Tilda Swinton movie quotes

“You think you know how the world works? You think that this material universe is all there is? What is real? What mysteries lie beyond the reach of your senses? At the root of existence, mind and matter meet. Thoughts shape reality. This universe is only one of an infinite number. Worlds without end. Some benevolent and life giving. Others...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tilda Swinton - The Ancient One

“Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered. Your time is short.”
Tilda Swinton - The Ancient One

The language of the mystic arts is as old as civilization. The sorcerers of antiquity called the use of this language "spells." But if that word offends your modern sensibilities, you can call it a program. The source code that shapes reality.
Tilda Swinton - The Ancient One

“We never lose our demons. We only learn to live above them.”
Tilda Swinton - The Ancient One

“Love and manipulation, they share houses very often. They are frequent bedfellows.”
Tilda Swinton - Dr. Klemperer

“- Susie: It felt like what I think it must feel like to fuck.
- Madame Blanc: Do you mean fuck a man?
- Susie Bannion: No. I was thinking of an animal.”

Dakota Johnson - Susie
Tilda Swinton - Madame Blanc

“A delusion is lies that tell truth.”
Tilda Swinton - Dr. Klemperer

“When you dance the dance of another, you make yourself in the image of its creator. You empty yourself so that her work can live within you.”
Tilda Swinton - Madame Blanc

“- Madame Blanc: You're in a company now. You have to find your right place. You have to decide - what is it you want to be in this company? Is it the head? The spine? The sex? The heart?
- Susie: The hands. I want to be this company's hands.”

Tilda Swinton - Madame Blanc
Dakota Johnson - Susie

“Movement is never mute. It is a language. It's a series of energetic shapes written in the air like words forming sentences. Like poems. Like prayers.”
Tilda Swinton - Madame Blanc

“You can give someone your delusion, Sara. That's religion.”
Tilda Swinton - Dr. Klemperer

“There are two things that dance can never be again: beautiful and cheerful. Today, we need to break the nose of every beautiful thing. And if you're going to be a dancer, you must learn French.”

Tilda Swinton - Madame Blanc

“My friend, you suffer from the misplaced optimism of the doomed.”
Tilda Swinton - Mason

“- Penelope Lanier: You're pretty domesticated for a rock star.
- Marianne Lane: Have I done anything to upset you?”
Dakota Johnson - Penelope Lanier
Tilda Swinton - Marianne Lane

“- M. Gustave: Oh, dear God, what have you done to your fingernails?
- Madame D.: I beg your pardon?
- M. Gustave: This diabolical varnish; the color is completely wrong!
- Madame D.: Oh really? Don't you like it?
- M. Gustave: It's not that I don't like it; I am physically repulsed.”
Ralph Fiennes - M. Gustave
Tilda Swinton - Madame D.

“This is a three billion dollar class action lawsuit. In the morning, I have to call my board. I have to tell them that the architect of our defense was arrested for running naked in the street. What sickness is he talking about?”
Tilda Swinton - Karen Crowder

“Now, as in the beginning, I belong to the front. You belong to the tail. When the foot seeks the place of the head, the sacred line is crossed. Know your place. Keep your place. Be a shoe.”
Tilda Swinton - Mason

“If sweet, sweet God loves you so, then I will make you worthy of His love. I've been watching for a long time. It's only in the face of horror that you truly find your nobler selves. And you can be so noble. So, I'll bring you pain, I'll bring you horror, so that you may rise above it. So that those of you who survive this reign of hell on Earth...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tilda Swinton - Gabriel

“Order is the barrier that holds back the flood of death. We must all of us on this train of life remain in our allotted station. We must each of us occupy our preordained particular position. Would you wear a shoe on your head? Of course you wouldn't wear a shoe on your head.”

Tilda Swinton - Mason

“I'm sorry to interrupt, but I notice this young lady's pathological attempt to project upon you her daddy issues of abandonment!”

Tilda Swinton - Dr. Shrink-Rom

“What is any life without the pursuit of a dream?”
Tilda Swinton - Rebecca Dearborn

“- Katie Cox: Do you think that's enough carrots?
- Harry Pfarrer: What?
- Katie Cox: For the salad?
- Harry Pfarrer: You know you really are a negative person.
- Katie Cox: What?
- Harry Pfarrer: Yeah. I've tried to ignore it. To remain upbeat. You just can't help dragging everything down.”
Tilda Swinton - Katie Cox
George Clooney - Harry Pfarrer

“- Gabriel: I'm simply seeking to inspire mankind to all that is intended.
- John Constantine: By handing Earth over to the son of the Devil?”
Tilda Swinton - Gabriel
Keanu Reeves - John Constantine

“- Osbourne Cox: Some clown, or two clowns, have gotten a hold of my memoirs.
- Katie Cox: Your what?
- Osbourne Cox: Stolen it, or I don't know...
- Katie Cox: Your what?
- Osbourne Cox: My memoirs, the book I'm writing.
- Katie Cox: Well why in God's name would anyone think that's worth anything?”
John Malkovich - Osborne Cox
Tilda Swinton - Katie Cox

“I have no interest in prisoners. Kill them all.”
Tilda Swinton - White Witch