Dr. Alan Grant It's... it's a dinosaur!
Played by Sam Neill 
Jurassic Park (1993) · 122 quotes
Jurassic Park (1993) · 122 quotes
4th most-quoted character in Jurassic Park (1993): in 19 of its 122 quotes
Most scenes with: Tim Murphy (8), Dr. Ian Malcolm (4), John Hammond (3)
T. Rex doesn't want to be fed, he wants to hunt. Can't just... suppress 65 million years of gut instinct.
More lines from Dr. Alan Grant
8 quotes Dr. Alan Grant Dr. Alan Grant They're moving in herds. They do move in herds.
Dr. Alan Grant [Responding to a non-impressed 10-year old]
Try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous Period. You get your first look at this "six foot turkey" as you enter a clearing. He moves like a bird, lightly, bobbing his head. And you keep still because you think that maybe his visual acuity is based on movement like T-Rex, he'll lose you if you don't move. But no, not Velociraptor. You stare at him, and he just stares right back. And that's when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side, from the other two 'raptors you didn't even know were there. Because Velociraptor's a pack hunter, you see, he uses coordinated attack patterns and he is out in force today. And he slashes at you with this- a six-inch retractable claw, like a razor, on the middle toe. He doesn't bother to bite your jugular like a lion, oh no... He slashes at you here, [makes slashing motions below the child's chest] or here... [above the groin] Or maybe across the belly, spilling your intestines. The point is... you are alive when they start to eat you. So you know... try to show a little respect.
Dr. Alan Grant Bet you'll never look at birds the same way again.
Dr. Alan Grant Mr. Hammond, after careful consideration, I have decided not to endorse your park.
Dr. Alan Grant Just think of it as... kind of a big cow.
Dr. Alan Grant "Mr. Hammond, the phones are working."
Dr. Alan Grant [on the Triceratops]
Ellie, this one was always my favorite when I was a kid. And now I've seen one, it's the most beautiful thing I ever saw.
Scenes with Dr. Alan Grant
10 scenes
[Hammond drops hints about his new island theme park to Ellie and child-wary Alan]
And there's no doubt our attractions will drive kids out of their minds.
Alan Grant What are those?
Small versions of adults, honey.
Alan Grant You got any kids?
Me? Oh, hell yeah. Three. I love kids. Anything at all can and does happen. Same with wives, for that matter.
Alan Grant You're married?
Occasionally. Yeah, I'm... I'm always on the lookout for a future... ex-Mrs. Malcolm.
Alan Grant [Thunderous approaching footsteps send Donald Gennaro fleeing into a restroom]
Now where does he think he's going?
When you gotta go, you gotta go.
[Tim and Alan escape the tree-bound Explorer, which then falls to the ground, covering them]
Well... we're back... in the car again.
Alan Grant Well, at least you're out of the tree.
[Alan and the kids bed down in a tree after their night of harrowing escapades]
What are you and Ellie going to do now if you don't have to dig up dinosaur bones anymore?
Alan Grant I don't know. I guess... I guess we'll just have to evolve, too.
What do you call a blind dinosaur?
Alan Grant I don't know. What do you call a blind dinosaur?
Do-you-think-he-saurus?
Alan Grant [Chuckles]
What do you call a blind dinosaur's dog?
Alan Grant You got me.
Do-you-think-he-saurus rex.
Alan Grant It's okay, it's okay. It's a brachioasaur.
It's a veggie-saurus, Lex! Veggie-saurus!
Veggie?
Alan Grant [Fleeing the climactic dinosaur battle, Alan, Ellie and the kids jump into Hammond's waiting Jeep]
Mr. Hammond, after careful consideration, I've decided not to endorse your park.
So have I.
Alan Grant We're out of a job.
Don't you mean extinct?
[The guests arrive at the theatre. Hammond walks over to the movie screen where a projected version of himself hobbles into view, clutching a cane topped with an amber-imprisoned mosquito]
Oh, here he comes. Well, here I come. [He walks over to the screen after the screen Hammond appears] Hello, John. [Gestures to audience] Say hello.
