Hunter Quotes in In the Line of Fire (1993)
Hunter Quotes:
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Hunter: [in the woods near a pond] Was that you shooting?
Mitch Leary: Yes.
Hunter: What the hell kind of gun is that?
Mitch Leary: Something I made.
Hunter: No kidding? You made it? Guess it beats paying for it, huh? Can I see it?
Mitch Leary: Yeah.
Hunter: Shit, it's light. What's it made of?
Mitch Leary: It's composite, like plastic.
Hunter: Pretty neat. You, uh, you mind if I give her a little dance?
Mitch Leary: Not at all.
[the hunter shoots a duck]
Hunter: That is great! That is really great! You, uh, wouldn't be interested in selling her, would ya?
Mitch Leary: No, I need it.
Hunter: For what?
Mitch Leary: To assassinate the president.
[the hunters laugh]
Hunter: What would you wanna do that for, mister?
Mitch Leary: Why did you kill that bird, asshole?
[proceeds to nonchalantly kill both of the hunters with his gun]
-- Hunter -
Hunter: My old man used to say, "life is like licking honey from a thorn".
-- Hunter -
[first lines]
Hunter: Hey, Danny, what are you doing? I buy you a fancy Mexican meal and you're feeding it to a mutt.
Danny: Real fancy. You have any idea what that is?
Hunter: What?
Danny: Tree chicken.
Hunter: What?
Danny: That's what the locals call it. Colds, headaches, hangovers - cures anything. Iguana. That's what they say.
Hunter: What about indigestion?
-- Hunter -
Hunter: He wanted me here to protect you. And you look like you needed protecting.
Anne: From what?
Hunter: You.
-- Hunter -
Spike: Who the fuck are you?
Hunter: Who, me? The voice of experience.
-- Hunter -
Hunter: [shooting a car] Relax, I only killed the car.
-- Hunter -
Capt. Ramsey: Speaking of horses did you ever see those Lipizzaner stallions.
Hunter: What?
Capt. Ramsey: From Portugal. The Lipizzaner stallions. The most highly trained horses in the world. They're all white?
Hunter: Yes, sir.
Capt. Ramsey: "Yes, sir" you're aware they're all white or "Yes, sir" you've seen them?
Hunter: Yes, sir I've seen them. Yes, sir I was aware that they're are all white. They are not from Portugal; they're from Spain and at birth, they're not white; they're black. Sir.
Capt. Ramsey: I didn't know that. But they are from Portugal.
[Chuckling]
Capt. Ramsey: Some of the things they do, uh, defy belief. Their training program is simplicity itself. You just stick a cattle prod up their ass and you can get a horse to deal cards.
[Chuckles]
Capt. Ramsey: Simple matter of voltage.
-- Hunter -
Hunter: Captain Ramsey, under operating procedures governing the release of nuclear weapons, we cannot launch our missiles unless both you and I agree.
Capt. Ramsey: [shouting over Hunter] COB, what're you waiting for?
Hunter: This is not a formality, sir! This is *expressly* why your command must be repeated. It requires my assent, I *do not* give it and furthermore, you continue upon this course, and insist upon this launch without confirming this message first...
Capt. Ramsey: [shouting over Hunter] Son of a bitch. As commanding officer of the U.S.S Alabama, I order you to place the XO under arrest under charges of mutiny!
Hunter: I will act, backed by the rules of precedence...
Capt. Ramsey: [shouting at COB, over Hunter] I say again, as commanding officer of the U.S.S Alabama, I *order you*...
Hunter: ...authority in command, regulations number 815, to relieve... you... of... command, Captain!
Capt. Ramsey: ...to place the XO under arrest, under charges of mutiny!
[Silence all round]
Capt. Ramsey: COB!
Chief of the Boat: Captain, please, the XO is right. We can't launch unless he concurs.
Capt. Ramsey: [angrily reads from EAM] "To the U.S.S. Alabama: Rebel-controlled missiles being fueled. Launch codes compromised, dissidents threaten to launch at continental United States, set DEFCON 2. Immediately launch ten Trident missile sorties." They're *fueling their missiles*! We don't have time to fuck around!
