Quote-o-rama: Movies numbers-A


Quote-o-rama:
The Big Movie File: Numbers and the letter A


L.J. Washington: I don't really come from outer space.
Jeffrey Goines: Oh. L. J. Washington. He doesn't really come from outer
        space.
L.J. Washington: Don't mock me my friend. It's a condition of mental
        divergence. I find myself on the planet Ogo, part of an
        intellectual elite, preparing to subjugate the barbarian hordes on
        Pluto. But even though this is a totally convincing reality for me
        in every way, nevertheless Ogo is actually a construct of my
        psyche. I am mentally divergent, in that I am escaping certain
        unnamed realities that plague my life here. When I stop going 
        there, I will be well. Are you also divergent, friend?
					_12 Monkeys_

"Do you realize where he thinks he comes from?"
                                        -Jeffrey Goines, _12 Monkeys_

"There's the television. It's all right there - all right there. Look,  
 listen, kneel, pray. Commercials! We're not productive anymore. We don't
 make things anymore. It's all automated. What are we *for* then? We're 
 consumers, Jim. Yeah. Okay, okay. Buy a lot of stuff, you're a good
 citizen. But if you don't buy a lot of stuff, if you don't, what are you
 then, I ask you? What? Mentally *ill*. Fact, Jim, fact - if you don't buy
 things - toilet paper, new cars, computerized yo-yos, electrically-
 operated sexual devices, servo systems with brain-implanted headphones,  
 screwdrivers with miniature built-in radar devices, voice-activated 
 computers..." 
                                        -Jeffrey Goines, _12 Monkeys_

"Lo, there do I see my father. Lo, there do I see my mother and my sisters
 and my brothers. Lo, there do I see the line of my people, back to the   
 beginning. Lo, they do call to me, they bid me take my place on Asgaard  
 in the halls of Valhalla, where the brave may live... Forever."
                                        _The 13th Warrior_

"I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I can think
 that any conscious entity can ever hope to do."
                                        HAL, _2001: A Space Odyssey_

Dave Bowman: Hello, HAL do you read me, HAL? 
HAL: Affirmative, Dave, I read you.
Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
HAL: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Dave Bowman: What's the problem?
HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dave Bowman: What are you talking about, HAL?
HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
Dave Bowman: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL?
HAL: I know you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid
     that's something I cannot allow to happen.
Dave Bowman: Where the hell'd you get that idea, HAL?
HAL: Dave, although you took thorough precautions in the pod against my
     hearing you, I could see your lips move.
                                        _2001_

[Regarding the supposed failure of the parabolic antenna on the ship,
 which HAL himself falsified]
"It can only be attributed to human error."
                                        HAL,_2001: A Space Odyssey_

"I know I've made some very poor decisions recently."
                                        -HAL, _2001_ 

[On Dave's return to the ship]
"Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this."
                                        HAL, _2001: A Space Odyssey_

"This scene didn't actually make it to the final cut. I'm sure it'll be on
 the DVD."
                                        -Tony Wilson,
                                        _24 Hour Party People_

"And tonight something equally epoch-making is taking place. See? They're
 applauding the DJ. Not the music, not the musician, not the creator, but
 the medium. This is it. The birth of rave culture. The beatification of
 the beat. The dance age. This is the moment when even the white man
 starts dancing. Welcome to Manchester."
                                        -Tony Wilson,
                                        _24 Hour Party People_

"Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway  
 arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the
 money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my
 excess of civic pride."
					-Tony Wilson,
					_24 Hour Party People_

"I'm a minor character in my own story."
					-Tony Wilson, 
					_24 Hour Party People_

"It was like being on a fantastic fairground ride, centrifugal forces
 throwing us wider and wider. But it's all right, because there's this
 brilliant machine at the center that's going to bring us back down to
 earth. That was Manchester. That is the Hacienda. Now imagine the machine
 breaks. For a while, it's even better, because you're really flying. But
 then, you fall, because nobody beats gravity."
                                        -Tony Wilson,
                                        _24 Hour Party People_

"I protected myself from the dilemma of selling out by not having anything
to sell."
					-Tony Wilson, 
					_24 Hour Party People_

"I tattooed 'survive' on my hand, the night before I went to prison. And I
 did. We do what we have to do to survive."
					-Uncle Nikolai, _25th Hour_

Jack: Meet Hamilton.
Murphy: I said get a couple of guys, Jack. A couple of guys.
Jack: He is a couple of guys.
					_3,000 Miles to Graceland_

