Marty McFly [On the phone to Doc]
Damn, I'm late for school!
Most-quoted character in Back to the Future (1985): in 54 of its 94 quotes
Most scenes with: Doc Brown (15), George (9), Lorraine (5)
Damn it, Doc! Why did you have to tear up that letter. If only I had more time... Wait, a minute, I got all the time I want! I got a time machine! I could just go back early and warn him. All right. Let's see, ten minutes ought to do it. Time circuits on, Flux Capacitor... fluxing, engine running, all right! [the car dies]
More lines from Marty McFly
16 quotes Marty McFly Marty McFly Jesus Christ, Doc, you disintegrated Einstein!
Marty McFly Wait a minute, Doc. Are you telling me that you built a time machine... out of a DeLorean?!
Marty McFly [As Doc Brown dies]
NOOOOOOOO!!!!! BASTARDS!!!!
Marty McFly [Being pursued by the Libyan terrorists]
Let's see if you bastards can do 90!
Marty McFly So, you're my Uncle Joey. Better get used to these bars, kid.
Marty McFly Doc, I'm from the future. I came here in a time machine that you invented. Now I need your help to get back to the year 1985.
Marty McFly Whoa, this is heavy!
Marty McFly Listen, George, if you do not ask Lorraine out then I'm gonna regret it for the rest of my life.
Marty McFly (Struggling with a Pepsi bottle)
God, how do you... (George McFly opens it with ease on a bottle opener)
Marty McFly Well you're not gonna be picking a fight, Dad... Dad... Daddy-o!
Marty McFly If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything.
Marty McFly All right. This is an oldie, but, uh... well it's an oldie where I come from.
Marty McFly I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it.
Marty McFly Oh, and one more thing, if you guys ever have kids and one of them, when he's eight years old, accidentally sets fire to the living room rug - go easy on him.
Marty McFly [Upon arriving in 1985]
Everything looks great!
Scenes with Marty McFly
37 scenes Marty [After being blown backwards by a large speaker]
You know, Doc, you left your equipment on all week.
My equipment? That reminds me Marty, you'd better not hook up to the amplifier. There's a slight possibility of overload.
Marty Yeah... I'll keep that in mind.
Okay, come on, I think we're safe.
Marty You know, this time it wasn't my fault. The Doc said all his clocks were twenty-five minutes slow -
Mr. Strickland "Doc"!? Am I to understand you're still hanging around with Dr. Emmett Brown, McFly? [clicks with his mouth, gives Jennifer a tardy slip] Tardy slip for you, Miss Parker. [gives Marty one, too] And one for you, McFly. I believe that makes four in a row. Now let me give you a nickel's worth of free advice, young man. This so-called Dr. Brown is dangerous, he's a real nut case. You hang around with him, you're gonna end up in big trouble.
Marty [smart-alecky]
Oh, yes, sir.
Mr. Strickland [pushes Marty a little bit]
You got a real attitude problem, McFly. You're a slacker! You remind me of you father when he went here. He was a slacker too.
Marty Can I go now, Mr. Strickland?
Mr. Strickland I noticed your band is on the roster for the dance auditions after school today. Why even bother, McFly? You don't have a chance, you're too much like your old man. No McFly ever amounted to anything in the history of Hill Valley!
Marty Yeah, well, history is gonna change.
Woman
Save the clock tower! Save the clock tower! Mayor Wilson is sponsoring an initiative to replace that clock. Thirty years ago, lightning struck that clock tower and the clock hasn't run since. We at the Hill Valley Preservation Society think it should be preserved exactly the way it is as part of our history and heritage -
Marty Here you go, lady. Here's a quarter.
Woman
Thank you. Don't forget to take a flyer. (going off into distance) Save the clock tower!...
Ha! What did I tell you?! 88 miles per hour! The temporal displacement occurred exactly 1:20 AM and zero seconds!
Marty McFly Jesus Christ, Doc! You disintegrated Einstein!
