Dr. Jean Grey Quotes in X-Men (2000)

Dr. Jean Grey: Ladies and gentlemen, we are now seeing the beginnings of another stage of human evolution. These mutations manifest at puberty, and are often triggered by periods of heightened emotional stress.

Senator Kelly: Thank you, Miss Grey! That was-quite educational. However it fails to address the issue which is the focus of this hearing. Three words: are mutants dangerous.

Dr. Jean Grey: That's an unfair question, Senator Kelly. After all, the wrong person behind the wheel of a car can be dangerous.

Senator Kelly: Well, we do license people to drive.

Dr. Jean Grey: But not to live.

Senator Kelly: I have here a list of names of identified mutants living right here in the United States.

Dr. Jean Grey: Senator...

Senator Kelly: Here's a girl in Illinois who can walk through walls. Now what's to stop her from walking into a bank vault, or the White House, or

[indicating the gallery]

Senator Kelly: into their houses?

Dr. Jean Grey: Senator, please...

Senator Kelly: ...and there are even rumors, Miss Grey, of mutants so powerful that they can enter our minds and control our thoughts, taking away our God-given free will. Now I think the American people deserve the right to decide if they want their children to be in school with mutants. To be taught by mutants! Ladies and gentlemen, the truth is that mutants are very real, and that they are among us. We must know who they are, and above all, what they can do!

Dr. Jean Grey: [after examining Wolverine] The metal is an alloy called adamantium, supposedly indestructible. It's been surgically grafted to his entire skeleton.

Storm: How could he have survived a procedure like that?

Dr. Jean Grey: His mutation. He has uncharted regenerative capabilities, enabling him to heal rapidly. It also makes his age impossible to determine. He could very well be older than you, Professor.

Cyclops: Who did this to him?

Dr. Jean Grey: He doesn't know. Nor does he remember anything about his life before it happened.

Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: Experimentation on mutants. It's not unheard of, but I've never seen anything like this before.

Cyclops: What do you think Magneto wants with him?

Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: I'm not entirely sure it's him Magneto wants.

Wolverine: How is she?

Dr. Jean Grey: She's fine.

[pause]

Dr. Jean Grey: I think she's still taken with you.

Wolverine: Well you can tell her... my heart belongs to... someone else.

Dr. Jean Grey: I think you'll be comfortable here.

Wolverine: Where's your room?

Dr. Jean Grey: With Scott, down the hall.

Wolverine: Is that your gift? Putting up with that guy?

Dr. Jean Grey: Actually, I'm telekinetic. I can move things with my mind.

Wolverine: Really? What kind of things?

Dr. Jean Grey: [shuts closet doors behind him with her mind] All kinds of things. I also have some telepathic ability.

Wolverine: Like the Professor?

Dr. Jean Grey: Nowhere near that powerful. But he's teaching me to develop it.

Wolverine: I'm sure he is. So read my mind.

Dr. Jean Grey: I'd rather not.

Wolverine: C'mon. You afraid you might like it?

Dr. Jean Grey: I doubt it.

Logan: Have you ever...

Dr. Jean Grey: Used Cerebro? No. It takes a degree of control and for someone like me it's...

Cyclops: Dangerous.

Dr. Jean Grey: Mutants are not the ones mankind should fear.

Wolverine: Jean...

Dr. Jean Grey: Scott, when I tell you, open your eyes.

Cyclops: No!

Dr. Jean Grey: Trust me.

[Wolverine takes out Cyclops' visor]

Wolverine: You drop something?

Wolverine: That tickles.

Dr. Jean Grey: Hey.

Wolverine: Hey!

Dr. Jean Grey: How are you feeling?

Wolverine: Fantastic.

Dr. Jean Grey: I saw Senator Kelly.

Magneto: So, the senator survived the fall, and the swim to shore. He's become more powerful than I imagined.

Dr. Jean Grey: He's dead. Just like all those people out there will be.

Storm: It's true. I watched him die.

Magneto: Are you sure you saw what you saw?

Dr. Jean Grey: Girls flirt with the dangerous guy, they don't bring him home; they marry the good guy.

Wolverine: I can be the good guy.

