Patch Adams (1998) quotes

Director
Tom Shadyac.

Cast
Robin Williams.
Daniel London.
Monica Potter.

The true story of a heroic man, Hunter “Patch” Adams, determined to become a medical doctor because he enjoys helping people. He ventured where no doctor had ventured before, using humour and pathos.

You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you’ll win, no matter what the outcome.
– Hunter Patch Adams

Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death.
– Hunter Patch Adams

What’s wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can’t we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we’re going to fight a disease, let’s fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.
– Hunter Patch Adams

We can head on down to the maternity ward. You know those chicks put out.
– Hunter Patch Adams

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly without complexities or pride. I love you because I know no other way then this. So close that your hand, on my chest, is my hand. So close, that when you close your eyes, I fall asleep.
– Hunter Patch Adams

I don’t like you!
– Mitch Roman
Why don’t you like me? You’re a prick and I like you.
– Hunter Patch Adams

I have a boner. Wait, I am a boner.
– Hunter Patch Adams

You’re focusing on the problem. If you focus on the problem, you can’t see the solution. Never focus on the problem!
– Arthur Mendelson

See what no one else sees. See what everyone chooses not to see… out of fear, conformity or laziness. See the whole world anew each day!
– Arthur Mendelson

And if we bury you ass up, I have got a place to park my bike.
– Hunter Patch Adams

I thought only I could repel women with that kind of raw efficiency.
– Truman

Last night with Rudy, I connected to another human being. I want more of that. I want to learn about people, help them with their troubles.
– Hunter Patch Adams
That’s what I do.
– Dr. Prack
But you suck at it.
– Hunter Patch Adams

Sir, I want to be a doctor will all my heart.
– Hunter Patch Adams

All of life is a coming home. Salesmen, secretaries, coal miners, beekeepers, sword swallowers, all of us. All the restless hearts of the world, all trying to find a way home. It’s hard to describe what I felt like then. Picture yourself walking for days in the driving snow; you don’t even know you’re walking in circles. The heaviness of your legs in the drifts, your shouts disappearing into the wind. How small you can feel, and how far away home can be. Home. The dictionary defines it as both a place of origin and a goal or destination. And the storm? The storm was all in my mind. Or as the poet Dante put it: In the middle of the journey of my life, I found myself in a dark wood, for I had lost the right path. Eventually I would find the right path, but in the most unlikely place.
– Hunter Patch Adams

I’m really starting to love the back of your head.
– Hunter Patch Adams

So what now, huh? What do you want from me?
– Hunter Patch Adams
Yeah, I could do it. We both know you wouldn’t stop me. So answer me please. Tell me what you’re doing. Okay, let’s look at the logic. You create man. Man suffers enormous amounts of pain. Man dies. Maybe you should have had just a few more brainstorming sessions prior to creation. You rested on the seventh day. Maybe you should’ve spent that day on compassion.
– Hunter Patch Adams
You know what? You’re not worth it.
– Hunter Patch Adams

We need to start treating the patient as well as the disease.
– Hunter Patch Adams

When can I open my eyes?
– Corinne Fisher
As soon as I open mine.
– Hunter Patch Adams

How many fingers do you see?
– Arthur Mendelson
Four.
– Hunter Patch Adams
No no! Look beyond the fingers! Now tell me how many you see.
– Arthur Mendelson

Now you have the ability to keep me from graduating. You can keep me from getting the title and the white coat. But you can’t control my spirit, gentlemen. You can’t keep me from learning, you can’t keep me from studying. So you have a choice: you can have me as a professional colleague, passionate, or you can have me as an outspoken outsider, still adament. Either way I’ll probably still be viewed as a thorn. But I promise you one thing: I am a thorn that will not go away.
– Hunter Patch Adams
Is that all?
– Charlie
I hope not, sir.
– Hunter Patch Adams

Ye of little faith.
– Hunter Patch Adams