The Doors (1991) - Quotes

Struggles with Parental Expectations and Identity

John Densmore: I'm afraid of my father, I can't be what they want me to be.

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Reflections on Music and Performance

Robbie Krieger: Well far as I'm concerned, Jim, I made music with Dionysus man. We had some moments on stage like no one will ever fucking know.

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Confronting Pain and Avoidance in Life

Robbie Krieger: [to Jim] You said you love pain man, but you run from it every chance you get.

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The Burden of Limitless Choices

Robbie Krieger: I get scared thinking of all the choices inside. I could go. I could stay. I can live everywhere. I could die now if I wanted. It's limitless choice... and no one cares.

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Concerns Over Jim's Disorganization and Handwriting

Pamela Courson: What am I gonna do about these papers? Jim, Jim—you really need to organize this stuff! You handwriting's just like a little kid! My God look at this. I wonder if William Blake was ever this disorganized.

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Identity Beyond Fame

Pamela Courson: You're a poet, not a rock star.

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A Plea for Connection and Togetherness

Pamela Courson: Jim, don't go away! Come dance with me!

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A Moment of Patience and Presence

Pamela Courson: Take your time, Jim... There's no hurry, I'm all you have to do tonight.

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Personal Responsibility and Individual Choice

Jim Morrison: I can only open doors, Ma'am. I can't drag people thru em. I'm no savior.

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The Burden of Freedom and Indifference

Jim Morrison: Well uh, it's designed to wear you down y'know... when that rap sheet says the "United States of America versus You" it takes you down day by day, specially when no one really gives a shit about, y'know, the First Amendment that's on trial here... Nobody says anything about that, it's just uh did you take your pants off y'know, I mean that's not what it's about, it's about freedom, that's what it's about... but who cares, right? Freedom exists in a schoolbook.

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Critique of Conformity and Control

Jim Morrison: [to audience] You're all a buncha fucking slaves!

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Poet and Muse Connection

Jim Morrison: [to Pam] I'm the poet and you're my muse.

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The Duality of Identity and Performance

Jim Morrison: I go out on a stage and I howl for people. In me they see what they want to see—some say the Lizard King, whatever that means, or some black-clad leather demon whatever that means... but really I think of myself as a sensitive, intelligent human being but with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most crucial moment... a fake hero... The joke the gods played on me... it's okay, I accept the joke... and smile. Death old friend, death and my cock, I can forgive my injuries in the name of wisdom, luxury, romance. Words got me the wound and will get me well. All join now in lament of my cock, a tongue of knowledge in the feathered night. Boys get crazy in the head and suffer. I sacrifice my cock on the altar of silence.

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Exploring Reality Through Self-Reflection and Irony

Jim Morrison: I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me. Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality—that's-all—I was curious... I kinda always preferred to be hated. Like Eric von Stroheim in the movies, the man you love to hate, it's meant to be ironic, courage wants to laugh. Y'know it's a stupid situation.

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The Underestimation of Hatred

Jim Morrison: Hatred is very underestimated emotion.

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Defiance Against Critics

Jim Morrison: Maybe I should always fuck my critics.

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Exploring the Thrill of Human Emotions

Jim Morrison: Y'all believe what you want to believe, you will anyway... but it does kinda show you what excites people? Fear, pity, horror—all those good things that count. It's sorta I guess like being on the edge of an orgasm, y'know... that mystery just before you come. When? If? Should I? Will you die for me, eat me, this way, the end...

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Reflections on Birth and Memory

Jim Morrison: Actually, I don't really remember being born. It musta happened during one of my blackouts.

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Embracing Individuality and Unconventionality

Jim Morrison: Where's your will to be weird man?

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Reflections on Haircuts and Life's Mistakes

Jim Morrison: Some of the biggest mistakes in my life have been haircuts.

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Facing the Serpent: Embracing Fear for Freedom

Jim Morrison: When the serpent appears, his head is ten feet long and five feet wide. He has one red eye and one green eye. He's deadly and he's seven miles long. As he moves—on his scales is written all the history of the world, all people, all actions, all of us our little pictures on the scales, God it's big! -- and it's eating as it moves all the time, devouring, digesting consciousness, power, a monster of energy! We must kiss the snake on the tongue, if it senses our fear, it will eat us instantly. But if we kiss it without fear, the snake will take us through the garden and out the gate. To our freedom -we must ride this snake. To the end of time.

Existence and Consciousness in The Doors

Jim Morrison: [numerous people raise their hands and yell] Hey! I am the Lizard King. I can do anything! Raise your hands if you understand! Alive, any of you alive—let's take a poll—how many of you know you're really alive?! BULLSHIT! Plastic soldiers in a miniature dirt war! C'mon! How many of you people know you're alive? How many of you people know you're really alive!

Authenticity in Expression and Appearance

Jim Morrison: I like a man who wears his soul on his face.

The Essence of Music and Summer

Jim Morrison: The music was new black polished chrome and came over the summer like liquid night.

The Essence of Rock and Roll Life

Jim Morrison: [to John] What's a rock and roll band for man, if you can't party all night and do bad things?

Reinventing Myths and Taking Back the Planet

Jim Morrison: We gotta take the planet back, reinvent the gods, make new myths.

Haunting Influence of Spirits on the Soul

Jim Morrison: The reaction I get now looking back is the soul of the ghosts of those dead Indians—maybe one or two of them were just running around freaking out and just leaped into my soul—and they're still there.

First Encounter with Fear

Jim Morrison: It was the first time I tasted fear. I musta been about four, like a child is just like a flower, his head is floating in the breeze.

Invitation to a Collective Experience

Jim Morrison: Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin...

The Cycle of Life and Entertainment

Jim Morrison: The movie will begin in five moments," the mindless voice announced. All those unseated will await the next show. We filed slowly, languidly into the hall. The auditorium was vast and silent. As we seated and were darkened, the voice continued, "The program for this evening is not new. You've seen this entertainment through and through. You've seen your birth, your life and death. You might recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? Enough to base a movie on?