Fred Ward movie quotes

- Gus Grissom: What the hell does "astronaut" mean, anyway?
- Gordon Cooper: "Star Voyager".
- Gus Grissom: "Star Voyager" Gus Grissom. I kinda like the sound of that.

Fred Ward - Gus Grissom
Dennis Quaid - Gordon Cooper

“- Earl Bassett: Dammit, Valentine! You never go for any girl unless she fits that stupid list of yours from top to bottom.
- Valentine McKee: Well, sure.
- Earl Bassett: Yeah, and it's dumber than my hind end! Like that Bobbie Lynn Dexter.
- Valentine McKee: Tammy Lynn Baxter!”
Fred Ward - Earl Bassett
Kevin Bacon - Valentine McKee

- Chiun: It would be better for you to eat this can than what is inside of it. Why must everything in this country be coated with monositi... monosoti...
- Remo Williams: Monosodium glutamate. You can't even say it.
- Chiun: I can say "rat droppings". That does not mean I want to eat them.
Joel Grey - Chiun
Fred Ward - Remo Williams

“- Henry Miller: She is my fucking wife.
- Anaïs Nin: You don't understand your own fucking wife.”

Fred Ward - Henry Miller
Maria de Medeiros - Anaïs Nin

“Run for it? Running's not a plan! Running's what you do, once a plan fails!”
Fred Ward - Earl Bassett

- Grady: I'm thinking big. I'm thinking theme park. Yeah, "Grady Hoover's World of Natural Wonders". Or maybe Monster World, or Monster Land, or Worm World.
- Earl Bassett: How 'bout Loony World? Seems to fit. Get off the ground!

Chris Gartin - Grady Hoover
Fred Ward - Earl Bassett

“- Earl Bassett: No way those things can outrun these horses!
- Valentine McKee: Yeah, well, for all you know, they can fly.”
Fred Ward - Earl Bassett
Kevin Bacon - Valentine McKee

“- Claire Kane: Your hands stink.
- Stuart Kane: Kinda smells like pussy, don't you think?
- Claire Kane: I hate that. Go wash your hands.
- Stuart Kane: Smells like a rainbow to me!”

Anne Archer - Claire Kane
Fred Ward - Stuart Kane

“- Rocco: Where's your prison number?
- Lt. Frank Drebin: It's unlisted.”
Fred Ward - Rocco
Leslie William Nielsen - Frank Drebin

“- Valentine McKee: Good luck shithead.
- Earl Bassett: Don't worry about me jerkoff.”
Kevin Bacon - Valentine McKee
Fred Ward - Earl Bassett

“I'd believe only in a god that understood how to dance. Isn't that something?”
Fred Ward - Henry Miller

“- Henry Miller: All right, I'll tell you. June appeared like an Angel, and I offered her a fool's faith. She was a taxi dancer. I paid my dime, she put her head on my shoulder, but then the lies began. She told me her mother was a gypsy and her father was a count. Later, I saw a film and realized she swiped her whole childhood right out of the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Fred Ward - Henry Miller
Maria de Medeiros - Anaïs Nin

“You can't ride two horses with one ass.”
Fred Ward - Earl Smooter

“- Grady: No offense Earl but you're nervous as a Chihuahua.
- Earl Bassett: I'm not nervous, I'm alert.
- Grady: Whatever.”
Chris Gartin - Grady Hoover
Fred Ward - Earl Bassett

“- Señor Ortega: We have already contacted your partner, Señor McKee, but he was unwilling to help us...
- Earl Bassett: Sure. Val married a good woman. Why would he want to die?”
Marcelo Tubert - Señor Ortega
Fred Ward - Earl Bassett

“Dix's pain will probably never go away... no matter how may whores he kills.”

Fred Ward - Dix

“That's our task. Liberation. Freedom. Let's toast to Lawrence. Let's toast to our defects. Toast, to our friendship. Drink cold, piss warm.”
Fred Ward - Henry Miller

“- Kate (White) Reilly: What's he doing? Has he got some kind of plan?
- Earl Bassett: Burt always has a plan when he does something. Well... usually.”
Helen Shaver - Kate 'White' Reilly
Fred Ward - Earl Bassett

“- Remo Williams: Are you hurt?
- Chiun: No. When you approach middle age, there is a tendency toward bruising, my son.
- Remo Williams: What? What did you call me?
- Chiun: I called you a clumsy oaf! You drive like a monkey in heat!”
Fred Ward - Remo Williams
Joel Grey - Chiun

“- Earl Bassett: Is this a job for an intelligent man?
- Valentine McKee: Well, show me one and I'll ask him.”
Fred Ward - Earl Bassett
Kevin Bacon - Valentine McKee

“- Muriel: How's my little boy? Getting along ok, sweetie?
- Rocco: As well as a heterosexual can in prison. I don't know how much longer I can take it. How's Tanya?
- Muriel: Tanya's the same. Milky, creamy skin, pouting red lips, firm buttocks, ample breasts, ears you want to stick your tongue into.
- Rocco: Ma, please. I'm gonna get guy cramps...” (continue)(continue reading)

Kathleen Freeman - Muriel
Fred Ward - Rocco

“Damn it, listen to me. I'm older and wiser.”
Fred Ward - Earl Bassett

“- Remo Williams: You know, Chiun, you're a real pain in the ass.
- Chiun: That is because it is the shortest route to your brain!”
Fred Ward - Remo Williams
Joel Grey - Chiun

- Henry Luce: These stories will appear in Life magazine under their own bylines: for example "by Betty Grissom", or "by Virgil I. Grisson", or...
- Gus Grissom: Gus!
- Henry Luce: What was that?
- Gus Grissom: Gus. Nobody calls me by... that other name.
John Dehner - Henry Luce
Fred Ward - Gus Grissom

“- Sgt. Hoke Moseley: Your turn to notify the next of kin?
- Sgt. Bill Henderson: No way. I did the fat lady that sat on the kid. That's good for two.”
Fred Ward - Sgt. Hoke Moseley
Charles Napier - Sgt. Bill Henderson