Hud Quotes in Cloverfield (2008)

Beth McIntyre: [sees monster] What is that?

Hud: It's a terrible thing.

[while trying to get to a flight of stairs, Rob encounters a parasite and kills it]

Beth McIntyre: Oh my God! What is that?

Hud: I don't know! Something else! Also terrible.

Hud: Ocean is big, dude. All I'm saying is a couple of years ago, they found a fish in Madagascar that they thought been extinct for centuries.

Rob Hawkins: So what? It's been down there this whole time, and nobody noticed?

Hud: Sure. Maybe it erupted from an ocean trench, you know? Or a crevasse. Crevice. It's just a theory. I mean, for all we know, it's from another planet and it flew here.

Marlena Diamond: Like Superman?

Hud: Yeah, exactly like... Wait. You know who Superman is?

Marlena Diamond: Oh, my God. You know who Superman is?

Hud: Okay, I'm not...

Marlena Diamond: [sarcastically] I'm, like, feeling something. Are you aware of Garfield.

Clark: How are you going to survive without Rob? He's like your main dude.

Hud: Yeah, I don't know.

[sees Rob passing by]

Hud: Hey Rob, how am I gonna survive without you?

Rob Hawkins: I don't know. I'm like your main dude.

Hud: Straight up!

Hud: Do you guys remember a couple of years ago when that guy was lighting homeless people on fire in the subways?

Rob Hawkins: Jesus, Hud! Maybe not the best time for this conversation down here!

Hud: Right.

[awkward silent pause]

Hud: I just can't stop thinking how scary it'd be if a flaming homeless guy came running...

Rob Hawkins, Lily Ford, Marlena Diamond: HUD!

Hud: I'm just saying. Sorry.

Hud: One of them grabbed me, tried to drag me away. What's up with that?

Marlena Diamond: Maybe it liked you, Hud.

Hud: Yeah. Maybe it tried to make me its queen.

Hud: Are you okay?

Marlena Diamond: You tell me. How does it look?

[Hud sees Marlena's bloody back shoulder]

Hud: It looks like it hurts.

Marlena Diamond: What do you mean? Are you saying this isn't attractive at all?

Hud: A little bit.

Hud: Please tell me she lives on the ground floor.

Rob Hawkins: 39th.

Hud: Shit.

Hud: Beth lives in Midtown. Midtown is that way. You know what else is that way? Some horrific shit!

Hud: Okay, just to be clear here, our options are: die here, die in the tunnels, or die in the streets. That pretty much it?

Rob Hawkins: Yeah... that's pretty much it.

Rob Hawkins: Still filming?

Hud: Yeah, people are gonna want to know... how it all went down.

Rob Hawkins: Well, you can just tell them how it all went down, Hud.

Hud: No, that wouldn't work. People need to see this, you know? It's gonna be important. People are going to watch this.

Hud: Rob, what time do the choppers take off?

Rob Hawkins: 0600

Hud: What time is that?

Rob Hawkins: 6:00 Hud...

Hud: Oh yeah, I knew that.

Hud: [during a very stressful run up stairs] I don't read the papers. Maybe our government made this thing.

Rob Hawkins: Oh, yeah.

Hud: I mean, you know, maybe it was an accident, or maybe it was on purpose.

Rob Hawkins: Sure, maybe they did. Does it really matter right now?

Hud: Yeah. It matters because I need to talk about something. Otherwise, I'm actually probably going to shit my pants in this stairwell.

Hud: Rob, it is time to leave the electronic store.

[repeated line]

Hud: I'm documenting.

Hud: Nobody ever listens to me, then when they do... we're gonna die...

Hud: If this is the last thing you see... that means I died.

Marlena Diamond: Hey Rob! Uh, Marlena. We probably met like three times total, and every one of those times I've seen you were drunk, so I don't really know what to say. But you have a really cool job! That's something. You're like President of something.

Hud: Vice President!

Marlena Diamond: Also really cool! So good luck with that, and so we're going to be here, in New York, really safe and fine for you when you come back.

Hud: Cool. That was a really good one!

Marlena Diamond: Yeah.

Hud: Yeah. We can do another one of you if you want.

Marlena Diamond: Do you actually have a card or something? My agency... we're leaving... we're going on this stupid retreat and they like all this video like bonding crap.

Hud: Oh yeah, I'm not actually a professional.

Marlena Diamond: What?

Hud: I'm not a professional. I'm Hud.

Marlena Diamond: Hug?

Hud: So, how do you want to do this? Do you want to do most of the talking? Or do your want me to do most of the talking?