Calm down Marty. I didn't disintegrate anything. The molecular structure of both Einstein and the car are completely intact!
Marty Then where the hell are they?
The appropriate question is when the hell are they! You see, Einstein has just become the world's first time traveler! I sent him into the future! One minute into the future to be exact! And at precisely, 1:21 A.M. and zero seconds, we shall catch up with him and the time machine!
Marty Wait a minute, wait a minute Doc, uh, are you telling me you built a time machine... out of a DeLorean?!
The way I see it, if you're going to build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style? Besides, the stainless steel construction made the flux dispersal...(watch beeps) Look out! (time machine comes back)
Marty Uh, this is heavy duty, Doc. This is great. Uh, does it run like on, on regular, unleaded gasoline?
Unfortunately, no. It requires something with a little more kick; Plutonium!
Marty Uh, Plutonium... Wait a minute, are you telling me that this sucker is nuclear?!
Hey! Hey, hey, keep rolling, keep rolling there! No, no, no, no, no. This sucker's electrical, but I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity I need.
Marty Doc, you don't just walk into a store and buy plutonium! Did you rip that off?
[waving arms]
Of course! From a group of Libyan nationalists. They wanted me to build them a bomb, so I took their plutonium and in turn gave them a shoddy bomb casing full of used pinball machine parts!
Marty Sorry about your barn. (Old Man Peabody tries to shoot him)
Sherman Peabody
It's already mutated into human form, shoot it!
Take that, you mutated son of a bitch!
Coffee bar manager (Lou Carruthers)
Hey, kid! What did you do, jump ship?
Marty Wha?
Coffee bar manager (Lou Carruthers)
Well what's with the life preserver?
Marty Do you know where -
Coffee bar manager (Lou Carruthers)
Are you gonna order something, kid!
Marty Uh, yeah. Give me a, give me a Tab.
Coffee bar manager (Lou Carruthers)
"Tab"? I can't give you a tab unless you order something!
Marty All right, just give me a Pepsi 'Free'.
Coffee bar manager (Lou Carruthers)
If you want a Pepsi, pal, you've gonna to pay for it!
Marty Look, just give me something without any sugar in it, okay.
Coffee bar manager (Lou Carruthers)
(muttering)
Something without sugar...
[Lou plunks down a cup of coffee in front of Marty]
Hey, McFly! [both George and Marty turn around] What do you think your doing?
Marty [to himself]
Biff.
Hey, I'm talking to you McFly, you Irish bug!
Oh, hey, Biff. Hey, guys. How are you doin'?
Do you got my homework finished, McFly?
Well, I figured since it wasn't due till Monday -
Hello? Hello? Anybody home, huh, Think, McFly! Think! I gotta have time to recopy it. Do you realize what what would happen if I handed in my homework in your handwriting? I'll get kicked out of school. You wouldn't want that to happen would ya? WOULD YA?!
Of course not, Biff. Now I wouldn't want that to happen.
Marty You're George McFly.
Yeah. Who are you?
Goldie Wilson Say, why do let those boys push you around like that for?
Well, they're bigger than me.
Goldie Wilson Stand tall, boy. Have some respect for yourself. Don't you know if you let people walk over you now, they'll be walking over you for the rest of your life! Look at me. You think I'm gonna spend the rest of my life in this slop house?
Coffee bar manager (Lou Carruthers)
Watch it, Goldie!
Goldie Wilson No, sir! I'm gonna make something of myself. I'm going to night school and one day I'm gonna be somebody!
Marty That's right, he's gonna be mayor!
Goldie Wilson Yeah, I'm gonna... mayor. Now that's a good idea. I could run for mayor.
Coffee bar manager (Lou Carruthers)
A colored mayor, that'll be the day.
Goldie Wilson You wait and see, Mr. Carruthers. I will be mayor! I'll be the most powerful mayor in Hill Valley and I'm gonna clean up this town.
Coffee bar manager (Lou Carruthers)
Good. You can start by sweeping the floor.
Goldie Wilson "Mayor Goldie Wilson". I like the sound of that.
