Falling Down Quotes

William Foster I'm rolling prices back to 1965! What do you think of that?

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

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?

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?

Taglines A Tale Of Urban Reality.

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

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 God bless the working stiff!

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 Yeah.

Bill Foster Well, here I am. The customer.

Rick 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 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!

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.

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 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 You missed. I missed too. You see, that's the concept. Take some shooting lessons, asshole.