Cast a Deadly Spell Quotes

Cast a Deadly Spell is a Comedy that appeared on TV in 1970 on HBO. Cast a Deadly Spell stopped airing in 1970.

It features Gale Anne Hurd as producer, Curt Sobel in charge of musical score, and Alexander Gruszynski as head of cinematography.

Cast a Deadly Spell is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Cast a Deadly Spell is 96 minutes long. Cast a Deadly Spell is produced by HBO Pictures and distributed by HBO.

The cast includes: Alexandra Powers as Olivia, Fred Ward - Harry Philip Lovecraft as Lovecraft, David Warner as Hackshaw, Julianne Moore as Connie Stone, Fred Ward - Harry Philip Lovecraft as Phil Lovecraft, Julianne Moore as Connie, Charles Hallahan as Bradbury, Clancy Brown as Harry, Raymond O'Connor as Tugwell, and Arnetia Walker as Hypolite.

Cast a Deadly Spell Quotes

Arnetia Walker as Hypolite

• (Arnetia Walker) "If you were sensitive at all, the air would crackle in your ears like wax paper. Things are in flux. The auras are bad. Me, I'm going to Florida."

Alexandra Powers as Olivia

• (Alexandra Powers) "That's quite a tie."
• (Fred Ward - Harry Philip Lovecraft) "Oh, thanks."
• (Alexandra Powers) "Put up much of a fight?"
• (Fred Ward - Harry Philip Lovecraft) "No, I snuck up behind it."

• (Alexandra Powers) "I'm serious."
• (Fred Ward - Harry Philip Lovecraft) "Then why do you wear that hat?"

Fred Ward - Harry Philip Lovecraft as Lovecraft

• (Fred Ward - Harry Philip Lovecraft) "Hey, what happened to your regular legbreakers?"
• (Clancy Brown) "Progress."
• (Raymond O'Connor) "Zombies don't eat, don't complain --"
• (Clancy Brown) "-- don't get ideas."

• (Fred Ward - Harry Philip Lovecraft) "What's wrong with my tie?"
• (Julianne Moore) "Nothing -- if you like vertigo."

• (Fred Ward - Harry Philip Lovecraft) "Stop right there Lon Chaney. Step away from the fairy and keep those meathooks where I can see them."

• (Fred Ward - Harry Philip Lovecraft) "So what are we drinkin' to?"
• (Charles Hallahan) "Nothin'. We're just drinkin'."

• (Fred Ward - Harry Philip Lovecraft) "Magic is the way of the future, wouldn't want to buck the future, would you Bradbury?"
• (Charles Hallahan) "If this is the future, I'll take vanilla."

Clancy Brown as Harry

• (Clancy Brown) "I'm going to be immortal, and I'm gonna wear your head as a watch fob."

David Warner as Hackshaw

• (David Warner) "Thank you for killing that though. Tiny minds with stunted dreams. Pathetic."

• (David Warner) "You don't belive in magic?"
• (Fred Ward - Harry Philip Lovecraft) "I believe it, just don't use it."
• (David Warner) "Why?"
• (Fred Ward - Harry Philip Lovecraft) "Personal reasons."
• (David Warner) "And they are?"
• (Fred Ward - Harry Philip Lovecraft) "Personal."

• (David Warner) "The wheel has turned. Yog-Sothoth knows the Gate. That is the promise of the Necromnomicon. Open the Gate, let the Old Ones back in and they will make you a god."
• (Fred Ward - Harry Philip Lovecraft) "Ooohhh, you get to be a god. What does Harry get?"
• (Clancy Brown) "Tell him."
• (David Warner) "For services rendered, Mr. Borden gets to be Ruler of the World."
• (Fred Ward - Harry Philip Lovecraft) "What kind of world?"
• (David Warner) "A world of the unburied dead, and a sky dark with ashes. A blasted, maimed planet. But he'll be the most important person in it."
• (Clancy Brown) "How do you like them apples partner, huh?"

• (David Warner) "Do you realize how long they've waited for me? Centuries. Millennia."
• (Fred Ward - Harry Philip Lovecraft) "How long is that in dog years?"

Charles Hallahan as Bradbury

• (Charles Hallahan) "Time was you had to look a man in the eye before you could kill him. You owed him that."
• (Fred Ward - Harry Philip Lovecraft) "Yeah, now with the nerve and a little know-how, you can do it by tyin' six knots and a piece of string. Ain't modern livin' grand?"

• (Charles Hallahan) "Magic. Gives me the shakes what you can buy in this town."
• (Fred Ward - Harry Philip Lovecraft) "Well, they said it'd make things easier."
• (Charles Hallahan) "And it has."
• (Fred Ward - Harry Philip Lovecraft) "Lots of things."

Julianne Moore as Connie

• (Julianne Moore) "I heard something about you at the club."
• (Fred Ward - Harry Philip Lovecraft) "Such as?"
• (Julianne Moore) "You don't use magic."
• (Fred Ward - Harry Philip Lovecraft) "You heard right."
• (Julianne Moore) "How do you expect to get out of dumps like this if you don't start playing the game?"
• (Fred Ward - Harry Philip Lovecraft) "Seems to me we've already had this discussion."
• (Julianne Moore) "Everybody uses magic."
• (Fred Ward - Harry Philip Lovecraft) "I don't."
• (Julianne Moore) "What have you got to show for it? Fly-specked office, a broken-down car and a ugly necktie, that's what all this integrity buys you. Damn it, everybody's got to compromise."
• (Fred Ward - Harry Philip Lovecraft) "That's what I keep hearing."
• (Julianne Moore) "And what makes you so special?"
• (Fred Ward - Harry Philip Lovecraft) "What makes me special is that I'm my own man. When I started out, I said there were things I would do and things I wouldn't do. Lot of guys start like that and a lot of them sell out along the way, but the more who fall, the easier it gets. See, look -- everybody compromises, everybody cheats, everybody uses magic. So they empty ideals out of their pockets and get on with the job of sticking it to their neighbor before they stick it to them. That's the way it's done. To which I say "nuts." My collar may be a little frayed, maybe I need a shoeshine, but nobody's got a mortgage on my soul. I own it, free and clear."
• (Julianne Moore) "I'm not gonna apologize for my life."
• (Fred Ward - Harry Philip Lovecraft) "Didn't ask you to."
• (Julianne Moore) "I'm happy the way things are."
• (Fred Ward - Harry Philip Lovecraft) "Glad to hear it."
• (Julianne Moore) "You've got to look ahead. You can't drag around the past. There's nothing you can do about it."
• (Fred Ward - Harry Philip Lovecraft) "Sounds like you have a real good grip on things."
• (Julianne Moore) "Why did you have to walk back into my life?"
• (Fred Ward - Harry Philip Lovecraft) "Why did you walk out of mine?"
• (Julianne Moore) "Because you're a wiseacre son of a bitch who doesn't know which way the wind is blowing."
• (Fred Ward - Harry Philip Lovecraft) "And?"
• (Julianne Moore) "And did you really remember the sound of my breathing?"

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