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Sam Esmail Quotes

Total quotes: 34
“But my favorite thing of all: I like you ‘cause you like me. I don’t know - I think that says a lot about how great you are as a person.”
— Dell, Comet(2014)
Tagged: Love, romance, Romance In Film, Love & Connection, Love & Contentment
“I feel like I’m in the wrong world. ‘Cause I don’t belong in a world where we don’t end up together. I don’t. There are parallel universes out there where this didn’t happen. Where I was with you and you were with me. And whatever universe that is, that’s the one that my heart lives in.”
— Dell, Comet(2014)
Tagged: Love, romance, love and timing, parallel universe, Romance In Film, wrong world
“I’m good at reading people. My secret, I look for the worst in them.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 1: eps1.0_hellofriend.mov
Tagged: Mr. Robot
“I have burrowed underneath your brain. I am nested there. I am the scream in your mind. You will cooperate.”
— Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 2: eps2.1_k3rnel-pan1c.ksd
Tagged: manipulation, Control
“Repeating the same tasks each day without ever having to think about them, isn't that what everybody does? Keep things on repeat to go along with their NCISes and Lexapro. Isn't that where it's comfortable? In the sameness?”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 2: eps2.0_unm4sk-pt1.tc
Tagged: NCIS, Lexapro, Monotony
“When you delete something, you’re making a choice to destroy it. To never see it again.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, season_3.0: eps3.7_dont-delete-me.ko
“World catastrophes like this, they aren't caused by lone wolves like you. They occur because men like me allow them. You just had to stumble onto one of them.”
— Phillip Price, Mr. Robot, season_3.0: eps3.8_stage3.torrent
Tagged: Global Catastrophes, Lone Wolves
“I'm gonna fix the world I broke, and put it back together better than it was before.”
— Sam Esmail, Mr. Robot, season_3.0: eps3.1_undo.gz
Tagged: Save the World, Messiah Complex
“I should never have done this. I should have left this alone. I'll never learn. I brought this upon myself. I'll never learn. This is on me. This is on me.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, season_3.0: eps3.9_shutdown-r
Tagged: Regret, Remorse
“Now he's doing what all small animals do when they're scared, pretend they're bigger and scarier.”
— Sam Esmail, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 2: eps2.0_unm4sk-pt1.tc
Tagged: Animals, Fear
“I always thought you’d be a god. I loved you. But now I see how foolish I was and how inferior you are. Like a fucking cockroach.”
— Tyrell Wellick, Mr. Robot, season_3.0: eps3.3_metadata.par2
“A bug is never just a mistake. It represents something bigger. An error of thinking. That makes you who you are.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 1: eps1.2_d3bug.mkv
Tagged: Mr. Robot
“Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, but give a man a bank, and he can rob the world.”
— Tyrell Wellick, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 1: eps1.1_ones-and-zer0es.mpeg
Tagged: Mr. Robot
“I do see the beauty in the rules, the invisible code of chaos hiding behind the menacing face of order.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 2: eps2.0_unm4sk-pt1.tc
Tagged: Mr. Robot
“Control is about as real as a one-legged unicorn taking a leak at the end of a double rainbow.”
— Ray Heyworth, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 2: eps2.1_k3rnel-pan1c.ksd
Tagged: Mr. Robot
“Hello, friend. Hello, friend. That’s lame. Maybe I should give you a name. But that’s a slippery slope. You’re only in my head. We have to remember that.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 1: eps1.0_hellofriend.mov
Tagged: Mr. Robot
“Power belongs to the people that take it. Nothing to do with their hard work, strong ambitions, or rightful qualifications, no. The actual will to take is often the only thing that’s necessary.”
— Tyrell Wellick, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 1: eps1.1_ones-and-zer0es.mpeg
Tagged: Mr. Robot
“Deletion. When you make that decision, there's always that moment of hesitation. That annoying 'Are you sure?' dialogue box, and then you have to make a decision. Yes or no.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, season_3.0: eps3.0_power-saver-mode.h
Tagged: Indecisiveness
“You’re losing it, kiddo. I’m only supposed to be your prophet. You’re supposed to be my god.”
— Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 1: eps1.9_zer0-day.avi
Tagged: Mr. Robot
“So this is what a revolution looks like, people in expensive clothing running around. Not how I pictured it.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 1: eps1.9_zer0-day.avi
Tagged: Mr. Robot
“This is the world we live in. People relying on each other’s mistakes to manipulate one another and use one another, even relate to one another. A warm, messy circle of humanity.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 1: eps1.2_d3bug.mkv
Tagged: Mr. Robot
“How do I take off a mask when it stops being a mask, when it’s as much a part of me as I am?”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 2: eps2.0_unm4sk-pt2.tc
Tagged: Mr. Robot
“I don't want your proof. I want your belief.”
— Sam Esmail, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 2: eps2.9_pyth0n-pt1.p7z
Tagged: evidence, Faith
“You wanna unburden yourself, go jerk off.”
— Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 2: eps2.2_init_1.asec
Tagged: masturbation, Release
