The Fly (1986 film) Quotes

The Fly (1986 film) is a television program that debuted in 1970 . The Fly stopped airing in 1970.

It features Stuart Cornfeld as producer, Howard Shore in charge of musical score, and Mark Irwin as head of cinematography.

The Fly (1986 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Fly (1986 film) is 96 minutes long. The Fly (1986 film) is distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The cast includes: Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, Geena Davis as Ronnie, Joy Boushel as Tawny, John Getz as Stathis Borans, Geena Davis as Veronica Quaife, Leslie Carlson as Dr. Cheevers, and George Chuvalo as Marky.

The Fly (1986 film) Quotes

Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle

• (Jeff Goldblum) "You have to leave now, and never come back here. Have you ever heard of insect politics? Neither have I. Insects -- don't have politics. They're very -- brutal. No compassion, no compromise. We can't trust the insect. I'd like to become the first -- insect politician. Y'see, I'd like to, but -- I'm afraid, uh --"
• (Geena Davis) "I don't know what you're trying to say."
• (Jeff Goldblum) "I'm saying -- I'm saying I; I'm an insect who dreamt he was a man and loved it. But now the dream is over -- and the insect is awake."
• (Geena Davis) "No. no, Seth --"
• (Jeff Goldblum) "I'm saying -- I'll hurt you if you stay."

• (Jeff Goldblum) "I will say now, however objectively, that human teleportation, molecular decimation, breakdown, reformation, is inherently purging."

• (Jeff Goldblum) "Help me. Help me be human."

• (Jeff Goldblum) "Now, you tell me. Am I different somehow? Is it live or is it Memorex?"

• (Jeff Goldblum) "What's there to take? The disease has just revealed its purpose. We don't have to worry about contagion anymore -- I know what the disease wants."
• (Geena Davis) "What does the disease want?"
• (Jeff Goldblum) "It wants to -- turn me into something else. That's not too terrible is it? Most people would give anything to be turned into something else."
• (Geena Davis) "Turned into what?"
• (Jeff Goldblum) "Whaddaya think? A fly. Am I becoming a hundred-and-eighty-five-pound fly? No, I'm becoming something that never existed before. I'm becoming -- Brundlefly. Don't you think that's worth a Nobel Prize or two?"

• (Jeff Goldblum) "Oh, no. What's happening to me? Am I dying?"

• (Jeff Goldblum) "You're afraid to dive into the plasma pool, aren't you? You're afraid to be destroyed and recreated, aren't you? I'll bet you think that you woke me up about the flesh, don't you? But you only know society's straight line about the flesh. You can't penetrate beyond society's sick, gray, fear of the flesh. Drink deep, or taste not, the plasma spring. Y'see what I'm saying? And I'm not just talking about sex and penetration. I'm talking about penetration beyond the veil of the flesh. A deep penetrating dive into the plasma pool."

• (Jeff Goldblum) "Help me. Please -- help me."

• (Jeff Goldblum) "How does Brundlefly eat? Well, he found out the hard and painful way that he eats very much the way a fly eats. His teeth are now useless, because although he can chew up solid food, he can't digest them. Solid food hurts. So like a fly, Brundlefly breaks down solids with a corrosive enzyme, playfully called "vomit drop". He regurgitates on his food, it liquifies, and then he sucks it back up. Ready for a demonstration, kids? Here goes --"
• (John Getz) "Oh my God."
• (John Getz) "My God."

• (Jeff Goldblum) "It's not ready yet."
• (Geena Davis) "It seems to work okay --"
• (Jeff Goldblum) "No, something important's missing."
• (Geena Davis) "Yeah?"
• (Jeff Goldblum) "Yeah."
• (Geena Davis) "Which is?"
• (Jeff Goldblum) "I can only teleport inanimate objects."
• (Geena Davis) "Well, what happens when you try to teleport living things?"
• (Jeff Goldblum) "Not while we're eating."
• (Geena Davis) "It can't be worse than this."

• (Jeff Goldblum) "My teeth have begun to fall out. The medicine cabinet is now the Brundle Museum of Natural History. You wanna see what else is in it?"

• (Jeff Goldblum) "I farm bits and pieces out to the guys who are much more brilliant than I am. I say, "build me a laser", this. "Design me a molecular analyzer", that. They do, and I just stick 'em together. But, none of them know what the project really is. So --"
• (Geena Davis) "Wow. And, uh, the money? Bartok Science Industries Financed this?"
• (Jeff Goldblum) "Hmm-mmm -- But they leave me alone, 'cause I'm not expensive. And they know they'll end up owning it, whatever it is."

• (Jeff Goldblum) "There was an old lady who swallowed a fly, perhaps she'll die."

• (Jeff Goldblum) "Okay. Eat this, and I need an objective opinion."
• (Jeff Goldblum) "Yeah?"
• (Geena Davis) "Well, it could use some finesse, but um -- it tastes like a steak."
• (Jeff Goldblum) "Mmm-hmm."
• (Jeff Goldblum) "Now, I want you to try this -- teleported half."
• (Geena Davis) "Oh, are you serious? A monkey just came apart in there."
• (Jeff Goldblum) "Baboon -- Eat."
• (Geena Davis) "Oh -- Oh, oh, tastes funny."
• (Jeff Goldblum) "Funny? How?"
• (Geena Davis) "It tastes um -- synthetic."
• (Jeff Goldblum) "Mmm-hmm."
• (Geena Davis) "So, what have we proved?"
• (Jeff Goldblum) "The computer is giving us its interpretation -- of a steak. It's, uh translating it for us; it's rethinking it, rather than reproducing it, and something is getting lost in the translation."
• (Geena Davis) "Me -- I'm lost."
• (Jeff Goldblum) "The flesh. It should make the computer, uh crazy. Like those old ladies pinching babies. But it doesn't; not yet because I haven't taught the computer to be made crazy by the --"
• (Jeff Goldblum) "flesh. The poetry of the steak. So, I'm gonna start teaching it now."

