Dr. Alan Grant You do not understand. On this island, there is no such thing as safe!
Played by Sam Neill 
Jurassic Park 3 (2001) · 45 quotes
Jurassic Park 3 (2001) · 45 quotes
Most-quoted character in Jurassic Park 3 (2001): in 35 of its 45 quotes
Most scenes with: Billy (8), Paul Kirby (7), Eric (7)
Some of the worst things imaginable have been done "with the best intentions". You know, as far as I'm concerned, you're no better than the people who built this place.
More lines from Dr. Alan Grant
8 quotes Dr. Alan Grant Dr. Alan Grant [after Billy explains why his bag strap is lucky]
Reverse Darwinism: survival of the most idiotic.
Dr. Alan Grant [upon reaching Isla Sorna and seeing the dinosaurs]
My God, I'd forgotten.
Dr. Alan Grant You cannot land on this island!
Dr. Alan Grant Will you tell your wife to stop making noise? That is a very, very bad idea.
Dr. Alan Grant [as the raptor is cawing]
My God. He's calling for help.
Dr. Alan Grant [finding a dinosaur carcass]
It's okay, it's dead. [ T. rex raises its head from behind the dead dinosaur] Nobody move a muscle! [T. rex roars and everyone besides Grant runs away]
Dr. Alan Grant This is good. This is great. We're stuck on the worst place in the world, and we're not even getting paid!
Scenes with Dr. Alan Grant
26 scenes Dr. Alan Grant [As Alan is with Charlie playing with the toy dinosaurs]
Actually Charlie, those are herbivores. They really wouldn't be interested in fighting with each other. But these ones here are carnivores, and they really like fighting with each other. They use their teeth and claws to rip each other's throats out.
So what are you working on now?
Alan Raptors mostly.
My...favorite.
Alan Do you remember the sounds they made?
I try not to.
Dr. Grant All our theories about raptor intelligence, what they were capable of, we weren't even close.
Tell me.
Dr. Grant Well, we did cranium scans of a fossil skull. We found what looks like a very sophisticated resonating chamber.
Wait a second? So we were right. They had the ability to vocalize.
Dr. Grant I'm convinced that's the key to their social intelligence.
Which explains why they could work together as a team.
Dr. Grant And coordinate their attacks so the prey wouldn't know what was going on.
They could talk to each other.
Dr. Grant To a degree we never imagined. Ellie, they were smart. They were smarter than dolphins or whales. They were smarter than primates.
You're still the best. I mean that.
Dr. Grant The last of my breed.
Symposium Leader Does anyone have a question?
Dr. Grant [The entire audience raises their hands]
Fine. Does anyone have a question that does not relate to Jurassic Park?
Dr. Grant [several audience members lower their hands]
...Or the incident in San Diego, which I did not witness.
Dr. Grant [The entire audience except one person lowers their hands]
Yes, sir?
Male Student Your theory on raptors is good and all, but isn't all this conjecture kind of moot? I mean, once the U.N. and Costa Rica and everyone decides how to handle that second island, scientists will just go in and look for themselves.
Dr. Grant Dinosaurs lived sixty five million years ago. What is left of them is fossilized in the rocks, and it is in the rock that real scientists make real discoveries. Now what John Hammond and InGen did at Jurassic Park is create genetically engineered theme park monsters, nothing more and nothing less.
Female Student Are you saying you wouldn't want to get onto Isla Sorna and study them, if you had the chance?
Dr. Grant No force on earth or heaven could get me on that island.
So, how'd it go?
Dr. Grant Well, it's not too late to change your major, Billy.
Not good, huh?
You like computers, right?
Dr. Grant I like the abacus, Billy.
I've made a lot of friends in high places. In this case, the Costa Rican government.
Dr. Grant, you have no idea how important it is to us that you come along. It would make all the difference.
Alan Mrs. Kirby, I...I...
And of course, we'd love to make a contribution to your research here. So... [pulls out a checkbook] I could write all kinds of numbers on this check, Dr. Grant. Tell me...what's it gonna take?
Alan, I wanted to thank you bringing me along on this.
Dr. Alan Grant Yeah, well the bones will still be there when we get back; that's the great thing about bones, they never run away. And the truth is...[sotto voce] You got me into this, and I have no intention of being on my own with these people.
That's a Tyrannosaurus.
Dr. Grant I don't think so. It sounds bigger.
Dr. Grant [As Paul and Amanda explain they are in the island to rescue their son Eric]
Alright, so why me?
He said we needed someone who'd been on the island before.
Yes, but I did not tell you to kidnap somebody.
Dr. Grant I have never been on this island.
Sure you have. You wrote that book.
That was Isla Nublar. This is Isla Sorna, Site B.
You mean that there are two islands with dinosaurs on them?
All right, you just stay out of this!
