Jupiter Ascending Quotes
A young woman discovers her destiny as an heiress of intergalactic nobility and must fight to protect the inhabitants of Earth from an ancient and destructive industry.
Jupiter Jones: It's like my internal compass points directly at Mr. Wrong. Maybe it's my genes. Maybe I have defective engineering, too.
[moving closer]
Jupiter Jones: And if that's the case, is there anyway to fix it?
Caine Wise: [backing away] You are royalty now. I'm a splice, you don't understand what that means. I have more in common with a dog than I have with you.
Jupiter Jones: I love dogs, I've always loved dogs.
[moving closer]
Jupiter Jones: And if that's the case, is there anyway to fix it?
Caine Wise: [backing away] You are royalty now. I'm a splice, you don't understand what that means. I have more in common with a dog than I have with you.
Jupiter Jones: I love dogs, I've always loved dogs.
Balem Abrasax: Stop.
[Balem "freezes time" in the operating room where Caine meets Jupiter, as the scene slowly takes place around him]
Balem Abrasax: There you are...
[he stoops down to look at Jupiter as she is floating in the operating room]
Balem Abrasax: You know there are times when I actually miss you. Because no one understood this universe like you did. No one understood me
[his voice breaks]
Balem Abrasax: like you did.
[Balem "freezes time" in the operating room where Caine meets Jupiter, as the scene slowly takes place around him]
Balem Abrasax: There you are...
[he stoops down to look at Jupiter as she is floating in the operating room]
Balem Abrasax: You know there are times when I actually miss you. Because no one understood this universe like you did. No one understood me
[his voice breaks]
Balem Abrasax: like you did.
Kalique Abrasax: [steps out of her rejuvenation pool] Each of us has the code for our optimal physical condition. The problem is our genes have an expiration date, which is transferred to ourselves. A long time ago someone figured out how to replace deteriorating cells with new ones. Today it's as easy as changing a light bulb.
Jupiter Jones: Where do you get these light bulbs?
Kalique Abrasax: We grow them.
Jupiter Jones: Like clones?
Kalique Abrasax: No. Clones lack genetic plasticity. Several million years ago a gene plague caused by cloning by nearly annihilated the entire human race.
Jupiter Jones: I was told that Abrasax is the seed of earth. Is that where you get it?
Kalique Abrasax: Your earth is a very small part of a very large industry... Feel my skin.
Jupiter Jones: Oh, wow.
Kalique Abrasax: In your world, people are used to fighting for resources like oil and minerals and land. But when you have access to the vastness of space, you realize, there's only one resource worth fighting over - even killing for. More time. Time is the single most precious commodity in the universe.
Jupiter Jones: Where do you get these light bulbs?
Kalique Abrasax: We grow them.
Jupiter Jones: Like clones?
Kalique Abrasax: No. Clones lack genetic plasticity. Several million years ago a gene plague caused by cloning by nearly annihilated the entire human race.
Jupiter Jones: I was told that Abrasax is the seed of earth. Is that where you get it?
Kalique Abrasax: Your earth is a very small part of a very large industry... Feel my skin.
Jupiter Jones: Oh, wow.
Kalique Abrasax: In your world, people are used to fighting for resources like oil and minerals and land. But when you have access to the vastness of space, you realize, there's only one resource worth fighting over - even killing for. More time. Time is the single most precious commodity in the universe.
Balem Abrasax: Life is an act of consumption, Jupiter. To live is to consume and the human beings on your planet are merely a resource waiting to be converted into capital, and this entire enterprise is just a small part in a vast and beautiful machine defined by evolution, designed to a single purpose: to create profit.
[first lines]
Jupiter Jones: Technically speaking, I'm an alien. And from the perspective of Immigration, an illegal one. My parents met at the University in Saint Petersburg, where he taught Astrophysics, and she taught Applied Mathematics. My mother fell in love with him when she found him almost frozen to death on the bank of the Neva, staring up at the stars.
Jupiter Jones: Technically speaking, I'm an alien. And from the perspective of Immigration, an illegal one. My parents met at the University in Saint Petersburg, where he taught Astrophysics, and she taught Applied Mathematics. My mother fell in love with him when she found him almost frozen to death on the bank of the Neva, staring up at the stars.
Jupiter Jones: I am not your mother.
Balem Abrasax: No, my mother never cleaned a toilet in her life.
Jupiter Jones: Maybe that was the problem.
Balem Abrasax: My mother... my mother taught me what was necessary to rule in this universe.
Jupiter Jones: By killing people?
Balem Abrasax: I CREATE LIFE! And I destroy it. Life is an act of consumption, Jupiter. To live is to consume. Now, the human beings on your planet are a resource, waiting to be converted into capital.
Balem Abrasax: No, my mother never cleaned a toilet in her life.
Jupiter Jones: Maybe that was the problem.
Balem Abrasax: My mother... my mother taught me what was necessary to rule in this universe.
Jupiter Jones: By killing people?
Balem Abrasax: I CREATE LIFE! And I destroy it. Life is an act of consumption, Jupiter. To live is to consume. Now, the human beings on your planet are a resource, waiting to be converted into capital.
