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Donnie Darko Quotes

Donnie Darko is a TV show that debuted in 1970 . Donnie Darko ended its run in 1970.

It features Michael Andrews (musician) in charge of musical score, and Steven Poster as head of cinematography.

Donnie Darko is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Donnie Darko is 113 minutes long. Donnie Darko is distributed by Pandora Cinema, and Newmarket Films.

The cast includes: Jake Gyllenhaal as Donnie, James Duval as Frank, Jena Malone as Gretchen, Katharine Ross as Dr. Lilian Thurman, Mary McDonnell as Rose Darko, Maggie Gyllenhaal as Elizabeth, Stuart Stone as Ronald Fisher, Gary Lundy as Sean Smith, Beth Grant as Kitty Farmer, Drew Barrymore as Karen Pommeroy, Patrick Swayze as Jim Cunningham, Alex Greenwald as Seth Devlin, Daveigh Chase as Samantha Darko, Noah Wyle as Prof. Kenneth Monnitoff, David Moreland as Principal Cole, Patience Cleveland as Roberta Sparrow, Jolene Purdy as Cherita Chen, Marina Malota as Emily Bates, Kristina Malota as Susie Bates, Jazzie Mahannah as Joanie James, Seth Rogen as Ricky Danforth, and Arthur Taxier as Dr. Fisher.

