National Treasure (film) Quotes

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

It features Jerry Bruckheimer as producer, Trevor Rabin in charge of musical score, and Caleb Deschanel as head of cinematography.

National Treasure (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of National Treasure (film) is 131 minutes long. National Treasure (film) is distributed by Buena Vista Pictures.

The cast includes: Nicolas Cage as Ben Gates, Diane Kruger as Abigail Chase, Justin Bartha as Riley Poole, Jon Voight as Patrick Gates, Nicolas Cage as Benjamin Franklin Gates, Sean Bean as Ian Howe, Harvey Keitel as Sadusky, Harvey Keitel as Agent Dawes, and Christopher Plummer as John Adams Gates.

National Treasure (film) Quotes

Jon Voight as Patrick Gates

• (Jon Voight) "Cooperation only lasts as long as the status quo is unchanged. As soon as this guy gets to wherever this thing ends -- he won't need you anymore, or -- or any of us."
• (Nicolas Cage) "So we find a way to make sure the status quo changes in our favor."
• (Jon Voight) "How?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "I'm still working on it."
• (Jon Voight) "Well, I guess I better work on it too, then."

• (Jon Voight) "This room is real, Ben. And that means the treasure is real. We're in the company of some of the most brilliant minds in history because you found what they left behind for us to find, and understood the meaning of it. You did it, Ben, for all of us; your grandfather, and all of us. And I've never been so happy to be proven wrong."

• (Jon Voight) "What is that? Animal skin? How old is it?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "About 200 years."
• (Jon Voight) "Sure?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Pretty darn."

• (Jon Voight) "At least I had your mother, for however brief a time. At least I had you. What do you have?"
• (Jon Voight) "Him?"

• (Jon Voight) "The status quo has changed, son."

Sean Bean as Ian Howe

• (Museum Kid) "Is this real?"
• (Sean Bean) "Just tell me what you told my friend"

• (Sean Bean) "McGregor, Viktor, you stay here. And if anyone should come out without me -- well -- use your imagination."

• (Sean Bean) "Tell me what I need to know, Ben."
• (Nicolas Cage) "You need to know -- if Shaw can catch."

• (Sean Bean) "You know the key to running a convincing bluff? Every once in a while you got to be holding all the cards."

• (Sean Bean) "Gentlemen, why is this word capitalized?"
• (Shippen) "Because it's important?"
• (Sean Bean) "Because it's a name."

• (Shaw) "Damn."
• (Sean Bean) "He's got the bloody map."

• (Sean Bean) "You all right, Ben? No broken bones? A jump like that could kill a man."
• (Nicolas Cage) "No, it was cool. You should try it some time."

• (Sean Bean) "Well done, Gates. Well done."

Justin Bartha as Riley Poole

• (Justin Bartha) "Skidding. Skidding. Skidding."

• (Justin Bartha) "How do you look?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Not bad."
• (Justin Bartha) "Mazel tov."

• (Justin Bartha) "This is -- huge."
• (Justin Bartha) "Prison -- huge. You are gonna go to prison. You know that, right?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Yeah, probably."
• (Justin Bartha) "Well -- that would -- bother most people."

• (Justin Bartha) "If it's any consolation, you had me convinced."
• (Nicolas Cage) "It's not."
• (Justin Bartha) "I was thinking, what if we go public, plaster the story all over the internet? It's not like we have our reputations to worry about. Although, I don't think that's exactly gonna scare Ian away."
• (Nicolas Cage) "180 years of searching, and I'm three feet away. Of all the words written here about freedom, there's a line here that's at the heart of all the others. "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and provide new Guards for their future security.""
• (Nicolas Cage) "People don't talk that way anymore."
• (Justin Bartha) "Beautiful, huh? I have no idea what you said."
• (Nicolas Cage) "It means if there's something something wrong, those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action."
• (Nicolas Cage) "I'm gonna steal it."
• (Justin Bartha) "What?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "I'm gonna steal the Declaration of Independence."
• (Justin Bartha) "Uh, Ben?"

• (Justin Bartha) "Anyone crazy enough to believe us isn't gonna want to help."
• (Nicolas Cage) "We don't need someone crazy. But one step short of crazy, what do you get?"
• (Justin Bartha) "Obsessed."
• (Nicolas Cage) "Passionate."

• (Justin Bartha) "Do you actually know who the first person to suggest daylight savings was?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Benjamin Franklin."

