Doctor X Quotes

Lee Taylor Are you going swimming with me in the morning?

Joanne Joan Xavier No thanks. Good night.

Lee Taylor What will you do if I start to sink and yell for help?

Joanne Joan Xavier Throw you an anvil. Good night!

Dr. Jerry Xavier Now, it is my theory, that one of us in the past, through dire necessity, was driven to cannibalism. The memory of that act was hammered like a nail into the mind of that man. Shrewd and brilliant, he could conceal his madness from the human eye, even from himself... but he can't conceal it from the eyes of the radio sensitivity.

Dr. Rowitz It affects strangely certain neurotic types. Yes, the moon is powerful. Why, twice a day it lifts billions of tons of water at high tide that wash the shores of the world, like an eternal old scrubwoman.

Dr. Jerry Xavier Good evening, Professor Duke, how are you feeling tonight?

Dr. Duke Horrible.

Dr. Jerry Xavier Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.

Dr. Duke Well, if it makes you feel sorry to hear things like that, then don't ask questions!

Dr. Haine Professor, since we retired this body has been... It has been...

Dr. Jerry Xavier I know, but I don't want her to know.

Police Commissioner Stevens You're an astronomer, Doctor?

Dr. Rowitz Not that, sir. I have an interest in the light qualities of the moon. If you might suffer sunstroke, might you not suffer some similar evil - from the rays of the moon?

Police Commissioner Stevens Moonstruck, you mean?

Dr. Rowitz Exactly, what we call lunacy, from the word luna, meaning the moon. Latin, you know. However, the luna rays will never affect you or me, sir; because, we are normal people.

Dr. Wells Dr. Xavier is still working on his theory that strong mental repressions, phobias hidden in the darkest corners of the subconscious mind, can be brought to the surface and made to register, through certain reactions of the heart. Am I correct, professor?

Dr. Jerry Xavier Precisely. And tonight I hope to prove my theory.

Police Commissioner Stevens What's your theory of the killer?

Dr. Jerry Xavier A neurotic, of course. Some poor devil suffering from a fixation.

Police Commissioner Stevens A fixation? What do you mean?

Dr. Jerry Xavier A knot or kink tied in the brain by some past experience. A madness that comes only at certain times when the killer is brought in direct contact with some vivid reminder of the past.

Police Commissioner Stevens It's hard to believe that.

Dr. Jerry Xavier Yes, for a policeman I suppose it is. But I tell you that locked in each human skull is a little world all its own.

Taglines Out-Thrills Them All!

Lee Taylor Listen, I wanna get off this story. Put me back on crossword puzzles, covering woman's clubs, anything, will you?

Daily World Editor Say, what's the matter with you?

Lee Taylor What's the matter with me? Nothing at all. Only I spent all last night laying next to a bunch of stiffs, looking at a lot of goofy guys. I let a dame poke a gun in my stomach, and then I let a dumb policeman slip me a trick cigar.

Daily World Editor Say, you want to draw another paycheck, don't you?

Lee Taylor Certainly, that's my aim in life, but I'd like to keep out of the bughouse to enjoy it.

Lee Taylor The public want to read about it. The more sensational it is, the more the son-of-a-guns love it.

Joanne Xavier Is that all you think about? Sensationalism? Don't you ever think about people's feelings?

Taglines Mightier than words can describe!

Dr. Jerry Xavier I want every one of you to submit to a psycho-neurological test. An experiment that I have devised, which I hope will prove each one of us innocent.

Dr. Rowitz But, if it should prove otherwise?

Dr. Jerry Xavier Well then, my dear doctor, surely one's own... "farewell to life"... is preferable to that demanded by the law.

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Dr. Haines If you ask me, I think Dr. Xavier is using very unethical methods.

Dr. Rowitz Necessity has no ethics, sir.