“Annihilation is always the answer. We destroy parts of ourselves every day. We Photoshop our warts away. We edit the parts we hate about ourselves, modify the parts we think people hate. We curate our identity, carve it, distill it. Krista’s wrong. Annihilation is all we are.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 2: eps2.2_init_1.asec
Tagged: Mr. Robot
“Control can sometimes be an illusion. But sometimes you need illusions to gain control. Fantasy is an easy way to give meaning to world. To cloak our harsh reality with escapist comfort. After all, isn't that why we surround ourselves with so many screens? So we can avoid seeing? So we can avoid each other? So we can avoid truth.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 2: eps2.5_h4ndshake.sme
Tagged: Control, Fantasy, Illusion, Escapism
“A guy walks up to a woman at a bar. He flirts with her. He makes small talk, but the woman insists she isn't gonna go home with him. Guy says, ‘What if I offer you $1 million to sleep with me?’ The woman's never had a million dollars in her life. She stops and considers the offer very seriously. The guy changes his mind, says, ‘What if I change my offer to a dollar instead?’ Woman is aghast. ‘What kind of woman do you think I am?’ Guy says, ‘We already figured that out. Now we're just negotiating.’”
— Antara Nayar, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 2: eps2.0_unm4sk-pt2.tc
Tagged: Jokes, prostitution
“When you look closely at the seams between order and chaos, do you see the same things I see? The strain, the tears, the glimpses of truth hidden underneath. Why do they fight so desperately to mask what they are? Or is it that they become who they are when they put on the mask? Sometimes I wonder what you hide behind, my silent friend. What mask do you wear? Or are you just as afraid as the rest of them? Me? Am I afraid? Nah, man. I'm different.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 2: eps2.0_unm4sk-pt2.tc
Tagged: order, Chaos
“Is that what God does? He helps? Tell me, why didn't God help my innocent friend who died for no reason while the guilty roam free? Okay, fine. Forget the one-offs. How about the countless wars declared in his name? Okay, fine. Let's skip the random, meaningless murder for a second, shall we? How about the racist, sexist, phobia soup we've all been drowning in because of him? And I'm not just talking about Jesus. I'm talking about all organized religion... exclusive groups created to manage control, a dealer getting people hooked on the drug of hope, his followers nothing but addicts who want their hit of bullshit to keep their... their dopamine of ignorance, addicts afraid to believe the truth...that there is no order, there's no power, that all religions are just metastasizing mind worms meant to divide us so it's easier to rule us by the charlatans that want to run us. All we are to them are paying fanboys of their poorly written sci-fi franchise. If I don't listen to my imaginary friend, why the f... should I listen to yours? People think their worship's some key to happiness. That's just how he owns you. Even I'm not crazy enough to believe that distortion of reality. So f... God. He's not a good enough scapegoat for me.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 2: eps2.1_k3rnel-pan1c.ksd
Tagged: God, atheism, Religion, War, Scapegoats
“In the fallout of the Great Depression, FDR closed all the banks for a bank holiday and then he reopened them in stages when they were reported to being sound. Later, historians discovered what we in this room now know; that those reports, they are mostly lies. Nevertheless, it worked, it worked because the public believed the government had everything under control. You see? That is the business model for this great nation of ours. Every business day when our market bells ring, we con people to believing in something: The American Dream, family values...; could be freedom fries for all I care. It doesn't matter! As long as the con works and people buy, sell whatever it is that we want them to.”
— Philip Price, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 2: eps2.0_unm4sk-pt2.tc
Tagged: FDR, Great Depression, American Dream, Family Values
“And this all started because I tried to hide from society. Remember? ‘Fuck society.’ Yeah, well, I fucked society all right. I reset it to zero, and if I don't do anything about it, it will continue to grow in this malignant way. And that's what I'm afraid of the most. This dark future that I set into motion. Who knows what could come from this? What if instead of fighting back, we caved, gave away our privacy for security, exchanged dignity for safety, and traded revolution for repression? What if we choose weakness over strength? They'll even have us build our own prison. This is what they wanted all along. For us to buy in on our worst selves. And I just made it easier for them. I didn't start a revolution. I just made us docile enough for the slaughtering. And I can stand here and blame Evil Corp and every other conglomerate out there for taking advantage of us, blame the FBI, NSA, CIA, for letting them get away with this, blame all the world's leaders for aiding and abetting them, blame Adam Smith for inventing modern-day capitalism in the first fucking place. Blame money for dividing us, blame us for letting it. But none of that's true. The truth is...I'm the one to blame. I'm the problem. This was my fault. All of it. I did this. Fuck me.”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, season_3.0: eps3.0_power-saver-mode.h
Tagged: FBI, NSA, CIA, Adam Smith, Capitalism, Money
“Remember when we used to do our wishing game? We’d close our eyes, and we’d wish for something. Whatever we wanted.

