Memorable Quotes from Vincent D'Onofrio
4 quotesThe Limitations of Technology in Warfare
Hoskins
Drones can't search tunnels and caves. And they're hackable. The minute a real war breaks out, all that fancy tech is going to go dark.
Owen
But that tech's not going to eat them if they forget to feed it.
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Domestic Frustration and Alien Intervention
Edgar
I go out, I work my butt off to make a living, all I want is to come home to a nice clean house, with a nice fat steak on the table, but instead, I get this. It looks like poison. Don't you take that away! I'm eating that, dammit! It is poison, isn't it? I swear to God, I would not be surprised if it was, the way you skulk around here like a dog been hit too much, or ain't been hit enough. I can't make up my mind. You're useless, Beatrice. The only thing that pulls its weight around here is my goddamn truck! Figures.
[from inside the house; an alien spaceship crashes into his truck. opens the door with a shotgun in his hand, he surveys the wreckage; begins to walk over to the wreckage]
Beatrice
What the heck is it, Edgar?
[comes out to see the wreckage]
Edgar
Get your big butt back in the house!
Bug
Place projectile weapon on the ground.
[unseen]
Edgar
You can have my gun... ...when you pry it ].
[cocks it; [Charlton Heston#Quotes|from my cold dead fingers]
Bug
Your proposal is acceptable.
Beatrice
Edgar, what on earth was that?
Edgar/Bug
Sugar.
Beatrice
I've never seen sugar do that.
Edgar/Bug
Give me sugar. In water. More. More.
[Beatrice holds up the sugar bowl from the kitchen table; she puts a teaspoon of sugar into a glass of water and holds it up; confused, Beatrice adds some more sugar to the glass]
Beatrice
Edgar, your skin is hangin off your bones.
Edgar/Bug
Huh? Oh, yeah. There. Is that better?
[looks at his reflection; grabs his scalp and stretches it back against his skull]
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Arrival of the Mother Hen
Hoskins
The mother hen has finally arrived.
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The Value of Service and Respect
Jack Horne
To be in the service of others, with men I respect, like you all, I shouldn't have to ask for more than that.
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