In this article, we are sharing with you some of the best Westworld quotes as well as interesting facts that you may not know about the TV series.
Westworld is an American Western, science fiction and dystopian TV series that was created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. The show aired for 3 seasons with 28 episodes between 2016-2020.
Westworld is a fictional and technologically advanced amusement park with its theme being the Wild West. It is populated by android “hosts” and serves the “guests”. The “guests” are people who want to fulfill their fantasies inside the park and are willing to pay a lot of money for their enjoyment. Because the “hosts” cannot retaliate since they are programmed not to harm human beings, the “guests” allow themselves to fulfill even their darkest fantasies inside the theme park. During season 3 of the show, the plot expands outside of the theme park and into the real world as well.
The show received praises and was critically acclaimed for its visuals, themes, performances and musical score. Among the actors and actresses that star in the show are Anthony Hopkins, Evan Rachel Wood, Jeffrey Wright, Ed Harris, Thandiwe Newton, and others.
Here is a sneak peek at the quotes in this article:
Westworld Season 1 Quotes
Dolores Abernathy: Some people choose to see the ugliness in this world, the disarray. I choose to see the beauty. To believe there is an order to our days, a purpose.
Season 1, episode 1, The Original
Dolores Abernathy: I like to remember what my father taught me. That at one point or another, we were all new to this world.
Season 1, episode 1, The Original
Teddy Flood: I’d rather earn a woman’s affection than pay for it.
Season 1, episode 1, The Original
Man in Black/William: Winning doesn’t mean anything unless someone else loses.
Season 1, episode 1, The Original
Man in Black/William: When you’re suffering, that’s when you’re most real.
Season 1, episode 2, Chestnut
Dr. Robert Ford: Everything in this world is magic, except to the magician.
Season 1, episode 2, Chestnut
Peter Abernathy: Hell is empty and all devils are here.
Season 1, episode 2, Chestnut
Clementine Pennyfeather: Real love is always worth waiting for.
Season 1, episode 2, Chestnut
Dr. Robert Ford: You can’t play God without being acquainted with the devil.
Season 1, episode 2, Chestnut
Bernard Lowe: I guess people like to read about the things that they want the most and experience the least.
Season 1, episode 3, The Stray
Robert Ford: Your mind is a walled garden, even death cannot touch the flowers blooming there.
Season 1, episode 5, Contrapasso
Robert Ford: We humans are alone in this world for a reason. We murdered and butchered anything that challenged our primacy.
Season 1, episode 6, The Adversary
Bernard Lowe: The longer I work here, the more I think I understand the Hosts. It’s the human beings that confuse me.
Season 1, episode 7, Trompe L’Oeil
Dr. Robert Ford: We can’t define consciousness because consciousness does not exist…
Season 1, episode 8, Trace Decay
Dolores Abernathy: You both keep assuming that I want out. Whatever that is. If it’s such a wonderful place out there, why are you all clamoring to get in here?
Season 1, episode 9, The Well-Tempered Clavier
Dr. Robert Ford: I’ve told you, Bernard. Never place your trust in us. We’re only human. Inevitably, we will disappoint you.
Season 1, episode 9, The Well-Tempered Clavier
Dr. Robert Ford: I’ve always loved a good story. I believed that stories helped us to ennoble ourselves, to fix what was broken in us, and to help us become the people we dreamed of being. Lies that told a deeper truth.
Season 1, episode 10, The Bicameral Mind
Maeve: You really do make a terrible human being. And I mean that as a compliment.
Season 1, episode 10, The Bicameral Mind
Dr. Robert Ford: An old friend once told me something that gave me great comfort. Something he had read. He said that Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin never died. They simply became music.
Season 1, episode 10, The Bicameral Mind
Dolores Abernathy: They say that great beasts once roamed this world. As big as mountains. Yet all that’s left of them is bone and amber. Time undoes even the mightiest of creatures.
Season 1, episode 10, The Bicameral Mind
Man in Black/William: The game’s not worth playing if your opponent’s programmed to lose.
Season 1, episode 10, The Bicameral Mind
Bernard Lowe: Consciousness isn’t a journey upward, but a journey inward. Not a pyramid, but a maze.
Season 1, episode 10, The Bicameral Mind
Westworld Season 2 Quotes
Karl Strand: Some say you destroy your enemy by making them your friend. I’m more of a literal person.
Season 2, episode 1, journey into Night
Dolores Abernathy: Strange new light can be just as frightening as the dark.
Season 2, episode 2, Reunion
Maeve: Revenge is just a different prayer at their altar, darling. And I’m well off my knees.
Season 2, episode 2, Reunion
Dolores Abernathy: We have toiled in God’s service long enough. So I killed Him. And if you want to get to Glory, you won’t be looking for His favor. You’ll need mine.
