Barnes Quotes in Tombstone (1993)

Barnes: Wearing that badge don't make you right.

John Connor: Skynet has Kyle Reese.

General Ashdown: Then that is his fate.

John Connor: No, it's our fate. I have to save him. He is the key. The key to the future, to the past. Without him, we lose everything.

General Ashdown: No, you stay the course!

John Connor: If we stay the course, we are dead! WE ARE ALL DEAD!

General Ashdown: As of this moment, soldier, you are relieved of your command. You are no longer a part of this Resistance.

[Ashdown switches off comm]

Barnes: I didn't catch that last statement.

Comms Officer: Neither did I.

General Ashdown: Connor, tell me it works.

John Connor: It works! That is affirmative. The signal works.

General Ashdown: Good. The attack commences tomorrow at 0400 worldwide. Your unit will be in support of the bombing of Skynet Central.

John Connor: What is the extraction plan for the prisoners?

General Ashdown: Extraction plan? There *is* no extraction plan. We're gonna level the place.

Barnes: Huh?

John Connor: Negative! I told you, Skynet Central is *filled* with human prisoners!

General Ashdown: [sternly] This is war, Connor. Leadership has its costs. You, above all, should know that.

Barnes: Need a light? Mind if I sit down? I think I might have one with you. You ever have one of those days when every law is Murphy's Law? Everything's going wrong and everyone wants to kill you for something. Got some heavy s*** going on up there today.

Terrier: Is that right?

Barnes: Oh yeah, one of the companies in that building got a surprise visit from Interpol. You know Interpol?

Elsie (Head Housemaid): God, look at this, machine made lace.

Barnes: Hark at her!

Elsie (Head Housemaid): I hate cheap clothes. They're twice the work and they never look as good.

Mr. Jennings: Mr. Meredith.

Barnes: Hmm?

Mr. Jennings: You haven't seen Commander Meredith anywhere, have you?

Barnes: No.

Mr. Jennings: He never came downstairs and he's not in his room.

Barnes: Mr. Jennings, I've washed him and dressed him. If he can't find his way to the drawing room, it isn't my fault.

Barnes: Short arse.

[Professor Vrooshka and Professor Crump bargain with Barnes to rent his derelict looking caravan]

Prof. Anna Vrooshka: Fifteen quids a veek.

Barnes: Twenty.

Prof. Roland Crump: The only reason why we want the dilapidated mobile hovel, is for somewhere to do out operations.

Barnes: Operations? What operations?

Prof. Anna Vrooshka: He will be getting them out and I will be examining them and schticking labels on them.

[Fred Ramsden loses his Beach Ball and it ends up on Barnes' fire]

Barnes: What you yelling about?

Fred Ramsden: My ball's burning!

Barnes: Don't stand so close to the fire.

Kaffee: [in Barnes' Humvee] Whoa. Hold it. We gotta take a boat?

Barnes: Yes, sir. To get to the other side of the bay.

Kaffee: Nobody said anything about a boat.

Barnes: Is there a problem, sir?

Kaffee: No, no problem. I'm just not that crazy about boats, that's all.

Galloway: Jesus Christ, Kaffee, you're in the Navy for crying out loud.

Kaffee: Nobody likes her very much.

Barnes: Yes, sir!

Barnes: [in Barnes'humvee] I've got some camouflage jackets in the Jeep, sirs, I suggest you both put them on.

Kaffee: Camouflage jackets?

Barnes: Yes sir, we'll be riding pretty close to the fence line. The Cubans see an officer wearing white, they think it might be someone they'd wanna take a shot at.

Kaffee: [sarcastically] Good call, Sam.

Barnes: [when asked on the witness stand why he didn't give Private Santiago a code red] because Dawson would kick my butt sir

Kaffee: fair enough

Barnes: Ask him for his last name.

Harry: What?

Barnes: I want a full name for my report. I'm not putting in my report that I lost a crew member on a deep-sat expedition to find an alien named "Jerry."

Norman Goodman: Can I ask you something about this reflective surface?

Barnes: Yeah, it appears to be mercury, doesn't it? Except mercury is liquid at this temperature.

Norman Goodman: Oh, no. That's not what I'm talking about. What worries me is that it's reflecting everything but us.

Barnes: Oh, you are a hell of a woman. I wish I knew you in the old days. Norman told me you were...

Beth: [defensive] Norman told you what?

Barnes: Let's put it this way - that if Jerry could read your mind, he'd be bored with ours!

Barnes: If this translation is right this alien sounds like an idiot.

Beth: That's something to consider - a stupid alien. Well, they must have them.

Barnes: Isn't it a little unusual for someone from California to play hockey?