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Samuel L. Jackson, Sarah Paulson, Scarlett Johansson, Gabriel Macht, and Eva Mendes in The Spirit (2008)

Quotes

The Spirit

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  • Ellen Dolan: You're in love with every women you meet, Mr. Spirit. You say lovely things to all of us and you mean every word you say.
  • Sand Saref: Shut up and bleed!
  • The Spirit: Somebody get me a tie! I don't care what kind, it sure as hell better be red!
  • The Spirit: [Wakes up after being unconscious] What smells dental?
  • The Spirit: [Looks around at Nazi decorations, and realizes he's tied to a Dentist chair] Dental and Nazi. Great.
  • Silken Floss: We knew there had to be a better way of keeping someone alive other than cutting them up like some free-range chicken.
  • The Octopus: Eurgh. Free-range chickens with their big brown ugly-ass eggs. They piss me off. Every time I think about those big brown eggs they piss. Me. Off.
  • Silken Floss: Or pills.
  • [from trailer]
  • The Spirit: My city, I can not deny her. My city screams. She is my mother. She is my lover, and I am her Spirit.
  • The Spirit: I've known some pretty strange women in my time but this one, she's got the final word on strange.
  • The Spirit: I'm gonna kill you all kinds of dead.
  • Commissioner Dolan: Is every goddamn woman in this goddamn hell hole out of her goddamn mind?
  • Morgenstern: No, sir. We're just equipped.
  • The Octopus: I'm the Octopus, I got eight of everything.
  • [On the Subject of Demi-Gods]
  • Silken Floss: Now the greatest of them all was Heracles.
  • The Octopus: And we found his ass! Well his blood anyway... he left some blood.
  • The Octopus: How can I get anything done with all this time on my hands?
  • Silken Floss: What a fine detective. You followed the breadcrumbs right to us.
  • [last lines]
  • The Spirit: She is the love of my life. And I am her spirit.
  • The Octopus: Come on! Toilets are always funny!
  • The Spirit: This is for Sand!
  • [hits The Octopus]
  • The Spirit: This is for me!
  • [hits The Octopus]
  • The Spirit: And this is for Muffins!
  • [roundhouse kicks The Octopus into a pillar with a Nazi Eagle on top]
  • The Octopus: Is that it?
  • [Giant marble eagle falls on The Octopus]
  • Liebowitz: [Spirit hangs from his cape] You will believe a man can't fly.
  • The Spirit: All the enemy has is gun to knives. I have the entire city as my weapon.
  • Silken Floss: The Octopus always finds his nemesis so distracting.
  • Sand Saref: If this is the wrong box I'll kill you myself!
  • The Octopus: What is it with you and women?
  • The Octopus: Spirit, we're two of a kind, you and me!
  • The Spirit: There probably isn't a law in the books that you wouldn't break.
  • Sand Saref: Tell me, do I look like a good girl?
  • The Spirit: [the Octopus has demonstrated a serum on a cat, muffins] The cat... she is all the reason I need. I will kill you.
  • [repeated line]
  • Pathos, etc.: We was watching.
  • Young Sand: I... hate... cops!
  • The Octopus: I don't like egg on my face.
  • Silken Floss: On your knees, then!
  • The Octopus: [Looking at footman] That's damn weird.
  • Lorelei Rox: You're so close, you'll have me forever.
  • [repeated line]
  • Pathos, etc.: Silken Floss is the most beautiful woman ever!
  • The Octopus: I had you beat, just like eggs.
  • The Spirit: The hell you did!
  • The Spirit: She provides for me, my city does. She gives me everything I need.

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