A character in The Pagemaster (1994)

Richard Tyler quotes from The Pagemaster (1994)

Macaulay Culkin

Most-quoted character in The Pagemaster (1994): in 17 of its 26 quotes
Most scenes with: Adventure (5), Horror (5), Fantasy (5)

A line from Richard Tyler

I lost my library card. I can't check anybody out. We'll never get to the exit now.

More lines from Richard Tyler

7 quotes
Richard Tyler
[repeated line]

This is not good. Definitely not good.

Richard Tyler

Dad, 8% of all household accidents involve ladders, another 3% involve trees. We're looking at another 30% probability here.

Richard Tyler

You guys are the only friends I've ever had.

Richard Tyler

Thanks, but I have already a family. I really should be getting home now.

Richard Tyler

I was nearly torn apart by a crazy doctor, made into a slave by a bunch of mangy pirates, and eaten-- got that? --eaten by a fire-breathing dragon!

Richard Tyler
[new catchphrase]

Good. That was definitely good.

Richard Tyler
(to the Dragon before being swallowed and overcoming fear of being eaten)

I’m not scared of you!

Scenes with Richard Tyler

9 scenes
Richard Tyler

Can't argue with statistics, Dad.

Statistics. Here's something you can do: go down to Gutman's Hardware Store, buy a pound of these.

Richard Tyler

But, Dad...

Son, you can't live your life based on statistics. You've gotta take some chances. Now come on, Buddy.

[with a five-dollar-bill]

You can do this.

Richard Tyler
[Alan gives money to Richard. His mother Claire releases him and joins her father in unison] [Leaving his parents behind]

This is not good. Definately not good.

Mr. Dewey

Welcome to the library, young man. Don't tell me, you're here for a special book.

Richard Tyler

Uh, Mister...

Mr. Dewey

Stop, stop stop, let me guess. I have a talent for guessing what people need. You're in need of... [starts speaking magically] a fantasy. Brave knights, mythical faeries, ferocious dragons.

Richard Tyler

Look, all I want is...

Mr. Dewey
[grabbing him and speaking excitedly]

Adventure!! Of course, you're a boy who loves adventure, brimming with wicked demons, cutthroat pirates.

Richard Tyler

No, no. That's not it.

Mr. Dewey

Horror. [speaking scarily while creeping toward him] Ahh, horror. Evil demons, wretched monsters, haunted houses, graveya-a-rds. Yes, it's horror for you, boy. I'm sure of it. [back to normal voice] Your library card, please.

Richard Tyler

Uh, I don't have one.

Mr. Dewey
[makes a library card appear magically]

You do now.

I heard that! And I would let you know, I'm a Classic!

Mm-hmm, a classic misprint.

Why, you old sea serpent! I'll rip out your pages, and use them for--! (slips off) OH NO! (falls to the ground) MAN OVERBOARD!

Richard Tyler
(really freaking out)

Do something!

Hmm... (Gives you a blast of wand, then Adventure falls and crashed down) Oops. Ha, ha, I forgot my wand doesn't always work outside of the fantasy section.

Richard Tyler

You mean you can't wish us to the exit?

[notices the names carved on the wall of the gate]

Dr. Jekyll? Mr. Hyde? (turns away) Must be a duplex.

Richard Tyler

Whoa!

Go ahead, matey. I'm--I'm right behind ye. (Richard Tyler gasps, the trio walks onto the porch and stood behind the two doors of the house) [points the rope] Well, ring the bell.

Richard Tyler
(panting) [Reaches for the rope, and gives a yank, making the bell chime loudly]
Horror
[slipping off the roof of the house, falling down, and screaming, making Richard Tyler, Adventure and Fantasy look up]

AAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!
[Richard caught him in his arms] Oof!

Richard Tyler
[looks at Horror, disgusted]

Huh?

[flies back down to Richard]

Good catch!

Richard Tyler
(a little scared)

H--here, take it!

(blushing)

Isn't he sweet? (makes kissing sounds) Muah-muah-muah-muah-muah.

Horror
[looks at Richard Tyler] (little scared)

Oh, I scared you. I'm sorry.

You mustn't judge a book by its cover. [Horror makes a cheerful face]

Richard Tyler
(confused)

Uhhh...

Look, he's smiling.

Horror
[makes a smile, showing only a few teeth on his gum]

Ha-ha!

Richard Tyler
(grossed out)

That's a smile?

Horror

So, do I think I'm scaring it? He shouldn't swim right after eating you know, he'll get cramps.

Where did he go?

Richard Tyler

Aaaahh! (The Whales movement)

Row! Row for your lives!

Richard Tyler
[shrieking]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! [he caughts with a Moby Dick]

Abandon Ship--!

Richard Tyler, Horror, Fantasy, Adventure
[bites off the boat]

Waa-hooooooh!

Richard Tyler
[screams]

Aaaaaaaahhh--! [he falls down to the water and crashed] Me-me-me-me, me-me-me, me-me! [coughs in water] Guys! Where are you?!

Horror
[singing]

Sixteen men on a dead man's stomach.

No, no! Chest! Chest!

Horror

Oh, uh, chest. Chest. Ah, hee, hee, hee, ha, ha, ha, ha! [singing] Yo, ho, ho! And a bottle of rum!

Richard Tyler

Aah! Aaaaaah...!

Tom Morgan

Evil spirits!

Horror

Hee, hee! [jumping off the tree with a vine] SANCTUARY!! [knocks the pirates down, then landed on the ground] Huh!

Richard Tyler

Horror, you are alive!

Tom Morgan
[using the gun with Horror]

Not for long! Hee, hee, hee, hee, hee!

Horror

Aaaaaaaaaaah!

Richard Tyler

Where's Horror? Wasn't he with you?

He was, but he...I mean, I sort of...uh..he, uh....

[angrily]

Ohh, what did you say to him now?!

Well, I--I...I just...uh, I'll go find him.

Yeah, you better go find him. And be quick about it!

Richard Tyler

Wow! Look at this place!

Horror

It's so purdy. I could be misshelved here for a long time.

Happyland.

Richard Tyler
[on seeing the Pagemaster again]

Hey! How did you get here!?

[through her teeth]

Quit it! We're in the presence of the Pagemaster!

Richard Tyler

I know who he is. He's the one who did THIS [gesturing along his body] to me!! Do you have any idea what I've been through?!

Pagemaster

Tell me.

Richard Tyler

I was nearly torn apart by a crazy doctor!! I was made a slave by a bunch of mangy pirates. And eaten--got that, eaten--by a fire-breathing dragon!!

Horror

He don't mean it, my Pagemaster. He don't mean it.

Richard Tyler

And not to mention being tossed, squashed, and scared practically to death!!

Pagemaster

Yet you stand before me.

Richard Tyler

Well, yeah.

Pagemaster

Think, boy! What kind of an adventure would you have had if I brought you here with the turn of a page?

Dr. Jekyll
[hologram of Mr. Hyde appears, then morphs into Jekyll]

You prevailed over evil. [morphs into Captain Ahab]

Captain Ahab

Ah, you looked Moby Dick in the eye, boy. [morphs into Long John Silver]

Long John Silver

Ah, you had pirate stuff, me lad! And don't no one speak any different.

Pagemaster

If I hadn't brought you here from the start, you would never have found the courage to face your own fears. [hologram morphs into the Dragon] And in doing so, you triumph here... and always. [hologram shows a live-action Richard Tyler unconscious on the library's rotunda floor]

Richard Tyler

Hey, that's... That's me!

Pagemaster

That was you.

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