Steven Prince quotes from The World's End (2013)

View Quote Gary King: And we're back! Just like the five musketeers!
Steven Prince: Three musketeers wasn't it?
Peter Page: Four, if you count d'Artagnan.
Gary King: Well, nobody knows how many there were, really, do they, Pete? I mean, history is a sketchbook.
Oliver Chamberlain: You do know that "The Three Musketeers" was a fiction, right? Written by Alexandre Dumas?
Gary King: A lot of people are saying that about the Bible these days.
Steven Prince: What, that it was written by Alexandre Dumas?
Gary King: Don't be daft, Steve! It was written by Jesus! Anyway, five sounds much better. I think they missed a trick only having three, 'cos if they'd had five, then two could have died, and they'd still have three left!
Andrew Knightley: Are we there yet?
Gary King: Let's do this!

View Quote Steven Prince: Wow, you really have a selective memory, don't you?
Gary King: Somebody else was saying that!
Andrew Knightley: Me.
Gary King: No, I would have remembered.

View Quote Steven Prince: Ten people have entered in this toilet in the last five minutes and not a single one has come back out again. That's going to look suspicious.
Gary King: Gay loving!

View Quote Steven Prince: We need to be able to differentiate between them, them and us.
Peter Page: Yeah, I think the pronouns are really confusing.
Gary King: I don't even know what a pronoun is.
Oliver Chamberlain: Well, it's a word that can function by itself as a noun which refers to something else in the discourse.
Gary King: I don't get it.
Andrew Knightley: You just used one.
Gary King: Did I?
Andrew Knightley: "It", it's a pronoun.
Gary King: What is?
Andrew Knightley: It!
Gary King: Is it?
Andrew Knightley: Christ!

View Quote Gary King: Jesus, I do something right for a change, and you ****ers get on my case!
Andrew Knightley: Wow, that is the first time I've ever heard you admit being wrong!
Gary King: I said I did something right!
Steven Prince: Yeah, "for a change"!
Gary King: So?
Andrew Knightley: Meaning the rest of the time, you're wrong?
Gary King: Not necessarily. [Everyone groans in annoyance]

View Quote Gary King: If I'm not me, then how do I know that carved into that beam above your head are the words "King Gary"?
Andrew Knightley: [looking into the beam] But it doesn't say "King Gary".
Gary King: Yes it does!...Doesn't it?
Andrew Knightley: No...it says "King Gay".
Gary King: [annoyed] Well...some **** scrubbed out the "r"!
Steven Prince: [laughing] That was me.
Gary King: Why?
Peter Page: [s****] King Gay!

