121 quotes found
"[slaps himself] How does that feel? Feels good! Now do it again! (slaps himself) The Tuck Pendleton Machine - zero defects!"
"I'm in a man, I'm in a strange man, I'll be a son of a bitch, I'm in a strange man surrounded by strangers in a strange room!"
"[Taps a light to fix it] State of the art."
"Look Ozzy, who's nervous now ok? I know what our objectives are. I've done my homework and I can do this little job blindfolded, so everyone just calm down."
"[The syringe containing the miniaturized pod is being shaken around in Ozzy's pocket] Ozzy? Am I being punished?"
"This guy is definitely not firing on all eight cylinders, Jack."
"The Jack Putter Machine, zero defects. (leans back and sighs, to himself) God help us."
"When things are at their darkest, pal, it's a brave man who can kick-back and party!"
"I'M POSSESSED!"
"Would I be in a doctor's office if I was feeling all right?"
"Please, I beg of you for some aspirin!"
"Nuclear weapons, Jack. They mean nothing. Everybody's got them, no-one has the balls to use them. Am I right? Space, you say? Space is a flop, didn't you know that? An endless junkyard of orbiting debris. Ah, but...miniturization, Jack. That's the ticket. That's the edge that everybody's been looking for. Who will have that edge, Jack? What country will control miniturization? Frankly, I don't give a shit - I'm only in this for the money! And that's why, Jack, we've got to get that little pod out from inside of you!"
"Warning, approaching tricuspid valve of heart. Do not enter! Do not enter heart!"
"Foreign object detected, approaching through esophageal passage."
"Turbo thruster one, disabled."
"Well, it was a hit on video. It was one of the first big videos, and it was discovered on video, basically. Although audiences liked it in theatres - when I went, they were in stitches - the ad campaign was so terrible for that movie. It was just a giant thumb with a little tiny pod on it. You couldn’t tell that it was a comedy - you couldn’t tell anything - and it had a terrible title, because we could never figure out a better one."
"Today, you would be working on a computer and you would never go outside when it came to getting all the effects. At ILM, they actually built all those things for "Innerspace". The miniature work won an Oscar. I don't know that they could be that much better today."
"Inside Jack Putter, there's a hero trying to get out."
"An adventure of incredible proportions."
"Dennis Quaid - Lt. Tuck Pendleton"
"Martin Short - Jack Putter"
"Meg Ryan - Lydia Maxwell"
"Kevin McCarthy - Victor Scrimshaw"
"Vernon Wells - Mr. Igoe"
"Robert Picardo - The Cowboy"
"I-I've never seen that before. I've never seen anybody drive their trash to the curb and beat the hell out of it with a stick... I've never seen that before."
"I'm going to go do something productive. I'm gonna go watch television."
"Nobody knocks off an old man in my neighborhood and gets away with it."
"I can't walk anywhere without you asking me where I'm going - I'm going to Paris, France, okay? I'm going to Banff, Canada, alright? That's where I'm going."
"I'm only trying to take a nap! I'm only laying here with my eyes closed trying to get some goddamn sleep!"
"Shut up. SHUT UP, ART, SHUT UP! God, you don't know when to quit, do you?! Look at me! I'm a shell of a man because of you, Art! YOU LEAVE THEM ALONE! GET OFF THEIR CASE ALREADY! They didn't do anything to us! They didn't do anything to us! All right, so they're different, so they keep to themselves! Can you blame them?! They live next door to people who break into their house and burn it down while they're gone for the day! Remember what you were saying about people in the 'burbs, Art? People like Skip? People who mow their lawn for the 800th time, and then SNAP?! WELL, THAT'S US! IT'S NOT THEM, THAT'S US! WE'RE the ones who are vaulting over the fences, and peeking in through people's windows! We're the ones who are throwing garbage in the street, and lighting fires! WE'RE the ones who are acting suspicious and paranoid, Art! WE'RE THE LUNATICS! US! IT'S NOT THEM! It's us."
"I want to kill everyone, Satan is good, Satan is our pal."
"Now they know that we know that they know that we know."
"I can see the news report now. "They were a quiet family, kept pretty much to themselves, No one would have ever suspected them of foul play.""
"I'm telling you these people are Satanists, As I sit here, they are Satanists, Look, look, the world is full of these kind of things - black masses, mutilations, Mutilations! The incubus, the succubus - I'm tellin' you, Walter was a human sacrifice."
"I think the message to, uh, psychos, fanatics, murderers, nutcases all over the world is, uh, "do NOT mess with suburbanites". Because, uh, frankly we're just not gonna take it any more. Ya know, we're not gonna be content to look after our lawns and wax our cars, paint out houses. We're out to get them, Don, we are out to get them."
"[about the Klopeks, after burning their home and getting Ray injured in the process] They may think they're off the hook, but they're not. No, no, they're not. Are they, Ray? No, go ahead, tell 'em. Tell 'em. We got the goods on 'em, don't we? Oh yeah, y'know? You know, someday they're gonna dig up the back of that yard and they're gonna find the rest of the skeleton to go with that femur. Oh, it might not be Walter, but it's gonna be some poor tortured bast-- [is cut off as Ray starts ranting at him]"
"This is my neighborhood!"