Hunter: Sir, I think you need time to think this over.
Capt. Ramsey: [shouting] *I* don't have to think this over!
Hunter: [stares at Ramsey, nodding] Captain, I relieve you of your command of this ship. COB, escort the Captain to his state room. I'm assuming command.
Capt. Ramsey: You're not assuming anything!
Hunter: *Chief of the Boat*, Captain Ramsey is under arrest! Lock him in his state room!
Chief of the Boat: Captain, please...
Hunter: [growling] Now, COB!
-- Hunter -
Hunter: Chief of the Boat.
Chief of the Boat: Sir?
Hunter: Thank you, COB.
Chief of the Boat: Thank you? *Fuck* you! Get it straight Mr Hunter, I'm not on your side. Now you could be wrong! But wrong or right, the Captain can't just replace you at will. That was completely improper! And that's why I did what I did. By the book.
Hunter: I thank you anyway.
-- Hunter -
Hunter: In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself.
-- Hunter -
Capt. Ramsey: God help you if you're wrong.
Hunter: If I'm wrong, then we're at war; God help us all.
-- Hunter -
Hunter: Rivetti, what's up?
Petty Officer First Class Danny Rivetti: I'm sorry, Sir. It's just a difference of opinion that got out of hand.
Hunter: What about?
Petty Officer First Class Danny Rivetti: It's really too silly to talk about, Sir. I'd really just forget about...
Hunter: I don't give a damn about what you'd rather forget about. Why were you two fighting?
Petty Officer First Class Danny Rivetti: I said, the Kirby Silver Surfer was the only real Silver Surfer. And that the Moebius Silver Surfer was shit. And Bennefield's a big Moebius fan. And it got of hand. I pushed him. He pushed me. I lost my head, Sir. I'm Sorry.
Hunter: Rivetti, you're a supervisor. You can get a commission like that.
[Snaps finger]
Petty Officer First Class Danny Rivetti: I know, Sir. You're 100 percent right. It will never happen again.
Hunter: It better not happen again. If I see this kind of nonsense again, I'm going to write you up. You understand?
Petty Officer First Class Danny Rivetti: [No answer]
Hunter: Do you understand?
Petty Officer First Class Danny Rivetti: Yes, Sir.
Hunter: You have to set an example even in the face of stupidity. Everybody who reads comic books knows that the Kirby Silver Surfer is the only true Silver Surfer. Now am I right or wrong?
Petty Officer First Class Danny Rivetti: You're right, Sir.
Hunter: Now get out of here.
Petty Officer First Class Danny Rivetti: Yes, Sir.
-- Hunter -
Capt. Ramsey: We have orders in hand. Those orders are to make a pre-emptive launch. Every second that we lose increases the chances that by the time our missiles arrive, their silos could be empty because they've flown their birds and struck us first.
Hunter: Yes sir.
Capt. Ramsey: You know as well as I do that any launch order received without authentication, is no order at all.
Hunter: Yes sir.
Capt. Ramsey: That's our number one rule.
Hunter: [tries to get a word in] National mil...
Capt. Ramsey: And that rule is the basis for the scenario we've trained on, time and time again. It's a rule we follow without exception.
Hunter: Captain, National Military Command Center knows what sector we're in. They have satellites looking down on us to see if our birds are aloft and if they're *not*, then they give our orders to somebody else. That's why we maintain more than one sub, it's what they call 'redundancy'!
Capt. Ramsey: I know about redundancy, Mr Hunter.
Hunter: All I'm saying...
[Ramsey walks off]
Hunter: [follows Ramsey, lowers his voice] All I'm saying Captain, is that we have backup. Now it's our duty, *not* to launch until we can confirm.
Capt. Ramsey: You're presuming we have other submarines out there, ready to launch. Well as Captain, I must assume our submarines could've been taken out by other Akulas. We can play these games all night Mr Hunter but uh, I don't have the luxury of your presumptions.
