Point Break (1991) - Quotes

California Lifestyle: Work-Life Balance Perspective

Taglines: In California, you can party, have sex and surf, before it's time to go to work.

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Pursuing waves through unconventional means

Taglines: 27 banks in three years - anything to catch the perfect wave!

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Pure Adrenaline Experience

Taglines: 100% Pure Adrenaline.

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Recognition of Mortality in Point Break

Johnny Utah: A dead man.

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Tension Between Colleagues in Law Enforcement

Pappas: [of Johnny, after the last robbery] Don't ride him in with the black and whites like some punk, let me ride him in.

Ben Harp: Yeah sure, Angelo, why not? That is why I put you 2 screw-ups to begin with. You deserve each other, don't you? You're just as bad as he is, though you're a little fatter, a little slower and a little more pathetic. For Christ sake, it's like the blind leading the blind with you.

Pappas: Harp, I want to tell you something. I was in this bureau when you were still popping zits on your funny face and jerking off with the lingerie section of the Sears catalog.

Ben Harp: Is that right, Pappas?

Pappas: Yes, that's right "Harp", and out of all these years, I have learned something that you still haven't got.

Ben Harp: Yeah? Why don't you astonish me, shitface?

Pappas: [punches Harp in the face] Respect for my elders.

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The Power of Fear and Hesitation

Bodhi: [getting ready for their next robbery] 90 seconds Johnny. That's all I ask for, just 90 seconds of your life Johnny, that's it. This is our tactic, is we strike fear. It's basic dog psychology, if you scare them and get them peeing down their leg, they submit. But if you project weakness, that promotes violence, and that's how people get hurt.

Bodhi: [hands Johnny a shot gun] Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation causes your worst fears to come true.

Johnny Utah: I can't do this.

Bodhi: Yes, you can. Who knows, you might like it.

Johnny Utah: Bodhi, this is your fucking wake-up call man. I am an F, B, I, Agent!

Bodhi: Yeah, I know man. Ain't it wild? That's what makes it so interesting. You can do what you want, and make up your own rules. Why be a servant to the law, when you can be its master?

Grommet: Fuckin A!

Nathanial: I love this job.

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Tensions Rise Among Undercover Agents

Ben Harp: Special agent Utah! This is not some job, flipping burgers at the local drive-in! Yes! - your surf board bothers me! Yes! - your approach to this whole damn case bothers me! And yes! - YOU BOTHER ME! And Pappas! Oh, for the love of Christ. How the hell did I even let you talk me into this whole bone-headed idea to begin with?!

Pappas: Harp! We are working under-cover. It takes time. We've produced a few...

Ben Harp: NO, no, no, no, no, no, no, NO! Let me tell you what you've produced! Over the last two weeks, you two have produced exactly squat! SQUAT! During which time, the Ex-Presidents have robbed two more banks! Now for Christ's sake, does either one of you have anything even remotely interesting to tell me?

Johnny Utah: I caught my first tube today... sir.

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Conflict Between Experience and Ambition

Pappas: Listen - forget about it, kid. They are ghosts.

Johnny Utah: Yeah, of course. What am I thinking? If you couldn't crack it with all your years of experience, it's impossible to conceive that I might have something to offer, right? Well, maybe I can do better than some over-the-hill burnout.

Pappas: Watch your mouth.

Johnny Utah: Maybe you just ought to take some early retirement right now, and take some rent-a-cop night security job, tell Nam stories--

Pappas: Listen, you snot-nosed little shit! I was takin shrapnel in Khe Sanh when you were crappin in your hands and rubbin it on your face!

Pappas: Yeah, I'm mad!

Pappas: Yeah, I'm mad! Whatcha gonna do about it?!

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Extreme Hunger and Cravings

Angelo Pappas: I'm so hungry I could eat the ass end out of a dead rhino, I should have had you get me three of these things!

Request for Assistance in Point Break

Angelo Pappas: Utah, get me two!

Identity of an F.B.I. Agent

Johnny Utah: I am an F.B.I. Agent.

Questioning FBI's Surfing Training Offer

Johnny Utah: You're sayin the FBI's gonna pay me to learn to surf?

Bodhi's Conflict with Violence and Control

Bodhi: I hate this Johnny. I really do. I hate violence. That is why I had Rosie do this, I could never do that man, I could never hold a knife to Tyler's throat, she was my woman, we shared time. But, Rosie, he's like a machine. He's got this gift of blankness. Once you set him in motion, he will not stop. So, when three o'clock comes, he will gut her like a pig, and try not to get any on his shoes and there is nothing I can do.