Blade (1998)
Wesley Snipes: Blade
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Quotes
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Blade : Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill.
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Blade : [after being shot by hospital security] Mother fucker! Are you out of your damn mind?
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Blade : [to Karen] You better wake up. The world you live in is just a sugar-coated topping! There is another world beneath it: the real world. And if you wanna survive it, you better learn to PULL THE TRIGGER!
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Blade : There are worse things out tonight than vampires.
Dr. Karen Jenson : Like what?
Blade : Like me.
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Blade : OK, Vampire Anatomy 101, crosses and holy water don't do dick so forget what you've seen in the movies. You use a wooden stake, silver or sunlight to kill them. You know how to use one of these?
[hands her a gun]
Dr. Karen Jenson : No, but I'll damn sure learn quick.
Blade : Safety's off, round's already chambered. Silver hollow-point bullets filled with garlic. You aim for the head or the heart. Anything else, its your ass.
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Dr. Karen Jenson : Oh, great. Now you're robbing him. You gonna rob me, too?
Blade : How do you think that we fund this organization, huh? We're not exactly the March of Dimes.
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Dr. Karen Jenson : You have a lot of love for him, don't you?
Blade : We have a good arrangement. He makes the weapons. I use them.
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Blade : You give Frost a message from me. You tell him it's open season on all suckheads.
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Dr. Karen Jenson : You're one of them, aren't you?
Blade : No, I'm something else.
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Deacon Frost : How you doing, chief?
[Blade reaches for his gun]
Deacon Frost : Easy.
[pulls in a little girl closer to him]
Deacon Frost : Wouldn't want our little friend here to wind up in the back of a milk carton now, would we? It's nice to finally meet you, man. Had my eye on you for years. I know all about you. Your serum, Whistler. Everything.
Blade : [amused] Sunblock.
Deacon Frost : Hey, it's a start, right? The goal, of course, is to be like you - the Daywalker! You got the best of both worlds, don't you? All our strengths... none of our weaknesses.
Blade : Well, maybe I don't see it that way.
Deacon Frost : Oh, so it's back to pretending we're human again? C'mon... spare me the Uncle Tom routine, okay? You can't keep denying what you are, man. You think the humans will ever accept a half-breed like you? They can't. They're afraid of you. And they should be. You're an animal, you're a fuckin' maniac! Look at 'em. They're cattle; pieces of meat. What difference does it make how their world ends? Plague... war... famine. Morality doesn't even enter into it. We're just a function of natural selection, man. The new race.
Blade : Looks like your mascara's running.
Deacon Frost : [wipes a bit of sunblock from his face] I'm offering you a truce. I want you with us.
Blade : What... do you think I'm stupid?
[in vampire language]
Blade : "The Spirits of the Twelve will awaken La Magra."
Deacon Frost : You're familiar with the Blood God.
Blade : Frost... you're nothing to me but another dead vampire.
Deacon Frost : You're an idiot, you know that? I came down here offering you an easy way out and you spit it right back in my fuckin' face!
[Blade reaches for his gun again; Frost picks up the little girl by the chin]
Deacon Frost : Careful!
Blade : What do I care? They're nothing but cattle... just like you said.
Deacon Frost : If you wanna take the hard road, be my guest, pal. But I promise you by the time this is over, you're gonna wish they never cut you from your mother's...
[Blade shoots and misses Frost as he throws the little girl and runs]
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Blade : [Jumps from the top floor of the temple] FFFRRROOOOOOSSST!
Deacon Frost : Kill him.
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Dr. Karen Jenson : I need to get back to the lab, if I'm going to cure you.
Blade : It's not over. You keep your cure. There's still a war going on, and I have a job to do. You wanna help, make me a better serum.
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Quinn : Oh, lookie here.
[he removes a silver stake from Blade's holster]
Quinn : Silver. Nice craftsman ship, huh? Probably cost you a pretty penny. Now this here is a man who takes his job just a little too seriously, don't you think? Come to think of it, Blade, I owe you one.
[he stabs the stake into Blade's shoulder]
Quinn : Actually, if you want to get technical, Blade...
[lifts another stake]
Quinn : I owe you two.
[Blade starts laughing]
Quinn : Oh, what's so funny, bright eyes?
Blade : I'm expecting company.