Hunter: Sir...
Capt. Ramsey: Mr Hunter, we have rules that are not open to interpretation, personal intuition, gut feelings, hairs on the back of your neck, little devils or angels sitting on your shoulder. We're all very well aware of what our orders are and what those orders mean. They come down from our Commander in Chief. They contain no ambiguity.
Hunter: Captain...
Capt. Ramsey: Mr Hunter. I've made a decision. I'm Captain of this boat. NOW SHUT THE FUCK UP!
-- Hunter -
Capt. Ramsey: You do qualify your remarks. If someone asked me if we should bomb Japan, a simple "Yes." By all means sir, drop that fucker, twice! I don't mean to suggest that you're indecisive, Mr Hunter. Not at all. Just, uh... complicated. 'course, that's the way the Navy wants you. Me, they wanted simple.
Hunter: Well, you certainly fooled them, sir.
Capt. Ramsey: [chuckles] Be careful there, Mr Hunter. It's all I've got to rely on, being a simple-minded son of a bitch. Rickover gave me my command, a checklist, a target and a button to push. All I gotta know is how to push it, they tell me when. They seem to want you to know why.
Hunter: I would hope they'd want us all to know why, sir.
-- Hunter -
Hunter: Captain, here's the results from the missile drill.
Capt. Ramsey: [looks at the missile drill results] Is this the best they can do?
Hunter: No sir. But, that's what they did.
Capt. Ramsey: I want this down to five minutes. Train on it.
Hunter: Yes, sir.
Capt. Ramsey: Tell your buddy Weps to do it again, and keep on doing it until he gets it right.
Hunter: Yes, sir.
Capt. Ramsey: It looks like the whole crew needs a kick in the ass.
Hunter: Or a pat on the back, sir. I have witnessed a fight down in crew's mess, no big deal. It appears that the crew is a bit on edge about all we're going through. Morale seems a bit low.
Capt. Ramsey: [picks up the intercom and speaks into it] May I have your attention please, crew of the Alabama, Mr. Hunter has brought it to my attention that Morale maybe a bit low. and you might be a bit...
[looks to Hunter]
Hunter: [whispers] On edge.
Capt. Ramsey: [over the intercom] On edge. so, I suggest this. Any crew member who thinks that they can't handle the situation, can leave the ship right now. Gentlemen, we are at DEFCON 3, war is imminent. This the captain. That is all.
[hangs up the intercom]
Hunter: Very inspiring, sir.
-- Hunter -
Capt. Ramsey: At the Naval War College it was metallurgy and nulear reactors, not 19th-century philosophy.
[Stifled laugh]
Capt. Ramsey: "War is a continuation of politics by other means." Von Clausewitz.
Hunter: I think, sir, that what he was actually trying to say was a little more...
Capt. Ramsey: Complicated?
[Men Laughing]
Hunter: Yes the purpose of war is to serve a political end but hte true nature of war is to serve itself.
Capt. Ramsey: [laughing] I'm very impressed. In other words, the sailor most likely to win the war is the one most willing to part company with the politicians and ignore everything except the destruction of the enemy. You'd agree with that.
Hunter: I'd agree that, um, that's what Clausewitz was trying to say.
Capt. Ramsey: But you wouldn't agree with it?
Hunter: No, sir, I do not. No, I just think that in the nuclear world the true enemy can't be destroyed.
Capt. Ramsey: [chuckling, tapping glass] Attention on deck. Von Clausewitz will now tell us exactly who the real enemy is.
[laughing]
Capt. Ramsey: Von?
[Men Laughing]
Hunter: In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself
-- Hunter -
Capt. Ramsey: Those sailors out there are just boys... boys who are training to do a terrible and unthinkable thing, and if that ever occurs the only reassurance they'll have that they're doing the proper thing is gonna derive from their unqualified belief in the unified chain of command. That means we don't question each other's motives in front of the crew. It means we don't undermine each other. It means in a missile drill, they hear your voice right after mine, without hesitation. Do you agree with that policy, sailor?
