The Man from Earth Quotes

The Man from Earth is a television program that was first aired in 1970 . The Man from Earth ended in 1970.

It features Emerson Bixby, Eric D. Wilkinson, Richard Schenkman, and Steven Alexander as producer, and Mark Hinton Stewart in charge of musical score.

The Man from Earth is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Man from Earth is 89 minutes long. The Man from Earth is distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment; Shoreline Entertainment.

The cast includes: John Billingsley as Harry, Ellen Crawford as Edith, David Lee Smith as John Oldman, Tony Todd as Dan, Alexis Thorpe as Linda Murphy, William Katt as Art, Richard Riehle as Dr. Will Gruber, and Annika Peterson as Sandy.

The Man from Earth Quotes

Ellen Crawford as Edith

• (Ellen Crawford) "You think that's all religion is about -- selling hope and survival?"

• (Ellen Crawford) "Where were you in 1292 A.D.?"
• (David Lee Smith) "Where were you a year ago today?"

• (Ellen Crawford) "Are you sorry for some of those things you said?"
• (David Lee Smith) "I'm sorry I said them."

• (Ellen Crawford) "Were you?"
• (David Lee Smith) "If I said no, could you ever be sure?"

• (Ellen Crawford) "My God, what is this? It looks like a genuine Van Gogh, but I've never seen it before --"
• (Tony Todd) "Is that an original, John?"
• (David Lee Smith) "No, it's just a gift someone gave me."
• (Ellen Crawford) "Still, it's a superb copy. Contemporaneous I think, may I take a closer look?"
• (David Lee Smith) "Please, yeah."
• (Ellen Crawford) "Yes, it's the same stretcher Van Gogh used."
• (Tony Todd) "Hey, there's writing on the back. It's in French."
• (Ellen Crawford) "To my friend Jacques Bon. Wonder who that was?"
• (David Lee Smith) "Someone he knew, I guess."

John Billingsley as Harry

• (John Billingsley) "I can give you the ten commandments in ten words: "Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't.""

• (John Billingsley) "Supernatural."
• (William Katt) "Supernatural, stupid word, everything that happens happens within nature whether we believe it or not."
• (David Lee Smith) "Like a fourteen thousand year old caveman?"

• (John Billingsley) "You are creating the mystery here obviously y'have something you'd like to say. Say it."
• (David Lee Smith) "Maybe -- I --"
• (John Billingsley) "Ten, nine, eight, seven, si --"
• (Annika Peterson) "Harry, stop."
• (David Lee Smith) "There is something I'm tempted to tell you I think, I've never done this before, I wonder how it will pan out. I wonder if I could ask you a silly question?"
• (William Katt) "John, we're teachers, we answer silly questions all the time"
• (Alexis Thorpe) "Hey."
• (David Lee Smith) "What if a man from the upper Paleolithic survived until the present day?"

• (John Billingsley) "Edith, I was raised on the Torah, my wife on the Qu'Ran, my eldest son is an Atheist, my youngest is a scientologist, my daughter is studying Hinduism, I imagine there is room there for a holy war in my living room, but we practice live and let live."

David Lee Smith as John Oldman

• (David Lee Smith) "Why not pass the Buddha's teachings on in a modern form."

• (David Lee Smith) "What if a man from the Upper Paleolithic had survived until the present day?"

• (David Lee Smith) "Put that stuff in the kitchen."
• (John Billingsley) "No, I'm gonna put it in the bathroom, John."

• (David Lee Smith) "Every 10 years or so, when people start to notice I don't age, I move on."

• (David Lee Smith) "I had a chance to sail with Columbus, only I'm not the adventurous type. I was pretty sure the earth was round, but at that point I still thought he might fall off an edge some place."
• (William Katt) "Look around John, we just did."

• (David Lee Smith) "And that's what I taught, but a talking snake made a lady eat an apple, so we're screwed."

• (David Lee Smith) "I suspect I saw the British Isles from what is now the French coast. Huge mountains on the other side of an enormous deep valley that was shadowed by the setting sun. This was before they were separated from the continent by the rising seas as the glacier was melting."
• (John Billingsley) "That happened?"
• (Tony Todd) "Yes, the end of the Plasticine Period. So far what he says fits."
• (William Katt) "Oh get -- from any textbook --"
• (David Lee Smith) "And that's where I found it. How can I have knowledgeable recall if I didn't have knowledge? It's all retrospective. All I can do is integrate my recollections with modern findings."

