RoboCop quotes
27 total quotesAbout RoboCop
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[In the abandoned warehouse, Lewis catches Boddicker gang member Joe Cox urinating.]
Lewis: Okay. Let's see those hands, nice and easy.
Joe Cox: Sure. Mind if I... zip this up?
Lewis: Okay. Let's see those hands, nice and easy.
Joe Cox: Sure. Mind if I... zip this up?
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[Jones tosses Boddicker RoboCop's tracker.]
Dick Jones: Destroy it.
Clarence Boddicker: Gonna need some major firepower. You got access to military weaponry?
Dick Jones: We practically are the military.
Dick Jones: Destroy it.
Clarence Boddicker: Gonna need some major firepower. You got access to military weaponry?
Dick Jones: We practically are the military.
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[Morton tests his new creation.]
Bob Morton: What are your prime directives?
RoboCop: Serve the public trust. Protect the innocent. Uphold the law.
Bob Morton: What are your prime directives?
RoboCop: Serve the public trust. Protect the innocent. Uphold the law.
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[RoboCop calmly bashes a violent convenience-store robber, then turns to the proprietors.]
RoboCop: Thank you for your cooperation. Good night.
RoboCop: Thank you for your cooperation. Good night.
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[RoboCop confronts Antonowsky, holding up a gas station.]
RoboCop: Dead or alive, you are coming with me.
Emil Antonowsky: I know you. You're dead! We killed you!
RoboCop: Dead or alive, you are coming with me.
Emil Antonowsky: I know you. You're dead! We killed you!
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[Robocop forces the doors open on a high level conference meeting of OCP senior personel.]
Old Man: How may we help you, officer?
Robocop: Dick Jones is wanted for murder.
Dick Jones: This is absurd! That...thing...is a violent, mechanical psychopath!
Old Man: These are some serious charges. What is your evidence?
[Robocop moves toward the TV monitors, and plays back Dick Jones confessing "I had to kill Bob Morton because he made a mistake; now it's time to erase that mistake."]
[Jones pulls a gun on the Old Man in a board meeting.]
Dick Jones: I want a chopper! Now! We will walk to the roof, very calmly! I will board the chopper with my hostage. Anybody tries to stop me, the old geezer gets it!
[Robocop aims his firearm in the general direction of Dick Jones, but makes no intention to shoot him.]
Robocop: My program will not allow me to act against an officer of this company.
The Old Man: Dick, you're fired!
[Directive 4 disappears from RoboCop's vision.]
RoboCop/Murphy: Thank you.
[Robocop shoots Jones out of the window]
Old Man: How may we help you, officer?
Robocop: Dick Jones is wanted for murder.
Dick Jones: This is absurd! That...thing...is a violent, mechanical psychopath!
Old Man: These are some serious charges. What is your evidence?
[Robocop moves toward the TV monitors, and plays back Dick Jones confessing "I had to kill Bob Morton because he made a mistake; now it's time to erase that mistake."]
[Jones pulls a gun on the Old Man in a board meeting.]
Dick Jones: I want a chopper! Now! We will walk to the roof, very calmly! I will board the chopper with my hostage. Anybody tries to stop me, the old geezer gets it!
[Robocop aims his firearm in the general direction of Dick Jones, but makes no intention to shoot him.]
Robocop: My program will not allow me to act against an officer of this company.
The Old Man: Dick, you're fired!
[Directive 4 disappears from RoboCop's vision.]
RoboCop/Murphy: Thank you.
[Robocop shoots Jones out of the window]
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[RoboCop stops a rape attempt by firing through the woman's dress into the testicles of one rapist, then turns to the other.]
Robocop: Your move, creep.
Robocop: Your move, creep.
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[Seriously wounded Lewis and RoboCop/Murphy look at each other across a muddy pit.]
Lewis: Murphy! I'm a mess!
RoboCop/Murphy: They'll fix you. They fix everything.
Lewis: Murphy! I'm a mess!
RoboCop/Murphy: They'll fix you. They fix everything.
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[Staring at the not-yet-revealed-to-the-audience Robocop.]
Bob Morton: "You're going to be a bad mother****er!"
Bob Morton: "You're going to be a bad mother****er!"
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[The RoboCop team wheels their equipment into the station as a drunk talks to the desk sergeant.]
Prisoner: I-I'm what you call a repeat offender. I repeat, I will offend again!
Sergeant Warren Reed: Shut up, asshole.
Prisoner: I-I'm what you call a repeat offender. I repeat, I will offend again!
Sergeant Warren Reed: Shut up, asshole.
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RoboCop, a futuristic story about a policeman shot to death and then revived after all parts of his body have been replaced by artificial substitutes, introduces a more tragic note: the hero who finds himself literally "between two deaths"—clinically dead and at the same time provided with a new, mechanical body—starts to remember fragments of his previous, "human" life and thus undergoes a process of resubjectivication, changing gradually back from pure incarnated drive to a being of desire. (...) [I]f there is a phenomenon that fully deserves to be called the "fundamental fantasy of contemporary mass culture," it is this fantasy of the return of the living dead: the fantasy of a person who does not want to stay dead but returns again and again to pose a threat to the living.
Slavoj Žižek, Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture, p. 22. ISBN 026274015X