Bishop Quotes in Aliens (1986)

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  • Ripley: Well, somebody's gonna have to go out there. Take a portable terminal, go out there and patch in manually.

    Private Hudson: Oh yeah, sure! With those things runnin' around? You can count me out.

    Corporal Hicks: Yeah, I guess we can just count you out of everything, Hudson.

    Bishop: [speaking under Hicks] I'll go.

    Private Hudson: That's right, man.

    Bishop: I'll go.

    Private Hudson: Hey, why don't you go, man!

    Bishop: [more loudly] I'll go.

    Ripley: What?

    Bishop: I'll go. I mean, I'm the only one qualified to remote-pilot the ship anyway.

    Private Hudson: Yeah right, man, Bishop should go.

    [Vasquez looks at Hudson with disgust]

    Private Hudson: Good idea!

    Bishop: Believe me, I'd prefer not to. I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid.

  • Lieutenant Gorman: [referring to the knife game] I thought you never missed, Bishop.

    [Ripley looks up to see a white milky substance leaking from between Bishop's thumb and index fingers]

    Ripley: [to Burke in an accusatory tone] You never said anything about an android being on board! Why not?

    Burke: Pff, it never... never occurred to me. It's just common practice. We always have a synthetic on board.

    Bishop: I prefer the term "Artificial Person" myself.

  • Bishop: [puzzled by Ripley's reaction towards him] Is there a problem?

    Burke: I'm sorry. I don't know why I didn't even... Ripley's last trip out, the syn- the artificial person malfunctioned.

    Ripley: "Malfunctioned"?

    Burke: There were problems and a-a few deaths were involved.

    Bishop: I'm shocked. Was it an older model?

    Burke: Yeah, the Hyperdine System's 120-A2.

    Bishop: Well, that explains it then. The A2s always were a bit twitchy. That could never happen now with our behavioral inhibitors. It is impossible for me to harm or by omission of action, allow to be harmed, a human being.

  • Bishop: [echoing a compliment Ripley paid to him] Not bad for a human.

  • Bishop: I'm afraid I have some bad news.

    Private Hudson: Well, that's a switch.

  • Ripley: It's very pretty Bishop but what're we looking for?

    Bishop: [pointing at gas coming from the reactor] That's it. The emergency venting.

    Private Hudson: Oh, that's beautiful, man. Oh man, that-that-that just beats it all.

    Corporal Hicks: How long till it blows?

    Bishop: Four hours. With a blast radius of thirty kilometers, equal to about forty megatons.

    Corporal Hicks: We got problems.

    Private Hudson: I don't believe this. I don't fucking *believe* this!

    Corporal Hicks: Vasquez, close the shutters.

    Ripley: Why can't we shut it down from here?

    Bishop: I'm sorry, the crash caused too much damage. An overload... is inevitable at this point.

    Private Hudson: Oh, man... and I was getting short. Four more weeks and out. Now I'm going to bite it on this rock. It ain't fair, man!

    Private Vasquez: Hudson, give us a break!

    Private Hudson: Four more weeks. Oh, man...

    Ripley: Well, we gotta get the other dropship from the Sulaco. I mean, there must be some way of bringing it down on remote.

    Private Hudson: How? The transmitter was on the APC. It's wasted.

    Ripley: Well, I don't care how but we better think of something. We better think of a way.

    Private Hudson: Think of what? We're *fucked*!

    Corporal Hicks: [shouting over Hudson] Shut up!

    Private Hudson: We're doomed!

  • Ripley: They grab the colonists, they move them over there and they immobilize them to be hosts for more of these. Which would mean that there would have to be a lot of these parasites, right? One for each colonist. That's over a hundred at least.

    Bishop: Yes, that follows.

    Ripley: But each one of these things comes from an egg, right? So who's laying these eggs?

    Bishop: I'm not sure. It must be something we haven't seen yet.

  • [after Ripley and Newt's narrow rescue by Bishop]

    Bishop: I'm sorry if I scared you. That platform was just becoming too unstable. I had to circle and hope that things didn't get too rough to take you off.

    Ripley: Bishop, you did okay.

    Bishop: I did?

    Ripley: Oh, yeah.

  • Bishop: [to Ripley] I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid.

  • Ripley: There's still time.

    Bishop: In nineteen minutes, this area's gonna be a cloud of vapor the size of Nebraska.

  • Ripley: Bishop, how much time?

