“The Zero Theorem” quotes

“What is the meaning of life, Mr. Leth? So close to its end and still no answers.”
Matt Damon - Management

“- Qohen Leth: What kind of work do you do exactly?
- Bainsley: I shoot trouble.”
Christoph Waltz - Qohen Leth
Mélanie Thierry - Bainsley

“- Qohen Leth: What I'm living for?
- Management: That's a good question Mr Leth, posed entirely to the wrong person. You see, it seems you've mistaken me for a considerably higher power. I'm not the source of your call. I'm not God or the Devil, I'm just a man ... seeking the truth.”
Christoph Waltz - Qohen Leth
Matt Damon - Management

“In a way, from the moment of birth, we all begin to die. Call it divinely planned obsolence. Soon or late, beggar or king, death is the end of all things.”
Ben Whishaw - Doctor

Waiting for "the call". What other reason is there to pick up the phone?
Christoph Waltz - Qohen Leth

“It's better than real. You're in your computer and I'm in mine. We're connected by memory chips and fiber optics. We're safe here.”
Mélanie Thierry - Bainsley

“This is all just a way station on the road to promised eternity.”

Matt Damon - Management

“Did you know that more than 33 different aboriginal tribes believe that the soul resides somewhere in the lower intestinal tract? Absolutely true, but here's the zinger: none of these tribes have any knowledge of each other's existence.”

Lucas Hedges - Bob

“The saddest aspect of mankind's need to believe in a God, or to put it another way, a purpose greater than this life, is that it makes this life meaningless.”

Matt Damon - Management

“You're staring at me. You think my dress is incredibly ugly? Well, it's my daddy's fault. He used to buy me these incredibly ugly clothes to keep the boys away. It didn't work... only made me want to get naked. And that's no way to keep the boys away.”
Mélanie Thierry - Bainsley

“- Bainsley: I knew you just seemed just - well, you were lonely.
- Qohen Leth: You're wrong. We were always alone, never lonely.”
Mélanie Thierry - Bainsley
Christoph Waltz - Qohen Leth

“- Qohen Leth: Nothing adds up.
- Joby: No. You've got it backwards, Qohen. Everything adds up to nothing, that's the point.”
Christoph Waltz - Qohen Leth
David Thewlis - Joby

“We'll go somewhere faraway, to a special place, on a tropical island. A real one. Just come with me. I know we connected somehow, you know? I know we did. And you need me. And I need to be needed so bad. Just come with me. You know we can be together for real. Just run away with me.”

Christoph Waltz - Qohen Leth

“- Joby: Hi Bob. Working hard, or hardly working?
- Bob: Pays the same either way.”
David Thewlis - Joby
Lucas Hedges - Bob

“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

“Life might be seen as a virus infecting the perfect organism of death.”
Ben Whishaw - Doctor

“- Management: I never said all is for nothing. I'm a businessman, Mr. Leth, nothing is for nothing. Ex inordinateo veni pecunia.
- Qohen Leth: What?
- Management: There's money in ordering disorder. Chaos pays, Mr. Leth.”
Matt Damon - Management
Christoph Waltz - Qohen Leth