• (Jeff Goldblum) "I've come here to say one magic word to you."
• (Geena Davis) "Yeah?"
• (Jeff Goldblum) "Cheeseburger."

• (Jeff Goldblum) "What am I working on? Uhh -- I'm working on something that will change the world, and human life as we know it."

• (Jeff Goldblum) "I was not pure. The teleporter insists on inner pure. I was not pure."
• (Geena Davis) "I don't know what you mean."
• (Jeff Goldblum) "A fly -- got into the -- transmitter pod with me that first time, when I was alone. The computer -- got confused; there weren't supposed to be two separate genetic patterns; and it decided to -- uhh -- splice us together. It mated us, me and the fly. We hadn't even been properly introduced."

• (Jeff Goldblum) "You were right. I am diseased, and uh -- it might be contagious somehow. I wouldn't want to infect you."

• (Jeff Goldblum) "Uh -- Brundle, Seth."

Leslie Carlson as Dr. Cheevers

• (Leslie Carlson) "Listen, I don't mean to interfere, but I detect a certain uncertainty here. You know, there are tests we can do to determine whether or not --"
• (Geena Davis) "I don't want tests. Tests can't guarantee anything. The baby could start off normal and then become --"
• (Geena Davis) "I want an abortion. I'll do it myself if I have to."

Geena Davis as Ronnie

• (Geena Davis) "I'm pregnant."
• (John Getz) "Oh, no."
• (John Getz) "Oh, no."
• (Geena Davis) "I'm pregnant with Seth's baby."

• (Geena Davis) "Are you sick?"
• (Jeff Goldblum) "Huh? Oh -- sure."
• (Geena Davis) "You're not a very accomplished drunk."
• (Jeff Goldblum) "No, no I'm always like this it's um -- motion sickness. When I was a kid, I uh -- puked on my tricycle."
• (Jeff Goldblum) "I hate vehicles."

• (Geena Davis) "We've gotta do this, Seth. Talk to the tape. Get in the habbit. The world will want to know what you're thinking."
• (Jeff Goldblum) ""f***." is what I'm thinking."
• (Geena Davis) "Good -- The world will want to know that -- What else? Why didn't it work?"
• (Jeff Goldblum) "I think it turned the baboon inside-out."
• (Geena Davis) "Why?"
• (Jeff Goldblum) "It can't cope with the flesh. It only seems to work on inanimate objects; nothing that's living."
• (Geena Davis) "Why?"
• (Jeff Goldblum) "Computers are dumb. They only know what you tell them -- I must not know enough about the flesh myself. I'm gonna have to learn."
• (Jeff Goldblum) "I don't wanna talk now."

• (Geena Davis) "Do you normally take coffee with your sugar?"

• (Geena Davis) "Don't you get it? I am finally onto something that's big. Huge."
• (John Getz) "What? His cock?"
• (Geena Davis) "Crude Stathis. Even for you."

• (Geena Davis) "Something went wrong, Seth. When you went through, something went wrong."

• (Geena Davis) "Do you ever change your clothes?"
• (Jeff Goldblum) "What?"
• (Jeff Goldblum) "Your clothes. You're always wearing the same clothes."
• (Jeff Goldblum) "No, these are clean. I change my clothes every day."
• (Geena Davis) "Five sets of exactly the same clothes?"
• (Jeff Goldblum) "Learned it from Einstein. This way I don't have to expand my thought on what I have to wear next, I just grab the next set on the rack."

• (Geena Davis) "You're changing Seth. Everything about you is changing. You look bad. You smell bad."
• (Jeff Goldblum) "I've never been much of a bather."
• (Geena Davis) "Those -- weird hairs that were growing out of your back. I took them to a lab. I had them analyzed."
• (Jeff Goldblum) "The hairs? The hairs? Oh -- Yeah, that's a strange thing to do."
• (Geena Davis) "Not as strange as the results. The guy at the lab had trouble identifying them. He finally came to the conclusion, that they were definitely not human."
• (Jeff Goldblum) "Oh -- Very good."
• (Geena Davis) "Not human, Seth. In fact -- very insect-like hairs."

• (Geena Davis) "You're a petty schmuck."

• (Geena Davis) "Great. The world's largest microwave oven. I'm glad I didn't give you my Rolex, if I had a Rolex."

• (Geena Davis) "Oh are you serious? A monkey just came apart in there."
• (Jeff Goldblum) "Baboon. Eat."

• (Geena Davis) "If you SAW him, Stathis, if you saw how scared and angry and desperate he is --"
• (John Getz) "I'm sure Typhoid Mary was a very nice person too when you saw her socially."

Joy Boushel as Tawny

• (Joy Boushel) "There's no elevator, I can't make it."
• (Jeff Goldblum) "No, there's an elevator."
• (Jeff Goldblum) "There, don't you feel elevated?"

• (Joy Boushel) "I'm afraid."
• (Jeff Goldblum) "Don't be afraid."
• (Geena Davis) "No. Be afraid. Be very afraid."

• (Joy Boushel) "Are you a body builder, or something?"
• (Jeff Goldblum) "Yeah, I build bodies. I take them apart, and put them back together again."

• (Joy Boushel) "Wow. Are you some sort of magician?"

George Chuvalo as Marky

• (2nd Man In Bar) "Better watch out, he eats chocolate bars."
• (George Chuvalo) "Yeah, so I noticed."

John Getz as Stathis Borans

• (John Getz) "It could be contagious. It could turn into an epidemic."

• (John Getz) "Don't go back to it."

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