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Smile (2022) Best Movie Quotes

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Starring: Sosie Bacon, Jessie T. Usher, Kal Penn, Rob Morgan, Kyle Gallner, Caitlin Stasey, Judy Reyes

OUR RATING: ★★★★☆

Story:

Psychological horror written and directed by Parker Finn. Smile (2022) follows Dr. Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon), who after witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can’t explain. As an overwhelming terror begins taking over her life, Rose must confront her troubling past in order to survive and escape her horrifying new reality.

 

Our Favorite Quotes:

'This thing needs trauma to spread. That's what gives it power. Trauma.' - Robert Talley (Smile) Click To Tweet

 

Best Quotes


 

Carl Renken: I’m dying.
Rose Cotter: No. I don’t think so. I think you’re having another manic episode.
Carl Renken: Don’t you tell me. You don’t know. I feel it all around me, squeezing. I’m scared.
Rose Cotter: Carl, I know that what you’re experiencing feels real, but it can’t hurt you. I promise.


 

Rose Cotter: I know you’re nervous. That’s okay. I just want to have a chat. I promise this is a safe place.
Laura Weaver: Not for me.
Rose Cotter: Why do you say that?


 

Laura Weaver: I’m not crazy.
Rose Cotter: Nobody’s saying that.
Laura Weaver: But I need you to understand. I’m a PhD candidate. I’m not some lunatic. Okay?


 

Laura Weaver: I’m seeing something. Something no one else can see except for me. I know how insane that sounds. I do! But it’s this thing, I can’t explain it.


 

Laura Weaver: It looks like people! It looks like different people. Sometimes it pretends to be someone that I know. Sometimes it’s a random stranger. Sometimes it looks like my grandfather who died in front of me when I was seven. But it’s all the same thing. It’s like it wears people’s faces like masks.


 

Rose Cotter: What happens when you do see it?
Laura Weaver: It’s smiling at me. But not a friendly smile. It’s the worst smile I’ve ever seen in my life. And whenever I see it, I just get this god-awful feeling like something really terrible is going to happen. I’ve never felt scared like I do when I see it.


 

Laura Weaver: It’s not a hallucination, no. It’s real. You don’t get it. It does things to me. It causes s**t to happen around me. It’s taken over my whole life, and my mind, and it tells me things. It told me that today’s the day that I’m going to…


 

Laura Weaver: [to Rose] You’re not listening to me! Oh, my God. I’m going to f***ing die, and no one will listen to me!


 

Laura Weaver: Oh, my God! No! No! It’s here! Please! Get away! Please!
Rose Cotter: Laura. Hey! It’s okay. It’s just us. There’s nobody else here.
Laura Weaver: No!
[after Rose calls for help, she turns to see Laura smiling, she then cuts her neck with a shard of the plant pot, killing herself]


 

Rose Cotter: [referring to Laura] She was having paranoid delusions.
Detective Buckley: What kind of delusions?
Rose Cotter: She was convinced that some sort of evil presence was haunting her.


 

Rose Cotter: [referring to Laura] Before she died, she was smiling.
Detective Buckley: Yeah, she sounds f***ing crazy to me.


 

Nurse: [referring to Rose] You do know she’s engaged, right?
Joel: Yeah.
Nurse: I’m single.


 

Carl Renken: [to Rose, after she sees him smiling] You’re going to die! You’re going to die! You’re going to die!

 

'I'm seeing something. Something no one else can see except for me.' - Laura Weaver (Smile) Click To Tweet

 

Rose Cotter: [after she sees Carl acting psychotic] Do you think I’m making it up?
Dr. Morgan Desai: Of course not. But yesterday, a patient in your care killed herself brutally in front of you. Is it possible, when you presumed that Carl Renken was a danger to himself, that that’s what your mind was reacting to?


 

Dr. Morgan Desai: [to Rose] We can’t help these patients unless we have our own mental health in check.


 

Rose Cotter: [referring to Laura] It wasn’t so much the blood. It was her face. The look that she had.
Dr. Madeline Northcott: How did it make you feel?
Rose Cotter: Terrified, obviously. Vulnerable. Guilty.
Dr. Madeline Northcott: Guilty?
Rose Cotter: Well, she was my patient.
Dr. Madeline Northcott: She was a disturbed young woman you only met for ten minutes.