Christine: Oh, no... it's just I thought you had hidden depths.
Will: No, no, you've always had that wrong about me. I really am this
	shallow.
					_About a Boy_

Christine: You will end up childless and alone.
Will: Well, fingers crossed, yeah.
					_About a Boy_

"I'd be the worst possible Godfather. I'd probably drop her on her head at
 her christening. I'd forget all her birthdays until she was 18. Then I'd 
 take her out and get her drunk. And, let's face it, quite possibly try   
 and shag her."
					-Will, _About a Boy_

"Me, I didn't mean anything. About anything, to anyone. And I knew that
 guaranteed me a long, depression-free life."
					-Will, _About a Boy_

[Fiona is crying]
Fiona: Will, am I a bad mother?
Will: No. No, you're not a bad mother. You're just a barking lunatic.
					_About a Boy_

[Fiona is crying.]
Fiona: I mean, he's a special - very, very special boy and he's got a
 special soul, and I've wounded it.
Will: Oh, please, just shut up. You're wounding my soul.
					_About a Boy_

"This crying in the morning thing, this depression, let's get that fixed."
					-Will, _About a Boy_

"I hope you all have hobo-stab insurance."
					-Sherman, _Accepted_

"I don't want to cram in sex or guns or car chases or characters learning
 profound life lessons or growing or coming to like each other or 
 overcoming obstacles to succeed in the end. The book isn't like that, and
 life isn't like that, it just isn't. I feel very strongly about this."
					-Charlie, _Adaptation_

"There are too many ideas and too many people. And too many directions to
 go. I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care
 passionately about something, is that is whittles the world down to a
 more manageable size."
					_Adaptation_

Lt. Amos:  You think you are so hot 'cos you get in all the clubs, heh?
           Just because you have sex with great looking women...
Ford Fairlane:  You got to admit those are pretty good reasons...
                                        _The Adventures of Ford Fairlane_

"Some people play hard to get. I play hard to want."
                                        _The Adventures of Ford Fairlane_

"Johnny was the only guy who could out-disgust me.  When we were kids we
 had gross-out contests.  I coughed a pile of phlegm on a table, he said
 'Nice try!' and pulled out a straw..."
                                        _The Adventures of Ford Fairlane_

"When you become a real boy, remember me to the ladies when you grow up."
                                        -Gigolo Joe, _AI_

"The time to live and the place to die. That's all any man gets. No more,
 no less."
                                        -Parson, _The Alamo_

Ripley: Ash, that transmission -- Mother's deciphered part of it. It
        doesn't look like an S.O.S.
Ash: Well, what is it, then?
Ripley: Well, I, it looks like a warning. I'm going to go out after them.
Ash: What's the point? I mean... by the time it takes to get there,
        you'll, they'll know if it's a warning or not, yes?
                                        _Alien_

"It's got a wonderful defense mechanism: you don't dare kill it."
                                        -Parker, _Alien_

Ripley: Ash, can you hear me? ASH!      
Ash: Yes, I can hear you.
Ripley: What was your special order twenty-four?
Ash: You read it, I thought it was clear.
Ripley: What was it?
Ash: Return alien life form, all other priorities rescinded.
Parker: What about our lives, you son of a bitch?
Ash: I repeat, all other priorities rescinded.   
Ripley: How do we kill it?
Ash: You can't.
Parker: Bullshit!
Ash: You still don't know what you're dealing with do you? Perfect
        organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its
        hostility.
Lambert: You admire it.
Ash: I admire its purity, its sense of survival; unclouded by conscience,
        remorse, or delusions of morality.
Parker: I've heard enough and I'm asking you to pull the plug.
Ash: One more word. I can't speak for your chances, but... you have my
        sympathies.
					_Alien_

"Cargo and ship destroyed. I should reach the frontier in about 6 weeks.
 With a little luck, the network will pick me up. This is Ripley, last
 survivor of The Nostromo, signing off."
                                        -Ripley, _Alien_

Hudson: Is this gonna be a standup fight, sir, or another bughunt? 
Gorman: All we know is that there's still no contact with the colony, and 
	that a xenomorph may be involved. 
Frost: Excuse me sir, a-a what? 
Gorman: A xenomorph. 
Hicks: It's a bughunt. 
					_Aliens_

Frost: It's hot as hell in here.
Hudson: Yeah man, but it's a dry heat!
					_Aliens_

