Westworld quotes

Dolores Abernathy

Some people choose to see the ugliness in this world. The disarray. I choose to see the beauty.

Lee Sizemore

Ford and Bernard keep making the things more lifelike. But does anyone truly want that? Do you want to think that your husband is really fucking that beautiful girl or that you really just shot someone? This place works because the guests know the hosts aren't real.

Robert Ford

So our creatures have been misbehaving, and you haven't yet isolated the bug? That's so unlike you, Bernard. Unless, of course, you have and are simply embarrassed by the result.

Bernard Lowe

It's the code you added, sir. The reveries. It has some, uh...

Robert Ford

"Mistakes" is the word you're too embarrassed to use. You ought not to be. You're a product of a trillion of them. Evolution forged the entirety of sentient life on this planet using only one tool: the mistake.

Bernard Lowe

I flattered myself we were taking a more disciplined approach here. I suppose self-delusion is a gift of natural selection as well.

Robert Ford

Indeed it is. But, of course, we've managed to slip evolution's leash now, haven't we? We can cure any disease, keep even the weakest of us alive, and, you know, one fine day perhaps we shall even resurrect the dead. Call forth Lazarus from his cave. Do you know what that means? It means that we're done. That this is as good as we're going to get. It also means that you must indulge me the occasional mistake.

The Man in Black

A lot of wisdom in ancient cultures. And perhaps it's time to dig deeper into yours.

Robert Ford

What is your itinerary?

To meet my maker.

Robert Ford

Uh-huh. Well, you're in luck. And what do you want to say to your maker?

By most mechanical and dirty hand. [laughs] I shall have such revenges on you both. The things I will do. What they are, yet I know not, but they will be the terrors of the earth. You don't know where you are, do you? You're in a prison of your own sins.

You want to ask, so ask.

William

Are you real?

Well, if you can't tell, does it matter?

Bernard Lowe

We retired the two hosts in question. You taught me how to make them, but not how hard it is to turn them off.

Robert Ford

You can't play God without being acquainted with the devil. There's something else bothering you, Bernard. I know how that head of yours works.

Bernard Lowe

The photograph alone couldn't have caused that level of damage to Abernathy, not without some other outside interference.

Robert Ford

You think it's sabotage? Imagine someone's been diddling with our creations?

Bernard Lowe

It's the simplest solution.

Robert Ford

Ah, Mr. Occam's razor. The problem, Bernard, is that what you and I do is so complicated. We practice witchcraft. We speak the right words. Then we create life itself out of chaos. William of Occam was a 13th century monk. He can't help us now, Bernard. He would have us burned at the stake.

Bernard Lowe

[lighting her cigarette] QA will fine you for this. And that woman in charge is quite formidable.

Theresa Cullen

You can just say "bitch." I hear it enough.

Theresa Cullen

Wouldn't want anything disturbing our guests from their rape and pillage.

Robert Ford

"The coward dies a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once." Of course, Shakespeare never met a man quite like you, Teddy. You've died at least a thousand times. And yet, it doesn't dull your courage. Tell me, is that all you aspire to, Teddy?

Teddy Flood

There's a girl, Dolores. Better than I deserve. But maybe someday soon we'll have the life we've both been dreaming of.

Robert Ford

No, you never will. Your job is not to protect Dolores, it's to keep her here, to ensure that the guests find her if they want to best the stalwart gunslinger and have their way with his girl. Tell me, has it never occurred to you to run off with her?

Teddy Flood

I got some reckoning to do before I can be with her.

Robert Ford

Ah, yes, your mysterious backstory. It's the reason for my visit. Do you know why it is a mystery, Teddy? Because we never actually bothered to give you one, just a formless guilt you will never atone for. But perhaps it is time you had a worthy story of origin. Would you like that, Teddy? A small part of my new narrative? A fiction which, like all great stories, is rooted in truth? It starts in a time of war a world in flames with a villain called Wyatt.

Bernard Lowe

There are some mornings when I first wake up for a split second I forget where I am, when I am and I reach over, half expecting to find him there next to me between us.

Dolores Abernathy

Everyone I cared about is gone and it hurts so badly.

Bernard Lowe

I can make that feeling go away if you'd like.

Dolores Abernathy

Why would I want that? The pain, their loss it's all I have left of them. You think the grief will make you smaller inside, like your heart will collapse in on itself, but it doesn't. I feel spaces opening up inside of me like a building with rooms I've never explored.

Bernard Lowe

That's very pretty, Dolores. Did we write that for you?

Dolores Abernathy

In part. I adapted it from a scripted dialogue about love. Is there something wrong with these thoughts I'm having?

Bernard Lowe

No. But I'm not the only one making these decisions.

Dolores Abernathy

Can you help me?

Bernard Lowe

Well, what is it that you want?

Dolores Abernathy

I don't know. But this world... I think there may be something wrong with this world. Something hiding underneath. Either that or or there's something wrong with me. I may be losing my mind.

Bernard Lowe

There's something I'd like you to try. It's a game. A secret. It's called the Maze.

Dolores Abernathy

What kind of game is it?

Bernard Lowe

It's a very special kind of game, Dolores. The goal is to find the center of it. If you can do that, then maybe you can be free.

Dolores Abernathy

I think... I think I want to be free.

The Man in Black

This whole world is a story. I've read every page except the last one. I need to find out how it ends. I want to know what this all means.

Lawrence

See, now that's why I never learned to read.

Dolores Abernathy

We would bring the herd down off the mountain in the fall. Sometimes we would lose one along the way, and I'd worry over it. My father... My father would tell me that the steer would find its own way home. And, often as not, they did. Never occurred to me that we were bring them back for the slaughter.

Hector Escaton

I don't believe we've ever met.

The Man in Black

No, we haven't. You know, you always seemed like a a market-tested kind of thing. Big gun, tasteful scar. Locked in your little cycle like a prized poodle after its own tail.

Hector Escaton

You sound like a man who's grown tired of wearing his guts on the inside.

The Man in Black

There's no need to get testy. I'm just curious about your worldview. Some kind of half-native mumbo jumbo?

Hector Escaton

It's simple. I believe that only the truly brave can look at the world and understand that all of it gods, men, everything else will end badly. No one will be saved.

The Man in Black

Maybe we've got more in common than I thought.