Mikaela Banes [to Bumblebee]
I'll drive, you shoot!
Played by Megan Fox 
Transformers (2007) · 197 quotes
Transformers (2007) · 197 quotes
Tied for 3rd most-quoted character in Transformers (2007): in 23 of its 197 quotes
Most scenes with: Sam Witwicky (11), Optimus Prime (3), Ironhide (3)
Sam, I have a record because I wouldn't turn my dad in. What would you do to sacrifice anything in your perfect little life?
More lines from Mikaela Banes
11 quotes Mikaela Banes Mikaela Banes [after Bumblebee has fired a shot right into Devastator's chest]
Nice shot!
Mikaela Banes [to Sam]
You know that seat belt thing was a pretty smooth move.
Mikaela Banes [to Sam about Bumblebee]
You know what I don't understand? Why, if he's supposed to be this super advanced robot, does he transform back into this piece of crap Camaro?
Mikaela Banes Whoa, nice headers. You've got a high-rise and a double-pump carburetor. That's... that's pretty impressive, Sam. It squirts the fuel in so you can go faster.
Mikaela Banes You have no idea how much I'm not your little bunny. [angrily dumping her jock ex-boyfriend Trent]
Mikaela Banes [to Sam as he gets closer to Bumblebee]
You are the strangest boy I have ever met.
Mikaela Banes [to Sam, frustrated]
You should be way more specific so I won't get in trouble with your room. I'm already stressed out enough.
Mikaela Banes [to Sam about Simmons]
Don't listen to him. He's just pissy because he has to go back to guarding the Mall.
Mikaela Banes [about her father's parole]
You know those cars my dad used to teach me to fix? Well, they... They weren't always his. We couldn't always afford a babysitter, so he'd sometimes had to bring me along.
Mikaela Banes [to Sam, as they embrace]
Sam, no matter what happens... I'm really glad I got in that car with you.
Scenes with Mikaela Banes
11 scenes[Sam is courting Mikaela]
I hope I didn't get you stranded or anything. You sure? So listen, I was wondering if I could ride you home. I mean, give you a ride home in my car, to your house. [Mikaela enters the car]
Mikaela Banes [to herself]
...I can't believe that I'm here right now.
You can duck down if you want. I mean, it won't hurt my feelings.
Mikaela Banes No, no, it's not you. It's just that I'm here in this situation... I'm always in the same situation, and I don't know... I just have a weakness for hot guys with tight abs and really big arms.
Mikaela Banes Whoa, nice headers. You've got a high-rise double-pump carburetor. That's... that's pretty impressive, Sam.
Double-pump?
Mikaela Banes It squirts the fuel in so you can go faster.
Oh... I like to go faster.
Mikaela Banes And your distributor cap's a little loose.
Yeah? How'd you know that?
Mikaela Banes My dad, he was a real grease monkey. He taught me all about this. I could take it all apart, clean it, and then put it back together.
That's weird; I just wouldn't peg you for mechanical.
Mikaela Banes Well, you know, I don't really broadcast it. Guys don't like it when you know more about cars than they do. Especially not Trent; he hates it. [winks at Sam]
Yeah, I'm cool with, you know, females working on my engine. I prefer it actually.
Mikaela Banes [Sam has flipped over his mother's bike]
That was, uh…that was really awesome.
Well...it felt awesome.
Mikaela Banes Are you okay?
No, I'm not okay, all right? I'm losin' my mind a little bit. Gettin' chased by my car right now, gotta go!
Mikaela Banes Really? Well, do you speak robot? Because they just had, like, a giant droid death match.
Mikaela Banes What?
Well 'cause the other one was talking about my eBay page.
Mikaela Banes You are the strangest boy I have ever met.
[through his radio]
XM Satellite Radio... Digital cable brings you... Columbia Broadcasting System.
You can... you can talk through the radio?
So, what was that last night? What was that?
[pointing skywards]
Message from Starfleet, Captain... Throughout the innate vastness of space... Angels rain down like visitors from heaven! Hallelujah!
Mikaela Banes Visitors from heaven... What? What are you, like, an alien or something?
[Bumblebee points a finger at her and nods, and transforms into a 1976 Camero] [through his radio]
Any more questions you want to ask?
He wants us to get in the car.
Mikaela Banes [laughing nervously]
And go where?
Fifty years from now, when you're looking back at your life, don't you want to be able to say you had the guts to get in the car?
Mikaela Banes [Bumblebee is driving Sam and Mikaela through a tunnel]
This car's a pretty good driver.
Why don't you go sit in that seat there? [motions to the driver's seat]
Mikaela Banes I'm not gonna sit in that seat, he's driving.
Yeah. You're right. You know, maybe you should sit on my lap.
Mikaela Banes Why?
Well-I-I have the only seatbelt here. You know, safety first.
Mikaela Banes Yeah, alright. [climbs onto Sam's lap]
See? That's better.
Mikaela Banes You know, that seat belt thing was a pretty smooth move.
[The Autobots meet Sam and Mikaela in an alley]
Are you Samuel James Witwicky, descendant of Archibald Witwicky?
Mikaela Banes [stunned]
They know your name!
Yeah.
My name is Optimus Prime. We are Autonomous Robotic Organisms from the planet Cybetron.
