Indiana Jones Stop! Stay out of the light.
Most-quoted character in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981): in 38 of its 56 quotes
Most scenes with: Sallah (27), Marion Ravenwood (7), Brody (5)
Don't look at it. Shut your eyes, Marion. Don't look at it, no matter what happens.
More lines from Indiana Jones
9 quotes Indiana Jones Indiana Jones [seeing the skeleton from the trap]
Forrestal.
Indiana Jones [after finding Satipo dead, he picks up the golden idol]
Adiós Sapito.
Indiana Jones I hate snakes, Jock! I HATE 'EM!
Indiana Jones Any of you guys ever gone to Sunday school?
Indiana Jones It's a date. You eat 'em.
Indiana Jones Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?
Indiana Jones [handing a torch to Marion]
Here. Wave it at anything that slithers.
Indiana Jones Fools! Bureaucratic fools! They don't know what they've got there.
Scenes with Indiana Jones
28 scenes
Jones
This is it. This is where Forrestal cashed in.
A friend of yours?
Indiana
A competitor. He was good... he was very, very good.
Señor, nobody comes out of there alive. Please!
Let us hurry! There is nothing to fear here.
Jones [stops him]
That's what scares me.
Jones Give me the whip!
Throw me the idol! No time to argue, you throw me the idol, I throw you the whip.
Jones [Jones tosses the idol across the pit to Satipo]
Give me the whip!
Adiós señor!
Doctor Jones. Again, we see there is nothing you can possess which I cannot take away. And you thought I'd given up. You chose the wrong friends, this time it will cost you.
Jones [reluctantly hands the idol to Belloq]
Too bad the Hovitos... don't know you the way I do, Belloq.
Yes, too bad. You could warn them... if only you spoke Hovitos.
Jones There's a big snake in the plane, Jock!
Jock That's just my pet snake Reggie!
Jones I hate snakes, Jock! I HATE 'EM!
Jock Come on! Show a little backbone, will ya!
Jones I had it, Marcus. I had it in my hand.
What happened?
Jones Guess.
Jones Wanna hear about it?
Not at all.
Major Eaton
Doctor Jones, we've heard a lot about you.
Jones Have you?
Major Eaton
Professor of Archeology. Expert on the occult and, how does one say it... obtainer of rare antiquities.
Jones That's one way of saying it.
Colonel Musgrove You're definitely a man of many talents.
Major Eaton
And you studied under Professor Ravenwood at the University of Chicago.
Jones Yes, I did.
Major Eaton
Do you have any idea of his present whereabouts?
Jones Only rumors really. Somewhere in Asia, I think. I haven't spoken to him in ten years. We were friends once but we had a bit of a falling out, I'm afraid.
Colonel Musgrove Now, you must understand that this is all completely confidential.
Jones I understand.
Colonel Musgrove Yesterday afternoon our European section intercepted a German communique that was sent from Cairo to Berlin.
Major Eaton
You see for the last two years the Nazis have had teams of archaeologists running around the world looking for all sorts of religious artifacts. Hitler's gone nuts on the subject. He's obsessed with the occult, and right now there's some kind of German archaeological dig going on in the desert outside Cairo.
Colonel Musgrove Now we have some information here but we can't make anything out of it and we thought maybe you could. "Tanis development proceeding. Acquire headpiece to Staff of Ra. Abner Ravenwood, USA."
Jones The Nazi's have discovered Tanis...
Major Eaton
What exactly does this mean to you, this 'Tanis'?
Jones Well, Tanis is one of the possible resting places of the Lost Ark.
Colonel Musgrove The Lost Ark?
Jones The Ark of the Covenant. The chest the Hebrews used to carry the Ten Commandments.
Major Eaton
Wait a minute, you're talking about THE Ten Commandments?
Jones Yes, the actual Ten Commandments. The original stone tablets that Moses brought down out of Mt. Heron and smashed, if you believe in that sort of thing. Didn't any of you guys ever go to Sunday school? The Hebrews took the broken pieces and put them in the Ark, and when they settled in Canaan they put the Ark in a place called the Temple of Solomon--
Jones [continuing]
Where it stayed for many years until, all of a sudden, whoosh! It was gone.
