Merrick Quotes in The Island (2005)

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Merrick Quotes:

  • Albert Laurent: Did you know my father was part of the Burkinabé rebellion? When he was killed, my brothers and I were branded, so everyone would know we were less than human.

    [he holds up his hand to show Merrick]

    Albert Laurent: I've seen and done things I'm not proud of, but at some point you realize, war... Is a business. So, when did killing become a business for you?

    Merrick: Oh, no. It's so much more than that. I have discovered the Holy Grail of science. I give life. The agnates, they're simply tools, instruments. They have no souls. The possibilities are endless here. In two years' time, I will be able to cure children's leukemia. How many people on Earth can say that, Mr. Laurent?

    Albert Laurent: [smiles] I guess just you and God. That's the answer you're looking for, isn't it?

  • Merrick: What's troubling, you, Lincoln?

    Lincoln Six-Echo: It - it's just... all right, Tuesday night is tofu night, and I'm asking myself "Who here decided that everyone likes tofu in the first place, and what is tofu anyway?" And why can't I have bacon? I line up every morning, and I'm not allowed any bacon for my breakfast. And - and tell me - let's talk about all the white. Why is everyone wearing white all the time? It's impossible to keep clean, I'm walking around, I get - I always get the gray stripe, I never get any color, and I hand it in to be cleaned, and - and someone cleans it and fold it neatly back in my drawer, but who? Who is that person? I don't know. I just - I wanna know answers and I - and I wish that there was more.

    Merrick: More?

    Lincoln Six-Echo: Yeah, more than just waiting to go to The Island.

  • [last lines]

    Merrick: I brought you into this world... and I can take you out of it.

  • Merrick: I love that Picasso. Do you like Picasso, Mr. Laurent?

  • Merrick: [putting microsensors in Lincoln Six-Echo's eyes] Don't worry, it's painless.

    Lincoln Six-Echo: [in pain] It hurts.

    Merrick: [nonchalant] Not really.

    Lincoln Six-Echo: Yeah, it does.

    Merrick: No it doesn't.

    Lincoln Six-Echo: Yeah, it really, really does.

    Merrick: [after all microsensors went under Lincoln Six-Echo's eyes] The microsensors will move along your optic nerve. They will be uploading readings over the next 24 hours, after which you will pass them through your urine. Now *that* might hurt.

  • Merrick: Why don't you tell me about your dream?

    Lincoln Six-Echo: It's always the same dream - I'm on a boat, headed to The Island.

    Merrick: What happens then?

    Lincoln Six-Echo: I drown.

  • Merrick: [Lincoln Six-Echo has returned to the underground facility to shut down the hologram and reveal the real world to the clones when Merrick captures him] You could've taken over his life, but you chose to come back here instead, you are unique, Six-Echo.

    Lincoln Six-Echo: My name... is *Lincoln*!

  • [after punching Merrick]

    Buffy: Oh, wow. I-I never hit anybody before.

    Merrick: Really? Well you did it perfectly.

    Buffy: I didn't even break a nail.

  • Buffy: I have something that the other girls didn't have.

    Merrick: And what might that be, pray?

    Buffy: My keen fashion sense!

    Merrick: Oh, vampires of the world beware.

  • Buffy: You threw a knife at my head!

    Merrick: Yes, I had to show you.

    Buffy: But... you *threw* a *knife* at my *head.*

    Merrick: And you caught it. Only the chosen one could have caught it.

  • Merrick: [Trying to explain that Buffy's a vampire slayer] I've searched the entire world for you, Buffy. To bring you... your birthright.

    Buffy: My birthright?

    [Slightly excited]

    Buffy: You mean, like a trust fund?

  • Merrick: None of the other girls ever gave me this much trouble.

    Buffy: And where are they now? Hello!

  • Merrick: I would have been a wonderful bootmaker.

  • Merrick: And you're going to be able to use that to track them.

    Buffy: Great. My secret weapon is PMS. That's just terrific. Thanks for telling me.

    Merrick: It's not a weapon. It's an alert system.

    Buffy: Well, aren't we kung fu? I don't see you out there killing any vampires.

    Merrick: I play my part.

    Buffy: You can play with your part all you want, but it's my neck on the block.

  • Merrick: None of the other girls ever gave me this much trouble.

    Buffy: And where are they now?

  • Merrick: You do everything wrong.

    Buffy: Sorry.

    Merrick: No. Do it wrong. Don't play our game.

  • Merrick: I want whoever did this dead. I want my treasure! I want every rock, every hole, every tree on this island searched.

  • Merrick: Every ship has it's secrets.

  • Merrick: Now you listen here to me, boy. And you listen good. I'm gonna count to three and when I do you're gonna tell me where my treasure is. Cause if you don't, I'm gonna blow your head off.

  • Merrick: Officer Howell.

    Howell: Merrick?

    Merrick: Yes, it's me.

    Howell: Impossible. Merrick died.

    Merrick: The British Navy did its best, but I'm still alive, my friend.

  • Merrick: I have a seventh sense.

    Elizabeth: You mean a sixth sense.

    Merrick: I mean a seventh sense. I have a sixth and seventh sense.

  • Cesar Valentin: Have we met?

    Merrick: Eh, my name is Merrick. Horace T. Merrick. No doubt you have heard of me.

