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Day of the Dead (1985 film) Quotes

Day of the Dead (1985 film) is a television program that debuted in 1970 . Day of the Dead stopped airing in 1970.

It features Richard P. Rubinstein as producer, John Harrison (director) in charge of musical score, and :it:Michael Gornick as head of cinematography.

Day of the Dead (1985 film) is distributed by United Film Distribution Company.

The cast includes: Lori Cardille as Sarah, Terry Alexander as John, Joseph Pilato as Rhodes, John Amplas as Ted Fisher, Gary Howard Klar as Pvt. Steel, Jarlath Conroy as McDermott, Greg Nicotero as Johnson, Taso N. Stavrakis as Pvt. Torrez, and Ralph Marrero as Pvt. Rickles.

Day of the Dead (1985 film) Quotes

Lori Cardille as Sarah

  • (Lori Cardille) "Maybe if we tried working together we could ease some of the tensions. We're all pulling in different directions."
  • (Terry Alexander) "That's the trouble with the world, Sarah darlin'. People got different ideas concernin' what they want out of life."
  • (Captain Rhodes) "What kind of progress? What are you talking about, "make them behave?" What does that mean?"
  • (Dr. Logan) "It means keeping them from wanting to eat us for one thing. It means keeping them in check. It's controlling them. Controlling them."
  • (Captain Rhodes) "When are you going to show us something that we can understand?"
  • (Dr. Logan) "Very close -- very close. I think in a matter of weeks --"
  • (Lori Cardille) "I don't think there's any way you can tell how long anything is going to take. It could be months, it could be years before we know exactly what we're dealing with here."
  • (Dr. Logan) "Sarah's research is more esoteric than mine. She's looking for a way to reverse the process, a way to eradicate the problem. Could take a long time. A very long time. She may never find what she is looking for. We have a limited supply of chemical agents. Our equipment is hopelessly inadequate."
  • (Captain Rhodes) "McDermott doesn't have decent radio gear. Now, you're telling me that you don't have the s*** you need? We're running low on ammunition. We're running low on men for Christ's sake."
  • (Lori Cardille) "It was very rushed. This operation was put together in a matter of days."
  • (Captain Rhodes) "Yeah? Well it can all be taken apart in a matter of minutes, lady. And I'm here to tell you that I'm ready to do that little thing. I'm ready to take the next train out of here."
  • (Dr. Logan) "I ask you again, Captain. Where will you go? You have no choices you'll have to give us the weeks that we've asked for."
  • (Lori Cardille) "You have to give us however long it takes. Look -- there have to be survivors in Washington. They have more sophisticated shelters than this one. There have to be people in those shelters who know about us, who know where we are. With no radio contact, they'll come looking for us --"
  • (Captain Rhodes) "Shut up. I said, shut up."
  • (Captain Rhodes) "You got a little more time. A little more, I ain't saying how much. But you better start showing me some results, and you better not piss me off. You understand? Nothing happens around here without my knowing about it. And anybody f***s with my command -- they get court martialed -- they get executed. You better know I mean it too, people."
  • (Lori Cardille) "Let him go, god**** it. Or I'll cut you in half."
  • (Captain Rhodes) "I'm callin' a meeting for 7:00 tonight. I want everybody present. Everybody, lady. Including Dr. Frankestein and including your boyfriend."
  • (Lori Cardille) "I gave him a sedative. He won't be awake."
  • (Captain Rhodes) "Look here, woman. I'm short on man power. I won't have you goin' around dopin' up any of my men without orders from me. Is that clear?"
  • (Lori Cardille) "Yes, sir."
  • (Lori Cardille) "f*** you, sir."
  • (Lori Cardille) "I can't belive that Rhodes would have done it."
  • (Terry Alexander) "No, he would have had Steel do it."
  • (Lori Cardille) "He can't be that inhuman."
  • (Terry Alexander) "Captain Rhodes is perfectly human. He knows what he's doing which concerns me. He won't shoot Billy"
  • (Terry Alexander) "-- because he's got no one else who knows electronics. He won't shoot me -- because I'm his ride. He probably won't shoot Frankenstein because the old doc can talk him silly. But the rest of you? The rest of you better start worrying, don't you know."
  • (Lori Cardille) "You're not all right; you're collapsing from stress. Now let me hel --"
  • (Pvt. Miguel Salazar) "Collapsing from stress? We're all collapsing. This whole f***ing unit is collapsing. Everybody except you. I know you're strong, all right, so what? Stronger than me, stronger than everyone, so what? So f***ing what?"