We both wished we could get bigger bedrooms. That was a big one.

You would always wish for more protractors, which was weird.

I would wish for a faster computer. Probably faster modem, too.

You would wish for better clothes. I didn’t really care about that.

We both we both wished we could drive. I just wanted to drive away. We wanted to go on road trips. And eat lots of Sour Patch Kids that we would buy from gas stations.

After we made all our wishes, we’d close our eyes really hard, hoping that when we opened them, it’d all come true.
 And we thought the harder we closed them, the stronger our wishes would be.

And even though they never came true, we still liked doing it. Because the ending was never our favorite part, anyway.
 It was the wishing. I didn’t get that at first.


You remember what you used to say to me right before we opened our eyes that would make it all better?”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, season_3.0: eps3.7_dont-delete-me.ko
Tagged: wishing, Dreaming, Sour Patch Kids
“It's one thing to question your mind; it's another to question your eyes and ears. But, then again, isn't it all the same? Our senses just mediocre inputs to our brain? Sure, we rely on them, trust they accurately portray the real world around us, but what if the haunting truth is they can't? That what we perceive isn't the real world at all, but just our mind's best guess? That all we really have is a garbled reality, a truly fuzzy picture we will never make out?”
— Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 2: eps2.9_pyth0n-pt2.p7z
Tagged: Perception, Reality
“Is any of it real? I mean, look at this. Look at it! A world built on fantasy! Synthetic emotions in the form of pills, psychological warfare in the form of advertising, mind-altering chemicals in the form of food, brainwashing seminars in the form of media, controlled isolated bubbles in the form of social networks. Real? You want to talk about reality? We haven’t lived in anything remotely close to it since the turn of the century. We turned it off, took out the batteries, snacked on a bag of GMOs while we tossed the remnants in the ever-expanding dumpster of the human condition. We live in branded houses trademarked by corporations built on bipolar numbers jumping up and down on digital displays, hypnotizing us into the biggest slumber mankind has ever seen. You have to dig pretty deep, kiddo, before you can find anything real. We live in a kingdom of bullshit, a kingdom you’ve lived in for far too long. So don’t tell me about not being real. I’m no less real than the fucking beef patty in your Big Mac.”
— Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot Season 1: eps1.9_zer0-day.avi
Tagged: Mr. Robot
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