t remember now.

Station Manager Sheppard: Did you really destroy the ENTIRE shipment?
Marshal William T. O’Neil: Yes.
Station Manager Sheppard: You DO have a flair for the dramatic.

Dr. Marian Lazarus: 28 in the last six months.
Marshal William T. O’Neil: I wonder how many in the six months before that…
Dr. Marian Lazarus: 24. I’ve got initiative.
Marshal William T. O’Neil: Well. Good for you.
Dr. Marian Lazarus: Wanna know how many in the six months before that? Two.
Marshal William T. O’Neil: Are you sure?
Dr. Marian Lazarus: I’m *unpleasant*, I’m not *stupid*! Of *course* I’m sure- I can *count*!

Lazarus: That’s pretty good. Playing by yourself and losing. I’d join you in this dumb game if I could play sitting down. Yes, I’m well, thank you. Been pretty busy. Seems there’s some kind of ‘flu’ going around. You have no idea the number of workers who are going to be sick this Sunday.
Marshal William T. O’Neil: What about you? Are you going to be sick this Sunday?
Lazarus: If you’re looking for sterling character you’re in the wrong place.

Dr. Marian Lazarus: You know if you’re the guy you’re supposed to be, you wouldn’t stick around. That’s why they sent you here.
Marshal William T. O’Neil: Maybe they made a mistake
Dr. Marian Lazarus: I was afraid you’d say something like that. Do you really think you’re making a difference?
Marshal William T. O’Neil: [silent]
Dr. Marian Lazarus: Then why for God’s sake?
Marshal William T. O’Neil: …because… maybe they are right. They sent me here to this pile of shit because they think I belong here. I want to find out if… well if they’re right. There’s a whole machine that works because everybody does what they are supposed to. And I found out… I was supposed to be something I didn’t like. That’s what’s in the program. That’s my rotten little part in the rotten machine. I don’t like it. So I’m going to find out if they’re right.

Station Manager Sheppard: Let me tell you what you’re dealing with here. I run a franchise. The company hired me to dig as much ore out of this hellhole as possible. My hookers are clean, some of them are good looking. My booze isn’t watered. The workers are happy. When the workers are happy, they dig more ore. They get paid more bonus money. When they dig more ore, the company’s happy. When the company’s happy, I’m happy.
Marshal William T. O’Neil: Sounds wonderful.
Station Manager Sheppard: *Nothing* here is “wonderful”! It works… that’s *enough*.

[after firing a warning shot to a feisty guy]
Marshal William T. O’Neil: Think it over.

Marshal William T. O’Neil: Oh, *fuck* it!
[punches out Sheppard]
 
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Zardoz Film Quotes

Sean Connery as Zed in Zardoz (1974)

 Zed: Stay close to me – inside my aura!
 
Zed: [watching his memory-scan video of hunting down Brutals] I love to see them running. I love the moments of their deaths – when I am one with Zardoz.

Consuella: In hunting you, I have become you. I’ve destroyed what I set out to defend.
Zed: “He who fights too long against dragons, becomes a dragon himself.”… Nietzsche.

Avalow: [addressing the populace of the Vortex] Death approaches! We are all mortal again! Now we can say ‘yes’ to death, but never again ‘no’. Now, we must make our farewells: to each other, to the sun and moon, trees and sky, earth and rock, the landscape of our long waking-dream.
[Avalow turns to Zed]
Avalow: Zed – the Liberator – liberate me now, according to your promise!
[Zed readily raises his pistol. Avalow stretches in anticipation. The seconds pass, but no shot rings out]
Consuella: [urgently, to Zed, while focusing on Avalow] Do it! Do it!
Zed: [slowly lowering his pistol] All that I was, is gone.
[There is the bark of a shot, red spurts from Avalow’s neck, and she collapses into the fountain’s pool as the people moan in passion. Zed looks behind him – his fellow Exterminators have arrived]

