Robert Neville Quotes in The Omega Man (1971)

[first lines]

[the last man on earth wrecks his car]

Robert Neville: There's never a cop around when you need one.

[talking to his own image on a TV screen]

Robert Neville: Hi, Big Brother, how's your ass?

[hearing the "Family" loudly holding a book-burning revel]

Robert Neville: At it again, I see? What will it be tonight? Museum of Science? Some library? Poor miserable bastards.

Robert Neville: You know the old song? If you were the only girl in the world, and I was the only boy, well, okay, but until then, don't bother me? Well, I guess I'm the only boy...

Robert Neville: [Talking to moldy corpse in car dealership] How much for a trade-in on my Ford? Oh, really? Thanks a lot, you cheating bastard...

Black Power Lisa: [Lisa is drawing blood from Neville for a vaccine] Will one bottle be enough?

Robert Neville: It's genuine 160-proof old Anglo-Saxon baby.

[the members of the Family smashes and destroys Neville's penthouse apartment, rendering it as evil and as a thing of the past while Matthias and newly possessed Lisa watches on]

Matthias: We waited for you, Neville, so you could see this: The end. The end of all you done. You see, none of it was real. It was illusion. Your art, your science, it was all a nightmare. And now it's done. Finished. My brethren, our task is nearly complete. He was the last of those who brought the punishment to us. We have cleansed and purged his world. Now we must build.

Robert Neville: [defiant] Build coffins. That's all you'll need.

Matthias: Bring him!

Dutch: I was a med-school senior when they scratched the world. As a matter of fact, I was planning on applying to biowar labs for my post-doc, but, heh-heh, the next term never came.

Robert Neville: Now I'm sorry you didn't make it.

Lisa: Sorry the world didn't make it.

Matthias: Now we must build.

Robert Neville: Build coffins, that's all you'll need.

[Matthias throws a spear at Neville, hitting him and leaving a big gash in his chest]

Matthias: The bad dream is over, friend Neville. Now we can sleep in peace.

Robert Neville: [raspy] Lisa!

Lisa: [weakly] Robert, you're evil. I-I-I'm part of the Family, Robert. I'm sorry.

Lisa: [drowsy] The Family, Robert. Y - Uh... You don't understand. Oh... Robert...

[Members of the Family enter the room as Matthias is about to sentence Robert]

Matthias: He has confessed all, brothers: Murder, Use of forbidden tools, Practice of prescribed rights, Emit science, Medicine, Weapons, Machinery, Electricity. He has not shared the punishment. He does not bear the marks.

Robert Neville: Marks?

Matthias: Show him, my children. Show him the pretty marks.

[the members take off their sunglasses, revealing their albino, near-blind eyes]

Matthias: These are the marks, Mr. Neville. The punishment which you and those like you brought upon us. In the beginning, we tried to help one another, those that were left. We tried to clean things up, set things straight. We buried things and burned. Then it came to me and we were chosen. Chosen for just this work: To bury what was dead. To burn what was evil. To destroy what was dangerous.

Robert Neville: You're barbarians.

Matthias: Barbarians? You call us barbarians? Well... it is an honorable name. We mean to cancel the world you civilized people made. We will simply erase history from the time that machinery and weapons threaten more than they offered. And when you die, the last living reminder of hell will be gone. Gone! Brother Zachary?

Zachary: We are ready, brother.

Matthias: And, oh, brothers and sisters, I ask you to look at him. Does he have the marks? Do you see them?

Followers: No.

Matthias: You see him as we were before the punishment. Before we gained grace. You see lying there the last of scientists, of bankers, of businessmen. The users of the wheel.

Followers: Yes.

Matthias: Do we use the tools of the wheel as he does?

Followers: No.

Matthias: Is he of the Family?

Zachary, Followers: No.

Matthias: Is he of the sacred society?

Followers: No.

Matthias: Then what is he?

Followers: Evil!

Matthias: [stands up] He is part of the dead. He has no place here. He has the stink of oil, maletrical circitry about him. He is obsolete.

[Neville comes to]

Matthias: [points to him] You are discarded. You are the refuse of the past!

Robert Neville: You're full of crap.

Matthias: How hard it is to admit the truth. Take him to the little room... for the questioning.