The Iron Giant Quotes

The Iron Giant is a TV program that appeared on TV in 1970 . The Iron Giant stopped airing in 1970.

It features Allison Abbate; Des McAnuff as producer, Michael Kamen in charge of musical score, and Steven Wilzbach as head of cinematography.

The Iron Giant is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Iron Giant is 87 minutes long. The Iron Giant is distributed by Warner Bros..

The cast includes: Eli Marienthal as Hogarth Hughes, Jennifer Aniston as Annie Hughes, Christopher McDonald as Kent Mansley, M. Emmet Walsh as Earl Stutz, Christopher McDonald as Man, and James Gammon as Marv Loach.

The Iron Giant Quotes

Christopher McDonald as Kent Mansley

• (Christopher McDonald) "Hey, where you going? Where you going, champ, chief, slugger? Where you going? Where you going?"
• (Eli Marienthal) "I'm going out."
• (Jennifer Aniston) "Well, why don't you take Mr. Mansley with you? You can show him the sights."
• (Eli Marienthal) "Awwww, Mom, the sights?"

• (Christopher McDonald) "Please, Sir, I've got a feeling about this one."
• (General Rogard) "That's nice, Mansley, but let me explain how things are supposed to work. If you had, say, a footprint, I might be able to send over an expert to make a plaster cast of it. Hell, you get me a photograph of this thing, I can send some troops down there. But you tell me you've got a feeling --"
• (Christopher McDonald) "All right -- you want evidence? I'll get you evidence. And when I do, I'm gonna want a memo distributed."
• (General Rogard) "That's just swell, Mansley."
• (Christopher McDonald) "And I'm gonna want that memo carbon copied and distributed --"

• (Christopher McDonald) "You know, Hogarth, we live in a strange and wondrous time: the Atomic Age. But there's a dark side to progress, Hogarth. Ever hear of Sputnik?"
• (Eli Marienthal) "Yeah, first satellite in space."
• (Christopher McDonald) "Foreign satellite, Hogarth, and all that that implies. Even now it orbits overhead; Boop. Boop.; watching us. We can't see it but it's there, much like that giant thing in the woods. We don't know what it is or what it can do. I don't feel safe, Hogarth. Do you?"
• (Eli Marienthal) "What are you talking about?"
• (Christopher McDonald) "What am I talking about?"
• (Christopher McDonald) "What am I talking about? I'm talking about your goldarned security, Hogarth. While you're snoozing in your widdle jammies, back in Washington we're wide awake and worried. Why? Because everyone wants what we have, Hogarth. Everyone. You think this metal man is fun, but who built it? The Russians? The Chinese? Martians? Canadians? I don't care. All I know is we didn't build it, and that's reason enough to assume the worst and blow it to kingdom come. Now, you are going to tell me about this thing, you are going to lead me to it, and we are going to destroy it before it destroys us."

• (Christopher McDonald) "Launch the missile now."

• (Dean McCoppin) "Don't shoot. There's a kid in his hand. Kent, he only acts defensively. If you don't shoot, he's harmless. You gotta tell the general."
• (Christopher McDonald) "This is your fault, beatnik. If you haven't interfered --"
• (Dean McCoppin) "Will you just listen? Tell the general to stop. He's got the kid with him."
• (Christopher McDonald) "I'll take care of it."
• (Christopher McDonald) "He said the monster has killed a kid. Sir, we must stop it at all costs."
• (General Rogard) "Go to Code Red. Repeat, Code Red."

• (Christopher McDonald) "The biggest thing in this town is probably the homecoming queen."

• (Christopher McDonald) "Sir, this thing is a menace. It destroyed a power station, it -- it caused a train wreck."
• (General Rogard) "What did, Mansley? Tell me again, and this time, listen to yourself."
• (Christopher McDonald) "A giant -- metal monster."