• (David Lee Smith) "Believe in what He tried to teach without the rigmarole. Piety is not what the lessons bring to people, it's the mistakes they bring to the lessons."

• (David Lee Smith) "Bathing was the style until the Middle Ages, and the church told us it was sinful to wash away God's dirt. So people were sewn into their underwear in October, and they popped out in April."

Richard Riehle as Dr. Will Gruber

• (Richard Riehle) "So, you're a caveman?"
• (David Lee Smith) "Yes, uh -- I was a cro-magnon, I think."
• (Richard Riehle) "You don't know if you're a caveman or not?"
• (David Lee Smith) "No, I'm sure about that."

• (Richard Riehle) "I still don't believe you, you know. You need help."
• (David Lee Smith) "Everybody needs help."
• (Richard Riehle) "Yes, well. Some more than others."

• (Richard Riehle) "When did you begin to believe you were Jesus?"
• (David Lee Smith) "When did you begin to believe you were a psychiatrist?"
• (Richard Riehle) "Since I graduated from Harvard Medical School and finished my residency, I've had that feeling. Why I sometimes dream about it."
• (David Lee Smith) "Have you acted upon this belief?"

• (Richard Riehle) "We will die, you will live. Will you come to my funeral, John."
• (Annika Peterson) "You've gone too far, John didn't ask to be what he is."
• (Richard Riehle) "And we did not ask to hear about it --"

• (Richard Riehle) "History hates a vacuum. Improvisation, some of it very sincere, fills the gaps. It would have been easy to falsify a past back then. A few words, credulity time would do the rest."

• (Richard Riehle) "If I shot you John, you're immortal? Would you survive this?"
• (David Lee Smith) "I never said I was immortal, just old. I might die. And then you could wonder the rest of your incarcerated life what you shot --"

Tony Todd as Dan

• (Tony Todd) "Hey buddy, you don't waste time, do you?"

• (Tony Todd) "There's absolutely no way in the whole world for John to prove his story. Just like there's no way for us to disprove it. No matter how outrageous we think it is, no matter how highly trained some of us think we are, there's absolutely no way to disprove it. My friend is either a caveman, a liar, or a nut. So while we're thinking about that, why don't we just go with it."

• (Tony Todd) "The objective measure of a clock, is another clock."

• (Tony Todd) "Wouldn't you have some relic, an artifact, to remind you of your earlier life? Like this maybe."
• (David Lee Smith) "Thrift shop. Really."
• (David Lee Smith) "If you lived a hundred, a thousand years, would you still have this?"
• (David Lee Smith) "What would cause you to keep it? As a memento to your beginnings, even if you didn't have a concept of beginnings? It would be gone. Lost. No. I don't have artifacts. Keep that."
• (Tony Todd) "Interesting. You could have lied about that."
• (David Lee Smith) "Don't talk about me while I'm gone."

• (Tony Todd) "I'm going home and watch Star Trek for a dose of sanity."

• (Tony Todd) "A medical test might be a way of proving of what you're saying"
• (David Lee Smith) "I don't wanna prove it."
• (William Katt) "So, you're telling us this the yarn"
• (William Katt) "of the century and you don't care if we believe it or not?"
• (David Lee Smith) "I guess I should've expected you to -- You're not as crazy as you think I am."
• (Ellen Crawford) "Amen."
• (Annika Peterson) "I've always liked you."
• (Ellen Crawford) "Well, thank you dear."
• (Annika Peterson) "Well, that's changing."

• (Tony Todd) "Time -- you can't see it, you can hear it, you can't weigh it, you can't -- measure it in a laboratory. It is a subjective sense of -- becoming, what we -- are, in stead of what we were a nanosecond ago, becoming what we will be in another nanosecond. The whole piece of time's a landscape existing, we form behind us and we move, we move through it -- slice by slice."
• (Alexis Thorpe) "Clocks measure time."
• (Tony Todd) "No, they measure themselves, the objective referee of a clock is another clock."
• (Ellen Crawford) "All very interesting, but what has it got to do with John?"
• (Tony Todd) "He, he might be man who -- lives -- outside of time as we know it."

William Katt as Art

• (William Katt) "You-you-you realize this is an invitation to men in white suits with happy pills?"

• (William Katt) "What you're saying, it offends common sense."
• (David Lee Smith) "So does Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, that's the way nature works."

Annika Peterson as Sandy

• (Annika Peterson) "You never saw your own child die --"
• (David Lee Smith) "No."

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