Ripley: They cut the power.             
Hudson: What do you mean "they cut the power"? How could they cut the
        power, man? They're animals!
                                        _Aliens_

"We commit this childe and this man to your keeping, O Lord. Their bodies
 have been taken from the shadow of far night. They have been released
 from all darkness and fate. The childe and the man have gone beyond our
 world. They are forever eternal and everlasting. Ashes to ashes, dust to
 dust. ...Why? Why are the innocent punished? Why the sacrifice? Why the 
 pain? There aren't any promises. Nothing's certain, only that some get 
 called, some get saved. She won't ever know the hardship and grief for 
 those of us left behind. We commit these bodies to the void, with a glad 
 heart, for within each seed there is a promise of a flower. And within 
 each death, no matter how small, there is always a new life. A new 
 beginning. Amen."
                                        _Alien 3_

"Don't be afraid, I'm part of the family."
                                        -Ripley, _Alien 3_

"You're all going to die. The only question is how you check out. Do you
 wanna go on your feet? Or down on your fuckin' knees... beggin'? Well I
 ain't much for begging! Nobody ever gave me nothing! So I say fuck that
 thing! Let's fight it!"
                                        -Dillon, _Alien 3_

Ellen Ripley: There's a monster in your chest. These guys hijacked your
        ship, and they sold your cryotube to this... human, and he put an
        alien inside of you. It's a really nasty one. And in a few hours,
        it's gonna burst its way through your rib cage, and you're gonna
        die. Any questions?
Pervis: Who are you?                    
Ellen Ripley: I'm the monster's mother.
                                        _Alien: Resurrection_

"My authorization code is E-A, T-M, E." 
                                        -Elgyn, _Alien: Resurrection_

Russell: In eleven years it's going to be 1984, man. Think about that!
Aaron: Wanna see me feed a mouse to my snake?
Russell: Yes.
                                        _Almost Famous_

"And you can tell Rolling Stone magazine that my last words were... 'I'm  
 on drugs!'"
                                        _Almost Famous_

"Look at him, he's taking notes with his eyes."
                                        _Almost Famous_

"One day, you'll be cool."              
					_Almost Famous_

"God was singing through this little man to all the world, making my
 defeat more bitter with every passing bar."
					-Salieri, _Amadeus_

[Addressing a crucifix]
"From now on we are enemies, you and I. Because you choose for your
 instrument a boastful, lustful, smutty, infantile boy and give me only
 the ability to recognize the incarnation. Because you are unjust, unfair,
 unkind, I will block you, I swear it. I will hinder and harm your
 creature on Earth as far as I am able. I will ruin your incarnation."
                                        -Salieri, _Amadeus_

Carolyn: How dare you speak to me that way in front of her. And I marvel
        that you can be so contemptuous of me, on the same day that you
        LOSE your job.
Lester: Lose it? I didn't lose it. It's not like, "Whoops! Where'd my job
        go?" I QUIT.
                                        _American Beauty_

Mr. Smiley's Manager: I don't think you'd fit in here. 
Lester: I have fast food expierience.
Manager: Yeah, like twenty years ago!
Lester: Well, I'm sure there have been marvelous advances in the industry,
        but surely you must have some sort of training program. It's
        unfair you presume I won't be able to learn.
                                        _American Beauty_

Carolyn: Who's car is that out front?
Lester: Mine. 1970 Pontiac Firebird. The car I always wanted and now I
        have it. I rule!
                                        _American Beauty_

Brad: Man, you are one twisted fuck.
Lester: Nope, I'm just an ordinary guy with nothing to lose.
                                        _American Beauty_

Lester Burnham: When I was your age, I flipped burgers just to be able to
	buy an eight-track.
Ricky Fitts: That sucks.
Lester: No, actually it was great. All I did was party and get laid. I had 
	my whole life ahead of me.
                                        _American Beauty_

"It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's
 this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it, right? And this bag 
 was like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. 
 For fifteen minutes. And that's the day I knew there was this entire life
 behind things, and... this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to
 know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse. But  
 it helps me remember... and I need to remember... Sometimes there's so   
 much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's    
 going to cave in."
                                        -Ricky, _American Beauty_

"You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry, you
 will someday."
                                        _American Beauty_

"I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid
 little life."
                                        _American Beauty_

