“Angels In America” quotes

“We have reached a verdict, your honor. This man's heart is deficient. He loves, but his love is worth nothing.”

Justin Kirk - Prior Walter

“I've lived through such terrible times and there are people who live through much worse. But you see them living anyway. When they're more spirit than body, more sores than skin, when they're burned and in agony, when flies lay eggs in the corners of the eyes of their children - they live.”
Justin Kirk - Prior Walter

“- Roy Cohn: I want a white nurse. My constitutional right.
- Belize: You're in a hospital, you don't have any constitutional rights.”
Al Pacino - Roy Cohn
Jeffrey Wright - Belize

“- Prior Walter: I had a wet dream.
- Belize: Mmm. The Calvin Klein man?
- Prior Walter: No, it was a woman.
- Belize: Are you turnin' straight on me?”
Justin Kirk - Prior Walter
Jeffrey Wright - Belize

“Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.”
Jeffrey Wright - Belize

“People are like planets, you need a thick skin.”
Mary-Louise Parker - Harper Pitt

“- Harper Pitt: I'm a Mormon.
- Prior Walter: I'm a homosexual.
- Harper Pitt: In my church we don't believe in homosexuals.
- Prior Walter: In my church we don't believe in Mormons.”
Mary-Louise Parker - Harper Pitt
Justin Kirk - Prior Walter

“I hate America. Nothing but a bunch of big ideas and stories and people dying, and then people like you. The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word free to a note so high nobody could reach it.”
Jeffrey Wright - Belize

“- Harper Pitt: I burned dinner.
- Joe Pitt: I'm sorry.
- Harper Pitt: Not my dinner, my dinner was fine. Your dinner. I put it back in the oven and turned everything up as high as it could go and I watched 'til it burned black. It's still hot, very hot, want it?”
Mary-Louise Parker - Harper Pitt
Patrick Wilson - Joe Pitt

“- Harper Pitt: In your experience of the world. How do people change?
- Mormon Mother: Well it has something to do with God so it's not very nice. God splits the skin with a jagged thumbnail from throat to belly and then plunges a huge filthy hand in, he grabs hold of your bloody tubes and they slip to evade his grasp but he squeezes hard, he...” (continue)(continue reading)
Mary-Louise Parker - Harper Pitt
Robin Weigert - Mormon Mother

“I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die.”
Mary-Louise Parker - Harper Pitt

“You know what your problem is? Your problem is you're so full of piping hot crap the mention of your name draws flies.”

Jeffrey Wright - Belize

“I don't know if it's not braver to die, but I recognize the habit; the addiction to being alive. So we live past hope.”
Justin Kirk - Prior Walter

“This disease will be the end of many of us, but not nearly all. And the dead will be commemorated, and we'll struggle on with the living, and we are not going away. We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come.”

Justin Kirk - Prior Walter

“My wrath is as fearsome as my countenance is splendid.”
Emma Thompson - Nurse Emily

“Nothing's lost forever. In this world, there's a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.”
Mary-Louise Parker - Harper Pitt

“- Prior Walter: I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
- Ethel Rosenberg: Well that's a stupid thing to do.”
Justin Kirk - Prior Walter
Meryl Streep - Ethel Rosenberg

“There are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past, no racial past, there's only the political, and the decoys and the ploys to maneuver around the inescapable battle of politics.”
Ben Shenkman - Louis Ironson

“AIDS. Homosexual. Gay. Lesbian. You think these are names that tell you who a person sleeps with, but they don't tell you that.”

Al Pacino - Roy Cohn

“You come with me to Room 1013 over at the hospital and I'll show you America. Terminal, crazy, and mean. I live in America. I don't have to love it.”

Jeffrey Wright - Belize

I usually say "Fuck the truth", but mostly, the truth fucks you.
Justin Kirk - Prior Walter

“Death usually has to take life away.”
Justin Kirk - Prior Walter