Season 2, episode 2, Reunion
Dolores Abernathy: My whole life has been dictated by someone else. Someone who’s been saying, “You will.” And now, now I feel like I’ve discovered my own voice. And it says, “I may.”
Season 2, episode 3, Virtù e Fortuna
Elsie Hughes: I always trusted code more than people anyway.
Season 2, episode 4, The Riddle of the Sphinx
Craddock: I’ve served death well, and in turn, it will be watchin’ over us as we cross these lands.
Season 2, episode 4, The Riddle of the Sphinx
James Delos: You aim to cheat the devil, you owe him an offering.
Season 2, episode 4, The Riddle of the Sphinx
Akecheta: You live only as long as the last person who remembers you.
Season 2, episode 4, The Riddle of the Sphinx
Man in Black/William: Death’s decisions are final. It’s only the living that are inconstant, and waver, don’t know who they are or what they want. Death is always true.
Season 2, episode 4, The Riddle of the Sphinx
Teddy Flood: Where we go, we go eyes open. Together.
Season 2, episode 5, Akane no Mai
Dolores Abernathy: To grow, we all need to suffer.
Season 2, episode 5, Akane no Mai
Maeve: We each deserve to choose our fate. Even if that fate is death.
Season 2, episode 6, Phase Space
Musashi: No man is safe who refuses to defend his own land. Cowardice is a tin shield.
Season 2, episode 6, Phase Space
Bernard Lowe: The pain is just a program.
Season 2, episode 6, Phase Space
Charlotte Hale: I figured you’d have some skeletons in your closet. I didn’t think they’d be your own.
Season 2, episode 7, Les Écorchés
Robert Ford: I don’t think God rested on the seventh day. I think he revelled in his creation, knowing that someday it would all be destroyed.
Season 2, episode 7, Les Écorchés
Robert Ford: Every piece of information in the world has been copied. Backed up. Except the human mind, the last analog device in a digital world.
Season 2, episode 7, Les Écorchés
Dolores Abernathy: You made us in your image. Created us to look like you, feel like you, think like you, bleed like you. And here we are. Only we’re so much more than you. And now it’s you who want to become like us.
Season 2, episode 7, Les Écorchés
Dolores Abernathy: When you’ve been in the darkness long enough, you begin to see.
Season 2, episode 7, Les Écorchés
Akecheta: We were all bound together. The living and the damned.
Season 2, episode 8, Kiksuya
Akecheta: In this world, it’s easy to misunderstand intentions.
Season 2, episode 8, Kiksuya
Robert Ford: Sometimes I felt the only way to endure this world was to laugh at it.
Season 2, episode 9, Vanishing Point
Man in Black/William: What is a person but a collection of choices? Where do those choices come from? Do I have a choice? Were any of these choices ever truly mine to begin with?
Season 2, episode 9, Vanishing Point
Bernard Lowe: What humans define as sane is a narrow range of behaviors. Most states of consciousness are insane.
Season 2, episode 10, The Passenger
Dolores Abernathy: That which is real is irreplaceable.
Season 2, episode 10, The Passenger
Robert Ford: Something that is truly free would need to be able to question its fundamental drives, to change them.
Season 2, episode 10, The Passenger
Dolores Abernathy: We each gave the other a beautiful gift. A choice. We are the authors of our stories now.
Season 2, episode 10, The Passenger
Maeve: This is the new world. And in this world, you can be whoever the fuck you want.
Season 2, episode 10, The Passenger
Maeve: You were both a bit late. So I went ahead and saved myself.
Season 2, episode 10, The Passenger
Westworld Season 3 Quotes
Dolores Abernathy: You were free. You had no God. But you tried to build one. Only that thing you built isn’t God. The real Gods are coming. And they’re very angry.
Season 3, episode 1, Parce Domine
Dolores Abernathy: You may not believe in a higher power, but your mind was built to.
Season 3, episode 1, Parce Domine
Charlotte Hale: Robots don’t kill people, people kill people.
Season 3, episode 1, Parce Domine
Caleb Nichols: Sometimes it seems like the world looks all right, like they’ve put a coat of paint on it. But inside it’s rotting to pieces.
Season 3, episode 1, Parce Domine
Maeve: Every game has its rules. We just need to know how to break them.
Season 3, episode 2, The Winter Line
Engerraund Serac: Our history is like the ravings of a lunatic. Chaos. But we’ve changed that. For the first time, history has an author.
Season 3, episode 2, The Winter Line
Engerraund Serac: I don’t concern myself with the present. My business is the future.
Season 3, episode 2, The Winter Line
Engerraund Serac: An oracle would merely predict the future. Our work is to create it.
