Alien (film) Quotes

Alien (film) is a TV show that was first aired in 1970 . Alien ended its run in 1970.

It features Gordon Carroll; David Giler; Walter Hill as producer, Jerry Goldsmith in charge of musical score, and Derek Vanlint as head of cinematography.

Alien (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom, and United States. Each episode of Alien (film) is 117 minutes long. Alien (film) is distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The cast includes: Sigourney Weaver as Ripley, Ian Holm as Ash, Yaphet Kotto as Parker, Veronica Cartwright as Lambert, Tom Skerritt as Dallas, Harry Dean Stanton as Brett, and John Hurt as Kane.

Alien (film) Quotes

Sigourney Weaver as Ripley

• (Sigourney Weaver) "Ash, that transmission -- Mother's deciphered part of it. It doesn't look like an S.O.S."
• (Ian Holm) "What is it, then?"
• (Sigourney Weaver) "Well, I -- it looks like a warning. I'm gonna go out after them."
• (Ian Holm) "What's the point? I mean by the-the time it takes to get there, you'll -- they'll know if it's a warning or not, yes?"

• (Sigourney Weaver) "Ash, can you hear me?"
• (Sigourney Weaver) "Ash?"
• (Ian Holm) "Yes, I can hear you."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "What was your special order?"
• (Ian Holm) "You read it. I thought it was clear."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "What was it?"
• (Ian Holm) "Bring back life form. Priority One. All other priorities rescinded."
• (Yaphet Kotto) "The damn company. What about our lives, you son of a bitch?"
• (Ian Holm) "I repeat, all other priorities are rescinded."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "How do we kill it, Ash? There's gotta be a way of killing it. How? How do we do it?"
• (Ian Holm) "You can't."
• (Yaphet Kotto) "That's bulls***."
• (Ian Holm) "You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? The perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility."
• (Veronica Cartwright) "You admire it."
• (Ian Holm) "I admire its purity. A survivor -- unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality."
• (Yaphet Kotto) "Look, I am -- I've heard enough of this, and I'm asking you to pull the plug."
• (Ian Holm) "Last word."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "What?"
• (Ian Holm) "I can't lie to you about your chances, but -- you have my sympathies."

• (Sigourney Weaver) "This is commercial towing vehicle Nostromo out of the Solomons, registration number 1-8-0-niner-2-4-6-0-niner. Calling Antarctica traffic control. Do you read me? Over."

• (Sigourney Weaver) "Micro changes in air density, my ass."

• (Sigourney Weaver) "Open the door."

• (Sigourney Weaver) "Ash. Any suggestions from you or Mother?"
• (Ian Holm) "No, we're still collating."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "You're what? You're still collating? I find that hard to believe."
• (Ian Holm) "What would you like me to do?"
• (Sigourney Weaver) "Just what you've been doing, Ash: nothing."

• (Sigourney Weaver) "You are my lucky star. You -- Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky."

• (Sigourney Weaver) "When we throw the switches, how long before the ship blows?"
• (Yaphet Kotto) "Ten minutes."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "No bulls***?"
• (Yaphet Kotto) "We ain't outta here in ten minutes, we won't need no rocket to fly through space."

• (Sigourney Weaver) "Mother. I've turned the cooling unit back on. Mother."
• (Mother) "The ship will automatically destruct in T minus five minutes."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "You -- BITCH."

• (Sigourney Weaver) "Did you ever ship out with Ash before?"
• (Tom Skerritt) "I went out five times with another science officer. They replaced him two days before we left Thedus with Ash. Hm?"
• (Sigourney Weaver) "I don't trust him."
• (Tom Skerritt) "Well, I don't trust anybody."

