Death Becomes Her (1992) - Quotes

The Uncertainty of Eternal Life

Taglines: In one small bottle... The fountain of youth. The secret of eternal life. The power of an ancient potion. Sometimes it works... sometimes it doesn't.

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The Pursuit of Eternal Youth

Taglines: Some people will go to any lengths to stay young forever. But Madeline Ashton and her old friend Helen Sharp are about to go TOO far.

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The Choice of Immortality

Lisle: Go on... Drink it... It is the completion of your life's work. You gave other people youth and wasted your own! Drink. And you will be able to work again forever! Drink... drink, Dr. Menville. You owe yourself another chance! Drink! It's the right choice! The only choice! Drink! SEMPRE VIVE! LIVE FOREVER!

Ernest: Then what?

Lisle: What?

Ernest: Then what happens?

Lisle: What?

Ernest: I don't want to live forever. I mean, it sounds good, but what am I gonna do? What if I get bored?

Lisle: What?

Ernest: And what if I get lonely? Who am I gonna hang around with, Madeleine and Helen? What if something happens to me? What if I get maimed? What if I get shot? What if somebody pushes me down...What if I fall down a flight of stairs or something?

Lisle: But you'll never grow old!

Ernest: Yes, but everybody else will! I'll have to watch everyone around me die. I don't think this is right. This is not a dream. This is a nightmare! You people all have to be stopped!

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Unexpected Gratitude in a Surprising Moment

Ernest: [after the sample of potion restores his hand] Oh my god...

Lisle: [blushes] Thank you.

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Letting Go of the Past

Psychiatrist: Is this where we are, Helen? Six months of therapy, you are not even one pound lighter, and we are still talking about Madeline Ashton!

Helen: Do you think I enjoy talking about Madeline Ashton?

Psychiatrist: [sighs] Do you think I enjoy it? Is that what you think? Well, you'd better think again. Oh, Helen! For you to have a life — for any of us to have a life — you have got to forget about her. You have to erase her from your mind. You have to completely eliminate any...

Helen: What...?

Psychiatrist: You have to completely eliminate...

Helen: You're right.

Psychiatrist: What?

Helen: You are absolutely right.

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Tension Between Helen and Madeline Unfolds

Helen: Oh, ok. If she's not dead you tell her to come down, you tell her to come down here and kiss me on the...

Madeline: Kiss you on the what?

Helen: Mad?

Madeline: Hel...What have you two been plotting down here? Or should I say what else?

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Beauty Standards and Age Perception

Anna: How about a nice colagen buff instead?

Madeline: A colagen buff? You might as well ask me to wash with soap and water!

Anna: I could do your make-up myself

Madeline: Make-up is pointless! It does nothing anymore. Are you even listening to me? Do you even care? You just stand there with your twenty-two year old skin and your tits like rocks and laugh at me.

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The Bittersweet Nature of Youth and Decay

Lisle Von Rhoman: This is life's ultimate cruelty. It offers us a taste of youth and vitality, and then it makes us witness our own decay.

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A Request for Space and Readiness

Lisle Von Rhoman: Make some room for my friend, for Christ's sake. But... keep your ass handy.

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Final Thoughts in a Moment of Chaos

Helen Sharp: (Last lines. Helen and Madeleine shatter into pieces after falling down stairs) Do you remember where you parked the car?

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Confrontation and Defiance in Helen Sharp

Helen Sharp: En garde, BITCH!

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Wealth and Divorce in California

Helen Sharp: Divorce? In California? That is exactly what she wants you to do. You have no talent for poverty.

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Confronting Blame and Betrayal

Helen Sharp: (while confronting Ernest Menville) No Ernest, she has wasted you, she married a brilliant surgeon and turned him into an undertaker. I want you to know something, I have never blamed you for leaving me. I always knew it was her. She is a woman, Ernest, a woman, from Newark, for God's sake. I will never forgive her for what she has done to you. Never.

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Acceptance of Past Relationships

Helen Sharp: (while confronting Madeline Ashton) Listen, that was a long time ago, you didn't steal him, he went to you. It wasn't you, it was him. I just want you to know something that I have never ever blamed you, never.

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