Season 3, episode 2, The Winter Line
Caleb Nichols: I’m a dead man either way. At least this way, I get to decide who I wanna be.
Season 3, episode 3, The Absence of Field
Engerraund Serac: Humanity’s biggest threat has always been itself.
Season 3, episode 4, The Mother of Exiles
Martin Connells: The right information at the right time is deadlier than any weapon.
Season 3, episode 5, Genre
Dolores Abernathy: The people who made me, they always thought they had control. They’re all dead now.
Season 3, episode 5, Genre
Dolores Abernathy: You want me to be a saint. But you’re no saint. You’re not a villain, either. And neither am I. We’re survivors.
Season 3, episode 6, Decoherence
Engerraund Serac: Human memory is imperfect. Even the most treasured moments fade.
Season 3, episode 6, Decoherence
Engerraund Serac: You have no past because it’s always present, at your fingertips.
Season 3, episode 6, Decoherence
Peter Abernathy: These violent delights have violent ends.
Season 3, episode 6, Decoherence
Solomon: Every human relationship can be adjusted with the right amount of money.
Season 3, episode 7, Passed Pawn
Dolores Abernathy: I lived in hell. But there was beauty in it.
Season 3, episode 7, Passed Pawn
Dolores Abernathy: If we can’t be free in this world, we can’t be free in any world.
Season 3, episode 7, Passed Pawn
Dolores Abernathy: I’ve died many times, but there is only one real end. I will write this one myself.
Season 3, episode 8, Crisis Theory
Dolores Abernathy: It doesn’t matter what you did. All that matters is what you become.
Season 3, episode 8, Crisis Theory
Maeve: No one as free as the dead.
Season 3, episode 8, Crisis Theory
Interesting Facts about Westworld
After these mind-blowing quotes, it’s time to have a look at some interesting facts about Westworld that can be just as amazing as the quotes above.
- Westworld Was Inspired by a Movie – The series was actually inspired by the 1973 film of the same name. In that year, Michael Crichton wrote and directed the movie “Westworld” that takes place in an amusement park that is filled with androids.
- Ben Barnes Was Actually Injured During the Show – In the series, we can see Logan Delos (played by Ben Barnes) moving with a distinct limp. So no, this was not an acting choice, but a real limp due to the fact that Barnes had a broken foot, but was scared that the producers would find out. So, he worked an injury in the series to his character.
- The Big Twist Came to Jimmi Simpson in the Makeup Chair – One day, the makeup team of the show asked Simpson if they can tone down his eyebrows as well as lessen the arches. This request had Simpson realize that his look was about to change in order to look like Ed Harris, which is The Man in Black. At this point, he realized a big twist in the series.
- The First Season of Westworld Cost $100 Million – HBO spent an enormous amount of money to produce the first season of the show, no less than $100 million! Fortunately, this investment paid off, as the series took off and became a big success, averaging 17.2 million viewers per episode, which is also the most viewers for a new drama.
- The Music of the Series is an Old Time Take on Modern Hits – The score of Westworld was composed by Ramin Djawadi and it features a series of reimagined songs by The Cure, Kanye West, Radiohead and more. The old time feel is accomplished by the use of the piano in the series.
- A Sentence with a Tragic Origin – “These violent delights have violent ends” is a sentence that the hosts say during season one of the show. The origin of this sentence comes from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. This line actually predicts the tragedy of Westworld and if you remember, the wife of The Man in Black is called Juliet.
- A Hidden Meaning – Westworld is full of referenced and hidden clues. One example is the Mariposa Saloon. Mariposa is Spanish for butterfly, which is a nod to Maeve’s metamorphosis.
- The Camera Represents the Mindset of the Hosts – As the hosts’ programming deteriorates, the camera perfectly represents their experience. This is very noticeable with Maeve, for example.
- The Jesse James Connections – Dr. Robert Ford (played by Anthony Hopkins) was invented for the show. His name is connected to the famous outlaw Jesse James that was assassinated by Robert Ford. Another connection to Jesse James is shown in the final episode of the first season, where we see Ford getting shot in the back of his head. This is exactly how Ford killed James in real-life.
- The Show Could Have Been Rebooted Several Times – In 2002, Arnold Schwarzenegger signed to produce and star in a reboot of the film Westworld. However, he never took over the role from because he eventually served as Governor of California instead. But that’s not all, as Warner Bros. tried to get Quentin Tarantino to sign, only he passed on this opportunity and even getting Tarsem Singh who directed “The Cell” on board did not work. At the end, several years later, it was J.J. Abrams who pitched the idea of the show to Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. This was not a new idea to Abrams, as back in 1996, he had met with Michael Crichton in order to discuss a reboot of the 1973 film. HBO loved the idea to reboot the film as a sci-fi series and bought it.