You always were an asshole, Gorman.
Ripley
Sigourney Weaver · 34 quotes
Hudson
Bill Paxton · 32 quotes
Hicks
Michael Biehn · 22 quotes
Apone
Al Matthews · 13 quotes
Vasquez
Jenette Goldstein · 13 quotes
Burke
Paul Reiser · 11 quotes
Gorman
William Hope · 9 quotes
Frost
Ricco Ross · 8 quotes
Newt
Carrie Henn · 8 quotes
Drake
Mark Rolston · 6 quotes
Bishop
Lance Henriksen · 5 quotes
Most scenes together: Hudson & Hicks (13), Ripley & Hudson (12), Ripley & Hicks (12)
Aliens quotes
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Al Simpson
[a conversation in Hadley's Hope main operations center, shortly before the xenomorph outbreak] [to a co-worker, on his way leaving]
I'll be down in maintenance, okay?
Brad Lydecker
Al?
Al Simpson
[absent-mindedly]
What?
Brad Lydecker
Hey, Al!
Al Simpson
What?
Brad Lydecker
Remember you sent some wildcatters out to the middle of nowhere last week, out past the Ilium Range?
Al Simpson
Yeah, what?
Brad Lydecker
One of them's on the horn, a mom-and-pop survey team. He says he's on to something. He wants to know if his claim will be honored.
Al Simpson
Why wouldn't his claim be honored?
Brad Lydecker
Well, because you sent them to that particular middle-of-nowhere on company orders, maybe? I don't know.
Al Simpson
Christ! Some honch in a cushy office on Earth says "go look at a grid reference". We look. They don't say why, and I don't ask. I don't ask because it takes two weeks to get an answer out here, and the answer is always-
Both
"-don't ask".
Brad Lydecker
So what do I tell this guy?
Al Simpson
[sighs]
Tell him as far as I'm concerned, if he finds something, it is his. Lydecker? [points towards the corridor]
Brad Lydecker
What? [looks the way Al Simpson pointed and notices children playing there] You kids are not supposed to be on this level! Go on, get outta here!
[After Burke tried to lock Ripley and Newt inside the Med Lab to be impregnated by the facehuggers] [Points his rifle at Burke's head]
I say we grease this rat-**** son of a bitch right now!
This just doesn't make any god damn sense.
He figured he could get an alien back through quarantine, if one of us was... impregnated... whatever you call it. Then frozen for the trip home. Nobody would know about the embryos we were carrying. Me and Newt.
Wait a minute, now- we'd all know.
Yes, the only way he could do it was if he sabotaged certain freezers on the way home - namely yours. Then he could jettison the bodies and make up any story he wanted.
****! [points muzzle of pulse-rifle at Burke] He's dead. You're dog meat, pal!
[Trying to play innocent]
This is so nuts. I mean, listen... listen to what you're saying; it's paranoid delusion. It's really sad... it's pathetic.
You know Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them **** each other over for a god damn percentage.
All right-- we waste him! [grabs Burke] No offense!
No, he's got to go back--
What do you mean 'they' cut the power!? How could they cut the power, they're animals!
I want you two in trackers, checking the corridors! Move out!
[after the drop-ship crashes and explodes]
That's great. That's just **** great, man. Now what the **** are we supposed to do? We're in some real pretty shit now, man!
Are you finished?
I guess we're not going to be leaving right now then?
I'm sorry, Newt.
It wasn't your fault.
That's it! Game over, man! Game's over! What the **** are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?
Maybe we could build a fire and sing couple of songs, huh?! Why don't we try that?!
We'd better get back because it'll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night. Mostly.
[Ripley has just discovered that Burke intends to deliver 2 alien specimens back to Earth]
Look, those two specimens are worth millions to the bio-weapons division, right? Now, if you're smart, we can both come out of this heroes, and we will be set up for life.
... You're crazy, Burke- do you know that? You really think you can get a dangerous organism like that past ICC quarantine?
How can they impound it if they don't know about it?
But they will know about it. From me. Just like they'll know you were responsible for the deaths of 157 colonists.
Wait a second.
You sent them to that ship!
You're wrong!
I just checked the colony log! Directive dated 6-12-79, signed Burke, Carter J! You sent them out there and you didn't even warn them! Why didn't you warn them!?
Okay, look- what if that ship didn't even exist? Did you ever think about that? I didn't know! So now, if I went and made a major security situation out of it, everybody steps in. Administration steps in, and there's no exclusive rights for anybody, nobody wins! So I made a decision and it was wrong. It was a bad call, Ripley. It was a bad call.
Bad call? These people are DEAD, Burke! Don't you have any idea what you've done here? Well, I'm going to make sure they nail you right to the wall for this! You're not going to sleaze your way out of this one! Right to the wall.
Ripley... you know, I expected more from you. I thought you'd be smarter than this.
I'm happy to disappoint you.
