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Spies Like Us Quotes

"With spies like these, who needs enemies?"

PG 1985 · 1h 42m
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29 quotes
Unexpected Affection for Horses and Guns
Austin Millbarge You know, I must really like you, because I don't like horses and I hate guns!
[rescuing Fitz-Hume]
A Test of Trust and Temptation
Emmett Fitz-Hume Oh. Uh, will you hold my wallet for me while I take the test, please? There's a thousand dollars in there... or maybe there isn't. Know what I mean?
Test Monitor Are you saying I can take this money if I help you pass the test?
Emmett Fitz-Hume What do you think?
Confession of an American Agent
Emmett Fitz-Hume All right! All right, I'm an American agent!
[trying to buy time by making something up]
Russian Interrogator #2 And...?
Emmett Fitz-Hume And? And... uhh... they... they sent me here t-to assassinate your Premier!
Russian Interrogator #2 I knew it! Pay up, comrade!
Russian Interrogator #1 unimpressed] Let's cut his fingers off anyway.
Concerns About Dating Expectations and Reciprocity
Emmett Fitz-Hume My objective? Well I object to taking a girl out, you know, and buying her dinner and then she won't put out for you.
Questioning Paraguayans and Government Subsidies
Emmett Fitz-Hume Are there any Paraguayans here? Well, of course, their requests for subsidies was not Paraguayan in and of it is as it were the United States government would never have if the president, our president, had not and as far as I know that's the way it will always be. Is that clear?
[subtle laugh from the reporters]
Request for Tent Borrowing
Emmett Fitz-Hume Can I borrow your tent?
Questioning Truth in Critical Moments
Alice You're not going to give me some bullshit that you're dying, are you?
Emmett Fitz-Hume No... not now.
Miscommunication in a Crisis Situation
Austin Millbarge Find a rock! Go the SatScram terminal! Smash that thing!
Emmett Fitz-Hume It's broken.
[Fitz-Hume smashes terminal]
Austin Millbarge Bring it here.
Austin Millbarge Not the rock.
Countdown to Catastrophe and Dark Humor
Austin Millbarge They're saying it'll be 28 minutes before the rocket detonates above it's target, somewhere inside the continental United States. Let's see, 28 minutes, that's 18 until it's inside the US radar cup, figure 2 for our response, say 20 until total commitment, I figure, 20-22 until the first impact of our retaliatory strike. I figure we have 42 minutes until the end of civilization as we know it.
Emmett Fitz-Hume You uh - want to go out with a bang?
[to Karen]
Karen Boyer I beg your pardon?
Emmett Fitz-Hume It was just an idea.
Karen Boyer You know, if we were sitting in a bar, I'd throw a drink right in your face. But, under the circumstances, it's not such a bad idea.
Unexpected Delays and Disappointing Inheritances
Emmett Fitz-Hume I'm sorry I'm late; I had to attend the reading of a will. I had to stay till the very end, and I found out I received nothing... broke my arm.
Bathroom Timing Disagreement Between Friends
Austin Millbarge I gotta take a leak. You should go too.
[trying to speak alone with Fitz-Hume]
Emmett Fitz-Hume What are you my mother? Don't you think I'm capable of determining my own time to go to the bathroom?
Austin Millbarge So, isn't now one of those times?
Austin Millbarge You mean you don't feel a certain degree of urgent pressure on the inner wall of your bladder, now, right at this moment?
Emmett Fitz-Hume No, I'm fine!
Austin Millbarge Well... wouldn't you feel more comfortable being fully relieved of any excess fluids that might be building up immediately, now?
Emmett Fitz-Hume I gotta take a wizz?
The Weight of Unused Weapons
Col. Rhumbus Boys, it would be a shame to have to kill you now.
Karen Boyer Gentlemen, I think you both should realize the gravity of this moment. I've spent the last two-and-a-half years of my life preparing for this penetration.
General Sline When we commissioned the Schmectel Corporation to research this precise event sequence scenario, it was determined that the continual stockpiling and development of our nuclear arsenal was becoming self-defeating. A weapon unused is a useless weapon.
A Finger for Every Minute of Silence
Russian Interregator #2 Every minute you don't tell us why you are here, I cut off a finger.
Emmett Fitz-Hume Mine or yours?
Russian Interregator #2 Yours.
Questioning Their Actions
Emmett Fitz-Hume What did she say?
[after launching the missile]
Austin Millbarge She wants to know why we'd do such a thing.
Emmett Fitz-Hume Tell her so do we.
Seeking a Plan Amidst Chaos
Austin Millbarge We need a plan.
Emmett Fitz-Hume Let's play dead.
