The Terror (1963)

Jack Nicholson: Lt. Andre Duvalier

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• Helene : The crypt! It must be destroyed, and with it the dead.

  Andre : Don't speak of the dead anymore. You're with me now.

  Helene : I am possessed of the dead.

  Andre : You're a warm living woman. Who has told you these things?

  Helene : The dead.

• Andre : One more question, Baron: has anyone else except yourself seen the spirit? Stefan, for instance.

  Baron Victor Frederick Von Leppe : [smiling]  You think I'm mad, don't you.

  Andre : Right now, Baron, I'm not sure just what I think.

  Baron Victor Frederick Von Leppe : Ah! But don't forget: *you* saw her, too. Perhaps we're both mad.

• Andre : That bird! It attacked me!

• Andre : Where is Helene?

  Katrina - Witch : [pointing to the bird]  This is Helene.

  Andre : No, not the bird, the girl. Where is the girl?

  Katrina - Witch : There is no girl.

  Andre : Of course there's a girl. I saw her. She spoke to me.

  Katrina - Witch : Perhaps you were tired from your long journey and had a pleasant illusion.

• Andre : Quicksand. The girl was trying to kill me.

  Gustaf : She knows not what she does. Her will is not her own.

  Andre : You mean she's insane?

  Gustaf : Possessed.

• Andre : Hello. I was afraid you drowned. So, you are real. I started to think - who are you?

• Andre : You never said goodbye to me. In fact, you never even said hello.

• [first lines] 

  Andre : Hello! Hello, do you know the road to Kolben? I was separated from from regiment.

• Andre : With all respect, Baron, for a ghost, she's a very active young woman.

• Baron Victor Frederick Von Leppe : Your pardon, young sir. I was at my devotions. I did not hear you.

  Andre : I'm sorry, sir. But, surely, I made enough noise to awaken the dead.

• Andre : My father was Count Duvalier. Was, until they spilled his head into a basket one morning in the Place de la Concorde.

• Andre : There are certain other mysteries I would like to have explained, Baron, and I *mean* to have them explained.

• Stefan : What do you want here?

  Andre : You seem to have things strangely confused in your mind. You're the servant, not I. *I'll* ask the questions.

• Andre : I've been searching for you, to help you. But, you wander in strange places, at strange hours.

• Andre : What kind of a woman are you? Where are you? Who are you?

• Andre : The Baron tells me you've been with him since the Polish campaign.