Back to the Future quotes

View Quote [Looking at his future self on video]:
Doc Brown: What am I wearing?
Marty McFly: Oh this, this is a radiation suit.
Doc Brown: Radiation suit? Of course! Because of all the fallout from the atomic wars! This is incredible. A portable television studio! No wonder your president has got to be an actor, he has to look good on television.

View Quote Marty: Wait, you don't understand. You gotta play. If there's no music they can't dance. If they can't dance they can't kiss, if they can't kiss, they can't fall in love and I'm history!
Marvin Berry: Look kid, the dance is over, unless you know somebody that can play the guitar.

View Quote Doc Brown: 1.21 GIGAWATTS!?! 1.21 gigawatts! Great Scott!!!
Marty: Wait... what the hell is a gigawatt?!
Note: Doc Brown pronounces the term "jigga-watt".

View Quote 1.21 GIGAWATTS!!!

View Quote (after reading the flyer) This is it! This is the answer! It says here that a bolt of lightning is going to strike the clock tower at precisely 10:04 PM next Saturday Night! If we could somehow... harness this lightning; channel it into the Flux Capacitor, it just might work. Next Saturday night, we're sending you back to the future!

View Quote George: (opens car door) Hey you, get your damn hands off...(sees Biff with Lorraine; Biff looks back at George) Oh.
Biff: I think you picked the wrong car, McFly.
Lorraine: George! Help me! Please!
Biff: Just close the door, McFly and walk away. (George looks on.) Are you deaf, McFly? Close the door, and beat it!
George: No Biff, you leave her alone!
Biff: All right, McFly (emerges from car). You asked for it...and now you're gonna get it! (George attempts to punch, but Biff blocks and twists his arm. George squirms in pain)
Lorraine: Biff, Biff, no! You'll break his arm. (Gets out of car and jumps Biff on his back) Biff, LEAVE HIM ALONE!
(Biff shoves Lorraine into the ground and laughs as he looks away from George, who is let go. An angry George balls his left hand into a fist. Biff looks back at George in time to see the fist connect with his face and gets knocked out.)
George: (gasps at having punched Biff, and offers his hand to Lorraine) Are you okay?
(Lorraine takes his hand and they walk back to the dance as kibitzers surround Biff.)
Female Student: Who is that guy?
Male Student: That's George McFly.
Female Student: That's George McFly?

View Quote (Marty is about to go out of the back door when he chances upon his future parents)
Marty: Lorraine!
Lorraine: Marty, that was very interesting music.
Marty: Yeah.
Lorraine: I hope you don't mind, but George asked if he could take me home.
Marty: Well, that's great! (Touches Lorraine's chin with his finger) I had a feeling about you two.
Lorraine: (Blushes) I have a feeling too...
Marty: Listen, I got to go, but I just want to tell you that it's been...educational.
George: (Shakes Marty's hand) Marty, I want to thank you for all your good advice. I'll never forget it.
Lorraine: Marty, will we ever see you again?
Marty: I guarantee it. Well, good luck you guys. (Walks away, and turns back) Oh, and one other thing, if you guys ever have kids (Lorraine is agape with surprise), and one of them, when he's eight years old accidentally sets fire to the living room rug? Go easy on him.
Lorraine: (as soon as Marty is out of sight) Marty... such a nice name.

View Quote Campaign van (in 1985): Re-elect mayor Goldie Wilson! Progress is his middle name. Mayor Wilson's progress platform means more jobs, better education, bigger civic improvements and lower taxes! On election day, cast your vote for a proven leader...

View Quote Hey, McFly!

View Quote (to Marty) Since you're new here, I'm gonna cut you a break... today. So why don't you make like a tree... and get outta here!

View Quote Old Man Peabody: MY PINE, why you... [shoots time machine, but misses, hitting mailbox instead] You space bastard! YOU KILLED MY PINE!!!

View Quote Woman: Save the clock tower! Save the clock tower! Mayor Wilson is sponsoring an initiative to replace that clock. Thirty years ago, lightning struck that clock tower and the clock hasn't run since. We at the Hill Valley Preservation Society think it should be preserved exactly the way it is as part of our history and heritage -
Marty: Here you go, lady. Here's a quarter.
Woman: Thank you. Don't forget to take a flyer. (going off into distance) Save the clock tower!...

View Quote Well looky what we have here.

View Quote George: Hey you get your damn hands off her! Do you really think I oughta swear?
Marty: Yes, definitely. Goddammit George, swear!

View Quote Damn it, Doc! Why did you have to tear up that letter. If only I had more time... Wait, a minute, I got all the time I want! I got a time machine! I could just go back early and warn him. All right. Let's see, ten minutes ought to do it. Time circuits on, Flux Capacitor... fluxing, engine running, all right! [the car dies]