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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Indiana Jones: Are you trying to develop a sense of humor or am I going deaf?

Indiana Jones: Willie, Willie, Willie. What kind of a name is that? Is it short for something?
Willie: Willie is my professional name, "Indiana."
Short Round: Hey, lady! You call him Dr. Jones!
Indiana Jones: *My* professional name.

Short Round: I keep telling you, you listen to me more, you live longer!

Short Round: What is Sankara?
Indiana Jones: Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory.

Indiana Jones: You wear your Jewels to bed?
Willie: And nothing else. Does that shock you?
Indiana Jones: Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Willie: You're gonna get killed chasing after your damn fortune and glory!
Indiana Jones: Maybe. But not today.

[Indy signals his intention to cut the rope bridge.]
Willie: Oh my God. Oh my God, is he nuts?
Short Round: He no nuts, he's crazy!

[Indy threatens to drop the Sankara stones into the gorge.]
Mola Ram: Drop them, Dr. Jones! They will be found! You won't!

Short Round: No time for love, Dr. Jones!

Indiana Jones: Mola Ram! Prepare to meet Kali... in Hell!

Willie: Aren't you gonna introduce us?
Lao Che: This is Willie Scott; this is Indiana Jones, a famous archaeologist.
Willie: Well I always thought that archaeologists were always funny looking men going around looking for their mommies.
Indiana Jones: Mummys.

Willie: I can't go to Pankot! I'm a *singer*!

[On seeing Indy in his "work clothes"]
Willie: So what are you supposed to be, a lion tamer?

Willie: You know how to fly, don't you?
Indiana Jones: Um, no. Do you?

Short Round: I'm very little! You cheat very big!

Chattar Lal: I should say you look rather lost, but then I can't imagine where in the world the three of you would look at home.

Chattar Lal: Dr. Jones, the eminent archaeologist?
Willie: Hard to believe, isn't it?

Willie: THAT'S the maharaja? A *kid*?
Short Round: Maybe he likes *older* women.

Guest at dinner: Ah! Dessert....Chilled Monkey-Brains!

Chattar Lal: Dr. Jones, in my country, it is not usual for a guest to insult his host.

Chattar Lal: Dr Jones, wasn't it the Sultan of Madagascar who thretaned to cut off your head if you ever returned to his country?
Indiana Jones: No, it wasn't my head.
Chattar Lal: Then your hands, perhaps?
Indiana Jones: No, it wasn't my hands. It was my....
[looks down]
Indiana Jones: My misunderstanding.

Shaman of Maypore: Like monsoon, it moves darkness over all country.

Willie: Ooh, what big birds!
Indiana Jones: Those aren't big birds, sweetheart! They're giant vampire bats!

Lao Che: So it's true? You've found Nurhachi?
Indiana Jones: You know I did. Last night one of your boys tried to get Nurhachi without paying for him.
[Kao Kan holds his bandaged hand.]
Lao Che: You have insulted my son.
Indiana Jones: No, you have insulted me. I spared his life.

[Indy and Short Round are exploring a cavern.]
Short Round: Feels like I step on fortune cookie!
Indiana Jones: It's not fortune cookies. Let me take a look.
[Indy lights a lighter to find bugs crawling all over the place.]
Short Round: That no cookie!

Kao Kan: [laughing]

Short Round: Indy! Cover your heart! Cover your heart!

Shaman of Maypore: Now you see the power of the rock you bring back.
Indiana Jones: Yes. I understand its power now.

[Indy and Short Round are trapped in a room.]
Indiana Jones: Stop! Look, just - stand against the wall, will ya?
[Short Round stands against the wall, springing a trap.]
Short Round: You say to stand against the wall! I just do what you say! Not my fault! Not my fault!

[Willie accidentally sets off the same trap she just sprang.]
Short Round: It wasn't me! It's her!