Across the Universe Quotes

[from trailer]
JoJo: Music is the only thing that makes sense anymore... play it loud enough and it keeps the demons at bay.


[from trailer]
Max: Jude, this is my sister.
Jude: [later, to Lucy] My god you... you have perfect teeth.


Lucy: We're in the middle of a revolution Jude. And what are you doing? Doodles and cartoons?
Jude: Well I'm sorry I'm not the man with the mega-phone, but this is what I do.


Army Sergeant: Is there any reason you shouldn't serve in the United States Army?
Max: I'm a cross-dressing homosexual pacifist with a spot on my lung.
Army Sergeant: As long as you don't have flat feet...


Lucy: I would lay in front of a tank if it would bring Max back and end this war.
Jude: Yeah, it wouldn't.


[from trailer]
Jude: [drawing picture of Lucy, looks at her] Come here.
[Lucy comes closer]
Jude: I just wanna get your eyes right.


Sadie: [upon seeing Prudence for the first time] Where'd she come from?
Jude: She came in through the bathroom window.


Max: So, where's that accent from?
Jude: Same place as me; Liverpool.


Hippie Guitarist: Learn French or die.


Sadie: You got a good memory for faces?
Max: Yeah, I think so. Why?
Sadie: There's no mirror in your bathroom.


Lucy's Mother: Is that fashionable?
Max: Is what fashionable?
Lucy's Mother: Your haircut, or lack of one.
Lucy: Androgyny suits you, Max.


Hippy dude: You have options, man.
Max: Yeah, jail or Canada - and they both suck!


Jude: [about Paco] He's a shagger.
Lucy: A what?
Jude: A shagger... a Don Juan.


Jude: What are you going to do if you don't go back to college?
Max: What any irresponsible, unmotivated, drop-out would do. Go to New York, like tonight.


Max: She loves you - yeah! Yeah! Yeah!


Jude: Where'd you come from?
Prudence: Nowhere.
Jude: And before nowhere?
Prudence: Ohio.


Lucy: Of course none of this matters to you, Jude, because you'll never be drafted!
Jude: Yeah? Well, neither will you.


JoJo: Never knock the way another cat swings, man.


Max: I don't believe this! What do they talk about when I'm not here?
Lucy: You, actually.


Prudence: That's my landlady!
Lucy: So you live with my brother, too?
Prudence: Yeah, I just moved out of his and Jude's room a little while ago.
Lucy: Oh?
Prudence: Yeah, I quit sleeping with him, though.


Max: [walking in on Lucy and Jude, who've just slept together] So that's how it is?
Jude: Yeah, man, that's how it is.
Max: I have to say, as a brother - you could do better.
Lucy: Max!


Prudence: [on how Max can avoid the draft] Just tell them you're a pedophile - tell them you can't wait to pillage, murder and rape little girls that look just like me!
Sadie: Prudence!


Jude: My God, you- you have perfect teeth.
Lucy: [sucks in her lips]
Jude: No you do. Where I'm from, in Liverpool people have teeth going in all different directions.
Lucy: Have you never heard of braces?
Jude: Yes I have thanks, we use 'em to hold up our trousers.


Mr. Kite: In this way, Mr. K will challenge the world - with the blue people! They're great! They're just... chilled out!


Max: [aside to Lucy, as he observes Emily from afar] When did Emily get tits?
Lucy: Max!
Max: [Emily walks by] Emily... Looking good, as always.


JoJo: You can burn that paper man, but you still gotta show.


Jude: [Lucy pulls Jude towards Mr. Kite's tent] I wanted to feed the cows.


Jude: [referring to Lucy] She's probably out fighting the cause.
JoJo: Looks like you've been fighting the cause too, man.
Jude: I don't have one. That's the problem.