The Master (2012 film) Quotes

The Master (2012 film) is a TV program that first aired in 1970 . The Master ended its run in 1970.

It features JoAnne Sellar; Daniel Lupi, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Megan Ellison as producer, Jonny Greenwood in charge of musical score, and Mihai Mălaimare Jr. as head of cinematography.

The Master (2012 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Master (2012 film) is 137 minutes long. The Master (2012 film) is distributed by The Weinstein Company.

The cast includes: Philip Seymour Hoffman as Lancaster Dodd, Joaquin Phoenix as Freddie Quell, Christopher Evan Welch as John More, Amy Adams as Peggy Dodd, Lena Endre as Mrs. Solstad, Rami Malek as Clark, and Jesse Plemons as Val Dodd.

The Master (2012 film) Quotes

Joaquin Phoenix as Freddie Quell

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Jim Day, Jim Day, that Jim Day?"
• (Lena Endre) "Yes. Jim Day from Somerville."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Well, when'd that happen?"
• (Lena Endre) "They've been married for three years."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Is he still ugly?"

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "What do you do?"
• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "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."

• (Rorschach Doctor) "Freddie, I'm going to show you a series of pictures. I want you to tell me the first thing that comes to your mind. There's no right or wrong answers."
• (Rorschach Doctor) "Tell me what you see."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Well, that's a p*****, a lady's p*****."
• (Rorschach Doctor) "What about this one?"
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Looks like cock going inside of a p*****."
• (Rorschach Doctor) "All right, let's try it again."
• (Rorschach Doctor) "Tell me what you see, Freddie."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "That looks like -- That's just like a cock, actually, upside down."
• (Rorschach Doctor) "Thank you."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Well, I'm sorry if I got out of hand last night. It was cold and --"
• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "Don't apologize. You're a scoundrel"
• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "And as a scientist and a connoisseur, I have no idea the contents of this remarkable potion. What's in it?"
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Secrets."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Do you know how to get rid of crabs?"
• (Unnamed) "No."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "You got to shave one testicle, then all the crabs go over to the other testicle. You got to light the hair on fire on that one, and when they all go scurrying out, you take an icepick and you f***ing stab every single last one of them."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Maybe we think the same things at the same time."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "I believe, in your profession, it's called -- 'Nostalgia'."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "I don't know what I told you but if you have work for me to do I can do it."
• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "You seem so familiar to me."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Yeah. What do you do?"
• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "I do many, many things. I am a writer, a doctor, a nuclear physicist, a theoretical philosopher, but, above all, I am a man. A hopelessly inquisitive man, just like you."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "You're the bravest girl I've ever met. Now stick it back in, it fell out."

• (V.A. Doctor) "According to the history here, I notice that you say you saw a vision of your mother, tell me about that, tell me what happened."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "No it wasn't a vision, it was a dream."
• (V.A. Doctor) "Well tell me about the dream."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Why?"
• (V.A. Doctor) "I need to know."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Why you need to know?"
• (V.A. Doctor) "This will help in your treatment."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "You can't help in my treatment, you don't even know -- Well, it was my mother and my father and me and -- back home. And -- we're sitting around a table -- and drinks -- laughing. And it just sort of ended there. Thanks for the help."

Rami Malek as Clark

• (Rami Malek) "I don't think Freddie is as committed to the cause as the cause is committed to him."

• (Rami Malek) "She got rid of you, right? She saw you for what you are. Selfish. And alone. You should go into the hospital with your mother. 'Cause that's where you belong. 'Cause you're sick. And you're tired. And you need to be alone, away from people."

Philip Seymour Hoffman as Lancaster Dodd

• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "You're acting aggressive because you drink too much alcohol."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "No, I don't think so."

• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "Are you unpredictable?"
• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "Silly. Silly animal."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "I couldn't help it. I'm sorry."
• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "It's good to laugh during processing. Sometimes we forget. Even if it is at the sound of an animal."

• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "What a day. We fought against the day and we won. We won."

• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "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 in the history of the world."

• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "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."

• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "When we're in love we experience pleasure, and extreme pain."

• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "If you leave me now, in the next life you will be my sworn enemy. And I will show you no mercy."

• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "Why aren't you with her?"
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "I'm an idiot."
• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "Why aren't you with the lovely girl?"
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "I got no reason. I'm a fool."
• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "Do you love Doris?"
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Yes."
• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "Is she the love of your life?"
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Yes, sir."
• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "Then why aren't you with her?"
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "I don't know."
• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "Yes you do. Tell me why you are not with her if you love her so much."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "I told her I'd come back and I never went back and now I just -- I gotta get back to her."
• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "Why don't you go back?"
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "I don't know."
• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "Close your eyes. Starting now, you are not to blink. If you blink we go back to the start."

• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "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."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "SHUT THE f*** UP."
• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "It's not you."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "SHUT. THE f***. UP."
• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "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."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "You're making this s*** up. You make this s*** up. You don't know what you're talking about."

• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "What a horrible young man you are. This is acting like an animal. A dirty animal that eats it's own faeces when hungry."

• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "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."

• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "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."

• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "You shouldn't work in your condition."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "No, I can work."
• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "You're aberrated."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "No I'm not."
• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "You know what that means?"
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "-- No."

• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "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."

Amy Adams as Peggy Dodd

• (Amy Adams) "This is difficult for you, listen."
• (Amy Adams) "It's really a damn shame to tease you so, my little whore, he laughed. So I will get the dildo out of my cabinet in the next room. He was scarcely gone many seconds before he returned and I felt his fingers opening the lips of my c***. Oh oh ah who is that? I screamed for my --"
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "I don't want to hear any of this."
• (Amy Adams) "Just listen, no reaction."
• (Amy Adams) "Kiss her, put your tongue in her mouth, my boy. f***, f***, f*** away."

• (Amy Adams) "This is pointless. He isn't interested in getting better."

• (Amy Adams) "This is something you do for a billion years or not at all. This isn't fashion."

Jesse Plemons as Val Dodd

• (Jesse Plemons) "He's making all of this up as he goes along. You don't see that?"

Christopher Evan Welch as John More

• (Christopher Evan Welch) "Some of this sounds quite like Hypnosis. Is it not?"
• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "This is a process of dehypnotization, if you will. Man is asleep; this process wakes him from his slumber"
• (Christopher Evan Welch) "I still find it difficult to see the proof with regards to past lives that your movement claims."
• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "Would you care to submit yourself to processing? You'd look through the telescope, as my friend said."
• (Christopher Evan Welch) "Perhaps another time. You've also said that these methods, cause methods can cure leukemia. According to your book --"
• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "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"
• (Christopher Evan Welch) "Trillions?"
• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "With a tee, sir."
• (Christopher Evan Welch) "Earth is not understood to be more than a few billion years old."
• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "Well even the smartest of our current scientists can be fooled, yes?"
• (Christopher Evan Welch) "You can understand skepticism, Can you not?"
• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "Yes, Oh yes yes. For without it we'd be positives and no negatives. Therefore zero charge, we must have it."
• (Christopher Evan Welch) "Good science by definition allows for more than one opinion, doesn't it?"
• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "Which is why our gathering of data is so far-reaching."
• (Christopher Evan Welch) "Otherwise you merely have the will of one man. Which is the basis of cult. Is it not?"
• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "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."

• (Christopher Evan Welch) "I belong to no club, and if you're unwilling to allow any discussion --"
• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "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?"
• (Christopher Evan Welch) "I'm sorry you're unwilling to defend your beliefs in any kind of rational --"
• (Philip Seymour Hoffman) "If, if you already know the answers to your questions, then why ask PIG f***? We are not helpless. And we are on a journey that risks the dark. If you don't mind, a good night to you."

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