Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (film) Quotes

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (film) is a TV show that debuted in 1970 . Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas completed its run in 1970.

It features Patrick Cassavetti as producer, Ray Cooper in charge of musical score, and Nicola Pecorini as head of cinematography.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (film) is 118 minutes long. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (film) is distributed by Universal Studios.

The cast includes: Johnny Depp as Raoul Duke, Troy Evans as Police Chief, Tobey Maguire as Hitchhiker, Gary Busey as Highway Patrolman, Christina Ricci as Lucy, Harry Dean Stanton as Judge, Mark Harmon as Magazine Reporter, Michael Jeter as L. Ron Bumquist, and Craig Bierko as Lacerda.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (film) Quotes

Johnny Depp as Raoul Duke

• (Johnny Depp) "One of the things you learn from years of dealing with drug people, is that you can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug. Especially when it's waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eye."

• (Johnny Depp) "Don't take any guff from these swine. If you have any trouble, remember, you can always send a telegram to the Right People."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Yeah, Explaining my Position. Some asshole wrote a poem about that once. Probably good advice if you have s*** for brains."

• (Dr. Gonzo) "As your attorney, I advise you to buy a motorcycle. How else can we cover a thing like this righteously?"
• (Johnny Depp) "We'll just have to drum it up on our own. Pure Gonzo journalism."

• (Johnny Depp) "Jesus, bad waves of paranoia, madness, fear and loathing; intolerable vibrations in this place. Get out. The weasels were closing in. I could smell the ugly brutes."

• (Johnny Depp) "PLEASE. Tell me about the f***ing golf shoes."

• (Johnny Depp) "Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop. A normal speeder will panic and immediately pull over to the side. This is wrong. It arouses contempt in the cop heart. Make the bastard chase you. He will follow. But he won't know what to make of your blinker signal that says you are about to turn right. This is to let him know you're pulling off for a proper place to talk. It will take him a moment to realize that he's about to make a 180 degree turn at speed, but you will be ready for it. Brace for the g's, and fast heel-toe work."

• (Johnny Depp) "Panic. It crept up my spine like first rising vibes of an acid frenzy. All these horrible realities began to dawn on me. There I was. Alone in Las Vegas, completely twisted on drugs, no cash, no story for the magazine, and on top of everything else, a gigantic god damned hotel bill to deal with. How would Horatio Alger handle this situation? Stay calm. Stay calm."

• (Johnny Depp) "Jesus God Almighty man, where'd you get that big f***er?"
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Room Service sent it up, I needed something to cut the limes, man."
• (Johnny Depp) "Limes? What limes?"
• (Dr. Gonzo) "They didnt have any, they don't grow in the desert."

• (Johnny Depp) "Who are these people? These faces? Where did they come from? They look like caricatures of used car dealers from Dallas, and sweet Jesus, there are a hell of a lot of them at 4:30 on a Sunday morning. Still humping the American dream."

• (Johnny Depp) "With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he'll never know."

• (Johnny Depp) "She's doing her Masters thesis on -- well, Barbra Streisand."

• (Johnny Depp) "Ah, devil ether. It makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel. Total loss of all basic motor skills. Blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue. The mind recoils in horror, unable to communicate with the spinal column. Which is interesting because you can actually watch yourself behaving in this terrible way, but you can't control it. You approach the turnstiles and know that when you get there, you have to give the man two dollars or he won't let you inside. But when you get there, everything goes wrong. Some angry rotarian shoves you and you think "What's happening here? What's going on?" And you hear yourself mumbling --"
• (Johnny Depp) "Dogs f***ed the Pope -- no fault of mine."
• (Johnny Depp) "Ether is the perfect drug for Las Vegas. In this town they love a drunk. Fresh meat. So they put us through the turnstiles and turned us loose inside."

• (Johnny Depp) "Is this not a reasonable place to park?"

• (Johnny Depp) "Look, there's two women f***ing a polar bear."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Don't tell me these things. Not now man."

