Kurt Russell movie quotes

View Quote When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, looks you crooked in the eye and asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."

View Quote This is Jack Burton in the Porkchop Express and I'm talkin' to whoever's listening out there.

View Quote Just remember what old Jack Burton does when the earth quakes, the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake. Yeah, Jack Burton just looks that big old storm right in the eye and says, "Give me your best shot. I can take it."

View Quote [talking into tape recorder] Nobody... nobody trusts anybody now, and we're all very tired... there's nothing more I can do, just wait... R. J. MacReady, helicopter pilot, US outpost #31.

View Quote Somebody in this camp ain't what he appears to be. Right now that may be one or two of us. By spring, it could be all of us.

View Quote [finding a partially-assembled spaceship beneath the tool shed] Blair's been busy out here all by himself.

View Quote Well, I thinks it's union bylaw that if you get your picture in the paper even if it's bullshit that you gotta buy the whole company a drink

View Quote You got anything else you want to say about my brother?

View Quote You go, we go.

View Quote You tell him the law's coming. You tell him I'm coming, and hell's coming with me, you hear?

View Quote I spent my whole life not knowing what I want out of it, just chasing my tail. Now for the first time I know exactly what I want...and who... and that's the damnable misery of it.

View Quote You've called down the thunder, well now you've got it

View Quote You better think about something else, each and every one of you. When you pull on that jersey, you represent yourself and your teammates...and the name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back. Get that through your head. AGAIN!

View Quote [Speaking to team during the last intermission in the US-USSR game] Listen to 'em (the crowd chanting U-S-A!). That's what you've done. We've come from behind in every game in this tournament so far and we can do it again. [team blankly stares] We can beat these guys!

View Quote You think you can win on talent alone? Gentlemen, YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TALENT TO WIN ON TALENT ALONE!

View Quote [Asking the Abydonians if they've seen Daniel anywhere] I don't suppose the word "dweeb" means anything to you guys.

View Quote (to a Jaffa (Anubis) who he's fighting) Give my regards to King Tut, asshole! (activates the teleport rings, crushing Anubis)

View Quote [An enemy pulls off his hood, revealing him to a room full of enemies, he winks] How ya doin'? Hmm? [Shoots the enemy several times, killing him and starting a battle]

View Quote Bob Hauk: You going to kill me, Snake?
Snake Plissken: Not now, I'm too tired. [pause] Maybe later.

View Quote Bob Hauk: There was an accident. About an hour ago, a small jet went down inside New York City. The President was on board.
Snake Plissken: The president of what?

View Quote Bob Hauk: We'd make one hell of a team, Snake!
Snake Plissken: The name's Plissken!

View Quote Well, ain't you so sweet that you make sugar taste just like salt!

View Quote Get ready to fly, bitch!

View Quote The woods are lovely, dark and deep, and I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. Do you hear me, Butterfly? Miles to go before you sleep.

View Quote Jesus Christ, that's awful! What did that Mexican fellow do, soak his old socks in the pot?

View Quote [last words] Mannix! The coffee...

View Quote Now Daisy, I want us to work out a signal system of communication. When I elbow you real hard in the face, that means "shut up"!

View Quote Call me Snake.

View Quote [facing four gunmen at once] I'm gonna give you assholes a chance. What do you say we play a little Bangkok rules? [picks up a tin can] Nobody draws until this hits the ground. You ready? [throws can up, draws, kills all four before it lands] Draw.

View Quote [The President orders the execution of Snake for him switching the Sword of Damocles command remote. Soldiers fire at him, with no effect. Malloy takes a gun and walks to Snake, swinging it at him. The gun passes right through.]
Brazen: He's not even here, he's a hologram!
Snake: Catches on quick, doesn't she?

View Quote Ego: Welcome everyone, to my world.
Quill: Wow, you have your own planet?
Ego: Come on, no larger than your Earth Moon.
Drax: Humility. I like it. I, too, am extraordinarily humble.

View Quote Ego: I hired Yondu to pick you up after your mother passed away. But instead of returning you, Yondu kept you. I have no clue as to why.
Quill: I'll tell ya why: I was a skinny little kid who could slip into places adults couldn't, made it easier for thieving.
Ego: Well, I've been trying to track you down ever since.
Drax: I thought Yondu was your father.
Quill: What? You're trying to tell me that this whole time you thought Yondu was my actual blood relative?
Drax: [Mouthful] You look exactly alike!
Rocket: One's blue!
Quill: No, he's not my father! Yondu was the guy who abducted me, kicked the crap out of me so I could learn to fight and kept me in terror by threatening to eat me.
Ego: Eat you?!
Quill: Yeah!
Ego: Oh, that son of a bitch!
Gamora: How'd you locate us now?
Ego: Well, even where I reside, out past the edge of what's known, we've heard tell about the man they call "Star-Lord." What say we head out there right now? Your associates are welcome. Even that triangle-faced monkey (Rocket) there.

