Fred Kwan Quotes in Galaxy Quest (1999)

Sir Alexander Dane: Could they be the miners?

Fred Kwan: Sure, they're like three years old.

Sir Alexander Dane: MINERS, not MINORS.

Fred Kwan: You lost me.

Sir Alexander Dane: I played Richard III.

Fred Kwan: Five curtain calls...

Sir Alexander Dane: There were five curtain calls. I was an actor once, damn it. Now look at me. Look at me! I won't go out there and say that stupid line one more time.

[On traveling through space in a pod]

Fred Kwan: That was a hell of a thing.

Guy Fleegman: I'm just a glorified extra, Fred. I'm a dead man anyway. If I'm gonna die, I'd rather go out a hero than a coward.

Fred Kwan: Guy, Guy, maybe you're the plucky comic relief. You ever think about that?

Guy Fleegman: Plucky?

Guy Fleegman: HEY! Don't open that! It's an alien planet! Is there air? You don't know!

[Guy holds his breath. Kwan sniffs the air and shrugs]

Fred Kwan: Seems okay.

Gwen DeMarco: Fred, you had a part people loved. I mean, my TV Guide interview was six paragraphs about my BOOBS and how they fit into my suit. No one bothered to ask me what I do on the show.

Fred Kwan: You were... the umm, wait a minute, I'll think of it...

Gwen DeMarco: I repeated the computer, Fred.

Fred Kwan: Hey guys, I just wanted you to know that, the reactors won't take it; the ship is breaking apart and all that... Just FYI.

Fred Kwan: It's the simple things in life you treasure.

Fred Kwan: Hey, Commander. Listen, we found some beryllium on a nearby planet. And we might be able to get there if we reconfigure the solar matrix in parallel for endothermic propulsion. What'd'ya think?

Jason Nesmith: We'll do that!

Guy Fleegman: All right!

Fred Kwan: [to his engineering team] That's right again. That's... come on, group hug.

Fred Kwan: Wow, the floors are so clean.

[after blowing two of Sarris' men out the airlock]

Fred Kwan: Sorry, I was - door was a little sticky. Did you see that? I'll get one of my boys up here with a can of WD-40.

Fred Kwan: [Trying to work the matter-transmitter] So what do we test it on?

Tommy Webber: [Sees Taggart, on the monitor, grappling with Grignak on the Berillium-Sphere planet] How about that Pig-Lizard?