• (Justin Bartha) "Who's the stiff?"

• (Justin Bartha) "-- We probably have our own satellite by now --"

• (Shaw) "Prison."
• (Justin Bartha) "Albuquerque. See, I can do it too. Snorkel."
• (Shaw) "That's where the map is. Like he said, "Fifty-five in iron pen." "Iron pen" is a prison."
• (Nicolas Cage) "Or it could be, since the primary writing medium of the time was iron gall ink, the "pen" is -- just a pen. But then why not say a pen? Why say "iron pen"?"
• (Shaw) "Cause it's a prison."

• (Justin Bartha) "It's a big blue-ish green man -- with a strange-looking goatee -- I'm guessing that's significant."

• (Justin Bartha) "Come on, Romeo. Get out of there."

• (Justin Bartha) "Where are you?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Stop talking. Start the van."
• (Justin Bartha) "Ben, the, uh, mean D- Declaration lady's behind you."

• (Justin Bartha) "So if it's in invisible ink, how do we see it?"
• (Jon Voight) "Throw it in the oven."
• (Nicolas Cage) "No."
• (Justin Bartha) "Uh-uh."

• (Justin Bartha) "Is that that hot girl? How does she look?"

• (Justin Bartha) "Stop chatting and get in the van."

• (Justin Bartha) "A credit card slip? Dude, we're on the grid. They'll have your records from forever. They'll have my records from forever."
• (Nicolas Cage) "I know. I know. It's only a matter of minutes before the FBI shows up at my front door."
• (Justin Bartha) "What do we do?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "We need those letters."
• (Diane Kruger) "What letters?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "You know, get off the road, take a right."
• (Diane Kruger) "What letters ?"

• (Justin Bartha) "Our evil plan is working."

• (Justin Bartha) "What do you care? You got the girl."
• (Nicolas Cage) "That's true."
• (Justin Bartha) "Yeah, rub it in."
• (Justin Bartha) "Enjoy your spoils."

• (Justin Bartha) "What?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "It's just that -- the last time this was here -- it was being signed."

• (Justin Bartha) "Will someone please explain to me what these magic numbers are?"

• (Justin Bartha) "When are we gonna get there? I'm hungry. This car smells weird."

• (Justin Bartha) "I lost my feed."
• (Nicolas Cage) "What?"
• (Justin Bartha) "I lost my feed, Ben. I don't know where anyone is. I-I have nothing. Ben, I have no-. Ben, I have nothing. Get out of there. Get out of there now."
• (Nicolas Cage) "I'm taking the whole thing. I'll get it out of the elevator."
• (Justin Bartha) "What are you talking -- Is it heavy?"

• (Justin Bartha) "It took you all of two seconds to decide to steal the Declaration of Independence."
• (Nicolas Cage) "Yeah, but I didn't think I was going personally have to tell my dad about it."
• (Nicolas Cage) "Hey. Not cool. Not cool."
• (Diane Kruger) "Let me go."
• (Nicolas Cage) "Ok. You're let go. Go, shoo."
• (Diane Kruger) "I'm not going."
• (Diane Kruger) "Not without the Declaration."
• (Nicolas Cage) "You're not going with the Declaration."
• (Diane Kruger) "Yes, I am. I'm not letting it out of my sight, so I'm going."
• (Nicolas Cage) "Wait, you're not going with us with the Declaration."
• (Diane Kruger) "Yes, I am."
• (Nicolas Cage) "No, you're not."
• (Diane Kruger) "Look, if you wanted to leave me behind, you shouldn't have told me where you were going."

• (Justin Bartha) "For the record, Ben, I like the house."
• (Nicolas Cage) "You know, I chose this estate because in 1812 Charles Carroll met --"
• (Justin Bartha) "Yeah, someone that did something in history and had fun. Great. Wonderful."
• (Justin Bartha) "Could have had a bigger house."

• (Powell) "Look -- this is a waste of time. How could a ship wind up way out here?"
• (Justin Bartha) "Well, I'm no expert but -- it could be that the hydrothermic properties of this region produce hurricane-force ice storms that cause the ocean to freeze and then melt and then refreeze, resulting in a semisolid migrating land mass that would land a ship right around here."

