Escape from New York Quotes

Escape from New York is a television show that was first aired in 1970 . Escape from New York stopped airing in 1970.

It features Larry J. Franco; Debra Hill as producer, John Carpenter, and Alan Howarth in charge of musical score, and Dean Cundey, and Jim Lucas as head of cinematography.

Escape from New York is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Escape from New York is 99 minutes long. Escape from New York is distributed by AVCO Embassy Pictures.

The cast includes: Lee Van Cleef as Bob Hauk, Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken, Lee Van Cleef as Hauk, Isaac Hayes as The Duke, Nancy Stephens as Stewardess, John Strobel as Cronenberg, Ernest Borgnine as Cabbie, Harry Dean Stanton as Brain, Adrienne Barbeau as Maggie, and Frank Doubleday as Romero.

Escape from New York Quotes

Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken

• (Kurt Russell) "What's wrong with Broadway?"

• (Kurt Russell) "Where's the President?"
• (Ernest Borgnine) "The Duke got him. Everybody knows the Duke's got him. You don't have to put a gun to my head. I'll tell you."
• (Kurt Russell) "Who's the Duke?"
• (Ernest Borgnine) "The Duke? The Duke of New York, A-Number-1, the Big Man, that's who."
• (Kurt Russell) "I wanna meet this Duke."
• (Ernest Borgnine) "You can't meet the Duke. Are you crazy? Nobody gets to meet the Duke. You meet him once and then you're dead."

• (President) "Oh -- listen, I want to thank you back there for saving my life. If there's anything you want -- anything at all --"
• (Kurt Russell) "Just a moment of your time."
• (President) "Of course -- Yes?"
• (Kurt Russell) "We did get you out. But a lot of people died in the process. I just wondered how you felt about it."
• (President) "Well, I -- I wanna thank them. This nation appreciates their sacrifice."
• (President) "Look, I'm on in -- two minutes?"

• (Kurt Russell) "All right, get your machine ready, I'm coming out."
• (Lee Van Cleef) "18 hours left, Plissken."
• (Kurt Russell) "Listen to me, Hauk. The President is dead, you got that? Somebody's had him for dinner."
• (Lee Van Cleef) "Plissken, if you get back in that glider and fly back here without the tape or the President, I'll shoot you down myself. You try to climb out, I'll burn you off the wall. Do you understand that, Plissken?"
• (Kurt Russell) "A little human compassion."

• (Kurt Russell) "You always were smart, Harold."
• (Harry Dean Stanton) "Just one thing, right now -- don't call me Harold."

• (Kurt Russell) "You wanna see him sprayed all over that map, baby? Now where's the President?"

• (Girl in "Chock Full O'Nuts") "You're a cop."
• (Kurt Russell) "I'm an asshole --"

Harry Dean Stanton as Brain

• (Harry Dean Stanton) "They're savages, Mr. President."

• (Harry Dean Stanton) "I swear to God, Snake, I thought you were dead."
• (Kurt Russell) "Yeah. You and everybody else."

• (Harry Dean Stanton) "Swear to God Snake, I thought you were dead --"
• (Kurt Russell) "Yeah, you and everybody else."

Nancy Stephens as Stewardess

• (Nancy Stephens) "Tell this to the workers when they ask where their leader went. We, the soldiers of The National Liberation Front of America, in the name of the workers and all the oppressed of this imperialist country, have struck a fatal blow to the fascist police state. What better revolutionary example than to let their president perish in the inhuman dungeon of his own imperialist prison."

Isaac Hayes as The Duke

• (Isaac Hayes) "What did I teach you?"
• (President) "Y-You are the -- Duke of New -- New York. You're A-Number One."
• (Isaac Hayes) "I can't hear you."
• (President) "Y-You -- You are the Duke of New York. You're A-Number One."

Lee Van Cleef as Bob Hauk

• (Lee Van Cleef) "It's the survival of the human race, Plissken. Something you don't give a s*** about."

• (Lee Van Cleef) "You going to kill me, Snake?"
• (Kurt Russell) "I'm too tired. Maybe later."
• (Lee Van Cleef) "I got another deal for you. I'd like you to think it over while you're resting. I'd like to offer you a job. We'd make one hell of a team, Snake."
• (Kurt Russell) "The name's Plissken."

• (Lee Van Cleef) "Remember, once you're inside you're on your own."
• (Kurt Russell) "Oh, you mean I can't count on you?"
• (Lee Van Cleef) "No."
• (Kurt Russell) "Good."

