"[facing four gunmen at once] I'm gonna give you assholes a chance. What do you say we play a little Bangkok rules? [picks up a tin can] Nobody draws until this hits the ground. You ready? [throws can up, draws, kills all four before it lands] Draw."

"Call me Snake."

"Who run Bartertown?"

"George Spartels - "Blackfinger""

"Rod Zuanic - "Scrooloose""

"Edwin Hodgeman - Dr. Dealgood"

"Tom Jennings - Slake M'Thirst"

"Helen Buday - Savannah Nix"

"Robert Grubb - The Pig Killer"

"Angry Anderson - "Ironbar" Bassey"

"Paul Larsson - "Blaster""

"Angelo Rossitto - "Master""

"Frank Thring - "The Collector""

"Adam Cockburn - Jedediah Jr."

"Bruce Spence - Jedediah "The Pilot""

"Tina Turner - Aunty "Entity""

"Mel Gibson - Max "Mad Max" Rockatansky"

"A lone warrior searching for his destiny...a tribe of lost children waiting for a hero...in a world battling to survive, they face a woman determined to rule."

"Hold out for Mad Max. This is his greatest adventure."

"We were talking one day and Terry Hayes [who co-wrote the screenplays of Mad Max 2 and Beyond Thunderdome with Miller] started talking about mythology and how where people are short on knowledge, they tend to be very big on belief. In other words, they take a few fragments of knowledge and, if you take like the Aboriginal tribes of Australia, they just take simple empirical information and using those little bits of the jigsaw construct very elaborate mythological beliefs, which explain the whole universe. Terry was saying if you had a tribe of kids after the apocalypse who had only a few fragments of knowledge, [they would construct] a mythological belief as to what was before. And what would happen if Max or someone like that…"

"This you know: the years travel fast, and time after time I done the tell. But this ain't onebody's tell. It's the tell of us all, and you've got to listen it and to 'member, 'cause what you hears today you got to tell the newborn tomorrow. I's looking behind us now into history back. I sees those of us who got the luck and started the haul for home, and I 'members how it led us here and how we was heartful 'cause we seen what there once was. One look and we knewed we'd got it straight. Those what had gone before had the knowing and the doing of things beyond our reckoning — even beyond our dreaming. Time counts and keeps counting, and we knows now: finding the trick of what's been and lost ain't no easy ride, but that's our track. We got to travel it, and there ain't nobody knows where it's gonna lead. Still and all, every night we does the tell so that we 'member who we was and where we came from. But most of all we 'members the man who finded us, him that came to salvage. And we lights the city, not just for him, but for all of them that are still out there. 'Cause we knows there'll come a night when they sees the distant light and they'll be coming home."

"All our lives hang by a thread. Now we got a man waiting for sentence. But ain't it the truth? You take your chances with the law. Justice is only a roll of the dice. A flip of the coin. A turn... of the Wheel."

"Thunderdome's simple. Get to the weapons. Use them any way you can. I know you won't break the rules. There aren't any."

"He's the ball-crasher! Death on foot! You know him, you love him! He's...BLASTER! [Crowd cheers wildly] The challenger, direct from out of the wasteland! He's bad, he's beautiful, he's crazy! It's...it's the Man with No Name! [Crowd jeers Max]"

"And now, I've got two men — two men with a gut full of fear. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, dying time's here!"

"Listen on! Listen on! This is the truth of it. Fighting leads to killing, and killing gets to warring, and that was damn near the death of us all. Look at us now, busted up and everyone talking about hard rain! But we've learned! By the dust of 'em all, Bartertown's learned. Now, when men get to fighting, it happens here, and it finishes here! Two men enter, one man leaves."

"Bust a deal, face the Wheel!"

"Two men enter; one man leaves!"

"Well, ain't we a pair, raggedy man? [laughs] Goodbye, soldier!"

"You think I don't know the law? Huh? Wasn't it me who wrote it? And I say this man has broken the law. Right or wrong, we had a deal. And the law says, "Bust a deal and face the Wheel!""

"Remember where you are. This is Thunderdome. Death is listening, and will take the first man that screams."

"Look... everyone needs to take a walk to the dark end of the street sometimes. It's what we are."

"Brigitte Bako as Iris"

"Glenn Plummer as Jeriko One"

"Vincent D'Onofrio as Burton Steckler"

"Michael Wincott as Philo Gant"

"Tom Sizemore as Max Peltier"

"Juliette Lewis as Faith Justin"

"Angela Bassett as Lornette 'Mace' Mason"

"Ralph Fiennes as Lenny Nero"

"you know you want it"

"An extreme taste of reality."

"new year's eve 1999. anything is possible. nothing is forbidden."

"(to the cops) You know what? You pulled over the wrong black male tonight officer — what is it? Steckler — Officer Steckler, because I'm that 800-pound gorilla in your midst, fucker! I make more money in a day than you make in a whole year! And my lawyer loves spending my money dragging sorry-ass Aryan Robocop fuckers like you to court! Get a man down on the ground with no probable cause? Man, fuck you!"

"The mayor and the city council sit up in their offices with their social programs that don't work. These people are rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, but the new day is coming. 2K is coming! The day of reckoning is upon us. History ends and begins again — Right here! Right now!"

"(rap lyrics) ... and you watch us take it all and then you'll understand our pain! We'll make you the rat that crawled through the cracks. You love that red, white and blue but you hate that black-black-black. And you try to make me think I did this to myself, when the drugs I smoke and the guns I tote both came from your shelf! … But I never had a dream, cuz. My life is a nightmare. America's been my bogey-man for four hundred years!"

"You know one of the ways that movies are still better than playback? 'cause the music comes up, there's credits, and you always know when it's over. [Turns to Lenny] It's over!"

"This is your life — right here, right now! It's real-time. You hear me? Real time! Time to get real, not playback. You understand me?"

"Memories are supposed to fade, Lenny. They're designed like that for a reason."

"You know how I know it’s the end of the world? Everything's already been done. Every kind of music’s been tried. Every kind of government’s been tried, every fucking hairstyle, bubble gum flavors, you know, breakfast cereal. What are we going to do? How are we going to make another thousand years? I’m telling you, man, it’s over. We used it all up."