Keith David Quotes

Hollywood Homicide

Arrest Orders and Tensions Rise

Bennie I've got arrest warrants for Gavilan and Calden right here. Hey, separate them! I don't want them talking to anybody! Nobody talks to them until they get downtown! Christ! Shit!

Leon Shut up and turn around, Bennie!

Bennie What?

[turns around]

Leon Cuff his ass and take him downtown.

Bennie What are you talking about?

Bennie Get your hands off me, you son of a bitch! You're making a big mistake, pal. You can kiss your career goodbye!

[argrly]

Leon Good.

Bennie Call my lawyer!

[to Detective Zino]

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The Thing

Trust and Identity in Uncertain Situations

MacReady Somebody in this camp ain't what he appears to be. Right now that may be one or two of us. By Spring, it could be all of us.

Childs So, how do we know who's human? If I was an imitation, a perfect imitation, how would you know if it was really me?

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Platoon

Volunteering for Combat: A Personal Choice

King Hey, Taylor, how in the fuck you get here anyway? You look educated.

Chris Taylor I volunteered for it.

King You did what?

Chris I volunteered. I dropped out of college, told em I wanted the infantry. Combat. Vietnam.

Crawford You volunteered for this shit, man?

Chris Believe that?

King You's a crazy fucker, giving up college.

Chris Didn't make much sense, I wasn't learning anything. I figured why should just the poor kids go off to war and the rich kids always get away with it.

King Oh, I see, what we got here is a crusader.

Crawford Sounds like it.

King Shiiit, you gotta be rich in the first place to think like that. Ever'body know the poor always being fucked over by the rich. Always have, always will.

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They Live

Critique of Corporate Greed and Worker Struggles

Frank Armitage The steel mills were laying people off left and right. They finally went under. We gave the steel companies a break when they needed it. You know what they gave themselves? Raises.

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Agent Cody Banks

Understanding the Purpose of Money

Cody Banks What for?

CIA Director They buy things with it, I believe.

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Hollywood Homicide

Complexities of Commingled Finances and Investigations

Joe Commingling funds, huh? That's my crime? Commingling? Guilty. My alimony number one comes from money commingled with my beer money. My refinanced car commingled with the short-term loan to keep the second mortgage paid off, commingled with my alimony number three, commingled with every Goddamn dime I've got tied up in my Mt. Olympus property. My whole life's commingled.

Bennie Well, I glad you brought up the property on Mt. Olympus. You're attempting to sell it without disclosing you also own it.

Joe This isn't about real estate, is it, Bennie?

Leon Bennie, what the hell's going on here? Look, as immediate supervisor of these men, you are bound to inform me of any investigation involving my section.

Bennie You're so informed.

Leon You couldn't have told me first?

Joe Welcome to the party, Leon. I'm trying to find out what I'm guilty of, besides going to one too many airport real estate seminars.

[to Leon]

Bennie Well, for starters, Sergeant, you know a woman named Cleo Ricard?

Joe I talk to her. Talks cheap.

Bennie Because Administrative Vice, which has been watching her for two years, is on the verge of making a major prostitution bust, and you're in there making promises to her to intervene. In addition to that, you haven't registered her as an informant.

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They Live

Life as a Competitive and Selfish Game

Frank Armitage The whole deal's like some crazy game. They put you at a starting line, and the name of the game is "Make It Through Life," only everyone's looking out for themselves and looking to do you in at the same time.

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Hollywood Homicide

Assigning Responsibilities in a Homicide Investigation

Leon Joe. K.C.

Joe and K.C. Hey, Leon.

Leon Hey. I'm making you two primaries on this disaster. Since you made no progress in the Klepto murder, I figure you're due.

K.C. Thanks for the confidence.

Leon Yeah, no problem.

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Platoon

Survival and Moral Ambiguity in War

Chris It's the way the whole thing works, people like Elias get wasted, people like Barnes just go on making up the rules any way they want. So what do we do? Sit in the middle and suck on it. We just don't add up to dry shit, King.