View Quote Ego: Over millions of years, I learned to control the molecules around me. I grew smarter and stronger, and I continued building from there, layer by layer, the very planet you walk on now. But I wanted more. I desired meaning. There must be some life out there in the universe. Besides me, I thought. So, I set myself the task of finding it. I created what I thought biological life to be like, down to the most minute detail.
Drax: Did you make a penis?
Quill: Dude!
Gamora: What is wrong with you?
Drax: If he's a planet, how could he make a baby with your mother? He would smush her!
Quill: I don't need to hear how my parents, uh…
Drax: Why? My father would tell the story of him impregnating my mother every winter solstice.
Quill: That's disgusting.
Drax: [Affronted] It was beautiful! You Earthers have hang-ups.
Ego: Yes, Drax, I got a penis.
Drax: Ha! Thank you.
Ego: And it's not half-bad.
[Drax interestingly stares at Ego's groin]
Drax: Ahhh.
[Quill and Gamora look beyond grossed out]

View Quote You know, there's nothing fair about who lives and dies. You gave Elena a chance. You have everybody a chance.

View Quote Robert Ramsey: Now I know we're on this ship, but technically you two are still under my roof and it makes me uncomfortable... you two... alone.
Jennifer Ramsey: Dad, do you have any idea how big this ship is? Don't you think if we really wanted to we could find somewhere away from you to do that thing you're so afraid of us doing?

View Quote Captain Bradford: You may not leave this ballroom.
Robert Ramsey: Excuse me?
Captain Bradford: I am within my authority to compel you to stay, you know that.
Robert Ramsey: Captain, I understand- you have no choice. You have sick and injured people here, you need to stay with them. [Bradford nods] But I am going to find my daughter, and don't think for one second that you're going to stop me.
Connor: What are you doing?
Dylan: Thinking, you?
Connor: Thinking, what are we thinking about exactly?
Dylan: Well, I'm thinking of this door, and what's behind it.
[Connor approaches the door]
Dylan: Easy there, fireball, we don't know what's behind there.
[A tremendous explosion shakes the ballroom as the leaking gas in the galley explodes] Officer: Captain!
Captain Bradford: That felt like the galley.
Officer: The gas shut offs must have malfunctioned.
Captain Bradford: The door seals, will they keep the fire out?
Officer: Yes, Captain.
Captain Bradford: God rest their souls.

View Quote Dr. Curtis McCabe: Why are you scared of heights? Many people are scared of heights.
David Ames: It's not the height that bothers me. It's the impact that terrifies me.
Dr. Curtis McCabe: I won't stay long.

View Quote Dr. Curtis McCabe: [Interpreting David's dream of driving the ominously deserted streets of Manhattan in the morning and then out bursting in existential torment] Well, I suppose the empty street meant loneliness.
David Ames: You're a shrink. You gotta do better than that.
Dr. Curtis McCabe: I'm a doctor. Let's not stereotype each other. Not all rich kids are soul less and... not all psychologists care about dreams. The question is how you got here and why you've been charged.
David Ames: What do you want to know? I was about to turn 33. I ran three magazines and a world wide publishing house. Most days I fooled myself in to believing it would last forever. Isn't that what being young is about? Believing secretly that you would be... the one person in the history of man... who would live forever.
Dr. Curtis McCabe: Where you going so early?

View Quote Office assistant: David! Okay, they're all waiting for you.
Board Member: You changed your hair.
David Ames: Yes.
Board Member: And David... opinions are expected.
Dr. Curtis McCabe: [Voiceover] Do you dream about the board; the Seven Dwarfs as you call them? [Camera focuses on each board members face] Sneezy, Bashful... Sleepy... Happy... Doc... Dopey... and of course, Grumpy.
Board Member: How was Aspen?
David Ames: Good. Now, I want answers and I want them now. How's it going? [Voice of thought] They still look at me as if I was 11 years old.
Office staffer: He's going to inherit everything. He gets it all.

View Quote Guys like me die caught. Guys like you die bloody.

View Quote It's time to go to work, baby.

View Quote Michael Zane: Finish your fries.
Jesse Waingrow: You can't tell me what to do. You're not my dad.
Michael Zane: Didn't anybody ever tell you about starving kids in Africa?
Jesse Waingrow: Why? Are you gonna send them my fries?

View Quote Josie: We can't change who he is. Not without dropping him in a vat of toxic waste.
[Steve turns to look at Josie and raises his finger]
Josie: Steve.
Steve: Now where would we even find a vat of...
Josie: (understandably alarmed) Steve!

View Quote Steve: Royal Pain is a girl.
Royal Pain: Yes, I'm a girl, you idiot! How I ever lost to a fool like you I'll never know, now prepare to be pacified.
Steve: Do you honestly think you can kill me with that toy gun of yours?
Royal Pain: My dear Commander, who said anything about killing you?

View Quote Steve: All I ever wanted for him was to save the world. To just... feel that, once.
Josie: That's an awful lot to put on a 14-year-old's shoulders.
Steve: Oh, come on, Josie. When I was his age I could put a truck on my shoulders.