Dune (1984)
Kyle MacLachlan: Paul Atreides
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Quotes
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Paul : I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will let it pass over me and through me. And when it has passed I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where it has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
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Paul : Father! The sleeper has awakened!
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Reverend Mother Mohiam : Do you know of the Water of Life? The bile from the ill-borne worms of Arrakis?
Paul : I have heard of it.
Reverend Mother Mohiam : It's very dangerous. The Bene Gesserit sisterhood would use it to see - within. There is a place - terrifying to us. To women. It is said: a man will come, the Kwisatz Haderach. He will go where we can not. Many men have tried.
Paul : They tried and failed?
Reverend Mother Mohiam : They tried and died.
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Paul : Irulan shall be my wife, opening the way for an Atreides to sit on the throne.
Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV : I sit on the throne!
Paul : You will have a throne on Selusa Secundus, your prison planet! Either that, or you will die.
[walks towards Chani]
Paul : The princess shall have no more of me than my name... no child of mine, nor touch, nor softness of glance, nor instant of desire.
[he tenderly strokes her cheek]
Paul : This, I promise to you, my love.
Lady Jessica : Think on it, Chani. We who carry the name of concubine... history will call us wives.
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Paul : Emperor Shaddam IV, there are Guild Heighliners above us containing many Great Houses of the Laandsraad. Send them back.
Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV : How dare you speak to me in...
Guild Worker : Stop your speaking!
Paul : You have some idea of what I could do.
Paul : [the Reverend Mother Mohiam growls at him] Don't try your powers on me. Try looking into that place where you dare not look.You'll find me there, staring back at you.
Reverend Mother Mohiam : [DELETED LINE] Silence him, Jessica!
Lady Jessica : [DELETED LINE] Silence him yourself, if you can.
Paul : [DELETED LINE] For ninety generations you and your Bene Gesserit have labored in secret to produce a living, breathing super-weapon... one that would empower you to overthrow both the Guild and the Emperor. Indeed. This weapon, I am. And these goals, I have achieved. *But I will NEVER be YOURS to control.*
Reverend Mother Mohiam : [Using the Voice] *You mustn't speak... *
Paul : [Also using the Voice, which overpowers her] SILENCE!
[she is knocked backward against several Guild Workers]
Paul : I remember your gom jabbar, now you'll remember mine. I can kill with a word.
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Paul : ...My father sent you to test me, didn't he?
[He indicates Gurney's baliset]
Paul : Music, then?
Gurney Halleck : No music. I'm packing this for the crossing.
[He sets down the baliset]
Gurney Halleck : Shield practice.
Paul : Again? Gurney, we had practice all this morning. I'm not in the mood.
Gurney Halleck : Not in the mood? Mood's a thing for cattle and loveplay, not fighting!
Paul : I'm sorry, Gurney.
Gurney Halleck : Not sorry enough, not yet!
[He activates his shield and attacks Paul, who activates his own shield barely in time]
Paul : [to himself] What's wrong with Gurney? He's not faking this!
Gurney Halleck : Now, guard yourself for true!
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Stilgar : You have strength. You shall be known as Usul - which is the strength of the base of the pillar. This is your secret name in our troop. But, you must choose the name of manhood, which we will call you openly.
Paul : What do you call the mouse shadow in the second moon?
Stilgar : We call that one Muad'Dib.
Paul : Could I be known as Paul Muad'Dib?
Stilgar : You are Paul Muad'Dib!
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Paul : This is part of the weirding way that we will teach you. Some thoughts have a certain sound, that being the equivalent to a form. Through sound and motion, you will be able to paralyze nerves, shatter bones, set fires, suffocate an enemy or burst his organs. We will kill until no Harkonnen breathes Arrakeen air.
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Reverend Mother Mohiam : Put your right hand in the box.
Paul : What's in the box?
Reverend Mother Mohiam : Pain.
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Paul : We must totally destroy all spice production on Arrakis. The Guild and the entire Universe depends on spice. He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing.
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Paul : We Fremen have a saying: "God created Arrakis to train the faithful." One cannot go against the word of God.
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Paul : Long live the fighters!
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Paul : Is this what you seek?
Gurney Halleck : Good! Fast on defense, slow on attack. But, ah, look down.
[Gurney has penetrated Paul's shield as well]
Gurney Halleck : We'd have joined each other in death. You did seem, finally, to get in the mood.
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Paul : Now remember, walk without rhythm, and we won't attract the worm.
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Thufir Hawat : Now, remember, the first step in avoiding a *trap* - is knowing of its existence.
Paul : I know. But, if it is a trap, then why are we going?
Thufir Hawat : We have our new Army. Dr. Yueh, put the weirding module on him.
[Thufir holds Paul's shoulders admiringly, then playfully mimes stabbing him in the side of the neck]
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Paul : The Harkonnens are our enemy. Yes. But, behind them I suspect is the Emperor.
Thufir Hawat : You will make a formidable Duke!
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Paul : Would you really have drawn my blood?
Gurney Halleck : If you'd have fought one whit below your abilities; I'd have given you a good scar to remind ye.
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Paul : [sees Thufir] My God.
[inner voice]
Paul : They've taken your mind.
[out loud]
Paul : Gurney, I see Thufir Hawat among the captives. Let him stand free.
Feyd-Rautha : [turns towards Thufir] The antidote.
[he slips a knife inside Thufir's sleeve]
Gurney Halleck : Thufir, come.