• (Johnny Depp) "In some circles, the Mint 400 is a far far better thing than the Superbowl, the Kentucky Derby, and the lower Oakland roller derby finals all rolled into one. This race attracts a very special breed."

• (Parking Attendant) "You can't park your car here."
• (Johnny Depp) "Why not? Is this not a reasonable place to park?"
• (Parking Attendant) "Reasonable? You're on a sidewalk. This is the sidewalk."

• (Johnny Depp) "Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. But no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time in the world. Whatever it meant."

• (Johnny Depp) "The store was closed, but the salesman said he could wait if we hurry. But we were delayed en route when a stingray in front of us killed a pedestrian."

• (Johnny Depp) "Order us some golf shoes, otherwise we'll never get out of this place alive. Impossible to walk in this muck. No footing at all."

• (Dr. Gonzo) "Cows are gonna kill me. Bisexuals are gonna kill me. Let's get out of here. Where's the elevator?"
• (Johnny Depp) "No. f***. Don't go near the elevator, man, that's just what they want us to do. Trap us in a steel box, take us down to the basement. Come here. Don't run, man. They'd like any excuse to shoot us."

• (Dr. Gonzo) "As your attorney, I advise you to drive at top speed, it'll be a god damn miracle if we can get there before you turn into a wild animal."
• (Johnny Depp) "Pig f***er, pig f***er, pig f***er, pig f***er, pig f***er, pig f***er, pig f***er."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Are you ready for that? Checking into a Vegas hotel under a phony name with intent to commit capital fraud and a head full of acid? I sure hope so."

• (Dr. Gonzo) "He got a hold of my woman, man."
• (Johnny Depp) "You mean that blonde groupie with the film crew? s***. Think he sodomized her?"
• (Dr. Gonzo) "That's right, laugh about it."
• (Johnny Depp) "He's gluing her eyes shut right now, man."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "You god**** honkies are all the same -- god**** honkies are all the same."

• (Johnny Depp) "God's mercy on you swine."

• (Johnny Depp) "And that, I think, was the handle; that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of old and evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look west, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark; that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."

• (Johnny Depp) "What the f***? That's f***ing machine guns, man, they're firing at us. Machine guns. It's a god**** war zone, man. Get us out of here, quick. Quick, man. Quick, we're going to be killed, for f***'s sake. Oh no, oh God oh God oh God --"

• (Johnny Depp) "There's one thing you should probably understand -- Can you hear me? Good. I want you to have all the background. This is a very ominous assignment, with overtones of extreme personal danger. I'm a Doctor of Journalism. This is important, goddammit. This is a f***ing true story."

• (Johnny Depp) "If I were you, I'd leave the Doctor alone until after he's eaten his breakfast because he's a very crude man."
• (Johnny Depp) "Jesus God."

• (Johnny Depp) "Take me back to the pits."
• (Craig Bierko) "No, no no no. We have to go on. We need total coverage."
• (Johnny Depp) "It was time, I felt, for an agonizing reappraisal of the whole scene."
• (Johnny Depp) "You're fired."
• (Johnny Depp) "Awful jackass."

• (Dr. Gonzo) "Let me tell you, he was lying to us. I could see it in his eyes."
• (Johnny Depp) "Eyes?"

• (Johnny Depp) "Last name? I'd rather not say. My brother's in politics."

• (Johnny Depp) "There was only one road back to L.A.; U.S. Interstate 15. Just a flat-out high speed burn through Baker and Barstow and Berdoo. Then onto the Hollywood Freeway, and straight on into frantic oblivion. Safety. Obscurity. Just another freak, in the freak kingdom."

• (Johnny Depp) "Nothing, I want nothing. Holy moley, holy moley."

• (Clerk at Mint Hotel) "Mr. Duke. Mr. Duke."
• (Johnny Depp) "Oh f***."
• (Clerk at Mint Hotel) "We've been looking for you."
• (Johnny Depp) "The game was up. They had me."
• (Johnny Depp) "Many fine books have been written in prison."
• (Clerk at Mint Hotel) "Sir?"