• (Christopher McDonald) "Your mom's working late tonight, Hogarth, so it's just us guys, and we're gonna have a little chat. Sit down."
• (Christopher McDonald) "How's that? A little too bright? Good. Forgive me, Hogarth. I wanted you to learn something."
• (Eli Marienthal) "What can I learn from you?"
• (Christopher McDonald) "You can learn this, Hogarth. That I can do anything I want, whenever I want if I feel it's in the people's best interest. The giant metal man. Where is it?"
• (Eli Marienthal) "I don't know what you're talking about."
• (Christopher McDonald) "You don't? Does this ring a bell?"
• (Christopher McDonald) "No? How about this?"
• (Christopher McDonald) "You've been careless, Hogarth."
• (Eli Marienthal) "It doesn't prove anything."
• (Christopher McDonald) "It's enough to get the army here with one phone call."
• (Eli Marienthal) "Then what's stopping you?"
• (Christopher McDonald) "Where's the giant?"
• (Christopher McDonald) "You can't protect him, Hogarth, anymore than you can -- protect your mother."
• (Eli Marienthal) "My mom?"
• (Christopher McDonald) "It's difficult to raise a boy all alone. We can make it more difficult. In fact, we can make it so difficult that it would be irresponsible for us to leave you in her care, and all that that implies. You'll be taken away from her, Hogarth."
• (Eli Marienthal) "You can't do that."
• (Christopher McDonald) "Oh, we can, and we will."
• (Eli Marienthal) "He's at the junkyard. McCoppin's Scrap off Culver Road."
• (Christopher McDonald) "The junkyard, of course. Food for the metal eater. I wouldn't worry about this, Hogarth. This isn't really happening. It's only -- a bad dream."

• (Christopher McDonald) "You know, this sort of thing is why it's important to always chew your food."

• (Christopher McDonald) "Hey there, scout. Kent Mansley, I work for the government."

• (General Rogard) "Nothing can stop this thing. We've hit it with everything we got."
• (Christopher McDonald) "Not everything, General -- the Bomb. The Nautilus has first strike capability and is anchored just off shore."
• (General Rogard) "You scare me, Mansley. You want us to bomb ourselves in order to kill it?"
• (Christopher McDonald) "The robot seems to go after whatever attacks it. We can lure it away from the town, then destroy it."
• (General Rogard) "Radio the Nautilus. Tell them to stand by and await my command."

Eli Marienthal as Hogarth Hughes

• (Eli Marienthal) "See this? This is called a rock. Rock."
• (The Iron Giant) "Rock."
• (Eli Marienthal) "Good."
• (The Iron Giant) "Rock?"
• (Eli Marienthal) "Yes."
• (The Iron Giant) "Rock."
• (Eli Marienthal) "No, no. That is a tree. Rock -- tree. Get it?"
• (The Iron Giant) "Rock -- tree."
• (Eli Marienthal) "That's right."

• (Eli Marienthal) "I know you feel bad about the deer, but it's not your fault. Things die. That's part of life. It's bad to kill, but it's not bad to die."
• (The Iron Giant) "You die?"
• (Eli Marienthal) "Well, yes, someday."
• (The Iron Giant) "I die?"
• (Eli Marienthal) "I don't know. You're made of metal, but you have feelings, and you think about things, and that means you have a soul. And souls don't die."
• (The Iron Giant) "Soul?"
• (Eli Marienthal) "Mom says it's something inside of all good things, and that it goes on forever and ever."
• (The Iron Giant) "Souls don't die."

• (Eli Marienthal) "Well, goodbye."
• (Eli Marienthal) "No, no. Me go, you stay. No following. Good."
• (Eli Marienthal) "I told you. I'll come back tomorrow. Now, stay."
• (Eli Marienthal) "No, no, no. Bad robot."

• (Eli Marienthal) "It's bad to kill. Guns kill. And you don't have to be a gun. You are what you choose to be. You choose. Choose."

• (Eli Marienthal) "Hey, big metal guy. I got food here for ya. Metal. Crunchy, delicious metal. Come and get it."

• (Eli Marienthal) "I thought you might like, you know, a bedtime story. I have some really cool ones. Mad Magazine; very funny. The Spirit; very cool. Boy's Life; eh. Oh, here. This is Superman. He's a lot like you. Crash-landed on Earth, didn't know what he was doing -- but he only uses his powers for good, never for evil. Remember that."
• (Eli Marienthal) "Oh, that's Atomo, the metal menace. He's not a hero, he's a villain. But you're not like him. You're a good guy, like Superman."
• (The Iron Giant) "Super -- man."