Marty [half asleep in bed]
Mom? Mom is that you?
There, there now. Just relax. You've been asleep for almost nine hours now.
Marty I had a horrible nightmare. I dreamed I went back in time. It was terrible.
Well your safe and sound now back in good ole' 1955.
Marty [wakes up]
1955! Ahh! Your my, m... Your my m...!
My name is Lorraine. Lorraine Banes.
Marty Yeah! But your so, uh, your so... thin!
Just relax, Calvin. You got a big bruise on your head.
Marty Where are my pants?
Over there. On my hope chest. I've never seen purple underwear before, Calvin.
Marty Calvin? Why do you keep calling me Calvin?
That's your name isn't it? Calvin Klein? It's written all over your underwear. Oh, I guess they call you "Cal."
Marty No, actually people call me Marty.
Oh. Please to meet you, Calvin... Marty... Klein.
Do you have a television set?
Marty Well, yeah, you know we have two of them.
Milton Baines Wow! You must be rich.
Stella Baines Oh, honey, he's teasing you. Nobody has two television sets.
Marty Hey! Hey, I've seen this one! This is a classic. This is where Ralph dresses up as a man from space.
Milton Baines What do you mean you've seen this? It's brand new.
Marty Yeah, but I saw it on a... re-run.
Milton Baines What's a re-run?
Marty McFly You'll find out.
Marty Do you know where Riverside Drive is?
Sam Baines It's at the other end of town. A block past Maple. East end of town.
Marty Wait, a block past Maple. That's John F. Kennedy Drive.
Sam Baines Who the hell is John F. Kennedy?
Mother, with Marty's parents out of town, don't you think he oughta spend the night? I mean, after all, Dad almost killed him with the car.
Stella Banes
That's true, Marty. I think that maybe you should spend the night. I think you're our responsibilty.
Marty Ah, jeez, I don't know...
And he can sleep in my room. [squeezes Marty's knee]
Marty [jumps up from the table]
I gotta go! Thank you very much. You've all been great. I'll see you all later... much later. [leaves]
Stella Banes
He's a very strange young man.
Sam Banes
He's an idiot. Comes from upbringing. Parents are probably idiots too. Lorraine, if you ever have a kid who acts that way I'll disown you.
Marty Look, Doc, you gotta help me. You're the only one who knows how your time machine works.
Time machine? I haven't invented any time machine.
Marty Okay. Okay, I'll prove it to you. Look at my driver's license. Expires: 1987. Look at my birth date, for crying out loud, I haven't even been born yet! Oh, and look at this picture. It's my brother, my sister and me. Look at her sweatshirt, Doc, class of 1984.
Pretty mediocre photographic fakery; they cut off your brother's hair!
Marty Listen, Doc, you got to believe me.
Then tell me, Future Boy. Who's President of the United States in 1985?
Marty Ronald Reagan.
Ronald Reagan? The actor!? [chuckles in disbelief] Then who's vice-president, Jerry Lewis? I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady? And Jack Benny is Secretary of the Treasury!
[Looking at his future self on video]
:
What am I wearing?
Marty McFly Oh this, this is a radiation suit.
Radiation suit? Of course! Because of all the fallout from the atomic wars! This is incredible. A portable television studio! No wonder your president has got to be an actor, he has to look good on television.
1.21 GIGAWATTS!?! 1.21 gigawatts! Great Scott!!!
Marty Wait... what the hell is a gigawatt?!
Note: Doc Brown pronounces the term "jigga-watt".
Marty Sounds pretty heavy.
Weight has nothing to do with it.
Marty This is heavy, Doc.
There's that word again, 'heavy'. Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?
Marty What?
Obviously your mother is amorously infatuated with you instead of your father.
Marty : Wait a minute, Doc. Are you trying to tell me my mom... has got the hots for me?
Precisely!
Marty Whoa, this is heavy.
Marty Hey George. I've been looking all over for you. Remember that girl I introduced you to; Lorraine? What are you writing?
