Twelve Monkeys Quotes (1995)
James Cole: I’m looking for the Army of the Twelve Monkeys.
Jeffrey Goines: My father is God! I worship my father!
Dr. Kathryn Railly: You had a bullet from World War I in your leg, James! How did it get there?
Jeffrey Goines: There’s no right, there’s no wrong, there’s only popular opinion.
Railly: Oh, Jesus, James! You killed him!
Cole: I did him a favor. Now come on.
Cole: I’m here about some monkeys.
Jeffrey: Excuse me — what did you say?
Cole: Monkeys. Twelve of them.
Jeffrey: Arnold… Arnold. My God, Arnie, what’s happened to you? You look like shit
Agent#3: You know this man?
Jeffrey: Of course I know him. What do you think — I act like this to strangers?
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.
Jeffrey Goines: Do you realize where he thinks he comes from?
James Cole: I’m here about some monkeys.
Jeffrey Goines: Monkeys?
James Cole: Monkeys. Yes. Twelve of them.
Jeffrey Goines: …and if you forget one thing, I will have you shaved, sterilized, and destroyed!
Dr. Kathryn Railly: Where are we going?
James Cole: Philadelphia.
Dr. Kathryn Railly: Philadelphia? That’s more then a hundred miles away!
James Cole: I know, that’s why I can’t walk there.
Jeffrey Goines: [sighs] Get out of my chair!
James Cole: This is a place for crazy people. I’m not crazy.
Dr. Peters: We don’t use the term “crazy,” Mr. Cole.
James Cole: Well you’ve got some real nuts here.
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.
Jeffrey Goines: You know what crazy is? Crazy is majority rules!
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.
James Cole: [sarcastic] Yeah, that’s why none of the volunteers come back. They all get a pardon.
Jeffrey Goines: There is no such thing as right and wrong, there’s just popular opinion.
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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