• (Sigourney Weaver) "Unless somebody has got a better idea -- we'll proceed with Dallas' plan."
• (Veronica Cartwright) "What? And end up like the others? Oh, no. You're out of your mind."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "You got a better idea?"
• (Veronica Cartwright) "Yes. I say that we abandon this ship. We get the shuttle and just get the hell out of here. We take our chances and -- just hope that somebody will pick us up."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "Lambert, the shuttle won't take four."
• (Veronica Cartwright) "Well, then why don't we draw straws and --"
• (Yaphet Kotto) "I'm not drawing any straws. I'm for killing that god**** thing right now."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "Okay. Well, let's talk about killing it. We know it's using the air shafts --"
• (Sigourney Weaver) "Will you listen to me, Parker? Shut up."
• (Yaphet Kotto) "Let's hear it. Let's hear it."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "It's using the air shafts."
• (Yaphet Kotto) "You don't know that."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "That's the only way. We'll move in pairs. We'll go step by step and cut off every bulkhead and every vent until we have it cornered, and then we'll blow it the f*** out into space. Is that acceptable to you?"
• (Yaphet Kotto) "If it means killing it then it's acceptable to me."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "Obviously it means killing it. But we have to stick together."

• (Sigourney Weaver) "Final report of the commercial starship Nostromo, third officer reporting. The other members of the crew; Kane, Lambert, Parker, Brett, Ash, and Captain Dallas; are dead. Cargo and ship destroyed. I should reach the frontier in about six weeks. With a little luck, the network will pick me up. This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "Come on, cat."

• (Sigourney Weaver) "That's amazing. What is it?"
• (Ian Holm) "Uh, yes, it is. Um. I don't know yet. Did you want something?"
• (Sigourney Weaver) "Yes, I, uh -- have a little talk. How's, uh, how's Kane?"
• (Ian Holm) "He's holding, no changes."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "And, uh, our guest?"
• (Ian Holm) "Um."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "Hm?"
• (Ian Holm) "Well, as I said, I'm still -- collating, actually, but uh, I have confirmed that he's got an outer layer of protein polysaccharides. Has a funny habit of shedding his cells and replacing them with polarized silicon, which gives him a prolonged resistance to adverse environmental conditions. Is that enough?"
• (Sigourney Weaver) "That's plenty. What does it mean?"
• (Ian Holm) "Please don't do that. Thank you."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "I'm sorry."
• (Ian Holm) "Well, it's an interesting combination of elements making him a -- tough little son-of-a-bitch."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "And you let him in."
• (Ian Holm) "I was obeying a direct order. Remember?"
• (Sigourney Weaver) "Ash. When Dallas and Kane are off the ship, I'm Senior Officer."
• (Ian Holm) "Oh, yes. I forgot."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "You also forgot the Science Division's basic quarantine law."
• (Ian Holm) "No, that I didn't forget."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "Oh, I see. You just broke it, hm?"
• (Ian Holm) "Look, what would you have done with Kane, hm? You know his only chance of survival was to get him in here."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "Unfortunately, by, uh, breaking quarantine, you risk everybody's life."
• (Ian Holm) "Maybe I should have left him outside. Maybe I've jeopardized the rest of us, but it was a risk I was willing to take."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "That's a pretty big risk for a Science Officer. It's, uh, not exactly out of the manual, is it?"
• (Ian Holm) "I do take my responsibilities as seriously as you, you know. You do your job and let me do mine, yes?"

Veronica Cartwright as Lambert

• (Veronica Cartwright) "Could it want Brett alive?"
• (Sigourney Weaver) "What?"
• (Veronica Cartwright) "Could Brett be alive?"
• (Sigourney Weaver) "No -- I mean, I don't think so."

• (Veronica Cartwright) "Well, how about a little something to lower your spirits?"
• (Tom Skerritt) "Thrill me, would ya?"
• (Veronica Cartwright) "Well, based on my calculations, based on time spent getting to and from the planet --"
• (Tom Skerritt) "Just give me the short version, how far to Earth?"
• (Veronica Cartwright) "Ten months."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "Oh god."

• (Veronica Cartwright) "You bitch."
• (Harry Dean Stanton) "Easy."
• (Yaphet Kotto) "Hey. Hey."
• (Veronica Cartwright) "You were gonna leave us out there."
• (Tom Skerritt) "Alright. Ripley, when I give an order I expect to be obeyed."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "Even if it's against the law?"
• (Tom Skerritt) "You're god**** right."

