The Exorcist III 1990 quotes

Father Kanavan

May the Lord be in your heart to confess your sins. Yes?

Penitent

I have a... a... scrupulous conscience, Father. This need to... confess... so many things. If I... step on... two straws on the shape of the Cross, I feel that I have to confess it. It torments me.

Father Kanavan

Try and make a good confession, and remember, Christ forgives all our sins.

Penitent

Only little things. Nothing. Seventeen of them, Father. The first was that waitress in Candlestick Park. I cut her throat and watched her bleed. She bled a great deal. It's a problem I'm working on, Father. All this bleeding.
[begins cackling diabolically; Kanavan looks on in horror]

In the meantime, we have cancer and mong***id babies and murderers, monsters prowling the planet, even prowling this neighborhood. Father... right now, while our children suffer, and our loved ones die, and your god goes waltzing blithely through the universe like some kind of cosmic Billie Burke.

Father Dyer

Bill, it all works out right.

When?

Father Dyer

At the end of time.

That soon?

Father Dyer

No, we're going to be there. We're going to live forever, Bill. We're spirits.

How I would love to believe that.

Father Dyer

It's that kid that got killed on the dock, isn't it? I heard it on the news. You want to talk about it? You knew him.

Little bit. Police boys club. His name was Thomas... Thomas Kintry. Black boy, about 12 years old. The killer... drove an ingot into each of his eyes, then cut off his head. In place of his head was the head from a statue of Christ, all done up in blackface, like a minstrel show, you know, the eyes and the mouth painted white. Mr. Bones... The boy had been crucified... on a pair of rowing oars.

The whole world is a homicide victim, Father. Would a god who is good invent something like death? Plainly speaking, it's a lousy idea. It's not popular, Father. It's not a winner.

Father Dyer

There you go, blaming God.

Who should I blame? Phil Rizzuto?

Father Dyer

You wouldn't want to live forever.

Yes, I would.

Father Dyer

No, you wouldn't. You'd get bored.

I have hobbies.

You know, I wonder if both of us are dreaming this.

Father Dyer

No, Bill. I'm not dreaming.

Are you Damien Karras?

Aah, you haven't any medical records for him, have you? No tedious fingerprints?

Joey, what did you say to that defendant Tom Lowery? He's our biggest benefactor.

Father Dyer

Oh, yes.

What did you say to him?

Father Dyer

"Jesus loves you, everyone else thinks you're an asshole."

Mrs. Clelia

My radio. Aren't you going to fix it? Nothing ever gets fixed round here. Just a whole bunch of pies and anchovies. Go away. I don't ever talk to strangers.

I'm the radio repairman, Mrs. Clelia.

Mrs. Clelia

Well then, fix it.

What's wrong with it?

Mrs. Clelia

Dead people talking. It's right here. Do you see it?

Yes. I see it.

Mrs. Clelia

I just knew you weren't really a radio repairman. That's a telephone I'm holding.

Incidentally, who is this Damien you mentioned?

Don't you know him?

I know nothing! Except I must go on killing Daddy! I must shame him!

I thought you told me nothing's really wrong with you.

Father Dyer

There isn't, my brother Eddie had these same stupid symptoms for years.

Your brother Eddie died at the age of 30.

Father Dyer

So what? He got killed in Vietnam.

There could have be some connection.

Father Dyer

A connection?

Are you sure this isn't serious, Joe?

Father Dyer

Well, with Eddie, there was--

Will you shut up about Eddie?!

Father Dyer

With my brother, it was nerves.

You make a lot of people nervous.

Father Dyer

Only sinners.

EVERYBODY!

Nurse Blaine

Is everything all right in here, guys?

WE'RE FINE!

I'm just... tired.

Father Dyer

Well, call the desk and book a room.

I brought you a hamburger, father.

Father Dyer

I'm not hungry.

Eat half, it's from Clyde's.

Father Dyer

Where'd the other half come from?

Space, your native country.

WHO STUCK THIS GUY?!

Father Dyer

Nice and peaceful here, isn't it?

Idyllic.

Damien Karras

Bill, now! Shoot now! Kill me now!

Catatonics are so easy to possess.

Did you get my message? I left it with Keating. Nice girl. Good heart.

Father Joseph Dyer

Go in peace, my child. May the Schwartz be with you.

I cannot believe you just said that. What kind of a world is this? Are you an animal? Do you know what Macbeth is about? I'll tell you. It's a play about the numbing of the moral sense. I tell Ryan that we have nothing to go on in this case. You know what he says to me? "Win some, lose some." You're a racist, Ryan. Did you know that?

Damien Karras

I have dreams of a rose... and falling down a long flight of steps.