Major Eaton
Where?
Jones Well nobody knows where.
However, an Egyptian pharaoh--
Jones Shishaq.
Yes. --invaded the city of Jerusalem in about 980 BC and he may have taken the Ark back to the city of Tanis and hidden it in a secret chamber called the Well of Souls.
Major Eaton
Well of Souls?
However, about a year after the pharaoh had returned to Egypt, the city of Tanis was consumed by the desert in a sandstorm which lasted a whole year, wiped clean by the wrath of God.
Colonel Musgrove [pause]
Well, I see we've come to the right man. You seem to know all about this 'Tanis'.
Jones No, Abner's the real expert. He did the first serious work on Tanis, collected some of the relics. It was his obsession really. But he never found the city.
Major Eaton
Frankly, we're somewhat suspicious of Mr. Ravenwood. An American being mentioned so prominently in a secret Nazi cable--
Rubbish, Ravenwood's no Nazi!
Major Eaton
What do they want him for then?
Jones Obviously the Nazis are looking for the headpiece to the Staff of Ra and they think Abner's got it.
Major Eaton
What exactly is the headpiece to the Staff of Ra?
Jones Well the Staff is just a stick, I don't know, about this big, but nobody really knows for sure how high. It's capped by an elaborate headpiece in the shape of the sun with a crystal in the center. And what you did was you took the Staff to a special room in Tanis called the map room with a miniature of the city laid out on the floor. And if you put the Staff in a certain place at a certain time of day, the sun shone through here and made a beam that came down on the floor here. [pause] And gave you the exact location of the Well of Souls.
Colonel Musgrove Where the Ark of the Covenant was kept?
Jones And that's exactly what the Nazis are looking for.
Colonel Musgrove What does this Ark look like?
Jones There's a picture of it in here. [sets a huge book down on the table and opens it] That's it.
Major Eaton
Good God!
Yes, that's just what the Hebrews thought.
Colonel Musgrove [pointing at the picture of the Ark in the book]
Now, uh, what's that supposed to be coming out of there?
Jones Lightning. Fire. The power of God or something.
Major Eaton
I'm beginning to understand Hitler's interest.
Yes, the Bible speaks of the Ark leveling mountains and laying waste to entire regions. An army which carries the Ark before it... is invincible.
They want you to get ahold of the Ark before the Nazis do and they'll be willing to pay handsomely for it.
Jones And the museum? The museum gets the Ark when we're finished?
Jones You think she'll still be with him?
I don't know. Marion's the least of your worries right now though, Indy.
Jones What do you mean?
Well, for nearly three thousand years, man has been searching for the lost Ark. That's not something to be taken lightly. No one knows its secrets. It's like... nothing you've ever gone after before.
Jones Oh, Marcus! What are you trying to do? Scare me? You sound like my mother! We've known each other for a long time. You know I don't believe in magic, a lot of superstitious hocus-pocus. I'm going after a find of incredible historical significance, you're talking about the boogie man. [mumbling as he tosses his revolver into a suitcase] Besides, you know what a cautious fellow I am.
Jones Hello Marion.
[laughs]
Indiana Jones! Always knew someday you'd come walking back through my door. I never doubted that. Something made it inevitable. So what are you doing here in Nepal?
Jones I need one of the pieces your father collected.
Jones I never meant to hurt you.
I was a child, I was in love! It was wrong and you knew it!
Jones You knew what you were doing.
Now I do. This is my place. Get out!
Jones I'm looking for a piece your father collected. Bronze medallion; center with a crystal. You know the one I mean?
Yah, I know it.
Jones Where's Abner? [Marion ignores him] Where's Abner!
Abner's dead.
Jones Marion, I'm sorry.
Do you know what you did to me? To my life.
Jones I can only say I'm sorry so many times.
Well say it again anyway!
Jones I'm sorry.