• (Lee Van Cleef) "In 22 hours, the Hartford Summit Meeting will be over. China and the Soviet Union will go back home. Now, the President was on his way to the summit when his plane went down. He has a briefcase attached to his wrist. The tape recording inside has to reach Hartford in 22 hours."
• (Kurt Russell) "What's on it?"
• (Lee Van Cleef) "You know anything about nuclear fusion?"
• (Kurt Russell) "No."
• (Lee Van Cleef) "The survival of the human race, Plissken. Something you don't give a s*** about."
• (John Strobel) "I'm going to inject you. It will sting for a second."
• (Lee Van Cleef) "That's it, Plissken."
• (John Strobel) "Tell him."
• (Kurt Russell) "Tell me what?"
• (Lee Van Cleef) "That idea you had about turning the Gullfire around 180 degrees and flying off to Canada."
• (Kurt Russell) "What did you do to me, asshole?"
• (Lee Van Cleef) "My idea, Plissken. Something we've been fooling around with. Two microscopic capsules lodged in your arteries. They're already starting to dissolve. In 22 hours, the cores will completely dissolve. Inside the cores are a heat-sensing charge. Not a large explosion, about the size of a pinhead, just big enough to open up both of your arteries. I'd say you'd be dead in 10-15 seconds --"
• (Kurt Russell) "Take them out, now."
• (John Strobel) "They're protected by the cores. Fifteen minutes before the last hour is up, we can neutralize the charge with X-rays."
• (Lee Van Cleef) "We'll burn out the charges IF you have the President."
• (Kurt Russell) "What if I'm a little late?"
• (Lee Van Cleef) "No more Hartford Summit. And no more Snake Plissken."
• (Kurt Russell) "When I get back, I'm going to kill you."
• (Lee Van Cleef) "The Gullfire's waiting."

• (Lee Van Cleef) "You going to kill me, Snake?"
• (Kurt Russell) "Not now, I'm too tired."
• (Kurt Russell) "Maybe later."

• (Lee Van Cleef) "Is the glider intact?"
• (Kurt Russell) "Yeah, but takin' off is for s*** -- I'll work it out."

• (Lee Van Cleef) "You go in, find the President, bring him out in 24 hours, and you're a free man."
• (Kurt Russell) "24 hours, huh?"
• (Lee Van Cleef) "I'm making you an offer."
• (Kurt Russell) "Bulls***."
• (Lee Van Cleef) "Straight just like I said."
• (Kurt Russell) "I'll think about it."
• (Lee Van Cleef) "No time. Give me an answer."
• (Kurt Russell) "Get a new president."
• (Lee Van Cleef) "We're still at war, Plissken. We need him alive."
• (Kurt Russell) "I don't give a f*** about your war -- or your president."
• (Lee Van Cleef) "Is that your answer?"
• (Kurt Russell) "I'm thinking about it."
• (Lee Van Cleef) "Think hard."
• (Kurt Russell) "Why me?"
• (Lee Van Cleef) "You flew the Gullfire over Leningrad. You know how to get in quiet. You're all I got."
• (Kurt Russell) "I guess I go in one way or the other -- doesn't mean s*** to me. All right -- I'll do it. Give me the pardon paper."
• (Lee Van Cleef) "When you come out."
• (Kurt Russell) "Before."
• (Lee Van Cleef) "I told you I wasn't a fool, Plissken."
• (Kurt Russell) "Call me Snake."

• (Lee Van Cleef) "There was an accident. About an hour ago, a small jet went down inside New York City. The President was on board."
• (Kurt Russell) "The president of what?"

• (Lee Van Cleef) "Plissken? Plissken, what are you doing?"
• (Kurt Russell) "Playing with myself. I'm going in."

• (Lee Van Cleef) "I'm not a fool, Plissken."
• (Kurt Russell) "Call me "Snake.""

Ernest Borgnine as Cabbie

• (Ernest Borgnine) "Brain? Brain, I brought somebody to see you."
• (Kurt Russell) "Harold Helman --"
• (Harry Dean Stanton) "Snake?"
• (Adrienne Barbeau) "Harold?"
• (Kurt Russell) "How you been, Harold? It's been a long time."
• (Adrienne Barbeau) "You never told me you knew Snake Plissken, Brain."
• (Ernest Borgnine) "Isn't that great? Hey, Brain, I could use some gas if you could spare some."
• (Kurt Russell) "I'm glad you remember me. Yeah, a man should remember his past. Kansas City, four years ago, you ran out on me -- You left me sittin' there."
• (Harry Dean Stanton) "You were late."
• (Kurt Russell) "We were buddies, Harold. You, me, and Fresno Bob. You know what they did to Bob, huh?"

Frank Doubleday as Romero

• (Frank Doubleday) "You touch me -- he dies. If you're not in the air in thirty seconds -- he dies. You come back in -- he dies."
• (Frank Doubleday) "Twenty seconds."
• (Lee Van Cleef) "I'm ready to talk."
• (Frank Doubleday) "Nineteen. Eighteen."
• (Lee Van Cleef) "What do you want?"
• (Frank Doubleday) "Seventeen. Sixteen."
• (Lee Van Cleef) "Let's go. Let's go."

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