Lisle Von Rhuman Quotes in Death Becomes Her (1992)

Lisle Von Rhuman: This is life's ultimate cruelty. It offers us a taste of youth and vitality, and then it makes us witness our own decay.

[Lisle has just stabbed Ernest's finger with the dagger]

Ernest Menville: Ah! Wha-what are you doing?

Lisle Von Rhuman: I'm loving you.

[Lisle demonstrates the potion]

Madeline Ashton: Check ok?

Lisle Von Rhuman: Fine.

Ernest Menville: [after the sample of potion] Oh my god...

Lisle Von Rhuman: Oh! Thank you!

Lisle Von Rhuman: Go on... Drink it... It is the completion of your life's work. You gave other people youth and wasted your own! Drink. And you will be able to work again forever! Drink... drink, Dr. Menville. You owe yourself another chance! Drink! It's the right choice! The *only* choice! Drink! SEMPRE VIVE! LIVE FOREVER!

Ernest Menville: Then what?

Lisle Von Rhuman: What?

Ernest Menville: Then what happens?

Lisle Von Rhuman: What?

Ernest Menville: I don't want to live forever. I mean, it sounds good, but what am I gonna do? What if I get bored?

Lisle Von Rhuman: What?

Ernest Menville: And what if I get lonely? Who am I gonna hang around with, Madeleine and Helen?

Lisle Von Rhuman: [Emerges from her pool wearing only high heels] I hope you don't mind that Harry and Dick had to dress you... You were inproperly attired, for the occasion.

Ernest Menville: What occasion?

Lisle Von Rhuman: I'm throwing a party upstairs... I throw one every Spring, for my clients.

Ernest Menville: All right... ok... what do you want with me?

Lisle Von Rhuman: For you... I'd like to give a present... The gift of life and youth, forever...

Lisle Von Rhuman: [Lisle is about to give Madeline a potion that grants eternal youth and beauty] But you must make me a promise. The secret that we share must never become public. You may continue your career for ten years. Ten years of perfect, unchanged beauty. But at the end of that time, before people start to become suspicious, you have to disappear from public view forever. You can retire, you can stage your own phony death, or... as one of my clients simply said, I want to be alone.

Madeline Ashton: No. She...

Lisle Von Rhuman: [Lisle nods]