Jason Hawkins: You're not doing any talking.

Hud: Okay. Cool.

Hud: [to Rob] Maybe you should've left town a little bit earlier, right?

Hud: Hey man. Were you surprised?

Rob Hawkins: I was like not even surprised.

Hud: No? Can you describe your current emotions right now?

Rob Hawkins: I would say blasé. I mean, I'm a little... I'm just a little bored...

Hud: No you're not!

Rob Hawkins: No man, that was awesome dude! What are you doing with a video camera?

Hud: I'm documenting the night so that you can take it to Japan with you.

Rob Hawkins: Oh, can I watch it every night while I'm there?

Hud: Thanks for... thanks for coming back for me back there. I really appreciate it.

Marlena Diamond: What would make you think that I'm the kind of person that wouldn't do that?

Hud: No... no I know you aren't. I'm just glad that you did. Other wise I would have been dead

Marlena Diamond: [chuckles] Yeah.

Hud: Yeah?

[chuckles]

Hud: Alright, you just got bit.

Hud: [watches from the helicopter as the monster is being bombed] I think they got him. Yeah, yeah, yeah! That's the shit right there! That's what I'm talking about...

[the monster jumps out of the fire and smoke and attacks the helicopter and it crashes]

Rob Hawkins: Hey, is that my camera?

Hud: Uh, I don't know. Jason just gave it to me.

Rob Hawkins: Did you change the tape? Because I had a tape in there... something important.

Hud: I didn't, it was already on when I got it.

Hud: Hey, you guys! I have it on tape!

Lily Ford: Rob and Beth slept together.

Hud: Are you serious?

Lily Ford: Yeah, a few weeks ago. Beth made me promise not to say anything.

Jason Hawkins: Are you kidding me Lily? Rob and Beth sleeping together and you're not even going to tell me that?

Hud: Why wouldn't you tell me?

Lily Ford: [long pause] Why wouldn't I tell you?

Lily Ford: Hud, what are you doing?

Hud: I'm documenting the night.

Lily Ford: But I thought I asked Jason to do that?

Hud: Oh, yeah, but Jason asked me to do it, so I've been doing it. I've been doing it really well.

Lily Ford: Robert Hawkins, I can't believe you're leaving me to look after your brother by myself!

Jason Hawkins: Oh! Easy, easy. I'm mean I'm obviously standing right here.

Lily Ford: And I know I'm not officially family... yet...

Jason Hawkins: Not fair.

Hud: [to Lily] Dude... I'll cut him out later.

Lily Ford: But I think of you as my brother, and I hope you think of me as your sister.

Hud: Hey, Marlena. It's me, Hud, from before.

Marlena Diamond: [slightly annoyed] Hi.

Hud: Did you know that Rob and Beth had sex?

Marlena Diamond: No.

Hud: Yeah, isn't that crazy? They've been friends forever. I mean, Rob's been in love with her since college.

Marlena Diamond: Well, maybe it was like a going away present, you know?

[Marlena walks to bathroom]

Hud: Yeah! Wait, were we supposed to give presents?

Hud: [with Marlena and Lily, trying to get Rob to stop] One of us is gonna have to tackle you and that's gonna be very uncomfortable for everyone involved!

Jason Hawkins: Hud! Listen, I got a job for you.

Hud: Uh, I've already got a job, putting up the sign.

Jason Hawkins: Yeah, I see that but this is more important than the sign. Um, you know how at weddings people give testimonies to the camera, right?

Hud: No.

Jason Hawkins: Alright. You're going to take the camera and just you know go around the party and film people telling Rob good luck.

Hud: I don't know. I mean, that's a lot of responsibility Jason and...

Jason Hawkins: Marlena's going to be here.

Hud: She is?

Jeannie: I know who the father is.

Hud: Yeah, you know that, you know a lot. If the baby comes out all white and squishy-like, crying his ass off, then we know Woof is definitely the daddy. But if he comes out all beautiful and chocolate brown, that's mine!

Berger, Hud, Woof: [in song] Hair like Jesus wore it. Hallelujah! I adore it! Hallelujah! Mary loved her son. Why don't my mother love me?

Woof, Hud, Berger: [singing] Oh say, can you see my eyes? If you can, then my hair's too short.

Claude Bukowski: [On his decision to go to war] You do what you have to do, and I'm going to do what I have to do.

Hud: Who are you doing it for?

Claude Bukowski: I'm doing it for *you*, man.

Hud: Oh, don't hand me that. Look, if you're doing it for me, don't, because if the shoe was on the other foot, I wouldn't do it for you.