Terry Alexander as John

  • (Terry Alexander) "You want to put some kind of explanation down here before you leave? Here's one as good as any you're likely to find. We're bein' punished by the Creator. He visited a curse on us. So that man could look at -- what Hell was like. Maybe He didn't want to see us blow ourselves up, put a big hole in the sky. Maybe He just wanted to show us He's still the Boss Man. Maybe He figure, we was gettin' too big for our britches, tryin' to figure His s*** out."
  • (Terry Alexander) "Forget it, Billy boy. It's a dead place. Like all the others, you know. Listen. You can hear it over the engine."
  • (Jarlath Conroy) "Jesus, Mary, Joseph."
  • (Terry Alexander) "It takes more energy to keep quiet than it does to speak the mind."
  • (Terry Alexander) "We don't believe in what you're doing here, Sarah. Hey, you know what they keep down here in this cave? Man, they got the books and the records of the top 100 companies. They got the Defense Department budget down here. And they got the negatives for all your favorite movies. They got microfilm with tax return and newspaper stories. They got immigration records, census reports, and they got the accounts of all the wars and plane crashes and volcano eruptions and earthquakes and fires and floods and all the other disasters that interrupted the flow of things in the good ole U.S. of A. Now what does it matter, Sarah darling? All this filing and record keeping? We ever gonna give a s***? We even gonna get a chance to see it all?"
  • (Terry Alexander) "This is a great, big, 14 mile tombstone."
  • (Terry Alexander) "With an epitaph on it that nobody gonna bother to read. Now, here you come. Here you come with a whole new set of charts and graphs and records. What you gonna do? Bury them down here with all the other relics of what -- once -- was? Let me tell you what else. Yeah, I'm gonna tell you what else. You ain't never gonna figure it out, just like they never figured out why the stars are where they're at. It ain't mankind's job to figure that stuff out. So what you're doing is a waste of time, Sarah. And time is all we got left, you know."
  • (Lori Cardille) "What I'm doing -- is all there's left to do."
  • (Terry Alexander) "Shame on you. There's plenty to do. Plenty to do, so long as there's you and me and maybe some other people. We could start over, start fresh, get some babies --"
  • (Terry Alexander) "and teach 'em, Sarah, teach 'em never to come over here and dig these records out."
  • (Terry Alexander) "I got an alternative, yeah, yeah, I got an alternative. Let's get in that old whirly-bird, find us an island some place, get juiced up and spend what time we got left soakin' up some sunshine. How's that?"
  • (Lori Cardille) "You could do that, couldn't you? With all thats going on, you could just do that without a second thought?"
  • (Terry Alexander) "Right, I could do that even if all this wasn't going on."

Jarlath Conroy as McDermott

  • (Jarlath Conroy) "You think I'm not aware of our situation? You think I want to stay isolated down here? You know, I'd make a desperate effort to raise somebody in hopes of getting away from your nasty mouth Steel. But the fact is -- the fact is, either we are the only ones left, or there's no one within range my puny Second World War radio signals."
  • (Greg Nicotero) "We used to talk to Washington all the time. They could hear us then."
  • (Jarlath Conroy) "We were on relays then. We weren't over the air. The power is off on the mainland now in case you haven't heard, and all the shopping malls are closed."
  • (Jarlath Conroy) "Come on, Johnny. We're countin' on ya to fly us to the Promised Land."
  • (Jarlath Conroy) "Temporarily out of service."

