The Best Paul Atreides Quotes

Paul: This is an extermination. They're picking my family off one by one.

[from teaser trailer]
Gaius: The test is simple. Remove your hand from the box, and you die.
Paul: What's in the box?
Gaius: Pain.

- He's gone.
Paul: Duncan!
- We have to go. We have no choice.
Lady: Paul, go! Paul!
[Dr. Kynes] Come on.
- Come on, come on!

- And you will never be hunted while I govern here.
- That's very honorable.
- I must go. That's all
- I have to say to you.
Paul: Won't you stay?
- We would honor you.
- Honor requires that I be elsewhere.

Paul: How dare you use the voice on me?

- Almost.
[Normal voice] Almost?
- Bene gesserit skills take years to learn, Paul.
Paul: Mm-hmm.
- You look tired.
- More dreams?

- No! Duncan!
Lady: Paul, no!
Paul: Duncan, no!
Lady: No!
Paul: No!
Lady: Paul, no!
Paul: Duncan, no!
- He's locked the door.
Paul: Duncan! No!

Paul: [to Jessica] My road leads into the desert. I can see it.

Gaius: Like sifting sand through a screen, we sift people. If you had been unable to control your impulses like an animal, we could not have let you live. You inherit too much power.
Paul: What, because I'm a Duke's son?
Gaius: Because you are Jessica's son. You have more than one birthright, boy.

[Dr. Yueh] Have a good night, master Paul.
Paul: Good night, Dr. Yueh.
Lady: You need to sleep.
- Not like that.
- I should have married you.

Paul: [to Stilgar] My father came, not for spice, not for the riches, but for the strength of your people. My road leads into the desert. I can see it. If you'll have us, we will come.

Paul: [while having a vision] That's the future. It's coming. Holy war spreading across the universe like unquenchable fire.
Lady: Paul, you're scared. I can see it. Tell me, please, what do you fear?
Paul: Somebody help me, please.
Lady: Paul.
Paul: It's coming. I see a holy war spreading across the universe like unquenchable fire. A warrior religion that waves the Atreides banner in my father's name.
Lady: Paul.
Paul: Fanatical legions worshipping at the shrine of my father's skull. A war in my name. Everyone shouting my name!

Paul: It's close by.
- Let's get out of here.
- Wait.
- It's drum sand.
Paul: Run.
Lady: Go! Go!

- We'll have to walk like the fremen do.
- It's called a sandwalk.
- At least according to the filmbooks back home.
Lady: Yeah. Yeah, okay.
Paul: Okay. Follow me.
- Do the same moves.

[Distorted voice] Stop!
- Cut the rope.
- Give me the knife.
- Your pitch was too forced.
Paul: It's a fremkit.
- They've crippled the ship.

Gaius: You've proven you can rule yourself. Now you must learn to rule others, something none of your ancestors learnt.
Paul: My father rules an entire planet.
Gaius: He's losing it.
Paul: He's getting a richer one.
Gaius: He'll lose that one too.

Paul: There's something happening to me. Something waking up in my mind. I can't control it.
Gaius: What did you see?
Paul: There's a crusade coming.

[Paul is to practice fencing with Gurney]
Paul: I guess I'm not in the mood today.
Gurney: Mood? What's mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises, no matter the mood. Now fight!
[the two begin fighting, and Paul eventually puts his blade to Gurney's throat]
Gurney: I see you found the mood.

Paul: [fighting Jamis] Do you yield?

- and report this attack to the landsraad.
Lady: How?
- I'm fremen.
- The desert's my home.
- Good luck.
Paul: Good luck.

Paul: Get away from me! You did this to me! Your Bene Gesserit turned me into a Freak!

Paul: It's a thumper.
- Someone set off a thumper.
Lady: Paul! Run!
- How big are they?
- That was insane.
- Someone called it.

Paul: Suppose I presented the Emperor with an alternative to chaos. And the Emperor has no sons, and his daughters are yet to marry.
Liet: You'd make a play for the throne? The Emperor feared the Atreides. He brought you here to kill you. What don't you understand? You're a lost boy hiding in a hole in the ground.

Paul: [From trailer] Dad, what if I'm not the future of House Atreides?
Duke: A great man doesn't seek to lead; he is called to it. But if your answer is no, you'd still be the only thing I ever needed you to be: my son.

Paul: It wasn't an allergic reaction. I had a vision. My eyes were wide open.

- Always. They're drawn by rhythmic noises.
Paul: Why don't we just shield the crawlers?
- A shield's a death sentence in the desert.
- It attracts the worms and drives them into a killing frenzy.
- Is that a worm?

Duncan: Look at you. You put on some muscles.
Paul: I did?
Duncan: No.

[repeated line]
Paul: Desert power.

- No need to call the guards.
- Your mother stands behind that door.
- No one would get past her.
Paul: Why are you doing this?
- An animal caught in a trap will gnaw off its own leg to escape.
- What will you do?

Lady: You don't know everything. For thousands of years, we've been carefully crossing bloodlines to bring forth...
Paul: The One?
Lady: A mind - powerful enough to bridge space and time, past and future - who can help us into a better future. We think he's very close now. Some believe he is here.