Top 30 Quotes From Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities

Lionel: Let yourselves go. Be in service to Doctor Zahra's brilliance.

Charlotte: Is it gonna be like this place?
Lionel: Only in it's striving for innate transcendence.

Lionel: [snorts cocaine] Well, you gotta stop living in the past, Daddy-o.

Lionel: You have no idea how much money it takes to be this rich.

Lionel: I collect beyond the known.

Sheriff: Carl, this is one of those nightmare specials. The kind you never get to the bottom of.

Lionel: Everything I have is hers. The way I see it. I serve her.

Randall: Am I really taking a creative risk here, or is the machinery of my industry all that matters?
Lionel: Perhaps control of the machinery is your real ambition.

Lionel: Money is irrelevant. It's only the pursuit of my tastes. And there is no accounting for taste.

Guy: Oh, a test where I have to do cocaine.
[Chuckles]
Guy: Finally, a test I can pass.

Lionel: [chuckles quietly] Voting. Yikes.

Lionel: There's an old Zen koan. It goes like this, "Everyone has two lives, the second life begins the moment you realize, that all along, you only had one."

Lionel: [sighs contentedly] I couldn't be more satisfied with this room.

Sheriff: Carl, what's going on?
Dr. Carl Winters: I have stomach cancer. Six months left, they say.
Sheriff: Jesus.
Dr. Carl Winters: It's okay. That's how it goes. No point complaining.
Sheriff: You've made your peace with this thing, then?
Dr. Carl Winters: What's the alternative? Can't do anything about it. We're all on the same conveyer belt, Nate. Some of us fall off a bit sooner than the rest, but... we're all heading for the same destination.

Lionel: The item which I have chosen to show you, was acquired with the utmost difficulty, at the greatest expense.

Charlotte: I wouldn't go that far.
Lionel: No, let's go that far.

Lionel: The architect is no one whom anyone has ever heard of or ever will.

Targ: I've never touched the stuff. It could dull my psychic abilities.
Lionel: Well, I'm sorry Targ. I thought your daddy let you out alone tonight.

Lionel: As a younger man, before World War II, I had already invested heavily in stockpiling uranium.
Charlotte: Isn't that a violation of international law or something?
Lionel: Not for me.

Randall: It made me nostalgic for things that never happened, that only existed in the moment.

Lionel: By the way Randall, I hope you don't take offense that I didn't ask you to make the music for the Sandpiper House.

Lionel: We're talking about music. Music, man. All art can only aspire to music.

Randall: Everyone has a black-hole inside of them. What I want is for mine to stop eating everything up all the time.
Lionel: [plays laugh track] You are really harshing my mellow, man.

Lionel: I have seen things that will make you shit your mind, kemosabe.

Lionel: But with a gentle push someone like me can make people flow.

Lionel: Every night is made a little bit brighter by the presence of your musical talent. And your presence here has made this night so much brighter to me.

Lionel: If anything, I'm trying to get you to only function at your peak capability. Each one of you has been precisely chosen tonight to take part in this wondrous moment. We need to be in sync. Like a music group, Randall.

Lionel: I have seen things that would make you shit your mind, kemosabe.

Randall: I want something that doesn't exist.

Guy: Uh, thank you for the space cocaine. That was fucking incredible.