Cliff CurtisQuotes

Amir Abdullah: You know what I think? You're stealing gold, that's what I think. We're fighting Saddam and dying, and you're stealing gold.

Archie Gates: You're wrong.

Abdullah: They have half a million men in the desert and they send four guys to pick up all this bullion? I don't think so.

Nick Gant: [pointing to an object in Cassie's drawing] We need this.

Hook Waters: An olive?

Cassie Holmes: [irritated] It's a bead.

Clavius: I cannot reconcile all this with the world I know.

Yeshua: With your own eyes you've seen, yet still you doubt. Imagine the doubt of those who have never seen. That's what they face.

Yeshua: What frightens you?

Clavius: Being wrong.

Willy Beachum: [about Crawford's house] What style would you say this is?

Detective Flores: Oh... I'd say homicidal modern.

Frank Herrera: [On nominating Herman for foreman] But...

Eddie Weese: But he's blind, man. So what? So is justice, right?

Mace: Do I have to spell it out for you? We have a payload to deliver to the heart of our nearest star. We're delivering that payload because that star is dying. And if it dies, we die. Everything dies. So that is our mission. There is nothing, literally nothing, more important than completing our mission. End of story!

Trey: He's right.

Mace: He's right? Of course I'm right! Is anyone here seriously considering otherwise?

Searle: May I put a counter-argument?

Mace: No!

Searle: Captain?

Kaneda: Go ahead.

Searle: It would, of course, be absurd to alter our trajectory to assist the crew of the Icarus I. Even if we knew that some or even all of that crew are still alive, their lives are entirely expendable when seen in the context of our mission. As are our own lives.

Mace: Exactly.

Searle: However, there is something on board the Icarus I that may be worth the detour. As you pointed out, Mace, we have a payload to deliver. A payload, singular. Now, everything about the delivery and effectiveness of that payload is entirely theoretical. Simply put, we don't know if it's gonna work. But what we do know is this: if we had two bombs, we'd have two chances.

Kaneda: You're assuming we'd be able to pilot Icarus I.

Searle: Yes.

Trey: Which is assuming that whatever stopped them completing the mission wasn't a fault or a damage to the spacecraft.

Searle: Yes.

Mace: It's a lot of assumptions.

Searle: It is. It's a risk assessment. The question is: does the risk of a detour outweigh the benefits of an extra payload?

Mace: We'll have a vote.

Searle: No. No, we won't. We are not a democracy. We're a collection of astronauts and scientists, so we're gonna make the most informed decision available to us.

Mace: Made by you, by any chance?

Kaneda: [''Long pause''] Made by the person best qualified to understand the complexities of payload delivery: our physicist.

Capa: Shit.

Searle: It's invigorating. It's like... taking a shower in light. You lose yourself a little.

Corazon: Like a floatation tank?

Searle: Actually, no. More like... in psych tests on deep space, I ran a number of sensory deprivation trials, tested in total darkness, on flotation tanks. And the point about darkness is, you float in it. You and the darkness are distinct from each other, because darkness is an absence of something, it's a vacuum. But total light envelopes you. It becomes you. It's very strange. I... I recommend it.

Mace: What's strange, Searle, is that you're the psych officer on this ship, and I'm clearly a lot saner than you are.

Searle: Kaneda! What do you see? Kaneda! What do you see? Kaneda! Kaneda!

Searle: Prescription: two hours in the Earth Room. And get a haircut, Mace.

Searle: Hey Capa, we're only stardust.

Jonah Hobbs: [the brothers move on them] You don't know me, I don't know you. Okay? Time for you all to go. Take your machine with you. Go! Now! Soles..

Sefina Hobbs: [stands up; the brothers bow down; [wiktionary:uso#Samoan|uso; [wikipedia:Mana|mana; points to the men; [hospitality|fa'a alo alo; takes slipper] Jonah Hobbs! E'suia! You have some respect for your ]. If he needs anything, we're gonna give it to him. The food off our tables, the clothes off our backs.... Even the ] of the islands. And you boys... All you boys... You show our guests here, ], or so help me God... I'm gonna take this here slipper... and I'm gonna sasa your big fat heads! You boys hear me?

Luke: I'm sorry to bring this here, Mama.

