Altered States (1980) Poster

(1980)

Charles Haid: Mason Parrish

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Quotes 

  • Mason Parrish : [as they examine an X-ray taken of Eddie shortly after a "tank trip"]  It looks to me like the architecture is slightly abnormal.

    Dr. Wissenschaft : Somewhat? This guy's a fucking gorilla!

  • Mason Parrish : You're supposed to be reputable scientists! Not two dorm kids freaking on Mexican mushrooms!

  • Eddie Jessup : Memory is energy! It doesn't disappear - it's still in there. There's a physiological pathway to our earlier consciousnesses. There has to be; and I'm telling you it's in the goddamned limbic system.

    Mason Parrish : You're a wacko!

    Eddie Jessup : What's whacko about it, Mason? I'm a man in search of his true self. How archetypically American can you get? Everybody's looking for their true selves. We're all trying to fulfill ourselves, understand ourselves, get in touch with ourselves, face the reality of ourselves, explore ourselves, expand ourselves. Ever since we dispensed with God we've got nothing but ourselves to explain this meaningless horror of life.

    Mason Parrish : You're a wacko.

    Eddie Jessup : Well, l think that that true self, that original self, that first self, is a real, mensurate, quantifiable thing, tangible and incarnate, and I'm going to find the fucker.

  • Mason Parrish : I want someone to look at those X-Rays who can read them.

    Eddie Jessup : I'd rather not have everyone in the Brigham in on this. It's bad enough we've got this nosy x-ray technician.

    Mason Parrish : Are you all right?

    Eddie Jessup : I'm fine, Mason. I tried to indicate this was just a transient thing.

    Mason Parrish : Transient ischemic attack, that's what it was.

    [Addressing Arthur] 

    Mason Parrish : He's got his voice back.

    Eddie Jessup : It wasn't an ischemic attack! It wasn't a seizure. You saw the x-rays, Mason. There was clearly something anterior to the larynx that looked like a laryngeal sac. That's strictly simian! I obviously regressed! To some quasi-simian creature.

    Mason Parrish : I'm gonna show these to someone who can read them right, 'cause you're reading them wrong, that's all there is to it. Because no one is gonna tell me you de-differentiated your goddamn genetic structure for four goddamn hours and then reconstituted! I'm a professor of endocrinology at the Harvard Medical School. I'm an attending physician at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital! I'm a contributing editor to the American Journal of Endocrinology and a I am a fellow and vice-president of the Eastern Association of Endocrinologists and president of the Journal Club! And I'm not going to listen to any more of your cabalistic, quantum, friggin', dumb, limbo mumbo jumbo! I'm gonna show these to a radiologist!

  • Mason Parrish : He is off the wall.

    Arthur Rosenberg : [holds the microphone]  Are you okay?

    Eddie Jessup : Get this stuff. It's new. It's deafening. The noise is deafening.

    Eddie Jessup : [shivering with strut]  Can you hear me above this noise? Oh, my God. The most unbelievable thing I've seen. I'm watching the birth agony of a mountain.

    Mason Parrish : Oh, my God.

    Arthur Rosenberg : Are you okay?

    Eddie Jessup : [still holding the microphone]  I'm fine. Really, I'm fine.

    Arthur Rosenberg : Do you want me to bring you down now?

    Mason Parrish : What happens now?

    Arthur Rosenberg : He's blacked-out. His blackouts can get pretty freaky. Sometimes they last as long as four hours. When he comes out, he's chipper as a bird but doesn't remember a thing.

    Mason Parrish : Just how dangerous is this stuff he brought back from Mexico?

    Arthur Rosenberg : I didn't say dangerous, l said it was weird. Hangs around too long. And what's really screwy is it heads straight for the brain.

    Mason Parrish : Well, l don't believe this. You guys are shooting up an untested drug that stacks up in the brain, works in the nucleus of the cell, and don't call that dangerous?

    Arthur Rosenberg : For the record, we don't actually shoot up.

    Mason Parrish : Heh, heh, heh.

    Arthur Rosenberg : Eddie drinks a 10...

    Mason Parrish : Well, It's gonna stop right now. You guys are supposed to be scientists, not two kids in the dorm, freaking out on Mexican mushrooms.

    Arthur Rosenberg : Well, why do you think I called you for? Let's see you stop him.

  • Mason Parrish : It sounded like he was having a bad trip to me.

    Arthur Rosenberg : Some of these tank trips can get pretty creepy.

  • Arthur Rosenberg : Couldn't resist, right?

    Mason Parrish : Well, somebody's gotta keep an eye on you two sorcerers.

  • Mason Parrish : Where are we going now? I thought we were gonna eat.

    Arthur Rosenberg : Eddie wants to show me an isolation tank.

    Mason Parrish : Isolation tank? You guys get flakier every time l talk to you. I thought all that isolation-tank stuff went out in the'60s with Timothy Leary and all them other gurus.

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