Movie Quotes Blog

[To Stella, alias Lilly, whom he will shortly murder:]

Dr. Brandt, alias Dr. Ood:
Material things don’t interest me. It’s living things that fascinate me.

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Stella, alias Lilly:
It’s an ill wind that blows nobody no good.

Paul Lerner:
Very good, Lilly, you’re such a philosopher.

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Dr. Brandt, alias Dr. Ood:
Yes, I’m sick. Yes, I’m sick, and you’re the only one who knows it, but I don’t care. You belong to me and me alone. Professor Hartmann experimented on my brain. The results were fantastic. It made a genius of me. Hear me, a genius!

[He clutches the window in a parody of the crucifixion.]

Dr. Brandt, alias Dr. Ood:
But these spells are the debt I paid. The price of my genius was madness. My whole being became sick. The moon, and the wind, and that confounded dog!

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Stella, alias Lilly:
You mean you’re still doing those awful experiments?

Dr. Brandt, alias Dr. Ood:
I’m now LEGALLY a doctor.

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Rock Biter:
A delicious-looking limestone rock. Mmm! Mmm! Nice bouquet. Must be a real vintage year.

Night Hob:
[laughs nervously] Yes, you’re right. Those delicious rocks are the reason we camped here, all right.

[to Teeny Weeny]

Night Hob:
Is he a nutcase?

Teeny Weeny:
No, he’s a Rock Biter.

Night Hob:
A Rock Biter… A Rock Biter!

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Bastian:
How many wishes do I get?

The Childlike Empress:
As many as you want. And the more wishes you make, the more magnificent Fantasia will become.

Bastian:
Really?

The Childlike Empress:
Try it.

Bastian:
Then my first wish is…

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Atreyu:
Do you have a cold?

Morla, the Ancient One:
No, we are allergic to youth.

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Engywook:
To the winch, wench.

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Rock Biter:
We can’t wait for a snail.

Teeny Weeny:
Don’t worry, it’s a racing snail!

Rock Biter:
But we can’t even wait for a racing snail.

Teeny Weeny:
Go!

Rock Biter:
Well, that was a racing snail!

Night Hob:
No one cares about my stupid bat.

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Bastian:
Why is it so dark?

The Childlike Empress:
In the beginning, it is always dark.

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Atreyu:
If the Nothing comes, you will die too, both of you!

Morla, the Ancient One:
Die? That, at least, would be *something*.

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The Southern Oracle:
If you want to save our world, you must hurry. We don’t know how much longer we can withstand the nothing.

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Atreyu:
I’m looking for the Southern Oracle.

Engywook:
Oooh!

Urgl:
Here we go again.

Engywook:
You’ve come to the right place my boy. I am something of an expert on the Southern Oracle.

Urgl:
[mimicking Engywook] It’s my scientific specie-ality.

Engywook:
It’s my scientific specie-ality.

Urgl:
Would you just - sit down and keep quiet!

Engywook:
No, you keep quiet! It is now my turn.

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Narrator:
Bastian made many other wishes, and had many other amazing adventures - before he finally returned to the ordinary world. But that’s… another story.

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Engywook:
Here comes one that *looks* fancy! Let’s see what he REALLY thinks of himself! Go on, scared cat!

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Bastian:
What is that?

The Childlike Empress:
One grain of sand. It is all that remains of my vast empire.

Bastian:
Fantasia has totally disappeared?

The Childlike Empress:
Yes.

Bastian:
Then, everything’s been in vain.

The Childlike Empress:
No, it hasn’t. Fantasia can arise anew, from your dreams and wishes, Bastian.

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Mr. Koreander:
The video arcade is down the street. Here we just sell small rectangular objects. They’re called books. They require a little effort on your part, and make no bee-bee-bee-bee-beeps. On your way please.

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The Childlike Empress:
Bastian. Why don’t you do what you dream, Bastian?

Bastian:
But I can’t, I have to keep my feet on the ground!

The Childlike Empress:
Call my name. Bastian, please! Save us!

Bastian:
All right! I’ll do it! I’ll save you! I will do what I dream!

[Climbs to the window and yells out in the storm]

Bastian:
MOONCHILD!

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Atreyu:
Is that the Southern Oracle?

Engywook:
No, it’s the first of the two gates you must pass through before you reach the Southern Oracle, and get me the final information for my book! Of course, most people don’t get that far…

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Bastian’s Father:
I got a call from your math teacher, yesterday. She says that you were drawing horses in your math book.

Bastian:
Unicorns. They were unicorns.

Bastian’s Father:
What?

Bastian:
Nothing.

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Rock Biter:
Where-where-where I come from in the North, we used to have exquisite gourmet rocks. Only now… now, they’re all gone.

