Richard Burton credited as playing...
Father Lamont
- The Cardinal: You're in dire need of prayer. I suggest you make a retreat.
- Father Lamont: A retreat? Why not an advance?
- [regarding the Catholic Church]
- Father Lamont: Satan has become an embarrassment to our progressive views.
- Regan MacNeil: Was it in Africa?
- Father Lamont: Yes.
- Dr. Gene Tuskin: How do you know that?
- Regan MacNeil: Well, it looked like something I saw at the natural history museum.
- Dr. Gene Tuskin: But you weren't suppose to remember anything.
- Regan MacNeil: I know.
- Regan MacNeil: You want me to take you to him?
- Father Lamont: Yes.
- Regan MacNeil: Come. Fly the teeth of the wind. Share my wings.
- Dr. Gene Tuskin: Let's stick to science.
- Father Lamont: Don't hide behind science, you're better than that!
- Father Lamont: You realize what you're up against, don't you? Evil. Evil is a spiritual being, alive and living, perverted and perverting, weaving its way insidiously into the very fabric of life.
- Father Lamont: Pazuzu has brushed me with his wings.
- Regan MacNeil: Don't worry. Father Merrin will help us.
- [first lines]
- [pre-release version]
- Father Lamont: [narrating] Father Lankester Merrin died in Georgetown near Washington, D.C. while attempting to exorcise a 12-year-old child, Regan MacNeil.
- Sharon: All the time, I longed to see her. Finally, I came back and found that when I'm with her is the only time when I'm at peace. Why would that be? I can't understand it, it frightens me!
- Father Lamont: Have you tried a psychiatrist or a priest?
- Sharon: I'm talking to one now, aren't I?
- Father Lamont: Don't you understand... that I was face to face with the Evil that's inside her. Your machine has proved scientifically that there's an ancient demon locked within her!
- Father Lamont: You've got to fight that demon that's inside her! It's preventing her from reaching full spiritual power!
- Father Lamont: If I can find this man Kokumo, it would prove beyond doubt that the exorcisms were valid.
- Father Lamont: The power... it's getting nearer. Can't you feel it? The power is immense. It fills me. I can do anything.