Julius Levinson So why are you waiting? Hmm? My Social Security will expire, you'll still be sitting there.
Played by Judd Hirsch 
Independence Day (1996) · 115 quotes
Independence Day (1996) · 115 quotes
4th most-quoted character in Independence Day (1996): in 15 of its 115 quotes
Most scenes with: David Levinson (4), President Thomas Whitmore (2), Albert Nimzicki (2)
'All you need is love.' John Lennon, smart man, shot in the back - very sad.
More lines from Julius Levinson
8 quotes Julius Levinson Julius Levinson It's the White House, for crying out loud. You can't just drive up and ring the bell.
Julius Levinson So tell me something: you're so smart, how come you spent 8 years at M.I.T. to become a cable repairman?
Julius Levinson Everyone in the world is trying to get out of Washington, and we're the only schmucks trying to get in.
Julius Levinson If I knew I was gonna meet the president I would've worn a tie. I mean, look at me, I look like a schliemiel.
Julius Levinson You punched the president? Mein Gott!
Julius Levinson It's Air Force One, for crying out loud, and still he gets sick! Look at me, like a rock. Could be bad weather could be good weather, doesn't matter. We could go up, we could go down, we could go back, we could go forward, we could go side to side. [David runs away, about to throw up] What-what did I say?
Julius Levinson [Just before David takes off in the spaceship]
Here, take these. [He hands him some airsick bags stolen from Air Force One] Just in case.
Scenes with Julius Levinson
6 scenes
[Julius drinks from a styrofoam cup]
Hey, you have any idea how long it takes for those cups to decompose?
Julius Levinson If you don't move [your chess piece] soon, I'm gonna start to decompose.
Julius Levinson David, see if they got those pens that they give away.
Dad, what?
[David, Connie, Grey, and Nimzicki are all taking at once, after David objects to them using nuclear weapons]
Shut up! Captain, get him out of here!
Julius Levinson Hey, don't tell him to shut up! You'd all be dead now if it wasn't for my David! None of you did anything to prevent this!
There was nothing we could do! We were totally unprepared for this.
Julius Levinson Oh don't give me "unprepared"! It was, what? In the nineteen- what, fifties. Whatever You had that spaceship.
Dad.
Julius Levinson Yeah, that thing you found in New Mexico. Where was that?
Dad, not the spaceship.
Julius Levinson Roswell. Roswell, New Mexico. No, you had the spaceship and you had the bodies. They were locked up in a, in a bunker. Where was that?
Sir…I don't know.
Julius Levinson David? Area 51, right? Area 51! You knew then! And you did nothing!
President Whitmore
Sir, regardless of what you may have read in the tabloids, there has never been any spacecraft recovered by our government. Take my word for it. There's no Area 51. There's no recovered spaceship.
Uh…excuse me, Mr. President. That's not entirely accurate.
What, which part?
President Whitmore
I don't understand, where does all this come from? How do you get funding for something like this?
Julius Levinson You don't actually think they spend $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat, do you?
Julius Levinson What's the matter with you?
Genius.
I'm not Jewish.
Julius Levinson Nobody's perfect.
