Alien (1979) quotes

Cast
Sigourney Weaver.
Tom Skerritt.
John Hurt.

After a space merchant vessel perceives an unknown transmission as a distress call, its landing on the source moon finds one of the crew attacked by a mysterious life-form, and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.

Ash, can you hear me?
– Ripley
[slams her hands down on the table]
Ash?
– Ripley
[awakens and starts speaking in an electronic and distorted voice] Yes, I can hear you.
– Ash
What was your special order?
– Ripley
You read it. I thought it was clear.
– Ash
What was it?
– Ripley
Bring back life form. Priority One. All other priorities rescinded.
– Ash
The damn company. What about our lives, you son of a bitch?
– Parker
I repeat, all other priorities are rescinded.
– Ash
How do we kill it, Ash? There’s gotta be a way of killing it. How? How do we do it?
– Ripley
You can’t.
– Ash
That’s bullshit.
– Parker
You still don’t understand what you’re dealing with, do you? Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility.
– Ash
You admire it.
– Lambert
I admire its purity. A survivor… unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.
– Ash
Look, I am… I’ve heard enough of this, and I’m asking you to pull the plug.
– Parker
[Ripley goes to disconnect Ash, who interrupts]
Last word.
– Ash
What?
– Ripley
I can’t lie to you about your chances, but… you have my sympathies.
– Ash

Final report of the commercial starship Nostromo, third officer reporting. The other members of the crew – Kane, Lambert, Parker, Brett, Ash, and Captain Dallas – are dead. Cargo and ship destroyed. I should reach the frontier in about six weeks. With a little luck, the network will pick me up. This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off.
– Ripley
[to Jonesy the cat]
Come on, cat.
– Ripley

Something has attached itself to him. We have to get him to the infirmary right away.
– Dallas
What kind of thing? I need a clear definition.
– Ripley
An organism. Open the hatch.
– Dallas
Wait a minute. If we let it in, the ship could be infected. You know the quarantine procedure. Twenty-four hours for decontamination.
– Ripley
He could die in twenty-four hours. Open the hatch.
– Dallas
Listen to me, if we break quarantine, we could all die.
– Ripley
Look, could you open the god-damned hatch? We have to get him inside.
– Lambert
No. I can’t do that and if you were in my position, you’d do the same.
– Ripley
Ripley, this is an order. Open that hatch right now, do you hear me?
– Dallas
Yes.
– Ripley
Ripley. This is an order. Do you hear me?
– Dallas
Yes. I read you. The answer is negative.
– Ripley

Mother! I’ve turned the cooling unit back on. Mother!
– Ripley
The ship will automatically destruct in T minus five minutes.
– Mother
You… BITCH!
– Ripley

Whenever he says *anything* you say “right”, Brett. You know that?
– Ripley
Right.
– Brett
Parker, what do you think? Your staff just follows you around and says “right”. Just like a regular parrot.
– Ripley
[laughs] Yeah, shape up. What are you, some kind of parrot?
– Parker
Right.
– Brett

Did you ever ship out with Ash before?
– Ripley
I went out five times with another science officer. They replaced him two days before we left Thedus with Ash. Hm?
– Dallas
I don’t trust him.
– Ripley
Well, I don’t trust anybody.
– Dallas

Micro changes in air density, my ass.
– Ripley

There is an explanation for this, you know.
– Ash

I can’t see a goddamn thing.
– Lambert
Quit griping.
– Kane
I like griping.
– Lambert

This is the worst shit I’ve ever seen, man.
– Brett
What you say? You got any biscuits over there?
– Parker
Here’s some cornbread.
– Ripley
Cornbread. Yeah.
– Parker
I am cold.
– Lambert
Still with us, Brett?
– Parker
Right.
– Brett
Oh, I feel dead.
– Kane
Anybody ever tell you you look dead, man?
– Parker

[nervously eyeing Alien while she pushes buttons] You are my lucky star. You… Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky.
– Ripley

It’s a robot! Ash is a goddamn robot!
– Parker

What’s it key off?
– Ripley
Micro changes in air density.
– Ash