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Salma Hayek, Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden, Gemma Chan, Ma Dong-seok, Brian Tyree Henry, Kit Harington, Kumail Nanjiani, Lauren Ridloff, Barry Keoghan, and Lia McHugh in Eternals (2021)

Quotes

Eternals

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  • Druig: I've watched humans destroy each other when I could stop it all in a heartbeat. Do you know what that does to someone after centuries? Could our mission have been a mistake? Are we really helping these people build a better world? We're just like the soldiers down there: pawns to their leaders, blinded by loyalty.
  • Ikaris: Thena, play nice. You've never had to fight me.
  • Thena: I've always wanted to.
  • Thena: We have loved these people since the day we arrived. When you love something, you protect it.
  • Ajak: Five years ago, Thanos erased half of the population of the universe. But the people of this planet brought everyone back with the snap of a finger. The sudden return of the population provided the necessary energy for the Emergence to begin.
  • Ikaris: How long do we have?
  • Ajak: Seven days.
  • Sprite: If this is what the end of the world looks like, at least we'll have front-row seats...
  • Phastos: You know what has never saved the world? Your sarcasm.
  • Ikaris: I bet you've built the perfect safehouse. What's this even made of, vibranium?
  • [Ikaris chops Phastos' table in half]
  • Phastos: Fall collection, IKEA. Ass.
  • Jack: Dad, that's Superman! With the cape and shooting laser beams out of your eyes!
  • Ikaris: I don't wear a cape.
  • [Dane Whitman attempts to touch the Ebony Blade]
  • Blade: Sure you're ready for that, Mr Whitman?
  • [last lines]
  • [Arishem summons Sersi, Phastos and Kingo]
  • Arishem: You have chosen to sacrifice a Celestial, for the people of this planet. I will spare them, but your memories will show me if they are worthy to live. And I will return, for judgement.
  • [departs with the three Eternals]
  • Sprite: Is that the Ebony blade?
  • Thena: Excalibur.
  • Sprite: Arthur always did have a crush on you
  • Kingo: Karun, I've worked with him for 50 years, I trust him completely. Actually, when we first met, he thought I was a vampire, and he tried to stake me through the heart!
  • Karun: I have apologized so many times.
  • Kingo: Not quite enough times, very close though.
  • Dane Whitman: Why didn't you guys help fight Thanos, or any war, or all the terribe things throughout history?
  • Sersi: We were instructed not to interfere in any human conflicts unless Deviants were involved.
  • Dane Whitman: By who?
  • Sersi: We're Eternals. We came here seven thousand years ago, to protect humans from the Deviants.
  • Ikaris: Do you think it was easy to live with the truth? To know that one day all this would end? If we gave humanity the choice, how many of them would be willing to die so that billions more could be born?
  • [Karun films Kingo fighting Deviants]
  • Karun: Very nice, sir!
  • Kingo: Are you mental? Hide!
  • Karun: We need action sequences!
  • Druig: [contemptuous] Kingo, the movie star!
  • Kingo: [oblivious] I've directed some things too.
  • [Druig mind-controls fighting humans]
  • Makkari: [stops him] When humans create conflict, Ajak tells us not to interfere.
  • Druig: Yes. But Ajak also tells us that stealing is very, very bad.
  • [holds up Makkari's artifact]
  • Makkari: [embarassed] If you won't tell, I won't tell.
  • Druig: Deal.
  • Ajak: We have watched and guided. We have helped them progress, and seen them accomplish wonders. Throughout the years, we have never interfered... until now.
  • [Sprite stabs Sersi]
  • Sprite: I've always envied you, Sersi. Because you got to live as one of them. And I never could. You know why I hated living with humans? Because they reminded me of things I didn't even know I wanted. Because of them, now I want to know what it feels like to grow up. To fall in love. To have a family. And to know in the end I've lived.
  • Thena: I asked Gilgamesh once why he chose to protect me. He said, "When you love something, you protect it. It is the most natural thing in the world."
  • Sprite: So now that Captain Rogers and Iron Man are both gone, who do you think's gonna lead the Avengers?
  • Ikaris: I could lead them.
  • [everyone chuckles]
  • Sprite: [to a relentless Karun filming everything] How many cameras did you bring, young man?
  • Phastos: Is that a sarcophagus in my lab?
  • Kingo: Dishoom!
