Lost Highway Quotes

Mystery Man: We've met before, haven't we.

Fred Madison: I don't think so. Where was it you think we met?

Mystery Man: At your house. Don't you remember?

Fred Madison: No. No, I don't. Are you sure?

Mystery Man: Of course. As a matter of fact, I'm there right now.

Fred Madison: What do you mean? You're where right now?

Mystery Man: At your house.

Fred Madison: That's fucking crazy, man.

Mystery Man: Call me. Dial your number. Go ahead.

[repeated line]

Mystery Man: We've met before, haven't we?

Ed: You're a musician?

Fred Madison: Yeah.

Al: What's your axe?

Fred Madison: Tenor. Tenor saxophone. Do you...

Al: [shakes his head and point at his ear] Tone deaf.

Ed: Do you own a video camera?

Renee Madison: No. Fred hates them.

Fred Madison: I like to remember things my own way.

Ed: What do you mean by that?

Fred Madison: How I remembered them. Not necessarily the way they happened.

Fred Madison: Andy, who is that guy?

Andy: I don't know his name. He's a friend of Dick Laurent's, I think.

Fred Madison: Dick Laurent?

Andy: Yeah, I believe so.

Fred Madison: But Dick Laurent is dead, isn't he?

Fred Madison: Where's Alice?

Mystery Man: Alice who? Her name is Renee. If she's told you her name is Alice, she's lying.

[filled with rage]

Mystery Man: [shouts] And your name? What the fuck is your name?

Lou: What a fucking job.

Hank: His or ours, Lou?

Lou: Ours, Hank.

Mystery Man: Call Me. Dial your number. Go ahead.

[Fred dials the number and the Mystery Man answers]

Mystery Man: [over the phone] I told you I was here.

Fred Madison: [amused] How'd you do that?

Mystery Man: Ask me.

[Fred's facial expression turns from amused to serious as he's clearly rembering the anonymous video tapes]

Fred Madison: [angrily into the phone] How did you get inside my house?

Mystery Man: [voice] You invited me. It is not my custom to go where I am not wanted.

Fred Madison: [into the phone] Who are you?

[Both Mystery Men laugh mechanically]

Mystery Man: [voice] Give me back my phone.

[Fred gives the cell phone back to the man in front of him]

Mystery Man: It's been a pleasure talking to you.

Mr. Eddy: [into the phone] I'm really glad to know you're doing okay. You're sure you're okay? Everything alright?

Pete Dayton: [into the phone] Yeah.

Mr. Eddy: [into the phone] I'm really glad to know you're doin good, Pete. Hey, I want you to talk to a friend of mine.

Mystery Man: [into the phone to Pete] We've met before, haven't we?

Pete Dayton: [into the phone] I don't think so. Where is it you think we've met?

Mystery Man: [into the phone] At your house. Don't you remember?

Pete Dayton: [into the phone] No. No, I don't.

Mystery Man: [into the phone] In the East, the Far East, when a person is sentenced to death, they're sent to a place where they can't escape, never knowing when an executioner may step up behind them, and fire a bullet into the back of their head.

Pete Dayton: [into the phone] What's going on?

Mystery Man: [into the phone] It's been a pleasure talking to you.

Pete Dayton: I want you.

Alice Wakefield: You'll never have me.

Fred Madison: I had a dream about you last night.

Renee Madison: Yeah? What was it about?

Fred Madison: You were in the house, calling my name, but I couldn't find you. Then there you were, lying in bed... but it wasn't you. It looked like you, but it wasn't.

Fred Madison: How did you meet that asshole Andy, anyway?

Renee Madison: It was a long time ago. I met him at this place called Moke's. We... became friends. He told me about a job...

Fred Madison: What job?

Renee Madison: [short pause] I don't remember. Anyway, Andy's okay.

Fred Madison: Yeah well, he's got some fucked-up friends.

Mr. Eddy: How you doin' Pete?

Pete Dayton: Okay.

Mr. Eddy: I'm sure you noticed that girl that was with me the other day, good lookin' blonde? She stayed in the car? Her name is Alice. I swear I love that girl to death. If I ever find out that somebody was making out with her, I'd take this...

[pulls out a .357 pistol]

Mr. Eddy: ...and shove it so far up his ass it would come out of his mouth. Then you know what I'd do?

Pete Dayton: What?

Mr. Eddy: I'd blow his fuckin' brains out.

[Mr. Eddy puts his gun away]

Mr. Eddy: Hey, you're looking good. What you been up to?

Guard Johnny Mack: Captain Luneau?

Captain Luneau: Yeah, Mack?

Guard Johnny Mack: Captain, this is some spooky shit we got here.

Guard Henry: Man, that wife killer looks pretty fucked up.

Guard Mike: Which one?

[both laugh]

Pete Dayton: Where the fuck are we going, Alice?

Alice Wakefield: We have to go to the desert, baby.

Al: Do you know what I think?

Ed: What is it? What is it that you think?

Al: There is no such thing as a bad coincidence.

[in Pete's vision of Alice]

Alice Wakefield: Did you want to talk to me? Did you want to ask me "WHY"?

Arnie: Pete! Where've you been? It's really good you're back! A lot of people are gonna be happy that you're back, including me!

Pete Dayton: Well, it's good to be back, Arnie.

Arnie: Mr. Smith is waiting for you.

Pete Dayton: Sure, I'll take care of him.

Arnie: And Mr. Eddy called every day asking about you. Can I call him and tell him to come in?

Pete Dayton: Sure, call him. Tell him to come in and I'm ready to work.

Arnie: You're ready to work?

Pete Dayton: I'm ready to work.

Arnie: [to the other garage employees] Pete is back!

[Pete, disturbed by the saxophone music on a radio, switches the channels]

Phil: What'd you change it for? I liked that.

Pete Dayton: Well, I don't!

Phil: I liked that.

Bill Dayton: The police called us today.

Pete Dayton: What'd they want?

Bill Dayton: They wanted to know if we had a chance to find out what happened to you the other night. And they wanted to know if you remembered anything.

Pete Dayton: But... I don't remember anything. What'd you tell them?

Bill Dayton: [after a long pause] We're not going to say anything about that night to the police.

Candace Dayton: We saw you that night, Pete.

Bill Dayton: You came home with your friend, Sheila.

Pete Dayton: Sheila?

Bill Dayton: Uh-huh. There was a man with you two.

Pete Dayton: What is this? Why didn't you tell me anything? Who was the man?

Bill Dayton: I've never seen him before in my life.

Pete Dayton: What happened to me? Please Dad, if you know, tell me.

[Bill and Candace sorrowfully look away from Pete]

[into a phone]

Arnie: There's nine people down here, and you can ask seven of them. If you can get that price from one of them, I'll let you ask the other two.

Sheila: What do you want?

Pete Dayton: Wanna go for a drive?

Sheila: [coyly] I don't know.

Pete Dayton: Get in, baby.

[laying on the ground with his throat slashed by Fred and the Mystery Man]

Mr. Eddy: [gagging from his bloody throat] What do you guys want?

[the Mystery Man pulls out a hand-held Watchman TV and gives it to Mr. Eddy who looks on it to see an interior of Andy's house at night with with Mr. Eddy and Renee watching a snuff-porno film while fondling each other beside the projector. The image suddenly changes back to Fred and the Mystery Man standing before him in the frame]

Mystery Man: Now you can hand it back.

Mr. Eddy: [as he hands the portable TV back] You and me, mister... we can really out-ugly them sonafabitches. Can't we?

Fred Madison: What are you going to do?

Renee Madison: Stay home. Read.

Fred Madison: Read? Read what?