Laura Dern Quotes

Diana Rocky, let me feel you.

Rocky My mom always told me I was a lion in my past life, but I did not completely leave my old body for this one!

Nora Fanshaw People don't accept mothers who drink too much wine and yell at their child and call him an asshole. I get it. I do it too. We can accept an imperfect dad. Let's face it, the idea of a good father was only invented like 30 years ago. Before that, fathers were expected to be silent and absent and unreliable and selfish, and can all say we want them to be different. But on some basic level, we accept them. We love them for their fallibilities, but people absolutely don't accept those same failings in mothers. We don't accept it structurally and we don't accept it spiritually. Because the basis of our Judeo-Christian whatever is Mary, Mother of Jesus, and she's perfect. She's a virgin who gives birth, unwaveringly supports her child and holds his dead body when he's gone. And the dad isn't there. He didn't even do the fuckin'. God is in heaven. God is the father and God didn't show up. So, you have to be perfect, and Charlie can be a fuck up and it doesn't matter. You will always be held to a different, higher standard. And it's fucked up, but that is the way it is.

Dr. Alan Grant Actually Charlie, those are herbivores. They really wouldn't be interested in fighting with each other. But these ones here are carnivores, and they really like fighting with each other. They use their teeth and claws to rip each other's throats out.

Ellie Alan, he's three. Let's wait til he's five.

Charlie Barber We didn't have a deal; it was something we discussed.

Nora Fanshaw So it's a deal when it's something you want. And a discussion when Nicole wants it?

Sailor Too bad he couldn't visit that old Wizard of Oz, and get some good advice.

Lula Too bad we all can't baby.

Nora Fanshaw Where do you want to live now, doll?

Nicole Barber Well, I'm here now, obviously. I don't know if the show will get picked up. It feels like home. It is home. It's the only home I've ever known without Charlie.

Nora Fanshaw You want to stay here?

Nicole Charlie's not going to want that. He hates LA.

Nora Fanshaw We're interested in what you want to do. What you're doing is an act of hope. You understand that?

Nicole Yeah.

Dr. Grant All our theories about raptor ], what they were capable of, we weren't even close.

Ellie Tell me.

Dr. Grant Well, we did cranium scans of a fossil skull. We found what looks like a very sophisticated resonating chamber.

Ellie Wait a second? So we were right. They had the ability to vocalize.

Dr. Grant I'm convinced that's the key to their social intelligence.

Ellie Which explains why they could work together as a team.

Dr. Grant And coordinate their attacks so the prey wouldn't know what was going on.

Ellie They could talk to each other.

Dr. Grant To a degree we never imagined. Ellie, they were smart. They were smarter than dolphins or whales. They were smarter than primates.

Sailor Did I ever tell you that this here jacket represents a symbol of my individuality, and my belief in personal freedom?

Lula About fifty thousand times.

Ellie You're still the best. I mean that.

Dr. Grant The last of my breed.

Bobby Peru I gotta take a piss bad, can I use your head?

Lula Uh... yeah, I guess.

Bobby Peru I don't mean your head-head. I'm not gonna piss on your head, your hair and all, I'm just gonna piss in the toilet. Y'all take a listen, you'll hear the deep sound coming down from Bobby Peru.

Lula One of these days the sun's gonna come up and burn a hole clean through the planet like a giant electrical x-ray.

Sailor I wouldn't worry about that, Peanut. By then people'll prob'ly be driving Buicks to the moon.

Lula That Johnnie is one clever detective. You know how clever?

Sailor How clever?

Lula He told me once he could find an honest man in Washington.

Lula When'd you start smoking, Sail?

Sailor I guess I started smoking when I was about... four. My momma was already dead then from lung cancer.

Diana Rocky? That is an unusual name.

Rocky Actually, my true name is Roy. Rocky is just a nickname my mother gave me.

Diana How did she decide on that?

Rocky Easy. From the song. Rock-a-bye baby, in the treetops! She said it would not sleep unless I did a lot of rocking!

Ellie So what are you working on now?

Alan Raptors mostly.

Ellie My...favorite.

Alan Do you remember the sounds they made?

Ellie I try not to.