End of the Road (1970)

James Earl Jones: Doctor D

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• Doctor D : Insanity, young Horner, is the state of the conscious mind that has been flooded by the unconscious mind - as in a dream, Horner, as in a dream. In the case of insanity the dream has become a nightmare.

• Doctor D : Your mother's breast is like cold stone.

• Doctor D : Move, act - take a role, Horner!

  Jacob Horner : ...I can't think of one.

  Doctor D : Damn you!

  [attacks Horner with chair] 

• Doctor D : Why do you nod like that?

  Jacob Horner : Like what?

  Doctor D : Just then you nodded.

  Jacob Horner : I was simply acknowledging what you said before.

  Doctor D : Acknowledging the fact of what I said, or merely the fact that I said it?

  Jacob Horner : I have no reason to doubt you from either standpoint.

  Doctor D : Are you afraid of offending me by... not agreeing with what I said?

  Jacob Horner : No, I agree with it I see no reason to disagree with it!

• Doctor D : It's exhilarating to lose one's temper in certain situations!

• Jacob Horner : [surveying the inmates]  Who are these people?

  Doctor D : They are the abandoned. Those who are considered hopeless.

  Jacob Horner : Hopeless? Then why do you bother?

  Doctor D : I have reason to believe that nothing is hopeless.