Independence Day 1996 quotes, page 4

115 quotes · 11 characters
Independence Day (1996) poster
Characters
Julius Levinson Judd Hirsch · 15 quotes
Connie 9 quotes
Jasmine Dubrow Vivica A. Fox · 4 quotes
Marilyn Whitmore Mary McDonnell · 3 quotes

Most scenes together: Captain Steven Hiller & David Levinson (7), David Levinson & Julius Levinson (4), David Levinson & Connie (4)

Independence Day quotes

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President Whitmore

I have a confession to make. I'm sleeping next to a beautiful young brunette.

You didn't let her stay up all night watching TV, did you?

President Whitmore

Of course not.

Patricia Whitmore
[…]

Daddy let me watch Letterman.

President Whitmore

Traitor.

President

I know there is much to learn from each other if we can make a truce. We can find a way to Co-exist. can there be a peace between us?

Alien

Peace? NO PEACE!

President Whitmore

What is it you want us to do?

Captured Alien

Die…die…

[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!

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.

Oh don't give me "unprepared"! It was, what? In the nineteen- what, fifties. Whatever You had that spaceship.

Yeah, that thing you found in New Mexico. Where was that?

Dad, not the spaceship.

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.

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?

[having arrived at Area 51 with his alien and a fleet of refugees, Steven talks to General Grey]

Sir, I'm really anxious to get back to El Toro.

[calmly]

Hasn't anyone told you? El Toro has been completely destroyed.

[Julius drinks from a styrofoam cup]

Hey, you have any idea how long it takes for those cups to decompose?

If you don't move [your chess piece] soon, I'm gonna start to decompose.

Burly Soldier
[Steve sees an unattended helicopter and gets in] [Pointing his gun at him]

What the hell are you doing? Get out of there!

Look, I got something I gotta handle, I'm just borrowing it.

Burly Soldier

No you're not, Sir

Do you really want to shoot me?

[Pause, then he lowers the gun]

Just tell 'em I hit you
[Soldier gives him a look saying, 'who would believe that?'] Bomber PilotMr President this is RetailOp! Squadron is in the air and procceding to target.

[The window on the spacecraft is opening, revealing Hiller and Levinson to the aliens]

Hey, what the hell are you doing?

It's not me, they're overriding the system. Oh… shit! Um, hide.
[They duck behind their seats]

[Accidentally almost launches a missile while his fighter is still grounded]

Oh CRAP! Which button I pressed? I picked a helluva day to quit drinkin'.

[Holds up a soda can]

Hey, you know how I'm, like. always trying to save the planet? [Tosses the can in the recycle bin and looks at the spaceship] Here's my chance.

[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.