John Lithgow movie quotes

“- Lord Farquaad: What's that? It's hideous!
- Shrek: Well, that's not very nice. It's just a donkey.”

John Lithgow - Lord Farquaad
Mike Myers - Shrek

“- Ernie Henderson: Shoot it!
- George Henderson: It's dead.
- Ernie Henderson: Shoot it anyway!”
Joshua Rudoy - Ernie Henderson
John Lithgow - George Henderson

“Popcorn at a ball game is unnatural. I want a hot dog.”
John Lithgow - Donald

“- Shaun: Dad, I want to become a writer.
- Bud: A writer?! What do you have to write about? You're not oppressed, you're not gay.
- Shaun: Not all writers are gay.
- Bud: Well, they are all poor. I'll tell you that.”
Colin Hanks - Shaun Brumder
John Lithgow - Bud Brumder

“Six billion people, just imagine that. And every last one of them trying to have it all. This world isn't so bad. You're the one who doesn't belong. Born forty years too late, or forty years too early... my daughter knew it, God bless her. And your kids know it.”

John Lithgow - Donald

- Vinnie Conrad: The thing that bothers me is that damn "launch-on-warning".
- Bruce Gallatin: What's that?
- Vinnie Conrad: That's when one side tells the other that they're gonna fire their missiles as soon as they think the other guy's missiles are already on their way.
- Joe Huxley: You know. Use 'em or lose 'em.
Stan Wilson - Vinnie Conrad
Jeff East - Bruce Gallatin
John Lithgow - Joe Huxley

“- Sam Burns: You're a very rude young woman. I know Douglas from the Rotary and I can't believe he'd want you treating customers so badly.
- Checkout Girl: I don't think I was treating her badly.
- Sam Burns: Then you must be from New York.”
John Lithgow - Sam Burns
Judy Dickerson - Checkout Girl

“If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.”
John Lithgow

“- Towzer: The retailers are pulling our toys off the shelves so fast you'd think they're disease carriers.
- B.Z.: Cowards.
- Towzer: And an article in the Post said that anyone who gives his kid a B.Z. toy ought to have his head examined.
- B.Z.: Swine! Cancel my subscription.”
Jeffrey Kramer - Towzer
John Lithgow - B.Z.

“- B.Z.: This stardust, this reindeer cornflakes. What would happen if we were to juice up the formula, make it stronger?
- Patch: Well, it's self-explanatory it would make them fly!”
John Lithgow - B.Z.
Dudley Moore - Patch

“- Maxim Brajlovsky: Easy as cake, huh?
- Dr. Walter Curnow: Pie. Easy as pie.”
Elya Baskin - Maxim Brajlovsky
John Lithgow - Dr. Walter Curnow

“Anybody want to make a bet?”

John Lithgow - John Mathewson

“You know what Einstein said about World War III? He said he didn't know how they were gonna fight World War III, but he knew how they would fight World War IV: with sticks and stones.”
John Lithgow - Joe Huxley

“- Qualen: Do you know what real love is, Kristel?
- Kristel: No.
- Qualen: Sacrifice...”

John Lithgow - Qualen
Caroline Goodall - Kristel

“- Dr. Heywood Floyd: I'd love a hot dog.
- Dr. Walter Curnow: Astrodome. Good hot dogs there.
- Dr. Heywood Floyd: Astrodome? You can't grow a good hot dog indoors. Yankee Stadium. September. The hot dogs have been boiling since opening day in April. Now that's a hot dog.”
Roy Scheider - Dr. Heywood Floyd
John Lithgow - Dr. Walter Curnow

“- Dr. Wallace Wrightwood: You've seen hundreds, thousands of pigeons, right?
- George Henderson: Of course.
- Dr. Wallace Wrightwood: Have you ever seen a baby pigeon? Well, neither have I. I got a hunch they exist.”
Don Ameche - Dr. Wallace Wrightwood
John Lithgow - George Henderson

“- Sgt. Aloysius 'Al' Mackey: Hollywood is an evil mother-grabber.
- Sgt. Martin 'Marty' Wellborn: Hollywood is no more evil than Hannibal, Missouri.”
James Garner - Sgt. Aloysius 'Al' Mackey
John Lithgow - Sgt. Martin 'Marty' Wellborn

“- Nancy Henderson: The roast is resting in a shallow unmarked grave in the backyard.
- George Henderson: Well, there's plenty of other stuff.
- Dr. Wallace Wrightwood: Are you vegetarians?
- George Henderson: Sometimes. It depends on the guest.”

Melinda Dillon - Nancy Henderson
John Lithgow - George Henderson
Don Ameche - Dr. Wallace Wrightwood

“- Sgt. Martin 'Marty' Wellborn: Am I a man dreaming I'm a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming I'm a man?
- Sgt. Aloysius 'Al' Mackey: You're a freaking idiot! That's what you are.”
John Lithgow - Sgt. Martin 'Marty' Wellborn
James Garner - Sgt. Aloysius 'Al' Mackey

“It was lightning. At first I thought it was animal. Some kind of bird or something. But it was a man! There were flames coming out of the engine, and a flash of smoke. Maybe it was a technician who was caught on the side of the plane when it took off. How could he survive out there? The air's so thin, the blast of the wind. It's so cold.”

John Lithgow - John Valentine

“Sometimes you've just gotta wonder if there's any real difference between you and I. I mean, I can be pretty hairy too, you know.”

John Lithgow - George Henderson

- Bruce Gallatin: What do you really think the chances are of something like that happening way the hell out here in the middle of nowhere?
- Joe Huxley: Nowhere? There's no "nowhere" anymore. You're sitting next to the Whiteman Air Force Base right now. That's about... 150 Minuteman missile silos spread halfway down the State of Missouri.... (continue)(continue reading)

Jeff East - Bruce Gallatin
John Lithgow - Joe Huxley

“- George Henderson: What the hell did you do that for? It's my drawing! Why'd you change it?
- George Henderson Sr.: Cool down, George, it's just a piece of cardboard.
- George Henderson: Not to me. It means something to me! Can't you see that he means something to me?”

John Lithgow - George Henderson
M. Emmet Walsh - George Henderson Sr.

“- George Henderson: He walked into our kitchen and was eating out of our refrigerator. I thought we was gonna eat me, but he ate our daughter's corsage and our passiflora coccinea, then it ate our goldfish!
- Sergeant Mancini: Where is he now, Mr. Henderson?
- George Henderson: In the bathroom.”

John Lithgow - George Henderson
William Ontiveros - Sgt. Mancini

“- Joe Huxley: Those are Minuteman missiles!
- Cynthia: Like a test, sort of... like a warning?
- Joe Huxley: They're on their way to Russia. They take about 30 minutes to reach their target.
- Aldo: So do theirs, right?”

John Lithgow - Joe Huxley
Alston Ahern - Cynthia
Stephen Furst - Aldo