[Zed confronts May in the weaving-house; she is partially hidden beneath a diaphanous patterned sheet]
Zed: May? I want your help!
May: You want to destroy us… the Tabernacle.
Zed: I want the truth.
May: You must give the truth, if you wish to receive it.
Zed: I’m ready.
[She flings the sheet up to enfold him beneath it with her]
May: It’ll burn you!
Zed: Then burn me.
Arthur Frayn: You see, our death-wish was devious, and deep. As Zardoz, Zed, I was able to choose your forefathers! It was careful genetic breeding that produced this mutant – this slave who could free his masters! And Friend was my accomplice! Don’t you remember the man in the library, Zed?
[a chime is heard]
Arthur Frayn: It was I who led you to the ‘Wizard of Oz’ book! Ha-hah, it was I who gave you access to the Stone! It was I!
[a chime is heard]
Arthur Frayn: I bred you! I led you!
Zed: And I have looked into the face of the force that put the idea in your mind. You are bred, and led, yourself.
[He strides away, and Friend advances to join Arthur]
Friend: Arthur! We’ve all been used!
Arthur Frayn: And re-used.
Friend: And abused!
Arthur Frayn: And amused!
Zed: What is it you want?
Friend: Sweet death. Oblivion.
Zed: For yourself, or for the whole Vortex?
Friend: For Everybody. An end to the human race. It has plagued this pretty planet for far too long.
Zed: You stink of despair. Fight back! Fight for death, if that’s what you want.
Friend: I thought at first you were the one to help. But it’s hopeless. All my powers have gone.
Zed: Where is it? The Tabernacle?
Friend: The Tabernacle… is… I can’t remember!
Zed: Who made it? Someone must know how to break it.
Friend: Yes, but you can meet him for yourself! One of our founders, one of the geniuses who discovered immortality.
[Friend goes to the bed of the Old Scientist and, rousing him noisily, shouts]
Friend: We want to die! Hm? What – what’s the trick?
Old Scientist: [feebly] Death… death… Talk to May! May!

[Zed stands before a giant screen swarming with microscopic infusoria]
May: Look at it. It’s you.
[Zed looks behind him, but May does not see him do so]
May: Your genetic structure, your life chart. Look.
[Obligingly, Zed does so again]
May: You are a mutant, second, maybe third generation – therefore genetically stable. Enlarged brain, total recall. Your potential is… Your breeding potential!
Zed: Breeding?
May: Frayn!
[May spins around to confront Zed]
May: How did you get into the Vortex? What is your purpose?
Zed: I’m just an Exterminator. I know nothing.
May: You must know that you’re mentally and physically vastly superior to me, or to anyone else here. You could be anything, could *do* anything. You must be destroyed.
Zed: Why?
May: Because you could destroy us!
Zed: As *you* destroyed the rest of life? Can you un-know what you know now about me?
May: For the sake of science, I will keep this knowledge from the others, for the time being. But you must follow me, obey me, be circumspect, make no disruption, quietly do whatever work is given you. I will watch over you.

Zed: [speaking into the crystal ring on his left hand] Tabernacle – what are you?
The Tabernacle: Not permitted.
Zed: Where are you?
The Tabernacle: Not permitted.
Zed: Do you know me?
The Tabernacle: I have your voice-print, Zed – and your genetic code, but only memory fragments.
Zed: [gazing into the diamond he holds in his other hand] Tell me about the crystal transmitter.
The Tabernacle: I cannot give information which may threaten my own security.
Zed: Brain emissions refract low wavelength laser light, passing through the crystal in the brain. They’re a code sent to you for interpretation and storage. Yes or no?
The Tabernacle: Not permitted.
Zed: A receiver must be like a transmitter. I think you’re a crystal – in fact this one! This diamond! In here, there is infinite storage space for refracted light patterns. Yes or no?
The Tabernacle: You have me in the palm of your hand!

Consuella: [speaking into her ring as she observes Zed asleep in his cage] The Brutal is now in fourth hour of unconscious sleep. It’s astonishing that Homo Sapiens spends so much time in this vulnerable condition at the mercy of its enemies. Is there any data on the sleeping-patterns of primitive people?
The Tabernacle: Is that a priority request?
Consuella: Yes. I am now going to test its waking response to dangerous stimuli.
[She reaches inside the cage toward Zed. With unexpected speed, he seizes her wrist even as he wakes. He holds her for a moment, glaring at her before releasing her. Slowly, she recovers composure and speaks to him]
Consuella: Does it please you to sleep?
Zed: Yes.
Consuella: Why?
Zed: I have dreams.
The Tabernacle: Sleep was necessary for Man when his waking and unconscious lives were separated. As Eternals achieved total consciousness, sleep became obsolete, and Second-Level meditation took its place. Sleep was closely connected with death.

May: Friend, I cannot sanction this violence and destruction.
Friend: It’s too late, May. There’s no going back.
May: Don’t destroy the Vortex! Let us renew it. A better breed could prosper here. Given time…
Friend: Time? Wasn’t eternity enough?
Zed: [enters suddenly; May wheels to face him] This place is against life. It must die.
[Zed gently grasps May’s pistol hand and raises it so that the weapon points right between his eyes]
May: I have my followers. Inseminate us all, and we’ll teach you all we know, give you all we have. Perhaps you can break the Tabernacle. Or be broken.
[Friend advances to place his hand on the others’, in a triple pact]
Friend: An end to eternity.
May: A higher form.
Zed: Revenge.
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