Falling Down (1993) - Quotes

Taglines: The adventures of an ordinary man at war with the everyday world.

Taglines: A Tale Of Urban Reality.

Sergeant Prendergast: Now let's go meet some nice policemen. They're good guys. Come on, let's go.

Bill Foster: I'm the bad guy?

Prendergast: Yeah.

Bill Foster: How did that happen? I did everything they told me to.

Bill Foster: What kind of doctor lives here?

Man: Plastic surgeon.

Bill Foster: Plastic surgery bought this? Guess I'm in the wrong racket. Are there correspondence courses in plastic surgery?

Bill Foster: Hi. I'd like some breakfast.

Rick: We stopped serving breakfast.

Bill Foster: I know you stopped serving breakfast Rick, Sheila told me that you... why am I calling you by your first names? I don't even know you. I still call my boss Mister even though I've been working with him for seven years, but all of a sudden I walk in here and I'm calling you Rick and Sheila like we're in some kind of AA meeting and... I don't want to be your buddy, Rick. I just want a little breakfast?

Sheila: You can call me Miss Folsom if you want.

Rick: Sheila. We stopped serving breakfast at 11:30.

Bill Foster: Rick, have you ever heard the expression "the customer is always right"?

Rick: [sighs] Yeah.

Bill Foster: Well, here I am. The customer.

Rick: [still smiling] That's not our policy. You'll have to order something from the lunch menu.

Bill Foster: I don't want lunch. I want breakfast.

Rick: Yeah, well hey, I'm really sorry.

Bill Foster: [smiles back; pulls out a TEC-9] Yeah, well hey, I'm real sorry too.

Nick: We're the same, you and me. We're the same. Don't you see?

Bill Foster: We are not the same. I'm an American. You're a sick asshole.

Nick: Just what kind of vigilante are you?

Bill Foster: I am not a vigilante. I am just trying to get home to my little girl's birthday party, and if everyone will just stay out of my way then nobody will get hurt.

Nick: Fuck you! Who the fuck are you? Are you fucking with me?

Bill Foster: I am just disagreeing with you! In America, we have the freedom of speech, the right to disagree!

Nick: Fuck you and your freedom!

Martin Prendergast: Is that what this is about? You're angry because you got lied to? Is that why my chicken dinner is drying out in the oven? Hey, they lie to everybody. They lie to the fish! But that doesn't give you any special right to do what you did today.

William Foster: Did you know, Beth, in certain South American countries it's still legal to kill your wife if she insults you?

William Foster: [[w:Apollo 13|those astronauts got in trouble when they were going to the moon] I've passed the point of no return, Beth. You know when that is? That's the point in a journey where it's longer to go back to the beginning than it is to continue to the end. It's like...Do you remember when ] and something went wrong? I don't know, somebody screwed up and they had to get them back to Earth, but they had passed the point of no return. So, they had to go all the way around the moon to get back, and they were out of contact for hours. Everybody waited breathlessly to see if a bunch of dead guys in a can would pop out the other side, and that's me. I'm on the other side of the moon now, out of contact, and everybody's just going to have to wait until I pop out.

William Foster: I lost my job. Actually I didn't lose it. It lost me. I'm overeducated, underskilled. Maybe it's the other way around. I forget, but I'm obsolete. I'm not economically viable. I can't even support my own kid.

William Foster: Why have you put barbed wire on a fence? Is this how you rich people amuse yourselves? You put barbed wire on the fence so innocent people like me can hurt our hands looking in, huh?

William Foster: God bless the working stiff!

William Foster: [Foster approaches the gang after they crashed; picks up the UZI and shoots, barely missing the only survivor; the survivor begs for mercy; Foster shoots him in the leg] You missed. I missed too. You see, that's the concept. Take some shooting lessons, asshole.

William Foster: [Before destroying merchandise in a Korean drug store] I'm rolling prices back to 1965! What do you think of that?