Serenity (2005) - Quotes

Mr. Universe: You guys always bring me the very best violence.

Mr. Universe: It was a very beautiful ceremony. Lenore wrote her own vows. I cried. Like a baby. A hungry, angry baby.

Jayne Cobb: She is starting to damage my calm!

Jayne Cobb: I just don't get it. How's a man get so wrong? Cuttin on his own face, rapin and murdering — Hell, I'll kill a man in a fair fight... or if I think he's gonna start a fair fight. Or if he bothers me. Or if there's a woman. Or if I'm gettin paid. Mostly only when I'm gettin paid. But these Reavers... last ten years they show up like the bogeyman from stories. Eating people alive? Where's that get fun?

Jayne Cobb: Shiny! Let's be bad guys.

Jayne Cobb: We're gonna explode!? I don't wanna explode!

Hoban "Wash" Washburne: I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar.

Hoban "Wash" Washburne: Let's go back to the part where Jayne gets knocked out by a ninety-pound girl, cause I don't think that's ever gonna get old.

Zoe Washburne: [when asked by Mal about the status of ''Serenity'', referring to both the ship and herself after the final battle] She's tore up plenty, but she'll fly true.

Zoe Washburne: This is the place. We'll buy you the time.

Zoe Washburne: * Sarcastically, as a small vault is opened with very little money.

Zoe Washburne: At last, we can retire and give up this life of crime.

Zoe Washburne: Do you know what the definition of a hero is? Someone who gets other people killed. You can look it up later.

Zoe Washburne: We crashing again?

Malcolm “Mal” Reynolds: * After Kaylee asks how he knows Inara's call is a trap

Malcolm “Mal” Reynolds: [pause] I'm assumin y'all were listenin'? Did you hear us fight? Trap.

Malcolm “Mal” Reynolds: * After defeating the Operative

Malcolm “Mal” Reynolds: [[wish; [world; [sin] Sorry about the throat. Expect you'd want to say your famous last words right now. Just one trouble. I ain't gonna kill you. Hell, I'm gonna grant your greatest ]. I'm gonna show you a ] without ].

Malcolm “Mal” Reynolds: This is how it is. Anybody doesn't wanna fly with me anymore, this is your port of harbor. There's a lot of fine ways to die. I ain't waiting for the Alliance to choose mine. I mean to confound these bungers. Take my shot at getting to Miranda. Maybe find something I can use to get clear of this. So I hear a word out of any of you that ain't helping me out or taking your leave, I will shoot you down.

Malcolm “Mal” Reynolds: * To Simon

Malcolm “Mal” Reynolds: I look out for me and mine. That don't include you less I conjure it does. Now you stuck a thorn in the Alliance's paw. That tickles me a bit. But it also means I got to step twice as fast to avoid them and that means turning down plenty of jobs. Even honest ones. Put this crew together with the promise of work, which the Alliance makes harder every year. Come a day there won’t be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all. This job goes south, there well may not be another. So here is us, on the raggedy edge. Don't push me, and I won't push you.

Malcolm “Mal” Reynolds: * Appears in an early scene and the last scene, as some part breaks off Serenity.

Malcolm “Mal” Reynolds: What was that?

River Tam: * After Simon asks if she wants to stay with the crew.

River Tam: It's not safe … for them.

River Tam: [[insanity] * On her inability to exclude the ] of the Reavers from affecting her own mind.

River Tam: The Reavers! They're all made up of rage. I can't shut them up!

River Tam: [[w:Reaver (Firefly)|Reaver] * Her calm comment after a dramatic chase over rough terrain, in which a ] ship nearly captured them.

River Tam: I swallowed a bug.

River Tam: [[People; [think; [homes] ] don't like to be meddled with. We tell them what to do, what to ]. Don't run, don't walk. We're in their ] and in their heads and we haven't the right. We're meddlesome.