Grant Quotes in Superman Returns (2006)

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  • [Lex notices Jason staring at the Kryptonite in fear]

    Lex Luthor: Who is that boy's father?

    Lois Lane: Richard.

    [Grant's voice comes over the intercom]

    Grant: Mr. Luthor, we're approaching the coordinates.

    Lex Luthor: [to Lois, ignoring Grant] Are you sure?

    Grant: [misunderstanding] Yes sir.

  • Grant: Brutus is... dead. He got hit with the piano.

    Lex Luthor: Where's the boy?

    Grant: With the mother, locked up in the pantry.

    Lex Luthor: Oh, it's time for us to go

  • Lex Luthor: [spots the van riddled with bullet-holes] Run into trouble?

    Grant: You should see the other guy.

  • Grant: You're the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time.

    John McClane: Story of my life.

  • John McClane: Guess I was wrong about you. You're not such an asshole after all.

    Grant: Oh, you were right. I'm just your kind of asshole.

  • Grant: Too bad, McClane. I kind of liked you.

    John McClane: I got enough friends.

  • Grant: [McClane has just returned from a brutal fight with a terrorist] McClane! You alright? You want a medic?

    Carmine Lorenzo: McClane, what the hell do you think you're doing out there, huh? Playing John Wayne? How'd ya like to spend the rest of the night in a cell?

    Grant: Lorenzo, shut the fuck up and do something useful!

    Carmine Lorenzo: Hey! You can't talk to me like that!

    Grant: Oh no, Carmine? Sergeant, get this bureaucrat out of Mr. McClane's face! Now!

    Sgt. Oswald Cochrane: With pleasure, Sir.

  • Grant: [walking away from plane crash] Let me guess, you're here because you thought it'd be fun to fly airplanes. Go home while you still can.

    William Jensen: Guy sure knows how to make friends.

    Captain Thenault: All his friends are dead.

  • [as the submarine enters the brain]

    Dr. Duval: Yet all the suns that light the corridors of the universe shine dim before the blazing of a single thought...

    Grant: ...proclaiming in incandescent glory the myriad mind of Man.

    Dr. Michaels: Very poetic, gentlemen. Let me know when we pass the soul.

    Dr. Duval: The soul? The finite mind cannot comprehend infinity, and the soul, which comes from God, is infinite.

    Dr. Michaels: Yes, but our time isn't.

  • General Carter: [after the briefing before the mission] Any further questions? Anybody?

    Grant: Just one, General.

    General Carter: Yes, what's that?

    Grant: Where do I get a cab back to town?

  • Capt. Bill Owens: All right, Mr. Grant, you can tell them the Proteus is ready.

    Grant: The Proteus? What's that?

    Capt. Bill Owens: It's the name of this vessel; sounds better than calling it the U91035.

  • Grant: What happened?

    Capt. Bill Owens: Dr. Michaels... went berserk.

    Grant: Berserk nothing!

    Dr. Michaels: Grant, help! Get me out!

    Grant: [hands SCUBA gear to Owens] Get this on, quick. If a window blows, we'll lose this air lock.

    Dr. Michaels: Grant, help. I'm trapped. Help me!

    [Grant struggles to free Michaels as he grows increasingly agitated]

    Dr. Michaels: Can't get my... can't get my hands out. Get me out of here. My... my hands are trapped. Can't move... can't move my hands. I can't move my ha... move my hands. Can't move my hands! Get my out! Get me out of here!

    [as white corpuscles begins to envelop the submarine, Grant realizes its hopeless and turns to go, leaving Michaels trapped]

    Dr. Michaels: Get me out! Get me out!

    [screams as he's enveloped by the corpuscles]

  • Grant: Wait a minute! They can't shrink me.

    General Carter: Our miniaturizer can shrink anything.

    Grant: But I don't want to be miniaturized!

    General Carter: It's just for an hour.

    Grant: Not even for a minute!

  • Cora: I think it's very exciting. We're going to see things no one has ever seen before. Not just something under a microscope. Think about it.

    Grant: That's the trouble; I am. Being shrunk!

  • Grant: [as the team enters a door marked "Sterilization Room"] How much can a man give to his country?

  • Grant: I don't mean to be inquisitive, but this 'CMDF', for all I know it could stand for the consolidated mobilization of delinquent females.