Donnie Darko Quotes

Jake Gyllenhaal as Donnie

  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "I have to obey him. He saved my life. I have to obey him, or I'll be left all alone. And then -- And then I won't be able to figure out what this is all about. I won't be able to know his master plan."
  • (Katharine Ross) "Do you mean God's master plan? Do you now believe in God?"
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "I have the power to build a time machine."
  • (Katharine Ross) "How is that possible? How is time travel possible? Donnie?"
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Time's up, Frank said."
  • (Katharine Ross) "When is this going to happen?"
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "S-S-Soon."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Well, they say it right when they flood the house, and they tear it to shreds that, like, uh, destruction is a form of creation. So the fact that they burn the money is ironic. They just want to see what happens when they tear the world apart. They want to change things."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "I made a new friend."
  • (Katharine Ross) "Real or imaginary?"
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Imaginary."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "What happened to your eye?"
  • (James Duval) "I'm so sorry."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "How's it feel to have a wacko for a son?"
  • (Mary McDonnell) "It feels wonderful."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "What happens if tell Mom and Dad about this, Sam?"
  • (Daveigh Chase) "You'll put Ariel in the garbage disposal."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "god**** right I will."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "How can you do that?"
  • (James Duval) "I can do anything I want. And so can you."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "You want your sister to lose weight? Tell her to get off the couch, stop eating Twinkies and maybe go out for field hockey. You know what? No one ever knows what they want to be when they grow up. You know, it takes a little, little while to find that out. Right, Jim? And you. Yeah, you. Sick of some jerk shoving your head down the toilet? Well, you know what? Maybe you should lift some weights or take a karate lesson. And the next time he tries to do it, you kick him in the balls."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) ""Ling Ling finds a wallet on the ground filled with money. She takes the wallet to the address on the driver's license but keeps the money inside the wallet.""
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "I'm -- I'm sorry, Mrs. Farmer. I don't get this."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Frank. When's this gonna stop?"
  • (James Duval) "You should already know that."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Well, look -- You want to go with me?"
  • (Jena Malone) "Where do you want to go?"
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "I mean, like, "go" with me. Like, you know -- Like, it's what we call it here. "Going together.""
  • (Jena Malone) "Sure."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Okay. Hey, where are you going?"
  • (Jena Malone) "I'm going home."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "They didn't buy me what I wanted for Christmas."
  • (Katharine Ross) "What did you want for Christmas that year?"
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Hungry, Hungry Hippos."
  • (Katharine Ross) "And how did you feel, being denied these Hungry, Hungry Hippos?"
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Regret."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "I; I'm sorry. I --"
  • (Jena Malone) "Look, Donnie, wait."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "I like you a lot."
  • (Jena Malone) "I just want it to be at a time when it --"
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "When what?"
  • (Jena Malone) "When it reminds me just --"
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "When it reminds you how beautiful the world can be?"
  • (Jena Malone) "Yeah."
  • (Jena Malone) "And right now there's some fat guy over there staring at us."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "I promise that one day, everything's gonna be better for you."
  • (Jolene Purdy) "Shut up."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Dear Roberta Sparrow, I have reached the end of your book and there are so many things that I need to ask you. Sometimes I'm afraid of what you might tell me. Sometimes I'm afraid that you'll tell me that this is not a work of fiction. I can only hope that the answers will come to me in my sleep. I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Well, could these portals, um -- Could these portals just appear anywhere, anytime?"
  • (Noah Wyle) "I think that's highly unlikely. No, I think what you're talking about is an act of God."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Well, if God controls time, then all time is pre-decided."
  • (Noah Wyle) "I'm not following you."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Every living thing follows along a set path. And if you could see your path or channel, then you could see into the future, right? Like, uh -- It's a form of time travel."
  • (Noah Wyle) "Well, you're-you're contradicting yourself there, Donnie. If we were able to see our destinies manifest themselves visually, then we would be given a choice to betray our chosen destinies. And the mere fact that this choice exists would make all preformed destiny, uh, come to an end."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Not if you travel within God's channel."
  • (Noah Wyle) "Um, I'm not going to be able to continue this conversation."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Why?"
  • (Noah Wyle) "I could lose my job."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Okay."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "I think you're the f***ing anti-Christ."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Where did you come from?"
  • (James Duval) "Do you believe in time travel?"
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "One day it will be better for you."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "I'm going home."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "The sky's gonna open up."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "You're such a f***-ass."
  • (Mary McDonnell) "Please."
  • (Maggie Gyllenhaal) "What? Did you just call me a "f***-ass"?"
  • (Mary McDonnell) "Elizabeth, that's enough."
  • (Maggie Gyllenhaal) "You can go suck a f***."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Oh, please, tell me, Elizabeth, how exactly does one suck a f***?"
  • (Maggie Gyllenhaal) "You want me to tell you?"
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Please, tell me."
  • (Mary McDonnell) "We will not have this at the dinner table."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "I'm all ears."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) ""'A storm is coming,' Frank says. 'A storm that will swallow the children. And I will deliver them from the kingdom of Bane. I'll deliver the children back to their doorsteps. I'll send the monsters back to the underground. I'll send them back to a place where no one else can see them except for me, 'cause I am Donnie Darko.'""
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "I was in jail once. I mean I accidentally burned down this house. It was abandoned, but still, I got held back in school and I can't drive until I'm 21. But I'm over all of that. I -- I -- I'm painting and stuff. Writing. I want to be a writer, or maybe a painter, I don't know, or maybe both. I'll write a book and draw the pictures. Then maybe people will understand me. I don't know, change things."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "So, what do I tell the other kids when they ask about you?"
  • (Drew Barrymore) "Tell them that everything is gonna be just fine."