Gary Howard Klar as Pvt. Steel

  • (Gary Howard Klar) "Come on, Bub. Come on, ya pus-brain bag of s***. Ya wanna learn how to shoot, Bub? I'll teach ya how to shoot."
  • (Captain Rhodes) "Steel, shoot that woman."
  • (Gary Howard Klar) "Bang, you're dead."
  • (Gary Howard Klar) "Lay off the f***in' booze for a while why don't ya? And get somebody on that f***in' horn, pronto."
  • (Jarlath Conroy) "Well if we stay down here long enough"
  • (Jarlath Conroy) "I'll have to lay off the f***in' booze Steel 'cause there won't f***in' be any of it f***in' left. In the meanwhile I will continue to indulge myself and I will continue doing my best in the good fight against dryrot and rust."
  • (Gary Howard Klar) "You almost killed Rickles. Yeah. You almost f***in' killed Rickles. You dirty yellow Spick bastard."
  • (Gary Howard Klar) "Let's go, you dumb f***s. Get over here."

John Amplas as Ted Fisher

  • (John Amplas) "Unbelievable. We've come out of the frying pan and into the fire. I thought Cooper was an asshole, but he was a sweetheart next to Rhodes. We could be in serious trouble here with him in charge. You'd better watch yourself, Sarah. I really mean physically watch yourself from now on."
  • (Lori Cardille) "Don't worry. It wont come to that. By the way, where is Logan?"
  • (John Amplas) "You mean Frankenstein? He's in laboratory. Where else?"
  • (John Amplas) "What's he trying to prove? I once saw one of those things sitting behind the wheel of a car in D.C. trying to drive down Independence Avenue. It didn't make me want to be its friend."
  • (Lori Cardille) "No, it isn't what this one does, but what he doesn't do. He doesn't get excited or agitated when Logan enters the room. He doesn't see Logan as --"
  • (John Amplas) "Lunch."
  • (Lori Cardille) "Dinner."
  • (John Amplas) "Breakfast."
  • (John Amplas) "We've got to have sterile conditions. Half the work we do goes down the toilet due to contamination."
  • (Captain Rhodes) "You'll work with what you've got, Fisher."
  • (John Amplas) "But it's madness. Can't you understand --"
  • (Captain Rhodes) "I understand this. You and your playmates, you're running out of friends fast around here."
  • (John Amplas) "Look, Major Cooper promised us that we would have --"
  • (Captain Rhodes) "Major Cooper is dead. I'm in command now. And I'm telling you that you'll work with what you've got. And you better start showing me some results, or you won't have that very much longer."
  • (John Amplas) "How can we show you results when we don't have the proper working conditions?"
  • (Lori Cardille) "We're in a desperate situation here. We need each other. Can't we just get along?"
  • (Captain Rhodes) "You need us the way I see it, lady. I'm not so sure we need you at all. I'm not even sure just what the hell it is you're doing in there. Just what the hell it is my men are risking their asses for."
  • (Lori Cardille) "Well, maybe if there was more cooperation around here, your men wouldn't have to risk their asses quite as often."

Taso N. Stavrakis as Pvt. Torrez

  • (Taso N. Stavrakis) "You find anything?"
  • (Terry Alexander) "Yeah. Prime real estate at close-out prices."

Ralph Marrero as Pvt. Rickles

  • (Ralph Marrero) "That's it, Steel. Whip it out."
  • (Gary Howard Klar) "f***in' A. Biggest piece of meat in the cave. I don't wanna frighten the lady, though, not with her boyfriend around."
  • (Lori Cardille) "You're incapable of exciting me, Steel, except as an anthropologic curiosity."
  • (Gary Howard Klar) "Oh, what the hell does that mean, Rickles?"
  • (Ralph Marrero) "It means you're a caveman, asshole. You're a f***in' throwback. You've been spendin' too much time underground. It's okay, Steel; throwbacks all got big dicks."

Joseph Pilato as Rhodes

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