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Jacob's Ladder (1990)

Tim Robbins: Jacob

Jacob's Ladder

Tim Robbins credited as playing...

Jacob

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Quotes8

  • 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!
  • 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.
  • 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 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.

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