Bubba Ho-tep (2002) - Quotes

A Battle Between Two Kings

Taglines: The King vs. The King of the Dead

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Reflections on Fatherhood and Regret

Elvis: That's my daughter.

JFK: I know. We weren't there for our kids when they needed us, were we?

Elvis: Man, if I could just talk to her again... tell her I love her... try and make things right somehow.

JFK: No time for regrets, Elvis. We were the best fathers we could be under the circumstances.

Elvis: Yeah, I guess, no time for regrets. We got business to take care of.

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Confronting Mortality and Uncertainty

Elvis: [[Lyndon Johnson|President Johnson] Look, man, ]'s dead.

JFK: Shit. That ain't gonna stop him.

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Confrontation on Aging and Worthlessness

The Nurse: Don't carry it too far. You may just get way out there and not come back.

Elvis: Oh, fuck you!

Elvis: Shit! Get old, you can't even cuss someone and have it bother em. Everything you do is either worthless or sadly amusing.

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Unexpected Conversations About Souls and Orifices

JFK: He had me on the floor and had his mouth over my asshole!

Elvis: A shit eater?

JFK: I don't think so. He was after my soul. Now you can get that out of any major orifice of a person's body. I read about it.

Elvis: Oh, yeah? Where, man? Hustler?

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Taking Care of Business in the Rest Home

Elvis: Ask not what your rest home can do for you. Ask what you can do for your rest home.

JFK: Hey, you're copying my best lines!

Elvis: Then let me paraphrase one of my own. Let's take care of business.

JFK: Just what are you getting at, Elvis?

Elvis: I think you know what I'm gettin at Mr. President. We're gonna kill us a mummy.

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The Burden of Fame and Identity

Callie: But why would you want to leave all that fame, Mr. Presley? All that money?

Elvis: I don't know. Cause they got old. The woman I loved, Priscilla, she was gone. The rest of the women... were just women. I mean, the music wasn't even mine anymore. Hell, I wasn't even me anymore, just this thing they made up. And my "friends"... well, they were sucking me dry.

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Concealing Identity Through Deception

JFK: [pause] That's where they took a piece of my brain. They got it back in D.C. in that God damn jar. I got a little bag of sand up there now.

Elvis: [pause] But Jack uhh, no offense but... President Kennedy was a white man.

JFK: That's how clever they are. They dyed me this color, all over. Can you think of a better way to hide the truth than that?

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Elvis Expresses Gratitude in Bubba Ho-tep

Elvis Presley: [his last words] Thank you...Thank you very much.

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End of Soul-Sucking Days

Elvis Presley: [To the mummy, before burning it] Your soul suckin days are over, amigo.

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Reflection on Heroism and Personal Struggles

Elvis Presley: In the movies, I always played the heroic types. But when the stage lights went out, it was time for drugs and stupidity and the coveting of women. Now it's time. Time to be a little of what I had always fantasized of bein - a hero.

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Defending Home and Friendship Against Adversity

Elvis Presley: What do I really have left in life but this place? It ain't much of a home, but it's all I got. Well, goddamnit. I'll be damned if I let some foreign, graffiti-writin', soul-suckin son of a bitch in an oversized cowboy hat and boots take my friend's souls and shit em down the visitors toilet!

Reflections on Fame and Aging

Elvis Presley: Where'd my youth go? Why didn't fame hold off old age and death? Why the hell did I leave the fame in the first place? Do I want it back? Could I have it back? And if I could, would it make any damned difference?

Reflections on Pride and Regret

Elvis Presley: [[w:Colonel Tom Parker|Colonel Parker; [w:Priscilla Presley|Priscilla; [w:Lisa Marie Presley|my daughter] Here I was complainin about loss of pride and how life had treated me, and I realized...I never had any pride. And much of how life had treated me had been good. The bulk of the bad was my own damn fault. Should've fired ] by the time I got in the pictures. Old fart had been a shark and a fool, and I was even a bigger fool for following him. If only I'd treated ] right. If I could've told ] I loved her. Always the questions, never the answers. Always the hopes, never the fulfillments.

Respect the King: A Cautionary Reminder

Elvis Presley: Even a big bitch cockroach like you should know...Never, but never, fuck with the King.

A Father's Longing for His Daughter

Elvis Presley: My own daughter, lost long ago to me...If she knew I lived, would she come and see me? Would she even care?

Perceptions of Attraction and Indifference

Elvis Presley: [looking up Callie's skirt] The revealing of her panties wasn't intentional or unintentional; she just didn't give a damn. She saw me as so physically and sexually non-threatenin', she didn't mind if I got bird's eye view of her love nest. It was the same to her as a house cat sneakin a peek. I felt my pecker flutter once, like a pigeon havin a heart attack, then lay back down and remain limp and still. Of course, these days even a flutter was kinda reassurin'.

Elvis Questions Life Beyond Basic Desires

Elvis Presley: If Priscilla discovered I was alive, would she come and see me? Would we still wanna fuck? Or would we merely have to talk about it? Is there finally and really anything to life other than food, shit, and sex?

Elvis Questions Reality and Time in Reflection

Elvis Presley: My god, man. How long have I been here? Am I really awake now, or am I just dreaming I'm awake? How could my plans have gone so wrong? When the Hell are they gonna serve lunch? Considering what they serve, why the Hell do I care?