Quotes from the Movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956
Doctor, will you tell these fools? I'm not crazy. Make them listen to me before it's too late.
Dr. Miles Bennell
It started - for me, it started - last Thursday, in response to an urgent message from my nurse, I hurried home from a medical convention I'd been attending. At first glance, everything looked the same. It wasn't. Something evil had taken possession of the town.
Dr. Miles Bennell
Well, I guess that makes us lodge brothers now...except that I'm paying dues while you collect them.
Dr. Miles Bennell
Sick people who couldn't wait to see me, then suddenly were perfectly all right. A boy who said his mother wasn't his mother. A woman who said her uncle wasn't her uncle.
Dr. Miles Bennell
Driving home, I had a lot of questions and no answers. How could Jimmy and Wilma seem so normal now. Surely I had done nothing to cure them. Maybe they wanted me to feel secure but why?
Dr. Miles Bennell
Driving home, I had a lot of questions and no answers. How could Jimmy and Wilma seem so normal now. Surely I had done nothing to cure them. Maybe they wanted me to feel secure but why?
Dr. Miles Bennell
Maybe they're the result of atomic radiation on plant life or animal life. Some weird alien organism - a mutation of some kind...Whatever it is, whatever intelligence or instinct it is that govern the forming of human flesh and blood out of thin air, is fantastically powerful...All that body in your cellar needed was a mind...
Dr. Miles Bennell
In my practice, I've seen how people have allowed their humanity to drain away. Only it happened slowly instead of all at once. They didn't seem to mind...All of us - a little bit - we harden our hearts, grow callous. Only when we have to fight to stay human do we realize how precious it is to us, how dear.
Dr. Miles Bennell
Drugs dull the mind... maybe that's the reason.
Dr. Miles Bennell
Keep your eyes a little wide and blank. Show no interest or excitement.
Dr. Miles Bennell
I never knew fear until I kissed Becky.
Dr. Miles Bennell
And so I ran. I ran! I ran! I ran! I ran as little Jimmy Grimaldi ran the other day.
Dr. Miles Bennell
Help! Wait! Stop. Stop and listen to me!...These people who're coming after me are not human.
Dr. Miles Bennell
Look, you fools. You're in danger. Can't you see? They're after you. They're after all of us. Our wives, our children, everyone. They're here already. YOU'RE NEXT!
Dr. Miles Bennell
You know her uncle, Uncle Ira?...Well Miles, she's got herself thinking he isn't her uncle. She thinks he's an imposter or something.
Becky Driscoll
