...You got that honey?! John...J-O-H-N!
Lord John Whorfin
John Lithgow · 11 quotes
Buckaroo Banzai
Peter Weller · 9 quotes
John Bigboote
Christopher Lloyd · 6 quotes
John Parker
Carl Lumbly · 6 quotes
President Widmark
Ronald Lacey · 4 quotes
New Jersey
Jeff Goldblum · 3 quotes
Rawhide
Clancy Brown · 3 quotes
Most scenes together: Buckaroo Banzai & John Parker (3), Buckaroo Banzai & New Jersey (2)
Buckaroo Banzai quotes
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Announcement over Hospital PA system
Lithium is no longer available on credit.
Announcement over Red Lectroid Spaceship PA system'
We are not in the Eighth dimension, we are over New Jersey. Hope is not lost.
BANZAI! I'LL SEE YOU IN HELL!!!
Chase One Helicopter Pilot
This is Chase One. We got his tracks, they go right up to a wall of rock! Holy shit!
[to a doctor witnessing Dr. Banzai performing brain surgery]
Dr. Banzai is using a laser to vaporize the pineal tumor without damaging the quadrigeminal plate. Subcutaneous microphones are gonna allow the patient to transmit verbal instructions to his own brain.
Doctor
Like, "Raise my right arm"?
Or "Throw the harpoon". People are gonna come from all over. This boy's an Eskimo.
You ever thought about joining me full-time?
Uh huh. Can you sing?
A little. Yeah. I can dance...
Artie Duncan I don't care if you walked through a mountain in Texas. This is New Jersey, and when you play my... [distracted by someone walking past him] ...when you play my joint, you're just another act. I want some music out'a you characters!
Reno Nevada You want it, Artie? You got it.
Scooter Lindley Dad! Dad! Buckaroo's in trouble!
Casper Lindley Say what?!
Perfect Tommy Don't embarrass us.
Have I ever?
[about the thermo-pod] Buckaroo Banzai: It flies like a truck.
Good. [pause] What is a truck?
[as the thermo-pod is in free-fall] Buckaroo Banzai:: Can't you fly this thing?
I'm a diplomat! I failed flight school!
General Catburd Mr. President, I am a soldier. And I'm a damn good one. I've got enough decorations to snap a Christmas tree. All I'm trying to say is, and I hope I speak for everyone in this room, is that I am scared. I'm barely holding my... fudge, right now.
Senator Cunningham [A Woman]
Stop acting like a goddamn schoolgirl, General, and pull yourself together!
I'm glad someone has the balls to face facts!
Where are we?
I'd hate to tell you.
[New Jersey and Reno are sneaking through the lab when New Jersey notices a watermelon held in a pneumatic compression device]
Why is there a watermelon there ?
Reno Nevada I'll tell you later.
Scooter Lindley [holding a Ruger Mini-14 semi-automatic rifle]
Get away from that car, or I'll drink your blood!
Secretary of Defense [nervously]
Whatcha got there, son? That's not... real, is it?
Scooter Lindley [Scooter Lindley fires a round at the ceiling. The Secretary of Defense jumps back.]
Get 'em up!
Full speed ahead! And may I remind you, to fasten your-a seat belts, and esstinguish all smoking material.
We haven't a CHANCE! Your overthruster's for SHIT! We'll lose...
One more WORD out of you, Bigbooty...
John Bigbote
[screaming]
BIG-BOO-TAY! TAY! TAY!
Mission Control Operator [Lord John Whorfin shoots him]
Buckaroo, the White House wants to know is everything OK with the alien space craft from Planet 10 or should we just go ahead and destroy Russia?
Tell him yes on one and no on two.
Mission Control Operator Which one was yes, go ahead and destroy Russia... or number 2?
John Parker, take this wheel. Just... just hold on, that's good. It flies like a truck.
Good. {pause} What is a truck?
{as the thermopod is in free-fall} Can't you fly this thing?
I'm a diplomat! I failed flight school!
There is a term sometimes used at the Banzai Institute: The Three Bs, meaning the Bus, the Bath, and the Bed. That is where the greatest discoveries are made in science. When one is at his most relaxed, the most receptive... that is when a foreign consciousness, a "stray bullet" as B. Banzai calls it, may pop into one's head.
Where are we going?
Red Lectroids
Planet 10!
When?
Red Lectroids
Real soon!
Penny Priddy I think I'm going crazy... Who's that girl, Buckaroo? What's going on around here? You drag me out of jail, you're... you're like Jerry Lewis, you give me hope to carry on, but... then you leave me in the lurch while you strap on your six-guns! What do you want from me, Buckaroo? Who am I?
Penny Priddy Uh, Dr. Banzai, you... you forgot your thruster.
{smiles at her} Why don't you hold onto it for a while?
Penny Priddy {suggestively} Anytime...
Radio communication
Horizontal velocity is expanding, over.
Scooter Lindley Get away from that car, or I'll drink your blood!
Secretary of Defense {noticing Scooter is holding an automatic rifle} Whatcha got there, son? That's not... real, is it?
Scooter Lindley {fires a shot to the side} Get 'em up!
Sign for Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems
The future begins tomorrow.