Other Titles • The Exorcist • The Exorcist: The Version You Haven't Seen Yet (1973) • The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen (1973) • William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist (2000) • Der Exorzist (1974)
Quotes from The Exorcist (1973)
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"What an excellent day for an exorcism."--Regan (Linda Blair) to Father Karras (Jason Miller)
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Regan MacNeil: I'm not Regan. Father Damien Karras: Well, then let's introduce ourselves. I'm Damien Karras. Regan MacNeil: And I'm the Devil. Now kindly undo these straps. Father Damien Karras: If you're the Devil, why don't you make the straps disappear? Regan MacNeil: That's much too vulgar a display of power, Karras.
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Father Merrin: Especially important is the warning to avoid conversations with the demon. We may ask what is relevant but anything beyond that is dangerous. He is a liar. The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us. But he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. The attack is psychological, Damien, and powerful. So don't listen to him. Remember that - do not listen.
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"Why you do this to me, Damie?"--Regan (as Father Karras's mother) to Father Karras
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Regan MacNeil: What an excellent day for an exorcism. Father Damien Karras: You would like that? Regan MacNeil: Intensely. Father Damien Karras: But wouldn't that drive you out of Regan? Regan MacNeil: It would bring us together. Father Damien Karras: You and Regan? Regan MacNeil: You and us.
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Regan MacNeil: Your mother's in here, Karras. Would you like to leave a message? I'll see that she gets it.
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Regan MacNeil: Your mother sucks cocks in Hell, Karras, you faithless slime.
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Regan MacNeil: You can bring Mr. Dennings if you like... Well, you like him... You're gonna marry him, aren't you? Chris MacNeil: Oh God, are you kidding me? Marry Burke Dennings. Don't be silly. Of course not. Where'd you ever get an idea like that? Regan MacNeil: But ya like him. Chris MacNeil: Of course I like him. I like pizzas too, but I'm not gonna marry one. Regan MacNeil: You don't like him like Daddy? Chris MacNeil: Regan. I love your Daddy. I'll always love your Daddy, honey. OK? Burke just comes around here a lot, 'cause, well, he's lonely. Don't got nuttin' to do. Regan MacNeil: [Coy] Well, I heard differently. Chris MacNeil: Oh you did. What did you hear? Huh? Regan MacNeil: I don't know. I just thought. Chris MacNeil: Well, you didn't think so good. Regan MacNeil: How do you know? Chris MacNeil: 'Cause Burke and I are just friends. OK? Really. OK.
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Father Damien Karras: It's my mother, Tom. She's alone. I never should have left her. At least in New York, I'd be near, I'd be closer. Tom, President of University: Could see about a transfer, Damien. Father Damien Karras: I need re-assignment, Tom. I want out of this job. It's wrong. It's no good. Tom, President of University: You're the best we've got. Father Damien Karras: Yeah, not really. It's more than psychiatry, and you know that Tom. Some of their problems come down to faith, their vocation and meaning of their lives, and I can't cut it anymore. I need out. I'm unfit. I think I've lost my faith, Tom.
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Sharon Spencer: I should have known better. I'm sorry. Chris MacNeil: Yeah, I guess you should have. Sharon Spencer: How were the tests? Chris MacNeil: We have to start looking for a shrink.
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Dr. Taney: Pathological states can induce abnormal strength. Accelerated motor performance. Now, for example, say a 90 pound woman sees her child pinned under the wheel of a truck. Runs out and lifts the wheels a half a foot up off the ground - you've heard the story - same thing here. Same principle, I mean. Chris MacNeil: So what's wrong with her? Dr. Klein: We still think the temporal lobe. Chris MacNeil: Oh what are you talking about, for Chrissakes? Did you see her or not? She's acting like she's fucking out of her mind, psychotic, like a... split personality or... Dr. Taney: There haven't been more than a hundred authentic cases of so-called split personality, Mrs. MacNeil. Now I know the temptation is to leap to psychiatry. But any reasonable psychiatrist would exhaust the somatic possibilities first. Chris MacNeil: So, what's next? Dr. Taney: A pneumoencephalogram, I would think. Pin down that lesion. It will involve another spinal. Chris MacNeil: Oh, Christ. Dr. Taney: What we missed in the EEG and the arteriograms could conceivably turn up there. At least, it would eliminate certain other possibilities.
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[after fighting with Karl] Burke Dennings: So, what's for dessert?
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Psychiatrist: Is there someone inside you? Regan MacNeil: Sometimes. Psychiatrist: Who is it? Regan MacNeil: I don't know. Psychiatrist: Is it Captain Howdy? Regan MacNeil: I don't know. Psychiatrist: If I ask him to tell me, will you let him answer? Regan MacNeil: No. Psychiatrist: Why not? Regan MacNeil: I'm afraid.
