Sister Helen Prejean I want the last face you see in this world to be the face of love, so you look at me when they do this thing. I'll be the face of love for you.
Most-quoted character in Dead Man Walking (1995): in 8 of its 14 quotes
Most scenes with: Matthew Poncelet (3)
Look at you. Death is looking down your neck, and you're playing your little male come-on games.
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Clyde Percy [about Matthew Poncelet]
How can you stand next to him?
Sister Helen Prejean Mr. Percy, I'm just trying to follow the example of Jesus, who said that a person is not as bad as his worst deed.
Clyde Percy This is not a person. This is an animal.
Sister Helen Prejean Show me some respect, Matthew.
Why? 'Cause you're a nun?
Sister Helen Prejean Because I'm a person.
Sister Colleen If Matt dies, guess who he'll be buried next to?
Sister Helen Prejean Who's the last person to die?
Sister Colleen Sister Celestine.
Sister Helen Prejean Oh Lord.
Sister Colleen You remember when that sweet little girl in the convent came after her wedding day to introduce her husband to us?
Sister Helen Prejean Sister Celestine said, "I'm glad I never had to share my bed with a man."
Sister Colleen She loved her celibacy so much.
Sister Helen Prejean I know. She's gonna be lying next to a man for all eternity.
Prison guard
Tell me something sister, what is a nun doing in a place like this? Shouldn't you be teaching children? Didn't you know what this man has done? How he killed them kids?
Sister Helen Prejean What he was involved with was evil. I don't condone it. I just don't see the sense of killing people to say that killing people's wrong.
Prison guard
You know what the Bible say, 'An eye for an eye'.
Sister Helen Prejean You know what else the Bible ask for death as a punishment? For adultery, prostitution, homosexuality, trespass upon sacred grounds, profane in a sabbath and contempt to parents.
Prison guard
I ain't gonna get no Bible quote from no nun cause I'm gonna lose.
I like rebels. Some blacks is OK. Martin Luther King, he led his people all the way to DC and kicked the white man's butt.
Sister Helen Prejean You respect Martin Luther King?
He put up a fight. He wasn't lazy.
Sister Helen Prejean What about lazy whites?
Don't like 'em.
Sister Helen Prejean So it's lazy people you don't like.
Sister Helen Prejean You are a son of God.
[in tears]
Thank you. I've never been called a son of God before. [laughs slightly] I've been called a son of a you-know-what plenty of times, but I've never been called a son of God.
