It’s your birthday. Someone gives you a calfskin wallet.
Blade Runner quotes
Page 3 of 4It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?
Leon's pictures had to be as phony as Rachael's. I didn't know why a Replicant would collect photos. Maybe they were like Rachael... they needed memories.
Painful to live in fear, isn't it? Nothing is worse than having an itch you can never scratch. Wake up! Time to die!
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
Stop right where you are! You know the score, pal! If you're not cop, you're little people.
Sushi. That's what my ex-wife used to call me. "Cold fish."
Talk about beauty and the beast — she's both.
The charmer's name was Gaff, I'd seen him around. Bryant must have upped him to the Blade Runner unit. That gibberish he talked was city speak, gutter talk. A mishmash of Japanese, Spanish, German, what have you. I didn't really need a translator, I knew the lingo, every good cop did. But I wasn't going to make it easier for him.
The report would be "routine retirement of a Replicant", which didn't make me feel any better about shooting a woman in the back. There it was again... feeling in myself... for her... for Rachael.
These were expunged from the Director's Cut version. It has been said that both Scott and Ford were unhappy with the dialogue, as it was forced by the studio and was written by another scriptwriter (Roland Kibbee) not associated with the project. They can still be found in International editions, and all were spoken by Harrison Ford.
They don't advertise for killers in the newspaper. That was my profession. Ex-cop. Ex-blade runner. Ex-killer.
This narration was only used for the film's workprint. The only piece of narration used in this version, it is an alternate version of Deckard's questioning of Roy saving his life.
Tyrell really did a job on Rachael. Right down to a snapshot of a mother she never had... a daughter she never was. Replicants weren't supposed to have feelings... neither were blade runners. What the hell was happening to me?
Whatever was in the bathtub was not human. Replicants don't have scales.