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[McClane's seatmate notices his nervousness.]
Businessman:
Wanna know the secret to surviving air travel? After you get where you're going,
take off your shoes and your socks, and you walk around on the rug barefoot and
make fists with your toes.
John McClane: Fists with your toes?
Businessman:
[chuckles] I know, I know, it sounds crazy. Trust me. I've been doing it for nine
years.
Harry Ellis: Hey babe, I negotiate million dollar deals for breakfast.
I think I can handle this Eurotrash!
Theo:
Oh my God, the quarterback is toast.
John
McClane: You throw quite a party. I didn't realize they celebrated Christmas in
Japan.
Joseph Takagi: Hey, we're flexible. Pearl Harbor didn't work out so
we got you with tape decks.
Joseph
Takagi: You want money? What kind of terrorists are you?
Hans Gruber: Who
said we were terrorists?
[McClane
watches fire trucks approach the building]
John McClane: C'mon baby, come
ta' papa, I'll kiss ya' fuckin' dalmatian!
[Stealing
the dead terrorist's shoes.]
John McClane: A hundred million terrorists in
the world and I gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister.
[McClane
tries to call up police]
Supervisor: Attention, whoever you are. This channel
is reserved for emergency calls only...
John McClane: No fucking shit, lady!
Do I sound like I'm ordering a pizza?
[Reading
what McClane wrote on the dead terrorist's shirt.]
Hans Gruber: "Now
I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho."
[Hans'
radio turns on]
Hans Gruber: I thought I told all of you, I want radio silence
until further--
John McClane: Ooooh, I'm very sorry Hans. I didn't get that
message. Maybe you should've put it on the bulletin board. I figured since I've
waxed Tony and Marco and his friend here, I figured you and Karl and Franco might
be a little lonely, so I decided to give you a call.
Hans Gruber: Eh, that's...
very kind of you, considering you are a mysterious party crasher. You are most
troublesome, for a security guard.
John McClane: Bzzzt! Sorry Hans, wrong
guess. Would you like to go for Double Jeopardy where the scores can really change?
[Indicating cigarettes in dead man's pocket]
John McClane: Whoa, these
are very bad for you.
Hans Gruber: Who are you then?
John McClane: Just
a fly in the ointment, Hans. The monkey in the wrench. The pain in the ass.
[On
the radio.]
Hans Gruber: Mister Mystery Guest? Are you still there?
John
McClane: Yeah, I'm still here. Unless you wanna open the front door for me.
Hans
Gruber: Uh, no I'm afraid not. But you have me at a loss. You know my name but
who are you? Just another American who saw too many movies as a child? Another
orphan of a bankrupt culture who thinks he's John Wayne? Rambo? Marshall Dillon?
John McClane: Was always kinda' partial to Roy Rogers actually. I really dig
those sequined shirts.
Hans Gruber: Do you really think you have a chance
against us, Mister Cowboy?
John McClane: Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker!
Hans
Gruber: "When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there
were no more worlds to conquer." The benefits of a classical education.
Dwayne
T. Robinson: We don't know shit, Powell. If there's hostages in there, how come
no one's come to us with ransom demands? If there's terrorists in there, where's
their list of demands? All we know is that whoever shot your car up is probably
the same silly sonofabitch you've been talking to on that radio.
Sergeant
Al Powell: Excuse me sir! But what about the body that fell out the window?
Dwayne
T. Robinson: Well who knows? Maybe some stockbroker, got depressed.
[About
McClane.]
Sergeant Al Powell: In fact, I think he's a cop. Maybe not LAPD,
but he's definitely a badge.
Dwayne T. Robinson: How do you know that?
Sergeant
Al Powell: A hunch, things he said. Like being able to spot a phony ID.
Dwayne
T. Robinson: Jesus Christ, Powell, he could be a fucking bartender for all we
know!
Hans
Gruber: I wanted this to be professional. Efficient, adroit, cooperative, not
a lot to ask. Alas, your Mr. Takagi did not see it that way, so he won't be joining
us for the rest of his life.
John
McClane: [recalls his wife's invitation] Come out to the coast, we'll get together,
have a few laughs...
John
McClane: Take *this* under advisement, jerkweed!