• (The Iron Giant) "I fix."
• (Eli Marienthal) "Giant?"
• (The Iron Giant) "Hogarth. I go. You stay."
• (The Iron Giant) "No following."
• (Eli Marienthal) "I love you."

• (Eli Marienthal) "You can fly? YOU CAN FLY."

• (Eli Marienthal) "You are who you choose to be."
• (The Iron Giant) "Superman."

• (Eli Marienthal) "The missle, when it comes down. Everyone will die."

• (Dean McCoppin) "I'm gonna have coffee. What do you want, some milk, or -- what? Milk?"
• (Eli Marienthal) "Coffee's fine."
• (Eli Marienthal) "Yeah, I drink it. I'm hip."
• (Dean McCoppin) "I dunno. This is espresso, you know? It's like Coffee-zilla."
• (Eli Marienthal) "I said I'm hip."

• (Eli Marienthal) "So she moved me up a grade 'cause I wasn't fitting in, so now I'm even more not fitting in. I was getting good grades, you know, like all A's. So my mom says, "You need stimulation," and I go, "No, I'm stimulated enough right now.""
• (Dean McCoppin) "That's for sure."
• (Eli Marienthal) "So she says, "Uh-uh, You don't have a challenge, you need a challenge." So now I'm challenged, all right- I'm challenged to hold on to my lunch money because of all the big mooses who wanna pound me, 'cause they think I'm a shrimpy dork who thinks he's smarter than them. But I don't think I'm smarter, I just do the stupid homework. If everyone else JUST DID THE STUPID HOMEWORK, they could move up a grade and get pounded, too. Is there anymore coffee?"

• (Eli Marienthal) "Can you talk? You know, words? Blah, blah, blah, like that? Can you do that, blah, blah, blah?"
• (The Iron Giant) "Blah, blah, blah."
• (Eli Marienthal) "Well, you get the idea, anyway."

• (Dean McCoppin) "Oh, hey, I know you. Squirrel boy."
• (Eli Marienthal) "Uh, Hogarth."
• (Dean McCoppin) "By night known as Hogarth."

• (Eli Marienthal) "Hey, I thought you were in trouble. I had this weird guy following me around, it took me hours to shake him, I kill myself getting out here, and you have him doing -- arts and crafts."
• (Dean McCoppin) "You have a problem with arts and crafts, little man?"
• (Eli Marienthal) "He's a giant robot. It's a little undignified."
• (Dean McCoppin) "It is? Well then, smart guy, what would you have him do?"

• (Eli Marienthal) "Wow, my own giant robot. I am now the luckiest kid in America. This must be the biggest discovery since, I don't know, television or something."

• (Eli Marienthal) "So we can't call Ripley's Believe it or Not, because -- they wouldn't believe it."

• (Eli Marienthal) "Hogarth Hughes: See ya later"

• (Dean McCoppin) "Get back. I said get back. I mean it."
• (The Iron Giant) "No. Stop. Wait."
• (Eli Marienthal) "It was an accident. He's our friend."
• (Dean McCoppin) "He's a piece of hardware, Hogarth. Why did you think the army was here? He's a weapon, a big -- big gun that walks."
• (The Iron Giant) "I -- I not gun."
• (Dean McCoppin) "Yeah? Then what's that?"
• (Dean McCoppin) "You almost did that to Hogarth."
• (The Iron Giant) "No."
• (Eli Marienthal) "Wait."
• (Dean McCoppin) "Hogarth."
• (Eli Marienthal) "Come back."
• (Dean McCoppin) "It was being defensive. He reacted to the gun."

• (Eli Marienthal) "It's dead."
• (The Iron Giant) "Dead?"
• (Eli Marienthal) "Don't do that."
• (The Iron Giant) "But -- why?"
• (Eli Marienthal) "It's dead, understand? They shot it, with that gun."
• (Eli Marienthal) "Hey, are you all right?"
• (The Iron Giant) "Gun."
• (Eli Marienthal) "Yes. Guns kill."
• (The Iron Giant) "Guns kill."

