12 Monkeys (1995) Poster

(1995)

Madeleine Stowe: Kathryn Railly

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  • Dr. Owen Fletcher : Kathryn, you're a rational person. You're a trained psychiatrist. You know the difference between what's real and what's not.

    Dr. Kathryn Railly : And what we say is the truth is what everybody accepts. Right, Owen? I mean, psychiatry: it's the latest religion. We decide what's right and wrong. We decide who's crazy or not. I'm in trouble here. I'm losing my faith.

  • Dr. Kathryn Railly : Cassandra in Greek legend, you recall, was condemned to know the future but to be disbelieved when she foretold it. Hence the agony of foreknowledge combined with the impotence to do anything about it.

  • Dr. Kathryn Railly : What is the matter with your leg?

    James Cole : Got shot.

    Dr. Kathryn Railly : Shot! Who shot you?

    James Cole : I don't know. It was some kind of war. Never mind. You wouldn't believe me anyway.

  • James Cole : I remember being afraid for that little boy. All alone, down that well, not knowing if anybody's going to get him out. First time I was ever really afraid when I was a kid.

    Dr. Kathryn Railly : What do you mean, when you were a kid?

    James Cole : Never mind. It's just a prank, a hoax. That boy's hiding in a barn.

  • Dr. Kathryn Railly : Wh-wh-where are we going?

    James Cole : Philadelphia.

    Dr. Kathryn Railly : That's more than a hundred miles! We can't...

    James Cole : That's why I can't walk there.

  • Dr. Kathryn Railly : If you don't turn yourself over to the police, they're going to, to kill you, then they're going to shoot me too because I'm going to be the accessory to murder.

    James Cole : You're all gonna die.

    Dr. Kathryn Railly : Nobody is going to die! You're not going to save the world, okay? You're delusional. You've made all this up out of bits and pieces in your head.

    James Cole : No.

    Dr. Kathryn Railly : Yes! Let me give you an example. You know Jeffrey Goines. You were both patients at County Hospital at the same time.

    James Cole : Jeffrey Goines was a fruitcake!

  • Dr. Kathryn Railly : You had a bullet from World War I in your leg, James! How did it get there?

  • Dr. Kathryn Railly : [Kathryn has just sent a voice message to the phone number James had]  James! It's okay! We're crazy! I left a message to the carpet cleaning company saying, 'Feel free to conduct an investigation at second avenue at the secret headquarters of the twelve monkeys. There the ones who are going to do it. I can't do anything more now, I have to go, have a Merry Christmas.'

    James Cole : [He mirrors what she says]  ... secret headquarters of the twelve monkeys. There the ones who are going to do it. I can't do anything more now, I have to go, have a Merry Christmas.

    Dr. Kathryn Railly : [Confused, as she gestures to the phone booths]  T-there's no way you could have heard me f...

    James Cole : They got your message.

  • [while driving, they hear a news report about a police mobilization] 

    Dr. Kathryn Railly : [tartly]  Does that disturb you?

    James Cole : No. I thought it was about us. I thought maybe they'd captured us and arrested me.

    [Kathryn looks at him and he gives a small smile] 

    James Cole : Just a joke.

  • Dr. Kathryn Railly : He's sick. He thinks he comes from the future. He's been living in a carefully constructed fantasy world and that world is starting to disintegrate. He needs help!

  • James Cole : I love this air. Oh, such wonderful air!

    Dr. Kathryn Railly : What is wonderful about the air, James?

    James Cole : Very fresh. No germs.

    Dr. Kathryn Railly : Why...

    [giggles] 

    Dr. Kathryn Railly : why do you think there aren't any germs in the air?

  • James Cole : Is this real or one of my delusions?

    Dr. Kathryn Railly : This is definitely real.

  • Dr. Kathryn Railly : In a few weeks, it will have started or it won't. If there're still football games and traffic jams and TV shows and armed robberies, we're going to be so glad, we'll be thrilled to see the police.

  • Dr. Peters : I think, Dr. Railly, you have given your alarmists a bad name. Surely there is very real and very convincing data that the planet cannot survive the excesses of the human race.

    Dr. Kathryn Railly : This is true.

    Dr. Peters : Proliferation of atomic devices, uncontrolled breeding habits, the rape of the environment, the pollution of land, sea, and air. In this context, isn't it obvious that Chicken Little represents the sane vision and that Homo Sapiens' motto, Let's go shopping! Is the cry of the true lunatic?

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