Hunter: Absolutely, sir.
Capt. Ramsey: We're here to preserve democracy, not to practice it.
-- Hunter -
Capt. Ramsey: How do you like that cigar?
Hunter: It's good, sir.
Capt. Ramsey: It's your first?
Hunter: [coughing] Yeah.
Capt. Ramsey: Well, don't like it too much. They're more expensive than drugs.
-- Hunter -
Capt. Ramsey: [to Hunter] You repeat this order, or I'll find somebody who will!
Hunter: Oh no you won't, sir.
-- Hunter -
Capt. Ramsey: Short of the outbreak of World War Three, the ship sinking... being attacked by a giant octopus, I'd like to be undisturbed for the next thirty minutes.
Hunter: I'll see to it sir.
-- Hunter -
Peter "Weps" Ince: [answers the private phone] Weps.
Hunter: Weps. This is Hunter. Listen to me.
Peter "Weps" Ince: Where are you?
Hunter: Don't worry about where I am. Listen, we have other ships that can handle this, you can't be influenced by the captain or anybody else, you have to make up your own mind.
Peter "Weps" Ince: [hears a beep] Con, Weapons. Missles will be ready to launch in 4 minutes.
Hunter: Listen Weps, listen Weps, don't do this. Don't do this Weps, once we launch, they cannot come back. They cannot come back Weps, and you know the repercussions if we're wrong, goddamnit. Weps, if we fire now, we'll be firing when we're blind and crippled, you understand that?
Peter "Weps" Ince: Where the fuck are you?
Hunter: Do not remove the firing trigger! Do not open that safe, Weps. It's up to you, you're the only one who knows the combination it is up to YOU Weps. It's up to you.
[hangs up]
Peter "Weps" Ince: [to a petty officer] Mind your fucking pannel!
-- Hunter -
Hunter: What if Radchenko surrendered and it's over, huh? We launch. They see us, and they launch. Our birds pass each other in the air. Boom. What have you got?
Chief of the Boat: Nuclear War.
Hunter: Nuclear Holocaust.
-- Hunter -
Hunter: Mr. Vossler, this is Captain Kirk! I need warp speed on that communications unit!
-- Hunter -
Hunter: [asking about the radio repair] How long's it gonna take?
Vossler: I don't know, sir.
Hunter: You know what's going on here?
Vossler: Yes sir.
Hunter: No I don't think you do. Let me explain it to you. If we launch, and we're wrong, what's left of Russia is gonna launch at us. There will be a nuclear holocaust beyond imagination, now it's all about knowing, Mr...
[Hunter looks at Vossler's name patch]
Hunter: Vossler. We have to know whether our order to launch has been recalled or not. The only way we're gonna know, is if you fix that radio, you understand?
Vossler: [looks down]
Hunter: You ever watch Star Trek?
Vossler: St- yeah, Star...
Hunter: Star Trek! The USS Enterprise? All right, now you remember when the Klingons were gonna blow up the Enterprise and Captain Kirk calls down to Scotty he says "Scotty, I gotta have more power-"
Vossler: He needs more, more warp speed, yeah.
Hunter: Warp speed, exactly. Now I'm Captain Kirk, you're Scotty, I need more power. I'm telling you if you do not get this radio up, a billion people are gonna die; now it's all up to you, I know it's a shitty deal but you got it, can you handle it?
Vossler: [silent]
Hunter: Scotty?
Vossler: Aye, Captain.
-- Hunter -
Hunter: Captain? I just wanted to say thank you.
Capt. Ramsey: You were right, and I was wrong! About the horses, the Lippizaners. They are from Spain, not Portugal!
Hunter: Yes, sir!
-- Hunter -
[to his wife, before leaving for duty]
Hunter: See you in my dreams.
-- Hunter -
Hunter: Look, it wasn't a mutiny, I did everything by the book.