    Bishop: Plenty, 26 minutes!

    Ripley: We're not leaving!

    Bishop: We're not?

  • [Bishop reads a medical chart describing the captured facehugger]

    Bishop: "Surgically removed before embryo implantation. Subject: Marachek, John J., died during the procedure." They killed him taking it off.

  • [facing an onslaught of Sentinels]

    Bishop: We can't stop that many!

    Storm: No. But we can slow them down!

  • Bishop: A law can go too far... it can go too far. I ask myself, 'would Jesus do thusly?' There is so much done in Christendom of which Christ would be incapable.

  • Q: Bishop, you're crazy!

    Bishop: You know what? Last time you said that, I was kinda trippin', right? But now, you're right. I am crazy. And you know what else? I don't give a fuck. I don't give a fuck about you. I don't give a fuck about Steel. I don't give a *fuck* about Raheem, either. I don't give a fuck about myself. Look, I ain't shit. And you less of a man than me, so as soon as I figure you ain't gon be shit, *pow*! So be it. You remember that, motherfucker. 'Cause I'm the one you need to be looking out for... *partner*!

  • Bishop: You gotta snap some collars and let them motherfuckers know you here to take them out anytime you feel like it! You gotta get the ground beneath your feet, partner, get the wind behind your back and go out in a blaze if you got to! Otherwise you ain't shit! You might as well be dead your damn self!

  • Bishop: [when Radames is running from the police] I think we lost them.

    [shoots Radames]

    Bishop: Riverside, motherfucker.

  • Bishop: [to Steel at the video game] One, if I lose, I'm gonna beat that ass. Two, if I lose, I'm gonna beat that ass. So pop two quarters in, pop tart, and let's get this game on, I'll be gettin' that ass!

  • Bishop: You know, Big Chops, I really wanted all this to work. But you and Q, you ain't crew no more.

    [points gun at Steel]

    Bishop: That's what it's all about. See how scared you are?

    Steel: Don't you get tired of this shit? What the fuck you want from me?

    Bishop: Nothin'.

    [shoots Steel]

  • Bishop: You need to have respect for me. I was almost your father but the line was too long!

  • Bishop: What you know about control, Big chops? What you ever control?

    Steel: I control my life.

  • Bishop: That's bullshit! I got more control over your life than you do.

    Steel: How you figure that?

  • Bishop: I'm letting you breathe, ain't I?

    Steel: You can't even walk your own block, without getting fucked up by Radimez!

  • [Offering Bishop coffee]

    Leigh: Black?

    Bishop: For over thirty years.

  • Wells: Look, they've moved the cars.

    Bishop: I can't belive it. They parked them where they were before.

    Wells: Why'd they do that?

    Wilson: From a distance, the street looks normal. Like nothing happened.

    Bishop: Like nothing happened? They gunned down five police officers! A secretary, one prisoner, we kill a dozen of them, and that's nothing happened?

    Bishop: Well, where are the bodies?

    [Bishop looks down at the ground and notices nothing there]

    Bishop: They took them away!

    Wells: How'd they do it so fast?

    Wilson: Maybe they got the good fairy to help them.

    Wells: Oh, you really are a smart-ass!

  • Bishop: You're one of us.

    Sadie Blake: Not by choice.

  • Bishop: Why are you doing this, you're one of us?

    Sadie Blake: Not by choice.

    Bishop: Choice? What is that, who has a choice in anything?

    Sadie Blake: You had a choice in raping me, and leaving me for dead!

  • Bishop: I choose to experience everything the world has to offer, in exchange for a few meaningless lives.

  • Bishop: Just as I thought, you are the only one who got through the gate.

    Ash: Is this "Special A"?

    Bishop: We call it "Class Real". Building it has taken huge amounts of very sophisticated data. In many ways, it's still very experimental.

    Ash: In many ways?

    Bishop: There's just one thing you have to do to complete it. That's finishing off the Unreturned. Your equipment and skill parameters are returned to default. All you have is a pistol and one clip of ammunition. There are neutral characters operating under free will. Hurt one of them and your game is over. There's no time limit. The only exit from the game is completion. If you get back safely, you can be one of us. Any questions?

    Ash: Why did you send me here?

    Bishop: Surely the answer to that lies within you. If there's no questions, we'll begin.

  • Bishop: what do you think is the best, a game you think you can finish, but never do, or a game that seems impossible to win, but isn't?