• (Johnny Depp) "I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous."

• (Johnny Depp) "Holy Jesus. What are these god**** animals?"

• (Johnny Depp) "But our trip was different. It was to be a classic affirmation of everything right and true in the national character. A gross physical salute to the fantastic possibilities of life in this country. But only for those with true grit."
• (Johnny Depp) "And we are chock full of that, man."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Damn right."

• (Dr. Gonzo) "f***in' A the man has a major credit card -- we just got through saying that, do you realize who the f*** your talking to?"
• (Johnny Depp) "That's right man. Don't take any guff from these f***ing swine."

• (Johnny Depp) "When I came to, the general back-alley ambience of the suite was so rotten, so incredibly foul. How long had I been lying there? All these signs of violence. What had happened? There was evidence in this room of excessive consumption of almost every type of drug known to civilized man since 1544 AD. What kind of addict would need all these coconut husks and crushed honeydew rinds? Would the presence of junkies account for all these uneaten french fries? These puddles of glazed ketchup on the bureau? Maybe so. But then why all this booze? And these crude pornographic photos smeared with mustard that had dried to a hard yellow crust? These were not the hoofprints of your average God-fearing junky. It was too savage. Too aggressive."

• (Johnny Depp) "Well, they've nailed me god****it. I'm trapped in some stinking desert crossroads called Baker. I don't have much time man, the f***ers are closing in. They'll hunt me down like a f***ing beast."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Whoa, getting a little paranoid?"
• (Johnny Depp) "I need a f***ing lawyer immediately."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "What are you doing in Baker, didn't you get my telegram?"
• (Johnny Depp) "What telegram you worthless bastard? I'll cripple your ass for this."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "You brainless scumbag, you're supposed in Vegas covering the National District Attorney's Conference, I rented a suite at the Flamingo. Everything has been arranged. Now, what are you doing out in the middle of the desert?"
• (Johnny Depp) "Nothing. Never mind, it was all a big joke. Actually, I'm poolside at the Flamingo right now, talking though a portable phone some dwarf brought out from the casino. I have total credit here. DON'T come anywhere near this place, you bastard. Foreigners aren't welcome."

• (Johnny Depp) "You people just don't understand. This car is property of the World Bank, that money goes to Italy."

• (Johnny Depp) "Now this was a superior machine. Ten grand worth of gimmicks and high-priced special effects. The rear windows lit up with a touch like frogs in a dynamite pond. The dashboard was full of esoteric lights and dials and meters that I would never understand."

• (Johnny Depp) "The ether was wearing off. The acid was long gone. But the mescaline was running strong. Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting. Then about halfway through the second hour, you start cursing the creep who burned you because nothing's happening. And then; ZANG."

• (Johnny Depp) "Hundred and eleven, twenty-two, THREE."

• (Johnny Depp) "The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride."

• (Johnny Depp) "Of course, I could hear what the clerk was really saying."
• (Clerk at Flamingo Hotel) "Listen, you fuzzy little s***head. I've been f***ed around in my time by a fairly good cross-section of mean-tempered, rule-crazy cops, and now it's my turn. So f*** you, Officer. I'm in charge."

• (Dr. Gonzo) "Okay, Lucy, its time to go meet Barbara."
• (Johnny Depp) "I felt like a Nazi but it had to be done."