• (Veronica Cartwright) "I can't see a god**** thing."
• (John Hurt) "Quit griping."
• (Veronica Cartwright) "I like griping."

• (Veronica Cartwright) "I found it. Just short of Zeta II Reticuli. We haven't reached the Outer Rim yet."

Harry Dean Stanton as Brett

• (Harry Dean Stanton) "Right."

• (Harry Dean Stanton) "Well, so what?"
• (John Hurt) "Well, we are obligated under section eight --"
• (Yaphet Kotto) "I hate to bring this up but, uh, this a commercial ship, not a rescue ship --"
• (Harry Dean Stanton) "Right."
• (Yaphet Kotto) "-- and it's not in my contract to do this kind of duty. Now what about the money? If you wanna give me some money to do it, I'll be happy to, uh, t-to, you know, oblige."
• (Harry Dean Stanton) "The man's right."
• (Tom Skerritt) "Parker --"
• (Yaphet Kotto) "Let's go over the bonus situation. We haven't -- Can we just talk about the bonus situation?"
• (Ian Holm) "I'm sorry, can I say something?"
• (Yaphet Kotto) "Let's talk about the bonus more."
• (Ian Holm) "There is a clause in the contract which specifically states any systematized transmission indicating a possible intelligent origin must be investigated."
• (Yaphet Kotto) "I don't wanna hear it --"
• (Harry Dean Stanton) "We don't know if it's intelligent."
• (Yaphet Kotto) "I wanna go home and party."
• (Tom Skerritt) "Parker, will you just listen to the man?"
• (Ian Holm) "On penalty of total forfeiture of shares. No money."
• (Tom Skerritt) "You got that?"
• (Yaphet Kotto) "Well, yeah."
• (Tom Skerritt) "All right, we're going in."
• (Yaphet Kotto) "Yeah, we're going in, aren't we?"

• (Harry Dean Stanton) "Here kitty, kitty, kitty. Meow. Here, Jonesy."

• (Harry Dean Stanton) "This is the worst s*** I've ever seen, man."
• (Yaphet Kotto) "What you say? You got any biscuits over there?"
• (Sigourney Weaver) "Here's some cornbread."
• (Yaphet Kotto) "Cornbread. Yeah."
• (Veronica Cartwright) "I am cold."
• (Yaphet Kotto) "Still with us, Brett?"
• (Harry Dean Stanton) "Right."
• (John Hurt) "Oh, I feel dead."
• (Yaphet Kotto) "Anybody ever tell you you look dead, man?"

Yaphet Kotto as Parker

• (Yaphet Kotto) "If they find what they're lookin' for out there, that mean we get full shares?"
• (Sigourney Weaver) "Don't worry, Parker, yeah. You'll get whatever's coming to you."
• (Harry Dean Stanton) "Look, I'm not gonna do any more work until we get this straightened out."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "Brett, you're guaranteed by law to get a share."
• (Yaphet Kotto) "What?"
• (Sigourney Weaver) "Why don't you just f*** off?"
• (Yaphet Kotto) "What?"
• (Harry Dean Stanton) "Uh, what'd you say, Rip?"
• (Sigourney Weaver) "If you have any trouble, I'll be on the bridge."

• (Yaphet Kotto) "It's a robot. Ash is a god**** robot."

• (Yaphet Kotto) "So, um, we think we should discuss the bonus situation --"

• (Yaphet Kotto) "Get out of the room."

• (Yaphet Kotto) "How ya doin'?"
• (John Hurt) "Terrific. Next silly question?"
• (John Hurt) "Oh, thank you."
• (Tom Skerritt) "You remember anything about the planet?"
• (Sigourney Weaver) "What's the last thing you do remember? Huh?"
• (John Hurt) "I remember some -- horrible dream about -- smothering? I don't know -- Anyway, where are we?"
• (Tom Skerritt) "We're right here."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "We're on our way home."
• (Harry Dean Stanton) "Yeah, back to the ole freezerinos. Ahaha."