Nicolas Cage as Ben Gates

• (Gift Store Clerk) "Are you trying to steal that?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Oh. Umm?"
• (Gift Store Clerk) "It's thirty-five dollars."
• (Nicolas Cage) "For this?"
• (Gift Store Clerk) "Yeah."
• (Nicolas Cage) "That's a lot."
• (Gift Store Clerk) "Hey, I don't make the prices."
• (Nicolas Cage) "That's umm -- thirty-two -- fifty-seven?"
• (Gift Store Clerk) "We take Visa."

• (Nicolas Cage) "Are you all right?"
• (Jon Voight) "What do you think? I'm a hostage."

• (Nicolas Cage) "Sadusky, I'm still not against you. But I found door #3, and I'm taking it."

• (Nicolas Cage) "You know, Agent Sadusky, something I've noticed about fishing? It never works out so well for the bait."

• (Nicolas Cage) "Once we catch them, what do we do?"
• (Justin Bartha) "I'm workin' on it."

• (Nicolas Cage) "It's invisible."
• (Diane Kruger) "Oh. Right."
• (Justin Bartha) "And that's where we lost the Department of Homeland Security."

• (Nicolas Cage) "Come here."
• (Powell) "Why does that never happen with me?"

• (Powell) "How do a bunch of guys with hand tools build all this?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Same way they built the pyramids; and the Great Wall of China."
• (Justin Bartha) "Yeah -- the aliens helped them."

• (Nicolas Cage) "I just -- really thought I was gonna find the treasure."
• (Jon Voight) "Okay. Then we just keep looking for it."
• (Diane Kruger) "I'm in."

• (Nicolas Cage) "Just another clue."

• (Nicolas Cage) "You all right?"
• (Diane Kruger) "No, those; those lunatics --"
• (Nicolas Cage) "You're not hurt, are you?"
• (Diane Kruger) "YOU'RE ALL LUNATICS."
• (Nicolas Cage) "You hungry?"
• (Diane Kruger) "What?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Are you all right?"
• (Justin Bartha) "Still a little on-edge from being shot at but I'll be okay, thanks for asking."
• (Diane Kruger) "Yeah, well I'm not all right. Those men have the Declaration of Independence."
• (Justin Bartha) "SHE LOST IT?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "They don't have it."
• (Nicolas Cage) "See? Okay? Now could you please stop shouting?"
• (Diane Kruger) "Give me that."
• (Nicolas Cage) "You're still shouting, and it's really starting to annoy. You would do well, Dr. Chase, to be a little more civilized in this instance."
• (Diane Kruger) "If this is the real one, what did they get?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "A souvenir. I thought it'd be a good idea to have a duplicate, turns out I was right. I actually had to pay for the souvenir and the real one, so you owe me $35, plus tax."
• (Justin Bartha) "Genius."
• (Diane Kruger) "Who were those men?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Just the guys we warned you were going to try to steal the Declaration."
• (Justin Bartha) "And you didn't believe us."
• (Nicolas Cage) "We did the only thing we could do to keep it safe."
• (Diane Kruger) "Verdammt. Give me that."
• (Nicolas Cage) "You know something? You're shouting again."
• (Justin Bartha) "Pretty sure she was swearing too."
• (Nicolas Cage) "Well, we probably deserved that."

• (Nicolas Cage) "I'm in a little trouble."
• (Jon Voight) "Is she pregnant?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "If she is would you leave the mother of your grandchild standing out in the cold?"
• (Jon Voight) "Come in."
• (Diane Kruger) "I look pregnant?"

• (Nicolas Cage) "Riley, can you hear me?"
• (Justin Bartha) "Unfortunately, yeah."

• (Nicolas Cage) "It's Valley Forge."
• (Justin Bartha) "Valley -- I don't have that on my computer."
• (Nicolas Cage) "It's Valley Forge. She pressed E and L twice."
• (Nicolas Cage) "Valley Forge was a turning point in the Revolutionary War."
• (Justin Bartha) "Can I marry your brain?"

• (Nicolas Cage) "I'm so sorry I dropped you; I had to save the Declaration."
• (Diane Kruger) "No, don't be. I would have done exactly the same to you."
• (Nicolas Cage) "Really?"
• (Diane Kruger) "Yeah."
• (Justin Bartha) "I would've dropped you both. Freaks."

Diane Kruger as Abigail Chase

• (Diane Kruger) "You know, I really couldn't accept something like that normally, but um -- I really want it."

