Charlie Crews quotes from Life

Crews

I didn't know you spoke Farsi.

Reese

My mother's Persian. She'd speak it to me growing up.

Crews

What about your father?

Reese

He forbade it when he was in the house.

Crews

You think you can get to level 10?

Detective, I'm 30 years old, I live with my mother, and I have a Captain Kirk costume in my closet.

Reese

How long have we been awake?"

Crews

Are you sure we are awake? Maybe this is a dream? Maybe life is a dream and we wake up when we die?

Crews

Okay so we have one dead guy married to two women.

Reese

Half a dead guy...

Crews

Half a dead guy.

Crews

Hey! It's kind of like a party except, this is my house and I don't remember sending out invites.

Detective Crews, in that you are a person of interest in the killing of Carl Ames the District Attorney's office has issued a search warrant for these premises, as well as the occupants therein.

Crews

[to Ted] Don't you wish you could talk that way?

Detective Crews, what where your feelings toward Carl Ames?

Crews

My feelings toward Ames were the same as my feelings toward anyone.

And those would be?

Crews

That none of us are alone. That even as we exhale it is inhaled by others.

Is that some kind of joke?

Crews

Laughter is the best medicine. Reader's Digest. I had a subscription at Pelican Bay.

Reese

Alright, I have to know... What's the deal with the fruit?

Crews

Do you know what you eat in prison?

Reese

Crap?

Crews

Crap... no fresh fruit... ever. I missed it.

Reese

I don't think it'll be fruit I'll be missing.

Crews

Yeah, you would.

Crews

[about his meeting with Reese's father] Do you want to know what he wanted?

Reese

He always wants the same thing.

Crews

Oh, yeah. What's that?

Reese

Everyone else's unhappiness.

Reese

[referring to a room with bars on the windows, locks on the doors] Can you imagine living like this?

Crews

Don't have to.

Reese

Yeah.

Crews

Because of the whole prison thing.

Reese

Copy that.

Crews

About your dad....

Reese

Yeah, let me make this easy on you: I spent my whole childhood trying to figure out if my dad was only mean or just plain bad. And you... I don't really understand you. I don't really like you but... you're not one of the bad guys. [Long pause] If I had your money I would be on a beach somewhere... How come you're not on a beach somewhere?

Crews

Do I look like I tan?

Reese

I'm with stupid. The arrow is pointing up ... isn't it supposed to point at the person next to you?

Crews

I guess he was admitting the truth.

Reese

That he was stupid?

Crews

That no one knows anything.

Reese

I know he's dead!

Crews

That's not the truth, that's just a fact. Looks like a rose.

Reese

Oh you're gonna tell me that's the truth?

Crews

No. That's just a dead flower.

Reese

What exactly is a Zen center?

Crews

It's a place where people interested in their spiritual journey sit and do nothing. Which, as it turns out is nearly impossible.

Reese

Getting buried alive part of that journey?

Crews

Not as a rule no, though every center has its own way.

Everything is in motion. And the particle's within everything are never in one place. Therefore, if it's never in one place, it never is, is it?

Crews

So I'm always in motion. I'm never in one place. I'm never here.

Just more likely to be here than not to be here.

Crews

I'm not here. You like that, don't you?

Reese

If only that were true.

Crews

See that car... not here. That building... not here. Not actually here, just more likely to be here than to not be here. That dog... not here. That girl... not here. Too bad about that. This street... this city... everything... not here.

Reese

If you're not here, how come I can still see you?

Crews

What would you come back as? Reincarnation. Don't limit yourself, you can choose an animal.

Reese

This one time should be plenty, thank you.

Crews

I'd like to come back as a giant Flemish rabbit. 15 pounds of pure bunny. Or a whale! Can you imagine being a whale, thousands of feet under water? Can you imagine that?

Reese

Is it quiet down there?

Crews

So everyone going to that Zen center was just completely screwed up, right?

Reese

People go there seeking peace. People seek what they don't have. Only troubled people seek peace.