Dennis Hopper movie quotes

“Do you know what I love about mud? It's clean and it's dirty at the same time.”

Dennis Hopper - King Koopa

“- FH: You're still alive?
- Bill: Are you kidding?
- FH: No.
- Bill: Well, that is too bad, because it makes you sound awful stupid asking if I'm alive, 'cause obviously I am.
- FH: Well, maybe I mean alive in a deeper sense. You could be talking, but still not be alive in a deeper sense.
- Bill: Well, there's no deeper shit than the kind we're...” (continue)(continue reading)

Billy Crudup - FH
Dennis Hopper - Bill

“Your mother is not crazy. And neither, contrary to popular belief, is your brother crazy. He's merely miscast in a play. He was born in the wrong era, on the wrong side of the river. With the ability to be able to do anything that he wants to do and... findin' nothin' that he wants to do. I mean nothing.”
Dennis Hopper - Father

“- Deacon: I don't think you're gonna drop that torch, my friend.
- Mariner: Why not?
- Deacon: Because you're not crazy.
[the Mariner smiles, lifts his hand, and drops the flare down the hole]”
Dennis Hopper - Deacon
Kevin Costner - Mariner

“- Lefty: I'm the Lord of the Harvest!
- Drayton: What's that? Some new health food bunch?”
Dennis Hopper - Lieutenant 'Lefty' Enright
Jim Siedow - Drayton Sawyer - The Cook

“Well, excuse me, did I say anybody could leave before the battle is over, did I?”
Dennis Hopper - Deacon

“You may think of evolution as... an upward process. Things evolve from primeval slime, up to single-celled organisms, up to... intelligent life. De-evolution, of course, works the opposite way. Back to... simpler forms.”
Dennis Hopper - King Koopa

“- Jack Travern: We have an injured man here. The driver's been shot.
- Howard Payne: Jack, tell me that you haven't been shooting the passengers. I thought it was customary for a police officer to shoot the bad guys.”
Keanu Reeves - Jack Traven
Dennis Hopper - Howard Payne

“Let's have an intelligent conversation here: I'll talk, and you listen.”
Dennis Hopper - Deacon

“- Deacon: What do you say, Toby? The truth.
- Toby: Looks like shit.
- Deacon: That's why I love children: no guile.
[after looking at his new eye in a mirror]
- Deacon: It does look like shit...and it feels like cold shit!”
David Finnegan - Toby
Dennis Hopper - Deacon

“If I ever see him again, I'm going to cut open his head and eat his brain.”
Dennis Hopper - Deacon

“I've had a vision so great, as it came to me I wept.”
Dennis Hopper - Deacon

“One of those boys was so crazy he sawed his own head off going 90 miles per hour.”
Dennis Hopper - Lieutenant 'Lefty' Enright

“In a world where the dead are returning to life, the word trouble loses much of its meaning.”
Dennis Hopper - Kaufman

“The 90's are going to make the 60's look like the 50's.”
Dennis Hopper - Huey Walker

“Well, I'll be damned. It's the gentleman guppy. You know, he's like a turd that won't flush.”
Dennis Hopper - Deacon

“Look at this place. Pathetic. It gets worse every day. The humans on the other side have a world full of resources. Ready for the taking. Imagine: an endless supply of food, clean air, water. And what are we stuck with? This... pithole, germs everywhere, fungus. For 65 million years, we've been exhiled here after the meteorite stuck while...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dennis Hopper - King Koopa

“Now it's dark...”

Dennis Hopper - Frank Booth

“- Clifford Worley: You know, I don't believe you.
- Coccotti: That's of minor importance. What is of major fucking importance is that I believe you.”
Dennis Hopper - Clifford Worley
Christopher Walken - Vincenzo Coccotti

“In dreams, I walk with you. In dreams, I talk to you. In dreams, you're mine, all the time. Forever. In dreams...”
Dennis Hopper - Frank Booth

“Mandatory AIDS testing for all government employees. I guess that means you, Buckner. I wouldn't worry though, you look like a practitioner of safe sex. As a matter of fact, you look like a practitioner of no sex.”
Dennis Hopper - Huey Walker

“If I ever see him again, I'm going to cut open his head and eat his brain.”

Dennis Hopper - Deacon

“A bomb is made to explode. That's its meaning. Its purpose. Your life is empty because you spend it trying to stop the bomb from becoming. And for who? For what? You know what a bomb is, Jack, that doesn't explode?”
Dennis Hopper - Howard Payne

“- Father: Are you ill, Russell-James?
- Rusty James: I got cut up in a knife fight.
- Father: Yeah, really.
- Rusty James: Yeah.
- Father: Yep, really. Strange lives you two lead.
- Rusty James: Strange? At least I'm not a lawyer on welfare.”
Dennis Hopper - Father
Matt Dillon - Rusty James

“- Coccotti: You know who I am, Mr. Worley?
- Clifford Worley: I give up. Who are you?
- Coccotti: I'm the Anti-Christ. You got me in a vendetta kind of mood. You tell the angels in heaven you never seen evil so singularly personified as you did in the face of the man who killed you. My name is Vincent Coccotti.”
Christopher Walken - Vincenzo Coccotti
Dennis Hopper - Clifford Worley