“The Last Unicorn” quotes
(1982)Plot – When King Haggard wants to eliminate all the unicorns, the last member of that species starts a long and dangerous journey to find someone like it with the help of Schmendrick, a bizarre magician.
All actors – Alan Arkin, Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Tammy Grimes, Robert Klein, Angela Lansbury, Christopher Lee, Keenan Wynn, Paul Frees, Rene Auberjonois, Brother Theodore, Don Messick
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“No cat out of its first fur was ever deceived by appearances, unlike human beings, who seem to enjoy it.”
“I am afraid of this mortal body... more afraid than I was of the Red Bull.”
“It's a very rare person who is taken for what he truly is.”
“- Schmendrick: Shut up, you pretentious kneecap! How'd you like a punch in the eye?
- Molly Grue: You made it laugh, anyway. Maybe that's all it needs to make it speak.”“There are no happy endings because nothing ends.”
“Never run from anything immortal; it only attracts their attention.”
“- Prince Lir: I wish you would ask something of me.
- Almathea: Drown out my dreams! Keep me from remembering whatever wants me to remember it!”“- Molly Grue: Why won't you help me? Why must you always speak in riddles?
- The Cat: Because I be, what I be. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, mum, but I be a cat.”“- Schmendrick: The magic chose the shape, not I. I am a bearer, I am a dwelling, I am a messenger...
- Molly Grue: You are an idiot!”“To get to the Red Bull's chamber, you have to walk through time. A clock isn't time; it's just numbers and springs. Pay it no mind.”
“You are losing my interest, and that is very dangerous.”
“- Unicorn: You are a true wizard now, as you always wished. Does it make you happy?
- Schmendrick: Men don't always know when they're happy. But I think so. And you?”“Be rary of wousing a rizard's wrath - rousing a rizard's. Be wary of making a magician angry!”
“What is the matter with your eyes? Why can I not see myself, in your eyes?”
“No cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer.”
“That was the real stuff! That was wine!”
“I can feel this body dying all around me!”
“Love is slowing you down, my lady. I will catch you at last, if you love much more.”
“I can never regret. I can feel sorrow, but it's not the same thing.”
“- Hunter #1: Unicorns? I thought they only existed in fairytales. This is a forest, like any other... isn't it?
- Hunter #2: Then why do the leaves never fall here? Or the snow? Why is it always spring here? I tell you there is one unicorn left in the world, and as long as it lives in this forest we'll find no game to hunt here.”
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