John Hammond I own an island off the coast of Costa Rica.
Tied for 2nd most-quoted character in Jurassic Park (1993): in 26 of its 122 quotes
Most scenes with: Tim Murphy (9), Dr. Ellie Sattler (5), Robert Muldoon (4)
I don't believe. I don't believe it! You're [Grant and Ellie] meant to come down here and defend me against these characters [Malcolm and Gennaro], and the only one I've got on my side is the bloodsucking lawyer!
More lines from John Hammond
12 quotes John Hammond John Hammond [Repeated line]
Spared no expense.
John Hammond I bring the scientists, you bring the rock star.
John Hammond Welcome... to Jurassic Park!
John Hammond [Answering to Dr. Alan Grant]
I'll show you!
John Hammond Ay ay ay ay...Why didn't I build in Orlando?
John Hammond [About Malcom, while Malcom is toying with the vehicle's surveillance camera]
I really hate that man...
John Hammond Dennis. Our lives are in your hands and you have butterfingers?
John Hammond I don't blame people for their mistakes. But I do ask that they pay for them.
John Hammond I understand how to read a schematic!
John Hammond DAMN!
John Hammond [to Donald Gennaro, referring to Ian Malcolm]
I bring scientists, you bring a rockstar.
Scenes with John Hammond
13 scenes John Hammond [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.
What are those?
Small versions of adults, honey.
The national weather service is tracking a tropical storm about 75 miles West of us.
John Hammond Ay ay ay ay... Why didn't I build in Orlando?
John Hammond Dennis. Our lives are in your hands and you have butterfingers?
I am totally unappreciated in my time! We can run the whole park from this room, with minimal staff, for up to three days. You think that kind of automation is easy? Or cheap? You know anybody who can network eight Connection Machines and de-bug two million lines of code for what I bid this job? 'Cause if they can, I'd like to see them try!
John Hammond I'm sorry about your financial problems, Dennis, I really am. But they are your problems.
You're right, John. You're absolutely right. Everything's my problem.
John Hammond I will not get drawn into another financial "debate" with you, Dennis. I really will not.
There's been hardly any debate at all.
John Hammond I don't blame people for their mistakes- but I do ask that they pay for them.
Thanks, Dad.
[Hammond observes Malcolm talking into an Explorer camera during an initially uneventful tour of the park]
Now, eventually you might have dinosaurs on your, on your dinosaur tour, right? Hello? [Raps lens] Hello, hello... [Breathes on lens] Yes?
John Hammond I really hate that man.
The raptor fences aren't out, are they?
Ray Arnold [Checks] No, no. They're still on.
John Hammond Why the hell would he [Nedry] turn the other ones off?
John Hammond [Eating several bowls of ice cream, which were melting]
They were all melting.
Malcom's okay for now, I gave him a shot of morphine.
John Hammond They'll be fine. Who better to get the children through Jurassic Park than a dinosaur expert? You know the first [swallows] attraction I built when I came down from Scotland... was a flea circus. Petticoat Lane.Really..quite wonderful. We had uh...a wee trapeze, a merry-go-... carousel.Heh. And a see-saw. They all moved, motorized, of course, but people would say they could see the fleas, "Oh, mummy! I can see the fleas, can't you see the fleas?" Clown fleas, highwire fleas and fleas on parade. But with this place... I wanted to give them something that wasn't an illusion.Something that was real. Something they could see, and touch. An aim not devoid of merit.
But you can't think through this one, John. You have to feel it.
John Hammond You're right, you're absolutely right. Hiring Nedry was a mistake, that's obvious, we're over-dependent on automation, I can see that now. Now the next time, everything's correctable. Creation is an act of sheer will. Next time it'll be flawless.
It's still the flea circus. It's all an illusion.
John Hammond When we have control again--
You never had control! That's the illusion! I was overwhelmed by the power of this place. But I made a mistake, too. I didn't have enough respect for that power and it's out now. The only thing that matters now are the people we love. Alan and Lex and Tim...John,they're out there where people are dying. So...[takes a spoonful of ice cream;swallows] It's good.
John Hammond Spared no expense.
John Hammond All major theme parks have delays. When they opened Disneyland in 1956, nothing worked.
Yeah, but John, if the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists.
John Hammond [Muldoon and Ellie equip themselves for a run to the maintenance shed]
But, it ought to be me, really, going.
Why?
John Hammond Well, I'm a... and you're, uh...
Look...
Come on, let's go.
We can discuss 'sexism in survival situations' when I get back.
[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.
John Hammond So have I.
The full 50 miles of perimeter fence are in place?
John Hammond [in a annoyed tone]
And the concrete moats, and the motion sensor tracking systems. Donald, dear boy, relax. Try to enjoy yourself.
Let's get something straight, John. This is not a weekend excursion. This is a serious investigation of the stability of the island. Your investors, who I represent, are deeply concerned. Forty-eight hours from now, if they're not convinced, I'm not convinced. I'll shut you down, John.
John Hammond [chuckles]
In forty-eight hours, I'll be accepting your apologies.
Hammond [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!
Hammond [pulls notecards from his pocket]
Oh, I've got lines.
Screen Hammond
How did I get here?
Hammond 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!
Hammond 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.
[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]
[In the park control room]
No, that's crazy, you're out of your mind. He's absolutely out of his mind.
Wait a minute. What exactly would this mean?
John Hammond We're talking about a calculated risk, my dear, which is about the only option left to us. We will never find the command Nedry used; he's covered his tracks far too well. I think it's obvious now he's not coming back. So, shutting down the entire system…
You can get somebody else because I won't do it. I will not-!
John Hammond Shutting down the system is the only way to wipe out everything he did. Now, as I understand it, all the systems will then come back online in their original start-up mode. Correct?
Theoretically, yes. But we've never shut down the entire system before. It might not come back on at all!
Would we get the phones back?
Yes. Again, in theory.
What about the lysine contingency? We could put that into effect.
What's that?
John Hammond That is absolutely out of the question!
The lysine contingency is intended to prevent the spread of the animals in case they ever get off the island. Dr. Wu inserted a gene that creates a single faulty enzyme in protein metabolism; the animals can't manufacture the amino acid, lysine. Unless they're completely supplied with lysine by us, they slip into a coma and die.
John Hammond [angrily]
PEOPLE. ARE. DYING! [pause] Will you please shut down the system?
Visitor vehicles are returning to the garage.
John Hammond So much for our first tour. Two no-shows and one sick Triceratops.
It could've been worse, John. A lot worse.
Anybody want a soda or something? I'm going up to the machine. I thought maybe I'd get somebody something. I've had only sweets and I'm gonna get something salty. Oh, uh, I finished de-bugging the phones. You know, I was going to, so I did. So I de-bugged the phones. And I thought maybe... I should tell you the system will be compiling... for, uh, 18 to 20 minutes, so some of the minor systems... uh, they might go on and off for a while, but it's nothing to worry about. It's just a simple thing.