• (Eli Marienthal) "Kent Mansley, you work for the government."
• (Christopher McDonald) "I -- wasn't going to say that. I have something for you, Hogarth."
• (Jennifer Aniston) "Your B-B gun. Where did you find it?"
• (Christopher McDonald) "Over at the power station."
• (Jennifer Aniston) "Hogarth was there the other night."
• (Christopher McDonald) "Really? See anything unusual there, Hogarth?"
• (Eli Marienthal) "No -- thing unusual, really."
• (Eli Marienthal) "Gotta use the bathroom."
• (Eli Marienthal) "Gotta use the bathroom."

• (Eli Marienthal) "Hey, mom. You won't believe our good luck. Guess what I found?"
• (Jennifer Aniston) "Hogarth, we've been through this before. No pets."
• (Eli Marienthal) "But he's not a pet, mom. He's a friend."
• (Jennifer Aniston) "Hogarth, we've got to rent a room this year if we're gonna make ends meet, and no one wants to live in a place with shredded upholstery."
• (Eli Marienthal) "You'll never know he's there. I'll keep him in a cage --"
• (Jennifer Aniston) "-- until you feel sorry for him and set him free in the house. You remember the raccoon, Hogarth?"
• (Jennifer Aniston) "Oooooh. I remember the raccoon."

M. Emmet Walsh as Earl Stutz

• (Dean McCoppin) "Thanks for the scrap, Floyd. I'm sorry I can't pay you more, but it's got -- it's got this large "bite" out of it."
• (Floyd Turbeaux) "That's why I'm selling it. It's got a large bite out of it."
• (Dean McCoppin) "Yeah, right. What could have done this?"
• (M. Emmet Walsh) "I told you what."
• (Dean McCoppin) "Oh, yeah. Strange invaders."
• (M. Emmet Walsh) "Thanks for believin' me. I really did call the government. They're sending someone over to take care of the whole thing."
• (Dean McCoppin) "Jeez, Earl, you really are crazy. I mean, who in the hell would the government send?"

• (M. Emmet Walsh) "I'm telling the truth, dang it. It came from outer space. I saw it. And it was headed toward land. I called the government in Washington. Maybe it was a sputnik, or -- or an invader from Mars. That's what it is, an invader from Mars. It was a spaceship of some kind. An unidentified flying object --"
• (Christopher McDonald) "Unidentified? Knowing you, Earl, I'd say it was either whiskey or beer."
• (Dean McCoppin) "Hey. I saw it too."
• (Christopher McDonald) "I rest my case."
• (Eli Marienthal) "I believe you. What if it is Sputnik, or a flying saucer from Mars? I bet we could find it."
• (Dean McCoppin) "Sorry, kid. I didn't really see anything. But if we don't stick up for the kooks, who will?"

Jennifer Aniston as Annie Hughes

• (Jennifer Aniston) "So, he wants us to hold the mustard and the mayo. How about just hold the flavor altogether?"

• (Jennifer Aniston) "Strange. He's so tight-lipped now, and yesterday he wouldn't stop talking. I mean, hundred-foot robots and whatnot."
• (Christopher McDonald) "Hundred-foot robot? He, he. That's nutty."
• (Christopher McDonald) "What else did he say?"

• (Jennifer Aniston) "For some reason the army is parked in our front yard, Mr. Mansley."
• (Christopher McDonald) "Please, call me Kent."

• (Jennifer Aniston) "All right, all right, where is this guy?"
• (Eli Marienthal) "I -- will go get him."

James Gammon as Marv Loach

• (James Gammon) "What department is that again?"
• (Christopher McDonald) "Frankly, I'm not at liberty to divulge the particulars of the agency I work for, and all that that implies."
• (James Gammon) "You mean, national security?"
• (Christopher McDonald) "Let me put it this way. Every so often things happen that can't be rationalized in a conventional way. People wanna know their government has a response. I am that response."

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