Kyle MacLachlan credited as playing...
Paul Atreides
- Paul: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will let it pass over me and through me. And when it has passed I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where it has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: Do you know of the Water of Life? The bile from the ill-borne worms of Arrakis?
- Paul: I have heard of it.
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: It's very dangerous. The Bene Gesserit sisterhood would use it to see - within. There is a place - terrifying to us. To women. It is said: a man will come, the Kwisatz Haderach. He will go where we can not. Many men have tried.
- Paul: They tried and failed?
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: They tried and died.
- Paul: Irulan shall be my wife, opening the way for an Atreides to sit on the throne.
- Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: I sit on the throne!
- Paul: You will sit on a throne on Selusa Secundus, your prison planet! Either that, or you will die.
- [walks towards Chani]
- Paul: The princess shall have no more of me than my name... no child of mine, nor touch, nor softness of glance, nor instant of desire.
- [he tenderly strokes her cheek]
- Paul: This, I promise to you, my love.
- Lady Jessica: Think on it, Chani. We who carry the name of concubine... history will call us wives.
- Paul: Emperor Shaddam IV, there are Guild Heighliners above us containing many Great Houses of the Laandsraad. Send them back.
- Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: How dare you speak to me in...
- Guild Worker: Stop your speaking!
- Paul: You have some idea of what I could do.
- Paul: [the Reverend Mother Mohiam growls at him] Don't try your powers on me. Try looking into that place where you dare not look.You'll find me there, staring back at you.
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: [DELETED LINE] Silence him, Jessica!
- Lady Jessica: [DELETED LINE] Silence him yourself, if you can.
- Paul: [DELETED LINE] For ninety generations you and your Bene Gesserit have labored in secret to produce a living, breathing super-weapon... one that would empower you to overthrow both the Guild and the Emperor. Indeed. This weapon, I am. And these goals, I have achieved. *But I will NEVER be YOURS to control.*
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: [Using the Voice] *You mustn't speak... *
- Paul: [Also using the Voice, which overpowers her] SILENCE!
- [she is knocked backward against several Guild Workers]
- Paul: I remember your gom jabbar, now you'll remember mine. I can kill with a word.
- Paul: ...My father sent you to test me, didn't he?
- [He indicates Gurney's baliset]
- Paul: Music, then?
- Gurney Halleck: No music. I'm packing this for the crossing.
- [He sets down the baliset]
- Gurney Halleck: Shield practice.
- Paul: Again? Gurney, we had practice all this morning. I'm not in the mood.
- Gurney Halleck: Not in the mood? Mood's a thing for cattle and loveplay, not fighting!
- Paul: I'm sorry, Gurney.
- Gurney Halleck: Not sorry enough, not yet!
- [He activates his shield and attacks Paul, who activates his own shield barely in time]
- Paul: [to himself] What's wrong with Gurney? He's not faking this!
- Gurney Halleck: Now, guard yourself for true!
- Paul: This is part of the weirding way that we will teach you. Some thoughts have a certain sound, that being the equivalent to a form. Through sound and motion, you will be able to paralyze nerves, shatter bones, set fires, suffocate an enemy or burst his organs. We will kill until no Harkonnen breathes Arrakeen air.
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: Put your right hand in the box.
- Paul: What's in the box?
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: Pain.
- Stilgar: You have strength. You shall be known as Usul - which is the strength of the base of the pillar. This is your secret name in our troop. But, you must choose the name of manhood, which we will call you openly.
- Paul: What do you call the mouse shadow in the second moon?
- Stilgar: We call that one Muad'Dib.
- Paul: Could I be known as Paul Muad'Dib?
- Stilgar: You are Paul Muad'Dib!
- Paul: Is this what you seek?
- Gurney Halleck: Good! Fast on defense, slow on attack. But, ah, look down.
- [Gurney has penetrated Paul's shield as well]
- Gurney Halleck: We'd have joined each other in death. You did seem, finally, to get in the mood.
- Paul: The Harkonnens are our enemy. Yes. But, behind them I suspect is the Emperor.
- Thufir Hawat: You will make a formidable Duke!
- Paul: We must totally destroy all spice production on Arrakis. The Guild and the entire Universe depends on spice. He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing.
- Paul: We Fremen have a saying: "God created Arrakis to train the faithful." One cannot go against the word of God.
- Paul: I know, Thufir, I'm sitting with my back to the door. I heard you, Dr. Yueh and Gurney coming down the hall.
- Thufir Hawat: Those sounds could be imitated!
- Paul: [Looks around and sees he was right] I'd know the difference.
- Thufir Hawat: [voice over] Yes, perhaps he would at that.
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: I hold at your neck a Gom Jabbar. This one kills only animals.
- Paul: Are you suggesting the Duke's son is an animal?
- Reverend Mother Mohiam: Let us say, I suggest you may be human. Your awareness may be powerful enough to control your instincts. Your instinct will be to remove your hand from the box. If you do so, you die.