Jason Miller Biography

Character actor and playwright Jason Miller had a variety of jobs before he started a writing career and wrote his own play, "That Championship Season", for which he received the Pulitzer Prize Award. Miller gave up his professional writing career in the early seventies to start acting. In 1973, he starred as a troubled priest in the horror film classic "The Exorcist" for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. In 1982, he directed the revival of his play, "That Championship Season", to the screen. The father of actor Jason Patric and actor/director/writer Joshua John Miller, Miller's other film credits include playing the title role in the made for television film "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "The Ninth Configuration", "Toy Soldiers", "The Exorcist III" and "Rudy". Miller died on-stage during a rehearsal at the Summer Theatre in Scranton, Pennsylvannia at the age of 62.
Date of Death: 13 May 2001, Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA (heart attack)

• 1. Father Merrin: THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!
  2. Father Damien Karras: THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!
  From The Exorcist. Submitted by Jack P (8 days ago)

• 1. Father Damien Karras: Where's regan?
  2. The Demon: In here...with us...
  From The Exorcist. Submitted by Claudia S (34 days ago)

• 1. Father Damien Karras: How long are you going to stay in Regan?
  2. The Demon: Until she rots in earth.
  From The Exorcist. Submitted by Jakoporeeno J (2 months ago)

• 1. Regan MacNeil: What's that?
  2. Father Damien Karras: Holy water.
  3. Regan MacNeil: Keep that away from me.
  From The Exorcist. Submitted by Patryk G (5 months ago)

