Surgeon Quotes in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

[operating on Logan]

Surgeon: Is this a joke? This man's fine!

[Messala is mortally injured after being trampled in the chariot race]

Surgeon: We cannot wait, Tribune.

Messala: [softly] He will come.

[he convulses with pain; they hold him down]

Surgeon: We cannot wait any longer, Tribune!

Messala: [shouts] He will come! He will come. I have sent for him, and he will come!

Surgeon: If you wish us to keep you alive, we have to go to work *now*, Tribune. Do you understand?

Messala: Cut the legs off me... Not yet. Not till I've seen him. I can't receive him with half a body!

[Drusus and the surgeon share a look; they begin binding Messala in preparation for amputation]

Messala: [struggling] NO!

[Judah appears in the doorway]

Messala: I told you, Drusus; I told you! There he is.

[Judah approaches and stands over Messala]

Messala: Triumph c... triumph complete, Judah. The race won, the enemy destroyed.

Judah Ben-Hur: I see no enemy.

Messala: What do you think you see? The smashed body of a wretched animal? There's enough of a man still left here for you to hate. Let me help you.

[he convulses with pain]

Messala: You think they're dead, your mother and sister? Dead, and the race over? It isn't over, Judah. They're not dead.

Judah Ben-Hur: [leaning closer] Where are they?

[pause]

Judah Ben-Hur: Where are they? WHERE ARE THEY?

Messala: [with grim satisfaction] Look... look for them... in the Valley... of the Lepers! If you can recognize them!

[Judah doubles over with grief]

Messala: It goes on. It goes on, Judah. The race... the race... is not... over!

[he dies]

Surgeon: [preparing to reattach Ryan's penis] Hardly seems worth it.

Surgeon: Has there been a rise in his fluid intake? SWEET JESUS! His sodium levels are through the roof!

Surgery Nurse: I don't get it. He's eight years old and he smells like Robert Downey Jr.

Bertram Pincus: Did anything usual happen during my operation?

Surgeon: You... uh... died for seven minutes.

Bertram Pincus: I died! For seven minutes!

Surgeon: We brought you right back. People die all the time.

Bertram Pincus: Yeah, but it's usually just once... at the end.

Surgeon: Everybody dies.

Surgeon: Not a real people person, are you, Dr. Pincus?

Bertram Pincus: Not really. Given a choice between a few people and loads of people, I choose my cat. She hunts dwarves. She takes them up the tree. They're still alive. You can see their little legs going. Sounds like Norah Jones when she plays the piano.

Surgeon: Did you see a girl? She's stolen my heart.

Andy McDermott: I know the feeling.

[first lines]

Myron: [sings to himself] A secret place known to none but me. And in my secret place, you can beg and torture me. I wouldn't tell you where to go. 'Cause in my secret place, secret place, a secret you know. Secret place, a secret you know.

[Surgeon enters to applause]

Surgeon: You realize, once we cut it off, it won't grow back. I mean, it isn't like hair, or fingernails, or toenails, you know.

Myron: What do you think I am, some kind of idiot? I know that!

Surgeon: [shrugs] Eh - how about circumcision? It'd be cheaper.

Myron: Come on, come on, come on, let's get it over with, Myra's waiting!

Surgeon: [shrugs] We'll have to blow up your tits with silicone.

Myron: I thought they used paraffin.

Surgeon: No, that would make them inflammable. You wouldn't want inflammable tits, now, do you?

Myron: [sighs, then sings] I got a secret place known to none but me. And in my secret...

Surgeon: [Indistinct] Cleaver.

[Clear]

Surgeon: I mean scalpel.

Myron: Well, I should think so.

Surgeon: Well, wish me luck. I've never done one of these before.

Myron: [sings] You can beg and torture me. I wouldn't care.

[applause]

Surgeon's Wife: What a charming boy.

Surgeon: Isn't he?

Surgeon's Wife: Yes, very. How did his father die?

Surgeon: Car crash. Driving home. Smashed it into a pole. Killed instantly.

Surgeon's Wife: How long have you known him?

Surgeon: Quite some time. He was a patient of mine. Years ago.

Surgeon's Wife: Did you go to the funeral?

Surgeon: I did go. Yes.

Surgeon's Wife: Why didn't I go with you?

Surgeon: I think I told you about it. But you were busy or something.

[pause]

Surgeon's Wife: You should tell him to come 'round again.

Lieutenant General James Longstreet: Sam?

Surgeon: We drugged him, Sir. Be better if he slept.

Major General John Bell Hood: I didn't see much. The boys' went in and hit the rocks. How'd it go, Pete?

Lieutenant General James Longstreet: Fine, Sam.

Major General John Bell Hood: We take those rocks?

Lieutenant General James Longstreet: Most of 'em.

Major General John Bell Hood: Worst... ground I ever saw. You know that?

[Longstreet nods]

Major General John Bell Hood: They call it Devil's Den. It's a good named for it.

[Longstreet nods again before grasping Hood's outstretched hand to comfort him]

Major General John Bell Hood: What casualties?

Lieutenant General James Longstreet: We don't know yet.

[Hood groans in agony]

Major General John Bell Hood: Ya' gotta give my boys credit. You... you should've let me go to the right.

[His eyes begin to close]

Major General John Bell Hood: We should have gone to the right...

[Hood passes out]

Surgeon: He needs to rest some.