Top 50 Quotes From The Crow

Eric: Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children. Do you understand? Morphine is bad for you. Your daughter is out there on the streets waiting for you.

T: What? What are you talking about? Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. You mean that place downtown? Yeah, I remember her. We needed to put some fear into that little lady, she wasn't going along with our tenant relocation program. Then her idiot boyfriend shows up and turns a simple, sweeping clear into a total cluster fuck! Who gives a shit? It's ancient history. Why? What do you want? What is it? What? Speak to me! Speak!
[flashback of T-Bird and his gang breaking into Eric and Shelly's apartment]
T: [to Shelly] Did you send us these complaints?
[hits Shelly and drags her by the hair]
T: Come here! "Abashed the devil stood-" Does it get you sweaty?
[T-Bird finally recognizes Eric]
T: I know you. I know you.
[laughs nervously]
T: I knew I knew you, I knew I knew you. But you ain't you. You can't be you. We put you through the window. There ain't no coming back. This is the really real world, there ain't no coming back. We killed you dead, there ain't no coming back! There ain't no coming back! There ain't no coming back!

Albrecht: You're the guy that murdered Tin-Tin.
Eric: He was already dead. He died a year ago the moment he touched her. They're all dead. They just don't know it yet.

Sarah: It's more like surfing than skating. I wish the rain would stop just once.
Eric: It can't rain all the time.
Sarah: Eric?

Eric: You shouldn't smoke these. They'll kill you.

Eric: Take your shot, Funboy. You got me dead bang.

Skank: [mouth full of chips] What's all this happy horseshit?

Sarah: A building gets torched, all that is left is ashes. I used to think that was true about everything, families, friends, feelings. But now I know, that sometimes if love proves real, two people who are meant to be together, nothing can keep them apart.

[first lines]
Sarah: [voiceover] People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right.

Eric: Guess it's not a good day to be a bad guy, huh, Skank?
Skank: I'm not Skank.
[turns his head to the side]
Skank: That's Skank right there. Skank's dead.
Eric: That's right.
[Eric recalls how Skank forcibly kissed Shelly and then throws Skank out the window]

Albrecht: Are you gonna vanish into thin air again?
Eric: I thought I'd use your front door.

Grange: I saw him too. He had a guitar. He winked at me before he jumped out a fourth floor window like he had wings.
Top: He winked at you?
[tsk]
Top: Musicians.

Eric: [while searching for the wedding rings] Warmer?
Gideon: [Is held at the table due to the knife through his hand into the table] WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
Eric: Don't you know this game?

Top: So you're him, huh? The Avenger. The Killer of Killers. Nice outfit. I'm not sure about the face, though.

[gazing at falling-snow crystal ball containing a mini-cemetery]
Top: Dad gave me this. Fifth birthday. He said, "Childhood's over the moment you know you're gonna die."

T: I got trouble. One of my crew got himself perished.
Top: Yeah, and who might that be?
T: Tin Tin, somebody stuck his blades in all his major organs in alphabetical order.
Top: Well, gentlemen, by all means, I think we oughta have an introspective moment of silence for poor ol' Tin Tin.
[sniffs drugs]

Top: Greed is for amateurs. Disorder, chaos, anarchy: now that's fun!

Funboy: Look what you've done... to my sheets.

Eric: I have something to give you. I don't want it anymore. Thirty hours of pain all at once, all for you.

[Top Dollar noticed the crow on the table]
Top: How the hell did that thing get in here?
Eric: Gentlemen!

Eric: Mr. Gideon, you're not paying attention!
Gideon: [shouting] No! My hand!
Eric: I repeat: A Gold engagement ring, yes? It was pawned here a year ago by a customer of yours named Tin Tin. He confided in me before he ran out of breath!

Eric: Do you know someone named T-bird? He had a friend who shouldn't have played with knives.

Albrecht: Now Sarah, she's a genuine hot dogger. You hungry?
Sarah: You buyin'?
Albrecht: I'm buyin'.
Sarah: No onions though, okay?
Albrecht: No onions?
Sarah: They make you fart, big time.

[Skank puts a gun to Tin Tin's head]
Skank: Fuck you, Tin Tin!
[Tin Tin puts a knife to Skank's throat]
Tin: Hey, that shit ain't even loaded, man.
[Funboy points a gun at Tin Tin]
Funboy: This one is.
[T-Bird points a gun at all three of them]
T: Which of you Motor City motherfuckers wants to bet me this one isn't?