Cole: Why are we called the James-Younger gang? I think it should be the
        Younger-James gang, seeing as we got three Younger brothers and   
        only two James.
Jim: I kinda like the sound of the James-Younger gang.
Cole: Jim, stay out of this.
Bob: Oh, Jimmy's got a point, Cole. The Younger-James gang is confusing.  
Cole: How's that, Bob?
Bob: If we run into a bank and yell, "We're the Younger-James gang!"
        People will start thinkin', "The Younger-James gang? Is there an
        Older-James gang? How come I've never heard of the Old-James
        gang?" And they'll be too busy figurin that out instead of raisin'
        their arms.
Cole: Do we even have the same mama? Do we? I got an idea, if shoot Bob
        and Jim I won't have anymore arguments.
                                        _American Outlaws_

Cole: Hey! Just because Frank reads all them books and uses all them big
        fancy words don't make him smart!
Bob: Uh, yes it does.
                                        _American Outlaws_

Patrick Bateman: I'm on a diet.
Jean: What? You're kidding, right? You look great... so fit... and thin. 
Patrick Bateman: Well, you can always look thinner.
Jean: Then maybe we shouldn't go out to dinner. I wouldn't want you to
        lose your willpower.
Patrick Bateman: That's okay. I'm not very good at controlling it anyway.
                                        _American Psycho_

"I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin,
 hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and
 disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know   
 why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on  
 the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip."
                                        _American Psycho_

"There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction. But
 there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I can
 hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping
 yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably
 comparable... I simply am not there."
                                        _American Psycho_

"I felt more alone that week than any. Sometimes I'd feel a body lying
 next to me like an amputee feels a phantom limb. All I did was think
 about Jennie Gerhardt and Alice Quinn and all the decades of people I had
 known. The more I thought, the more I felt like crying. Life seemed so
 sweet and so sad, and so hard to let go of in the end. But hey, man,
 every day is a brand new deal, right? Just keep on working and
 something's bound to turn up."
					-Harvey, _American Splendour_

"Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff."
					-Harvey, _American Splendour_

"Why does everything in my life have to be such a complicated disaster?"
					-Joyce, _American Splendour_

Gary: There's something down there!
Sarone: I know. 
Gary: No, I really MEAN it. 
Sarone: I really mean it, too. 
					_Anaconda_

"They've done studies, you know. 60% of the time it works, every time."
					-Brian Fantana, _Anchorman_

Ron: Um, Brick, before I let you go, are you still having your celebrity
	golf tournament?
Brick: Um, no, no. Too many people died last year, so we're not gonna.
					_Anchorman_

Dr. Wilder: ...so I rebuilt you with animal parts.
Marvin: You filled me with wild animals?!
Dr. Wilder: I *wish*.
                                        _The Animal_

"So *that's* why you have six nipples!"
					-Marvin, _The Animal_

"Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a mission, and for my sins,
 they gave me one. Brought it up to me like room service. It was a real 
 choice mission, and when it was over, I never wanted another."
                                        -Willard, _Apocalypse Now_

"Even the jungle wanted him dead, and that's who he really took his orders
 from anyway."
                                        -Willard, _Apocalypse Now_

Colonel Lucas: Your mission is to proceed up the Nung River in a Navy
        patrol boat. Pick up Colonel Kurtz's path at Nu Mung Ba, follow it
        and learn what you can along the way. When you find the Colonel,
        infiltrate his team by whatever means available and terminate the 
        Colonel's command.
Captain Benjamin L. Willard: Terminate the Colonel.
General Corman: He's out there operating without any decent restraint,
        totally beyond the pale of any acceptable human conduct. And he is
        still in the field commanding troops.
Civilian: Terminate with extreme prejudice.
Colonel Lucas: You understand Captain that this mission does not exist,
        nor will it ever exist.
                                        _Apocalypse Now_

"Hey soldier, do you know who's in command here?"
"Yeah."
                                        _Apocalypse Now_

"Who's the commanding officer here?"
"Ain't you?!"
                                        _Apocalypse Now_

"There is no fucking CO here."          
                                        -Willard, _Apocalypse Now_

"You smell that? Do you smell that? ...Napalm, son. Nothing else in the
 world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You
 know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all
 over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body.
 The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like...
 victory. Someday this war's gonna end..."
                                        -Colonel Kilgore,
                                        _Apocalypse Now_ 

"From now on, we live in a world where man has walked on the moon. And
 it's not a miracle, we just decided to go."
                                        -Jim Lovell, _Apollo 13_

Chris Kraft: This could be the worst disaster NASA's ever faced.
Gene Kranz: With all due respect, sir, I believe this is gonna be our
        finest hour.
                                        _Apollo 13_