• (Dr. Gonzo) "HOLY s***."
• (Johnny Depp) "Mace. Mace, man. You want this?"
• (Dr. Gonzo) "You'd do that, wouldn't you?"
• (Johnny Depp) "Well, why not?"
• (Dr. Gonzo) "You f***ing bastard."
• (Johnny Depp) "Hell, just a minute ago you were asking me to kill you. Now you wanna kill me. What I should do, god**** it, is CALL THE f***ING POLICE."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Boy, are you upset. There'd be no point, man, calling the cops."
• (Johnny Depp) "There's no choice. I wouldn't dare go to sleep with you wandering around with a head full of acid, wanting to slice me up with that god**** knife."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Who said anything about slicing you up, man? I just wanted to cut a little "Z" in your forehead."
• (Johnny Depp) "Get back in the tub, eat some reds and try to calm down. Smoke some grass. Shoot some f***ing smack. s***, man, do whatever you gotta do, but please -- I need some f***ing rest, man. Please. Please. GET UP, YOU PIG f***ER. UP. UP."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Well, I, uh -- yeah. You need to get to work. god****, what a bummer."
• (Johnny Depp) "You scurvy shyster bastard. I'm a Doctor of Journalism, man."
• (Johnny Depp) "Go on."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Don't let me keep you up."
• (Johnny Depp) "Now --"
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Don't let me keep you up."
• (Johnny Depp) "Get in there and clean your shorts. Clean your shorts, god**** it, like a big boy. Go on."

• (Johnny Depp) "We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers -- Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon."

• (Johnny Depp) "We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like:"
• (Johnny Depp) "I feel a bit lightheaded. Maybe you should drive."
• (Johnny Depp) "Suddenly, there was a terrible roar all around us, and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, and a voice was screaming:"
• (Johnny Depp) "Holy Jesus. What are these god**** animals?"
• (Johnny Depp) "Huh. Huh. Huh. f***ing pigs."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Did you say something?"
• (Johnny Depp) "Hm? Never mind. It's your turn to drive."
• (Johnny Depp) "No point in mentioning these bats, I thought. Poor bastard will see them soon enough."

• (Johnny Depp) "There's a uh, big machine in the sky, some kind of, I dunno, electric snake, coming straight at us."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Shoot it."
• (Johnny Depp) "Not yet, I want to study its habits."

• (Johnny Depp) "La llama es un quadrupedo."

• (Johnny Depp) "Total control now. Tooling along the main drag on a Saturday night in Vegas. Two good old boys in a fire-apple red convertible. Stoned. Ripped. Twisted. Good people."

• (Johnny Depp) "You better take care of me, Lord. If you don't you're gonna have me on your hands."

• (Johnny Depp) "Ignore this terrible drug. Yeah. Pretend it's not happening."
• (Johnny Depp) "Yeah. HI THERE. My name -- is, uh, Raoul Duke. I'm on the list. Free lunch, final wisdom, total coverage. I have my attorneyyyyyyy -- with me, and I realize that his name is not on that list, but we must have that suite. Yes, must have that suite. What's the score here? What's next?"
• (Desk Clerk at Mint Hotel) "Your suite isn't ready yet. But someone was looking for you --"
• (Johnny Depp) "DAH. No. We haven't done anything yet."

• (Johnny Depp) "One toke? You poor fool. Wait till you see those god**** bats."

• (Johnny Depp) "Bazooko's Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing Saturday nights if the Nazis had won the war. This was the Sixth Reich."

• (Johnny Depp) "The decision to flee came suddenly. Or maybe not. Maybe I had planned it all along, subconsciously waiting for the right moment. The bill was a factor, I think because I had no money to pay for it. Our room service tabs had been running somewhere between 29 and 36 dollars per hour for 48 consecutive hours. Incredible. How could it happen? But by the time I asked this question, there was no one around to answer it. That rotten attorney of mine, Dr. Gonzo, was gone. He must have sensed trouble."

• (Johnny Depp) "Jesus God almighty, look at that bunch over there man. They've spotted us."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "That's the press table, man."

• (Johnny Depp) "You're not Portuguese, man."