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Dr. Barringer, Clinic Director: There is one outside chance for a cure. I think of it as shock treatment - as I said, it's a very outside chance... Have you ever heard of exorcism? Well, it's a stylized ritual in which the rabbi or the priest try to drive out the so-called invading spirit. It's been pretty much discarded these days except by the Catholics who keep it in the closet as a sort of an embarrassment, but uh, it has worked. In fact, although not for the reasons they think, of course. It's purely a force of suggestion. The victim's belief in possession is what helped cause it, so in that same way, a belief in the power of exorcism can make it disappear. Chris MacNeil: You're telling me that I should take my daughter to a witch doctor? Is that it?
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Dr. Barringer, Clinic Director: [looking at Regan on the monitor screen] It looks like a type of disorder that you rarely ever see anymore, except in primitive cultures. We call it a somnambuliform possession. Dr. Barringer, Clinic Director: [Regan has welts on her face and is screaming] Quite frankly, we don't know much about it except that it's starts with some conflict or guilt that eventually leads to the patient's delusion that his body's been invaded by an alien intellegence; a spirit if you will. Chris MacNeil: Look, I'm telling you again and you'd better believe it, I'm not about to put her in a goddamn asylum! And I don't care what you call it! I'm not putting her away! Dr. Barringer, Clinic Director: I'm sorry. Chris MacNeil: You're sorry. Christ, eighty-eight doctors and all you can tell me is all of your bullshit... Dr. Barringer, Clinic Director: There is one outside chance of a cure. I think of it as shock treatment. As I say, there is an outside chance... Chris MacNeil: Will you just name it, for God's sake? What is it? Male Doctor: Do you have any religious beliefs? Chris MacNeil: No. Female Doctor: What about your daughter? Chris MacNeil: No, why? Dr. Barringer, Clinic Director: Have you ever heard of exorcism? Dr. Barringer, Clinic Director: [Chris looks at him baffled] It's a stylized ritual in which rabbis or priests try to drive out the so-called invading spirit. It's pretty much discarded these days, except by the Catholics who keep it in the closet as a sort of embarrassment. It has worked, in fact, although not for the reason they think, of course. It was purely the force of suggestion. The victim's belief in possession helped cause it; and just in the same way this belief in the power of exorcism can make it disappear. Chris MacNeil: You're telling me that, I should take my daughter to a witch doctor? Is that it?
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Astronaut: Well actually Father, we're quite comfortable up there, at least compared to the Gemini and Mercury program. So they were tight for space, see we've got about two-hundred and ten cubic feet so we can move around. Father Dyer: Listen, if you ever go up there again will you take me along? Astronaut: [laughs] What for? Father Dyer: First missionary on mars.
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Iraqi boy: They've found something... small pieces. Father Merrin: Where? Iraqi boy: At the base of the mound. Iraqi Archaeologist: [Merrin moves to base of mound] Some interesting finds. Lamps, arrow-heads, coins... Father Merrin: [Merrin picks up St. Christopher's medal and holds it up] This is strange! Iraqi Archaeologist: [He dusts the pendant and takes a look] Not of the same period.
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Father Damien Karras: [praying over Merrin's body] Ego te absolvo in nomine Patris, et Filiii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.
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Chris MacNeil: [Ouija pointer pulls away from Chris] You really don't want me to play huh? Regan MacNeil: No I do, Captain Howdy said no. Chris MacNeil: Captain who? Regan MacNeil: Captain Howdy. Chris MacNeil: Who's Captain Howdy? Regan MacNeil: You know, I make the questions and he does the answers. Chris MacNeil: Oh, Captain Howdy...
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Burke Dennings: Cunting Hun! Bloody damn butchering Nazi pig! Karl: [Karl lunges at Burke and grabs him by the throat] Bastard! I will kill you.
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[Regan, possessed, is masturbating herself with a crucifix] Regan MacNeil: Let Jesus fuck you, let Jesus fuck you. Let him fuck you.
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[at Regan's bedside] Father Merrin: I cast you out! Unclean Spirt! Regan MacNeil: Shove it up your ass, you faggot! Father Merrin: In the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ! It is he who commands you! It is he who flung you from the gates of Heaven to the depths of Hell! Regan MacNeil: Fuck Him! Father Merrin: Be gone... Regan MacNeil: Fuck Him, Karras! Fuck Him! Father Merrin: ...from this creature of God! Regan MacNeil: [Moaning] Father Merrin: Be gone! In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirt!
