Dr. Daniel Jackson Quotes in Stargate (1994)

[correcting the translation from the cover stone]

Dr. Daniel Jackson: It's not "Door to Heaven"... is...

[writing]

Dr. Daniel Jackson: Stargate.

Dr. Daniel Jackson: [to Colonel O'Neil] I don't want to die. And your men don't want to die, and these people certainly don't wan to to die. It's a shame you're in such a hurry to.

Dr. Daniel Jackson: I smell like a yak!

Dr. Daniel Jackson: [On a recording of his notes about the symbols after two weeks of no progress] I'm never gonna get paid.

Lieutenant Kawalsky: [Jackson sneezes hard] Cold?

Dr. Daniel Jackson: Allergies: always happens when I travel.

Catherine Langford: [Catherine meets Jackson in a cab] Jackson.

[shows him photograph]

Catherine Langford: Those your parents?

Catherine Langford: Foster parents. What-what's this all about?

Catherine Langford: A job.

Dr. Daniel Jackson: What kind of a job?

Catherine Langford: Translation: ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Interested?

Dr. Daniel Jackson: I-I'm gonna go now.

Catherine Langford: Go where?

[chuckles]

Catherine Langford: I mean, you've just been evicted out of your apartment, your grants have run out: everything you own are in those two bags. You wanna prove that your theories are right? This is your chance.

Dr. Daniel Jackson: [on the natives' language] I can't make it out, sounds familiar. Bit like Berber, maybe Chadic or Omodic.

Dr. Daniel Jackson: [Kasuf gestures towards his village] He's inviting us to go with him.

Lieutenant Kawalsky: How can you be so sure?

Dr. Daniel Jackson: Because he's

[repeats gesture]

Dr. Daniel Jackson: inviting us to go with him.

Lieutenant Kawalsky: [in Nagada, the troops begin holding hostages and opening fire; O'Neil looks outside the city walls] Colonel! What do you see?

Colonel Jonathan "Jack" O'Neil: Sandstorm comin' this way.

Dr. Daniel Jackson: [sarcastically] Well, that would have been an excellent reason to shoot everyone.

Colonel Jonathan "Jack" O'Neil: I wouldn't feed that thing.

Dr. Daniel Jackson: It's got a harness, it's domesticated

[Taps Mastadge on shoulder. Mastadge is frightened and runs off dragging Dr. Daniel Jackson across the Desert]

[after he's reading Hieroglyph on the wall]

Dr. Daniel Jackson: I'll be damned.

Dr. Daniel Jackson: [about the Stargate] It was under the cover-stones?

Catherine Langford: Yes. My father found it, 1928; made out of a mineral unlike any found on Earth.

Colonel Jonathan "Jack" O'Neil: Your job here is to re-align the star gate. Can you do that or not?

Dr. Daniel Jackson: [nods] I can't.