Uh, stories. Science fiction stories about visitors coming down to Earth from other planets.
Marty Get out of town, I didn't know you did anything creative. Well, here let me read some -
Oh, no, no, no. I never, I never let anybody read my stories.
Marty Why not?
Well, what if the didn't like them? What if they told me I was no good? I guess that might be hard for somebody to understand.
Marty Uh, no. Not hard at all. So, anyway, George, about Lorraine. She really likes you. She told me to tell you that she wants you to ask her to the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance.
Really?
Marty Oh, yeah! All you gotta do is go over there and ask her.
Whoa, like right here, right now in the cafeteria? What if she says "no?" I don't think I can take that kind of a rejection. Besides, I think she'd rather go with someone else.
Marty Uh, who?
Biff.
[Marty in his radiation suit puts his headphones over the sleeping George's head and wakes him up with loud music by Edward Van Halen.]
Wh-who are you?
Marty [Marty plays loud music again.]
Silence earthling! My name is Darth Vader. (heavy breathing) I am an extraterrestial from the planet Vulcan! [Gives Vulcan salute]
Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn't ask Lorraine out that he'd melt my brain.
Marty Okay George, let's just keep this brain melting stuff to ourselves, okay?
Oh yeah, right.
I don't know what I should say.
Marty Well say anything, George. Say the first thing that comes to your mind.
Nothing's coming to my mind.
Marty Jesus, George. It's a wonder I was ever born.
Hey you get your damn hands off her! Do you really think I oughta swear?
Marty Yes, definitely. Goddammit George, swear!
Marty Wait, you don't understand. You gotta play. If there's no music they can't dance. If they can't dance they can't kiss, if they can't kiss, they can't fall in love and I'm history!
Marvin Berry
Look kid, the dance is over, unless you know somebody that can play the guitar.
Marty (Marty is about to go out of the back door when he chances upon his future parents)
Lorraine!
Marty, that was very interesting music.
Marty Yeah.
I hope you don't mind, but George asked if he could take me home.
Marty Well, that's great! (Touches Lorraine's chin with his finger) I had a feeling about you two.
Marty Listen, I got to go, but I just want to tell you that it's been...educational.
(Shakes Marty's hand)
Marty, I want to thank you for all your good advice. I'll never forget it.
Marty, will we ever see you again?
Marty I guarantee it. Well, good luck you guys. (Walks away, and turns back) Oh, and one other thing, if you guys ever have kids (Lorraine is agape with surprise), and one of them, when he's eight years old accidentally sets fire to the living room rug? Go easy on him.
Marty Doc!
Huh?
Marty I have to tell you about the future!
Huh?
Marty I have to tell you about the future!
What!
Marty On the night I go back in time you get - [The clock chimes 10:00] ...shot.
Marty What about all that talk about screwing up future events? The space-time continuum?
Well, I figured, what the hell!
Linda (In the new dining room, over breakfast)
If Paul calls, tell him I'm working at the boutique late tonight.
Dave First of all, I'm not your answering service. Second, someone named Greg or Craig called you just a little while ago.
Linda Well, which one was it, Greg or Craig?
Dave I don't know, I can't keep up with all of your boyfriends!
Marty Hey! (Dave and Linda look at him) What the hell is this?
Linda Breakfast.
Dave What, you slept in your clothes again last night?
Marty Yeah. What are you wearing, Dave?
Dave Marty, (stands up) I always wear a suit to the office.
Jennifer (after Marty discovers his new truck): How about a ride, Mister.
Marty Jennifer! Oh man, are you a sight for sore eyes. Let me look at you.
Marty, your acting like you haven't seen me in a week.
Marty I haven't.
Is everything okay? Is everything going all right?
Marty [Marty looks back at his parents]
Oh, yeah. Everything's great (as they are about to kiss, Doc Brown's time machine appears)
Marty! You've got to come back with me!
Marty Where?
Back to the future.
Marty [Doc opens a trash can]
Whoa, wait a minute, what are you doing, Doc?