Yeah, everybody's sorry. Abner was sorry for dragging me all over this earth, looking for his little bits of junk. I'm sorry to still be stuck in this dive. Everybody's sorry for something.
Jones It's a worthless bronze medallion, are gonna give it to me or not?
Maybe. I don't know where it is.
Jones Well maybe you could find it.
Major Toht Good evening, Fraulein.
Bar's closed.
Major Toht We are [chuckles] not thirsty.
What do you want?
Major Toht The same thing your friend Doctor Jones wanted. Surely he told you there would be other interested parties.
Must've slipped his mind.
Major Toht The man is nefarious. I hope for your sake he has not yet acquired it.
Why, are you willing to offer more?
Major Toht Oh, almost certainly. Do you still have it?
No. But I know where it is. Hey, how about a drink for you and your men?
Major Toht Your fire is dying here. Why don't you tell me where the piece is right now.
Listen, Herr Mac. I don't know what kind of people you're used to dealing with, but nobody tells me what to do in my place.
Major Toht [chuckles]
Fraulein Ravenwood. Let me show you what I am used to.
Major Toht That time is passed.
You don't mean that. Wait, please! I'll tell you everything!
Major Toht [holding the burning poker in front of Marion's face]
Yes, I know you will...
Jones [A cracking sound is heard as Jones' whip disarms Toht]
Let her go!
Well Jones, at least you haven't forgotten how to show a lady a good time!
Jones Boy, you're something!
Yeah, I'll tell you what. Until I get back my five thousand dollars, you're gonna get more than you bargained for! I'm your goddamn partner!
Jones I knew the Germans would hire you, Sallah. You're the best digger in Egypt.
My services are entirely inconsequential to them. They hire only strong backs and they pay only pennies. They have hired or shanghaied every... in Egypt. It is as if the Pharaohs have returned.
They have not one brain among them. Except for one. Be's very clever; he's a French archeologist.
Jones What's his name?
They call him Bellosh.
Jones [laughs]
Belloq! Belloq.
The Germans have a great advantage over us; they are near to discovering the Well of Souls.
Jones Well... [pulls out the medallion] they're not gonna find it without this. Who can tell us what these markings mean?
Perhaps a man I know can help us. Indy, there is something that troubles me.
Jones What?
The Ark. If it is here, then it is something that Man was not meant to disturb. Death has always surrounded it. It is not of this earth.
Jones Belloq.
Good evening, Jones.
Jones I oughta kill you right now.
Not a very private place for a murder.
Jones Well these Arabs don't care what we get up to, they're not gonna interfere in our business.
It was not I who brought the girl into all this. Please, sit down before you fall down, we can at least behave like civilized people. [Indy sits, letting the monkey run free] I see your taste in friends remains consistent. How odd that it should end this way for us, after so many... stimulating encounters. I almost regret it. Where shall I find a new adversary so close to my own level?
Jones Try the local sewer.
[chuckles]
You and I are very much alike. Archeology is our religion, yet we have both fallen from the pure faith. Our methods have not differed as much as you pretend. I am a shadowy reflection of you. And it would take only a nudge to make you like me, to push you out of the line.
Jones Now you're gettin' nasty.
You know it's true. How nice. Look at this [holds up a silver pocket watch] it's worthless. Ten dollars from a vendor in the street. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless! Like the Ark. Men will kill for it; men like you and me.
Jones What about your boss, Der Führer? I thought he was waiting to take possession.
All in good time. When I'm finished with it. Jones, do you realize what the Ark is? It's a transmitter, it's a radio for speaking to God, and it's within my reach.
Jones You wanna to talk to God? Let's go see him together, I've got nothing better to do.
[Everyone in the pub draws their guns, but the fight is stopped by Sallah's children coming in for Indy]
Next time, Doctor Jones, it will take more than children to save you.
Gypsy
Come, look here.
Jones What is it?
Gypsy
[reading the headpiece]
This is a warning not to disturb the Ark of the Covenant.
Jones What about the height of the staff? Did Belloq get it off of here?
