75 The Exorcist Quotes (2026) #4

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Father Dyer: [taking away Karras' whiskey] I reckon I saved him from a great temptation.
Father Karras: Stealing's a sin.

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Sharon: I should have known better. I'm sorry.
Chris MacNeil: Yeah, I guess you should have.
Sharon: How were the tests?
Chris MacNeil: We have to start looking for a shrink.

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Lt. Kinderman: You know who you look like? John Garfield. Exactly, John Garfield, "Body and Soul." Do people ever tell you that, Father?
Father Karras: Do people tell you that you look like Paul Newman?
Lt. Kinderman: Always.

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Father Karras: Would you like to hear about the case, first?
Father Merrin: Why?

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Father Karras: I should have told you I wouldn't be in uniform.

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Dr. Taney: Pathological states can induce abnormal strength. Accelerated motor performance. Now, for example, say a 90 pound woman sees her child pinned under the wheel of a truck. Runs out and lifts the wheels a half a foot up off the ground - you've heard the story - same thing here. Same principle, I mean.
Chris MacNeil: So what's wrong with her?

Dr. Klein: We still think the temporal lobe.
Chris MacNeil: Oh what are you talking about, for Chrissakes? Did you see her or not? She's acting like she's fucking out of her mind, psychotic, like a... split personality or...
Dr. Taney: There haven't been more than a hundred authentic cases of so-called split personality, Mrs.

MacNeil. Now I know the temptation is to leap to psychiatry. But any reasonable psychiatrist would exhaust the somatic possibilities first.
Chris MacNeil: So, what's next?
Dr. Taney: A pneumoencephalogram, I would think. Pin down that lesion. It will involve another spinal.
Chris MacNeil: Oh, Christ.
Dr.

Taney: What we missed in the EEG and the arteriograms could conceivably turn up there. At least, it would eliminate certain other possibilities.