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Chris MacNeil: You show me Regan's double, same face, same voice, everything. And I'd know it wasn't Regan. I'd know in my gut. Now, I want you to tell me that you know for a fact that there's nothing wrong with my daughter, except in her mind. YOU TELL ME FOR A FACT YOU KNOW AN EXORCISIM WOULDN'T DO ANY GOOD. YOU TELL ME THAT.
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Father Damien Karras: I think it might be helpful if I gave you some background on the different personalities Regan has manifested. So far, I'd say there seem to be three. She's convinced... Father Merrin: There is only one.
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Father Damien Karras: Take me. Come into me. God damn you. Take me. Take me.
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Lt. Kinderman: If certain British doctors never asked "What is this fungus?" we wouldn't today have penicillin, correct?
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Burke Dennings: Shall we summon the writer? He's in Paris. Chris MacNeil: Hiding? Burke Dennings: Fucking.
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Father Dyer: My idea of Heaven is a solid white nightclub with me as a headliner for all eternity, and they LOVE me.
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Dr. Klein: Do you keep any drugs in your house? Chris MacNeil: No, of course not, nothing like that. Dr. Klein: Are you sure? Chris MacNeil: Well, of course I'm sure. I'd tell you. Christ, I don't even smoke grass.
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Father Damien Karras: There isn't a day in my life when I haven't felt like a fraud. I mean priests, doctors, I've talked to them all. I don't know anyone who hasn't felt that.
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Chris MacNeil: Would you like some bourbon in that, father? Father Merrin: Well, my doctor says I shouldn't but thank God my will is weak.
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Father Merrin, Father Damien Karras: The Power of Christ Compels You.
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Regan MacNeil: Lick me, Lick me.
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Regan MacNeil: Do you know what she did, your cunting daughter?
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Regan MacNeil: Keep away. The sow is mine.
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Regan MacNeil: [Demonic voice] Stick your cock up her ass, you motherfucking worthless cocksucker.
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Father Damien Karras: There are no experts. You probably know more about possession then most priests. Look, your daughter doesn't say she's a demon, she says he's the devil himself. Now, if you've seen as many psychotics as I have, you'd say it's the same thing as saying you're Napoleon Bonaparte. You asked me, what I think is best for your daughter. Six months... under observation... at the best hospital you can find.
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[to a prominent senator at Chris' party] Burke Dennings: There seems to be an alien pubic hair in my gin. Never seen it before in my life! Have you?
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Lt. Kinderman: You know who you look like? John Garfield. Exactly, John Garfield, "Body and Soul." Do people ever tell you that, Father? Father Damien Karras: Do people tell you that you look like Paul Newman? Lt. Kinderman: Always.
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Father Damien Karras: Why her? Why this girl? Father Merrin: I think the point is to make us despair. To see ourselves as... animal and ugly. To make us reject the possibility that God could love us.
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Burke Dennings: Tell me, was it public relations you did for the Gestapo or community relations? Karl: I'm Swiss! Burke Dennings: Oh, of course. And you never went bowling with Goebels before either, I suppose? Nazi bastard.
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Father Damien Karras: Where is Regan? Regan MacNeil: [She's possessed] In here. With Us.
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Regan MacNeil: You killed your mother! You left her alone to die! Bastard! Father Damien Karras: Shut up!
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Regan MacNeil: Hi, Mom. Chris MacNeil: What did you do today? Regan MacNeil: Um... stuff. Chris MacNeil: What kind of stuff? Regan MacNeil: Well, me and Sharon played a game in the backyard, and we had a picnic down by the river. Mom, you should have seen this man came along on this beautiful grey horse. Wasn't it pretty? Chris MacNeil: Really, what kind was it a mare or gelding? Regan MacNeil: Think it was a gelding. It was grey. Oh, it was so beautiful, the guy let me ride it all around. It was so nice. Oh, I loved it. Oh, Mom can't we get a horse? Chris MacNeil: Well, not while we're in Washington.
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Dr. Klein: Put this in your mouth. Keep it there. This tells your temperature. When the red light goes on, that's your Temperature. Regan MacNeil: I don't want it.
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Bellevue Nurse: Unroll your fist. Arm up. Good. That wasn't so bad, was it?
Dr. Klein: Tell me if you feel a Vibration. Can you feel anything?Regan?Can you feel this? Regan MacNeil: I don't feel anything!
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Karras' Mother: [to Karras] Why you do this to me, Dimmy?
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Chris MacNeil: Operator, I have been on this line for twenty minutes... What did you do, take the literacy test to get that job for Christ's sake?... No DONT TELL ME TO BE CALM, GODDAMIT! I'VE BEEN ON THIS FUCKING LINE FOR TWENTY MINUTES!
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