The Fisher King Quotes

Parry It begins with the king as a boy, having to spend the ] alone in the forest to prove his ] so he can become king. Now while he is spending the night alone he's visited by a sacred vision. Out of the fire appears the ], symbol of ]'s divine grace. And a voice said to the boy, "You shall be keeper of the grail so that it may heal the ]s of men." But the boy was blinded by greater visions of a life filled with power and glory and beauty. And in this state of radical amazement he felt for a brief moment not like a boy, but invincible, like God, so he reached into the fire to take the grail, and the grail vanished, leaving him with his hand in the fire to be terribly wounded. Now as this boy grew older, his wound grew deeper. Until one day, life for him lost its ]. He had no ] in any man, not even himself. He couldn't love or feel loved. He was sick with experience. He began to die. One day a fool wandered into the castle and found the king alone. And being a fool, he was simple minded, he didn't see a king. He only saw a man alone and in pain. And he asked the king, "What ails you friend?" The king replied, "I'm thirsty. I need some water to cool my throat". So the fool took a cup from beside his bed, filled it with water and handed it to the king. As the king began to drink, he realized his wound was healed. He looked in his hands and there was the holy grail, that which he sought all of his life. And he turned to the fool and said with amazement, "How can you find that which my brightest and bravest could not?" And the fool replied, "I don't know. I only knew that you were thirsty." It's very beautiful, isn't it?

Quotes about The Fisher King However ] it is, however outrageous it is, is based on ], on a tragedy, on loss.

Taglines A Modern Day Tale About The Search For Love, Sanity, Ethel Merman And The Holy Grail.

Jack Lucas * Advice to a disturbed listener on his Radio program.

Taglines A good, old-fashioned story of guilt, poverty, love, madness and free video club membership.

Lydia I have never been through a dating period.

Anne Napolitano It's a disgusting process. You haven't missed a thing.

Quotes about The Fisher King * ], as quoted in "Dreams: The Fisher King" (2006), edited by Phil Stubbs

Jack Lucas I ] there was some way I could just pay the fine and go ].

Anne Napolitano Didn't you say that what you liked about our relationship is that we didn't have to think? We could just be there for each other.

Jack Lucas Suicidal paranoiacs'll say anything to get laid.

Quotes about The Fisher King In The Fisher King, ] was … at the height of his powers. He knew how to play a man ] in touch with unseen ], a ] ], and for once he played opposite actors who were, each in their own way, ] of him: ], ], and, most memorably, ], who should have partnered with him again.

Parry I'm a ] on a special quest.

Quotes about The Fisher King * ], as quoted in

Jack Lucas Some billionaire's got the ] in his library on Fifth Avenue.

Parry Jack, I may be going out on a limb here, but you don't seem like a happy camper.

Quotes about The Fisher King Parry is a man with a previous life that was so damaged that he had to create another personality. ... It's like post-traumatic stress syndrome: Some ] respond to traumatic or tragic events by withdrawal; some even create other personalities. Parry is a creation — somewhat ], somewhat ] — but he's a creation designed to avoid a past event.

Jack Lucas You ever read any ]? Nietzsche says there's two kinds of people in the world: people who are destined for ] like ]... and ]. Then there's the rest of us, he called us "the bungled and the botched." We get teased. We sometimes get close to greatness, but we never get there. We're the expendable masses. We get pushed in front of trains, take poison aspirin ... get gunned down in Dairy Queens.

Thug What're you, a fag?

Parry Fag? No, but I do ] in ].

Parry What were the crusades? The pope's publicity stunt?

Disabled veteran See... guy goes to work every day, eight hours a day, seven days a week. Gets his nuts so tight in a vice that he starts questioning the very fabric of his existence. Then one day, bout quitting time, boss calls him into the office and says, "Hey Bob, whyncha come on in here and kiss my ass for me, will you?" Well, he says, "Hell with it. I don't care what happens, I just want to see the expression on his face as I jab this pair of scissors into his arm. Then he thinks of me. He says, "Waitaminit. I got both my arms, I got both my legs. At least I'm not begging for a living. Sure enough, Bob's gonna put those scissors down and pucker right up. See, I'm what you call kind of a "moral traffic light", really. I'm like sayin', "Red! Go no further! Boooo-ee boooo-ee boooo-ee...

Jack Lucas I told you about these ]. They're ], Edwin. They must be stopped.

Parry There's three things in this world that you need: Respect for all kinds of life, a nice bowel movement on a regular basis, and a navy blazer.

Parry Lydia, Oh Lydia. Say have you met Lydia? Lydia that Tattooed Lady!

Quotes about The Fisher King * ], as quoted in "Dreams: The Fisher King" (2006), edited by Phil Stubbs

Jack Lucas Where would ] be without ]?

Parry Happily married, probably.

Jack Lucas Well, that's a bad... that's a bad ].

Jack Lucas I'm hearing horses! Parry will be so pleased!

Jack Lucas I don't mean to be flippant or to enrage you or anything, but you're a psychotic man.

Parry I know.

Jack Lucas A very nice psychotic man.

Parry Thank you.

Jack Lucas It's important to ]. It's what separates us from lentils.

Jack Lucas * Drunk, and talking to a ] doll, reminiscing about the attack on diners in a restaurant which his words provoked.

Jack Lucas Do you still believe in ]?

Anne Napolitano Oh! You gotta believe in God! But I don't believe that God created Man in His image. Cause most of the shit that happens is because of men. Naw, I think men was made in the ]'s image, and women were created outta God. Cause, after all, women can have babies, which is kinda like creating. And which also accounts for the fact that women are so attracted to men. Cause let's face it, the Devil is a helluva lot more interesting. I've slept with some ] in my day, and believe me, I know what I'm talking about. Egh-boy! So, the whole point of ], the whole point of life, I think, is for men and women to get married so that God and the Devil can get together — and work it out. Not that we have to get married or anything. God forbid.

Parry What do you think of the death penalty?

John ] is definitely a penalty! It ain't no fuckin ]!

Quotes about The Fisher King The film's about ], about healing wounds and how giving and getting are really pretty much the same thing. My character really gets the ultimate ] by his giving, not by his receiving.