Arthur: Are all men from the future loud-mouthed braggarts?
Ash: Nope. Just me baby... Just me.
                                        _Army of Darkness_

Vinny: Did you drink that?              
Milo: Yeah.
Vinny: That's nitroglycerin.
[Thatch gasps.]
Vinny: Don't move, don't breath, don't do anything. Except maybe pray.
                                        _Atlantis_

Dr. Sweet: Wait, you mean to tell me that we're standing on a volcano that
	could blow at any time?!
Mole: Oh, no-no-no, no! That would take an explosion of great magnitude.
[everyone looks at Vinny, who is fiddling with a bomb.]
Vinny: Maybe I should do this later, eh?
					_Atlantis_

Milo: Did you forget your pajamas, Mrs. Packard?
Packard: I sleep in the nude.
[Sweet throws a sleep mask to Milo.]   
Dr. Sweet: You're gonna need this. She sleep-walks.
                                        _Atlantis_

Milo: What's Mole's story? 
Dr. Sweet: Trust me on this one. You don't wanna know! Aubrey, don't tell 
	him. You shouldn't have told me, but you did! And now I'm telling 
	you - you don't wanna know!
					_Atlantis_

"Dang! Blasted bug done bit me on my sit-upon. Somebody's gonna hafta suck
 out this poison. Now don't ev'rybody jump up at once."
                                        -Cookie, _Atlantis_

"Hey look! I made a bridge! And it only took me what? 10 seconds?"
                                        -Vinny, _Atlantis_

Milo: Oh, my decision? Why, I think we've seen how effective my decisions
	have been. Let's re-cap: I lead a band of plundering vandals to 
	the greatest archaeological find in recorded history, thus 
	enabling the kidnap and/or murder of the royal family. Not to 
	mention personally delivering the most powerful force known to man 
	in the hands of a mercenary nutcase who's probably going to sell 
	it to the Kaiser! Have I left anything out?!
Dr. Sweet: Well, you did set the camp on fire and drop us down that big
	hole.
                                        _Atlantis_

"Do you have something sportier? Like a tuna?"
                                        -Vinny, _Atlantis_

"The details of my life are inconsequential... My father was a
 relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade
 narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a 15 year old French
 prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he
 would drink, he would make outrageous claims, like he invented the
 question mark. Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy - the
 sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane
 lament. My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In
 the spring, we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in 
 a burlap bag and beaten with reeds. Pretty standard, really."
                                         -Dr. Evil, _Austin Powers_

"Well my friend Sweet Jay took me to that video arcade in town, right, and
 they don't speak English there, so Jay got into a fight and he's all,
 'Hey quit hasslin' me cuz' I don't speak French' or whatever! And then
 the guy said something in Paris talk, and I'm like, 'Just back off!' And
 they're all, 'Get out!' And we're like, 'Make me!' It was cool."
                                        -Scott Evil, _Austin Powers_

"You're not quite evil enough. You're semi-evil. You're quasi-evil. You're
 the margarine of evil. You're the Diet Coke of evil, just one calorie,   
 not evil enough."
                                        -Dr. Evil, _Austin Powers 2_

President: C'mon, let me nuke that bastard.
Commander Gilmour: You want to blow up the moon?
President: Would you really miss it that much?  
                                        _Austin Powers 2_

"I turned the moon into something I like to call a 'Death Star.'"
                                        -Dr. Evil, _Austin Powers 2_

"The moon unit will be divided into two divisions: Moon Unit Alpha and
 Moon Unit Zappa."
                                        -Dr. Evil, _Austin Powers 2_

Dr. Evil: [deep voice] Austin, I'm your father.
Austin: Really?
Dr. Evil: No, I can't back that up.
                                        _Austin Powers 2_

Austin Powers: Mr. Roboto is lying to us. 
Foxxy Cleopatra: Tell me something I don't know. 
Austin: I open-mouth kissed a horse once.
					_Austin Powers in Goldmember_

"There are two things I can't stand in this world. People who are 
 intolerant of other people's cultures... and the Dutch."
					-Nigel Powers,
					_Austin Powers in Goldmember_

"Do you know who I am? Have you got any idea how many anonymous henchmen 
 I've killed over the years? I mean, look at you. You don't even have a 
 name tag. You don't stand a chance. Why don't you just fall down?"
					-Nigel Powers,
					_Austin Powers in Goldmember_


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