“Bringing Out the Dead” quotes
(1999)
Martin Scorsese
directed this movie
in 1999
Title Bringing Out the Dead
Year 1999
Director Martin Scorsese
Genre Drama, Thriller
Year 1999
Director Martin Scorsese
Genre Drama, Thriller
Plot – An ambulance speeds with sirens wailing through New York streets. A team of paramedics is facing the usual night shift. They are exhausted and devastated but they manage to go on thanks to their sense of humor and a sarcastic view of the world. The city itself is still far from the recent economic rebirth.
All actors – Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Ving Rhames, Tom Sizemore, Marc Anthony, Mary Beth Hurt, Cliff Curtis, Nestor Serrano, Aida Turturro, Sonja Sohn, Cynthia Roman, Afemo Omilami, Cullen O. Johnson, Arthur J. Nascarella, Martin Scorsese, Julyana Soelistyo, Graciela Lecube, Marylouise Burke, Phyllis Somerville, Mary Diveny, Tom Riis Farrell, Aleks Shaklin, Leonid Citer, Jesus A. Del Rosario Jr., Larry Fessenden, Bernie Friedman, Theo Kogan, Fuschia!, John Heffernan, Matthew Maher, Bronson Dudley, Marilyn McDonald, Ed Jupp Jr., J. Stanford Hoffman, Rita Norona Schrager, Don Berry, Mtume Gant, Michael A. Noto, Omar Scroggins, Craig muMs Grant, Michael Kenneth Williams, Andy Davoli, Charlene Hunter, Jesse Malin, Harper Simon, Joseph Monroe Webb, Jon Abrahams, Charis Michelsen, Lia Yang, Antone Pagan, Melissa Marsala, Betty Miller, Rosemary Gomez, Luis Rodriguez, Sylva Kelegian, Frank Ciornei, Catrina Ganey, Jennifer Lane Newman, John Bal, Raymond Cassar, Tom Cappadona, Jack O'Connell, Randy Foster, Richard Spore, James Hanlon, Chris Edwards, Mark Giordano, Michael Mulheren, David Zayas, Terry Serpico, Floyd Resnick, Megan Leigh, David Vasquez, Judy Reyes, Joseph P. Reidy, Queen Latifah, , Peju Bamgboshe, Carolyn Campbell, Michael Carbonaro, Joe Connelly, Marshall Dancing Elk Lucas, George F. Miller, Davell j Owens, Brian Smyj, Emma Terese
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“- Marcus: I rebuke the spirit of drugs in the name of Jesus. What's his name?
- Drummer: I.B. Bangin'.
- Marcus: What do you mean, I.B. Bangin'?
- Drummer: I.B. Bangin'!
- Marcus: What the hell kind of name is I.B. Bangin'?
- Drummer: I don't know his real name.
- I.B.'s Girlfriend: It's Frederick Smith.
- Marcus: Okay, Freddy...
- I.B.'s...” (continue)(continue reading)“I'm a true cocksman. I don't mix my seed. The only time I touch a white woman is when I'm holding her down for the police.”
“The first step is love, the second is mercy.”
“Saving someone's life is like falling in love. The best drug in the world. For days, sometimes weeks afterwards, you walk the streets, making infinite whatever you see. Once, for a few weeks, I couldn't feel the earth - everything I touched became lighter. Horns played in my shoes. Flowers fell from my pockets. You wonder if you've become...” (continue)(continue reading)
“- Marcus: Rule Number One: Don't get involved with patients. Rule Number Two: don't get involved with patients' daughters, now do you understand that?
- Frank Pierce: What about Rule Number Three: Don't get involved with dispatchers named Love?
- Marcus: Boy, you don't know nothin' bout Rule Number Three! Can't even begin to understand the...” (continue)(continue reading)“You cannot be near the newly dead without feeling it.”
“I'd always had nightmares, but now the ghosts didn't wait for me to sleep.”
“- Dr. Hazmat: I thought you said this guy was dead.
- Frank Pierce: He got better.”“With all the poor people of this city who wanted only to live and were viciously murdered, you have the nerve to sit here, wanting to die, and not go through with it? You make me sick!”
“You have to be strong to survive in this city.”
“Taking credit when things go right doesn't work the other way.”
“The streets are not like the ER. There's no walls, no controls.”
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