The Thing 1982 quotes, page 3

MacReady

I know I'm human. And if you were all these things, then you'd just attack me right now, so some of you are still human. This thing doesn't want to show itself, it wants to hide inside an imitation. It'll fight if it has to, but it's vulnerable out in the open. If it takes us over, then it has no more enemies, nobody left to kill it. And then it's won.

MacReady

Okay, Sanchez, you come with us. Norris... you stay here... (refers to tied-up men) Any of them move - you fry 'em. And if you hear anything, anything at all you let loose the siren. We all meet back here in twenty minutes regardless. (pause) And everybody watch whoever you're with. Real close.

MacReady

Somebody in this camp ain't what he appears to be. Right now that may be one or two of us. By spring, it could be all of us.

MacReady

Watching Norris in there... gave me the idea that maybe every part of you bastards is a whole. Every piece of you is self-sufficient, an animal unto itself. When a man bleeds it's just tissue. But blood from one of you Things won't obey. It's a newly formed individual with a built-in desire to protect its own life. When attacked, your blood will try and survive - and crawl away from a hot needle say.

Blair

Whenever it was revived, it... Well, The Thing was probably disoriented... and realised it couldn't survive for long in our atmosphere. But being the incredibly adaptable creature it was... it tried to become something that could. Before the Norwegians killed it... it somehow got to this dog.

Blair

You think this Thing wants to become an animal? Dogs can't make it 1000 miles to the sea. No skua gulls to imitate this time of year... No penguins this far inland... Don't you understand?! It wanted to become us!

MacReady

Yeah, well **** you too!