[when Ripley is about to assault the alien hive in order to save Newt, leaving heavily wounded Hicks in the dropship]
See you soon, Hicks.
Dwayne [chuckles] It's Dwayne.
Ellen.
Don't be gone for long, Ellen.
How many drops for you is this, lieutenant?
Thirty-eight. Simulated.
How many combat drops?
Uh, two. Including this one.
Shit.
Oh-ho, man...
I don't believe this. You guys throw me to the wolves, and now you want me to go back out there? Forget it. It's not my problem.
Can I finish?
No. There's no way.
Ripley, you wouldn't be going in with the troops. I can guarantee your safety.
These Colonial Marines are very tough hombres. They're packing state-of-the-art firepower. There's nothing they can't handle. Lieutenant, am I right?
That's true. We've been trained to deal with situations like this.
Yeah, but we don't know exactly what's going on out there. It may just a downed transmitter, okay? But if it's not... I'd like you to go there as an adviser. And that's all.
What's your interest in all this? Why are you going?
Corporation co-financed that colony along with Colonial Administration. We're going into a lot of terraforming, building better worlds-
Yeah, yeah, I saw the commercial. Look, I don't have time for this. I've gotta get to work.
Oh, yeah. I heard you're working at the cargo docks.
That's right.
Running loaders and forklifts.
Yeah. So?
Nothing. I think it's great that you're keeping busy. And I know it's the only thing you could get. There’s nothing wrong with it. [pause] What would you say if I told you I could get you reinstated as a flight officer? The company has already agreed to pick up your contract.
If I go.
Yeah, if you go. Come on, that's a second chance, kiddo. I personally think for you the best thing in the world would be to get out there and face this thing, get back on the horse-
Spare me, Burke. I've already had my psych evaluation this month.
Yeah, I know, I've read it. You wake up every night, your sheets are soaking with sweat-
[angrily]
I said no, and I mean it! [in normal voice again] Now, please leave. I'm not going back. And I... I wouldn't be any good to you if I did.
Okay, shhh. Just do one thing for me, okay? Think this over [leaves calling card]
I don't know how you managed to stay alive. But you're one brave kid, Rebecca.
Newt.
What'd you say?
Newt. My name is Newt. Nobody calls me Rebecca except my brother.
Newt? I like that. I'm Ripley. It's nice to meet you. And who is this?
Casey.
Hello, Casey. What about your brother? What's his name?
Timmy.
Is Timmy around here too? Maybe hiding like you were? [Newt doesn't answer] Any sisters? [Newt shakes her head] Mom and Dad? [Newt nods] Newt. Look at me. Where are they?
They're dead, all right? Can I go now?
I'm sorry, Newt. Don't you think you'd be safer here with us? [Newt shakes her head] These people are here to protect you. They're soldiers.
It won't make any difference.
I don't understand this. We have been here for three and a half hours. How many different ways you want me to tell you the same story?
Van Leuwen Look at it from our perspective, please. [points at an empty chair] Please. [Ripley sits down] Now, you freely admit detonating the engines of, and thereby destroying an M-class star freighter, a rather expensive piece of hardware.
Insurance attorney
Forty-two million in adjusted dollars. That's minus payload, of course.
Van Leuwen The lifeboat's flight recorder corroborates some parts of your account. In that for reasons unknown, the Nostromo set down on LV-426, an unsurveyed planet at that time. That it resumed its course and was subsequently set for self-destruct, by you, for reasons unknown.
Not for reasons unknown. I told you. We set down there on company's orders, to get this thing, which destroyed my crew. And your expensive ship.
Van Leuwen The analysis team, which went over the lifeboat centimeter by centimeter, found no physical evidence of the creature you describe.
Insurance attorney
Are there any species like this hostile organism on LV-426?
ECA representative No, it's a rock. No indigenous life.
[sarcastically]
Did IQs just drop sharply when I was away? Ma'am, I already said it was not indigenous, it was a derelict spacecraft, it was an alien ship, it was not from there. You get it? We homed in on its beacon.
ECA representative And found something never recorded once in any of the three hundred surveyed worlds [reads the report] "A creature that gestates inside living human host", these are your words, "and has concentrated acid for blood".
That's right [beat] Look... I can see where this is going, but I'm telling you those things exist.
Van Leuwen Thank you, officer, that will be all.
Please! You're not listening to me. Kane, the crew member... Kane, who went into that ship, said he saw thousands of eggs there. Thousands.
Van Leuwen Thank you, that will be all.
Goddammit, that's not all! Because if one of those things gets down here, then that will be all, and all this [picks up documents] this bullshit that you think is so important [throws the documents on tabletop] you can just kiss all that goodbye!
