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Action Hero, The
[First line]
Dekker: This is one hell
of a way to spend Christmas...
[Jack
Slater is Hamlet]
Hamlet: Hey Claudius! You killed my father! Big mistake!
Narrator: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet is taking
out the trash.
Old Man: Stay thy hand, fair prince.
Hamlet: [shooting
him] Who said I'm fair?
Narrator: No one is going to tell this sweet prince
good night.
Hamlet: To be or not to be? Not to be.
[Dead
assassin tumbles out of closet after Slater has fired into it without warning]
Danny: How'd you know someone was in there?
Jack Slater: There's always
someone in there. It costs me a fortune in closet doors.
Vivaldi:
What I'm saying is; Mr. Benedict can take you out as easy as cake.
[Danny
Madigan is watching the bad guys on the screen]
Danny Madigan: You are gonna
pay... Oooh, you gonna pay!
[Frank's
last words]
Frank: I'm out of here...
[When
danny comes home with Jack at 4 a.m.]
Danny's mom: Where have you been? The
police called. You're not here. You're not there.
Danny: Mom, I'm sorry, okay.
Shh.
Danny's mom: " Okay, shh?" There are 9 million kids out there
with guns and that's all you have to say to me? "Okay, shh?!" Will you
get in here?!
Danny: Mom? You know how you always say you wish I had more
friends? Well.
Jack Slater: Hello Mrs. Madigan. Arnold Braunshweiger.
Jack
Slater: Who the hell are you?
Danny Madigan: Don't shoot me. I'm Danny Madigan.
I'm a kid.
Danny
Madigan: OK, I got one. What about this girl right here. She is way too attractive
to be working in a video store.
Jack Slater: I agree with you. I think she
should be working with us ... under cover of course...
Danny
Madigan: You think you are funny, don't you?
Jack Slater: I know I am. I'm
the famous comedian Arnold Braunschweiger.
Danny Madigan: Schwarzenegger!
Jack Slater: Gesundheit.
Jack
Slater: Could I speak to the drug dealer of the house, please?
Jack
Slater: I'll be back! Ha! You didn't know I was gonna say that, did you?
Danny
Madigan: That's what you always say!
Jack Slater: I do?
Jack
Slater: Kid! Who does the doctor treat?
Danny Madigan: Patients?
Jack
Slater: Look at the elbow of my jacket. What is it doing?
Danny Madigan: Wearing
thin?
Jack Slater: Bingo!
[Danny
Madigan was just kissed by Whitney Slater]
Danny Madigan: From now on it's
all gonna be downhill...
Whitney
Slater: FREEZE! Lose the guns or I redecorate in brain-matter grey, got it?
Danny
Madigan: Chicken it is...
Danny
Madigan: ...I though I was going to die.
Jack Slater: Well I'm sorry to disappoint
you but you're gonna live to enjoy all the glorious fruits life has got to offer
- acne, shaving, premature ejaculation ... and your first divorce.
Jack
Slater: And Whitney! Why can't she be like every other teenager. For prom night
she stayed home and field stripped an AK-47.
[Jack
Slater realizes that a nerve gas bomb is hidden in Leo "the Fart"'s
body]
Jack Slater: Leo "the Fart" is gonna pass gas one more time.
Vivaldi:
Mr. Torelli. I hope it's alright with you I am here. I don't wanna be no fourth
wheel...
Vivaldi:
You've had Slater in front of the eight ball before, but you always screwed it
up.
[The
nervgasbomb goes of in the tar-pit]
Jack Slater: Silent but deadly!
Benedict:
If God was a villain, he would have been me.
[Jack
Slater throws Benedict against a wall, and both Benedict and his servant disappears
through it]
Jack Slater: Usually when I do that it leaves a hole...
Nick:
There are lots of things worse than movies: politicians, wars, forest fires, famine,
plague, sickness, pain, whores, politicians...
Jack Slater: You already mentioned
them.
Nick: I know I did. They are twice as bad as anything else.
James
Belushi: I'm not really a big fan of Arnold's... She is, you know... Arnold really
turns her on and I just want to be there when it happens.
Frank:
We mostly talk muzzle velocities. Guns.
Benedict:
Since you're about to die anyway, I might as well tell you the entire plot.
Jack
Slater: Here's another explosion for your movie, kid.
Tony
Vivaldi: What is this, Benedict?! First you're my friend; now you turn a... 360
on me!
Benedict: 180, you stupid, spaghetti-slurping cretin -- *180*! If I
did a 360, I'd go completely around and end up back where I started!
Tony
Vivaldi: What?
Benedict: Trust me!
[shoots him]
Jack
Slater: You wanna be a farmer? Here´s a couple of acres!
Jack
Slater: Look! Elephant!
Jack
Slater: We're that close in catching him.
Danny: No, Jack. We're that close
to catching pneumonia.
Benedict:
I wonder if you could help me?
Mechanic: Sure, what do ya need?.
Benedict:
Well,.....
[benedict shoots him. He listens for a while, then shouts]
Benedict:
I have just shot someone, I did it on purpose.
[listens some more, still nothing]
Benedict: I said, I have just killed a man and I wish to confess!
[listens
some more, someone tells him to shut up. He looks pleased]
Jack
Slater: I think the taxis are bulletproof.
Dekker:
And you promised me you wouldn't tell!
Jack Slater: I didn't.
Dekker:
Well, then how did he know?
Danny: "Jack Slater I".
Dekker:
What's winning got to do with this?
Danny: No. The very first "Jack Slater".
Dekker: [to Jack] You told your dad?
Jack Slater: I didn't tell anybody!
I don't even know this kid!
Dekker: Well, he sure seems to know a lot about
us.
[Playing
"Chicken" riding a bike]
Danny: This is gonna work. It's a movie,
I'm a good guy. This has got to work!
[Danny thinks again]
Danny: I'm
a comedy sidekick. Oh, shit! I'm a comedy sidekick! IT'S NOT GONNA WORK!!!
[After
seeing a "Terminator 2" poster with Sylvester Stallone]
Danny: No.
It's not possible!
Jack Slater: What's not possible? The man is an artist.
It's his best performance ever!
Danny: But...that was you! YOU were in that
movie!
[A girl close-by hears them]
Girl: [to Jack] You were in a movie?
Jack Slater: Yes. It was called "The Girl of My Dreams". It starred
you. As a matter of fact, there was this very romantic scene where we had dinner
together.
John
Practice: How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
Jack Slater: By practice. John
Practice!
Jack
Slater: Sir, are you a henchman?
Benedict: No, I only go as far as lackey.
Benedict:
Here, in this world, the bad guys can win!
Death:
I don't do fiction. Not my field.
Danny
Madigan: Where are the ordinary, everyday women?! They don't exist because this
is a movie!
Jack Slater: No, this is California.
Jack
Slater: Did you make a movie mistake? You forgot to reload the damn gun!
Jack
Slater: Let's say this is a movie. How many times have you heard someone say,
"stay in the car," and the guy doesn't? What happens?
Danny Madigan:
He saves the day.
Jack Slater: Or, gets killed!