Screen Hammond
Hello, John!
Screen Hammond
How did I get here?
Well, let me show you. First, I'll need a drop of blood. Your blood. [pokes the screen Hammond's finger with a needle]
Screen Hammond
Ouch! John, that hurt!
Relax, John. It's all part of the miracle of cloning.
Screen Hammond #1
[A second Hammond appears on the screen]
Hello, John.
Screen Hammond #2
Hello, John.
Screen Hammond #2
[A third Hammond appears with the others]
Hello.
Screen Hammond #3
Hello, John.
Alan Grant [As the screen Hammonds continue to multiply and greet each other, filling the screen]
Cloning from what? Loy extraction has never recreated an intact DNA strand.
Not without massive sequence gaps.
Paleo-DNA from what source? Where do you get 100-million-year-old dinosaur blood?
Screen Hammond
[As the presentation goes on, an animated DNA strand flies out of the screen Hammond's finger, slides down his head and raps on his shoulder]
Oh, Mr. DNA! Where'd you come from?
Mr. DNA From your blood. Just one drop of your blood contains billions of strands of DNA, the building blocks of life! [He appears behind a blue background and takes over the presentation] A DNA strand, like me, is a blueprint for building a living thing. And sometimes, animals that went extinct millions of years ago, like dinosaurs, left their blueprints behind for us to find. We just had to know where to look. [He pushes away the blueprint background to show a mosquito on the back of a dinosaur] A hundred million years ago, there were mosquitoes, just like today. And just like today, they fed on the blood of animals. Even dinosaurs. [The mosquito, its abdomen filled with dinosaur blood, flies to a tree. The next scene shows a real mosquito fighting its way through running tree sap] Sometimes, after biting a dinosaur, the mosquito would land on the branch of a tree and get stuck in the sap. [The next scene shows two animated miners digging underground. One of them finds the mosquito imprisoned in the amber] After a long time, the sap got hardened and became fossilized, just like a dinosaur bone, preserving the mosquito inside. This fossilized tree sap, which we call "amber," waited millions of years with the mosquito inside until Jurassic Park scientists came along. [The next scene shows a scientist drilling into the amber and extracting the blood from the mosquito with a needle] Using sophisticated techniques, they extract the preserved blood and bingo! Dino DNA! [An orange background shows genetic codes traveling at light speed as if they are cars and trains, making Mr. DNA dizzy] A full DNA strand contains three billion genetic codes. If we looked at screens like these once a second for eight hours a day, it'd take two years to look at the entire strand! It's that long! And since it's so old, it's full of holes! That's where our geneticists take over! [A genetic code speeds by, pushing him off screen to show shows scientists in a laboratory, taking eggs out of incubators] Thinking Machines supercomputers and gene sequencers break down the strand in minutes and virtual reality displays shows our geneticists the gaps in the DNA sequence. Since most animal DNA is 90% identical, we used the complete DNA of a frog... [The next scene shows a bullfrog which later cuts to an actual DNA strand with a hole in it. Mr. DNA carries the letters "G," C," A," and "T."] ...to fill the... holes and... complete the... [He fills in the hole of the DNA strand] ...Codes! And now, we can make a baby dinosaur. [The scene then cuts to an egg which hatches into a baby dinosaur]
Alan Grant [Upon discovering an abandoned nest]
You know what this is? It's a dinosaur egg. The dinosaurs are breeding.
But Grandpa said all the dinosaurs were girls.
Alan Grant Amphibian DNA.
What's that?
Alan Grant Well, on the tour, the film said they used frog DNA to fill in the gene sequence gaps; they mutated the dinosaur genetic code and blended it with that of frogs. Now, some West African frogs are able to spontaneously change sex from male to female in a single-sex environment. Malcolm was right... Look. [points to tracks in the sand] Life found a way.