Beth Grant as Kitty Farmer

  • (Beth Grant) "Excuse me. You need to go back to grad school."
  • (Beth Grant) "Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion."
  • (Beth Grant) ""No duh" is a product of fear."
  • (Beth Grant) "Okay, now, girls, I want you to concentrate. Failure is not an option. And, Bethany, if you feel the need to vomit up there, just swallow it."
  • (Beth Grant) "If you don't complete the assignment, you'll get a zero for the day."
  • (David Moreland) "Donald, let me preface this by saying that your Iowa test scores are -- intimidating. So -- let's go over this again. What exactly did you say to Ms. Farmer?"
  • (Beth Grant) "I'll tell you what he said. He asked me to forcibly insert the lifeline exercise card into my anus."
  • (Beth Grant) "Dr. Cole, not only am I a teacher, but I am also a parent of a Middlesex child. Therefore, I am the only person here who transcends the parent-teacher bridge."
  • (Beth Grant) "Rose, I'm sure that you're aware of the horrible allegations against Jim Cunningham."
  • (Mary McDonnell) "I know. I saw it on TV. Something about a "kiddie porn dungeon.""
  • (Beth Grant) "Please, please. Don't use those words. It's obviously some kind of conspiracy to destroy an innocent man. And I have taken it upon myself to spearhead the Jim Cunningham defense campaign."
  • (Beth Grant) "Rose, I have to appear at his arraignment tomorrow morning. And as you know, the girls are scheduled to leave for Los Angeles in the morning. Now, as their coach, I was the obvious choice to chaperone them on their trip, but --"
  • (Mary McDonnell) "But now, you can't go."
  • (Beth Grant) "Yes."
  • (Mary McDonnell) "Hmm."
  • (Beth Grant) "Now, believe me, of all the other mothers, I would never dream of asking you. But none of the other mothers are available to go."
  • (Mary McDonnell) "I don't know, Kitty. It's a bad weekend. Eddie's in New York."
  • (Beth Grant) "Rose. I don't know if you realize what an opportunity this is for our daughters. This has been a dream of Samantha's and all of ours for a long time. I made her lead dancer. Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion."

Jena Malone as Gretchen

  • (Jena Malone) "Hey. What's going on?"
  • (David) "Horrible accident. My neighbor, he got killed."
  • (Jena Malone) "What happened?"
  • (David) "Got smushed by a jet engine."
  • (Jena Malone) "What was his name?"
  • (David) "Donnie. Donnie Darko."
  • (Jena Malone) "Hmm."
  • (David) "I feel bad for his family."
  • (Jena Malone) "Yeah."
  • (David) "Did you know him?"
  • (Jena Malone) "No."
  • (Jena Malone) "You're weird."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Sorry."
  • (Jena Malone) "No, that was a compliment actually."
  • (Jena Malone) "Some people are just born with tragedy in their blood."
  • (Jena Malone) "My mom had to get a restraining order against my stepdad. He has emotional problems."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Oh, I have those, too. What kind of emotional problems does your dad have?"
  • (Jena Malone) "He stabbed my mom four times in the chest."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Oh."
  • (Jena Malone) ""Donnie Darko." What the hell kind of name is that? It's like some sort of superhero or something."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "What makes you think I'm not?"
  • (Jena Malone) "Um, where do I sit?"
  • (Drew Barrymore) "Sit next to the boy you think is the cutest."
  • (Drew Barrymore) "Quiet. Let her choose."

Daveigh Chase as Samantha Darko

  • (Daveigh Chase) "What's a f***-ass?"
  • (Daveigh Chase) "When will I "squeeze one out?""
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Not until 8th grade."
  • (Daveigh Chase) "Why do I have to sleep with Donnie? He stinks."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "When you fall asleep tonight, I'm gonna fart in your face."

James Duval as Frank

  • (James Duval) "Don't worry. You got away with it."
  • (James Duval) "What were you guys doing in the middle of the road, huh? What are you thinking?"
  • (James Duval) "Is she dead? -- What were you guys doing in the middle of the road, huh? What are you thinking?"
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Go home. Go home and tell your parents everything's going to be OK. Go."
  • (James Duval) "I've been watching you."
  • (James Duval) "Wake up."

Patrick Swayze as Jim Cunningham

  • (Patrick Swayze) "You are a fear prisoner. Yes, you are a product of fear."
  • (Patrick Swayze) "Is that all the gusto you can muster?"
  • (Patrick Swayze) "Now, I'm going to tell you a little story today. It's a heartbreakingly sad story about a young man whose life was completely destroyed by these instruments of fear. A young man, searching for love in all the wrong places. His name was Frank."
  • (Patrick Swayze) "Guess he was "sleepgolfing"?"
  • (Arthur Taxier) "Watch out for that drool spot."
  • (Patrick Swayze) "Son -- Do you see this?"
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Right?"
  • (Patrick Swayze) "This is an anger prisoner. A textbook example."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Anger prisoner."
  • (Patrick Swayze) "Do you see the fear, people? This boy is scared to death of the truth. Son, it breaks my heart to say this, but I believe you are a very troubled and confused young man. I believe you are searching for the answers in all the wrong places."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "You're right, actually. I am pretty -- I'm pretty troubled and I'm pretty confused, but I -- And I'm afraid. Really, really afraid. Really afraid. But I-I think you're the f***ing Antichrist."

