Alan Ruck movie quotes

View Quote Hey, batter-batter-batter, hey, batter-batter-batter-swing-batter! He can't hit, and he can't hit, and he can't hit, and he can't hit, swing batter!

View Quote I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I'm going to take a stand. I'm going to defend it. Right or wrong, I'm going to defend it.

View Quote He'll keep calling me. He'll keep calling me until I come over. He'll make me feel guilty... This is- this is ridiculous. OK. I'll go, I'll go, I'll go, I'll go, I'll go, with--I'll go. Shit! [starts car and yells in frustration] God damn it!

View Quote Rabbit: Y'know, in a severe lightning storm, you want to grab your ankles and stick your butt in the air.
Haynes: He's right. If you're gonna get hit it's the safest orifice.
Joey: Yeah, I'd like to get hit by lightning once, y'know, see what it's like.

View Quote Rabbit: God Meg, you got alot of beef. Where'd you get all this beef?
Aunt Meg: Did you see my cows out front?
Rabbit: No.
Aunt Meg: Op...aaah!
[laughter from everyone]
Rabbit: Oh.
Dusty: You slaughter your own cows! Meg, nice!

View Quote Jo: Where's the road Rabbit?!
Rabbit: It should be any second!
(the group come out on the road a moment later and nearly crash into Jonas' convoy)

View Quote James T. Kirk': You left spacedock without a tractor beam?
John Harriman: It won't be installed until Tuesday.

View Quote John Harriman: I remember reading about your missions when I was in grade school.
James T. Kirk: Oh, really?

View Quote Pavel Chekov: How big is your medical staff?
John Harriman: The medical staff... doesn't arrive till Tuesday.
Pavel Chekov: [speaks Russian, then points to two members of the onboard news crew] You and you, you've just become nurses. Let's go.

View Quote Stephens: We're at the airport.
Ortiz: Yeah, so?
Stephens: I already seen the airport.

View Quote Jack: [over phone] Where do we start?
Harry: All right, check the speedometer. Has it been **** with, or loosened, or any wires? See any wires, anything?
Jack: [to Annie] Excuse me, ma'am. [looking under the speedometer] No, it's clean.
Annie: Huh?
Harry: All right, then it's gonna be under the bus. Probably it was rigged to one of the axles.
Jack: I can't get under the bus right now, Harry. It's kind of in motion.
Helen: Excuse me? Excuse me!
Jack: Hold on.
Sam: [gasping] There's an access panel... in the floor... underneath you, man.
Jack: [opens the floor access panel] All right, Harry, we're in. Passenger relay. Sir. [hands the phone to Stephens] take this. I want you to tell him what I see. [looking through the hatch at the bomb] Okay, we got a wad! Pretty big!
Stephens: There's a pretty big wad.
Jack: Brass fittings...
Stephens: Brass fittings.
Jack: ...I think I can reach the circuit wire.
Stephens: He can reach the circuit wire.
Harry: No! No, no! Don't! Don't do that! That's a decoy, classic.
Stephens: That's a classic decoy.
Harry: What else?
Stephens: What else?
Jack: Hold on.
Stephens: Hold on.
[Looking further under the bus, Jack sees that the bomb is rigged to a gold wristwatch]
Jack: **** me!
Stephens: Oh, darn.
Jack: [takes the phone back] Harry, there's enough C-4 on this thing to put a hole in the world.
Harry: Okay, all right. Just stay calm. What else?
Jack: Three triggers. One on the axle I can't really see, a cellular remote, and a timer running off a wristwatch.
Harry: A watch? What kind of watch?
Jack: Gold. Gold band, fairly cheesy.

View Quote [After Helen's death]
Stephens: I can't be here. I can't, you know... This is the wrong bus. I mean, for me to... I can't die here.
Ortiz: Hey, shut up, man. I got a wife.
Stephens: Oh, you do?
Terry: Hey! So if you have a wife, and I don't, does that mean I'm expendable?
Ortiz: Hey, what are you talkin' about, man? The guy's just talking crazy. It gets on my nerves. Gets on everybody's nerves.
Stephens: Oh, yeah? Well, I think I have the right to be a little bit upset...
Terry: What are you starin' at anyway?!
Stephens: ...after all that we've been through—
Ortiz: Why don't you just let everybody die in peace if that's gonna happen, huh?!
Terry: So you're a tough guy, huh?
Stephens: I got a right to be upset.
Terry: You're really tough, huh, Gigantor?! Why don't we just step outside?!
Jack: [silences them both] Hey!