  • [blasts a Deviant]
  • Kingo: Karun, did you get that?
  • Karun: I did, sir!
  • Ajak: I led you down the wrong path.
  • Ikaris: It's the only path I know.
  • Sprite: The reason humans are at the top of the food chain is because you believe in structures and principles that don't actually exist. Gods, nations, money: all concepts, stories... illusions.
  • Dane Whitman: How long were you two together?
  • Sersi: Five thousand years.
  • Dane Whitman: I guess you could call that long term.
  • Karun: Life offers no greater duty than to protect one's family. Remember.
  • Kingo: Seven thousand years. That's how long the battle between Eternals and Deviants has raged for. You think I am a movie star. Well, I am but I am also - an Eternal.
  • Druig: If you want to stop me. You're gonna have to kill me.
  • Druig: When I left, I thought about taking over the minds of every human on this planet. Violence, fear, greed - all gone.
  • Sersi: Why didn't you?
  • Druig: Because, without their flaws, they wouldn't be human.
  • Ikaris: It'll all end soon.
  • Sersi: Except, there is no end. Is there? We'd carry on without our memories or free will for eternity.
  • Ikaris: I have thought about this place a lot. Amazing how things change over time.
  • Sersi: Maybe we're the ones who changed.
  • Kingo: Hey, dont sweat it. Sprite's always cranky. I used to hear her complaining even when she wasn't there.
  • Makkari: So you mean I've been waiting for centuries to go back to Olympia, and now you're telling me it doesn't exist?
  • Kingo: That! And the world is ending.
  • Makkari: At last my boredom is ending.
  • Druig: Revenge won't bring peace for you, Thena
  • Thena: Killing it might.
  • Druig: Do you think when we find other Eternals out there, that they will accept truth the way we did?
  • Makkari: [shakes her head yes] Because the truth will set them free.
  • Dane Whitman: So after all that, you still can't change me into a giraffe.
  • Patrick: Do you want to dance?
  • [grabs Sandra's hand]
  • Sandra: [Hand phases]
  • Patrick: Wait, what the hell? Your hand!
  • Sandra: You've had too much to drink!
  • Sandra: I've got to go now.
  • Thena: I didn't come to this planet to cower behind walls.
  • Sersi: We are Eternals - from a planet called Olympia. We came here 7,000 years ago on the Domo, our starship, to protect humans from the Deviants. We thought we killed them all five centuries ago, but - now they are back.
  • Dane Whitman: Look, if you don't want to move in with me, you could just say.
  • Sersi: Dane, this is serious.
  • Dane Whitman: Oh, I know. I'm just still getting over the fact that you are not a wizard. I was hoping you could change me into a giraffe. I always wanted to be a giraffe when I was a kid.
  • Sersi: It's too bad, I can't change sentient beings. You'd make a very cute giraffe.
  • Sersi: Something is happening to Earth. It can't be a coincidence.
  • Ikaris: We need to find the others.
  • Sersi: I haven't seen some of them for centuries.
  • Ikaris: I doubt much has changed.
  • Sprite: Shit, is that a Deviant?
  • Ajak: Don't listen to your head, Thena. Listen to my voice - that you are safe. That you are loved - and you are Thena.
  • Thena: Please. Please, I want to remember. I want to remember my life.
  • Ajak: Thena, I love you, but listen to me. It's not important that you remember or not. Your spirit will remain. You will always be Thena deep inside. Trust me.
  • Ikaris: We're a team. We should stay together
  • Ajak: I didn't ask you for your advice, Ikaris. Do not forget your place.
  • Ajak: This is where we say goodbye. You are free to go. I want you to go out there and live a life for yourselves - not as soldiers. Not with the purpose you were given. Find your own purpose. And one day, when we see each other again, I want you to tell me what you found.
  • Kingo: Have you read Peter Pan? To me, Ikaris is Peter, Sersi is Wendy, you are Tinker Bell, for obvious reasons, and the rest of us are the Lost Boys.
  • Sprite: What's your point?
  • Kingo: Tinker Bell has always been in love with Peter and it's hard for her because she can never be with him. I am sorry Sprite.
  • Ajak: After I let you all go, I traveled the world living among them. I have seen them fight and lie and kill; but I have also seen them laugh and love. I have seen them create and dream. This planet and these people have changed me.
  • Phastos: I have to take it out of you.
  • Sersi: Okay. Do it.

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