Wilford Brimley movie quotes

25 quotes from 4 movies

The Thing (1982) as Blair

View Quote [Calmly eating beans in the tool shed with a forgotten noose strung from the ceiling] I don't want to stay out here anymore. I want to come back inside.

View Quote Can't you see...? If one cell of this Thing got out it could imitate every living thing on Earth. Nothing could stop it! Nothing!

View Quote Whenever it was revived, it... Well, The Thing was probably disoriented... and realised it couldn't survive for long in our atmosphere. But being the incredibly adaptable creature it was... it tried to become something that could. Before the Norwegians killed it... it somehow got to this dog.

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Absence of Malice (1981) as James J. Wells

View Quote Now we'll talk all day if you want to. But, come sundown, there's gonna be two things true that ain't true now. One is that the United States Department of Justice is goin' to know what in the good Christ - excuse me, Angie - is goin' on around here. And the other's I'm gonna have somebody's ass in my briefcase.

View Quote You had a leak?! You call what's goin' on around here a leak? Boy, the last time there was a leak like this, Noah built hisself a boat.

View Quote James A. Wells: What'd you figure you'd do after government service, Elliott?
Elliott Rosen: I'm not quitting.
James A. Wells: You ain't no Presidential appointee, Elliott. One that hired you is me. You got thirty days.

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The Natural (1984) as Pop Fisher

View Quote People don't start playing ball at your age, they retire!

View Quote I wanted to win that pennant worse than I wanted any goddamned thing in my life. You'd think I could just this once, wouldn't you? I didn't care nothing about the Series. Win or lose, I would have been satisfied.

View Quote Pop Fisher: Batting practice tomorrow, be there!
Roy Hobbs: I have been. Every day.

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In & Out (1997) as Frank Brackett

View Quote Howard: I may sue!
Frank Brackett: Get Johnny Cochrane, not that woman!

View Quote Frank Brackett: [about Cameron] He used to mow our lawn. Never again.

View Quote Howard: He may be under the influence of something. He may have joined a cult!
Frank Brackett: That little zombie.

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