Balem Abrasax Quotes in Jupiter Ascending (2015)

Balem Abrasax: My mother made me understand that every human society is a pyramid, and that some lives will always matter more than others. It is better to accept this than to pretend that it isn't true.

Balem Abrasax: [sitting on his throne with his back to Jupiter] You should have stayed dead.

Jupiter Jones: [angrily] I am not your mother.

Balem Abrasax: [scoffing] No, my mother never cleaned a toilet in her life.

Jupiter Jones: Maybe that was her problem.

Balem Abrasax: My mother... my mother taught me what was necessary to rule in this universe.

Jupiter Jones: By killing people.

Balem Abrasax: [throws up his hands] I CREATE LIFE! And I destroy it. Life in an act of consumption, Jupiter. To live is to consume and the human beings on your planet are merely a resource waiting to be converted into capitol. And this entire enterprise is just a small part in a vast and beautiful machine defined by evolution, designed to a single purpose: to create profit.

Balem Abrasax: I will harvest the planet tomorrow, before I let her take it from me.

Balem Abrasax: Stop.

[Balem "freezes time" in the operating room where Caine meets Jupiter, as the scene slowly takes place around him]

Balem Abrasax: There you are...

[he stoops down to look at Jupiter as she is floating in the operating room]

Balem Abrasax: You know there are times when I actually miss you. Because no one understood this universe like you did. No one understood me

[his voice breaks]

Balem Abrasax: like you did.

Balem Abrasax: [to Titus on the recently-harvested planet of Zalintyre] The House of Abrasax continues to thrive, despite the squandering over your inheritance, brother.

Balem Abrasax: Double our security deployment. Destroy any ship that comes near the planet.

Balem Abrasax: [shouts] GO!

[from trailer]

Balem Abrasax: Bring her to me... NOW!