• 1. Regan MacNeil: (in Karras' mother's voice) Dimmy, why did you do this to me? Please Dimmy, I'm afraid.
  2. Father Damien Karras: You're not my mother!
  3. Father Merrin: Don't listen. Get out!
  From The Exorcist. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Father Damien Karras: Why her? Why this girl?
  2. Father Merrin: I think the point is to make us despair, to see ourselves as animal and ugly. To make us reject the possibility that God could love us.
  From The Exorcist. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Lt. Kinderman: Well, this desecration in the church. Do you think this has anything to do with witchcraft?
  2. Father Damien Karras: Maybe. Some rituals use the Black Mass. Maybe.
  3. Lt. Kinderman: And now, Dennings, you read how he died?
  4. Father Damien Karras: In a fall.
  5. Lt. Kinderman: Let me tell you how, and please Father, confidential. Burke Dennings, good Father, was found at the bottom of those steps leading to M Street with his head turned completely around facing backwards.
  6. Father Damien Karras: It didn't happen in the fall?
  7. Lt. Kinderman: It's possible. Possible, however...
  8. Father Damien Karras: Unlikely.
  9. Lt. Kinderman: Exactly. So on the one hand, we've got a witchcraft kind of murder, and on the other hand a Black Mass type desecration in the church.
  10. Father Damien Karras: You think the killer and the desecrator are the same?
  11. Lt. Kinderman: Maybe somebody crazy. Somebody with a spite against the church; some unconscious rebellion.
  12. Father Damien Karras: A sick priest, is that it?
  13. Lt. Kinderman: Look, Father, this is hard for you. Please, I understand, but for priests on the campus here, you're the psychiatrist. You know who was sick at the time, who wasn't. I mean, this kind of sickness. You'd know that.
  From The Exorcist. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Father Damien Karras: I think it might be helpful if I gave you some background on the different personalities Regan has manifested. So far, I'd say there seem to be three. She's convinced.
  2. Father Merrin: There is only one.
  From The Exorcist. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Regan MacNeil: What an excellent day for an exorcism.
  2. Father Damien Karras: You'd like that?
  3. Regan MacNeil: Intensely.
  4. Father Damien Karras: But wouldn't that drive you out of Regan?
  5. Regan MacNeil: It would bring us together.
  6. Father Damien Karras: You and Regan.
  7. Regan MacNeil: You and us.
  From The Exorcist. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Father Damien Karras: Where's Regan?
  2. Regan MacNeil: In here, with us.
  3. Father Damien Karras: Show me Regan and I'll loosen one of the straps.
  4. Regan MacNeil: Can you help an old altar boy, Father? Your mother's in here with us, Karras. Would you like to leave a message? I'll see that she gets it.
  5. Father Damien Karras: If that's true, then you must know my mother's maiden name. What is it? What is it? (Regan vomits onto Karras)
  From The Exorcist. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Father Damien Karras: Hello, Regan. I'm a friend of your mothers. I'd like to help you.
  2. Regan MacNeil: Why not loosen the straps then?
  3. Father Damien Karras: I'm afraid you might hurt yourself, Regan.
  4. Regan MacNeil: I'm not Regan.
  5. Father Damien Karras: I see. Well then, let's introduce ourselves. I'm Damien Karras.
  6. Regan MacNeil: I'm the devil. Now kindly undo these straps!
  7. Father Damien Karras: If you're the devil, why not make the straps disappear?
  8. Regan MacNeil: That's much too vulgar a display of power, Karras.
  From The Exorcist. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Father Damien Karras: Look, I'm only against the possibility of doing your daughter more harm than good. I can't do it. I need evidence that the church would accept as signs of possession, like her speaking in a language she's never known or studied. Look, your daughter doesn't say she's a demon. She says she's the devil himself. Now if you've seen as many psychotics as I have, you realize that's the same thing as saying you're Napoleon Bonaparte. You asked me what I think is best for your daughter. Six months, under observation, in the best hospital you can find.
  2. Chris MacNeil: I'm telling you that that thing upstairs isn't my daughter. Now I want you to tell me that you know for a fact that there's nothing wrong with my daughter except in her mind. YOU TELL ME YOU KNOW FOR A FACT THAT AN EXORCISM WOULDN'T DO ANY GOOD! YOU TELL ME THAT!
  From The Exorcist. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Chris MacNeil: Someone very close to me is probably possessed and needs an exorcism. Father Karras, it's my little girl.
  2. Father Damien Karras: The Catholic Church insists on proof that the devil is really in a person. Then that's all the more reason to forget about exorcism. To begin with, it could make things worse. Secondly, the church before it approves an exorcism conducts an investigation to see if it's warranted. That takes time. I need church approval and that's rarely given. I will see her as a psychiatrist.
  3. Chris MacNeil: Oh, not a psychiatrist. She needs a priest. She's already seen every fu**ing psychiatrist in the world and they sent me to you. Now you're gonna send me back to them? Jesus Christ! Won't somebody help me. Can't you help her, just help her?
  From The Exorcist. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Chris MacNeil: How do you go about getting an exorcism?
  2. Father Damien Karras: I beg your pardon? Well, the first thing I'd have to get into a time machine and get back to the 16th century. Well, it just doesn't happen anymore, Mrs. MacNeil since we learned about mental illness, paranoia, schizophrenia. Since the day I joined the Jesuits, I've never met one priest who has performed an exorcism. Not one.
  From The Exorcist. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Father Damien Karras: Mama, I could take you somewhere where you'd be safe. You wouldn't be alone. There would be people around. You know, you wouldn't be sitting here listening to a radio.
  2. Karras' Mother: (speaks in Greek) You understand me? This is my house and I'm not going no place. Dimmy, you're worried for something?
  3. Father Damien Karras: No, Mama.
  4. Karras' Mother: You're not happy. Tell me, what is the matter?
  5. Father Damien Karras: Mama, I'm all right, I'm fine, really I am.
  From The Exorcist. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Father Damien Karras: Take me! Come into me! God-damn you, take me! Take me!
  From The Exorcist. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Father Damien Karras: There are no experts. You probably know as much about possession than most priests. Look, your daughter doesn't say she's a demon. She says she's the devil himself. And if you've seen as many psychotics as I have, you'd know it's like saying you're Napoleon Bonaparte.
  From The Exorcist. Submitted by Jake A (13 months ago)