    Cesar Valentin: Horace T. Merrick? Oh! Yes. The Nobel Prize for literature. Aren't you the man who didn't get it?

  • Cesar Valentin: The story of a young man waiting for a telephone call from his mother or his lover or who was it?

    Merrick: His brother who was his lover.

    Cesar Valentin: That's right. The phone call didn't come, the young man fell asleep on the sofa, when he woke up there was still no phone call, and you squeezed all that into four hundred pages. Amazing.

  • Troy: You're right. You're totally right. I'm not gay! I mean, I'm not - I don't visualize guys... Not anymore. Just you, Merrick. I'm alone.

    Merrick: No you're not. Now we're real best friends.

  • Merrick: You need me. You're not homosexual; you're Merrick-sexual.

  • Merrick: I'm sorry that I hurt you.

    Troy: You destroyed me.

    Merrick: I'm sorry.

    Troy: No, I'm the idiot. I stuck around.

    Merrick: You're a beautiful idiot. You're a beautiful idiot.

  • Merrick: I'm sorry that I hurt you.

    Troy: You destroyed me.

  • Troy: I care about you. More than friends. More than just friends, Merrick.

    Merrick: I know.

    Troy: Why can't we kiss? Huh? I mean, why is it that we can do everything else but we can't kiss? I mean, do you know how many times we've had these late night sexual things? Cause I don't. Merrick, this is major. I've lost count.

    Merrick: Yeah, I have too man, but, maybe I don't care as much as you do. You're in denial, Troy, you're in denial.

    Troy: You sucked my dick, you're in denial.

  • Troy: You're a liar.

    Merrick: Dude, it's okay...

    Troy: Don't touch me! Don't hurt me. I mean, I'm trying to be honest here, and you're...

    Merrick: Yeah, this is good...

    Troy: Shut up, Merrick! And I'm not in denial. You know, high school's over, Merrick, these girls, this jock bullshit...

    Merrick: This is very...

    Troy: Shut up. Shut up. You're like some - you twist things! I don't understand you. I don't. Are you bisexual?

    Merrick: I'm like everyone.

    Troy: You're like everyone.

    Merrick: I'm like everyone, man. I'm a blip on the Kinsey scale. You're just human man. Okay, you can't be one hundred percent any one thing, alright? Including gay.

    Troy: No, I'm pretty gay.

  • Troy: Merrick, you've known what's been going on in my head.

    Merrick: Yeah, I'm a jerk.

  • Troy: I'm not going to listen to you. You aren't a blip, Merrick, you put it in my mouth and you want it.

    Merrick: You put it in those cheerleaders, Troy! Those bouncy cheerleaders.

    Troy: That's different. That's totally different. I mean, I kept that going because I was visualizing locker rooms, and guys.

    Troy: Yeah, and I kept it going because I was visualizing girls. Okay, girls, and tits, and ass, and cunts. And a hole is a hole, Troy. It's just a hole.

  • Merrick: I wish we were drunk.

    Troy: Yeah, but we're not.

  • Troy: That first night, why did it happen?

    Merrick: Maybe it was meant to happen. I need you. I - I love you.

    Troy: You don't need me.

    Merrick: Maybe I do.

    Troy: No, you're just desperate for something.

    Merrick: Yeah, I am desperate. My whole world's imploding. Like it's backwards, and sucking me up.

  • Merrick: I told her everything. Every detail about you and me.

    Troy: There is no you and me.

    Merrick: Thanks.

    Troy: I'm sick of these head games. I'm sick of them. I mean, are you or are you not gay? Is she or is she not pregnant? Are you a DJ or are you an artist? Haha! You're immature, Merrick. You know what, I have to take a rational road that suits me, that is healthy, and mature.

    Merrick: Have you been watching Oprah?

    Troy: No, reading.

    Merrick: I don't like you reading.

  • Troy: I'm leaving. I'm leaving this crummy place. I'm exhausted. I lose.

    Merrick: No.

    Troy: To her, I guess. To you. I mean, you could blow me here, right now, but I'm crossing a bridge, tomorrow, and I'll disappear.

    Merrick: Maybe I'll jump from this bridge.

    Troy: I'd like to stay, but you're not suddenly the Merrick in my head. You're the bad Merrick. The real one. Tomorrow, even if it sucks, I'll be some place where denial is a crime, and you'd be locked up.

    Merrick: Why am I scared?

    Troy: Your control's slipping away.

    Merrick: That's what I am?

    Troy: Out of control.

    Merrick: What if you're supposed to control me?

    Troy: I can't.

  • Merrick: I'm not bad Merrick.

    Troy: No, you are.

    Merrick: I'm sorry that I hurt you.

    Troy: You destroyed me.

  • Merrick: You hate me. I know. Do you?

    Troy: Yeah.

    Merrick: Oh, come on. But I'm just a clerk in a video store. I know nothing of love.

  • Troy: Say something.

    Merrick: Something.

    Troy: Something else.

    Merrick: I'm hard. You too.

  • Merrick: Don't be afraid.

    Troy: Well I am.

  • Merrick: That's the first time we kissed.

    Troy: I know. Still feeling human?

    Merrick: Yeah. So what happens next?

    Troy: Goodbye.

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