Michael McKean movie quotes

“- Judy Randall: Why are you always in black?
- Peter Randall: Because it matches my soul.”
Bess Armstrong - Judy Randall
Michael McKean - Peter Randall

- Ben Jahveri: "The warmth in your heart makes others ha-ha-happy".
- Fred Ritter: I still like this one: "Opportunity is waiting, you need but to open the door".

Fisher Stevens - Ben Jahveri
Michael McKean - Fred Ritter

“- Mrs. White: Are you a cop?
- Mr. Green: No, I'm a plant.
- Miss Scarlet: A plant? I thought men like you were usually called a fruit.”

Madeline Kahn - Mrs. White
Michael McKean - Mr. Green
Lesley Ann Warren - Miss Scarlet

“- Mr. Green: This is ridiculous. If he were such a patriotic American, why didn't he just report us to the authorities?
- Wadsworth: He decided to put his information to good use and make a little money out of it. What could be more American than that?”

Michael McKean - Mr. Green
Tim Curry - Wadsworth

“Mrs. Tingle, I have waited twenty years to tell you this. You're fired.”
Michael McKean - Principal Potter

“- Nigel Tufnel: You can't fucking concentrate because of your fucking wife! Simple as that, alright? It's your fucking wife!
- David St. Hubbins: She's not my wife.
- Nigel Tufnel: Well whatever fuck she is, alright? You can't concentrate!”
Christopher Guest - Nigel Tufnel
Michael McKean - David St. Hubbins

“Waste your brain; wax your board; pray for waves.”
Michael McKean - Woody

“- Nigel Tufnel: It really puts perspective on things though, doesn't it?
- David St. Hubbins: Too much. There's too much fucking perspective now.”

Christopher Guest - Nigel Tufnel
Michael McKean - David St. Hubbins

- David St. Hubbins: Can you play a bass line like Nigel used to on "Big Bottom"? Can you double that? You might recall the line's in fifths.
- Viv Savage: Oh yeah, I've got two hands here.
Michael McKean - David St. Hubbins
David Kaff - Viv Savage

“We are Spinal Tap from the UK - you must be the USA!”
Michael McKean - David St. Hubbins

“- Fred Ritter: Benny? You're leaving me with my back to the wall here. I mean, we gotta come up with something!
- Ben Jahveri: It is not possible. We are the type of people who have everything in our favor going against us.”
Michael McKean - Fred Ritter
Fisher Stevens - Ben Jahveri

“- Eli Turnbull, INS Agent: If they are in fact aliens from another planet, sir, doesn't that make them Air Force jurisdiction?
- Gorman Seedling, INS Deputy Commissioner: If they're just visiting, sure. But the minute they try to work here, they're mine.”
David Spade - Eli Turnbull, INS Agent
Michael McKean - Gorman Seedling, INS Deputy Commissioner

“I have something to say. I'm not going to wait for Wadsworth here to unmask me. I work for the State Department, and I'm a homosexual. I feel no personal shame or guilt about this, but I must keep it a secret, or I will lose my job on security grounds.”
Michael McKean - Mr. Green

“- Nick Chapman: I want you to be my friend again.
- Emmet Sumner: Nick, I was always your friend.
- Nick Chapman: No, I know. I, I mean, I wanna be your friend again.”
Kevin Bacon - Nick Chapman
Michael McKean - Emmet Sumner

“- Derek Smalls: We're lucky.
- David St. Hubbins: Yeah.
- Derek Smalls: I mean, people should be envying us, you know.
- David St. Hubbins: I envy us.
- Derek Smalls: Yeah.
- David St. Hubbins: I do.
- Derek Smalls: Me too.”
Harry Shearer - Derek Smalls
Michael McKean - David St. Hubbins

“- Fred Ritter: Are you ok?
- Johnny 5: Functioning 100%. Perfectly ko Derf.
- Fred Ritter: It's Fred.
- Johnny 5: That's what I said, Derf.”
Michael McKean - Fred Ritter
Tim Blaney - Johnny 5

“- Ben Jahveri: Oh, now, now we are un-employers.
- Fred: Oh, look, we still got all of the robot parts in the van; I can get a new staff together...
- Ben Jahveri: But we are having no more money and now we are having no equipment. To assemble the robots with our naked hands, it would be slower than - than moles' asses in January.”
Fisher Stevens - Ben Jahveri
Michael McKean - Fred Ritter

“- Marty DiBergi: David St. Hubbins... I must admit I've never heard anybody with that name.
- David St. Hubbins: It's an unusual name, well, he was an unusual saint, he's not a very well known saint.
- Marty DiBergi: Oh, there actually is, uh... there was a Saint Hubbins?
- David St. Hubbins: That's right, yes.
- Marty DiBergi: What was he the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Rob Reiner - Marty DiBergi
Michael McKean - David St. Hubbins

“I don't really think that the end can be assessed as of itself as being the end because what does the end feel like? It's like saying when you try to extrapolate the end of the universe, you say, if the universe is indeed infinite, then how - what does that mean? How far is all the way, and then if it stops, what's stopping it, and what's behind...” (continue)(continue reading)

Michael McKean - David St. Hubbins

“- Ian Faith: Nigel gave me a drawing that said 18 inches. Now, whether or not he knows the difference between feet and inches is not my problem. I do what I'm told.
- David St. Hubbins: But you're not as confused as him, are you? I mean, it's not your job to be as confused as Nigel.”
Tony Hendra - Ian Faith
Michael McKean - David St. Hubbins

“- Wadsworth: Three murders?
- Mr. Green: Six altogether.
- Wadsworth: This is getting serious.”
Tim Curry - Wadsworth
Michael McKean - Mr. Green

“- Fred Ritter: You just fall off the banana boat, or what?
- Ben Jahveri: I do not travel with bananas, sir!”
Michael McKean - Fred Ritter
Fisher Stevens - Ben Jahveri

“- Fred Ritter: You like McNuggets?
- Ben Jahveri: Who is he?
- Fred Ritter: Trust me.”
Michael McKean - Fred Ritter
Fisher Stevens - Ben Jahveri