Jim Morrison quotes from The Doors (1991)

Jim Morrison

"The movie will begin in five moments," the mindless voice announced. All those unseated will await the next show. We filed slowly, languidly into the hall. The auditorium was vast and silent. As we seated and were darkened, the voice continued, "The program for this evening is not new. You've seen this entertainment through and through. You've seen your birth, your life and death. You might recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? Enough to base a movie on?"

Jim Morrison

Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin...

Jim Morrison

It was the first time I tasted fear. I musta been about four, like a child is just like a flower, his head is floating in the breeze.

Jim Morrison

The reaction I get now looking back is the soul of the ghosts of those dead Indians -- maybe one or two of them were just running around freaking out and just leaped into my soul -- and they're still there.

Jim Morrison

We gotta take the planet back, reinvent the Gods, make new myths.

Jim Morrison

What's a rock and roll band for man, if you can't party all night and do bad things?

Jim Morrison

The music was new black polished chrome and came over the summer like liquid night.

Jim Morrison

I like a man who wears his soul on his face.

Jim Morrison

When the serpent appears, his head is ten feet long and five feet wide. He has one red eye and one green eye. He's deadly and he's seven miles long. As he moves -- on his scales is written all the history of the world, all people, all actions, all of us our little pictures on the scales, God it's big! -- and it's eating as it moves all the time, devouring, digesting consciousness, power, a monster of energy! We must kiss the snake on the tongue, if it senses our fear, it will eat us instantly. But if we kiss it without fear, the snake will take us through the garden and out the gate. To our freedom -we must ride this snake. To the end of time.

Jim Morrison

Some of the biggest mistakes in my life have been haircuts.

Jim Morrison

Where's your will to be weird man?

Jim Morrison

Actually, I don't really remember being born. It musta happened during one of my blackouts.

Jim Morrison

Y'all believe what you want to believe, you will anyway... but it does kinda show you what excites people? Fear, pity, horror -- all those good things that count. It's sorta I guess like being on the edge of an orgasm, y'know... that mystery just before you come. When? If? Should I? Will you die for me, eat me, this way, the end...

Jim Morrison

Maybe I should always **** my critics.

Jim Morrison

Hatred is very underestimated emotion.

Jim Morrison

I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me. Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality -- that's-all -- I was curious... I kinda always preferred to be hated. Like Eric von Stroheim in the movies, the man you love to hate.

Jim Morrison

I go out on a stage and I howl for people. In me they see what they want to see -- some say the Lizard King, whatever that means, or some black-clad leather demon whatever that means... but really I think of myself as a sensitive, intelligent human being but with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most crucial moment... a fake hero... a joke the gods played on me... it's okay, I accept the joke... and smile. Death old friend, death and my ****, I can forgive my injuries in the name of wisdom, luxury, romance. Words got me the wound and will get me well. All join now in lament of my ****, a tongue of knowledge in the feathered night. Boys get crazy in the head and suffer. I sacrifice my **** on the altar of silence.

Jim Morrison

I'm the poet and you're my muse.

Jim Morrison

You're all a buncha **** slaves!

Jim Morrison

Well uh, it's designed to wear you down y'know... when that rap sheet says the "United States of America versus You" it takes you down day by day, specially when no one really gives a shit about, y'know, the First Amendment that's on trial here... Nobody says anything about that, it's just uh did you take your pants off y'know, I mean that's not what it's about, it's about freedom, that's what it's about... but who cares, right? Freedom exists in a schoolbook.

Jim Morrison

I can only open doors, M'am. I can't drag people thru 'em. I'm no savior.

Jim

Hi.

Pam

Wow! Hi...You have a problem with doors?

Jim

Waste of time. I followed you... from the beach...

Pam

Wow! You followed me? Why?

Jim

'Cause... you're the one. [He kisses her]

Pam

Wow... neat.

Hey man whatdya expect, an Oscar?

You can't quit, you gotta voice. People can't dig cause they don't understand yet.

If you're an individual, if you're too good, they wanna cut your dick off. Look what happened to Orson Wells.

You quit now, they'll yank your deferment in no time and they'll get you for Vietnam man. Three more months you graduate.

Be cool, you never learned ****in patience Morrison, you want everything at once.

They didn't get it. So make your films and **** what they think.

Jim

You know what I think?

Yeah whadda you think?

Jim

You really want to know what I think?

Yeah yeah, whatddaya think?

Jim

I think we gotta get really ripped!

Jim

What turns you on?

Pam

I don't know. Experience. Freedom. Love... Now. Peyote's like love. When it's given it's blessed. When it's sold it's damned. I like peyote. I like acid, it's easier to get. I like the spiritual voyage. The first time I did acid I saw God. I did. I had a friend who was Christ. And he was Judas too. I suddenly knew the secret of everything -- that we're all one, the universe is one. And that everything is beautiful.

Jim

Is it? I don't know. I think you're alive by confronting death -- by experiencing pain.

