Angel Heart (1987)

Robert De Niro: Louis Cyphre

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Quotes 

• Louis Cyphre : Alas... how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise, Johnny?

• Harry Angel : [almost sobbing]  I know who I am!

  Louis Cyphere : [smugly]  That's it Johnny... take a good look... No matter how cleverly you sneak up on a mirror, your reflection always looks you straight in the eye.

  Harry Angel : [voice breaking as he sees his reflection]  I know who I am!

  [starts screaming as Cyphre makes him remember all the homicides] 

  Harry Angel : I know who I AM!

• Louis Cyphre : They say there's enough religion in the world to make men hate each other, but not enough to make them love.

• Louis Cyphre : The flesh is weak, Johnny. Only the soul is immortal.

  [darkly] 

  Louis Cyphre : And yours belongs to ME.

• Harry Angel : She was doing my chart. I gave her Johnny's birthdate, February 14th. Except someone got to her and took out their own Valentine card. They split her open, and they cut out her heart. I guess she couldn't predict the future for herself.

  Louis Cyphre : The future isn't what it used to be, Mr. Angel.

• Harry Angel : You think posing as the devil because it scared some superstitious blues guitar player and that witch and that nutty old man, you think it'll work on me? It won't because I know who I am and you killed them, and you're trying to pin it on me... and I know who I am.

  Louis Cyphre : [glowers but showing restraint]  If I had cloven hooves and a pointed tail... would you be more convinced?

  Harry Angel : You're crazy. I know who I am. You're trying to frame me. You're trying to frame me. Cyphre, I know who I am. You murdered them people.

  [Cyphre shakes his head slightly and smiles wickedly] 

  Harry Angel : I never killed nobody. I didn't kill Fowler, and... and I didn't kill Toots, and I didn't kill Margaret, and I didn't kill Krusemark,

  [Cyphre looks ready to laugh] 

  Harry Angel : I didn't kill no-one!

  Louis Cyphre : [gloating]  I'm afraid you did, Johnny.

  Harry Angel : My name's not Johnny!

  Louis Cyphre : All killed by your own hand. Guided by me naturally. Frankly, you were doomed from the moment you slit that young boy in half, Johnny...

  [Icily] 

  Louis Cyphre : for twelve years you've been living on borrowed time and trapped in another men's memories.

  Harry Angel : Hey I wanna tell Winesap cause he knows.

  Louis Cyphre : Winesap? Oh he's dead.

  [shakes head] 

  Louis Cyphre : Nasty accident. Don't worry. No-one will mourn one less lawyer in the world - there's death everywhere these days Johnny. But what gives human life its worth... anyway? Because someone loves it, hates it? The flesh is weak, Johnny. Only the soul is immortal.

  [his eyes chillingly shine yellow as his voice distorts] 

  Louis Cyphre : And yours belongs to ME.

• Louis Cyphre : I have old-fashioned ideas about honour. An eye for an eye... stuff like that.

• Louis Cyphre : You know what they say about slugs. They always leave slime in their tracks.

• Louis Cyphre : Mephistopheles can be a mouthful in Manhattan, Johnny.

• Louis Cyphre : Are you an atheist?

  Harry Angel : Yes, I am. I'm from Brooklyn.

• Louis Cyphre : You know, some religions think that the egg is the symbol of the soul, did you know that?

  Harry Angel : No, I didn't know that.

  Louis Cyphre : Would you like an egg?

  Harry Angel : No thank you, I got a thing about chickens.

  [Louis takes a bit out of an egg with a dangerous look on his face] 

• [first lines] 

  Louis Cyphre : Johnny. Johnny. Johnny.

• [last lines] 

  Louis Cyphere : [whispering]  Harry... Johnny.

• Harry Angel : Who the fuck are you, Cyphre?

  Louis Cyphre : Watch your language.

  Harry Angel : Hey, I don't give a fuck if this is a church, okay? Churches give me the creeps, I don't like churches.