Lancaster Dodd My daughter's getting married, come join us! Leave your worries for awhile, they will still be there you get back, and your memories aren't invited.
Most-quoted character in The Master (2012): in 12 of its 16 quotes
Most scenes with: Freddie Quell (3)
Marriage, previous to The Cause, was awful. Awful. There's a cycle, like life. Birth, excitement, growth, decay. Death. Now... now. How about this? Here comes, a large dragon. Teeth! Blood dripping! Red eyes! What do I got? A lasso. And I whip it up, I wrap it around its neck, and I wrestle! Wrestle! Wrestle him to the ground. I snap up, I say "Sit, dragon!" Dragon sits. I say "Stay!", dragon stays. Now it's got a leash on. Take it for a walk. And that's what-where we're at with it now. It stays on command. Next we're gonna teach it to roll over and play dead.
More lines from Lancaster Dodd
6 quotes Lancaster Dodd Lancaster Dodd Free winds and no tyranny for you, Freddie, sailor of the seas. You pay no rent, free to go where you please. Then go, go to that landless latitude and good luck. If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.
Lancaster Dodd Man is not an animal. We are not a part of the animal kingdom. We sit far above that crown, perched as spirits, not beasts. I have unlocked and discovered a secret to living in these bodies that we hold.
Lancaster Dodd If you leave me now, in the next life you will be my sworn enemy. And I will show you no mercy.
Lancaster Dodd What a horrible young man you are. This is acting like an animal. A dirty animal that eats Its own feces when hungry.
Lancaster Dodd When we're in love we experience pleasure, and extreme pain.
Scenes with Lancaster Dodd
5 scenes
I don't know what I told you but if you have work for me to do I can do it.
Lancaster Dodd You seem so familiar to me.
Yeah. What do you do?
Lancaster Dodd I am a writer, a doctor, a nuclear physicist and a theoretical philosopher. But above all, I am a man, a hopelessly inquisitive man, just like you.
Lancaster Dodd Why aren't you with her?
I'm an idiot.
Lancaster Dodd Why aren't you with the lovely girl?
I got no reason. I'm a fool.
Lancaster Dodd Do you love Doris?
Yes.
Lancaster Dodd Is she the love of your life?
Yes, sir.
Lancaster Dodd Then why aren't you with her?
I don't know.
Lancaster Dodd Yes you do. Tell me why you are not with her if you love her so much.
I told her I'd come back and I never went back and now I just... I gotta get back to her.
Lancaster Dodd Why don't you go back?
I don't know.
Lancaster Dodd Why don't you--
I DON'T KNOW!
Lancaster Dodd Close your eyes.
John More Some of this sounds quite like hypnosis. Is it not?
Lancaster Dodd This is a process of dehypnotization, if you will. Man is asleep; this process wakes him from his slumber.
John More I still find it difficult to see the proof with regards to past lives that your movement claims.
Lancaster Dodd Would you care to submit yourself to processing? You'd look through the telescope, as my friend said.
John More Perhaps another time. You've also said that these methods, Cause methods, can cure leukemia. According to your book...
Lancaster Dodd Some forms of leukemia. In being able to access past lives we are able to treat illnesses that may have started back thousands, even trillions of years.
John More Trillions?
Lancaster Dodd With a T, sir.
John More [chuckles]
Earth is not understood to be more than a few billion years old.
Lancaster Dodd Well even the smartest of our current scientists can be fooled, yes?
John More You can understand skepticism, can you not?
Lancaster Dodd Yes, oh yes yes. For without it we'd be positives and no negatives, therefore zero charge. We must have it.
John More Good science by definition allows for more than one opinion, doesn't it?
Lancaster Dodd Which is why our gathering of data is so far-reaching.
John More Otherwise you merely have the will of one man. Which is the basis of cult. Is it not?
Lancaster Dodd 'Tis, 'tis. And thankfully we are, all of us, working at breakneck speeds, in the unison towards capturing the mind's fatal flaws and correcting it back to its inherent state of perfect. While righting civilization and eliminating war and poverty and therefore the atomic threat.
John More I belong to no club, and if you're unwilling to allow any discussion...
Lancaster Dodd No, this isn't a discussion, it's a grilling! There's nothing I can do for you, if your mind has been made up. You seem to know the answers to your questions, why do you ask?
John More I'm sorry you're unwilling to defend your beliefs in any kind of rational...
Lancaster Dodd If, if you already know the answers to your questions, then why ask PIG ****? [beat] We are not helpless. And we are on a journey that risks the dark. If you don't mind, a good night to you.
Lancaster Dodd [Lancaster and Freddie have been imprisoned in two separate cells, sharing a wall]
Your fear of capture and imprisonment is an implant from millions of years ago. This battle has been with you from before you know. This is not you.
SHUT THE **** UP!
Lancaster Dodd It's not you.
SHUT. THE ****. UP!
Lancaster Dodd It's not you. You are asleep. Your spirit was free. Moving from body, to the next body. Free. Free for a moment. Then it was captured by an invader force, bent on turning you to the darkest way, you've been implanted with a push-pull mechanism that keeps you fearful of authority and destructive. We are in the middle of a battle that's a trillion years in the making and it's bigger than the both of us!
You're making this shit up! You make this shit up! You don't know what you're talking about!
Lancaster Dodd I don't know what I'm talking about?
No, you don't.
Lancaster Dodd I give you facts.
You don't give me facts!
Lancaster Dodd They are not opinions.
What facts?! What facts?!
Lancaster Dodd They are **** facts!
What facts?! What facts?!
Lancaster Dodd **** you!
**** you! **** you!
Lancaster Dodd **** you! **** you! Why don't you kick the bed some more?!
**** you!
Lancaster Dodd **** you, you lazy ass piece of shit!
**** you! **** you! I'm not lazy!
Lancaster Dodd I'm done! You're **** lazy!
Oh, you make shit up!
Lancaster Dodd You're ****in' lazy!
Your **** family hates you! Your son hates you!
Lancaster Dodd Oh, they do?!
Yeah! Your son hates you!
Lancaster Dodd Who **** likes you except for me?!
Nobody!
Lancaster Dodd Except for me!
No, you don't **** like me!
Lancaster Dodd Who likes you except for me?!
Prisoner
[Freddie aggressively kicks the prison cell] [sitting in a cell behind, to Freddie and Lancaster]
Shut up!
Lancaster Dodd [to Freddie]
Except for me?!
Lancaster Dodd I'm the only one who likes you.
Prisoner
**** you!
Yeah, **** you, too!
Prisoner
**** you!
Lancaster Dodd Just me, Freddie.
Just you?!
Lancaster Dodd I'm the only one that likes you. [pause] The only one. [pause] You're a **** drunk. And I'm done with you. ****...