But you can call us "Autobots" for short.
Autobots.
What's crackin', little bitches? [does a somersault]
My first lieutenant. Designation: Jazz.
This looks like a cool place to kick it! [jumps onto a car behind him as if it were a chair]
What is that? How did he learn to talk like that?
We've learned Earth's languages through the World Wide Web. [points to Ironhide] My weapons specialist, Ironhide.
Easy, Ironhide.
Just kidding, I just wanted to show him my cannons.
Our medical officer, Ratchet.
[Mikaela scratches her head in embarassment - Sam whistles]
You already know your guardian, Bumblebee.
Bumblebee, right? You're my guardian, huh? [Bumblebee nods]
His vocal processors were damaged in battle. I'm still working on them.
Mikaela Banes Why are you here?
We are here looking for the All Spark, and we must find it before Megatron.
Mega-what?
[produces a hologram of Cybertron for Sam and Mikaela to see]
Our planet was once a powerful empire, peaceful and just, until we were betrayed by Megatron, leader of the Decepticons. All who defied them were destroyed. Our war finally consumed the planet, and the Allspark was lost to the stars. Megatron followed it to Earth, where Captain Witwicky found him.
My grandfather...?
It was an accident that intertwined our fates. [flashbacks to Archibald's discovery of Megatron in the ice] Megatron crash-landed before he could retreive the Cube. He accidentally activated his navigation system. The coordinates to the Cube's location on Earth were inprinted on his glasses.
How did you know about his glasses?
eBay.
eBay...
If the Decepticons find the Allspark, they'll use its power to transform Earth's machines, and build a new army.
And the human race will be extinguished. Sam Witwicky, you hold the key to Earth's survival.
Mikaela Banes [to Sam]
Please tell me you have those glasses.
[Agent Simmons is interrogating Sam and Mikaela in a car]
Hey, you see this? [shows them his badge] This is a "do whatever I want and get away with it" badge. I'm gonna lock you up forever.
Mikaela Banes Oh God... you know what? Don't listen to him. He's just pissy because he's gotta get back to guarding the Mall.
You in the training bra. Do not test me, especially with your daddy's parole coming up.
What? Parole?!
Mikaela Banes It's nothing.
A grand theft auto? That ain't nothing?
Mikaela Banes You know those cars my dad used to teach me to fix? Well, they... They weren't always his.
You stole cars?!
Mikaela Banes Well, we couldn't always afford a babysitter, so he'd sometimes had to bring me along.
She's got her own juvy record to prove it! She's a criminal. And criminals are hot! Now it'd be a real shame if he rots in jail for the rest of his natural life. It is time to talk!
[The car crashes into an unknown object and is suddenly lifted from the ground, then falls back down as the roof is ripped off]
You A-holes are in trouble now. Gentlemen, I want to introduce you to my friend, Optimus Prime.
Taking the children was a bad move. Autobots relieve them of their weapons!
[The agents point their weapons at Prime, while the Autobots jump down from a nearby bridge and reveal their weapons] [brandishing his cannons]
Freeze!!
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Give me those! [uses his magnetic hands to disarm the agents]
You don't seem afraid. Are you not surprised to see us?
Look there are—S7 protocols, okay? I'm not authorized to communicate with you... except to tell you that I cannot communicate with—you
Uh...me? You want me to...
NOW!!!
All right, I'm getting out.
What is Sector 7? Answer me!
I'm the one who asks questions around here. Not you, young man!
Mikaela Banes How did you know about the aliens?
Where did you take my parents?
I am not at liberty to discuss this. [Sam takes his ID] Hey, you touch me, that's a federal offense.
"Do whatever you want and get away with it badge", right?
Great, brave now all of a sudden with all of your alien friends here.
Where's Sector 7?!
Bumblebee, stop lubricating the man!
Get that thing to stop, huh?!
Hey kid, I think we got off to a bad start, huh? You must be hungry. You want a latte, ho-ho, double vente machiatto...
Where's my car?
Tom Banachek
Son, I need you to listen to me very carefully. People can die here. We need to know everything you know and we need to know it now.
Okay, but first I want my car, my parents - maybe you could write that down. Oh, and [looks at Mikaela] her juvy record, that's gotta be gone - like forever.
Tom Banachek
Come with me, we'll talk about your car.
Mikaela Banes [to Sam]
Thank you.
[The humans and Autobots are fleeing Hoover Dam; the Allspark is in Bumblebee's backseat]
The Cube's okay?
Mikaela Banes Yeah, it's fine.
Put the seatbelt on.
Sam, where's the Cube?
Right! Here, take this flare! Take the Cube, and head to that building! Get to the top, and light a flare! There's some Black Hawks coming! One of them will come to you and get in and take and take the Cube to the authorities!
What? No, I can't do this!
Listen to me! You're a soldier now! All right, I need you take this Cube, get it into military hands while we hold them off, or a lot of people are gonna die. [to Mikaela] You got to go, you got to go.
Mikaela Banes No, I'm not leaving.
You need to go.
Mikaela Banes No, I'm not leaving till I get Bumblebee out of here, okay?
Sam, we will protect you.
Epps, where are those planes?
Mikaela Banes Sam, no matter what happens... I'm really glad I got in that car with you.
Sam, get to the building! Move!
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