 

Rose Cotter: I just feel like I’ve gotten stuck on it. I can’t, you know, get it out of my head.
Dr. Madeline Northcott: Have you considered the reason you feel stuck could actually be more about your mother’s suicide? Do you still blame yourself?
Rose Cotter: I’m really not trying to relitigate that part of my life right now.


 

Dr. Madeline Northcott: What is it you’ve been seeing and hearing?
Rose Cotter: Echoes of what happened with my patient. You know, just fleeting moments of stress-induced hallucinations. But when they’re happening, they feel so corporeal and unsettling.

 

'It's smiling at me. But not a friendly smile. It's the worst smile I've ever seen in my life. And whenever I see it, I just get this god-awful feeling like something really terrible is going to happen.' - Laura Weaver (Smile) Click To Tweet

 

Dr. Madeline Northcott: [to Rose] You have wounds that have never fully healed. And it is possible they never will completely. That’s the nature of trauma. But you can learn to get control over it.


 

Rose Cotter: [after her nephew discovers his gift from Rose is her dead cat] This can’t be happening. No. No, no. No, I promise you, this wasn’t me. It wasn’t. It wasn’t me, I swear. You guys have to believe me, please. Somebody, please f***ing believe me!


 

Rose Cotter: [as she sees a woman at the party smiling at her] What the f*** are you? Leave me the f*** alone! You see her. You have to see her!


 

Rose Cotter: Something is threatening me. Some kind of a evil spirit, or energy. I don’t really know what it is. But I think that it killed my patient. Because she described experiencing the same thing before she died. And now it’s somehow attached itself to me. And I’m just really scared that something bad is going to happen.

 

'You have wounds that have never fully healed. And it is possible they never will completely. That's the nature of trauma.' - Dr. Madeline Northcott (Smile) Click To Tweet

 

Rose Cotter: I want you to believe me.
Trevor: Rose, you’re talking about a f***ing ghost.
Rose Cotter: No, no, no. It’s not a ghost. It’s something else.


 

Rose Cotter: You’re not listening to what I am saying.
Trevor: Okay, Rose. What the f*** am I supposed to say to respond to this right now? Do you hear yourself? I mean, Jesus Christ. You sound crazy.
Rose Cotter: I am not crazy!


 

Victoria Munoz: [referring to her husband] At first, I noticed small changes in him. Then it all happened so fast. He was on edge. Paranoid. He would wake up in the middle of the night, screaming. I’d never heard him scream before. Then he just stopped sleeping altogether. I would catch him having these conversations with himself. He was seeing things. Doing strange things that he didn’t even seem to remember. Then one morning he was gone. That night, the police called and told me he was dead.


 

Victoria Munoz: His face. Twenty-five years of marriage, and that’s what I have left to remember him.


 

Rose Cotter: Mrs. Munoz, your husband was not insane. The things that he was seeing, they’re real. I’ve seen them.
Victoria Munoz: What are you, a f***ing nutcase?

 

'My eyes are open now. I have been cursed.' - Rose Cotter (Smile) Click To Tweet

 

Rose Cotter: I need a favor. I need you to not ask any questions about it.
Joel: Terrific.


 

Joel: [referring to one of the people who killed themselves] Is he smiling? Rose, who are these people?


 

Rose Cotter: [to Trevor] I came to you, the person I’m supposed to trust most in the world, and I confided that I was scared to death. That I needed you. And you just didn’t even listen to a word I was saying.

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Rose Cotter: [to Trevor] All you’re trying to do is make it so you don’t have to deal with it. You’re fine as long as everything is easy and agreeable, but God forbid anything become real, or even a tiny bit difficult. And you just think about how it’s going to f*** up your whole little perfect life plan.


 

Rose Cotter: My eyes are open now. I have been cursed. Or somehow wrapped up in a curse. I got it from my patient. She was cursed, and then when she died, she transferred it to me. And now I’m being threatened by this entity.


 

Rose Cotter: Nobody else can see it, except for me.


 

Rose Cotter: This has happened to other people. And they’re all dead. Holly, I’m going to be next!
Holly: Rose, curses are not real. Okay? You are having some sort of a breakdown.


