Fantastic Voyage (1966)

Donald Pleasence: Dr. Michaels

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• [as the submarine enters the brain] 

  Dr. Duval : Yet all the suns that light the corridors of the universe shine dim before the blazing of a single thought...

  Grant : ...proclaiming in incandescent glory the myriad mind of Man.

  Dr. Michaels : Very poetic, gentlemen. Let me know when we pass the soul.

  Dr. Duval : The soul? The finite mind cannot comprehend infinity, and the soul, which comes from God, is infinite.

  Dr. Michaels : Yes, but our time isn't.

• Grant : What happened?

  Capt. Bill Owens : Dr. Michaels... went berserk.

  Grant : Berserk nothing!

  Dr. Michaels : Grant, help! Get me out!

  Grant : [hands SCUBA gear to Owens]  Get this on, quick. If a window blows, we'll lose this air lock.

  Dr. Michaels : Grant, help. I'm trapped. Help me!

  [Grant struggles to free Michaels as he grows increasingly agitated] 

  Dr. Michaels : Can't get my... can't get my hands out. Get me out of here. My... my hands are trapped. Can't move... can't move my hands. I can't move my ha... move my hands. Can't move my hands! Get my out! Get me out of here!

  [as white corpuscles begins to envelop the submarine, Grant realizes its hopeless and turns to go, leaving Michaels trapped] 

  Dr. Michaels : Get me out! Get me out!

  [screams as he's enveloped by the corpuscles] 

• Cora : Listen, the heart.

  Dr. Michaels : Yes, it's slowed down a great deal.

  Grant : It sounds like heavy artillery.

  Dr. Michaels : It throws down quite a barrage. Over 40 million beats in a year.

  Dr. Duval : And every beat separates a man from eternity.

• Dr. Michaels : I wouldn't call it a miracle. It's just an interchange of gases.