Clemens Quotes in Alien³ (1992)

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Clemens Quotes:

  • [Ripley gets out of bed naked]

    Ripley: Wanna get me some clothes, or should I just go like this?

    Clemens: Given the nature of our indigenous population, I would suggest clothes. None of them have seen a woman in years.

    [under his breath]

    Clemens: Neither have I, for that matter.

  • [Clemens rises after making love with Ripley]

    Clemens: I really appreciate your affections. But I am aware that they deflected my question. In the nicest possible way, of course.

  • Ripley: Are you attracted to me?

    Clemens: In what way?

    Ripley: In that way.

    Clemens: Very direct.

    Ripley: I've been out here a long time.

  • Ripley: How 'bout leveling with me? Well, when I asked how you got assigned here you avoided the question. And then when I asked about the prison ID tattooed on the back of your head you ducked me again.

    Clemens: It's a long, sad story. And more than a little melodramatic.

    Ripley: Try me.

    Clemens: [smiles] If you insist. After my student years, despite the fact that I had become secretly addicted to morphine, I was considered to be most promising. A man with a future. Then during my first residency I did a thirty-six hour stretch on an ER. So I went out and I got more than a little drunk. Then I got called back. Boiler had blown on a fuel plant and there were thirty casualties. And eleven of them died. Not as a result of the accident but because I prescribed the wrong dosage of painkiller. And I got seven years in prison and my licence reduced to a 3C.

    [pause]

    Clemens: At least I got off the morphine.

  • [examining the "remains" of Murphy, sucked into a nine-foot fan]

    Clemens: Well, not much to say, is there? Death was instantaneous.

    Aaron: No shit.

  • Clemens: That's a bit uncharitable

  • Clemens: Dillon and the rest of the alternative people, embraced religion, as it were, about five years ago. Tincture?

    Ripley: I'm on medication.

    Clemens: Hardly.

    Ripley: What kind of religion?

    Clemens: Some sort of apocalyptic, millenarian, Christian fundamentalist, uh...

    Ripley: Right.

    Clemens: Exactly. Point is, when the company wanted to close the facility down, Dillon and the rest of the converts wanted to stay. And they were allowed to remain as custodians with two minders and a medical officer. And here we are.

    Ripley: How did you get this wonderful assignment?

    Clemens: How do you like your new haircut?

    Ripley: It's okay.

    Clemens: Now that I've gone out on a limb for you with Andrews, damaged my already less-than-perfect relationship with that good man and briefed you on the humdrum history of Fury 161; can you not tell me what you were looking for in the girl?

  • Andrews: [trying to determine the victim's identity] Who was it?

    Clemens: Murphy.

    Aaron: How do you know?

    Clemens: [looking down and pointing] That's his boot.

  • Clemens: It might be better if I left.

    Clemens: I find you unpleasant to be around.

  • Robert: I say we fight.

    Solomon Northup: The crew is fairly small. If it were well planned, I believe they could be strong armed.

    Clemens: Three can't stand against a whole crew. The rest here are niggers, born and bred slaves. Niggers ain't got the stomach for a fight, not a damn one.

    Robert: All I know, we get where we travelling we'll wish we'd died trying.

    Clemens: Survival is not about certain death, it is about keeping your head down.

    Solomon Northup: Days ago I was with my family, in my home. Now you tell me all is lost. "Tell no one who I really am" if I want to survive. I don't want to survive, I want to live.

  • Clemens: If you want to survive, do and say as little as possible. Tell no one who you really are and tell no one that you can read and write. Unless you want to be a dead nigger.

  • Solomon Northup: We need a sympathetic ear. If we have an opportunity to explain our situation...

    Clemens: Who in your estimation is that sympathetic ear?

    Solomon Northup: The two men I journeyed with. I'm certain they're making inquires at this very moment.

    Clemens: I would be just as certain they are counting the money paid for delivering you to this place.

    Solomon Northup: They were not kidnappers. They were artists. Fellow performers.

    Clemens: You know that? You know for certain who they were?

    [Solomon cannot answer]

    Clemens: How I reckon the situation: whatever past we had... well, that's done now. The reality to come is us being transported southward. New Orleans if I were to venture. After we arrive, we'll be put to market. Beyond that... Well, once in a slave state I suppose there's only one outcome.

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