Tremors quotes

View Quote [After Burt scares away the Graboids with his home-made dynamite]
Valentine McKee: What the hell's in those things, Burt?
Burt Gummer: A few household chemicals in the proper proportions.

View Quote [after Burt tries to shoot the Graboid with his elephant rifle]
Heather Gummer: You didn't get penetration even with the elephant gun?!
Burt Gummer: Shit!
Heather Gummer: Good lord!

View Quote [after spending a night on a boulder due to being trapped by a Graboid]
Earl Bassett: They must be long gone by now.
Valentine McKee: Yeah. Hey, why don't you go take a little stroll and find out?

View Quote [as the Graboid feels at the building]
Valentine McKee: What's it doing, Rhonda?
Rhonda LeBeck: Why do you keep asking me?

View Quote [Burt cuts off a piece of fuse for a bomb for Earl]
Earl Bassett: What kind of fuse is that?
Burt Gummer: Cannon fuse.
Earl Bassett: What the hell do you use it for?
Burt Gummer: My cannon!

View Quote [Earl and Val argues who will run to the bulldozer in spite of the Graboids]
Earl Bassett: Damn it, listen to me. I'm older and wiser.
Valentine McKee: Yeah, well, you're half right.

View Quote [Earl suddenly has his entire leg drop into a hole]
Earl Bassett: [yelling] AHHH! AHHH!
Valentine McKee: What? What is it?
Earl Bassett: Damn prairie dog burrow.
Valentine McKee: Sons a bitches.

View Quote [Graboid slams into a concrete retaining wall]
Earl Bassett: Stupid son-of-a-bitch, knocked itself cold!
Valentine McKee: Cold, my ass, he's dead! We killed it. We killed it! FUUUUUUUUUUCK YOU!

View Quote [ground starts to bulge]
Valentine McKee: Must be a million of them!
[Graboid breaks through the surface of the ground]
Earl Bassett: Nope, just one!

View Quote [trapped on top of a boulder by a Graboid, Val, Earl, and Rhonda are thinking of explanations for where the creatures came from]
Valentine McKee: [joking] I've got it: They're mutations caused by radiation. No, wait- the government made 'em. *Big* surprise for the Russians.
Rhonda LeBeck: Well, there's nothing like them in the fossil record. Okay, so they predate the fossil record. [not buying it herself] That'd make them a couple of billion years old, and we've just never seen one until now. Right.
Earl Bassett: I vote for outer space. No way these are local boys.

View Quote [Trying to escape from the rocks]
Earl Bassett: You know, we're gonna have to come up with some sort of plan, or he's just gonna wait us to death.
Valentine McKee: Well, why don't we just make a run for it? We outran 'em yesterday.
Earl Bassett: Run for it?! Runnin's not a plan- runnin's what you when a plan fails! Valentine, you're not even trying to think of a plan.
Valentine McKee: Well, it ain't like we got a hell of a lot of options.
Earl Bassett: Oh, there's always options. We just gotta think of 'em.
Valentine McKee: All right, why don't you start thinkin', then?
Earl Bassett: Why the hell do I always gotta do all the thinking?
Valentine McKee: Who died and made you Einstein?
Rhonda LeBeck: Hey, shut up!

View Quote [unseen Melvin screams when a Graboid attacks, after having scared everyone moments ago]
Earl Bassett: Dammit, I'm gonna kick his ass!
Valentine McKee: I'm gonna help you.

View Quote Damn it Valentine, you never plan ahead, you never take the long view, I mean here it is Monday and I'm already thinking of Wednesday... It is Monday right?

View Quote Good morning Mr. Bassett, this is your wake up call. Please move your ass.

View Quote Hey guys, I think I've found the ass end!