35 Lost Highway Quotes (2024)

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Ed: Do you own a video camera?
Renee Madison: No. Fred hates them.
Fred Madison: I like to remember things my own way.
Ed: What do you mean by that?
Fred Madison: How I remembered them. Not necessarily the way they happened.

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Ed: Fucker gets more pussy than a toilet seat.

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Mystery Man: We've met before, haven't we.
Fred Madison: I don't think so. Where was it you think we met?
Mystery Man: At your house. Don't you remember?
Fred Madison: No. No, I don't. Are you sure?
Mystery Man: Of course. As a matter of fact, I'm there right now.
Fred

Madison: What do you mean? You're where right now?
Mystery Man: At your house.
Fred Madison: That's fucking crazy, man.
Mystery Man: Call me. Dial your number. Go ahead.

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Mr. Eddy: [to a tailgater after running him off the road] Don't tailgate! Don't you fucking ever tailgate! Do you know how much space is needed to stop a car traveling at 35 miles per hour? Six car lengths! Six fuckin' car lengths! That's a hundred and six fuckin' feet, mister! If I had to stop suddenly, you woulda hit me! I want you to get a fuckin' driver's manual, and I want

you to study that motherfucker! And I want you to obey the the goddamn rules of the road! Fifty-fuckin' thousand people were killed on the highways last year 'cause of fuckin' assholes like you! Tell me you're gonna get a manual!

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Mystery Man: Call Me. Dial your number. Go ahead.
[Fred dials the number and the Mystery Man answers]
Mystery Man: [over the phone] I told you I was here.
Fred Madison: [amused] How'd you do that?
Mystery Man: Ask me.
[Fred's facial expression turns from amused to serious as he's clearly

rembering the anonymous video tapes]
Fred Madison: [angrily into the phone] How did you get inside my house?
Mystery Man: [voice] You invited me. It is not my custom to go where I am not wanted.
Fred Madison: [into the phone] Who are you?
[Both Mystery Men laugh mechanically]
Mystery Man: [voice]

Give me back my phone.
[Fred gives the cell phone back to the man in front of him]
Mystery Man: It's been a pleasure talking to you.

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Fred Madison: Dick Laurent is dead...

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Pete Dayton: I want you.
Alice Wakefield: You'll never have me.

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David Bowie: [singing] Funny how secrets travel...

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Mr. Eddy: [into the phone] I'm really glad to know you're doing okay. You're sure you're okay? Everything alright?
Pete Dayton: [into the phone] Yeah.
Mr. Eddy: [into the phone] I'm really glad to know you're doin good, Pete. Hey, I want you to talk to a friend of mine.
Mystery Man: [into the phone to Pete]

We've met before, haven't we?
Pete Dayton: [into the phone] I don't think so. Where is it you think we've met?
Mystery Man: [into the phone] At your house. Don't you remember?
Pete Dayton: [into the phone] No. No, I don't.
Mystery Man: [into the phone] In the East, the Far East, when a person is

sentenced to death, they're sent to a place where they can't escape, never knowing when an executioner may step up behind them, and fire a bullet into the back of their head.
Pete Dayton: [into the phone] What's going on?
Mystery Man: [into the phone] It's been a pleasure talking to you.

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[repeated line]
Mystery Man: We've met before, haven't we?

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Fred Madison: Where's Alice?
Mystery Man: Alice who? Her name is Renee. If she's told you her name is Alice, she's lying.
[filled with rage]
Mystery Man: [shouts] And your name? What the fuck is your name?

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Guard Henry: Man, that wife killer looks pretty fucked up.
Guard Mike: Which one?
[both laugh]

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[in Pete's vision of Alice]
Alice Wakefield: Did you want to talk to me? Did you want to ask me "WHY"?

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Mr. Eddy: This is where mechanical excellence and one-thousand four-hundred horsepower pays off.

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Guard Johnny Mack: Captain Luneau?
Captain Luneau: Yeah, Mack?
Guard Johnny Mack: Captain, this is some spooky shit we got here.

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[into a phone]
Arnie: There's nine people down here, and you can ask seven of them. If you can get that price from one of them, I'll let you ask the other two.

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Fred Madison: I had a dream about you last night.
Renee Madison: Yeah? What was it about?
Fred Madison: You were in the house, calling my name, but I couldn't find you. Then there you were, lying in bed... but it wasn't you. It looked like you, but it wasn't.