Rushmore quotes

View Quote Max Fischer: So you were in Vietnam?
Herman Blume: Yeah.
Max Fischer: Were you in the shit?
Herman Blume: Yeah, I was in the shit.

View Quote Maybe I'm spending too much of my time starting up clubs and putting on plays. I should probably be trying harder to score chicks. That's all anyone really cares about.

View Quote [to Rosemary] Rushmore was my life, now you are.

View Quote Max Fischer: Your mind's as warped as your ear, Magnus.
Magnus Buchan: Don't get nasty, brother.

View Quote Herman Blume: Why did you ask me to come here?
Max Fischer: Oh, I was going to drop that tree on you.
Herman Blume: That big one?
Max Fischer: Yeah.
Herman Blume: It would've flattened me like a pancake.

View Quote Rosemary Cross: [tending a wound on Max's forehead] Is this fake blood?
Max Fischer: Yes, it is.

View Quote I wrote a hit play!

View Quote Rosemary Cross: That's none of your business.
Max Fischer: I know it's not, but I just got hit by a car and I'm feeling a little confused.

View Quote Rosemary Cross: Has it ever crossed your mind that you're far too young for me?
Max Fischer: It crossed my mind that you might consider that a possibility, yeah.

View Quote You guys have it real easy. I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.

View Quote I saved Latin. What did you ever do?

View Quote [to Dr. Peter] I was punched in the face. What's your excuse?

View Quote [Introducing his play "Heaven and Hell"] Also, you'll find a pair of safety glasses and some earplugs under your seats. Please feel free to use them.

View Quote [Max has just petitioned to make Latin a required subject]
Magnus Buchan: [heavy Scottish brogue] Why dincha just piss off, Fischer? Ya dotty wee skid mark!
Max Fischer: Is that Latin?

View Quote Well, tell that stupid mick he just made my list of things to do today.