King Whoever said we did, man? All you got to do is make it out of here. It's all gravy, everyday the rest of your life, gravy.

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The Thing

Conflict Over Team Assignments

MacReady All right, we gotta find him. Nauls, why don’t you come with me and we'll go outside. Palmer, you and Windows check the inside.

Palmer I ain't going with Windows. I ain't going with him, I'll go with Childs--

Windows Hey, FUCK YOU, Palmer!

Palmer I ain't going with you!

Childs Who says I want you going with me?!

MacReady ALL RIGHT, CUT THE BULLSHIT! Windows, you come with us. Norris, you stay here. Any of them move, you fry them. You hear anything, anything at all, you cut loose on the sirens. We all meet here in 20 minutes regardless. And everybody watch who you're with, real close.

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The Thing

Tensions Rise Among Survivors in Isolation

Blair Nobody gets in and out of here! NOBODY! You guys think I'M crazy! Well, that's fine! Most of ya don't know what's goin on around here, but I'm damn well sure SOME of you do!

[throwing a fit in the radio room]

MacReady Christ!

Childs He got most of the chopper and the tractor. And he's killed the rest of the dogs.

MacReady Garry, wait a minute, wait a minute. Now, Childs, go around to the map room door. Talk to him.

[as Garry advances with his gun]

Childs Yeah.

MacReady Norris, get a table from the lab.

Blair D'ya think that thing wanted to be an animal?! No dogs make it a thousand miles through the cold! No, you don't understand! That thing wanted to be US! If a cell gets out, it could imitate everything on the FACE OF THE EARTH! AND NOTHING CAN STOP IT!

[still smashing up the radio room with an axe while yelling]

Childs Okay, Blair. Come on, man, you don't wanna hurt anybody.

[appearing in the map room doorway]

Blair I'LL KILL YOU!

The Thing

Survivors Question Each Other's Actions

Childs You the only one who made it?.

MacReady Not the only one.

Childs Did you kill it?

MacReady Where were you, Childs?

Childs Thought I saw Blair. I went out after him and got lost in the storm. Fire's got the temperature up all over the camp. Won't last long, though.

MacReady Neither will we.

Childs How will we make it?

MacReady Maybe we shouldn't.

Childs If you're worried about me...

MacReady If we've got any surprises for each other, I don't think we're in much shape to do anything about it.

Childs Well...What do we do?

MacReady Why don't we just...Wait here for a little while? See what happens.

[slumping back]

Requiem for a Dream

Acknowledgment of Unnecessary Display

Big Tim I know it's pretty baby, but I didn't take it out for air.

Agent Cody Banks

The Nature of CIA Operations

CIA Director Creepy, huh? We're the CIA. That's what we do.

The Thing

Skepticism Towards Extraterrestrial Claims

MacReady I don't know. Thousands of years ago it crashes, and this thing... gets thrown out, or crawls out, and it ends up freezing in the ice.

Childs I just cannot believe any of this voodoo bullshit.

Palmer Childs, happens all the time, man. They're falling out of the skies like flies. Government knows all about it, right, Mac?

Childs You believe any of this voodoo bullshit, Blair?

Palmer Childs, Childs... ], man. They practically own South America. I mean, they taught the Incas everything they know.

[[w:Chariots of the Gods?|Chariots of the Gods]

Garry So, come on now, MacReady, Norwegians get ahold of this... and they dig it up out of the ice.

MacReady Yes, Garry, they dig it up, they cart it back, it gets thawed out, wakes up - probably not the best of moods - I don't know, I wasn't there!

Nauls Which one of you disrespectful men been tossing his dirty drawers in the kitchen trash can, huh? From now, I want my kitchen clean, all right? Germ free!

[skates in with ripped long johns]

Childs So how's this motherfucker wake up after thousands of years in the ice?

Bennings And how can it look like a dog?

MacReady I don't know how. Cause it's different than us, see? Cause it's from outer space. What do you want from me? Ask him!

[motions to Blair]

Childs You buy any of this Blair?

Memorable Quotes from Keith David