Chief of the Boat: It's not about the book. If the Russians are gonna launch and we sit here and do nothing... who's gonna stop 'em? Half of me's glad the Captain came back.
-- Hunter -
Hunter: Get the radio fixed Vossler. I could've built one by now.
-- Hunter -
Capt. Ramsey: Rickover gave me my command, a checklist, a target, and a button to push. All I had to know was how to push it, and they'd tell me when. They seem to want you know why.
Hunter: I would hope they'd want us all to know why, sir.
-- Hunter -
Hunter: [over the intercom] Radio, X-O. Mr. Zimmer, get those communication systems back online now.
Zimmer: [over the intercom] We're working on it sir.
[to himself]
Zimmer: Aye, aye, Captain.
Vossler: Are we ready?
Zimmer: Yeah, we're ready. Go.
[sparks fly when Vossler touches the circuit board with his soldering iron]
Vossler: Oh fuck.
Zimmer: The system crashed, the radio buoy got severed, what the fuck does he want us to do?
Vossler: Shit electrons?
Zimmer: Hey, we need this radio repaired. Not smart-ass remarks.
-- Hunter -
Rear Admiral Anderson, Board of Inquiry President: I have known Captain Ramsey for almost 30 years. We served together on more than a few occasions. If he is lying this will be the first I've heard of it.
Hunter: Yes, sir.
Rear Admiral Anderson, Board of Inquiry President: My primary concern here is the breakdown in the system. In this instance the system failed because the two senior officers did not work to resolve their differences, while preserving the chain of command.
Rear Admiral Anderson, Board of Inquiry President: Now you may have been proven right, Mr Hunter, but insofar as the letter of the law is concerned, you were both right, and you were also both wrong.
Rear Admiral Anderson, Board of Inquiry President: This is the dilemma that will occupy this panel, this navy and this country's armed forces as a whole long after you leave this room.
-- Hunter -
Ghost Dog: You know, in ancient cultures, bears were considered equal with men.
Hunter: This ain't no ancient culture here, mister.
Ghost Dog: Sometimes it is.
-- Hunter -
Hunter: Do you think I'm pretty?
Taylor: Sometimes I want to kill you because you're so pretty. Seriously, I think of killing you a lot.
Hunter: Aww, that's so sweet.
-- Hunter -
Sasha: Brooke, what is going on?
Molly: What's platinum rule number one in the Kappa chapter book?
Hunter: Never wear sweatpants.
Molly: Rule number 2.
Sasha: A sister in need comes before anything else.
Molly: Girls, we have a sister in need.
-- Hunter -
Joe Simpson: [Video footage plays of a mechanical arm bending a metal bar] It operates by servo motors of significant yet undetermined strength.
Hunter: What do you mean, undetermined strength?
Joe Simpson: Well, we're not quite sure. We could have used a thicker bar, but we would have had to build a stronger bench in order to anchor the mechanical arm.
Hunter: Well, congratulations. It looks like you guys have created one hell of a killing machine and you made him virtually indestructible. A nice touch.
Alex Whyte: Well, Hunter, I've never seen you like this before. Something you're afraid of?
Hunter: Anyone in their right mind would be afraid of it. But inside that suit, there's a man. And I've never, ever lost to a man.
-- Hunter -
Hunter: What about Meres?
David Callan: I believe he is unconscious, though with Meres it is difficult to tell.
-- Hunter -
Hunter: Did you rebuke Lonely?
David Callan: [depressed] Yes.
Hunter: Sufficiently?
David Callan: [angry] He thinks so!
-- Hunter -
[from trailer]
Hunter: It's an image old as time: a baby swaddled in white delivered by the stork. How quaint. But you'll find here on Stork Mountain we take baby delivery seriously. I'm here to finally unveil our new and improved Human Infant Production Facility. We have perfected and streamlined the process, devising a zero-mistake work flow. Using the most cutting edge technology coupled with over 75 years of hard worn experience, our new process has been described as: perfect, precise, flawless, ideal, immaculate, no problemo, error proofed, too good to fail, the opposite of the Titanic. We work hard just so you can hear the four most precious words in human language, "Goo-goo, ga-ga." So when you're looking for a baby delivery you can count The Stork Delivery Service. Make a plan, stick to the plan, always deliver!