[Quinn looks closer, and sees the radio piece in Blade's ear, which is chattering. The wall explodes behind them]
Whistler : Catch you fuckers at a bad time?
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Blade : We're gonna play a little game of twenty questions. Depending on how you answer, you may walk out of here with a tan?
[points at the computer screen]
Blade : What's *that*?
Pearl : Oh, that? Oh, it's nothing, it's routine research, heh, heh... Actually, it's a video game.
[Blade snaps his fingers. Karen shines the UV lamp on Pearl, searing his flesh. Pearl screams, then Karen shuts it off]
Blade : That musta hurt.
Pearl : It's a fragment! A piece of the prophecy!
Pearl : What prophecy?
Pearl : Oh, I'm not really sure. There's so many out...
[Karen, without being asked, fries him again]
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[Karen sprays Officer Krieger with garlic mace when he's about to shoot her]
Officer Krieger : Ugh! What is this? Garlic?
Dr. Karen Jenson : Yeah, well he said it would work against vampires.
Officer Krieger : Vampires? Who said I was a vampire?
[Blade suddenly appears behind Officer Kreiger and knocks him to the floor]
Blade : Nobody.
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Officer Krieger : Go fuck yourself!
Blade : [draws his gun] Fuck me? No, you fuck this!
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Deacon Frost : Kill him.
Quinn : Wait. I oh you man. I got two new hands, and I don't know which one to kill you with.
[lunges forward with a dagger in hand]
Blade : [Blade pulls out razor wire, and cut's off Quinn's head. he plucks his own sunglasses out of the air and slides them on] Rawr.
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Dr. Karen Jenson : Wait a minute! I'm coming with you.
Blade : You're useless.
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Vanessa Brooks : [after losing in a fight with Blade] Eric, I'm you mother. You wouldn't hurt your mother would you? Come here.
[pulls Blade in for a hug]
Blade : [whispers in her ear] I must release you.
Vanessa Brooks : [Blade stabs her with the bone] Aaaaaahhhhhhhhh!
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Blade : You see the valets over there? They're vampires. So's the doorman... and the whore on the corner.
Dr. Karen Jenson : How can you tell?
Blade : By the way they move. The way they smell.
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Dr. Karen Jenson : You used me as bait?
Blade : Get over it.
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Dr. Karen Jenson : You been listening in the whole time?
Blade : Keeping radio contact.
Whistler : Think I'd let him run loose without a chaperon?
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Blade : I'm not human.
Dr. Karen Jenson : You look human to me.
Blade : Humans don't drink blood.
Dr. Karen Jenson : That was a long time abo. Maybe you should let that go?
Blade : I have spent my whole life lookin' for that thing that killed my mother, and made me what I am. And every time I take one of those monsters out, I get a little piece of that life back. So don't you tell me about forgetting.
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Blade : [to Frost] I promise you, you'll be dead by dawn.
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[last lines]
Blade : [in Moscow, speaking Russian] Catch you at a bad time... comrade?
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[Blade pins Quinn to the wall with his silver spikes]
Blade : Quinn. I'm gettin' a little tired of choppin' you up. Thought I might try fire for a change.
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Blade : [Jumps from the top floor of the Temple of Eternal Night, and shouts] FFFRRROOOOOOSSST!
Deacon Frost : Kill him.
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Dr. Karen Jenson : So, am I a prisoner here?
Whistler : Not at all. We just had to take certain precautions before we let you go. You got to understand, they're everwhere. Vampires. A Hominus Nocturna. We hunt them you see, moving from one city to the next, tracking their migrations. They're hard to kill. They tend to regenerate.
Dr. Karen Jenson : And I'm supposed to believe all this?
Blade : Well, you already met Mr. Crispy at the hospital. What do you think?
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Blade : Remember what we told you. You keep your eyes open. They're everywhere.
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Karen : So, am I a prisoner here?
Whistler : Not at all. We just had to take certain precautions before we let you go. You got to understand, they're everwhere. Vampires. A Hominus Nocturna. We hunt them you see, moving from one city to the next, tracking their migrations. They're hard to kill. They tend to regenerate.
Karen : And I'm supposed to believe all this?
Blade : Well, you already met Mr. Crispy at the hospital. What do you think?
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Dr. Karen Jenson : Isn't this just a little high-tech?
Blade : They've got their claws into everything - politics, finance, real estate. They already own half of downtown.
