Jacob's Ladder (I) (1990)

Tim Robbins: Jacob

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• Jacob Singer : Jezzie? Get me out of here!

  Evil Doctor : Where do you want to go?

  Jacob Singer : Home.

  Evil Doctor : Home? This is your home. You're dead.

  Jacob Singer : Dead? No. I just hurt my back, I'm not dead.

  Evil Doctor : What are you, then?

  Jacob Singer : [Jacob quietly grins]  I'M ALIVE!

  Evil Doctor : Then what are you doing here?

  Jacob Singer : I don't know.

  Jacob Singer : [crying]  This isn't happening.

  Evil Doctor : What is happening?

  Jacob Singer : Get me out of here.

  Evil Doctor : There is no out of here. You've been killed, don't you remember?

  Jacob Singer : [an eyeless doctor approaches Jacob and hold its long needle and positions the needle and shoves it into Jacob's head and blood comes out]  AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!

• Jezebel : Well, personally, I never went for church names.

  [Jacob laughs] 

  Jezebel : What?

  Jacob Singer : Where do you think Jezebel came from?

  Jezebel : No one calls me that.

  Jacob Singer : You're such a heathen, Jezzie. How'd I ever get involved with such a fuckin' ninny?

  Jezebel : You sold your soul, remember? That's what you told me.

  Jacob Singer : Yeah? For what?

  Jezebel : A good lay.

  Jacob Singer : Look what I got.

  Jezebel , Jacob Singer : The best.

• Jacob : You know you look like an angel, Louie? Like an overgrown cherub. Anyone ever tell you that?

  Louis : [smiling]  Yeah, you. Every time you see me.

  Jacob : You're a lifesaver, Louie.

  Louis : [smiling]  Yeah, I know.

• Jacob Singer : They weren't human.

• Jacob Singer : What's it say?

  Jezebel : [Reading the thermometer]  Oh my God! I'm calling the Doctor!

  Jacob Singer : What's it say?

  Jezebel : It's gone to the top!

  Jacob Singer : Great!

  Jezebel : [On the phone]  Hello Dr. Forest! I'm so sorry to bother you! This is Jezzie Pimpkin up in 14G! I just took Jake's temperature and it's up to 106, could that be right? Oh my God!

  [gets off the phone and starts running a bath] 

  Jezebel : Get out of bed!

  Jacob Singer : I can't! I'm FREEZING!

• Louis : Well, you've done it to yourself this time, haven't you?

  Jacob Singer : Am I dying, Louie?

  Louis : From a slipped disk? That'll be a first.

• Jacob Singer : [holding a crucifix and a bible]  Look, I carry these around everywhere with me but they don't help.

  Paul : Nothing helps.

• Michael : I'd only been in jail 13 hours, I thought 'Nam couldn't be any worse.

  Jacob Singer : Shows how little you knew.

  Michael : Yeah, really.