• (Johnny Depp) "I want you to understand that this man at the wheel is my attorney. He's not just some dingbat I found on the strip, man. He's a foreigner. I think he's probably Samoan. But that doesn't matter, though, does it? Are you prejudiced?"
• (Tobey Maguire) "Hell no."
• (Johnny Depp) "I didn't think so. Because in spite of his race, this man is extremely valuable to me. Oh, s***. I forgot about the beer. You want one?"
• (Tobey Maguire) "No."
• (Johnny Depp) "How 'bout some ether?"
• (Tobey Maguire) "What?"
• (Johnny Depp) "Never mind. Let's get right to the heart of this thing. Twenty-four hours ago we were sitting in the Pogo Lounge of the Beverly Heights Hotel, in the patio section of course, drinking Singapore Slings with mescal on the side, hiding from the brutish realities of this foul year of Our Lord, nineteen-hundred and seventy one --"

• (Johnny Depp) "f*** 'im -- I'm gonna miss 'im."

• (Johnny Depp) "That'll blast you right through the wall. You'll be stone dead in ten seconds. s***, they'll make me explain things."

• (Johnny Depp) "A drug person can learn to cope with things like seeing their dead grandmother crawling up their leg with a knife in her teeth. But no one should be asked to handle this trip."

• (Dr. Gonzo) "When it comes to that fantastic note where the -- rabbit bites its own head off, I want you to; throw; that; f***in; radio; into the tub; with me."
• (Johnny Depp) "f***, man. You've gone completely sideways. That'll blast you right through the wall. You'll be stone dead in ten seconds. f***, they'll make me explain things. s***."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Bulls***."
• (Johnny Depp) "Don't f*** with me now, man. I am Ahab."
• (Johnny Depp) "Alright, you weird f***er. Sit down. Back in the tub. Back in the tub. I'll plunge this into your f***ing throat, man."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Don't make me use this, man."
• (Johnny Depp) "Alright, man. It's probably the only solution. Let me make sure I've got this all lined up. You want me to, uh, throw this into the tub when the white rabbit peaks? Is that it?"
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Ugh, I was beginning to think I was gonna have to go outside and get one of the god**** maids to do it."
• (Johnny Depp) "No, man. I'll do it. s***, what are friends for?"
• (Johnny Depp) "Are you ready? Close your eyes. Yeah -- good boy."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "White rabbit. White rabbit."
• (Johnny Depp) "Why, goddammit? You're wasting my time."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Higher, man. Higher. Ugh. Higher."
• (Johnny Depp) "Okay, close those peepers. Ten --"
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Waughhhhh."
• (Johnny Depp) "Nine. Hundred-and-eleven. Fifty-two. Three."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH."

• (Johnny Depp) "Quick, like a bunny."

• (Johnny Depp) "I've never missed a plane yet."

• (Police Chief's Wife) "You are so --"
• (Johnny Depp) "I know. It's hideous. You're doing fine though. You're doing well."

• (Johnny Depp) "What kind of rat bastard psychotic would play that song right now, at this moment?"

• (Dr. Gonzo) "Sounds like big trouble. You're going to need plenty of legal advice before this thing is over. As your attorney, I advise you to rent a very fast car with no top. And you'll need the cocaine. Tape recorder for special music. Acapulco shirts. Get the hell out of L.A. for at least 48 hours. Blows my weekend."
• (Johnny Depp) "Why?"
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Because naturally I'm going to have to go with you. And we're going to have to arm ourselves -- to the teeth."
• (Johnny Depp) "Well why not? s*** if it's worth doing, it's worth doing right. This is the American Dream in action. We'd be fools not to ride this strange torpedo all the way to the end."

• (Johnny Depp) "The telegram is actually all scrambled. It's actually from Thompson, not to him. Now I've got to go. I've gotta get to the race."
• (Clerk at Mint Hotel) "But there's no hurry, the race is over."
• (Johnny Depp) "Not for me."
• (Clerk at Mint Hotel) "Let's have lunch."
• (Johnny Depp) "Righty-o man, righty-o."

• (Dr. Gonzo) "Can we make it? I wanna leave fast."
• (Johnny Depp) "Okay, let's pay this bill, get up very slowly -- I think it's gonna be a long walk."

