"Bless me"? Do you know what God did for me? He threw an 18-wheeled truck at me and bounced me into nowhere for five years! When I woke up, my girl was gone, my job was gone, my legs are just about useless... Blessed me? God's been a real sport to me!
Johnny Smith
Christopher Walken · 12 quotes
Greg Stillson
Martin Sheen · 6 quotes
Dr. Sam Weizak
Herbert Lom · 4 quotes
Sarah Bracknell
Brooke Adams · 3 quotes
Most scenes together: Johnny Smith & Dr. Sam Weizak (4), Johnny Smith & Sarah Bracknell (3)
The Dead Zone quotes
Page 1 of 2How'd you find me? My father?
I stopped off to see him, and he told me you moved to a new town. He's worried about you. And so am I.
There's nothing to worry about. I'm taking care of myself. It's about time I started doing that.
I'm still your doctor, John. You're still under my care. We have to stay in touch.
Well...
The bullet went right through me. It's nothing.
Good. [He looks around] Nice place you have here.
It's home... Let me show you something, Sam. [He displays a closet filled with letters and packages] My father passes these on to me. They're from people with lost family members, lost pets, lost friends, lost possessions... and lost lives.
You haven't opened any of them.
I don't need to. They all want the same things: reassurance, comfort, guidance, encouragement... things which aren't mine to give them.
Please don't look at me like that.
What am I gonna do? For you, five years have come and gone. For me, it's just about the next day. My feelings haven't changed yet.
Oh, Johnny. Why did it have to happen like this?
Bad luck.
Sheriff Bannerman I guess I've come to you with what you could call a proposal, John. Uh, it has to do with these murders we've been having. The Castle Rock Killer. I'm sure you've heard of him.
Sure.
Sheriff Bannerman I don't know whether it's true or not, uh, John, about these... psychic powers of yours. But if it is true, John, I could use your help.
Herb Smith
John, maybe you should give him, uh... [he trails off seeing Johnny's look]
Sheriff Bannerman Take a minute to think about it. But bear in mind some decent young women from homes just like this met with terrible, terrible deaths. Now, I'm at my wits' end. I've exhausted about every conventional method of approach to this situation. I've come up with nothing. I feel you can help me, John.
You made a mistake.
Sheriff Bannerman Mmm. I was sorry to hear about your mother's death, John, Mr. Smith. I understand she was a good woman. Christian woman. I'm not a religious man myself, I'm sorry to say. But I will say this. If God has seen fit to bless you with this gift, you should use it.
Do it, General.
Five Star General
You're insane... I won't...
DO IT! Put your hand on the scanning screen, and you'll go down in history with me.
Five Star General
As what? The world's greatest mass murderers?
You cowardly bastard! You're not the voice of the people, I am the voice of the people! The people speak through me, not you! It came to me while I slept, Sonny... my destiny. In the middle of the night, it came to me - I must get up NOW, RIGHT NOW, and fulfill my destiny! Now you put your goddamn hand on that scanning screen, or I'll hack it off and put it on for you! DO IT!
Five Star General
[Reluctantly, slowly, puts his hand on the scanner]
God forgive me.
Sonny Elliman Complete the sequence, Mr. President.
[Stillson puts his hand on the scanner, then enters in the launch code]
My destiny. [Presses the launch button]
Henrietta Dodd You... you're a devil, sent from Hell!
I've been tutoring this boy named Stuart. In the vision, I saw him drown. But that's not the point. In the vision, something was missing.
How - how do you mean?
It was like... a blank spot, a dead zone.
First of all, tell me, did the boy, in fact, drown?
His father wanted him to play hockey. I talked him out of it. The boy's alive.
Ah. Yes. Don't you see how clear it is? Not only can you see the future, you can...
I can change it.
You can change it, exactly. Here. Yes, John. That is your... your "dead zone." The possibility of... of altering the outcome of your premonitions. It's fascinating. Let me make a note.
It reminds me of a line from "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" the last story I read to my class before... the accident. Ichabod Crane disappears... the line goes: "As he was a bachelor, and in nobody's debt, nobody troubled their head about him anymore."
Is that what you feel?
Is what I want... what I want.
What about my question?
Huh? Huh? Oh, you mean the one about Hitler?
What would you do?
I don't like this, John. What are you getting at?
What would you do? Would you kill him?
All right. All right. I'll give you an answer. I'm a man of medicine. I'm expected to save lives and ease suffering. I love people. Therefore, I would have no choice but to kill the son of a bitch.
You'd never get away alive.
It doesn't matter. I would kill him. [lifting drink] Nasdro via. Skol.
Your father says there's something wrong with you, he wants me to bring you out of your shell. I don't know what to do.
Chris Stuart
You don't have to do anything. It's my dad that lives in a shell, not me.
You're looking good.
Yeah, it's called the coma diet - lose weight while you sleep.
[John has "seen" Stillson become President and trigger WW3, and now is making up his mind how to prevent Stillson's holocaust]
If you could go back in time to Germany, before Hitler came to power, knowing what you know now, would you kill him?
Is that why you sent for me, to ask me this, uh... this question?
[Johnny has attempted to shoot Stillson. during this, Stillson holds Sarah's baby in front of him as a human shield, causing Johnny to pause. A photographer is able to take a couple of pictures of Stillson. When Sarah pulls her baby from Stillson's hands, Johnny raises his rifle again but is fatally shot by Sonny. After Johnny falls over, Stillson goes to him]
Who are you, you son of a bitch? Who sent you? HUH?!
[Johnny puts his hand on Stillson's arm, seeing a new future, where the picture of Stillson using the baby as a human shield is on the front cover of Newsweek, and a defeated Stillson committing suicide from the scandal.]
It's over...you're finished.
[Realizes what he means, angrily turns to Sonny]
Where's that kid with the camera?! He was taking pictures!
Sonny Elliman [disgusted]
I didn't see him.
YOU ASSHOLE!
I have had a vision that I am going to be President of the United States someday. And nobody, and I mean nobody is going to stop me!
I need your support, I need your expertise, I need your input, and most importantly, I need your money. [laughter]