Twelve Monkeys (1995) · 42 quotes
3rd most-quoted character in Twelve Monkeys (1995): in 5 of its 42 quotes
Most scenes with: James Cole (2)
Cassandra ... was condemned to know the future but to be disbelieved when she foretold it. Hence the agony of foreknowledge combined with the impotence to do anything about it.
Dr. Kathryn Railly Cassandra in Greek legend, you recall, was condemned to know the future but to be disbelieved when she foretold it. Hence the agony of foreknowledge combined with the impotence to do anything about it.
Dr. Kathryn Railly You had a bullet from World War I in your leg, James! How did it get there?
Dr. Owen Fletcher You're a rational person. You're a trained psychiatrist. You know the difference between what's real and what's not.
Dr. Kathryn Railly And what we say is the truth is what everybody accepts. Right, Owen? I mean, psychiatry: it's the latest religion. We decide what's right and wrong. We decide who's crazy or not. I'm in trouble here. I'm losing my faith.
You're all gonna die.
Dr. Kathryn Railly Nobody is going to die! You're not going to save the world, Okay your delusional. You've made this all up out of bits and pieces in you're head.
No.
Dr. Kathryn Railly Uh, Yes! Let me give you an example. You know Jeffrey Goines. You were both patients at County Hospital, at the same time.
Jeffrey Goines was a fruitcake.
Dr. Kathryn Railly Where are we going?
Philadelphia.
Dr. Kathryn Railly Philadelphia? That's more then a hundred miles away!
I know, that's why I can't walk there.