• (Diane Kruger) "There is not a treasure map on the back of the Declaration of Independence."
• (Nicolas Cage) "And there's no chance anyone can steal this --"
• (Nicolas Cage) "-- either."
• (Nicolas Cage) "I leveled with you one hundred percent. Everything I told you was the truth."
• (Diane Kruger) "I want that document, Mr. Brown."
• (Nicolas Cage) "Ok, my name's not Brown. It's Gates. I leveled with you ninety-eight percent."
• (Diane Kruger) "Wait a minute, did you just say "Gates"?"
• (Diane Kruger) ""Gates"? You're that family with the conspiracy theory about the founding fathers?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "It's not a conspiracy theory."
• (Justin Bartha) "Per se."
• (Diane Kruger) "You know what? I take it back. You're not liars. You're insane."

• (Butcher Lady) "If you're not a steak, you don't belong here."
• (Diane Kruger) "I'm just trying to hide from my ex-husband."
• (Butcher Lady) "Who, Baldie?"
• (Diane Kruger) "Yes."
• (Butcher Lady) "Honey, stay as long as you like."
• (Diane Kruger) "Huh, thank you."
• (Butcher Lady) "You want something?"
• (Butcher Lady) "Do you want something?"
• (Shaw) "Shut up."
• (Butcher Lady) "I see why you left him."

• (Diane Kruger) "The Declaration."
• (Nicolas Cage) "Do you trust me?"
• (Diane Kruger) "Yes."

• (Diane Kruger) "You can't seriously intend to run chemical tests on the Declaration of Independence -- in the back of a moving van."
• (Justin Bartha) "We have a clean room environment all set up: EDS suits, a particulate air filtration system, the whole shebang."
• (Diane Kruger) "Really?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "We can't go back there."
• (Justin Bartha) "What? Why not?"

• (Diane Kruger) "You have the original Silence Dogood letters? Steal those too?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "They're scans of the orginals, quiet please."
• (Diane Kruger) "How did you get scans?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "I know the person who has the originals, now shush."
• (Diane Kruger) "Why do you need them?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "She really can't shut her mouth, can she?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Look, I will let you hold this if you promise to shut up, please."

• (Diane Kruger) "You're treasure hunters, aren't you?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "We're more like treasure protectors."

• (Diane Kruger) "I made something for you."
• (Nicolas Cage) "You did?"
• (Diane Kruger) "M-hm."
• (Nicolas Cage) "What?"
• (Diane Kruger) "A map."
• (Nicolas Cage) "A map -- Where does it lead to?"
• (Diane Kruger) "You'll figure it out."

• (Diane Kruger) "Riley, are you crying?"
• (Justin Bartha) "Look -- Stairs."

• (Diane Kruger) "What led you to assume there's this invisible map?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "We found an engraving on the stem of a 200-year-old pipe."
• (Justin Bartha) "Owned by the Free Masons."
• (Diane Kruger) "May I see the pipe?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "We don't actually have it."
• (Diane Kruger) "Did Bigfoot take it?"

Harvey Keitel as Sadusky

• (Harvey Keitel) "Agent Dawes, do you have a visual? Can you see Gates in the water?"
• (Harvey Keitel) "Sir, it's the Hudson. Nothing is visible."
• (Harvey Keitel) "Smart fish."

• (Harvey Keitel) "Gates? Are you with me?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "Well, I'm sure not against you, if that's what you're asking."

• (Harvey Keitel) "Yes, Agent Hendricks, you've got something?"
• (Agent Hendricks) "Um --"
• (Harvey Keitel) "This isn't a day for "Um.""
• (Agent Hendricks) "We received a tip a few days ago that someone was going to steal the Declaration of Independence."
• (Harvey Keitel) "Do we have a name on the tipster?"
• (Agent Hendricks) "Uh, there was no file opened. We didn't find the information credible."
• (Harvey Keitel) "How about now?"

• (Harvey Keitel) "The Templars and the Freemasons believed that the treasure was too great for any one man to have, not even a king. That's why they went to such lengths to keep it hidden."
• (Nicolas Cage) "That's right. The founding fathers believed the same thing about government. I figure their solution will work for the treasure too."
• (Harvey Keitel) "Give it to the people."

• (Harvey Keitel) "Someone's got to go to prison, Ben."

• (Harvey Keitel) "And you have no idea where he went?"
• (Jon Voight) "Well wouldn't I have told you if I did?"
• (Harvey Keitel) "I don't know, would you?"

Christopher Plummer as John Adams Gates

• (Young Ben Gates) "Grandpa."
• (Christopher Plummer) "You're not supposed to be up here, looking at that."

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