Explosion quotes

“- Lt. Hubert Gruber: You notice I am walking very gingerly.
- René: Do not tell me you have dynamite in your trousers.
- Lt. Hubert Gruber: You should not believe everything you hear, Rene.”
Guy Siner - Lieutenant Hubert Gruber
Gorden Kaye - René Artois

“- Francisco Flores: I want to use a bomb.
- Helena Ayala: Are you kidding? Can't you just shoot him or something?
- Francisco Flores: I don't really like guns. You shoot someone in the head three times and some pinche doctor will keep them alive.”
Clifton Collins Jr. - Francisco Flores
Catherine Zeta-Jones - Helena Ayala

“I don't care what universe you're from, that's got to hurt.”

Scott Capurro - Beed (voice)

“- James 'Jimmy' Dove: God damn you, Gaerity! Look what you've done!
- Ryan Gaerity: You've got me all wrong. I'm not a destroyer... I'm a creator.”

Jeff Bridges - Dove
Tommy Lee Jones - Gaerity

“- Graves: Hey Downs, what do you do for a living?
- Sgt. Downs: I blow up things, especially people. Bend over captain, I'll give you a demonstration.”
Clark Johnson - Graves
Maury Chaykin - Sgt. Downs

“I'll be god damned! Like a New York cockroach!”

Wesley Snipes - Simon Phoenix

“- Robert Clayton Dean: What the hell is happening?
- Brill: I blew up the building.
- Robert Clayton Dean: Why?
- Brill: Because you made a phone call.”
Will Smith - Robert Clayton Dean
Gabriel Byrne - Brill

“- Snickers: Guys, we got some good news and some bad news.
- Almond Joy: The good news is, you'll be completely un-paralyzed in about two minutes.
- Snickers: The bad news is, that only leaves you five seconds to defuse the bombs.”
Don Harvey - Snickers
Lorraine Toussaint - Almond Joy

“- Self-Destruct Voice: This ship will self-destruct in twenty seconds. This is your last chance to push the cancellation button.
- President Skroob: Cancellation button? Hurry!”
Julie Pitkanen - Self-Destruct Voice
Mel Brooks - President Skroob

“- Stephens: Did you have any luck with the bomb?
- Jack Traven: Yeah, it didn't go off.”

Alan Ruck - Stephens
Keanu Reeves - Jack Traven

“A bomb is made to explode. That's its meaning. Its purpose. Your life is empty because you spend it trying to stop the bomb from becoming. And for who? For what? You know what a bomb is, Jack, that doesn't explode?”
Dennis Hopper - Howard Payne

“- Zeus Carver: If I hadn't've saved your fuckin' ass, I wouldn't be sittin' here with you about to blow up with 100 billion dollars in fuckin' gold.
- John McClane: Yeah, well, I got some bad news, you're only gonna blow up with me.
- Zeus Carver: What?
- John McClane: No gold on this boat.”

Samuel L. Jackson - Zeus Carver
Bruce Willis - John McClane

“- Harriet Purdue: Fred, I showed you Ben Morgan's body. The man virtually exploded.
- Mayor: What do you expect out of somebody who was thrown out of a damned pickup truck?”
JoBeth Williams - Harriet Purdue
Gailard Sartain - Mayor

“The bad news is we got eight hours in this can blowing down... and the worse news is, it's gonna take us three weeks to decompress later.”
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio - Lindsey Brigman

“- Jay 'Chef' Hicks: Why do all you guys sit on your helmets?
- Soldier: So we don't get our balls blown off.”

Frederic Forrest - Jay 'Chef' Hicks
Evan A. Lottman - Soldier

“- Billy Peltzer: Sir, I'm... I'm sorry about the building.
- Daniel Clamp: I'm not.
- Kate Beringer: You're not?
- Daniel Clamp: For one thing, we're insured for the damages. For another, maybe it wasn't a place for people anyway. It was a place for things. You make a place for things... things come.”
Zach Galligan - Billy Peltzer
John Glover - Daniel Clamp
Phoebe Cates - Kate Beringer

“- Burke: Look, this whole station is basically a big fusion reactor, right? So you're talkin' about a thermonuclear explosion and adiós, muchachos.
- Lieutenant Gorman: Oh, great. Wonderful. Shit!”
Paul Reiser - Burke
William Hope - Lieutenant Gorman

“Stick of gum, right? No. Red light, green light. You find a lock you can't pick, you mash them together...[imitates an explosion] Hasta lasagna, don't get any on ya. You'll have about five seconds. Just don't chew it.”

Emilio Estevez - Jack Harmon

“Pop quiz, hotshot. There's a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50, it blows up. What do you do? What do you do?”
Dennis Hopper - Howard Payne