View Quote Gary King: [after rejecting eternal youth from the Network] There's only one Gary King!
The Network: Then you have made your choice, Gary King of the humans!
Gary King: Yeah I have! Because, frankly, who the **** are you to come down here and tell us what to do?!
The Network: We are the Network! And we are here for your betterment! In the last 23 years, have you not marveled as information technology has surged forward?
Gary King: No.
The Network: Earth has grown smaller, yet greater as connectivity has grown! This is our doing! And it is just the beginning!
Gary King: Ohhh **** off you big lamp!
The Network: You are children, and you require guidance! There is no room for imperfection!
Gary King: Hey, Earth isn't perfect, all right? And humans aren't perfect, and guess what? I ain't perfect!
The Network: Therein lies the necessity of this intervention, must the galaxy be subjected to an entire planet of people like you?
Andrew Knightley: Whoah, whoah...whoah whoah whoah whoah whoah...who put you in charge, huh? Who are you to criticize anyone? You may think Gary is a bit of a ****, and he is a bit of a ****, but he's MY ****!
Gary King: Oh thanks, mate.
The Network: But he is a detriment to himself just as Earth is a detriment to the galaxy!
Andrew Knightley: What did you say?
The Network: You act out the same cycles of self-destruction again, and again! At this point, your planet is the least civilized in the entire galaxy!
Gary King: What did he say?
Andrew Knightley: He's saying we're a bunch of ****-ups!
Gary King: HEY! It is our basic human right to be ****-ups! This civilization was founded on ****-ups and you know what? That makes me proud!
Andrew Knightley: Yeah! And me!
Gary King: What is it they say? "To err is..."
Andrew Knightley: "To err is human."
Gary King: "To err is human!" So...errr...!
The Network: We do not believe you speak for all humanity! You are but two men! Two DRUNK men!
Steven Prince: [enters from above] THREE drunk men!
Gary and Andrew: Stevey-baby! [all laughing]
The Network: ENOUGH! ENOUGH, HUMANS!
Gary King: Oh, you are in trouble now! It's only the **** three musketeers!
The Network: You are revolting against the wisdom of countless solar systems!
Gary King: Yeah, we are revolting!
Andrew Knightley: Wait, you just said you're not here to conquer! Can I just ask, how many people did you have to replace in Newton Haven?
The Network: That is irrelevant.
Andrew Knightley: Is it? [to the blank congregation] Hands up! Who here is human?!
Man 1: I'm human.
Gary King: One!
Man 2: And me.
Gary King: That's two!
Basil: I am, but I don't know for how long.
Gary, Andrew, & Steven: Basil!
Basil: Shh! [disappears]
Steven Prince: So what's that, three?
Andrew Knightley: You had to replace an entire town?
The Network: Not the entire town.
Gary King: Well everybody apart from old Nutball, and the shifty twins!
Steven Prince: That's a good name for a band, Gary, you should write that down!
Gary King: I will!
Andrew Knightley: What about all the ones you replaced, like Peter and Oliver?
Steven Prince: Yeah! What happened to the empties?!
Basil: [offscreen] I told you not to ask that!
The Network: Redundant vessels are recycled, mulched and converted into fertilizer where upon they are returned to the earth to promote verdancy and growth. It is a highly efficient means of organic renewal!
Gary King: Mulched?!
The Network: It is a relative few in light of our long-term plan!
Steven Prince: You mean a few hundred thousand turned to **** compost!
Andrew Knightley: Well what about the other places? The penetration points! [Gary makes a sex motion with his finger] Are they as successful as Newton Haven? Because I'm guessing we're not the only glitch in your system!
The Network: It is true, the Network has been experiencing some difficulties.
Gary King: I think you bit off more than you can chew with Earth, mate!
Andrew Knightley: Yeah because we are more belligerent, more stubborn, and more idiotic than you can possibly imagine! I am not just talking about Gary!
Gary King: Yeah, there's more than one Gary King!
Network: But you said-
Gary King: I **** KNOW WHAT I **** SAID!
The Network: YOUR RELIANCE ON PROFANITY IS A MEASURE OF YOUR IMMATURITY AS A MAN AND AS A SPECIES!
Gary King: Why don't you just get in your rocket and **** off back to Legoland, you ****s!
Steven Prince: Yeah! Stop **** Starbucking us man!
Gary King: Yeah!
The Network: It is our duty to challenge you!
Gary King: Just leave us to our own devices, you intergalactic arseholes!
The Network: You misunderstand!
Gary King: Shut up!
The Network: We are trying-
Gary King: Nobody's listening!!
The Network: If you'd only-!
Gary King: FACE IT! We are the human race, and we don't like being told what to do!
[pause]
The Network: Just what is it you want to do?!
Gary King: We wanna be free!
Andrew Knightley: Yeah!
Gary King: We wanna be free to do what we wanna do!
Andrew Knightley: Yeah.
Gary King: We wanna get loaded!
Steven Prince: Yeah!
Gary King: And we wanna have a good time! And that's what we're gonna do!
[pause]
The Network: It's pointless arguing with you... [Begins shutting down] You will be left to your own devices.
Gary King: Really?
The Network: Yeah...**** it. [Shuts down]