The Haunting (1999 film) Quotes

The Haunting (1999 film) is a TV program that was first aired in 1970 . The Haunting ended in 1970.

It features Donna Roth as producer, Jerry Goldsmith in charge of musical score, and Karl Walter Lindenlaub as head of cinematography.

The Haunting (1999 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Haunting (1999 film) is 114 minutes long. The Haunting (1999 film) is distributed by DreamWorks Pictures.

The cast includes: Owen Wilson as Luke, Catherine Zeta-Jones as Theo, Marian Seldes as Mrs. Dudley, Virginia Madsen as Jane, and Bruce Dern as Mr. Dudley.

The Haunting (1999 film) Quotes

Marian Seldes as Mrs. Dudley

• (Marian Seldes) "I set dinner on the dining room sideboard at six. Breakfast is ready at nine. I don't stay after dinner. Not after it begins to get dark. We live in town, nine miles, so there won't be anyone around if you need help --"
• (Unnamed) "We couldn't even hear you."
• (Marian Seldes) "No one could. No one lives any nearer than town --"
• (Unnamed) "No one will come any nearer than that."
• (Marian Seldes) "In the night --"
• (Unnamed) "In the dark."

• (Marian Seldes) "City People."

Catherine Zeta-Jones as Theo

• (Catherine Zeta-Jones) "We can't get out. Why won't he let us leave?"
• (Unnamed) "What do we do Eleanor?"
• (Unnamed) "He played hide-and-seek with them, that's why he built the house. You have to hide."
• (Unnamed) "Hide? What does he think this is, a game?"

• (Unnamed) "Eleanor, none of this is real."
• (Unnamed) "Yes, it is real."
• (Unnamed) "It's not real."
• (Unnamed) "You have to go look for the bones in the fireplace"
• (Unnamed) "It's not real."
• (Unnamed) "I saw -- I saw his wife hanging in the greenhouse, I know, I saw it."
• (Unnamed) "No we'll be all gone, and the Dudley's will arrive in the morning and we can go. All of you."
• (Unnamed) "I can't believe you're not gonna look."
• (Catherine Zeta-Jones) "Ok, that's enough of you; I'm taking her upstairs. I think you've done enough."

• (Unnamed) "I love your boots."
• (Catherine Zeta-Jones) "Oh, you do? Thanks. Prada; Milan, not New York. But they're killing me -- Small price to pay for such savage kicks."

• (Catherine Zeta-Jones) "You know what, the rest of you may hate your insomnia but I'm not sure I want a cure for mine. That's when I get all my best ideas -- I'm alone, occasionally -- with no distractions. My mind is racing with creative ideas and come 3am I feel like a genius."

• (Unnamed) "Ok, so what do we all need in life? What are the basics? Food, water, shelter --"
• (Catherine Zeta-Jones) "-- Sex."

• (Catherine Zeta-Jones) "I've been there. It's when you're on an 18-hour flight from L.A. to Paris and you're stuck in coach."

• (Unnamed) "You'll never gonna believe how I found them."
• (Catherine Zeta-Jones) "How did you find them?"
• (Unnamed) "The blood led me to the bookcase."
• (Catherine Zeta-Jones) "The blood?"
• (Unnamed) "Little footprints in blood."
• (Catherine Zeta-Jones) "Nell, I'm worried about you."

• (Unnamed) "Because it was a controlled experiment."
• (Catherine Zeta-Jones) "A controlled experiment? She's in total shock, you can't do that."
• (Unnamed) "I told you, it wasn't meant to be like this."
• (Catherine Zeta-Jones) "O c'mon, you don't care about insomnia, you just wanted to scare the hell out of us to be fit in your little test or model, in end to understand this. You can't do it --"
• (Unnamed) "LISTEN. You listen to me. I am trying to help people. My field of study is the science of fear, I try to understand why people act the way they act, why they feel the way they feel --"
• (Catherine Zeta-Jones) "You don't feel."

