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Joe Mantegna movie quotes

16 quotes from 3 movies
Joe Mantegna
Grem

Hey, tow truck! We'd like to get to our private business here, if you don't mind.

Come with me, please, sir.

Mater

But I’m gonna miss my plane.

Right this way.

Mater

Ah, doggone it. This is about my hook, ain’t it? I know I should have checked it, but i can’t, really. [as they go into the waiting room] Look. It’s attached to me. Hey, I know you. You’re that feller from the karate demonstration.

I never properly introduced myself. Finn McMissile, British intelligence.

Mater

Tow Mater, Average Intelligence.

Who are you with? FBI, CIA?

Mater

Let's just say I'm a triple AAA affiliated. Yeah, I know some karate. I don't want to brag or nuttin', but I got me a black fan belt. You wanna see some moves I made up?

[hears a beeping sound and looks on his wing mirror to see through his spy camera that Grem and Acer are heading towards the room]

You're being followed. [shoots a glass cutter at the window]

Mater

This first one, I can reach into a car's hood pull out his battery, and show it to him before he stalls. I call it, “What I accidentally did to my friend Luigi once.” [does karate moves, crushing an oil can] Hey! Hi-yah-pah! Hi-yah!

Grem

There he is!

Mater

Hi-hi-tah! Huh! [after Finn's glass cutter finishes cutting through the window] Look, I probably ought to go. I’m about to miss my flight. [starts to leave]

[grabbing Mater with his grappling hooks]

Don’t worry. I’ve taken care of that. [pulls him towards the hole in the window]

Mater

Whoa!

[jumping through the hole]

Hang on!!

[grunts]
Mater

Whoa-hah-hah-hah! This is first-class service. You don't even have to go through the terminal!

Airport crew member
[speaks Japanese, after seeing Grem and Acer going over the roof of boarding stairs and giving chase along the runway]
Mater

Your karate partners is back there. They kinda look like they tryin' to catch up!

Drive forward. Whatever you do, don’t stop!

Mater

Whoa!

Passenger plane driver

Whoa!

Grem
[Mater zigzags around the plane's wheels. Grem dodges the plane, and prepares to shoot a missile. Finn then releases a wheeled motorized jack, which comes to Grem and lifts him up at an angle]

Whoa... [releases his missile, before being tipped over] Aaahh!

Mater
[Seeing that the missile is heading towards him, Finn releases another one at it, causing the two missiles to explode behind him]

Is everythin' okay back there?

Siddeley

Finn, it's Sid. I'm on approach.

[through the radio]

Roger that.

Mater
[Acer is shown pulling flatbed trolleys of baggage across the runway, blocking the path]

'Member that whole thing about me not us not stoppin' no matter what?

Mater
[Just then, Siddeley appears and shits bullets at the flatbed trolleys to make some of them go up into the air and clear the path]

Whoa! I knew I shoulda done carry-on!

[to Siddeley]

Thanks, old boy!

Siddeley
[lands on the runway while still moving]

You got it, mate! [opens his back ramp]

Mater
[seeing Holley inside]

Hey, doggonit! Look, it’s my imaginary girlfriend!

Come on! Get in here!

Mater

I tell you what, you really do want this first date, don't ya? [as Holley watches with a shocked face] That's a no-quit attitude right there! [Suddenly, gunshots are seen beside him] What the...?

Siddeley
[Behind him, Acer is chasing him, trying to hit him. One of the bullets deflates one of Siddeley's tires] [being turned to the left and across the grass]

Aargh!

Hold on, Sid.

[Siddeley stops turning and goes straight along another runway, while Acer still keeps trying to shoot bullets. Finn pulls out his gun and fires back, deflating Acer's front right tire.]

Aargh!

Siddeley
[Acer is turned towards boarding stairs through an airplane, where two waitresses notice him going through the air, before he comes out the other side and falls into a lavatory service truck's tank of automobile waste, making a muffled cry. Siddeley then lifts his bodywork up, as he hits some signs showing the airport's barriers up ahead.]