Sefina: Luke, this is your home. We Samoans. We can handle troubles.

Beth Heke: You raped a 13 year old girl and sat here drinking with her father while the rest of us buried her!

Bully: You should learn to control your Missus.

Beth Heke: Sneaking around the house laying your filthy fucking hands on my baby!

Porourangi: Koro is just...he's just Iooking for something that doesn't exist anymore.

Pai: A new leader? They exist.

Porourangi: Yeah, they do, except I think it's become even more than that. In his head, your Koro, he needs a prophet.

Pai: What's that?

Porourangi: Well, somebody who's gonna Iead our peopIe out of the darkness and who'll make everything aIright again. OnIy probIem is you can't just decide who those peopIe are just because you want them to be, eh?

Smiley: Alonzo, he's a hothead. Last week in Vegas some Russian starts talking shit and Alonzo he just snapped. Beat his ass to death. Turns out that Russian is a somebody and now Alonzo, he's into the Russians for a million.

Smiley: Three of a kind beats two pair, you fucking dumb truck.

Quaritch: [points pistol at Lo'ak] Jake. Tell your friends to stand down. You want your kids back, you come out alone. You know better than to test my resolve.

Tsireya: Lo'ak! No!

Jake: [hesitates, lowers gun] (whispers) Fuck!

Quaritch: I took you under my wing, Jake. You betrayed me. You killed your own. Good men. Good women. I will not hesitate to execute your kid.

Jake: [looks over his surroundings] Just wait one. Hold here.

Tonowari: They are killers of tulkun! They must die! Here. Today.

Jake: It's me that they want! That's what all of this has been about, right? The-the hunting of our tulkun. The taking of our kids.

Ronal: You brought this upon us! YOU!!!

Jake: Well, then, it's me that has to do this.

Ronal: [to Tsireya; annoyed] You allowed this. You allowed him to bond with the outcast!

Tonowari: [to Lo'ak] Tsireya. You disappoint me, daughter. And you, son of a great warrior, who has been taught better.

Lo'ak: Payakan saved my life, sir. You don't know him.

Tsireya: No, Lo'ak.

Tonowari: [to Neteyam, Tsireya and Aonung; blows hard; to Lo'ak] Sit. Sit. SIT DOWN! Hear my words, boy. In the days of the First Songs, tulkun fought amongst themselves, for territory and for revenge. But they came to believe that killing, no matter how justified, only brings more killing. So all killing was forbidden. This is the Tulkun Way. Payakan is a killer, so, he is outcast.

Lo'ak: I'm sorry, sir. But you're wrong.

Neytiri: [whispers] Lo'ak. You speak to Olo'eyktan!

Lo'ak: I know. What I...

Jake Sully: [angry] That's enough!

Lo'ak: I know what I know.

Jake Sully: That's enough. I'll deal with this one.

Tonowari: Why do you come to us, Jake Sully?

Jake Sully: We seek uturu.

Ronal: Uturu?

Jake Sully: Yeah, sanctuary for my family.

Tonowari: We are Reef People. You're Forest People. Your skills will be nothing here.

Jake Sully: [to Neytiri] We will learn your ways. Right?

Tonowari: Her name is Ro'a.

Tonowari: Treat them as our brothers and sisters. Teach them our ways.

Tonowari: [[war] We cannot allow you to bring your ] here.

Lo'ak: This is-- this is wrong! This is wrong!

Ronal: You do not speak here!

Lo'ak: No! Payakan fought for us, he fought for us!

Jake Sully: Lo'ak.

Lo'ak: He saved your daughter's life! He saved her life!

Ronal: This is not. You do not speak here!

Lo'ak: He defend us!

Ronal: This is council!

Neytiri: Lo'ak.

Tonowari: The elders have spoken.

Lo'ak: The Tulkun are being hunted! They're dying!

Jake Sully: Lo'ak, that's enough.

Lo'ak: NO!

Tsireya: Lo'ak speaks the truth!

Rotxo: No, Tsireya.

Tsireya: NO!

Tonowari: Daughter!

Lo'ak: Payakan is a warrior! He fought for us more than you, or you, more than any of you! HE FOUGHT FOR US!!

Tonowari: Sit down!!

Neytiri: Lo'ak.

Tonowari: Take him from here!