 

Holly: [to Rose] This is exactly what happened to Mom. You sound just like her.


 

Holly: It’s like you can’t accept the fact that Mom lost her mind and f***ing killed herself. And you let it define your entire life, and you punish me because I don’t want to.
Rose Cotter: Well, I’m sorry that I’m actually trying to help people instead of being some f***ing stay-at-home PTA housewife, who lives in her own self-centered, smug little bubble!


 

Joel: These cases, this same pattern. It goes back further. So far, I’ve found twenty cases involving nineteen suicide victims with a direct line linking them all together. And the things these people are doing to themselves, Rose. Holy s**t.


 

Joel: Let’s just put aside the possibility that some sort of evil, extraordinary force could even exist. What you’re saying is that this thing is jumping around from person to person, and it is causing them to kill themselves?
Rose Cotter: Okay, but maybe it’s not suicide.


 

Rose Cotter: How long was it between each victim’s death?
Joel: None of them survived longer than a week. Some of them didn’t even make it past four days.
Rose Cotter: Today was my fourth day.
Joel: Hey. Whatever happened to those people, it’s not going to happen to you. I promise.


 

Rose Cotter: [to Robert as she visits him in prison] Why is it that everybody else who’s seen it is dead, and you’re alive? Why? Please.


 

Robert Talley: [to Rose] Your patient is going to die unless she kills someone. That’s the only way you can get rid of it. The only way. She has to make sure there’s a witness for it to pass to, because this thing needs trauma to spread. That’s what gives it power. Trauma.


 

Rose Cotter: I can’t kill someone!
Robert Talley: You? You have it? No, no, no. Why the f*** did you come here? You’re not giving it back to me. Get out of here! Get out of here! Get her away from me!


 

Dr. Madeline Northcott: How are you feeling today?
Rose Cotter: Let me think. I’m pretty sure my fiancé thinks I’m crazy. My sister has just totally shut me out. And now, my former therapist is making unannounced house calls to ensure that I am not a danger. So, other than that, I’m really good.


 

Dr. Madeline Northcott: [as the entity has taken Northcott’s form] Almost time, Rose.
Rose Cotter: What the f*** are you?


 

Rose Cotter: [over phone] This thing, it needs all of its victims to pass it on in order to survive, but if there’s no one else around, then it has no way to pass. As long as I’m alone, I can deprive it of what it needs.
Joel: That doesn’t make any sense. Your plan is just to avoid people forever?
Rose Cotter: I am not going to keep running, okay? I’ve got to face it.


 

Mom: [as entity takes the form of Rose’s mother] There is something terrible inside of me. I hate myself.
Rose Cotter: Stop. Stop. Stop.
Mom: Are you ashamed of me?
Rose Cotter: No.
Mom: Then why did you let me die? Why didn’t you save me?


 

Mom: You wished that I would die.
Rose Cotter: Because I was afraid of you! I was ten years-old, and you were a monster. And I know that it’s not fair. You needed help. But I couldn’t. And I have carried that guilt for my entire life. And I have to let it go. I have to let it go. This is not real.
Mom: But Rose, your mind makes it real.


 

Rose Cotter: What are you? Why are you doing this to me?
Mom: Because your mind is so inviting.


 

Nightmare Mom: [as the entity takes on a nightmarish form] You can’t escape your mind, Rose.
Rose Cotter: It’s my mind. You can’t escape it either.
[she then sets the entity on fire]


 

Rose Cotter: [to Joel, after believing she destroyed the entity] For most of my life, I’ve been afraid of letting people get too close, because I was afraid of what they might see if they really looked. And so, I put walls up, and I kept people at a distance. And then I met you, and I could feel those walls coming down. And it scared the s**t out of me. And so, I was selfish, and that was not fair to you. And I am so, so sorry.


 

Rose Cotter: Do you think that I could stay her and just sleep? Could you stay with me while I sleep? Please.
Joel: Yeah, of course I’ll stay with you. I’ll stay with you forever.
[he then smiles demonically at her, then as the entity reveals its true form, taking over Rose, the real Joel arrives to find a smiling Rose setting herself on fire]

 


 

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