Forbidden Planet Quotes

Robby the Robot I am monitored to admit no one at this hour.

Commander John J. Adams * Last lines in the film

Commander John J. Adams Alta, about a million years from now the human race will have crawled up to where the Krell stood in their great moment of triumph and tragedy. And your father's name will shine again like a beacon in the galaxy. It's true, it will remind us that we are, after all, not God.

Robby the Robot Would 60 gallons be sufficient?

Dr. Edward Morbius In times long past, this planet was the home of a mighty and noble race of beings which called themselves the Krell. Ethically, as well as technologically, they were a million years ahead of humankind. For in unlocking the mysteries of nature, they had conquered even their baser selves. And when in the course of eons they had abolished sickness, and insanity, and crime, and all injustice they turned, still with high benevolence, outward toward space. Long before the dawn of man's history, they had walked our Earth, and brought back many biological specimens. The heights they had reached... But then, seemingly on the threshold of some supreme accomplishment which was to have crowned their entire history, this all-but-Divine race perished in a single night. In the two thousand centuries since that unexplained catastrophe, even their cloud-piercing towers of glass, and porcelain, and adamantine steel have crumbled back into the soil of Altair IV, and nothing, absolutely nothing remains above ground.

Commander John J. Adams I'm in command of 18 competitively selected super-perfect physical specimens with an average age of 24.6 who have been locked up in hyperspace for 378 days. It would have served you right if he ... they ... oh go on, get out of here before I have you run out of the area under guard — and then I'll put more guards on the guards.

Opening Monologue In the final decade of the 21st century, men and women in rocket ships landed on the moon. By 2200 AD, they had reached the other planets of our solar system. Almost at once, there followed the discovery of hyperdrive, through which the speed of light was first attained, and later greatly surpassed. And so at last, mankind began the conquest and colonization of deep space. United Planets Cruiser C-57D — now more than a year out from Earth Base, on a special mission to the planetary system of the great main-sequence star, Altair.

Dr. Edward Morbius How ironic that a simple scholar, with no ambition, beyond a modest measure of ], should out of the clear sky, find himself besieged by an army of fellow creatures, all grimly determined to be of service.

Dr. Edward Morbius Yes, a single machine, a cube 20 miles on each side.

Commander Adams Nice planet you have here. High oxygen content.

Robby I rarely use it myself, sir. It promotes rust.

Altaira Where have you been? I've beamed and beamed.

Robby Sorry, miss. I was giving myself an oil-job.

Altaira Robby, I must have a new dress, right away.

Robby Again?

Altaira Oh, but this one must be different! Absolutely nothing must show — below, above or through.

Robby Radiation-proof?

Altaira No, just eye-proof will do.

Robby Thick and heavy?

Altaira Oh, no, no, it’s got to be the softest, loveliest thing you’ve ever made for me, and fit in all the right places, with lots and lots of star sapphires.

Robby Star sapphires take a week to crystallise properly, would diamonds or emeralds do?

Altaira Well, if they’re large enough.

Doc Ostrow The total potential here must be nothing less than astronomical.

Dr. Morbius Nothing less. The number 10 raised almost literally to the power of infinity.

Robby the Robot Quiet please. I am analyzing.

Dr. Morbius Do you understand the mechanism, Robby?

Robby Yes, Morbius. A simple blaster.

Altaira But you keep helping me. After all, you're not Robby.

Lt. Farman I wouldn't mind being like Robby in certain ways. Uh, that's only in certain ways, of course.

Altaira I can see that was probably very clever, but I don't seem to understand it.

Robby the Robot * After he has been asked to duplicate a sample of bourbon.

Robby the Robot For your convenience, I am monitored to respond to the ] "Robby".

Dr. Edward Morbius Guilty! Guilty! My evil self is at that door, and I have no power to stop it!

Dr. Edward Morbius The fool, the meddling idiot. As though his ape's brain could contain the secrets of the Krell.

Commander Adams Whatever you know in here, your other self knows out there.

Dr. Morbius I'm not a monster, you...

Commander Adams We're all part monsters in our subconscious, so we have laws and religion!

Commander John J. Adams * To Altaira.

Commander Adams No offence, but you are a robot...

Robby That is correct, sir.

Robby the Robot If you do not speak English, I am at your disposal with 187 other languages along with their various dialects and sub-tongues.

Cookie Another one of them new worlds. No beer, no women, no pool parlors, nothin'. Nothin to do but throw rocks at tin cans, and we gotta bring our own tin cans.

Doc Ostrow Monsters! Monsters from the id!

Doc Ostrow Anywhere in the galaxy this is a nightmare.

Chief Engineer Quinn I'll bet any quantum mechanic in the service would give the rest of his life to fool around with this gadget.