She (1965) starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Ursula Andres
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Movie quotes from She
Major Horace Holly (Peter Cushing): War seems to have shot away all our roots.
Ayesha (Ursula Andress): You tremble, Billali?
Billali (Christopher Lee): The man who fears your wrath and does not tremble, is a fool, your queen. The man who does not fear your wrath and yet does not tremble in your presence, is not a man.
Major Horace Holly (Peter Cushing): I suppose there’s a time in everyone’s life when the idea of immortality seems very desirable. But now at my age I’d have to give it a great deal of thought.
Leo Vincey (John Richardson): What’s age got to do with it? You’d stay as you are.
Major Horace Holly (Peter Cushing): That’s not what I meant, Leo. What one would accept eagerly at your age doesn’t necessarily have the same appeal at mine. It’s the age of the mind that’s important, not the body. You see, you’re young. Still on the threshold of life. The joy of living is not to be denied, but to know that it’ll be there for all time, without change. Life at a standstill. It’s not quite the same thing.
Ayesha (Ursula Andress): [about Ustane] We must be rid of her!
Billali (Christopher Lee): I speak again, whatever risk to myself. To be rid of her would be simple, but unwise. If you are to prevail, It is the fair one who must banish her, who must turn against her. He is a man of soul and conscience. These you must destroy.
Maj. Horace Holly: All my life I’ve dreamed of finding a city such as this. But now that I have, I’d like to see it destroyed and all it stands for.
Leo Vincey (John Richardson): Was that barbaric execution necessary?
Ayesha (Ursula Andress): It was necessary!
Major Horace Holly (Peter Cushing): In God’s name, why?
Ayesha (Ursula Andress): As a demonstration of my absolute power! How else could I hold my soldiers and these pathetic creatures as my subjects? How else but by instilling fear and terror into their very souls.
Major Horace Holly (Peter Cushing): But nothing is gained by fear and terror.
Ayesha (Ursula Andress): Is your world so much better? Your world where men kill each other in their millions in the name of freedom? Your world that has not long to live. A few decades only before it destroys itself. Then, what will be left?
Major Horace Holly (Peter Cushing): Will you tell me something? This women Ayesha, why do you all do her bidding without question?
Billali (Christopher Lee): It has always been so.
Major Horace Holly (Peter Cushing): Yes, but why? She’s only a woman and alone. You are men and many.
Billali (Christopher Lee): And like all men we are born, live a span and we die. But she has been here forever. She is like the mountains, like the desert. Changeless, ageless, deathless.
Major Horace Holly (Peter Cushing): That I cannot believe. In your fear you have accepted the impossible as truth. No-one lives forever. And no one was born to be the vassel of another. You know this too, I’ve seen it in your eyes. Your body does her bidding but your spirit cries out to be free. Is that not true?
Billali (Christopher Lee): Each one of us has his own destiny to fulfill.
Major Horace Holly (Peter Cushing): And yours, I suppose, is to fill the next alcove. I can’t believe you’re such a fool, Billali.
Billali (Christopher Lee): No, Mr Holly. I am not such a fool.
Major Horace Holly (Peter Cushing): [about the flame] It’ll come back someday.
Leo Vincey (John Richardson): When, Holly, when?
Major Horace Holly (Peter Cushing): That I can’t tell you, Leo. But you wanted immortality.
Leo Vincey (John Richardson): When it comes back, it will find me waiting.