“I know I'm human. And if you were all these things, then you'd just...” – MacReady, The Thing ... Movie Quotes Database

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.

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Clark I don't know what the hell's in there, but it's weird and pissed off, whatever it is. Norwegian Se til helvete og kom dere vekk. Det er ikke en bikkje. Det er en slags ting! Det imiterer en bikkje. Det er ikke virkelig! Kom dere vekk, idioter! (Get the hell away. That's not a dog. It's some kind of thing! It's imitating a dog. It's not real! Get away, idiots!) Norris This is just what it wants! To pit us against each other!