Van Leuwen [long moment of silence; members of the hearing watch Ripley with disapproval]
It is the finding of this court of inquiry that Warrant Officer E. Ripley, NOC 14472, has acted with questionable judgement, and is unfit to hold an ICC license as a commercial flight officer. Said license is hereby suspended indefinitely. Now, no criminal charges will be filed against you at this time, and you are released on your own recognizance for a six-month period of psychometric probation, to include monthly review by an ICC psychiatric technician. These proceedings are closed.
Van Leuwen? Why don't you just check out LV-426?
Van Leuwen Because I don't have to. There have been people there for over twenty years and they never complained about any hostile organisms.
Van Leuwen Terraformers. Planetary engineers. They go down there and set up these big atmosphere processors to make the air breathable. It takes decades. That's what we call 'shake'n'bake colony' [he tries to leave, but Ripley blocks his way with her arm]
How many are there? How many colonists?
Van Leuwen I don't know. Sixty, maybe seventy families [looks pointedly at Ripley's arm] Do you mind?
Hey, mira, who's Snow White? [indicates Ripley]
Ferro She's supposed to be some kind of consultant. Apparently, she saw an alien once.
Whoopee-****-doo. Hey, I'm impressed.
¡Que bonita!
Hey, Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?
No. Have you?
[Ripley is putting Newt to bed in the med bay]
Last stop. Get in. [Newt lies down on the bed] Scoot down. That's good. Now, you lie here and have a nap. You're very tired.
I don't want to. I have scary dreams.
Well, I bet Casey doesn't have scary dreams. Let's take a look. [holds up Casey] Nope. Nothing bad in there. See? Maybe you could try to be just like her, hmm?
Ripley, she doesn't have bad dreams because she's just a piece of plastic.
My mommy always said there were no monsters, no real ones, but there are.
Yes, there are, aren't there?
Why do they tell little kids that?
Most of the time it's true.
Did one of those things grow inside her?
I don't know, Newt. That's the truth.
Isn't that how babies come? I mean, people babies? They grow inside you.
Did you ever have a baby?
Yes, I did. I had a little girl.
Where is she?
She's gone.
You mean dead.
Here. Take this. [gives Newt her wristwatch] For luck. There's that. [switches off the light]
Newt, I'm gonna be right in the next room. And you see that camera right up there? [points to security camera] I can see you right through that camera, all the time to see if you're safe. I'm not gonna leave you, Newt. I mean that. That's a promise.
You promise?
I cross my heart.
And hope to die?
And hope to die. [Newt hugs her, Ripley kisses her on the cheek] Now, go to sleep, and don't dream.
[the surviving Marines take refuge in the colony after the dropship's crash, gathering all equipment they got left]
That's absolutely everything we can salvage from the APC wreckage. We've got four pulse rifles, with about fifty rounds each. That ain't so good. We got, uh, fifteen of these M-40 grenades. [Newt reaches for a grenade] Don't touch that. Dangerous, honey.
Is that the only flamethrower?
Yeah. It's only half-full, but it's functional. Got another one, it's damaged, so I don't know about that one. But the good news... We've got four of these robot sentries, with display and scanners intact. They really kick ass. They'll come in handy.
How long after we're declared overdue we can expect a rescue?
Seventeen days? Hey man, I don't wanna rain on your parade, but we're not gonna last seventeen hours! These things are going to come here like they did before and they're gonna... [starts rambling unintelligibly]
Hudson! HUDSON! [Hudson stops talking] This little girl survived longer than that with no weapons and no training [to Newt] Right?
You better start dealing with it, OK!? Listen to me! Hudson, just deal with it, because we need you, and I'm sick of your bullshit. I want you to get into the terminal and get me some kind of floor plan of this building. Construction blueprints, I don't care, anything that shows us a layout of this place. You listening?
I need to see air ducts, I need to see electrical access tunnels, sub-basements, every possible way into this complex [beat] We don't have much time.
Yeah. Yeah, I'm on it.
Hudson! Just relax.
[Hudson exhales loudly and leaves]
I'm gonna be in the med-lab. Check on Gorman, continue my analysis.
All right. You do that.
[when Bishop "bleeds" the white fluid, revealing he is an android] [to Burke, agitated]
You never said anything about android being aboard, why not?
It never... never occurred to me. It's just a common practice, we always have a synthetic on board.
I prefer the term "artificial person" myself. Is there a problem?
I'm sorry. I don't know why I didn't... [to Bishop] On Ripley's last trip the synth- the artificial person malfunctioned.
"Malfunctioned"?!
We had some problems and, uh... few deaths were involved.
I'm shocked. Was it an older model?
Yeah. Hyperdyne Systems 120-A/2.
Well, that explains it. I mean, the A/2s always were a bit twitchy. That could never happen now with our behaviour inhibitors. It is impossible for me to harm, or by omission of action, allowed to be harmed, a human being. [hands the tray with corn bread to Ripley] Are you sure you don't want some?
[angrily knocks the tray out of Bishop's hand]
Just stay away from me, Bishop. You got that straight?