Mary McDonnell as Rose Darko

  • (Mary McDonnell) "I don't think telling any woman to forcibly insert an object into her anus is something that should go without consequence."
  • (Edward Darko) "I think we should buy him a moped."
  • (Mary McDonnell) "I think we should get a divorce."
  • (Mary McDonnell) "Kitty, do you even know who Graham Greene is?"
  • (Beth Grant) "I think we've all seen "Bonanza.""

Maggie Gyllenhaal as Elizabeth

  • (Maggie Gyllenhaal) "Do you remember that weird gym teacher Mrs Farmer?; Yeah okay, well my brother told her to go shove a book up her ass today. And then my parents bought him all this new s***.; Yeah, I know. I wish a jet engine would fall on my room."
  • (Maggie Gyllenhaal) "I'm voting for Dukakis."
  • (Maggie Gyllenhaal) "You can go suck a f***."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Oh, please, tell me, Elizabeth, how exactly does one suck a f***?"

Gary Lundy as Sean Smith

  • (Gary Lundy) "Oh, wait, wait, wait. She goes; She's going back to the box. We may still have mail."
  • (Stuart Stone) "Mail, mail, mail."
  • (Gary Lundy) "Here it is. And?"
  • (Stuart Stone) "This could be it. Oh. No dice, Grandma."
  • (Gary Lundy) "No, sorry. Sorry."
  • (Stuart Stone) "Someone ought to write that bitch."
  • (Gary Lundy) "That's some good s***, huh?"
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "It's a f***ing cigarette."

Marina Malota as Emily Bates

(We don't have any quotes for this character)

Katharine Ross as Dr. Lilian Thurman

  • (Katharine Ross) "If the sky were to suddenly open up, there would be no law, there would be no rule. There would only be you and your memories."
  • (Katharine Ross) "Donnie, what did Roberta Sparrow say to you?"
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "She said that every living creature on Earth dies alone."
  • (Katharine Ross) "Donnie. An atheist is someone who denies altogether the existence of God. You're an agnostic. An agnostic is someone who believes that there can be no proof of the existence of God, but does not deny a possibility that God exists."
  • (Katharine Ross) "Do you still think about girls a lot?"
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Yeah."
  • (Katharine Ross) "How are things going at school?"
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "I think about girls a lot."
  • (Katharine Ross) "I asked you about school, Donnie."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "I think about f***ing a lot during school."
  • (Katharine Ross) "What else do you think about during school?"
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Married with Children."
  • (Katharine Ross) "Do you think about your family?"
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "I just turn down the volume and think about f***ing Christina Applegate."
  • (Katharine Ross) "I asked you about your family, Donnie."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "No. I don't think about f***ing my family. That's gross."
  • (Katharine Ross) "If this world were to end, there would only be you and him -- and no one else."
  • (Katharine Ross) "Has he ever told you about his friend Frank?"
  • (Mary McDonnell) "Frank?"
  • (Katharine Ross) "Yes, the giant bunny rabbit."
  • (Edward Darko) "The what?"
  • (Mary McDonnell) "I don't recall him ever having mentioned a rabbit."