"Oh no! You guys can't leave. This is the best part. I called the pizza dude!!!"
"[last lines] God I love this street."
"That was very cool dude."
"Walter. I know you're in there. That scum-sucking, barking rat of yours has just taken his last dump on my lawn. I find one more- just one- and I'm gonna catch him and staple his ass shut."
"About a 9 on the tension scale, Rube."
"In Southeast Asia we'd call this kind of thing bad karma."
"A Soldiers way saves the day"
"Smells like they're cooking a goddamn cat over there."
"There go the Goddamn brownies."
"Here you go, sonny - a little something for the old sweet tooth."
"What have you got in the cellar, HERR Klopek?"
"Gentleman, we are on alert!"
"You got a lawsuit on your hands mister!"
"Hey! Pinocchio! Where are you going? Don't you make a move, sonny! I was eighteen months in the bush, and I could snap your neck in a heartbeat."
"A comedy about one nice guy who gets pushed too far."
"He's a man of peace in a savage land... Suburbia."
"He's a stranger in an even stranger land... Suburbia"
"Life In The Burbs Will Never Be The Same Again!"
"Tom Hanks as Ray Peterson"
"Bruce Dern as Lt. Mark Rumsfield"
"Carrie Fisher as Carol Peterson"
"Rick Ducommun as Art Weingartner"
"Corey Feldman as Ricky Butler"
"Wendy Schaal as Bonnie Rumsfield"
"Henry Gibson as Dr. Werner Klopek"
"Brother Theodore as Uncle Reuben Klopek"
"Courtney Gains as Hans Klopek"
"Gale Gordon as Walter Seznick"
"Dick Miller as Vic"
"Robert Picardo as Joe"
"Cory Danziger as Dave Peterson"
"Franklyn Ajaye as Detective #1"
"Rance Howard as Detective #2"
"Heather Haase as Ricky's Girlfriend"
"Nick Katt as Steve Kuntz"
"Bill Stevenson as Ricky's Friend"
"Gary Hays as Ricky's Friend"
"Kevin Gage as Cop"
"Dana Olsen as Cop"
"Brenda Benner as Walter's Daughter"
"Patrika Darbo as Suzanne Weingartner"
"Herb's an interesting guy. He used to be kind of, uh... dishonest: shakedown artist, strong arm. Someone sent him to collect money from me just when I needed an inexpensive actor. Isn't it fun to know these things about your favorite stars?"
"[to theater staff] I know some of you have never been in the motion picture business before, and some of you have been at it a long time. But I want all of you to look at the faces out here during this picture. There's gonna be room in their heads for only one thought: "Don't let it get me!" They know we can't hurt 'em, but they're still gonna be scared half to death. And all of you, when you thread the projector, when you tear the tickets, when you sell the jujubes, you're all a part of it. And just when it gets the worst, when they're sitting there and their hearts are going like trapped animals out here in the dark, we save them. And they say, "Hey, it's all right! Thank God! Hey, can I see that again?" P.S., No, they can't. We clear between shows."
"Dr. Flankon: [to Carole] Young lady, human/insect mutation is far from an exact science."
"Lawrence Woolsey presents the end of civilization as we know it. Make that... Proudly Presents!"
"[from TV spot] Monster movies, the end of civilisation, your first date - some things will always be scary!"
"John Goodman — Lawrence Woolsey"
"Cathy Moriarty — Ruth Corday / Carole"
"Simon Fenton — Gene Loomis"
"Omri Katz — Stan"
"Lisa Jakub — Sandra"
"Kellie Martin — Sherry"
"Jesse Lee — Dennis Loomis"
"Lucinda Jenney — Anne Loomis"
"James Villemaire — Harvey Starkweather"
"Robert Picardo — Howard, the Theater Manager"
"Jesse White — Mr. Spector"
"Dick Miller — Herb Denning"
"John Sayles — Bob"
"David Clennon — Jack"
"Lucy Butler — Rhonda"
"Belinda Balaski — Stan's Mom"
"Naomi Watts — Shopping Cart Starlet"
"People eat fish, Grogan. Fish don't eat people."
"Reporter: Terror, horror, death. Film at eleven."
"Lost River Lake was a thriving resort - until they discovered..."
"They're Here...Hungry for flesh! Who Can Stop Them?"
"Sharks come alone. Piranha come in thousands."
"Bradford Dillman — Paul Grogan"
"Heather Menzies — Maggie McKeown"
"Kevin McCarthy — Dr. Robert Hoak"
"Keenan Wynn — Jack"
"Barbara Steele — Dr. Mengers"
"Dick Miller — Buck Gardner"
"Belinda Balaski — Betsy"
"Bruce Gordon — Colonel Waxman"
"Paul Bartel — Mr. Dumont"
"Melody Thomas Scott — Laura Dickinson"
"Barry Brown — Trooper"
"Shannon Collins — Suzie Grogan"
"Shawn Nelson — Whitney"
"Richard Deacon — Earl Lyon"
"John Sayles — Sentry"