Henry Thomas movie quotes

“- Tristan: Samuel, God bless you. You are good at everything you try to do. I'm sure it'll be the same with fucking.
- Samuel: Tristan, really. We're talking about my future wife.
- Tristan: Oh, you're not gonna fuck her?
- Samuel: No!
- Tristan: No?
- Samuel: No! I'm planning to be with her.
- Tristan: I recommend fucking.”
Brad Pitt - Tristan Ludlow
Henry Thomas - Samuel Ludlow

“- Danny Torrance: Man takes a drink. A drink takes the drink. And then the drink takes a man. Isn't it so, Dad?
- The Bartender: Medicine. Medicine is what it is. Bona fide cure-all. The mind is a blackboard, and this is the eraser.”
Ewan McGregor - Dan Torrance
Henry Thomas - The Bartender

“The hardest thing about being a kid actor is just kind of separating 'this is my professional life' and 'this is my kid life.' That was always the hard part for me.”
Henry Thomas

“Seeing a time period captured in film, you know, it does make you feel nostalgic.”
Henry Thomas

“It's harder to laugh than to cry.”
Henry Thomas

“- Michael: Maybe he's some animal that wasn't supposed to live; kind of like those rabbits we saw. He could be a monkey or an orangutan.
- Elliott: A bald monkey?
- Gertie: Is he a pig? He sure eats like one.”

Robert MacNaughton - Michael
Henry Thomas - Elliott
Drew Barrymore - Gertie

“- Samuel: Still hung over?
- Tristan: Still drunk!”
Henry Thomas - Samuel Ludlow
Brad Pitt - Tristan Ludlow

“- Danceny: Sir, it would be embarrassing for me to fight you in your condition.
- Valmont: So what do we do? Send for our harps?”
Henry Thomas - Danceny
Colin Firth - Valmont

“- Michael: Maybe he's not that smart. Maybe he's like a worker bee who only knows how to push buttons or something.
- Elliott: He is too smart.
- Michael: Okay, I just hope we don't wake up on Mars or something surrounded by millions of little squashy guys.”

Robert MacNaughton - Michael
Henry Thomas - Elliott

“- Davey Osborne: How did you escape?
- Hal Osborne: Jack Flack always escapes.
- Davey Osborne: I don't need him anymore. I've got you, dad.”

Henry Thomas - Davey Osborne
Dabney Coleman - Hal Osborne

“- Gertie: I don't like his feet.
- Elliott: They're only feet, you little twerp.”

Drew Barrymore - Gertie
Henry Thomas - Elliott

“- Michael: Did you explain school to him?
- Elliott: How do you explain school to higher intelligence?
- Michael: Maybe he's not that smart. Maybe he's like a worker bee who only knows how to push buttons or something.”

Robert MacNaughton - Michael
Henry Thomas - Elliott

“- Michael: Where's the playground?
- Elliott: It's near the preschool!
- Michael: Where's that?
- Elliott: I don't know streets! Mom always drives me!
- Michael: Son of a bitch.”
Robert MacNaughton - Michael
Henry Thomas - Elliott

“35 pounds? You're fat!”

Henry Thomas - Elliott

“- Samuel: I'll bring you back the kaiser's helmet.
- Colonel Ludlow: Bring yourself back. That'd please me more.”

Henry Thomas - Samuel Ludlow
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Col. William Ludlow

“- Simon Cotton: You always were wise beyond your years.
- Cassandra Mortmain: No I wasn't. I used to be consciously naive.”
Henry Thomas - Simon Cotton
Romola Garai - Cassandra Mortmain

“- Merteuil: Why do you want to be a husband, when you can be a lover?
- Danceny: Keep writing.
- Merteuil: Why don't you leave all the boredom of marriage to Gercourt, and keep the excitement of love for yourself?”
Annette Bening - Merteuil
Henry Thomas - Danceny

“- Michael: Where's the playground?
- Elliott: It's near the preschool!
- Michael: Where's that?
- Elliott: I don't know streets! Mom always drives me!
- Michael: Son of a bitch.”
Robert MacNaughton - Michael
Henry Thomas - Elliott

“You could be happy here, I could take care of you. I wouldn't let anybody hurt you. We could grow up together, E.T.”
Henry Thomas - Elliott

“- Lacey Rawlins: You think you can believe there's a heaven if you don't believe in hell?
- John Grady Cole: I guess you can believe what you want to.”
Henry Thomas - Lacey Rawlins
Matt Damon - John Grady Cole

“- Michael: You know how they say there are alligators in the sewers?
- Gertie: Alligators in the sewers.
- Mary: All we're trying to say is, maybe you just probably imagined it. It happened...
- Elliott: I couldn't have imagined it!
- Michael: Maybe it was a pervert or a deformed kid or something.”

Robert MacNaughton - Michael
Drew Barrymore - Gertie
Dee Wallace - Mary
Henry Thomas - Elliott

“- Elliott: Look, you can't tell. Not even Mom.
- Gertie: Why not?
- Elliott: Because grown-ups can't see him. Only little kids can see him.
- Gertie: Give me a break!
- Elliott: Do you know what's going to happen if you do tell?”

Henry Thomas - Elliott
Drew Barrymore - Gertie

“- Elliott: He's a man from outer space and we're taking him to his spaceship.
- Greg: Well, can't he just beam up?
- Elliott: This is reality, Greg.”
Henry Thomas - Elliott
K.C. Martel - Greg

“- Ella Tate: We're not rich, we're not poor.
- Wesley Tate: What are we, then?
- Ella Tate: Somewhere in between.”
Kathy Bates - Ella Tate
Henry Thomas - Wesley Tate

“- Michael: Did you explain school to him?
- Elliott: How do you explain school to higher intelligence?”

Robert MacNaughton - Michael
Henry Thomas - Elliott