Gideon: Goddamn creatures of the night. They never learn.

Top: Ya know, my daddy used to say every man's got a devil. And you can't rest 'til you find him. What happened back there with you and your girlfriend - I cleared that building. Hell, nothin' in this town happens without my say-so. So I'm sorry if I spoiled your wedding plans there, friend. But, if it's any consolation to you, you have put a smile on my face.

Funboy: You are seriously fucked up. Would you look in the mirror? I mean, you need professional help!

Albrecht: I thought, you know, you were invincible!
Eric: I was. I'm not any more.

Eric: Little things used to mean so much to Shelly- I used to think they were kind of trivial. Believe me, nothing is trivial.

[last lines]
Sarah: [voiceover] If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.

T: Abashed the Devil stood and felt how awful goodness is.

Shelly: I love you.
Eric: Say that again.
Shelly: I love you.

Sarah: What are you supposed to be, a clown or something?
Eric: Sometimes.

Eric: A whole jolly club with jolly pirate nicknames!

Funboy: Jesus Christ!
Eric: Jesus Christ? Stop me if you heard this one: Jesus Christ walks into a hotel.
[Fun Boy shoots him]
Eric: Ow! He hands the innkeeper three nails, and he asks...
[Fun Boy shoots him again]
Funboy: Don't you ever fuckin' die?
Eric: Can you put me up for the night?

Top: No, I want you to set a fire so goddamn big, the gods'll notice us again, that's what I'm sayin'. I want all of you boys to be able to look me straight in the eye one more time and say: ARE WE HAVING FUN OR WHAT? Hey, you! What's your name? Skank? You don't feel that?
Skank: I feel like a little worm on a big fuckin' hook.
[All the other thugs laugh]
Top: "I feel like a little worm on a big fucking hook." Well, boy, your mama must be damn proud of you!

Eric: Is that gasoline I smell?

Eric: Can't rain all the time...

Eric: I see you have made your decision, now let's see you enforce it.
Top: Aw, this is already boring the shit out of me. Kill 'im!

[after being shot by Top-dollar]
Eric: Hehe... aw fuck...
[Collapses on the ground]

Top: For a ghost you bleed just fine.

Top: Our friend T-bird won't be joining us this evening on account of a slight case of death.

Albrecht: Police! Don't move! I said, "Don't move!"
Eric: I thought the police always said, "Freeze!"
Albrecht: Well, I am the police, and I say, "Don't move" Snow White. You move, you're dead.
Eric: And I say, "I'm dead," and I move.

Gideon: Look, I'm beggin' you, alright? Don't kill me.
Eric: I'm not gonna kill you. Your job will be to tell the rest of them that death is coming for them, tonight. Tell them Eric Draven sends his regards.

[after shooting the crow]
Top: Quick impression for you: Caw! Caw! Bang! Fuck, I'm dead!

Albrecht: Great. A guy shows up looking like a mime from Hell and you lose him right out in the open. Well, at least he didn't do that walking against the wind shit, I hate that.

Eric: Suddenly I heard a tapping, as of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
Gideon: What are you talking about?
Eric: You heard me rapping, right?

Albrecht: So many cops, you'd think they givin' away donuts.

Skank: [fast and hysterically] That's him! That's him! But he looked different. He was all painted up white like some sort of dead whore! I seen him! T-Bird he sent me in some road beers, right? Then he took him away. But, I chased him down. And he flash fried T-bird to his fucking car! Aww, T-Bird here's to you buddy.
[drinks his flask]
Skank: Fire it up! Fire it up! Fire it up!
Top: Maybe we oughta just video tape this, play it back in slow motion.
Top: Did you see the grave?
Grange: Empty.
Skank: [still hysterical] Grave? What grave? What about my fucking grave?
[Grange pushes him away]
Grange: Three out of four. He's working his way to this speed freak right here.
Skank: [still hysterical] It's not fair. It's Funboy's fault. That boy was outta control. T-bird, he came in, said...
[whistles]
Skank: Waste them both! And now this ghost gonna kill my ass next!
[Top Dollar suddenly slaps him down]

[Just before he stabs Tin-Tin]
Eric: Victims; aren't we all?