Independence Day 1996 quotes

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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Captain Jimmy Wilder

Or, as the good Reverend would say, [Impersonating Rev. Jesse Jackson] Why we're on this particular mission, we'll never know. But I do know, here today, that the Black Knights will emerge victorious once again.

Unknown Pilot

Amen, man.

Amen, Reverend.

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…

President Whitmore

I don't understand, where does all this come from? How do you get funding for something like this?

You don't actually think they spend $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat, do you?

I saw... his thoughts. I saw what they're planning to do. They're like locusts, they're moving from planet to planet, their whole civilization. After they've consumed every natural resource, they move on. And we're next. [Major Mitchell shoot the alien in the head] Nuke 'em. Let's nuke the bastards.

Y'know, this was supposed to be my weekend off. But noooo. You got me out here, draggin' your heavy ass, through the burnin' desert, with your dreadlocks (tentacles) sticking out the back of my parachute. You gotta come down here with an attitude, actin' all big and bad…and WHAT THE HELL IS THAT SMELL?! [screams and kicks the alien] I could've been at a BARBECUE! But I ain't mad.

Do me a favor. Tell my kids I loved them very much. [Then after taking his mask off] All right, you alien assholes! In the words of my generation: Up Yours!

Anchorman

Once again, the L.A.P.D. is asking Los Angelenos not to fire their guns at the visitor spacecraft. You may inadvertently trigger an interstellar war.

[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?

Well uh I'm Russell Casse and after Nam I got into crop dusting and I have been doing it ever since. On a, uh, personal note sir, I'd just like to add, uh, that ever since I was kidnapped by aliens ten years ago, I've been dyin' for some payback. Just want you know that, uh, I won't let you down.

Get on the wire and inform the squadron around the world. Tell them how to bring those sons of bitches down!

Marty Gilbert

A countdown…wait, a countdown to what, David?

Uh, it's like in chess: First, you strategically position your pieces and when the timing is right you… strike. See? They're positioning themselves all over the world using this signal to synchronize their efforts. In approximately six hours the signal's gonna disappear and the countdown's gonna be over.

Marty Gilbert

And then what?

Checkmate.

Marty Gilbert
[Gasp]

Oh, my God. Oh my God! I gotta call my brother, I'd better call my housekeeper, I gotta call my lawyer. Nah, forget my lawyer.