  • Bishop: [toasting the princes] To the new King of Stormhold. Whichever of you fine fellows it might be.

    [they acknowledge him and sip their grog. The Bishop chokes and collapses forward, dead]

    Tertius: Hmm.

    [Tertius chortles nervously as they eye each other suspiciously; his eyes suddenly open wide; he chokes and falls forward, dead]

    Septimus: [to Primus] You!

    [Septimus clutches his throat and chokes, falling backward onto floor; Primus smiles, incredulous, picks up the crown as if to put it on his head. Just as he is about to put it on, Septimus bursts out laughing and rises to his feet]

    Septimus: You really thought you were king!

    Primus: *You* killed the bishop.

    Septimus: No, Primus, I think you'll find that *you* killed the bishop, by drinking out of the wrong cup. Oh look... when you finish wrestling with your conscience, may I suggest you return to your chamber. Leave the quest for the stone to me.

  • Bishop: I believe in miracles, Marquet. It's part of my job.

  • Bishop: Great storms announce themselves with a single breeze, and a single random spark can ignite the fires of rebellion.

  • Bishop: There is a woman.

    Cezar: Your Grace?

    Bishop: A beautiful woman with alabaster skin and the eyes of a dove. She travels by night, only by night. Her sun is the moon. And her name is... Isabeau. Find her and you find the wolf. The wolf I want. The wolf who... loves her.

  • Marquet: The responsibility is mine.

    Bishop: Yes.

  • Bishop: [Navarre approaches the Bishop with his sword drawn] But kill me, Navarre, and the curse will go on forever. You must think of Isabeau.

    Etienne Navarre: Isabeau... is dead! Damn you.

    [raises his sword to strike]

    Etienne Navarre: Damn you to Hell!

    Isabeau: Navarre?

  • Bishop: Now! The sacrifice of flesh!

  • Bishop: It always troubled me, the Trinity. You know, Giuseppe, I could never really understand it. Does it trouble you?

    Bishop: No. There are three persons in one God. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Three in one.

    Bishop: Yes, but that's for a child. But a small comfort to a Bishop. You see, I'm a peasant, Giuseppe, just like you. A practical man, so I understand only what I feel, and what I see.

    Giuseppe: Look, look. One blanket and one, two, three folds. Three folds in one blanket - three persons in one God, like the Trinity.

  • Bishop: Brother Giuseppe! I knew you'd be here someday.

    Giuseppe: [overjoyed that the Bishop remembers him] Your Excellency.

    Bishop: How are the lambs?

    Giuseppe: Oh, they are sheep now, your Excellency.

    Bishop: Oh yes, of course. Has it been that long? And the studies - they've been hard, eh?

    Giuseppe: [sighs and nods] But mostly I miss the stables. That's where I really belong, I shouldn't be here.

    Bishop: Let me be the judge of that, Giuseppe. There will be many lost sheep to care for.

  • Richard Richards: Better come in till this blows over.

    Bishop: What do you think, fella?

    Carl Spackler: I'd keep playing. I don't think the heavy stuff's gonna come down for quite awhile.

    Bishop: You're right. Anyway, the Good Lord would never disrupt the best game of my life.

    [THUNDER]

  • Bishop: I really enjoy working with young people such as yourself down at our new Lutheran Center... Why don't you drop by sometime, eh?

    Danny Noonan: I've often thought of entering the Priesthood.

    Bishop: Oh, are you a Roman Catholic?

    [Danny nods]

    Bishop: Oh, then I'm sorry, but I'm afraid you can't come.

  • Tony D'Annunzio: Another Rob Roy, Bishop?

    Bishop: You never ask a navy man if he'll have another drink, because it's nobody's goddamned business how much he's had already.

    Judge Smails: Wrong, you're drinking too much your Excellency.

    Bishop: Excellency, fiddlesticks, my name's Fred and I'm a man, same as you.

    Judge Smails: You're not a man, you're a bishop, for God's sakes.

    Bishop: There is no God...

  • Judge Smails: [to Bishop Fred Pickering] Say, Fred, did you hear the one about the Jew, the Catholic, and the colored boy who went to heaven?

    Bishop: Yeah, Judge, that's a doozy.

  • Bishop: [as he misses a putt on the 18th hole during the thunderstorm] OH, RAT FART!

    [he holds up his club and is hit by lightning... Carl drops the golf bag and leaves him there]

  • Naomi: Like that bitch needs to be eating dessert anyway.

