Jack Lucas quotes from The Fisher King (1991)

Jack Lucas

I told you about these people. They're evil, Edwin. They must be stopped.

Jack Lucas

You ever read any Nietzsche? Nietzsche says there's two kinds of people in the world: people who are destined for greatness like Walt Disney... and Hitler. Then there's the rest of us, he called us "the bungled and the botched." We get teased. We sometimes get close to greatness, but we never get there. We're the expendable masses. We get pushed in front of trains, take poison aspirin ... get gunned down in Dairy Queens.

Jack Lucas

I wish there was some way I could just pay the fine and go home.

Jack Lucas

Some billionaire's got the Holy Grail in his library on Fifth Avenue.

Jack Lucas

I'm hearing horses! Parry will be so pleased!

The whole point of life, I think, is for men and women to get married so that God and the Devil can get together — and work it out.

Anne Napolitano

Didn't you say that what you liked about our relationship is that we didn't have to think? We could just be there for each other.

Jack Lucas

Suicidal paranoiacs'll say anything to get laid.

Jack Lucas

Where would King Arthur be without Guinevere?

Parry

Happily married, probably.

Jack Lucas

Well, that's a bad... that's a bad example.

Jack Lucas

I don't mean to be flippant or to enrage you or anything, but you're a psychotic man.

Parry

I know.

Jack Lucas

A very nice psychotic man.

Parry

Thank you.

Jack Lucas

Do you still believe in God?

Anne Napolitano

Oh! You gotta believe in God! But I don't believe that God created Man in His image. 'Cause most of the shit that happens is because of men. Naw, I think men was made in the Devil's image, and women were created outta God. 'Cause, after all, women can have babies, which is kinda like creating. And which also accounts for the fact that women are so attracted to men. 'Cause let's face it, the Devil is a helluva lot more interesting. I've slept with some saints in my day, and believe me, I know what I'm talking about. Egh-boy! So, the whole point of life, the whole point of life, I think, is for men and women to get married so that God and the Devil can get together — and work it out. Not that we have to get married or anything. God forbid.