Dr Clayton Forrester Quotes in The War of the Worlds (1953)

Marine Commanding Officer: Hey, you, better get out of here.

Dr Clayton Forrester: I'm looking for someone, a girl.

Marine Sergeant: Come on, get in.

Dr Clayton Forrester: She's kind of lost.

Marine Commanding Officer: You look kind of lost.

Major General Mann: Pattern-wise, one lands, then two, making groups of threes joined magnetically. Is that possible?

Dr Clayton Forrester: If they do it, it is.

Dr Clayton Forrester: We know now we can't beat their machines. We've got to beat them.

Dr Clayton Forrester: You might get a clue from that anemic blood.

Duprey: Are you suggesting a biological approach?

Dr Clayton Forrester: We know now that we can't beat their machines. We've got to beat them.

Spanish Priest: Don't go, son. Stay with us.

Dr Clayton Forrester: No, I'm looking for someone. She'll be in a church, standing by the door.

Dr Clayton Forrester: We prayed for a miracle.

[Dr. Forrester holds a photo of Mike Nelson]

Dr. Clayton Forrester: This is my test subject, Mike Nelson - a disgustingly mild-mannered dope who's managed to survive every film I've subjected him to. But, perhaps, this movie will drive him to the breaking point and crush his soul. And then I'll unleash it on an unwitting public, and then I will rule the world!

[Laughs maniacally and spanks himself with the photo]

Dr. Clayton Forrester: Yes, I'm a naughty boy! Naughty! Naughty! Naughty!... Oh, ahem.

Dr. Clayton Forrester: Say, come to think about it, I don't believe you bowed down before me recently.

Mike: Sure we have - last week.

Dr. Clayton Forrester: No, no, no, I think that was more of a curtsey than a bow. So why don't we all just bow down now?

Mike: I don't see any reason to make us...

[suddenly kneels, choking]

Crow T. Robot: [scared] Bowing, sir!

[Tom bows and prays to Dr. Forrester, speaking in tongues]

Dr. Clayton Forrester: Wait help, auntie Em! Auntie Em! SUPRIIIIISE! Like who doesn't own an intirositor you collective heads of knuckle? Now get back in the theater you ninny-hammers! And remember, I know who you are, and I saw what you did. Now scat!

[manically laughing]

Dr. Clayton Forrester: I'M THE GOD! I'M THE GOD!

Dr. Clayton Forrester: Prepare yourselves for my maddest madness yet!