The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

"Hey, hey, hey — don't be mean. We don't have to be mean. 'Cause, remember: no matter where you go... there you are."

"I've been ionized, but I'm okay now."

"Evil! Pure and simple, from the 8th Dimension! Get 'em!"

"The missing circuit's in your head, Whorfin!"

"There are times when verbal ingenuity is not enough."

"Nobody is nobody. Everyone has something to offer."

"If all wishes were gratified, many dreams would be destroyed."

"In my experience, nothing is ever what it seems to be, but everything is exactly what it is."

"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen all at once."

"Treat us good, we'll treat you better. Treat us bad, We'll treat you worse."

"I speak Spanish to God, French to women, English to men, and Japanese to my horse."

"We have no special constitutional powers, unless you consider the extraordinary rights accorded every U.S. citizen by law, in which case we are amply empowered to go about our business."

"Today's impossible is tomorrow's reality."

"Mystery is the source of all true art and science."

"Be cool, but care."

"Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum. (If you wish for peace, prepare for war)."

"The only way to know if a man is trustworthy is to trust him."

"The Mind's a funny thing . . . in the Summer it longs for Winter. In the Winter it longs for Summer. In the Spring . . . it heads for the Bahamas."

"Know that, as in life, there is much that many have looked upon but few have seen because, as my father told me and his father told him, you will come to learn a great deal if you study the insignificant in depth."

"Those in a hurry show only that the thing they are about is too big for them."

"Nothing real can defeat us. Nothing unreal exists."

"Progress Over Protocol."

"The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care."

"Live like you're gonna die tomorrow and study like you're gonna live forever."

"A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost."

"Asking is a polite way of demanding."

"A thousand pities cannot undo one thoughtless act."

"A fool can throw a stone into the water which ten wise men cannot recover."

"The Three Loves: love of others, the love of justice, and the love of freedom."

"The Four Beauties: Mind, Language, Behavior, and Environment"

"I tell ya, if it ain't one thing, it's another."

"{dying words} What are y'all lookin' at? You're on the clock. Let's saddle up, huh?"

"Laugh(a) while you can, monkeyboy!"

"Sealed with a curse as sharp as a knife: "Doomed is your soul and damned is your life.""

"History is'a made at night. Character is what you are in the dark."

"Jesú Christo! (It) [M]ake the ganglia TWITCH!"

"Home. Home is where you wear your hat. "I feel so broke up...I want to go Home!""

"May I pass along my congratulations for your great interdimensional breakthrough. I am sure, in the miserable annals of the Earth, you will be duly enshrined."

"{moments before dying in a fiery explosion} Banzai! I'll see you in HELL!!!"

"{repeated line} BigbooTAY!"

"Let's go back up to my office and talk about this like two reasonable beings."

"Put the snot on the track, John O'Connor."

"It's not my goddamn planet. Understand, monkeyboy?"

"{reading from a printed form} "Declaration of War... The Short Form"."

"Buckaroo, I don't know what to say. Lectroids? Planet 10? Nuclear extortion? A girl named "John"?"

"What are you talking about, man? Some kind of race war in New Jersey?"

"Excuse me, Mr. President. Time is short. In order to prevent John Whorfin's escape, my comrades are at this moment takin' up a geostationary position over New Jersey. De situation is explosive!"

"There is little time. You better come quickly if your planet is still important to you."

"Hellooo, Mr. Secretary! {finger flex}"

"Chase One Helicopter Pilot: This is Chase One. We got his tracks. They go right up to a wall of rock. Holy shit!"