The Best Lazarus Quotes

The: Using hypersonic soundwaves to create a state of resonance... That's inspired.
Professor: You understand the theory then.
The: Enough to know that you couldn't possibly have allowed for all the variables.
Professor: No experiment is entirely without risk.
The: That thing nearly exploded. You might as well have stepped into a blender.

Professor: [grasps Tish's hand] That's an interesting perfume. What's it called?
Tish: [disgusted] Soap.

[Lazarus emerges from the machine, now a much younger man than when he stepped in]
Professor: Ladies and gentlemen, I am Richard Lazarus. I am seventy-six years old. And I am reborn!

Lazarus: Why don't you come out and face me?
The: Have you looked in the mirror lately? Why would I want to face that, hmm?

Professor: I find that nothing's ever exactly like you expect. There's always something to surprise you. Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act...
The: Falls the shadow.
Professor: So the mysterious Doctor knows his T.S. Eliot. I'm impressed
The: Wouldn't have thought you'd have time for poetry, Lazarus, what with you being so busy defying the laws of nature and everything.
Professor: You're right, Doctor. One lifetime's been too short for me to do everything I'd like. How much more I'll get done in two, or three, or four.
The: It doesn't work like that. Some people live more in twenty years than others do in eighty. It's not the time that matters, it's the person.
Professor: But if it's the right person, what a gift that would be.
The: Or what a curse. Look at what you've done to yourself.
Professor: Who are you to judge me?

The: This isn't about improving, this is about you and your customers living a little longer!
Lazarus: Not a little longer, Doctor. A lot longer. Perhaps indefinitely.

Professor: Ladies and gentlemen, I am Professor Richard Lazarus, and tonight, I'm going to perform a miracle. It is, I believe, the most important advance since Rutherford split the atom, and the biggest leap since Armstrong walked on the moon. Tonight, you will watch and wonder, but tomorrow, you will wake to a world which will be changed forever.