Kurt Russell movie quotes

“- Maguire: Come on, Nick. Escalante's waiting. He wants to give you a token of his government's friendship.
- Nick Frescia: What?
- Maguire: A gun. What can I say? He's Mexican.”

J. T. Walsh - Maguire
Kurt Russell - Frescia

“- MacReady: How you doin', old boy?
- Dr. Blair: I don't know who to trust.
- MacReady: I know what you mean, Blair. Trust's a tough thing to come by these days. Tell you what - why don't you just trust in the Lord?”
Kurt Russell - MacReady
Wilford Brimley - Dr. Blair

“Half these people came here tonight, Jack, to watch you catch ball. The other half came to see you drop it. You drop that damn thing again, Jack, your life is over.”

Kurt Russell - Reno Hightower

“Would you stop rubbing your body up against mine, because I can't concentrate when you do that.”
Kurt Russell - Jack Burton

“- Luke Fuchs: $10,000. Is that all it takes to be elected senator these days.
- Rudy: Well, that's more like a down payment. After I'm elected its 50-50 on all the graft I take.”
Jack Warden - Luke Fuchs
Kurt Russell - Rudy Russo

“- Bob Hauk: Plissken, if you get back in that glider and fly back here without the tape or the President, I'll shoot you down myself! You try to climb out, I'll burn you off the wall! Do you understand that, Plissken?
- Snake Plissken: [beat] A little human compassion.”
Lee Van Cleef - Hauk
Kurt Russell - Snake Plissken

“The only problem is that in this job is there's just no place to hide. It's not like having a bad day selling log cabins. You have a bad day here and somebody dies... and that's just not fucking good enough.”

Kurt Russell - Steven McCaffrey

“- Childs: You're gonna have to sleep sometime, MacReady.
- MacReady: I'm a real light sleeper, Childs.”
Keith David - Childs
Kurt Russell - MacReady

“- Bob Hauk: You know anything about nuclear fusion?
- Snake Plissken: No.
- Bob Hauk: The survival of the human race, Plissken. Something you don't give a shit about.”
Lee Van Cleef - Hauk
Kurt Russell - Snake Plissken

“- Snake Plissken: Who are you?
- President: I'm your President.
- Snake Plissken: Understand you got some domestic problems...”
Kurt Russell - Snake Plissken
Cliff Robertson - President

“- Jeff: No-one's going to believe he went to Miami, nobody goes to Miami!
- Rudy: Old people go to Miami, he's old isn't he? Where do you want him to go, Aspen?
- Jeff: Aspen? Fuck Aspen, this crate won't go around the block...
- Big Jim: The fuck it won't! This motherfucker runs!”

Gerrit Graham - Jeff
Kurt Russell - Rudy Russo
Frank McRae - Jim the Mechanic

“- Fuchs: I have to talk to you.
- MacReady: I'm tired of talkin', Fuchs. I just wanna get up to my shack and get drunk.”
Joel Polis - Fuchs
Kurt Russell - MacReady

“You die first, get it? Your friends might get me in a rush, but not before I make your head into a canoe, you understand me?”
Kurt Russell - Wyatt Earp

“- Joanna: You know, forks were invented so that man could at least make a pretense of separating himself from the apes.
- Dean Proffitt: So were thumbs.”
Goldie Hawn - Joanna
Kurt Russell - Dean Proffitt

“- Snake Plissken: Get a new president!
- Bob Hauk: We're still at war, Plissken. We need him alive.
- Snake Plissken: I don't give a fuck about your war... or your president.
- Bob Hauk: Is that your answer?
- Snake Plissken: I'm thinking about it.”

Kurt Russell - Snake Plissken
Lee Van Cleef - Hauk

“I'm a reasonable guy. But, I've just experienced some very unreasonable things.”
Kurt Russell - Jack Burton

“- Taslima: I read your future.
- Snake Plissken: The future is right now.”
Valeria Golino - Taslima
Kurt Russell - Snake Plissken