[during his pitch, Tulip ends up breaking a machine and causing babies to appear all over]
Hunter: [hears an alarm] What was that?
[turns around to see the mess]
Hunter: Oh no!
Tulip: My bad!
-- Hunter -
Hunter: Junior, you know why I built my office entirely out of glass even though birds can't see glass?
Junior: I do not.
[birds fly smack into the glass]
Hunter: Power move!
-- Hunter -
Hunter: [takes the baby] Don't worry, she's with penguins! There are whole documentaries about how great they are at baby-sitting!
[Cut to documentary clip of penguin sitting on an egg; a walrus rises up from the water and eats the penguin, leaving the egg]
-- Hunter -
Hunter: We can't let it get out that we accidentally made a baby!
-- Hunter -
Hunter: Junior, I saved this company by getting out of babies and into package delivery. Monday, it'll all be yours, barring some monumental screw-up...
-- Hunter -
Hunter: Do you know why we stopped delivering babies?
Junior: Because there are other ways of making babies?
-- Hunter -
Hunter: Look at that sunrise! How can you not look at it!
Junior: If I go blind, it's worth it!
-- Hunter -
Hunter: You idiot, how could you think this was an address?
Junior: I thought it was a gentrified neighborhood...
-- Hunter -
[as a truck blows up]
Hunter: Hey Earl, ain't that your truck? Oh, that's a bummer.
-- Hunter -
Hunter: I know I didn't need that second barrel, but who counts birdshot in a man's chest? Rock and roll is dead. Long live rock and roll!
-- Hunter -
Danielle: [about Hunter and his crew] Look. They're coming to you.
Hunter: Yo, Matt.
Matthew: What's up?
Hunter: What's up. Can we talk to you for a second?
Matthew: Dude, I'm with my girl.
Hunter: Oh, sorry man. Should we come back?
Danielle: No, I'll leave you guys alone.
[gets up to leave, and passionately kisses Matt]
Matthew: [turns to watch Danielle leave, folds his arms behind his head, then nonchalantly] What's up?
-- Hunter -
Hunter: Oh! Conner4Real in the flesh? Hey, yo! It's... It's an honor to meet you, man. CONNquest, Style Boyz, I grew up off that shit, man.
Owen: Thanks.
Hunter: I wanna be you, kind of, but not white. Like black still, 'cause it's strong. It's a strong color.
Conner: For sure, yeah.
Hunter: Like, you are that dude. Like, have you met you? Have you met you? You? Have you met you?
Conner: Yeah, yeah.
Hunter: You know what I'm saying? This is crazy.
Harry: You be you.
Hunter: You don't want me to be all that 'cause I'll tear some shit up. You know how it is?
Conner: That is great...
Hunter: Hell, yeah! We gonna turn up a show up here! You know how it is!
Conner: Okay.
Hunter: But seriously, man. I'm real honored, dawg. I'm not gonna let you down. You my idol, right next to Jesus and Morgan Freeman.
-- Hunter -
Scotty Palmer: You guys fags?
Hunter: Yeah. I'm the Queen of France and these guys are the D'Angelo sisters... Scotty, we're perfectly straight, man. That's the problem. We're too straight. All we're interested in are hardbodies and we want you to teach us how to get them.
Rounder: To dialog them.
Rounder: And BBD them.
-- Hunter -
Hunter: Whatever turns you on - a little wine, Jacuz-arooski, sex.
-- Hunter -
Hunter: 15? I have underwear 15 years old.
-- Hunter -
Scotty Palmer: I didn't pick them up. I dialogued them.
Hunter: Dialogued them?
Scotty Palmer: Yeah, I gave them a little dose of the old BBD.
Hunter: BBD?
Rounder: That's not like herpes, is it?