Paul : In payment of the many years of service to my family, you may ask me of anything you wish. Do you need my life, old friend? It is yours.
[turns around]
Paul : I mean this Thufir, if you are to strike, do it now.
Thufir Hawat : [raises knife, to everyone's shock, but drops it and turns back to Feyd] Did you truly believe, even for a moment, that I would fail my Duke TWICE?
[He rips out his own heart plug, then collapses into Paul's arms]
Thufir Hawat : Three generations of... you...
[he dies]
Paul : Carry this noble Atreides warrior away. Do him all honor.
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Duncan Idaho : May the Hand of God be with you.
Paul : May the Hand of God be with us all, Duncan.
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Paul : The Worm is the Spice! The Spice is the Worm!
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Paul : I know, Thufir, I'm sitting with my back to the door. I heard you, Dr. Yueh and Gurney coming down the hall.
Thufir Hawat : Those sounds could be imitated!
Paul : [Looks around and sees he was right] I'd know the difference.
Thufir Hawat : [voice over] Yes, perhaps he would at that.
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Reverend Mother Mohiam : I hold at your neck a Gom Jabbar. This one kills only animals.
Paul : Are you suggesting the Duke's son is an animal?
Reverend Mother Mohiam : Let us say, I suggest you may be human. Your awareness may be powerful enough to control your instincts. Your instinct will be to remove your hand from the box. If you do so, you die.
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Paul : Listen to me. Listen! You wanted to know about my dreams. Well, I've just had a waking dream. Do you know why? The spice! Its in everything here!
Lady Jessica : Calm yourself.
Paul : Like a truth-seer drug, it's poison! You knew the spice would change me. But, thanks to your teachings, it's changing my consciousness. I see it! I can see it!
Lady Jessica : [inner voice] Is he the one?
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Paul : Is it true, that the sand can blow at seven hundred kilometers per hour?
Dr. Wellington Yueh : It can render flesh to dust in minutes. And these dry winds can generate tremendous static electricity in the atmosphere. Our body shields won't have enough power to operate in the open air on Arrakis.
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Paul : My name has become a killing word.
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Paul : Dr. Yueh, do you have any information on the worms of Arrakis?
Dr. Wellington Yueh : I've obtained a film book of a small specimen. Only a 125 meters long.
Paul : Only?
Dr. Wellington Yueh : There have been documented sightings of worms as large as 450 meters in the deep desert. That's far from where we'll be in Arrakeen. The desert belt and south polar region are marked forbidden.
Paul : How do the Fremens survive there?
Dr. Wellington Yueh : We don't know much about the Fremen. They live in the deep desert. Some of them in the cities. They have blue-within-blue eyes.
Paul : Ah, the eyes. Yes. A saturation of the blood by the spice Melange.
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Paul : I will bend like a reed in the wind.
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Paul : You've no need for weapons with me, Gurney Halleck.
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Paul : I'm dead to everyone unless I become what I may be.
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Shadout Mapes : [Paul has caught the hunter-seeker and smashed it] It would have killed me!
Paul : I was its target.
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Reverend Mother Mohiam : Jessica!
Lady Jessica : [enters]
[inner voice]
Lady Jessica : My son - lives!
Reverend Mother Mohiam : I sense your teachings in him. Ignore the regular order of training. His safety requires the Voice.
Paul : I've heard enough of my safety! What about my father? I heard you talking. You speak as if he were dead, well he's not!
Lady Jessica : Paul.
Paul : Well he's not! And he won't die. Tell me he won't die.
Reverend Mother Mohiam : What can be done, has been done.
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Lady Jessica : [in the ornithopter] He's dead! Leto, he's dead!
Paul : I know.
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Paul : Things have been so serious here lately.
Gurney Halleck : Soon we leave for Arrakis. Arrakis is real. The Harkonnens are real.
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Duke Leto Atreides : Soon, they will begin to fold space.
Paul : [inner voice] Far off, in the control rooms of spice gas, traveling without moving.
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Lady Jessica : What happened? Why did it le-le-leave?
Paul : Someone started another thumper. We're not alone.
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Paul : Chani, all my images of the future are gone! I have to drink the Water of Life.
Chani : No, Paul, please. I've seen the men who have tried. I've seen how they died.
Paul : No! I'm dead to everyone unless I try to become what I may be. Only the Water of Life can free what will save us.
Chani : Paul...
Paul : I must drink the sacred water.
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Paul : Arrakis... Dune... Desert Planet. Your time has come! A storm is coming, *our* storm! And when it arrives, it will shake the Universe. Emperor! We come for you!
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Paul : Gurney, when the storm hits, set off the atomics. I want an opening through the entire shield wall.
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Paul : Don't you believe your own eyes?
Gurney Halleck : They said you were dead! They said...
Paul : [shows him the signet ring]
Gurney Halleck : [hugs him] You young puppy! You young puppy!
Paul : Gurney, man! Gurney, man!
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Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV : This is genocide! The systematic extermination of all life on Arrakis!
Paul : [dreams of Dune breaking up] The Emperor is coming!
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Paul : Am I the one?
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Paul : They will call me Muad'Dib.
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Paul : [inner voice] The dream unfolds.
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Paul : Can you smell it?
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Paul : We are entering the time when all will turn against us and seek our blood.
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Paul : [Duncan] I wish you were coming with us. Why?
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Paul : The dream unfolds.