Austin Millbarge Show some balls, man!
Emmett Fitz-Hume I think it's too late to try and impress them. Alright; Stop right there... and I'll bring back the sun. Okay... This is my sister. You can all have her. I hear she's very good.
[beat; Fitz-Hume shows a picture from his wallet]
Miscommunication in a Foreign Language
Emmett Fitz-Hume What's she saying?
Austin Millbarge H... hair... hairbrush... headrest...
Emmett Fitz-Hume Jesus, where did you learn your Russian? ]?
[[w:JCPenney|JCPenney]
Struggles in Finding Opportunities
Austin Millbarge It's... "]" by the ].
[Faint music plays in the distance by the missile; [w:Soul Finger|Soul Finger; [w:Bar-Kays|Bar-Kays]
Emmett Fitz-Hume They must be havin a hard time getting gigs.
Understanding a New Term in Conversation
Emmett Fitz-Hume Did you hear that?
Austin Millbarge Yeah. It's a dickfer.
Emmett Fitz-Hume What's a dickfer?
Austin Millbarge To pee with.
Reflection on Time and Consequences
Austin Millbarge Hard to believe its been only 15 minutes since I destroyed the world. In another 15 minutes, it'll all be over. Such a short time to destroy a world. And to think my high school guidance counselor said I'd never amount to anything.
Unexpected Intelligence in Unlikely Places
Austin Millbarge They do seem to be headed in that general direction. Maybe your dick's not so dumb.
Emmett Fitz-Hume It got me through high school.
Risking Humanity for National Interests
Keyes By your actions, sir, you are risking the future of the human race!
General Sline To guarantee the American way of life, I'm willing to take that risk.
A Lesson in Interrogation Techniques
Russian Interrogator #1 Why are you here?
Emmett Fitz-Hume Owww... and let that be a lesson to you.
Concerns About Dangerous Creatures
Austin Millbarge For once I'm completely in agreement with my partner. I'm not going down there. Do you know what those things can do? Suck the paint off your house and give your family a permanent orange afro.
Decoding Complex Communications in Spies Like Us
Captain Hefling What about that red Chinese radio chatter?
Austin Millbarge It's done. Here you go.
Captain Hefling Done? That was a static-filled triple-scrambled microwave transmission between two soldiers talking in Mandarin Chinese!
Austin Millbarge Well the Chinese were only using a simple polyphonetically-grouped twenty-square-digit key transposed from boustrophedonic form with multiple nulls. I broke it with this.
Captain Hefling A Drogan's decoder wheel? They put these things into cereal boxes... for kids!
Austin Millbarge Yeah, I found it in a box of ].
[[w:Lucky charms|Lucky charms]
Captain Hefling Break it down again with the machines!
Austin Millbarge I already did.
Captain Hefling Well... Then clean up your desk!
Repetitive Greetings Among Characters
Dr. Imhaus Doctor.
Dr. Imhaus Doctor.
Dr. Marston Doctor.
Dr. Marston Doctor.
Karen Boyer Doctor.
Karen Boyer Doctor.
[amorously]
Jerry Hadley Doctor.
Jerry Hadley Doctor.
Emmett Fitz-Hume And...Doctor.
Austin Millbarge We're not doctors.
Unexpected Call from Pakistan
Soldier #1 General Sline, sir?
General Sline Yes, Sergeant?
Soldier #1 It's a collect call from Pakistan, for Mr. Ruby. A Mr. Fitz-Hume.
Ruby What?
Austin Milbarge Ah, folks, uh, sorry, uh... We'll just be another minute. Thank you for your patience.
Soldier #1 It's person-to-person, sir. Collect. They said their contacts tried to kill them, and they don't know what they should do.
Keyes And they told you this... over a public phone?
Soldier #1 No sir. The AT&T operator told our operator.
Understanding and Mockery in Human Nature
Austin Millbarge We mock what we don't understand.
[Arguing surgical techniques) with a doctor]
Curiosity Meets Caution in Unexpected Exchange
Emmett Fitz-Hume Hey! What's this?
[catches a grenade]
Austin Millbarge You don't want it!
Questioning the Identity of the Characters
Austin Millbarge They aren't doctors.
Emmett Fitz-Hume What do you mean?
Austin Millbarge That metal case she was packing on her horse.
Emmett Fitz-Hume Well, what about it?
Austin Millbarge It's a Sat Scrambler Terminal - sophisticated system for sending, scrambling, receiving and unscrambling satellite messages.
Emmett Fitz-Hume So, she's a sophisticated woman.
Austin Millbarge It's a highly classified piece of intelligence hardware.
Emmett Fitz-Hume So, she's a high class, intelligent piece!