One of Brad Pitt’s most rational choices was playing a nut case in the movie “Twelve Monkeys” for which he won the Golden Globe (supporting actor) and an Oscar nomination.
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Dr. Kathryn Railly (played by Madelyn Stowe) : “Cassandra in
Cassandra (Photo public domain )
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.”
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Dr. Owen Fletcher: “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.”
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Jeffrey Goines (played by Brad Pitt) : “When I was institutionalized, my brain was studied exhaustively in the guise of mental health. I was interrogated, I was x-rayed, I was examined thoroughly.“
[turns head and coughs]
Jeffrey Goines: “Then, they took everything about me and put it into a computer where they created this model of my mind. Yes! Using that model they managed to generate every thought I could possibly have in the next, say, ten years. Which they then filtered through a probability matrix of some kind to – to determine everything I was gonna do in that period. So you see, she knew I was gonna lead the Army of the Twelve Monkeys into the pages of history before it ever even occurred to me. She knows everything I’m ever gonna do before I know it myself. How’s that?”
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James Cole (played by Bruce Willis) : “This is a place for crazy people. I’m not crazy. “
Dr. Owen Fletcher: “We don’t use the term “crazy,” Mr. Cole. “
James Cole: “Well, you’ve got some real nuts here. “
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Louie: “Science ain’t an exact science with these clowns but, they’re getting better.”
An aspiring writer ignored largely by publishers, found a manuscript and published it as his own:
The Old Man (played by Jeremy Irons): “I have a story, a very good story. Do you want to hear it? There he is, a dumb kid wondering what the future held. He wanted to be a writer but the words just wouldn’t come… Then all of a sudden there she was. He saw a world that was bigger than the one he’d been born into… What once was his whole world suddenly seemed small. He knew the life he wanted. He knew what he had to go to get it.”
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Rory (played by Bradley Cooper): “I’m not who I thought I was and I’m terrified that I never will be. I look at my life. I look at everybody’s life. It’s not right!”
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Rory: “I simply tried to set down the truth as I imagined it, the story of one man. I never thought a little book like this would affect so many people.”
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Dora (played by Zoe Saldana): “It’s so different than anything you’ve ever done before.”
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The Old Man: “You think you can just steal a man’s life and expect there to be no price to pay? … We all make difficult choices in life. The hard thing is to live with them.”
