The Exorcist (1973)
Jason Miller: Father Karras
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Quotes
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Demon : What an excellent day for an exorcism.
Father Karras : You would like that?
Demon : Intensely.
Father Karras : But wouldn't that drive you out of Regan?
Demon : It would bring us together.
Father Karras : You and Regan?
Demon : You and us.
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[repeated lines]
Father Merrin , Father Karras : The Power of Christ compels you!
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Father Karras : Why her? Why this girl?
Father Merrin : I think the point is to make us despair. To see ourselves as... animal and ugly. To make us reject the possibility that God could love us.
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Demon : I'm not Regan.
Father Karras : Well, then let's introduce ourselves. I'm Damien Karras.
Demon : And I'm the Devil. Now kindly undo these straps.
Father Karras : If you're the Devil, why not make the straps disappear?
Demon : That's much too vulgar a display of power, Karras.
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Demon : Mirabile dictu, don't you agree?
Father Karras : You speak Latin?
Demon : Ego te absolvo.
Father Karras : Quod nomen mihi est?
Demon : Bon Jour.
Father Karras : Quod nomen mihi est?
Demon : La plume de ma tante.
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[Karras sees Merrin dead on Regan's bed and gently moves him onto the floor; he beats Merrin's chest with force and checks for a heartbeat]
Father Karras : You son of a bitch!
[attacks Regan]
Father Karras : Take me! Come into me! God damn you! Take me! Take me!
[the demon transfers to Karras; he is about to kill Regan but stops]
Father Karras : NOOOO!
[jumps out of the window and rolls down the stairs outside the apartment, mortally wounded. He dies moments after receiving last rites]
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Father Karras : I think it might be helpful if I gave you some background on the different personalities Regan has manifested. So far, I'd say there seem to be three. She's convinced...
Father Merrin : There is only one.
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Chris MacNeil : Is it over?
Father Karras : No
Chris MacNeil : Is she going to die?
Father Karras : No!
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Father Karras : Where is Regan?
Demon : In here. With us.
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Chris MacNeil : How do you go about getting an exorcism?
Father Karras : I beg your pardon?
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Father Karras : There isn't a day in my life when I haven't felt like a fraud. I mean priests, doctors, I've talked to them all. I don't know anyone who hasn't felt that.
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Father Karras : There are no experts. You probably know as much about possession than most priests. Look, your daughter doesn't say she's a demon. She says she's the devil himself. And if you've seen as many psychotics as I have, you'd know it's like saying you're Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Demon : You killed your mother! You left her alone to die! Bastard!
Father Karras : Shut up!
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Father Karras : It's my mother, Tom. She's alone. I never should have left her. At least in New York, I'd be near, I'd be closer.
Tom, President of University : Could see about a transfer, Damien.
Father Karras : I need re-assignment, Tom. I want out of this job. It's wrong. It's no good.
Tom, President of University : You're the best we've got.
Father Karras : Am I really? It's more than psychiatry, and you know that Tom. Some of their problems come down to faith, their vocation and meaning of their lives, and I can't cut it anymore. I need out. I'm unfit. I think I've lost my faith, Tom.
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Father Karras : Would you like to hear about the case, first?
Father Merrin : Why?
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Chris MacNeil : How does a doctor end up as a priest?
Father Karras : It's the other way around; the Society put me through medical school.
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Father Dyer : [taking away Karras' whiskey] I reckon I saved him from a great temptation.
Father Karras : Stealing's a sin.
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Lt. Kinderman : You know who you look like? John Garfield. Exactly, John Garfield, "Body and Soul." Do people ever tell you that, Father?
Father Karras : Do people tell you that you look like Paul Newman?
Lt. Kinderman : Always.
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Father Karras : [praying over Merrin's body] Ego te absolvo in nomine Patris, et Filiii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.
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Father Karras : I should have told you I wouldn't be in uniform.