    General Carter: Combined miniature deterrent forces.

  • [first lines]

    Milo: I'm so sick of doing this; I'm sick of waiting for the world to end.

    Biscut: Me, too. Why don't we do something else for a change?

    Grant: Yeah? Like what?

    Biscut: Well, if we put our heads together, maybe we could figure something out.

    Grant: My head just got stepped on. I can't think of nothing.

    Milo: California! Let's move to California!

    Biscut: I got a job. I got responsibilities.

    Milo: Biscut, you're washing dishes in a shithole, brother. Personally, I think you could risk the career change.

  • Daredelvis: So, what's y'all fellas' line of work?

    Grant: Survival.

    Daredelvis: Oh, well that's the slowest form of suicide.

    [hands Grant his business card]

    Daredelvis: Well, look, man, if I can ever be of any help...

    Grant: [reading] Dared-delvis...? Horse trader, snake charmer, marriage counselor, divorce lawyer, musician, poker player, stunt driver, dowser, clairvoyant, actor, poet.

    Daredelvis: Yeah, man, but my real bread and butter's the Bullfightin' scene. You really oughta' catch my act sometime - it's going nowhere but up!

  • Grant: Look, Milo, we're talking about real life here, okay? Real life is not California. Real life is a shit sandwich and every day you gotta take another bite.

  • Grant: Is there anything you don't do?

    Daredelvis: Not a damned thing.

  • Grant: Gentlemen, the buy-in is $15,000

    Mark Twain: 15 large. Are you sure General Custard can swing that?

    General George Custer: It's Custer, not "Custard." There is no "D." I'm not a dessert.

    Mark Twain: Boom, I just dropped some satire on your ass, General!

    General George Custer: You got me!

  • Dr. T.S. Clitterhouse: Now, just relax, counselor. Nothing to be jittery about.

    Grant: My dear boy, I've had over a hundred clients face the electric chair. I've never been jittery.

    Dr. T.S. Clitterhouse: But your clients were.

  • Joan Castle: Mr. Moto!

    Kentaro Moto: Good evening, everybody.

    Joan Castle: He's a detective. He's come here to arrest my father. You can't take him! He was framed! Please you promise me to protect us until dad's prove innocent.

    Kentaro Moto: Don't be so alarmed. Moto was only an impersonation. Very convenient for the moment.

    Joan Castle: I - I don't understand.

    Grant: Just a penny-ante gangster playin' detective.

    [Joan looked up the newspaper of San Juan Tribune, "Governor Slain by Bogus Mr. Moto! Notorious Killer Shimura and Accomplice Make Sensational Escape". They broke out of jail and resisting arrest]

    Joan Castle: Shimura. You murdered the Governor. It was you, you framed my father. Now we can go back to San Juan. This proves dad innocent.

    Grant: Sure, sure. Now you go back to your cabin and looked after that fever. I'll take care of this.

    Joan Castle: But we can't waste anytime.

    Grant: Bill, take her back to her cabin.

  • Grant: There will be no time for sentiment when the Russians fire a missile at us.

    George: If it's going to be a world with no time for sentiment, Grant, it's not a world that I want to live in.

  • DJ: I done already schooled you once homeboy, how many lesson you wanna learn?

    Grant: Oh so you think you funny nigga?

    DJ: No... but she clearly does.

    April: What? No, Grant let's just go.

  • Grant: I don't want to go to Oklahoma either. There's nothing but trash in Oklahoma. They don't even know how to play football...

  • Grant: Lord, bless this food and say hi to Mom & Dad. And bring me a 12-gauge if you can. Amen.

  • [first lines]

    Grant: This is a *nice* hotel.

    Jimmy: Yep. Built in the 1900s by a railroad tycoon for his wife. She was a socialite. Had a lot of friends, liked to entertain.

    Grant: Is that a fact.

    Jimmy: Yep. Then she died after World War II and was closed for many years. Then a corporation bought it, and now it's being turned into luxury condos.

    Grant: Luxury condos... So that's why it's empty, huh?

    Jimmy: Yep. Well I'll tell you the truth, Grant, we are the last guests. I bribed the management. They're going to start renovation on Monday.

    Grant: I gotta tell ya, I'm impressed. This is a class-ass act.

    Jimmy: Nothin' but the best for the Annabell dating service...

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