John Parker Quotes in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)

Buckaroo Banzai: It flies like a truck.

John Parker: Good, what is a truck?

John Parker: [as the pod-ship is in a free-fall] I'm a diplomat! I failed flight school!

John Parker: Buckaroo Banzai!

Buckaroo Banzai: What?

John Parker: There is little time. You'd better come quickly if your planet is still important to you.

Arabella Rittenhouse: May I present Mr. Parker.

Mrs. Whitehead: Oh, of the, eh, Massachusetts Parkers?

John Parker: Why, no.

Mrs. Whitehead: Oh, then the, eh, Southern Parkers?

Arabella Rittenhouse: Oh, no, the Central Parkers. You know, the, eh, benches and trees.

Mrs. Whitehead: I see!

[Mrs. Whitehead leaves]

Arabella Rittenhouse: Meow! Oh, I don't like that woman!

John Parker: Do you really love me?

Arabella Rittenhouse: Why don't you marry me and find out.

John Parker: Marry you? Heh! On what! Last year I sold two paintings. One at a hundred and one at fifty. Could we live on a hundred and fifty dollars a year?

Arabella Rittenhouse: Well, we wouldn't need any money. I've got a charge account in every shop on Fifth Avenue.

John Parker: Well, if I had any brains, I'd give up painting and get a regular job. You know, I had a cousin who made $50,000 on Wall Street last year.

Arabella Rittenhouse: I don't want to marry your cousin. I'm a darn fool. I want to marry you.