Pam

I think you're alive by recognizing beauty -- seeing truth because when you discover truth you discover what love is... we're all saying the same thing. It's "love me and I'll love you."

Jim

It's only through death that you know life. Jesus, medicine men heal people by sacrificing their own life.

Pam

Do you love Death?

Jim

I think life hurts a lot more than death. When you die the pain is over.

Jerry

What shit, "day destroys the night", "crawl back in your brain", "go insane". What do people wanna pay money to hear that shit?

Jim

The greater the suffering, the more terrible the events, the greater the pleasure Jerry. They want it, it's catharsis. Like the ancient Greeks.

Jerry

We're in Los Angeles, punk, how would you know? They like your pants, they're not listenin' to you, what the hell they see in you I...

Jim

But they understand Jerry. All our real desires are unconscious and unseen.

Jerry

You're the weirdest ****in' guy I ever...

Jim

You love us?

Jerry

I love ya. You got two more shows to do.

Jim

Jesus Ray, every girl out there wanted to **** me, I could feel it for the first time!

Ray

Right on stud. But you better watch out for the guys.

John

I think I'm **** up. I'm not thinking right.

Jim

You're **** up John. Go with it, confusion is the sound of creation.

John

You should see your eyes right now, you're death. Look at your eyes -- you're crazy man, you look crazy. You scare me.

Jim

No no no John John. God is crazy too. God is part insane as well as sane. Not in control all the time. Dionysus was the God of the wine. He made ecstasy but he also made madness. Madness is all right. That's what you want, isn't it, isn't it?

Ray

I'm in pain man. I want something from the peyote. I feel the universe functioning perfectly but I'm still perfectly locked inside myself. Instead of Oneness, I feel total Isolation. Aloneness. Fear... Pain...Jim, all I feel is pain.

Jim

Pain makes me feel more alive Ray. Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain but they're wrong.

John

I feel lust. I want to **** everything I can, and I know it will never be enough.

Jim

Pam wants you. You're a good Catholic John, you want it so you can feel guilty about it... **** death away John.

I feel Fear... so bad I just numb out all my feelings. I'm afraid of my father, I'm afraid of Yahweh... I wish I could play my guitar.

Jim

Maybe you should kill your father Robbie. He tried to kill you. Kill him!

I'm so **** scared.

Jim

But you're Alive! It's beautiful! Fear, pain, lust, we've got to know all our feelings before we can come out the other side free men. Don't feel ashamed of yourselves, don't let society destroy your reality. Our freedom's the only thing worth dying for, it's the only thing worth living for!

Jim

I don't mind dying in a plane crash, a smile on my face.

Pam

As compared to what?

Jim

I just don't want to go out slow -- brain tumor, botulism. I want to feel what it's like, cause death is only going to happen to you once.

Ed Sullivan

Look, you boys don't forget to smile now. There's no reason to be so sullen out there...

Jim

Uh well, we're kind of a sullen group, Ed.

Pam

Aren't you doing this for you? Because you're a poet, not a rock star. Ed Sullivan's not a place for you.

Jim

You really know what I am Pam? You know what poetry is? Where is the feast they promised us? Where is the wine -- the new wine -- dying on the vine?

Pam

What are you saying?

Jim

Y'see -- I lied to you. I really love Fame.

Pam

**** you man I'm outta here.

Jim

Get mad! Yeahhh! Love my girl! Yeah, go **** the other guys. How many white guys have you **** Pam? 10, 20? Black guys what? You like Chinese dicks? Mongolian penis? 30?

Pam

How many dogs have you ****? You don't say no to anybody! Drugs, dogs, uglies, you'd **** a doorknob with butter on it!

What are your songs about Mr. Morrison?

Jim

Uh, love death travel... revolt. We all write the songs, we're interested in anything about disorder, chaos, especially activity which seems to have no meaning...Like This. I think when you make peace with authority, you become authority.

Can you define that a little more?

Jim

Yeah you can call us erotic politicians I guess.

Pam

You actually put your dick in this woman Jim?

Jim

Well I... sometimes yeah.

Ray

I never knew what you saw in that nightmare chick man.

Jim

Well she is kinda flakey -- like me. I mean she's just so vulnerable about everything. It makes me sad man. But she's always kinda believed in something about me y'know -- her little picture of me as the unsung poet -- and it's a fantasy I kinda dig y'know, 'stead of the one I live.

Ray

I don't know man, I don't wanna sound like your old man but you're only 27, you're living like you gotta get it all in, you gotta slow down man, you did it, you broke through to the other side.

Jim

We didn't break thru Ray, we just pushed things a little. When you really break through, there's nothing left. No music, no Doors, no God, nothing -- only a will to power.

Ray

I don't believe that. You were an American prince, man -- with overbred genes -- [Jim laughs] No! What could've been Jim? You could've been President. [Jim laughs] No man! What could've been Jim? We stood here on this beach on the edge of the Pacific that crazy summer day in '65 -- and we knew, you and I, we knew we were at the edge of the mind. we were there, man. One planet, one globe, one mind. Consciousness, we raised it, we were there.