Alien quotes

View Quote Parker: It's a robot! Ash is a god damn robot!

View Quote Ripley: Whenever he says anything you say "right," Brett, you know that?
Brett: Right.
Ripley: Parker, what do you think? Your staff just follows you around and says "right". Just like a regular parrot.
Parker: [laughs] Yeah, shape up. What are you some kind of parrot?
Brett: Right.

View Quote Brett: [realizing Nostromo has changed its course and they have to investigate] Well, so what?
Kane: Well, we are obligated under section eight...
Parker: I hate to bring this up but, uh, this a commercial ship, not a rescue ship...
Brett: Right.
Parker: ...and it's not in my contract to do this kind of duty. Now what about the money? If you wanna give me some money to do it, I'll be happy to, uh, t-to, you know, oblige.
Brett: The man's right.
Dallas: Parker...
Parker: Let's go over the bonus situation. We haven't - Can we just talk about the bonus situation?
Ash: I'm sorry. Can I say something?
Parker: Let's talk about the bonus more.
Ash: There is a clause in the contract which specifically states any systematized transmission indicating a possible intelligent origin must be investigated--
Parker: I don't wanna hear it...
Brett: We don't know if it's intelligent.
Parker: I wanna go home and party.
Dallas: Parker, will you just listen to the man!?
Ash: ... on penalty of total forfeiture of shares. No money.
Dallas: You got that?
Parker: [chuckling] Well, yeah.
Dallas: All right, we're going in.
Parker: [to Brett] Yeah, we're going in, aren't we?

View Quote Parker: Uh, before we dock, I think we oughta discuss the bonus situation.
Brett: Right.
Parker: Brett and I, we think we oughta - we deserve full shares, right baby?
Brett: Right. You see, Mr. Parker and I feel that the bonus situation has never been on a-an equitable level.
Dallas: Well, you get what you're contracted for like everybody else.
Brett: Yes, but everybody else, uh, gets more than us.

View Quote [Attempting to contact Earth] This is commercial towing vehicle Nostromo out of the Solomons, registration number 1-8-0-niner-2-4-6-0-niner. Calling Antarctica traffic control. Do you read me? Over.

View Quote [Preparing to blast the alien out of the shuttle] You are my lucky star... Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky.

View Quote [holding Jonesy, the ship's cat, in her lap] Final report of the commercial starship Nostromo, third officer reporting. The other members of the crew, Kane, Lambert, Parker, Brett, Ash and Captain Dallas, are dead. Cargo and ship destroyed. I should reach the frontier in about six weeks. With a little luck, the network will pick me up. This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off. Come on, cat. [picks up Jonesy and walks to the cryotubes]

View Quote Danger, the emergency destruct sequence has now been activated. The ship will self-destruct in t-minus, ten minutes. The option to override automatic detonation will expire in t-minus, FIVE MINUTES.

View Quote The option to override automatic detonation will expire in t-minus, THREE MINUTES.

View Quote YOU NOW HAVE ONE MINUTE TO ABANDON NOSTROMO... THE NOSTROMO WILL SELF DESTRUCT IN T-MINUS ONE MINUTE, RIPLEY!

View Quote [Looking at the dead alien skeleton] Alien life form. Looks like it's been dead a long time. Fossilized. Looks like it's growing out of the chair. Bones are bent outward, like he exploded from inside.

View Quote Parker, would you shut up and listen to the man!?

View Quote The pit is completely enclosed. And it's full of leathery objects, like eggs or something.

View Quote [after recovering from being facehugged and being impregnated with an alien embryo] Feel like somebody's been beating me with a stick for about six years. [smiles] God, I'm hungry.

View Quote [asked if he remembers being facehugged] Just some horrible dream about smothering.