• (Johnny Depp) "We should get some of that."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Some of what?"
• (Johnny Depp) "Extract of pineal. Just eat a big handful and see what happens."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "s***, that's a good idea. One whiff of that stuff will turn you into something out of a god**** medical encyclopedia --"
• (Johnny Depp) "Beautiful f***ing tits, man."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Your head will swell up like a watermelon -- you'll gain about a hundred pounds in two hours --"
• (Johnny Depp) "Great."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Grow claws -- bleeding warts --"
• (Johnny Depp) "Yes."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "And then you notice about six huge hairy tits swelling up on your back."
• (Johnny Depp) "Fantastic."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "You'll go blind -- your body will turn to wax -- they'll have to put you in a wheelbarrow -- and when you scream for help, you'll sound like a raccoon."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Man, I'll try just about anything, but I'd never in hell touch a pineal gland."

• (Johnny Depp) "I was right in the middle of a f***ing reptile zoo, and somebody was giving booze to these god**** things. Won't be long now before they tear us to shreds."

• (Johnny Depp) "You people voted for Hubert Humphrey, and you killed Jesus."

• (Johnny Depp) "Yeah, I know. I'm guilty. I understand that. I knew it was a crime, and I did it anyways. s***, why argue? I'm a f***ing criminal, look at me."

• (Johnny Depp) "Well? What are your plans?"
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Plans?"
• (Johnny Depp) "The child in the bedroom."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Oh, Lucy. I met her on the plane. Yeah, she's a religious freak. I gave her a cap before I realized -- Jesus, she's never even had a drink before."
• (Johnny Depp) "Well -- it'll probably work out. We can keep her loaded and peddle her ass at the drug convention. Yeah. She's perfect for this gig. These cops will go fifty bucks a head to beat her into submission and then gang-f*** her. We can set her up in one of these back street motels, hang pictures of Jesus all over the room, then turn these f***ing pigs loose on her. Hell, she's strong, man. She'll hold her own."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Jesus Christ. I knew you were sick but I never expected to hear you actually say that kind of stuff, you filthy bastard."
• (Johnny Depp) "Straight economics, man. This girl is a godsend. s***, she can make us a grand a day."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "That's ugly, man. Stop talking like that."
• (Johnny Depp) "I figure she can do about four at a time. If we keep her full of acid that's more like two grand a day. Maybe three."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Hold on, man. What if I just jump you and beat the dog s*** out of you? Would that make you feel better? You filthy bastard."
• (Johnny Depp) "All right, listen to me. In a few hours, she'll probably be sane enough to work herself into some kind of towering Jesus-based rage at the hazy recollection of being seduced by some kind of cruel Samoan who fed her liquor and LSD, dragged her to a Vegas hotel room and then savagely penetrated every orifice in her little body with his throbbing, uncircumcised member."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "That's so ugly, man."
• (Johnny Depp) "f***. Truth hurts."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "That's -- argh. Argh. That's argh. Argh. That's argh."
• (Johnny Depp) "Argh."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "I wanted to help her, man."
• (Johnny Depp) "Well, you'll go straight to the gas chamber for this one. And even if you manage to beat that, they'll still send you back to Nevada for rape and consensual sodomy. She's got to go."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "s***. It doesn't pay to try to help someone these days."

• (Johnny Depp) "Oh god -- did you eat all this acid?"
• (Dr. Gonzo) "That's right. MUSIC."

• (Car Rental Agent - Los Angeles) "Holy smokes. You just backed over two-foot concrete embutment and you didn't even slow down. What were you going, oh I don't know, forty-five miles an hour backwards?"
• (Johnny Depp) "There's no harm done. I always check the transmission that way, the rear end for stress factors. Boy this is really a nice pen man."
• (Car Rental Agent - Los Angeles) "Listen, you boys haven't been drinking tonight, have you?"
• (Johnny Depp) "Nope, not me. We're responsible people."
• (Car Rental Agent - Los Angeles) "God damn it you've got my pen. God damn hippies."

• (Johnny Depp) "There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning."