Agent
Johnson: I'm Agent Johnson, this is Special Agent Johnson. No relation.
Hans
Gruber: This time John Wayne does not walk off into the sunset with Grace Kelly.
John McClane: That was Gary Cooper, asshole.
Agent
Johnson: Figure we take out the terrorists. Lose twenty, twenty-five percent of
the hostages.
Special Agent Johnson: I can live with that.
Holly
Gennero McClane: After all your posturing, all your speeches, you're nothing but
a common thief.
Hans Gruber: I am an exceptional thief, Mrs. McClane. And
since I'm moving up to kidnapping, you should be more polite.
Dwayne
T. Robinson: We're gonna need some more FBI guys I guess.
John
McClane: Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker!
[In
a small air duct]
John McClane: Now I know what a TV dinner feels like.
[while
crawling through a narrow ventilation shaft]
John McClane: Now I know what
a TV dinner feels like.
[Powell
with an armload of Twinkies]
Convenience Store Clerk: I thought you guys just
ate doughnuts.
Sergeant Al Powell: Heh. They're for my wife.
Convenience
Store Clerk: [sarcastically] Yeah.
Sergeant Al Powell: She's pregnant.
Convenience
Store Clerk: Yeah.
Sergeant Al Powell: Bag it.
Convenience Store Clerk:
Big time.
Holly
Gennero McClane: I have a request.
Hans Gruber: What idiot put you in charge?
Holly Gennero McClane: You did. When you murdered my boss. Now everyone's
looking to me. Personally, I'd pass on the job. I don't enjoy being this close
to you.
[As
the SWAT Team closes in]
Theo: [over the CB] All right, listen up guys! 'Twas
the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring,
except for the four assholes coming in the back way in standard two-by-two formation!
Hans
Gruber: You *can* unlock the vault, can't you?
Theo: You didn't bring me along
for my charming personality.
John
McClane: Welcome to the party pal!
Hans
Gruber: Nice suit. John Phillips, London. I have two myself. Rumor has it that
Arafat buys his there.
John
McClane: Yippie cay-yay, motherfucker.
Dwayne
T. Robinson: God, I hope that's not a hostage.
[After
Hans and Karl get the detonators back, Karl smashes a table of glasses]
Ginny:
Woah. That guy seems REALLY pissed.
Holly Gennero McClane: He's still alive.
Ginny: What?
Holly Gennero McClane: Only John can drive somebody that
crazy.
[flying
in the chopper to the roof]
Big Johnson: Just like fuckin' Saigon ain't it,
Slick?
Little Johnson: I was in junior high, dickhead.
Agent
Johnson: [on the phone] Hello this is agent Johnson.
[He sighs]
Agent
Johnson: No the other one.
Hans
Gruber: I am going to count to three, there will not be a four. Give me the code.
[After
McClane sets off massive explosion]
John McClane: Is the building on fire?
Sergeant Al Powell: No, but it's gonna need a paint job and a shit load of
screen doors.
John
McClane: Merry Christmas, Argyle.
Argyle: Merry Christmas.
[Argyle shuts
the limo door]
Argyle: Man, if this is their idea of Christmas, I *gotta*
be here for New Year's.
[After
witnessing Mr. Takagi's murder]
John McClane: [talking to himself] Why the
fuck didn't you stop them, John? Because then you'd be dead, too, asshole!
John
McClane: So this is what it's about, Hans? A fucking robbery?
Hans Gruber:
Well, when you steal $600, you can just disappear. But when you steal $600 million,
they will find you, unless they think you're already dead.
John
McClane: You would have made a pretty good cowboy yourself, Hans.
Hans Gruber:
What was it you said to me earlier? "Yippie-kay-ya, motherfucker."
[John
is fighting Karl]
John McClane: Just like I heard your brother squeal! When
I broke his fucking neck! You motherfucker, I'm gonna kill ya, then I'm gonna
cook ya, then I'm gonna eat you!
[Trying
to get the German Terrorist's attention]
Harry Ellis: Hey, sprechen ze talk?
Takagi:
You'll just have to kill me.
Hans Gruber: Okay.
John
McClane: Asshole?? I'm not the one who just got buttfucked on national TV, Dwayne!