Serenity (2005 film) Quotes

Serenity (2005 film) is a television show that appeared on TV in 1970 . Serenity completed its run in 1970.

It features Barry Mendel as producer, David Newman (composer) in charge of musical score, and Jack N. Green as head of cinematography.

Serenity (2005 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Serenity (2005 film) is 119 minutes long. Serenity (2005 film) is distributed by Universal Studios.

The cast includes: Chiwetel Ejiofor as The Operative, Sean Maher as Dr. Simon Tam, Jewel Staite as Kaylee Frye, Adam Baldwin as Jayne Cobb, Ron Glass as Shepherd Book, Summer Glau as River Tam, David Krumholtz as Mr. Universe, Morena Baccarin as Inara Serra, Sarah Paulson as Dr. Caron, Michael Hitchcock as Dr. Mathias, Yan Feldman as Mingo, Tamara Taylor as Teacher, Nectar Rose as Lenore, and Rafael Feldman as Fanty.

Serenity (2005 film) Quotes

Chiwetel Ejiofor as The Operative

• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "Do you know what your sin is Mal?"
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Ah Hell -- I'm a fan of all seven. But right now -- I'm gonna have to go with wrath."

• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "There are a lot of innocent people being killed in the air right now."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "You have no idea how true that is."

• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) ""Key members of Parliament". Key. The minds behind every military, diplomatic and covert operation in the galaxy, and you put them in a room with a psychic."
• (Michael Hitchcock) "If there was some classified information, she, she never spoke of it. I, I don't know what it is."
• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "Nor do I. And judging by her deteriorating mental state, I'd say we're both better off. Secrets are not my concern. Keeping them is."
• (Michael Hitchcock) "What-whatever secrets she might have accidentally gleaned, it's probable she doesn't even know them, that they're buried under layers of psychosis."

• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "I'm sorry. If your quarry goes to ground, leave no ground to go to. You should have taken my offer. Or did you think none of this was your fault?"
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "I don't murder children."
• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "I do. If I have to."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Why? Do you even know why they sent you?"
• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "It's not my place to ask. I believe in something greater than myself. A better world. A world without sin."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "So me and mine gotta lay down and die -- so you can live in your better world?"
• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "I'm not going to live there. There's no place for me there -- any more than there is for you. Malcolm -- I'm a monster. What I do is evil. I have no illusions about it, but it must be done."

• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "Where are you hiding, little girl?"

• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "You have to open with payment."
• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "That is a trap. I offer money, you'll play the man of honor and take umbrage; I ask you to do what is right and you'll play the brigand. I have no stomach for games."

• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "They take you down, I don't expect to grieve overmuch. Like to kill you myself, I see you again."
• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "You won't --"
• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "There is nothing left to see."

• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "I already know you will not see reason."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "The Alliance wanted to show me reason, they shouldn't have sent an assassin."
• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "I have a warship in deep orbit, Captain. We locked onto Serenity's pulse beacon the moment you hit atmo. I can speak a word and send a missile to that exact location inside of three minutes."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "You do that, you'd best make peace with your dear and fluffy lord."
• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "Pulse beacon."

• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "You know, in certain older civilized cultures, when men failed as entirely as you have, they would throw themselves on their swords."
• (Michael Hitchcock) "Well, unfortunately, I forgot to bring a sword."
• (Michael Hitchcock) "I would put that down right now if I were you."
• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "Would you be killed in your sleep, like an ailing pet?"

• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "You are fooling yourself, Captain. Nothing here is what it seems. You are not the plucky hero, the Alliance is not an evil empire, and this is not the grand arena."
• (Morena Baccarin) "And that's not incense."

• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "I want to resolve this like civilized men. I'm not threatening you. I'm unarmed."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Good."
• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "I am, however, wearing full body armor. I am not a moron."

• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "Yes, have you found the nav sat trajectory?"
• (Ensign) "Sir, we found seven."

• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "You're fighting a war you've already lost."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Yeah, well, I'm known for that."

• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "Are you willing to die for your beliefs?"
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "I am --"
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "'Course, that ain't exactly plan A."

• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "You should have let me see her, Captain. We should have done this as men; not with fire."
• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "Vessel in range, lock on."
• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "Bastard's not even changing course."
• (Alliance Pilot) "Sir?"
• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "Target the Reavers -- Target the Reavers. Target everyone."
• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "Somebody, fire."

• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "Serenity -- you lost everything in that battle. Everything you had, everything you were. How did you go on?"
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "If you're still standing there when that engine starts, you never will figure it out."

• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "Secrets are not my concern. Keeping them is."

• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "Do you know what your sin is, Doctor?"
• (Michael Hitchcock) "I wonder if --"
• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "It's pride."

• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "Define "disappeared"."

• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "It's worse than you know."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "It usually is."

• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck, 'til some idiot killed it."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint."

Ron Glass as Shepherd Book

• (Ron Glass) "I killed the ship that killed us. Not very Christian."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "You did what was right."
• (Ron Glass) "Coming from you that means; almost nothing."

• (Ron Glass) "I don't care what you believe in, just believe in it."

• (Ron Glass) "When I talk about belief, why do you always assume I'm talking about God?"

• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "It's of interest to me how much you seem to know about that world."
• (Ron Glass) "I wasn't born a shepherd, Mal."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "You have to tell me about that sometime."
• (Ron Glass) "No, I don't."

• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Ah hell, Shepherd, I ain't looking for help from on high. That's a long wait for a train don't come."
• (Ron Glass) "When I talk about belief, why do you always assume I'm talking about God?"

• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "I look to be bored by many more sermons before you slip. Just don't move."
• (Ron Glass) "Can't order me around, boy. I'm not one of your crew."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Yes, you are."

Sean Maher as Dr. Simon Tam

• (Sean Maher) "River --"
• (Summer Glau) "I know. We're going for a ride."

• (Sean Maher) "River, do you want to stay with them?"
• (Summer Glau) "It isn't safe."
• (Sean Maher) "No. I fear it isn't safe any more."
• (Summer Glau) "For them."

• (Sean Maher) "She always did love to dance"

• (Sean Maher) "River?"
• (Summer Glau) "I swallowed a bug."

• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "I know she meant to kill me 'fore the Doc put her to sleep, which how exactly does that work anyhow?"
• (Sean Maher) "Safeword. The people who helped me break River out; they had intel that River and the other subjects were being embedded with behavioral conditioning. They taught me a safeword, in case -- something happened."
• (Jewel Staite) "Not sure I get it."
• (Sean Maher) "A phrase that's encoded in her brain, that makes her fall asleep. If I speak the words, "Eta --"
• (Adam Baldwin) "Well don't say it."
• (Zoë) "It only works on her, Jayne."
• (Adam Baldwin) "Oh -- Well, now I know that."

• (Sean Maher) "In all that time on the ship -- I've always regretted -- not being with you."
• (Jewel Staite) "With me? You mean to say -- as in sex?"
• (Sean Maher) "I mean to say."
• (Jewel Staite) "To Hell with this. I'm gonna live."

• (Sean Maher) "We'll get off the ship. River and I will get off at Haven. It'll be for the best."
• (Jewel Staite) "Nobody's sayin' that."
• (Hoban 'Wash' Washburn) "Nobody but Jayne is sayin' that."

• (Sean Maher) "One simple job. She'll be fine."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "She is fine. Except for still being crazy. She's the picture of health."

• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "You had a gorram time bomb living with us. Who we gonna find in there when she wakes up? The girl? Or the weapon?"
• (Sean Maher) "I thought she was getting better."
• (Adam Baldwin) "And I thought they was getting off. Didn't we have an intricate plan on how they was gonna be not here any more?"
• (Jewel Staite) "We couldn't leave them now."
• (Adam Baldwin) "No, now that she's a killer woman, we ought to be bringing her tea and dumplings."

• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Bit of a rockety ride. Nothing to worry about."
• (Sean Maher) "I'm not worried."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Fear's nothing to be ashamed of, Doctor."
• (Sean Maher) "This isn't fear. This is anger."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Well, kinda hard to tell one from t'other, face like yours."
• (Sean Maher) "Yes, well, I imagine if it were fear, my eyes would be wider."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "I'll look for that next time."

• (Sean Maher) "If there's any fighting, drop to the floor or run away."
• (Sean Maher) "It's okay to leave them to die."

Summer Glau as River Tam

• (Summer Glau) "I had to show them. l didn't know if you were going to make me sleep."
• (Sean Maher) "You could have asked --"

• (Summer Glau) "You take care of me, Simon. You've always taken care of me. My turn."

• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Hey, little one. Understand your part in all this?"
• (Summer Glau) "Do you?"
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "It's what I do, darlin'."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "It's what I do."

• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "But it ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. You know what the first rule of flying is? Well, I suppose you do, since you already know what I'm about to say."
• (Summer Glau) "I do. But I like to hear you say it."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Love. You can learn all the math in the 'Verse, but you take a boat in the air that you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens. Makes her a home."
• (Summer Glau) "Storm's getting worse."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "We'll pass through it soon enough."

