Total Recall – Quotes
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Conversation between Doug and Lori Quaid: “I know this isn’t exactly what we had in mind when we were younger.”
-“This castle?”
-“But who gets everything they fantasize about, right? We have to get you some better dreams.”
Resistance slogan: “The Fall Enslaves Us All”
Rekall Ad: “Going somewhere? No? Don’t let that stop you. We can give you a set of memories. Rekall: Let us remember it for you.”
“Day after day, year after year, without even questioning it.”
Doug: “You believe those stories about recall? … You never even thought about it just a little bit?”
New guy to Doug: “Your friend was wrong about recall; best memories I have.”
Doug: “I’ve been having these dreams. Feels like I’m doing something, something important. … Are you actually happy with how your life turned out?”
Rekall tech: “You’ve got some tug, some longing. We’re going to give you that. You’re here because something is missing.”
Rekall tech: “You’re gonna have such a good time you’re not gonna wanna come back.”
Rekall tech: “What is life but our brain’s chemical reaction to it?”
Doug: “This is all a mistake. I’m nobody.”
Wife: “Whatever happened was a delusion.”
Doug: “If I’m not me, then who the h*** am I?”
To Doug: “Anything you think you know is not real.”
Doug in a video to his future self: “If my instincts are right, somewhere inside of you is still me.”
Melina to Doug: “You need to get to Matthias. He’s the one person capable of stopping the invasion.”
Doug: “I’m Doug Quaid; that’s all I know.
Melina: “You recognize me?”
Doug: “From a dream.”
Doug is told he is “suffering paranoid dissociative break.”
Harry: “We have to kill her. She’s at the whole epicenter of this fantasy.”
Lori to Doug: “I thought you were a loser. Turns out I was living with the greatest intelligence agent ever. Everyone seems to know you but me. Strange.”
Doug: “I want to remember so I can be myself.”
Matthias: “Each man wants to know who he really is. The past is a construct of the mind, but he heart lives in the present. Look there and you’ll find what you’re looking for.”
Cohaagen: “All this trouble for one man?”
Matthias: “Never underestimate the power of one man. I don’t.”
Matthias to Doug: “In just a few hours you’ll awake and you will be the old Houser again. Patriotic. Ruthless.”
To Doug: “Look at you. Still fighting and you don’t even know who you are.”
Doug: “I may not remember who I was, but I know who I am.”