Come on, Finn! It’s now or never!

Mater
[Finn then spins around so that he is going forwards.]

Whoa!

Siddeley
[Quickly, Finn heads into Siddeley behind him.]

Hold on! [takes off just before he can hit the barriers]

Mater
[voice-over reading the letter]

By the time you read this, I'll be safely on an airplane flying home. I'm so sorry for what I did.

[reading Mater's letter in the Hotel Lobby]

"I don't want to be the cause of you losing any more races. I want you to go prove to the world what I already know: [the camera pans to show Guido and Luigi with big dewy eyes, trying to hold it together] That you are the greatest race car in the whole wide world. Your best friend, Mater." [looks up] I didn't really want him to leave.

Wait, there's more here. [moves to next page] "P.S. Please tell the hotel I didn't mean to order that movie. I thought it was just a preview and I didn't realize I was paying for it." [shifts the page] "P.P.S. That's funny right there. P.P."? [shifts the pages around] There's a few more pages of P.S's here.

Well, at least I know if he's at home he'll be safe. ( foreshadowing: he definitely won't be...)

Mater

Holley! Finn! Where are we?

We're in London, Mater. Inside Big Bentley.

Mater
[Mater, tied up in ropes, suddenly drops, the clock's gears lowering him several meters; a gear Finn and Holley tied in brings them closer to an intersecting gear]

Oh, this...this is all my fault.

Don't be a fool, Mater.

Mater

But I am, remember? You said so.

When did I-? Oh. Mater, I was complimenting you on what a good spy you are.

Mater
[angrily]

I'M NOT A SPY! [this echoes throughout the clock; slumps in defeat] I've been tryin' ta tell you that the whole time. I really am just a tow truck.

[taking this in]

Finn, he's not joking.

I know.

Mater

You were right, Finn. I'm a fool. And what's happened to McQueen is 'cause I'm such a big one. This is all my fault.

Grem
[Grem and Acer arrive on a lift, roll into view on a catwalk]

Good, you're up!

And just in time.

Grem

Professor Z wanted you to have a front row seat for the death of Lightning McQueen.

Mater

He's still alive?

[whips a sheet away for the WGP Camera in the clock's face]

Not for much longer.
[Mater suddenly drops more towards the gears; the gear Finn and Holley tied in brings them closer to the intersecting gear that would crush them]

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Eddie
[At the construction site, Eddie is stuck with a hook while holding on it] [calls for help]

Norby! Veeko!

Hey! We're down here!

Hey, Ed! We better go before I dry!

Ed, can you see the baby from up there? Just hang on and we'll come on up. I got an idea.

Hey, Eddie, maybe he went down a rabbit hole.

Eddie

We're serious about our work. You wanna make jokes? Join the circus.

Cop 1

Have you guys seen a baby around here?

Eddie

The park is full of...babies.

Cop 2

Yeah, well, there's been a kidnapping.

Well, that's a crying shame. It's amazing what people will do for money.

Yeah, for five million...

Eddie

If we see anything... [Baby Bink turns on the lighter] Excuse me. If we see anything, we'll be sure to notify... [absolutely moans]

Cop 2

He's got a bad heart.

Eddie

Excuse me. The police. Thank you.

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Joey Zasa
[during a meeting in Atlantic City]

I say to all of you, I have been treated this day, with no respect. I've earned you all money. I've made you rich, and I asked for little. Good. You will not give, I'll take! As for Don, Corleone, well he makes it, very clear to me today, that he is my enemy. You must choose between us.

Joey Zasa
[last words]

Open the door! Open the door!

[Vincent has told Michael what Joey has been saying behind his back]

If there is some guy running around this city saying, "**** Michael Corleone," what do we do with a piece of shit like that? He's a **** dog.

Joey Zasa
[nervously]

Yes it's true. If anyone would say such a thing, they would not be a friend. They would be a dog.