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Tony: Can you put a price on your dreams?
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Dr. Parnassus: Voilà!
Tony: Voilà!
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Tony: Don't believe everything you read. Especially The Mirror.
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Mr. Nick: So you're probably not a betting man are you?
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Tony: The Imaginarium does not cost a thing. We're not here for money.
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Mr. Nick: [Emerges in front of Parnassus] It's been a while.
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Dr. Parnassus: Percy, what would I do without you?
Percy: Get a midget.
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Dr. Parnassus: You can't stop a story being told.
Mr. Nick: That's a weak hypothesis.
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Dr. Parnassus: [Repeated line] What would I do without you, Percy?
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Mr. Nick: Damn. I won.
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Face Changed Martin: [Screaming and pleading] I swear I won't drink anymore! Not one drop!
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Martin: [Chasing after Valentina in the Imaginarium] Come here, you bitch!
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Mr. Nick: [Tony has stopped the Devil from taking another soul] Shit.
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Dr. Parnassus: [Sees Tony setting up the Imaginarium] What are you doing?
Tony: Trying to save your daughter's life, sir!
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Dr. Parnassus: [Absorbed in telling Valentina the story] Your mother and I went away together, grew old, and one day she came to me and told me she was pregnant! Can you believe it, at sixty and pregnant. A miracle.
Valentina: [Begins to weep] A miracle or a mistake?
Dr. Parnassus: [sighs, remembering his deal] You were the best mistake I ever made.
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Dr. Parnassus: [Has just seen the Devil] He's come to collect.
[after a pause]
Dr. Parnassus: He's early.
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Tony: Don't shoot the messenger!
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Imaginarium Tony #3: [Sees the press approaching him and grins gleefully at Valentina] I think this is my dream!
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Valentina: [Counting the money that Tony made] Have you ever seen so much money before?
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Tony: If Doctor Parnassus can really control people's mind, why isn't he ruling the world, then? Eh? Why bother with this little... side show?
Anton: 'Side show'? He don't... he don't want to rule the world. He wants the world to rule itself!
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Tony: Do you dream? Or should I say... can you put a price on your dreams? Or... the dreams of the less fortunate in this world
[pets Percy]
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Tony: Nothing is permanent, not even death.
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Tony: Where the hell are we?
Percy: Geographically speaking, in the Northern Hemisphere. Socially, on the margins. And narratively, with some way to go.
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Anton: Ladies and gentleman, ladies and gentleman... this world, this world that we live in is full of enchantment for those with eyes to see it. Chicken!
[throws a chicken at the audience]
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Percy: Telling the truth... always a bad idea.
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Percy: Perhaps you'll find a midget... if you're lucky!
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Anton: [on Tony] He's nothing but a liar, Valentina!
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Anton: [after saving Tony] Hey, he's alive!
Percy: He was.
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The President: I only have three words to say: Well done, Tony!
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Dr. Parnassus: I'll kill you you son of a bitch.
Mr. Nick: Now that I'd like to see.
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Dr. Parnassus: There are three cardinal rules, Mr. Nick. One, there is no black magic, only cheap tricks and... I forget the others.
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[first lines]
Anton: Ladies and Gentlemen, step up. Step up! I am Mercury, the messenger of the Gods, and invite you, invite you, sir, for one night, one night only, here at this venue to enter the mind, the very great mind, huh, of Doctor Parnassus. Dr. Parnassus!
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Female Journalist: Aren't you running the risk to entrench the *need* for charity by increasingly institutionalizing it?
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[last lines]
Percy: Get back to work!
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Dr. Parnassus: What would I do without you?
Percy: Get a midget.
Dr. Parnassus: Huh?
Percy: You know, short fellow, a bit taller than I am, short legs, short foot, big head, runs kind of funny.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Quotes
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Director: Terry Gilliam
Language: English,Russian,French Release date: January 8, 2010