• (Johnny Depp) "Those of us that had been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts, we wanted strong drink. We were, after all, the absolute cream of the national sporting press."

• (Johnny Depp) "Come on you fiend."

• (Johnny Depp) "Don't f*** with me now, man, I am Ahab."

• (Johnny Depp) "Perhaps, if I explained things, he'd rest easy."

• (Musician) "Whaaats the trooouble?"
• (Johnny Depp) "Weeeellll, all this white stuff on my sleeeeve, iiiis LSD --"

• (Johnny Depp) "Finish the f***ing story man. What happened? What about the glands?"

• (Johnny Depp) "Madam, sir, baby, child, whatever."

• (Johnny Depp) "What was I doing here? What was the meaning of this trip? Was I just roaming around in a drug frenzy of some kind? Or had I really come out here to Las Vegas to work on a story? Who are these people, these faces? Where do they come from? They look like caricatures of used car dealers from Dallas, and sweet Jesus, there were a hell of a lot of them at 4:30 on a Sunday morning, still humping the American dream, that vision of the big winner somehow emerging from the last minute pre-dawn chaos of a stale Vegas casino."

• (Johnny Depp) "How long could we maintain? I wondered. How long until one of us starts raving and jabbering at this boy? What will he think then? This same lonely desert was the last known home of the Manson family; will he make that grim connection when my attorney starts screaming about bats and huge manta rays coming down on the car? If so, well, we'll just have to cut his head off and bury him somewhere, 'cause it goes without saying that we can't turn him loose. He'd report us at once to some kind of outback Nazi law enforcement agency and they'll run us down like dogs. Jesus, did I say that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me?"

• (Johnny Depp) "All energy flows according to the whims of the Great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him."

• (Dr. Gonzo) "I have to go."
• (Johnny Depp) "Go?"
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Yes. Leave the country."
• (Johnny Depp) "Calm down. You'll be straight in a few hours. Just sit down, sit the f*** down."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Don't f*** around, man. This is serious. One more hour in this town and I'll kill somebody."

• (Johnny Depp) "Let's get down to brass tacks. How much for the ape?"

• (Johnny Depp) "I was pouring sweat. My blood is too thick for Nevada. I've never been able to properly explain myself in this climate."

• (Dr. Gonzo) "We won't make the nut unless we have unlimited credit."
• (Johnny Depp) "Jesus Christ, we will, man. You Samoans are all the same. You have no faith in the essential decency of the white man's culture."

• (Dr. Gonzo) "This is it. Lacerda. Room 208."
• (Johnny Depp) "Huh? Lacerda?"
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Yeah, man. Lacerda --"
• (Johnny Depp) "I couldn't remember. The name rang a bell but I couldn't concentrate. Terrible things were happening all around me."

• (Dr. Gonzo) "Where did this one come from?"
• (Johnny Depp) "That's Lacerda's."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Yeah, yeah. I thought we might need it."
• (Johnny Depp) "What for?"
• (Dr. Gonzo) "What for? So we can go up there and blast him out of bed with the fire hose, man."

• (Dr. Gonzo) "Let's give the boy a lift."
• (Johnny Depp) "What? No. We can't stop here. This is bat country."

• (Johnny Depp) "That bastard isn't gonna get away with this. I mean, what is going on in this country when a scumsucker like that can get away with sandbagging a doctor of journalism? Can you tell me that?"

• (Johnny Depp) "Eat some reds and try to calm down. Smoke some grass, shoot some f***ing smack. s*** man, do whatever you gotta do."

• (Dr. Gonzo) "Music, man. Put that tape on."
• (Johnny Depp) "What tape?"
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Jefferson Airplane, "White Rabbit". I need a rising sound."
• (Johnny Depp) "You're doomed. I'm leaving here in two hours and then they're going to come up here and beat the mortal s*** out of you with big saps. Right there in that f***ing tub."
• (Johnny Depp) "Alright, I'll do it. But do me one last favor, will you. Can you give me two hours? That's all I ask man, just two hours to sleep before tomorrow. I suspect it's going to be a very difficult day."