• (Summer Glau) "Run-tse duh shang-dee, ching dai-wuhtzo -- make them stop. They're everywhere. Every city, every -- every house, every room; they're all inside me. I can hear them all and they're saying -- NOTHING. GET UP. Please, get up. Wuo-shang mayer, maysheen byen shr-to. Please God, make me a stone."

Jewel Staite as Kaylee Frye

• (Jewel Staite) "If you had a care for anybody's heart --"
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "You knew he was gonna leave. We never been nothing but a way station to those two. And how the hell do you know what he feels? He's got River to worry on, but he still could've shown you. If I truly wanted someone bad enough, wouldn't be a thing in the 'verse that could stop me from going to her."
• (Jewel Staite) "Tell that to Inara."

• (Jewel Staite) "But how can you be sure Inara don't just want to see you? Sometimes people have feelings. I'm referring here to people."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Y'all were watching I take it?"
• (Jewel Staite) "Yes?"
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Did you see us fight?"
• (Jewel Staite) "No."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Trap."

• (Jewel Staite) "Have faith, Captain."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Not today."

• (Jewel Staite) "Goin' on a year now I ain't had nothin' twixt my nethers weren't run on batteries."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Oh, God. I can't know that."
• (Adam Baldwin) "I could stand to hear a little more."

• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Kaylee, what in the sphincter of hell are you playing at? We got the primary buffer panel coming right --"
• (Jewel Staite) "Everything's shiny, Cap'n. Not to fret."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "You told me those entry couplings would hold for another week."
• (Jewel Staite) "That was six months ago, Cap'n."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "My ship don't crash. If she crashes, you crashed her."

• (Jewel Staite) "Sometimes people have feelings. I'm referrin' here to people."

David Krumholtz as Mr. Universe

• (David Krumholtz) "I cried like a baby, a hungry, angry baby."

• (David Krumholtz) "Can't stop the signal, Mal. Everything goes somewhere, and I go everywhere."

• (David Krumholtz) "From here to the eyes and the ears of the 'Verse, that's my motto, or it might be if I start having a motto."

• (David Krumholtz) "You guys always bring me the very best violence."

• (David Krumholtz) "And, she falls asleep. Which, she would be sleepy."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Can you go back? See if anybody spoke with her before she acted up -- made any kind of contact with her."
• (Summer Glau) "Miranda --"
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Miranda? Go back further."
• (David Krumholtz) "No --"
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Uh -- please?"
• (David Krumholtz) "Oh, Mal, you're very smart. Someone is talking to her."
• (Hoban 'Wash' Washburn) "The Oaty Bar?"
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Subliminal. It's a subliminal message, broadwaved to trigger her."
• (David Krumholtz) "I've been seeing this code pop up all over, the last few weeks. It's Alliance, and it's high military."
• (David Krumholtz) "They have gone to enormous trouble to find your little friend -- and found her they have. Do you all know what it is you're carrying?"

Adam Baldwin as Jayne Cobb

• (Adam Baldwin) "Boy, it sure would be nice if we had some grenades, don't you think?"

• (Zoë) "Do you really think any of us is gonna get through this?"
• (Adam Baldwin) "Well, I might."

• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "I didn't start this."
• (Adam Baldwin) "No, that's right. Alliance starts the war, and then you volunteer. Battle of Serenity, Mal. Besides Zoe here, how many --"
• (Adam Baldwin) "Hey, I'm talking at you. How many men in your platoon came out of there alive?"
• (Zoë) "You wanna leave this room."
• (Adam Baldwin) "Damn right, I do."

• (Adam Baldwin) "Zoe. Get your ass back on the line."

• (Zoë) "How much ammo we got left?"
• (Adam Baldwin) "Three full mags, and my swinging cod."

• (Adam Baldwin) "How come they ain't blowin' us out the air?"
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "They wanna run us down. The up-close kill."
• (Summer Glau) "They want us alive when they eat us."

• (Adam Baldwin) "MAL."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Every heist he's gotta start yellin' my name."

• (Adam Baldwin) "I won't get et. You shoot me if they take me."
• (Adam Baldwin) "Well, don't shoot me first."

• (Adam Baldwin) "What're we expectin' to find here that equals the worth of a turd?"

• (Adam Baldwin) "Shepherd Book once said to me, "If you can't do something smart, do something right.""