• (Yaphet Kotto) "It's got a great defense mechanism -- you don't dare kill it --"

• (Yaphet Kotto) "Uh, before we dock, I think we oughta discuss the bonus situation."
• (Harry Dean Stanton) "Right."
• (Yaphet Kotto) "Brett and I, we think we oughta -- we deserve full shares, right baby?"
• (Harry Dean Stanton) "Right. You see, Mr. Parker and I feel that the bonus situation has never been on a-an equitable level."
• (Tom Skerritt) "Well, you get what you're contracted for like everybody else."
• (Harry Dean Stanton) "Yes, but everybody else, uh, gets more than us."

Tom Skerritt as Dallas

• (Tom Skerritt) "Alien life form. Looks like it's been dead a long time. Fossilized. Looks like it's growing out of the chair."
• (Tom Skerritt) "Bones are bent outward, like he exploded from inside."

• (Tom Skerritt) "Well -- some of you may have figured out we're not home yet, we're only half way there. Mother's interrupted the course of our journey. She's programmed to do that should certain conditions arise. They have. It seems that she has -- intercepted a transmission of unknown origin. She got us up to check it out."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "A transmission? Out here?"
• (Veronica Cartwright) "What kind of a transmission?"
• (Tom Skerritt) "Acoustical beacon. It, uh -- repeats at intervals of twelve seconds."
• (John Hurt) "S.O.S.?"
• (Tom Skerritt) "I don't know."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "Human?"
• (Tom Skerritt) "Unknown."

• (Tom Skerritt) "Now, this air shaft may work to our advantage. Here. It leads up to and comes out in the main airlock. All right, there's only one big opening along the way, we can cover that up, and then we -- drive it into the airlock and zap it into outer space."
• (Yaphet Kotto) "How? This son of a bitch is huge. I mean, it's like a man; it's -- it's big."
• (Ian Holm) "Kane's son."

• (Tom Skerritt) "I haven't seen anything like that except, uh, molecular acid."
• (Harry Dean Stanton) "It must be using it for blood."
• (Yaphet Kotto) "It's got a wonderful defense mechanism. You don't dare kill it."

• (Tom Skerritt) "Something has attached itself to him. We have to get him to the infirmary right away."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "What kind of thing? I need a clear definition."
• (Tom Skerritt) "An organism. Open the hatch."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "Wait a minute. If we let it in, the ship could be infected. You know the quarantine procedure. Twenty-four hours for decontamination."
• (Tom Skerritt) "He could die in twenty-four hours. Open the hatch."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "Listen to me, if we break quarantine, we could all die."
• (Veronica Cartwright) "Look, could you open the god-damned hatch? We have to get him inside."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "No. I can't do that and if you were in my position, you'd do the same."
• (Tom Skerritt) "Ripley, this is an order. Open that hatch right now, do you hear me?"
• (Sigourney Weaver) "Yes."
• (Tom Skerritt) "Ripley. This is an order. Do you hear me?"
• (Sigourney Weaver) "Yes. I read you. The answer is negative."

Ian Holm as Ash

• (Ian Holm) "Ripley, for God's sake, this is the first time that we've encountered a species like this. It has to go back. All sorts of tests have to be made."
• (Sigourney Weaver) "Ash, are you kidding? This thing bled acid. Who knows what it's gonna do when it's dead."
• (Ian Holm) "I think it's safe to assume it isn't a zombie."

• (Ian Holm) "There is an explanation for this, you know."

• (Ian Holm) "Oh, Mother says the sun's coming up in twenty minutes"

• (Ian Holm) "Primordial -- deep cold -- way below the line --"

John Hurt as Kane

• (John Hurt) "We have Parker. Can Brett be far behind?"

• (John Hurt) "I'll volunteer to be in the first group to go out."
• (Tom Skerritt) "Yeah, that figures."

• (John Hurt) "The pit is completely enclosed. And it's full of leathery objects, like eggs or something."

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