Night Hob:
I know how it happened.

Rock Biter:
Oh, I - I *swear* it wasn’t me!

Night Hob:
Oh, heck, no!

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Engywook:
To the winch, wench!

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Atreyu:
You’ve already brought me the entire 10000 miles?

Falcor:
No, only 9891.

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Engywook:
The Sphinxes eyes stay closed, until someone who does not feel his own worth tries to pass by.

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Falcor:
Never give up and good luck will find you.

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Engywook:
Next is the Magic Mirror Gate. Atreyu has to face his true self.

Falcor:
So what? That won’t be too hard for him.

Engywook:
Oh, that’s what everyone thinks! But kind people find out that they are cruel. Brave men discover that they are really cowards! Confronted by their true selves, most men run away screaming!

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Morla, the Ancient One:
We don’t even care whether or not we care.

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Engywook:
Get out of my library, witch, you’re dirsturbing my scientific work!

Urgl:
You and your scientific work!

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Rock Biter:
They look like big, good, strong hands, don’t they? I always thought that’s what they were.

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Falcor:
I like children.

Atreyu:
[nervously] For breakfast?

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G’mork:
If you come any closer, I will rip you to shreds.

Atreyu:
Who are you?

G’mork:
I am G’mork. And you, whoever you are, can have the honor of being my last victim.

Atreyu:
I will not die easily. I am a warrior!

G’mork:
Ha! Brave warrior, then fight the Nothing.

Atreyu:
But I can’t! I can’t get beyond the boundaries of Fantasia!

[G’mork laughs and Atreyu gets a little angry]

Atreyu:
What’s so funny about that?

G’mork:
Fantasia has no boundaries.

[Laughs]

Atreyu:
That’s not true! You’re lying.

G’mork:
Foolish boy. Don’t you know anything about Fantasia? It’s the world of human fantasy. Every part, every creature of it, is a piece of the dreams and hopes of mankind. Therefore, it has no boundaries.

Atreyu:
But why is Fantasia dying, then?

G’mork:
Because people have begun to lose their hopes and forget their dreams. So the Nothing grows stronger.

Atreyu:
What is the Nothing?

G’mork:
It’s the emptiness that’s left. It’s like a despair, destroying this world. And I have been trying to help it.

Atreyu:
But why?

G’mork:
Because people who have no hopes are easy to control; and whoever has the control… has the power!

Atreyu:
Who are you, really?

G’mork:
I am the servant of the power behind the Nothing. I was sent to kill the only one who could have stopped the Nothing. I lost him in the Swamps of Sadness. His name… was Atreyu.

[the ground shakes again and Atreyu is knocked down. He grabs a knife shaped piece of broken stone and stands up, ready to fight]

Atreyu:
If we’re about to die anyway, I’d rather die fighting! Come for me, G’mork! *I* am Atreyu!

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Falcor:
Having a luck dragon with you is the only way to go on a quest.

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Morla, the Ancient One:
Not that it matters, but… yes.

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Urgl:
There’s no fool like the old fool!

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Engywook:
Listen, boy - next time, let me see what happens! It’s *my* telescope!

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The Childlike Empress:
It was the only way to get in touch with an earthling.

Atreyu:
But I didn’t get in touch with an earthling!

The Childlike Empress:
Yes, you did. He has suffered with you. He went through everything you went through; and now, he has come here with you. He is very close… listening to every word, we say.

[as he is reading, Bastian can’t believe it]

Bastian:
*What*?

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Engywook:
My name is Engywook - and she’s Urgl. Ever heard of me?

Atreyu:
I don’t think so.

Engywook:
You don’t move in scientific circles.

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Mr. Koreander:
Your books are safe. While you’re reading them, you get to become Tarzan or Robinson Crusoe.

Bastian:
But that’s what I like about ‘em.

Mr. Koreander:
Ahh, but afterwards you get to be a little boy again.

Bastian:
Wh-what do you mean?

Mr. Koreander:
Listen. Have you ever been Captain Nemo, trapped inside your submarine while the giant squid is attacking you?

Bastian:
Yes.

Mr. Koreander:
Weren’t you afraid you couldn’t escape?

Bastian:
But it’s only a story.

Mr. Koreander:
That’s what I’m talking about. The ones you read are safe.

Bastian:
And that one isn’t?

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Engywook:
I like that, the patient telling the doctor it’s all right. It’s got to hurt if it’s to heal.

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Atreyu:
Do you think that the Ivory Tower is still there?

Falcor:
Let’s hope so, Atreyu, let’s hope so.

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Rock Biter:
A hole would be something. No, it was nothing.

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Bastian:
No, not again. No, not again!

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