Scotty Palmer: BBD - it's the bigger and better deal.
-- Hunter -
Hunter: Tit for tat.
Kristi: My tits for whose tat.
-- Hunter -
Hunter: I spill no wine before it's time.
Rounder: You're a sick man.
-- Hunter -
Scotty Palmer: Rounder, you get an "A" for enthusiasm, but an "F" for technique.
Hunter: How about a "J" for jerkoff?
-- Hunter -
Hunter: Party time! Ba-ba!
-- Hunter -
Hunter: He's in love with someone who's not in love with him. How do YOU think he is?
-- Hunter -
[during end credits]
Hunter: Supermodels fart?
Supermodel: How do you think we stay so thin?
-- Hunter -
Hunter: Whadda they want?
Ryan: Who?
Hunter: They. Them. The chiquitas. You know, I'm bustin' my ass out there trying to fit into their little mold of what makes an interesting, sexy guy, and I can not figure out what they want.
Ryan: What do YOU want?
Hunter: Gee, I dunno. Get laid. Have fun. Have someone love me for who I am.
Ryan: Oh-ho. And, uh, who is that, exactly?
Hunter: You're... you're right. You are absolutely right. I mean, what... what's wrong with being from the country, huh? A simple kid raised on fresh eggs and good values who had to get up at the crack of dawn every morning with a three-legged dog named Lucky by his side to help his pa with the cattle.
Ryan: Hunter.
Hunter: Yeah?
Ryan: You're not from the country.
Hunter: Ah! Jeez, Ryan, wha... what do you want me to say? "Hi, my name is Steve. I grew up in the suburbs with two working parents, two sisters and a two-car garage. I have no real identity, nor do I have a clue what I'm doing or what I want to be. Wanna go out?"
Ryan: [pause] Your name is Steve?
-- Hunter -
Hunter: Excuse me, question: Exactly how far can you bend over?
-- Hunter -
Hunter: [upon hearing Ryan and Betty broke up] Well, this is great news. Now you and me can hit the circuit.
Ryan: [correcting] You and I.
Hunter: Right.
Ryan: I don't think so.
Hunter: No, believe me, it's way easier with two of us. You see, you pretend to be my idiot cousin, and for the weekend, all of a sudden - I'm sensitive. You get drunk, start coming on too strong and I beat the shit out of you - I'm masculine.
Ryan: I don't think I'm ready for that.
Hunter: Well, we can trade off. You can hit me first.
-- Hunter -
Hunter: Buddy, if you're lookin' at me for answers - I'm flattered but, uh - you've come to the wrong place.
-- Hunter -
[first lines]
Dwight Armstrong, Clark's Step-father: Over there! Look!
Clark Kellogg: Dwight?
Dwight Armstrong, Clark's Step-father: Shh!
Clark Kellogg: Dwight, don't. Don't, really.
[Dwight fires his rifle]
Hunter: Hey, asshole! What are ya, nuts? You can't see the cap, it's not orange enough for ya?
[Dwight fires again]
Dwight Armstrong, Clark's Step-father: Get out of these woods!
-- Hunter -
Hunter: Do you realize the bath you just took cost over two thousand dollars? That's American dollars!
Count Thibault: Is that a lot?
Hunter: Yes, yes it is.
Count Thibault: Then I will repay you with one of my swans.
-- Hunter -
Hunter: [to the Count and Andre as they are in the bathroom] Don't be bashful with the soap.
-- Hunter -
Hunter: Your French relatives are bathing in the toilet.
-- Hunter -
Hunter: [indicating the Wizard experimenting in their kitchen] What's this?
Julia: A twelfth-century English wizard.
[the Wizard bows to Hunter]
-- Hunter -
Count Thibault: Run behind the chariot, peasant!
Hunter: Yes, master!
André le Pate: He can't run behind the car!
Count Thibault: He cannot ride with us; he is not noble.
Julia: Yes, but he has to ride in the car.
Count Thibault: He is very fast!
