Forbidden Planet Quotes
spoilers below!
Morbius: I cannot be answerable for the safety of your ship or your crew.
Morbius warning off Adams and the ship
Morbius: I wash my hands of all responsibility.
Morbius to Adams when the latter insists on landing
Robby: I rarely use it myself, sir. It promotes rust.
Robby to Commander Adams on the drawbacks of oxygen
Morbius: How ironic that a simple scholar with no ambition beyond a modest measure of seclusion should out of a clear sky find himself besieged by an army of fellow creatures, all grimly determined to be of service.
Morbius greeting his visitors at his residence
Morbius: And yet, always in my mind I seem to feel the creature is lurking somewhere close at hand, sly and irresistable, only waiting to be re-invoked for murder.
Morbius to Adams and the others about the "monster"
Altaira: You're lovely, Doctor. Of course the two end ones are unbelievable.
to the first three young men she meets
Farnam: Could this end one get you some coffee?
Jerry Farnam to Altaira
Morbius: Yes ... I ... I ... suppose one day soon I shall be obliged to make the trip to Earth for the sake of her natural development.
Doc Ostrow: I should say fairly soon too.
Ostrow commenting sagely on Altaira's hormones
Altaira: I'm so glad you have no fire in your eyes.
Farnam: Well, I'm not that harmless!
Altaira and Farnam discussing his relative trustworthiness
Farnam: You giving me the treatment? Are you?
Farnam on Altaira's lack of reaction to his advances
Commander Adams: I'm in command of 80 competitively selected super-fit physical specimens with an average age of 24.6 who have been locked up in hyperspace for 378 days. It would have served you right if he ... they ... oh go on, get out of here before I have you run out of the area under guard ... and then I'll put more guards on the guards.
Adams berating Altaira after catching her and Farnam kissing
Robby the Robot: Sorry miss, I was giving myself an oil-job.
Robby apologising for being tardy
Altaira: But it must be different - absolutely nothing must show - below, above or through.
Robby: Radiation-proof?
Altaira: No, just eye-proof will do.
Robby and Altaira discussing her new dress
Adams: Alta, you always look just beautiful.
Altaira: Then why don't you kiss me like everybody else does.
Adams and Altaira getting better acquainted
Morbius: You will find the household silver in the dining room, and my daughter's jewelry on her dressing table.
Morbius surprising Adams and Ostrow in his study
Morbius: Yes, a single machine, a cube 20 miles on each side.
Morbius on the underground Krell facility
Doc: The total potential here must be nothing less than astronomical!
Morbius: Nothing less. The number 10 raised almost literally to the power of infinity.
Morbius on the Krell machines
Morbius: Commanding officer doesn't need brains. Just a good loud voice.
Morbius jokingly commenting on Adams's score on the Krell intelligence test
Morbius: Remain here and the next attack on your party will be more deadly and more ... brutal.
Adams: How do you know that?
Morbius: Know? I seem to visualise it. I ... if you wish, call it a ... premonition."
Morbius warning Commander Adams after the first casualty
Adams: Doc, an invisible being that cannot be disintegrated with atomic fission.
Doc Ostrow: No, Skipper. That is a scientific impossibility.
Adams: Hipnotic illusions don't tear people apart.
Doc Ostrow: That's true enough. But any organism dense enough to survive 3 billion electron volts would have to be made of solid nuclear material. It would sink of its own weight to the centre of this planet.
Adams: Well, you saw it yourself standing right there in those neutron beams!
Doc Ostrow: There's your answer. It must have been renewing its molecular structure from one second to the next.
A highly scientific discussion after the skirmage with the monster; see Goof
Doc Ostrow: You ought to see my new mind. Up there in lights. Bigger than his now.
Doc Ostrow on his IQ boost
Doc Ostrow: Morbius was too close to the problem. The Krell had completed their project. Big machine ... no instrumentalities ... true creation.
Adams: Come on, Doc. Let's have it.
Doc Ostrow: But the Krell forgot one thing.
Adams: Yes, what?
Doc Ostrow: Monsters, John. Monsters from the Id.
Adams and Doc Ostrow just before the latter expires on the sofa
Morbius: The fool, the meddling idiot! As though his ape's brain could contain the secrets of the Krell.
Morbius commenting on Doc Ostrow's death
Morbius: He was warned and how he's paid. Let him be buried with the other victims of human greed and folly.
Altaira: Morbius. You wanted me to make a choice. Now you've chosen for me.
Altaira deciding to go with Adams
Morbius: Young man, my daughter is planning a very foolish action and she'll be terribly punished.
Morbius to Adams after Altaira chooses to leave
Adams: The big machine. 8,000 cubic miles of [...] relays. Enough power for a whole population of creative geniuses. Operated by remote control, Morbius. Operated by the electromagnetic impulses of individual Krell brains.
Morbius: To what purpose?
Adams: In return that ultimate machine would instantaneously project solid matter to any point on the planet, in any shape or colour they might imagine. For any purpose, Morbius! Creation by mere thought.
...
Adams: But like you the Krell forgot one deadly danger. Their own subconscious hate and lust for destruction.
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Adams: And so those mindless beasts of the subconscious had access to a machine that could never be shut down. The secret devil of every soul on the planet all set free at once to loot and maim and take revenge, Morbius! And kill!
Adams makes amazing leaps of logic to explain all to flabbergasted Morbius
Morbius: Oh my poor Krell!
Morbius mourning the Krell
Adams: You still refuse to face the truth.
Morbius: What truth?
Adams: Morbius, that thing out there. It's you.
Adams to Morbius after Robby fails to kill the monster
Morbius: My evil self is at that door and I have no power to stop him!
Morbius as the monster breaks through the study door
Morbius: I deny you! I give you up!
Morbius confronting the monster in the study
Adams: About a million years from now the human race will crawl up to where the Krell once stood in their great moment of triumph and tragedy. And your father's name will shine again, like a beacon in the galaxy. [...] it will remind us that we're after all not God.
Adams's closing speech to Altaira aboard the cruiser
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
gratuitous Tempest quote - my favourite
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