The Thirteenth Floor Quotes

  • Jason Whitney/Jerry Ashton: Hey! What'd you do to the world?

    Douglas Hall: Turned it off.

  • Douglas Hall: Of course, we've improved on this model since then, now the players can beat the shit out of, and try to drown one another.

  • Detective McBain: I think I made the age-old mistake: Never trust a beautiful woman.

  • Detective McBain: [after shooting David and realizing the truth] So, is someone gonna unplug me now?

    [to Jane]

    Detective McBain: Do me a favor, will you? When you get back to wherever it is that you come from, just leave us all the hell alone down here, okay?

  • Hannon Fuller: [First lines] Ignorance is bliss. For the first time in my life, I agree.

  • Jason Whitney/Jerry Ashton: Why are you fucking with our lives?

  • [last lines]

    Jane Fuller: There's so many things I have to tell you about, Doug.

  • Detective McBain: [after repeatedly informing McBain throughout the film that he doesn't smoke, Hall fishes a cigarette out of his pack and lights it while being interrogated] Man, you're picking up bad habits left and right.

    Douglas Hall: Must be the stress.

    Detective McBain: Then you'll need a carton.

  • Jason Whitney/Jerry Ashton: If you're thinkin' what I think you're thinkin', don't even think about it.

  • Jason Whitney/Jerry Ashton: So who's in control?

    Douglas Hall: *Not* us.

  • Jane Fuller: Why did you butcher those people?

    Douglas Hall: Because it was fun!

  • Douglas Hall: He did it. He jacked in.

    Jason Whitney/Jerry Ashton: Huh? Who's Jack?

  • Douglas Hall: I know the truth.

    Jane Fuller: Where are you?

    Douglas Hall: You could call it the end of the world.

  • Douglas Hall: We're nothing but a simulation on some computer.

  • Jane Fuller: I fell in love with you before I even met you.

    Douglas Hall: How can you love me? I am not even real. You can't fall in love with a dream.

    Jane Fuller: You're more real to me than anything I've ever known.

  • Jason Whitney/Jerry Ashton: So this is where I was born.

    [David, in Douglas' body, shoots Ashton]

    Douglas Hall: And this is where you die.