Forbidden Planet (1958) - Quotes

The Duality of Human Nature

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

Dr. Morbius: [angrily] I'm not a monster, you...

Commander Adams: [grappling with Morbius] We're all part monsters in our subconscious, so we have laws and religion!

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Understanding the Blaster Mechanism

Dr. Morbius: Do you understand the mechanism, Robby?

Robby: Yes, Morbius. A simple blaster.

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A Request for a New Dress

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.

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Misunderstandings in Flirtation

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

Lt. Farman: [chuckles] 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.

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Astronomical Potential and Infinite Possibilities

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.

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Planetary Features and Mechanical Limitations

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

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

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Acknowledging Robby's Identity as a Robot

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

Robby: That is correct, sir.

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A Desolate Encounter in an Alien World

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: [while showing the captain a plaster cast of a monster foot print] 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.

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Robby the Robot's Admission Restrictions

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

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Robby the Robot's Multilingual Capabilities

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.

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Robby the Robot's Self-Identification Statement

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

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Robby the Robot on Bourbon Duplication

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

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Robby the Robot's Inquiry on Quantity

Robby the Robot: Would 60 gallons be sufficient?

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Robby the Robot Requests Silence for Analysis

Robby the Robot: Quiet please. I am analyzing.

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The Nature of Humanity and Its Threats

Commander John J. Adams: * Last lines in the film

Humanity's Journey Towards Knowledge and Humility

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.

A Commander's Reflection on Emotions

Commander John J. Adams: * To Altaira.

Commanding a Unique Team in Hyperspace

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.

Confronting Inner Demons and Guilt

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

Critique of Intelligence and Capability

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

Description of a massive machine

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

The Rise and Fall of the Krell

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.

The Irony of Unexpected Ambition

Dr. Edward Morbius: [[seclusion] 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.

The Dawn of Space Exploration

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.