Prot I have arrived. My travels are over for the time being.
Played by Kevin Spacey 
K-PAX (2001) · 53 quotes
K-PAX (2001) · 53 quotes
Most-quoted character in K-PAX (2001): in 29 of its 53 quotes
A line from ProtLet me tell you something, Mark. You humans, most of you, subscribe to this policy of an eye for an eye, a life for a life, which is known throughout the universe for its stupidity. Even your Buddha and your Christ had quite a different vision; but nobody's paid much attention to them, not even the Buddhists or the Christians.
More lines from Prot
26 quotes Prot Prot I didn't arrive by train.
Prot I'm an alien. Don't worry, I'm not going to leap out of your chest.
Prot A reference to the creatures in the film series which began with Alien.
Prot What Einstein actually said was that nothing can accelerate to the speed of light because its mass would become infinite. Einstein said nothing about entities already traveling at the speed of light or faster.
Prot You know, for an educated person Mark, you repeat things quite a bit. Are you aware of that?
Prot Why is a soap bubble round? Because it is the most energy efficient configuration. Similarly, on your planet I look like you; on K-PAX I look like a K-Paxian.
Prot Your produce alone has been worth the trip.
Prot Every being in the universe knows right from wrong, Mark.
Prot Doctor. Patient. Interesting human distinction.
Prot Doctor — Doctor — Doctor — Doctor. Tell me how many doctors are there on this planet?
Prot You'd be surprised how much energy is in a beam of light.
Prot I take it my calculations help explain the perturbations you've been seeing in the rotation pattern of your binary star, but have been unable to explain until… this moment.
Prot She says she doesn't like it when you hide her favorite tennis shoe, and she doesn't hear too well on her left side, so don't sneak up on her anymore.
Prot On what "Shasta" the dog told him
Prot I would say you're in need of a Thorazine drip, Doctor.
Prot Something happened. That's why he called me. He calls me when something bad happens.
Prot Time is running out for everyone.
Prot I travel light. That's a joke, Mark. You humans — there's just no sense of humor.
Prot There's enough life on earth to fill fifty planets… plants, animals, people, fungi, viruses… all jostling to find their place. Bouncing off each other, feeding off each other… connected.
Prot Nobody wants. Nobody needs. On K-PAX when I'm gone, nobody misses me. There would be no reason to. And yet I sense that when I leave here… I will be missed.
Prot I will admit the possibility that I am Robert Porter, if you will admit the possibility that I am from K-PAX. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a beam of light to catch.
Prot Now that you've found Robert. Please take good care of him.
Prot Reality is what you make of it.
Prot I want to tell you something Mark, something you do not yet know, but we K-Paxians have been around long enough to have discovered. The universe will expand, and it will collapse back on itself, then will expand again. It will repeat this process forever. What you don't know is that when the universe expands again, everything will be as it is now. Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through again, and again, forever. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because this time is all you have.
Prot You humans. Sometimes it's hard to imagine how you've made it this far.
Scenes with Prot
2 scenesStay here — and be prepared — for anything.
If it's such a terrible experience, how do you reproduce?
Prot As carefully as possible.
What happened in there? I mean...he could be a savant. There are savants who've painted flawless copies of Rembrandts who couldn't remember their own names! You don't believe him, Steve?
Steve I don't know what I believe, Mark...but I know what I saw.
Where the hell have you been?
Prot Newfoundland, Greenland, Iceland… Labrador…
Howie You never gave me my last task. What's my last task?
Prot To stay here — and be prepared — for anything.
You have no laws?
Prot No laws. No lawyers.
How do you know right from wrong?
Prot Every being in the universe knows right from wrong, Mark.
Prot For your information: All beings have the capacity to cure themselves, Mark. This is something we've known on K-PAX for millions of years.