Gypsy
Yes, it is here. This is the old way, it means six kadams high.
About 72 inches--
Old man Wait! [turns the headpiece over] And take back one kadam to honor the Hebrew God whose Ark this is.
Jones [looks at Sallah]
You said their headpiece only had markings on one side, are you absolutely sure? [Sallah nods] Belloq's staff is too long.
They're digging in the wrong place!
Indy. Why does the floor move?
Jones Gimme your torch. [drops the torch into the Well of Souls and finds it covered with snakes] Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?
Asps. Very dangerous. [pause] You go first.
Why, Doctor Jones, whatever are you doing in such a nasty place?
Jones Why don't you come on down here, I'll show ya.
Thank you my friend, but I think we are all very comfortable up here. [looks at the men around him] That's right, isn't it? Yes, we are all very comfortable up here. So once again, Jones, what was briefly yours is now mine. What a fitting end to your life's pursuits. You're about to become a permanent addition to this archaeological find. Who knows, in a thousand years even you may be worth something!
Jones Ha ha ha! [under his breath] Son of a bitch.
Colonel Dietrich I'm afraid we must be going now, Doctor Jones. Our prize is awaited in Berlin. But we do not wish to leave you in such an awful place all alone...
Jones [commenting on Marion's new dress from Belloq]
Where'd you get that, from him?
I was trying to escape, no thanks to you!
Jones How hard were you trying?
Holy smokes my friends! I'm so pleased you're not dead! Indy, we have no time. If you still want the Ark, it has been loaded onto a truck for Cairo.
Jones Truck? What truck?
Jones Get us a transport to England. Boat, plane, anything. Meet me in Cairo. I'm going after that truck.
How?
Jones I don't know, I'm making this up as I go.
Everything has been arranged.
Jones The Ark--
Is on board. Nothing is likely now that you are here, or what is left of you.
Jones You trust these guys?
Yes. Katanga, these are my friends. They are my family, and I will hear of it if they are not treated well.
Katanga My cabin is theirs. Doctor Jones, I've heard a lot about you, sir. Your appearance is exactly the way I imagined!
You're not the man I knew ten years ago.
Jones It's not the years, honey; it's the mileage.
Jones [from atop a canyon looking down upon the Nazis below]
Hello!
Jones? JONES!
Jones [leveling a bazooka]
I'm gonna blow up the Ark, Ren?.
Your persistence surprises even me! You're gonna give mercenaries a bad name.
Colonel Dietrich Doctor Jones. Surely you don't think you can escape from this island.
Jones That depends on how reasonable we're all willing to be, all I want is the girl.
Colonel Dietrich [looks at Belloq who shakes his head]
If we refuse?
Jones Then your Führer has no prize.
Okay Jones, you win. Blow it up. [takes a machine gun from one of the many Nazi soldiers who attempt to guard the Ark and holds them back] Yes, blow it up! Blow it back to God. All your life has been spent in pursuit of archaeological relics; inside the Ark are treasures beyond your wildest aspirations... You want to see it opened as well as I. Indiana. We are simply passing through history. [pointing to the Ark] This... this is history. [pause] Do as you will.
[Jones lowers his bazooka and allows himself to be captured]
Musgrove
You've done your country a great service.
Eaton And we trust you found the settlement satisfactory?
Jones The money's fine, the situation is totally unacceptable.
Eaton Well gentlemen, I think that just about raps it up--
Where is the Ark?
Eaton I thought we'd settled that. The Ark is somewhere very safe.
Jones From whom?
The Ark is a source of unspeakable power and it has to be researched!
Eaton And it will be, I assure you Doctor Brody, Doctor Jones. We have top men working on it right now.
Jones Who?
Eaton Top Men.
Jones Fools! Bureaucratic fools! They don't know what they've got there.
Well, I know what I've got here. C'mon, I'll buy you a drink. [raises Jones' hat] You know, a drink.
Jones [Indy triggers a hidden booby trap, which fires a poisoned dart into a stick] [hands Satipo the stick]
Stay here.
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