• (Dr. Gonzo) "When's the thing going to stop?"
• (Johnny Depp) "Stop?"
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Stop it."
• (Johnny Depp) "It's not ever going to stop, man."

• (Johnny Depp) "f***, you've gone completely sideways, man."

• (Dr. Gonzo) "Those bastards have changed the lock on this mother --"
• (Johnny Depp) "Already?"

• (Johnny Depp) "We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "consciousness expansion" without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him seriously -- All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create -- a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody -- or at least some force; is tending the light at the end of the tunnel."

• (Johnny Depp) "What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole lifestyle that he helped create. A generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old mystic fallacy of the acid culture: the desperate assumption that somebody, or at least some force, was tending the light at the end of the tunnel. There was only one road back to L.A.; U.S. Interstate 15. Just a flat-out high speed burn through Baker and Barstow and Berdoo. Then onto the Hollywood Freeway, and straight on into frantic oblivion. Safety. Obscurity. Just another freak, in the freak kingdom."

• (Dr. Gonzo) "Jesus. You see what God just did to us, man?"
• (Johnny Depp) "God didn't do that, you did it. You're a f***ing narcotics agent, I knew it. That was our cocaine, you f***ing pig swine whore --"
• (Dr. Gonzo) "You'd better be careful. There's plenty of vultures out here, they'll pick your bones clean before morning."
• (Johnny Depp) "You f***ing whore."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "Heh heh heh."

• (Johnny Depp) "There I was -- Mother of God, there I am."

• (Johnny Depp) "Dogs f***ed the Pope -- no fault of mine."

Gary Busey as Highway Patrolman

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Craig Bierko as Lacerda

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Michael Jeter as L. Ron Bumquist

• (Michael Jeter) "I'm not really sure I can answer that, but what I can say is that if Margaret Mead, at her age, smoked grass -- she'd have one hell of a trip."

• (Michael Jeter) "The most efficient way for us to do this is for each one of us to try and attempt to imagine what it is like inside of the possessed mind."
• (Michael Jeter) "For example a dope fiend refers to the reefer butt as a "roach". Because, it resembles a cockroach."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "What the f*** are these people talking about? You gotta be crazy on acid to think a joint looks like a god**** cockroach."
• (Michael Jeter) "You will notice that I have distinguished four, four distinct states of being in the cannabis for marijuana society. They are "cool", "groovy", "hip" and "square". Seldom, if ever, does one aspire to be "square"."
• (Dr. Gonzo) "What a f***ing nightmare."
• (Michael Jeter) "If he figures out what is "happening", then he can rise one notch and become "hip", and then if he can convince himself to approve of what is "happening", then he becomes "groovy"."
• (Michael Jeter) "Groovy. And then after that he can actually raise himself to the rank of "cool". He can become one of those -- "cool guys"."
• (Cop in Back) "Dr. Bumquist, do you think the anthropologist Margaret Mead's strange behavior of late could be explained by a private marijuana addiction?"
• (Johnny Depp) "Good question."
• (Michael Jeter) "I'm not really sure I can answer that. But what I can tell you sir is if Margaret Mead, at her age, smoked grass -- she'd have one hell of a trip."

• (Michael Jeter) "A dope fiend refers to the reefer butt as a roach, because, it resembles a cockroach."

Christina Ricci as Lucy

• (Christina Ricci) "Those two men in the dock they gave me the LSD and they took me to the hotel. I don't know what they done to me, but I remember it was horrible."
• (Harry Dean Stanton) "They gave you what?"
• (Christina Ricci) "L.S.D."
• (Harry Dean Stanton) "Castration. Double castration."

Tobey Maguire as Hitchhiker

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Troy Evans as Police Chief

• (Clerk at Flamingo Hotel) "Can I call you a cab?"
• (Troy Evans) "Sure, and I'll call you a cocksucker."

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