    Bishop: Naomi... You know, if you ever want counseling in anger management or... alcoholism, I'd be more than glad to do it for you.

    Naomi: You'd do that for me? Thank you, I appreciate that. But I think I'd rather you just wash the fucking dishes and and shut the fuck up! Fucking psychobabble-bullshit asshole!

  • Bishop: So, when things in your life become stagnant - you know, you're no longer happy with what you're doing - then you figure out what's important to you. Then create your own penis-showing game.

  • Bishop: Nick, T-Dog. You guys are so one dimensional.

    T-Dog: Well fuck you, Whitey.

  • Bishop: Psychosomatic auditory hallucinations. Most people have to pay for such a thing.

  • Bishop: You need to invent your own penis-showin' game.

  • Bishop: Mitch, I want you to do a couple things for me. First, I want you to observe very closely your surroundings, today. Take everything in. Leave no stone unturned. Can you do that for me? Then, I want you to think about what your life would be like, if you had been born blind.

  • Piers Cuthbertson-Smyth: But you do like boys, don't you, Geri?

    Ginger Spice: C'mon.

    [Sarcastically]

    Ginger Spice: Is the Pope a Catholic?

    Piers Cuthbertson-Smyth: Apparently he is, yes.

    Male Reporter: [the next day] And now, the latest news concerning the Spice Girls have questioned the religious conviction of the Pope, but suggesting that he might not be Catholic. We asked the Bishop of Candlemen what he thought.

    Bishop: It's a terrible suggestion! Almost blasphemous! Of course the Pope's a Catholic, otherwise he wouldn't've been invited to become Pope, would he? I'd like to know what evidence the Spice Girls have to support these allegations! I really would!

  • Bishop: Now Don't Forget, Don't ever Forget, you've promised to become a new man.

    Jean Valjean: Promise? Wha, Why are you doing this?

    Bishop: Jean Valjean my brother you no longer belong to evil. With this silver, I have bought your soul. I've ransomed you from fear and hatred, and now I give you back to God.

  • Mme. Gilot: [sharing their meal with homeless convict] What crime did you commit?

    Jean Valjean: Maybe I killed someone... How do you know I'm not going to murder *you*?

    Bishop: How do you know *I'm* not going to murder *you*?

    Jean Valjean: What's that, a joke?

    Bishop: I suppose we'll have to trust each other.

  • Bishop: You just tell me to keep on killin' and I'll let you keep livin'.

  • Bishop: Not afraid of the sight of blood?

    Teenage Joan: No?

    Bishop: That... Will... Change

    [chloroforms her]

  • Bishop: an eye for an eye... and a tongue for a tongue

  • Bishop: Monsieur, release him. This man has spoken true. I commend you for your duty, now God's blessing go with you.

    [to Valjean]

    Bishop: But remember this, my brother. See in this some higher plan. You must use this precious silver to become an honest man. By the witness of the martyrs, by the passion and the blood, God has brought you out of darkness. I have bought your soul for God.

  • Bishop: But remember this, my brother, see in this some higher plan. You must use this precious silver to become an honest man. By the witness of the martyrs, by the Passion and the Blood, God has raised you out of darkness; I have bought your soul for God!

  • [addressing a group of young men sent to replace the fraternizing Scottish soldiers]

    Bishop: Christ our Lord said, "Think not that I come to bring peace on earth. I come not to bring peace, but a sword." The Gospel according to St. Matthew. Well, my brethren, the sword of the Lord is in your hands. You are the very defenders of civilization itself. The forces of good against the forces of evil. For this war is indeed a crusade! A holy war to save the freedom of the world. In truth I tell you: the Germans do not act like us, neither do they think like us, for they are not, like us, children of God. Are those who shell cities populated only by civilians the children of God? Are those who advanced armed hiding behind women and children the children of God? With God's help, you must kill the Germans, good or bad, young or old. Kill every one of them so that it won't have to be done again. The Lord be with you.

    All: And also with you.

    Bishop: May God Almighty bless you. The Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost. Amen.

    All: Amen.

  • Bishop: Why should you love him whom the world hates so?

    Edward II: Because he loves me more than all the world.

  • [repeated line]

    Bishop: Greetings, Earthling. I am the Bishop of Battle, master of all I survey. I have 13 progressively harder levels. Try me if you dare.

  • Bishop: Whose body would you like to hold next to you in bed, while the other lies rotting in a grave?

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