• (Adam Baldwin) "We're gonna explode? I don't wanna explode."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Jayne, how many weapons you plan on bringing? You only got the two arms."
• (Adam Baldwin) "I just get excitable as to choice- like to have my options open."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "I don't plan on any shooting taking place during this job."
• (Adam Baldwin) "Well, what you plan and what takes place ain't ever exactly been similar."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "No grenades."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "No grenades."
• (Zoë) "We crashin' again?"
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Go talk to your husband. Is the mule prepped?"
• (Zoë) "Good to go sir. Just loading her up. Are those grenades?"
• (Adam Baldwin) "Cap'n doesn't want them."
• (Zoë) "We're robbing the place, we're not occupying it."

• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Do you want to run this ship?"
• (Adam Baldwin) "Yes."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Well -- you can't --"

Morena Baccarin as Inara Serra

• (Morena Baccarin) "I'm fine. I'm -- giddy."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Ya know, for a woman schooled in telling men what they want to hear, you ain't much of a liar."

• (Morena Baccarin) "You came to the Training House looking for a fight."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "I came looking for you."
• (Morena Baccarin) "The war's over, Mal."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "You tellin' me that cause you think I don't know?"
• (Morena Baccarin) "I've just seen so many sides of you, I wanna make sure I know who I'm dealing with."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "I start fightin' a war, I guarantee you'll see somethin' new."

• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "What are you doing?"
• (Morena Baccarin) "I'm praying for you, Mal."

• (Morena Baccarin) "You came to the training house looking for a fight."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "I came looking for you."
• (Morena Baccarin) "I just want to know who I'm dealing with. I've seen too many versions of you to be sure."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "I start fighting a war. I guarantee you'll see something new."

• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Ready to get off this heap, back to civilized life?"
• (Morena Baccarin) "I, uh -- I don't know."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Good answer."

• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "I got no answers for you, Inara. I got no rudder. Wind blows northerly, I go north. That's who I am. Now, maybe that ain't a man to lead, but they have to follow. So you wanna tear me down -- do it inside your own mind. I'm not trying to tear you down. But you fog things up. You always have. You spin me about. I wish like hell you was elsewhere."
• (Morena Baccarin) "I was."

• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "But you fog things up. You always have. You spin me about. I wish like hell you were elsewhere."
• (Morena Baccarin) "I was."

Rafael Feldman as Fanty

• (Rafael Feldman) "Do you know that girl?"
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "I really don't."

• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "So I'm noticing. Is there a problem we don't know of?"
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "You got a sweet take kissing your foot. How about you take your 25% and we can talk about the next job?"
• (Rafael Feldman) "Well our end is forty, precious."
• (Adam Baldwin) "My muscular buttocks it's forty."

• (Rafael Feldman) "Do you know that girl?"
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "I really don't."

Tamara Taylor as Teacher

• (Tamara Taylor) "Earth that was could no longer sustain our numbers, we were so many. We found a new solar system, dozens of planets and hundreds of moons. Each one terraformed, a process taking decades, to support human life, to be new Earths. The Central Planets formed the Alliance. Ruled by an interplanetary parliament, the Alliance was a beacon of civilization. The savage outer planets were not so enlightened and refused Alliance control. The war was devastating, but the Alliance's victory over the Independents ensured a safer universe. And now everyone can enjoy the comfort and enlightenment of our civilization."

Yan Feldman as Mingo

• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Fanty. Mingo."
• (Yan Feldman) "He's Mingo."
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "He's Fanty. You're Mingo."
• (Yan Feldman) "How is it you always know?"
• (Capt. Malcolm Reynolds) "Fanty's prettier."

Michael Hitchcock as Dr. Mathias

• (Michael Hitchcock) "I need to see your clearance."
• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "And you are right to insist."
• (Michael Hitchcock) "Apologies. An operative of the parliament will, of course, have full full cooperation. I -- I'm not sure what -- I see no listing of rank or name."
• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "I have neither. Like this facility, I don't exist."

• (Michael Hitchcock) "Gave up a brilliant future in medicine as well. It's madness."
• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "Madness?"
• (Chiwetel Ejiofor) "Have you looked at this scan carefully, Doctor? At his face? It's love, in point of fact. Something a good deal more dangerous."

Nectar Rose as Lenore

• (Nectar Rose) "Mal. Guy killed me, Mal. He killed me with a sword. How weird is that?"

Sarah Paulson as Dr. Caron

• (Sarah Paulson) "These are just a few of the images we've recorded. And you can see, it wasn't what we thought. There's been no war here and no terraforming event. The environment is stable. It's the Pax. The G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate that we added to the air processors. It was supposed to calm the population, weed out aggression. Well, it works. The people here stopped fighting. And then they stopped everything else. They stopped going to work, they stopped breeding, talking, eating. There's 30 million people here, and they all just let themselves die."

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