I need fuel. Go ahead, quick. Get in the car!
Marty No, no, no, no, no, no, Doc. I just got here, alright, Jennifer's here, we're gonna take the new truck for a spin.
Well, bring her along. This concerns her too.
Marty Whoa, wait a minute, Doc. What are you talking about? What happens to us in the future? What, do we become assholes or something?
No, no, no, no, no, Marty. Both you and Jennifer turn out fine. It's your kids, Marty. Something's gotta be done about your kids!
Marty Hey Doc, you better back up, we don't have enough road to get up to 88.
Roads? Where we're going, we don't need... roads.
Note: These lines are from a deleted segment of the "Darth Vader from Planet Vulcan" scene.
Marty (As "Darth Vader")
You, George McFly, have created a rift in the space-time continium!
I'm sorry, I didn't mean it!
Marty [Marty and Jennifer are walking together. She carries her schoolbooks; he has the skateboard. And he's depressed.]
"Too loud". I can't believe it. I'm never gonna get a chance to play in front of anybody.
Marty, one rejection isn't the end of the world.
Marty Nah, I just don't think I'm cut out for music.
But you're good, Marty, you're really good. And this audition tape of yours is great, you gotta send it in to the record company. It's like Doc's always saying.
Marty Yeah. I know, I know. "If you put your mind to it, you could accomplish anything."
[Marty eyes some exercise ladies, and Jennifer nonchalantly turns his head back to her.]
That's good advice, Marty.
Marty Alright, okay, Jennifer. What if I send in the tape and they don't like it? I mean, what if they say I'm no good? What if they say, "Get outta here, kid, you got no future." I mean, I just don't think I can take that kind of rejection. (sighs) Jesus, I'm beginning to sound like my old man.
Lou Are you gonna order somethin’, kid?
Marty Yeah, gimme a Tab.
Lou Tab? I can't give you a tab unless you order somethin'.
Marty Right, gimme a Pepsi Free.
Lou You wanna a Pepsi, pal, you're gonna pay for it.
Marty Well just gimme somethin’ without any sugar in it, okay?
Lou Without any sugar.
[sees Marty's picture, still thinking Marty is lying to him]
Pretty mediocre photographic fakery. They cut off your brother's hair.
Marty I'm tellin' the truth, Doc. You gotta believe me.
Then tell me, Future Boy, who's President of the United States in 1985?
Marty Ronald Reagan.
Ronald Reagan? The actor? [scoffs] Then who's vice-president? Jerry Lewis? I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady!
Marty Whoa, wait, Doc!
And Jack Benny is Secretary of the Treasury!
Marty Doc, you gotta listen to me!
I've had enough practical jokes for one evening! Good night, future boy! [slams door]
Marty No, wait, Doc! The-the-the-the bruise! The bruise on your head! I know how that happened! You told me the whole story! You were standing on your toilet, and you were hanging a clock, and you fell, and you hit your head on the sink, and that's when you came up with the idea for the flux capacitor, which is what, makes time travel possible.
Marty, why are you so nervous?
Marty Lorraine, have you ever, uh, been in a situation where you knew you had to act a certain way, but when you got there, you didn't know if you could go through with it?
You mean, like how you're supposed to act on a first date?
Marty Well, sort of.
Oh, I, I think I know exactly what you mean.
Marty Y-y-you do?
You know what I do in those situations?
Marty What?
I don't worry. [kisses him hard, then stops and pulls back to see Marty is shocked] This is all wrong. I don't know what it is, but when I kiss you, it's like I'm kissing... my brother. I guess that doesn't make any sense, does it?
Marty Believe me, it makes perfect sense.
Marty [surprised]
You're alive! [Doc unbuttons his suit to reveal the bulletproof vest] Bulletproof vest? How did you know? I di-I never got a chance to tell you. [Doc reveals Marty's torn-up 1955 letter which has been taped back together] What about all that talk about screwing up future events? The spacetime continuum?
Well, I figured, "what the hell?"