• (Unnamed) "Have you ever kept something for yourself because you were afraid?"
• (Catherine Zeta-Jones) "All the time."

• (Unnamed) "You have trouble with comitment?"
• (Catherine Zeta-Jones) "Well, my boyfriend thinks so, my girlfriend doesn't. We could all live together but, they hate each other."

Virginia Madsen as Jane

• (Virginia Madsen) "Also, we know how much you loved Mom's car so we're giving it to you."
• (Unnamed) "you're taking away my home, and giving me a twenty year old car? Who are you?"

• (Virginia Madsen) "You already owe two months worth of rent."
• (Unnamed) "It's mine, and you're not taking it away."
• (Virginia Madsen) "Read the will, Nell. It states in plain language, the executor shall have the right to dispose of any and all personal property, as he shall see fit."
• (Unnamed) "He's not even real family."
• (Virginia Madsen) "Yeah, maybe not, but clearly mother thought Lou would be better off dealing with these unpleasent details than you."
• (Unnamed) "Unpleasent details? What have I been dealing with for the past eleven years? I've cooked, I've cleaned, I've mopped up for you and you call that an unpleasent detail?"

• (Virginia Madsen) "Come live with us Nell; you have no idea how hard it is out there."
• (Unnamed) "No Jane, you have no idea how hard it was in here."

Owen Wilson as Luke

• (Owen Wilson) "And you I'm gonna guess, are a les --"
• (Catherine Zeta-Jones) "Don't even start."
• (Owen Wilson) "Wow, You're so bossy and domineering --"
• (Catherine Zeta-Jones) "Thanks. Theo."

• (Owen Wilson) "Hey, you guys wanna hear something really scary? I just found this out. It turns out there's a more darker chapter in the Hugh Crain fairy-tale. Remember his lovely wife Renee? Well Renee, the town beauty, she didn't just die, she killed herself"
• (Catherine Zeta-Jones) "Really? He just told you that?"
• (Owen Wilson) "Yes, but you can't say anything because he actually swore me to secrecy."
• (Unnamed) "Why did she kill herself?"
• (Owen Wilson) "The stillborn children story is more sinister, and maybe Hugh Crain was a horrible monster that drove her to it."
• (Unnamed) "Monster? But he built this house with the woman he loved like the Taj Mahal."
• (Catherine Zeta-Jones) "The Taj Mahal wasn't a palace, it was a tomb. And equally overdone."

• (Owen Wilson) "We don't have time for baby talk."

• (Owen Wilson) "Hello, Santa."

• (Owen Wilson) "Oh, come on this is crazy; maybe she doesn't want to be found."

• (Unnamed) "The gate is still locked we have to wait until the Dudleys arrive."
• (Owen Wilson) "What? That's really compassion. Yeah "Let's wait until the morning, so tomorrow I have time to write a few more Welcome Home Eleanor's"."
• (Unnamed) "Luke, I didn't write that stuff, OK?"
• (Owen Wilson) "Of course you didn't that wouldn't be ethical, would it doc --"
• (Catherine Zeta-Jones) "Would you guys just shut up?"

• (Owen Wilson) "I'm not staying in this freaking house another second, so come on."

• (Owen Wilson) "What's the deal with the Addams Family mansion?"

• (Owen Wilson) "I don't know, I just think Dr. Marrow's up to something. And you know what, I'm going to find out. Right after I check on Theo that is. I wonder how she's doing."
• (Unnamed) "Doing or wearing?"
• (Owen Wilson) "Yeah no kidding. Did you see what she had on yesterday? Hey I definitely got a soft spot for Theo."

Bruce Dern as Mr. Dudley

• (Bruce Dern) "You find out what you wanted to know -- doctor?"

• (Unnamed) "Why do you need so many chains?"
• (Bruce Dern) "That's a good question. What is it about fences? Sometimes the people on either side of the fence see a lock chain, they feel a little more conforted, why do you suppose that is?"

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