Stuart Stone as Ronald Fisher

  • (Stuart Stone) "Hey, Porky Pig, I hope you get molested."
  • (Stuart Stone) "Beer and p*****. That's all I need."
  • (Gary Lundy) "We gotta find ourselves a Smurfette."
  • (Stuart Stone) "Smurfette?"
  • (Gary Lundy) "Mm-hmm. Not some, like, tight-ass Middlesex chick, you know? Like, this cute little blonde that will get down and dirty with the guys. Like Smurfette does."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Smurfette doesn't f***."
  • (Gary Lundy) "That's bulls***. Smurfette f***s all the other Smurfs. Why do you think Papa Smurf made her? Because all the other Smurfs were getting too horny."
  • (Stuart Stone) "No, no, no, not Vanity. I heard he was a homosexual."
  • (Gary Lundy) "Okay, well, you know what? Then she f***s them while Vanity watches. Okay?"
  • (Stuart Stone) "What about Papa Smurf? I mean, he must get in on all the action."
  • (Gary Lundy) "Yeah, what he does, he films the gang-bang. Later on, he beats off to the tape."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "First of all, Papa Smurf didn't create Smurfette. Gargamel did. She was sent in as Gargamel's evil spy with the intention of destroying the Smurf village. But the overwhelming goodness of the Smurf way of life transformed her. And as for the whole gang-bang scenario; It just couldn't happen. Smurfs are asexual. They don't even have reproductive organs under those little white pants. That's what's so illogical, you know, about being a Smurf. What's the point of living -- if you don't have a dick?"
  • (Stuart Stone) "Damn it, Donnie. Why do you gotta get so smart on us?"
  • (Stuart Stone) "Shut up. Go back to China, bitch."

Seth Rogen as Ricky Danforth

  • (Seth Rogen) "I like your boobs."

Drew Barrymore as Karen Pommeroy

  • (Drew Barrymore) ""There would be headlines in the papers. Even the grown-up gangs who ran the betting at the all-in wrestling and the Barrow Boys would hear with respect of how Old Misery's house had been destroyed. It was as though this plan had been with him all his life, pondered through the seasons, now in his 15th year crystallized with the pain of puberty." What is Graham Greene trying to communicate with this passage? Why did the children break into Old Misery's House? Joanie?"
  • (Jazzie Mahannah) "They wanted to rob him."
  • (Drew Barrymore) "Joanie, if you had actually read the short story, which, at a whopping 13 pages, would have kept you up all night, you would know that the children find a great deal of money in the mattress, but they burn it."
  • (Drew Barrymore) "When the other rabbits hear of Fiver's vision, do they believe him?"
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Why should we care?"
  • (Drew Barrymore) "Because the rabbits are us, Donnie."
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Why should I mourn for a rabbit like it was human?"
  • (Drew Barrymore) "Are you saying that the death of one species is less tragic than another?"
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Of course. The rabbit's not like us. It has no history books, no photographs, no knowledge of sorrow or regret. I mean, I'm sorry, Miss Pommeroy. Don't get me wrong. You know, I like rabbits and all. They're cute and they're horny. And if you're cute and you're horny, then you're probably happy that you don't know who you are or why you're even alive. You just wanna have sex as many times as possible before you die. I just don't see the point in crying over a dead rabbit, you know, who never even feared death to begin with."
  • (Drew Barrymore) "I don't think that you have a clue what it's like to communicate with these kids. And we are losing them to apathy, to this prescribed nonsense. They are slipping away."
  • (Drew Barrymore) ""It was as though this plan had been with him all his life, pondered through the seasons, now in his 15th year crystallized with the pain of puberty.""
  • (Drew Barrymore) "The children have to save themselves these days because the parents have no clue."

Patience Cleveland as Roberta Sparrow

  • (Patience Cleveland) "Every creature on this Earth dies alone."

Noah Wyle as Prof. Kenneth Monnitoff

(We don't have any quotes for this character)

Alex Greenwald as Seth Devlin

  • (Alex Greenwald) "Did you call the f***ing cops?"
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Deus ex machina."
  • (Alex Greenwald) "What did you just say? What the f*** did you just say?"
  • (Jake Gyllenhaal) "Our savior."

Jolene Purdy as Cherita Chen

  • (Jolene Purdy) "Chut up."

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