Dr. Jean Grey: Logan, the good guy sticks around.

[Cyclops, under Stryker's mind control, attacks Jean, Magneto, and Mystique]

Dr. Jean Grey: Go! I'll handle him!

Magneto: [to Mystique] This is one lovers' quarrel we cannot get involved in, my dear.

Magneto: His name is Colonel William Stryker, and he invaded your mansion for one purpose: he wanted Cerebro, or enough of it to build one of his own.

Dr. Jean Grey: But that doesn't make any sense. Stryker would need the Professor to operate it.

Magneto: Which I think is the only reason my old friend is still alive.

Storm: Oh my God...

[Storm, Jean Gray and Magneto exchange worried looks]

Wolverine: What are you all so afraid of?

Magneto: While Cerebro is working, Charles's mind is connected to every living person on the planet. If he were forced to concentrate hard enough on a particular group - let's say mutants, for example - he could kill us all!

Storm: Wait a minute, how would Stryker even know where to find Cerebro in the first place?

Magneto: ...Because I told him. I helped Charles build it, remember? Mr. Stryker has powerful methods of persuasion - even against a mutant as strong as Charles.

[after watching Nightcrawler teleport around the room]

Dr. Jean Grey: You bored yet?

Storm: Yep.

Cyclops: Everybody stand back.

Dr. Jean Grey: Scott no. His mind is connected to Cerebro. Opening the door, could kill him and everyone his mind is linked to.

Storm: Wait. Kurt, I need you to take me inside.

Cyclops: Storm, who is this guy? Who are you?

Nightcrawler: My name is Kurt Wagner, but in the Munich Circus...

Storm: [puts her hand over Kurt's mouth] He's a teleporter.

Nightcrawler: I told you, If I can't see where I'm going...

Storm: I have faith in you.

Dr. Jean Grey: Don't believe anything you see in there.

Nightcrawler: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done...

[teleports]

Nightcrawler: ... on Earth as it is in heaven.

[last lines]

Dr. Jean Grey: [voiceover] Mutation. It is the key to our evolution. It is how we have evolved from a single-cell organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow, normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few millennia evolution leaps forward.

Dr. Jean Grey: I keep feeling something bad is supposed to happen...

Dr. Jean Grey: Why do you need us?

Magneto: Mystique has discovered plans of a base that Stryker's been operating out of for decades. Only we don't know where it is. We thought one of you might.

Wolverine: The professor already tried.

Magneto: [sighs] Once again, you think it's all about you.

[he looks up. They follow his gaze and see Nightcrawler perched in the trees above them]

Nightcrawler: There was so much shooting, such fear and then there was only pain. I could see it all happening, but I couldn't stop myself. It was like a bad dream. Perhaps he is testing me.

Storm: And before you were in the white house, what do you remember?

Nightcrawler: Nothing. I was here.

Storm: Jean?

[Invites Jean to read his mind]

Dr. Jean Grey: I'd rather get him back to the professor.

Phoenix: You would die for them?

Logan: No. Not for them. For you. For you.

Dr. Jean Grey: [surfacing] Save me.

Logan: I love you.

[stabs Jean]

Dr. Jean Grey: [Jean Grey awakes, Logan being the first person she sees] Back where we first met... only I'm in your place, and you're in mine.

Dr. Jean Grey: [turning from Phoenix into a confused Jean] Where am I?

Logan: You're in the mansion. You need to tell me what happened to Scott.

Dr. Jean Grey: [sobbing] Kill me.

Logan: What?

Dr. Jean Grey: Kill me before I kill someone else.

Logan: Don't say that.

Dr. Jean Grey: Please.

Logan: Stop it.

Dr. Jean Grey: [turning into Dark Phoenix] Kill me.

Dr. Jean Grey: Logan, you're making me blush.

Scott Summers: Jean?

Dr. Jean Grey: Scott?

Scott Summers: How...?

Dr. Jean Grey: I don't know...

[they kiss - Scott screams... ]

Dr. Jean Grey: I wanna see your eyes. Take these off.

Scott Summers: No! No...

Dr. Jean Grey: Trust me. I can control it now. Open them. You can't hurt me.