Forbidden Planet 1956 quotes

Where have you been? I've beamed and beamed.

Sorry, miss. I was giving myself an oil-job.

Robby, I must have a new dress, right away.

Again?

Oh, but this one must be different! Absolutely nothing must show — below, above or through.

Radiation-proof?

No, just eye-proof will do.

Thick and heavy?

Oh, no, no, it’s got to be the softest, loveliest thing you’ve ever made for me, and fit in all the right places, with lots and lots of star sapphires.

Star sapphires take a week to crystallise properly, would diamonds or emeralds do?

Well, if they’re large enough.

I'll bet any quantum mechanic in the service would give the rest of his life to fool around with this gadget.

Commander Adams

Nice planet you have here. High oxygen content.

I rarely use it myself, sir. It promotes rust.

Commander Adams

No offence, but you are a robot...

That is correct, sir.

Commander Adams

Whatever you know in here, your other self knows out there.

Dr. Morbius

I'm not a monster, you...

Commander Adams

We're all part monsters in our subconscious, so we have laws and religion!

Another one of them new worlds. No beer, no women, no pool parlors, nothin'. Nothin' to do but throw rocks at tin cans, and we gotta bring our own tin cans.

Doc Ostrow

Anywhere in the galaxy this is a nightmare.

Doc Ostrow

Monsters! Monsters from the id!

Doc Ostrow

The total potential here must be nothing less than astronomical.

Dr. Morbius

Nothing less. The number 10 raised almost literally to the power of infinity.

Dr. Morbius

Do you understand the mechanism, Robby?

Yes, Morbius. A simple blaster.

But you keep helping me. After all, you're not Robby.

I wouldn't mind being like Robby in certain ways. Uh, that's only in certain ways, of course.

I can see that was probably very clever, but I don't seem to understand it.

Commander John J. Adams

Alta, about a million years from now the human race will have crawled up to where the Krell stood in their great moment of triumph and tragedy. And your father's name will shine again like a beacon in the galaxy. It's true, it will remind us that we are, after all, not God.

For your convenience, I am monitored to respond to the name "Robby".

Dr. Edward Morbius

Guilty! Guilty! My evil self is at that door, and I have no power to stop it!

Dr. Edward Morbius

How ironic that a simple scholar, with no ambition, beyond a modest measure of seclusion, should out of the clear sky, find himself besieged by an army of fellow creatures, all grimly determined to be of service.