Dr. Grant So, how long have they been missing?
Eight weeks.
Almost eight weeks now.
Dr. Grant Billy, we go back to the plane and salvage what we can. Then we make for the coast.
Dr. Grant, we're not leaving this island without our son.
Dr. Grant Then you can go look for him, or you can stay with us as long as you don't hold us up. Either way, you probably won't get off this island alive. [Alan and Billy head off]
Well, we search for your son...in the direction that they're going.
Excellent. Excellent. [The trio quickly hurry after them]
Dr. Grant [After Billy photographs a Spinosaurus Footprint]
How would you classify it, Billy?
Well, it's a super-predator. Suchomimus; [makes a hand motion] Snout.
Dr. Grant No, think bigger.
Baryonx?
Dr. Grant Not with that sail. Spinosaurus aegypticus.
I don't remember that on InGen's list.
Dr. Grant That's because it wasn't on their list, and it makes you wonder what else they were up to.
[noticing Paul struggling with getting his backpack on]
So Mr. Kirby, when you climbed K-2, did you base camp at 25 or 30,000 feet?
You were about 1,000 feet above it, actually.
No, no. That's a common misconception.
Dr. Grant Mr. Kirby, there's no such thing as Kirby Enterprises, is there?
It's Kirby's Paint and Tile Plus. The "Plus" stands for bathroom fixtures; we're in the Westgate Shopping Center in Enid, Oklahoma.
So I don't suppose that check you wrote us is any good.
Alright, now, now-
Dr. Grant [muttering]
This is good.
Listen to me. I will pay you the money, no matter what…
Dr. Grant This is good! Here we are on the worst place on earth, and we're not even being paid!
Alright, now wait, fellas. Hold on. I’ll make this up to you. If you ever do a bathroom or a kitchen…
Dr. Grant What are you doing?!
I was photographing the nest.
Dr. Grant Don't do that again.
Sorry.
Dr. Grant If I lose you, it's just me and the damn tourists.
Dr. Grant No. This is how you play God.
I read both your books. I liked your first one more, before you were on the island. You liked dinosaurs back then.
Dr. Grant Back then they hadn't tried to eat me yet.
Dr. Grant This is T. rex... pee?
Dr. Grant [Eric nods]
How'd you get it?
You don't wanna know.
Dr. Grant Eric, I have to tell you, I'm astonished that you lasted eight weeks on this island.
Dr. Grant Well, you're alive and that's the important thing. And thanks to you, that's one thing we have in common. [after a moment] Did you read Malcolm's book?
Yeah.
Dr. Grant So?
I-I don't know. I mean, it was kind of preachy. And too much chaos. Everything's chaos. It seemed like the guy was kind of high on himself.
Dr. Grant [smiling]
That's two things that we have in common.
Know what this is?
Dr. Grant That's a raptor claw. I used to have one. A fossil.
Mine is new.
The phone. That stupid jingle from the store, I heard it.
My phone?
Yeah, your satellite phone.
Where is it?
I don't have it.
When did you use it last?
Uh, uh, on the plane. I got a call on the plane and... [stops in realization]
What? What?!
I loaned it to Nash. He must've had it when he-
Dr. Grant [Phone ringtones and the group turn in horror to see the Spinosaurs staring at them]
Run.
[After Dr. Grant decides to hold on to the raptor eggs]
What are you doing? Those things are after us because of those.
Dr. Grant Those things know we have the eggs. I drop them in the river, they'll still be after us.
What if they catch us with 'em?
Dr. Grant What is they catch us without 'em?
Dr. Grant [As the fog clears...]
Oh, my God.
What is it?
Dr. Grant It's a birdcage.
For what?
I'm sorry about Billy.
Dr. Grant You know what the last thing I said to him was? I said, "You're as bad as the people that built this place." Which wasn't true. Billy was just...young. That's all. I have a theory that there are two kinds of boys. There are those that want to be astronomers, and those that want to be astronauts. The astronomer, or the paleontologist, gets to- gets to study these amazing things from a place of complete safety.
But then you never get to go into space.
Dr. Grant Exactly. That's the difference between imagining and seeing; to be able to touch them. And that's...that's all that Billy wanted.
Dr. Grant.
That lady you called.
Dr. Grant Hmm?
Who is she? How do you know that she can help us?
Dr. Grant She was the one person I could always count on. I owe her a lot. Although I don't think I ever told her that.
You should.
[Later, when they all are rescued]
Wow. You have to thank her now. She sent the Navy and the Marines!
Dr. Grant God bless you, Ellie.
I rescued your hat.
Dr. Alan Grant [jokingly]
Well, that's the important thing.
Dr. Grant I don't know. Maybe just looking for new nesting grounds. it's a whole new world for them.
I dare 'em to nest in Enid, Oklahoma.