Hunter: We-we're taking the freeway; you can run seventy miles an hour, can you?
André le Pate: I have good boots!
-- Hunter -
Hunter: [he notices André's table manners] Actually, the floor wasn't such a bad place for him. Easier to hose down.
-- Hunter -
Julia: I am strong, and I am smart, and I don't need you to take care of me.
Hunter: Oh really?
Julia: [grabs Thibault's sword and thrusts it toward Hunter] Courage is my creed.
-- Hunter -
[Raymond is threatening Jeffrey with his switchblade]
Raymond: Here today... gone tomorrow.
Hunter: Ha, ha! You tell him Raymond!
Paul: That don't scare me!
[Paul turns towards Jeffrey]
Paul: I'm Paul. What's your name?
Jeffrey Beaumont: Jeffrey.
Paul: Huh.
[after a pause]
Paul: I'm Paul.
-- Hunter -
Joel De La Garza: Now, wait a minute... we start winning, you try out again.
Jimmy: [sighs] Last time I checked, scouts aren't looking for high school science teachers.
Joe David West: Well, not many science teachers throw like you.
Jimmy: It's gonna take a heckuva lot more than a couple of wins to get me to make a fool of myself.
Joel De La Garza: Alright, what if we win district, huh? What if we win district and go to the state playoffs? Then?
Jimmy: You serious?
Joel De La Garza: Yeah, absolutely.
Jimmy: You're serious?
Joe David West: Yeah.
Joaquin 'Wack' Campos: Yeah!
Jimmy: And all I have to do is find some kind of tryout somewhere?
Joaquin 'Wack' Campos: That's it, man!
Jimmy: [clears throat] Alright... IF we win district!
[Team cheers and leaves for locker room]
Hunter: I don't get to tell Mom about this, do I?
-- Hunter -
Joel De La Garza: [while him and Jimmy play catch] Hey coach, back when you were really pitching, how fast were you throwing it?
Jimmy: I don't know. 85, 86?
Joel De La Garza: That's not too bad.
Jimmy: It is when the other guy's throwing 90.
Joel De La Garza: Coach, let's see you bring one.
Jimmy: Can't. Promised too many doctors.
Joel De La Garza: Come on, coach, one isn't going to kill you. Come on, feed me!
Hunter: Yeah, dad, bring the heat!
Joel De La Garza: [Jim gets himself ready while Joel waits in the catcher's position] Feed me, coach.
[Jim pauses, then winds up and throws his fastball, which audibly whisses by and hits hard into Joel's glove, much to the shock of him and Hunter]
Hunter: Woah!
Joel De La Garza: Coach, where did that come from?
Jimmy: [Smiles] Forgot how good that sounded.
-- Hunter -
Hunter: But Dad...
Jimmy: No buts about it... I'm getting enough butts as it is.
-- Hunter -
[first lines]
Hunter: What the hell was that?
-- Hunter -
[first lines]
Hunter: [after Silence has killed four other bounty killers] W-Wait! I-I surrender! Don't kill me! I-I won't do it again! I'm through with bounty hunting! Don't kill me, Silence!
[Silence shoots both of the man's thumbs off; the killer moans in pain]
Hunter: Damn you! You've... crippled my hands!
[tries to shoot Silence with his pistol, but is shot in the back by Miguel]
-- Hunter -
Arthur: This is Indian land chief.
Hunter: Actually, I don't think this is Indian land.
Arthur: Well I'm a fucking Indian.
-- Hunter -
Peter Maguire: We've been kidnapped, there's a man over there.
Arthur: He's confused.
Hunter: Yeah, I think we're all a little bit confused.
Peter Maguire: My name is Peter Maguire, I'm lawyer from Toronto.
Arthur: We're doing a ceremony.
Peter Maguire: You listening to me? I'm a lawyer.
Arthur: We're visiting our mother.
Hunter: Lets get the fuck out of here.
Peter Maguire: What mother? Is his mother my mother, huh?
Arthur: It's a ritual, it's confusing.
-- Hunter
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