McCord Quotes in The Island (2005)

Lincoln Six-Echo: What's "God"?

McCord: Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you.

[from trailer]

McCord: I know you're new to this whole human thing, but... backpacks for boys, purses for girls. Ya understand?

Jordan Two-Delta: We're not idiots.

McCord: Well, excuse me, Miss "I'm-so-smart-I-can't-wait-to-go-to-the-Island!"

McCord: [At Lincoln Six-Echo] All right, look. I know you're new to this whole human experience and all, but there's one universal truth and that is you NEVER give a woman your credit card.

Lincoln Six-Echo: Right. mmm.

Lincoln Six-Echo: [talking to McCord and sees a poster] Are these your friends?

McCord: eh... sometimes

Lincoln Six-Echo: Where are their clothes?

McCord: um... well

McCord: Jeez, why do I always have to be the one to tell the kids there is no Santa Claus?

McCord: Just cause people wanna eat the burger doesn't mean they wanna meet the cow.

[Jordan Two-Delta and Lincoln Six-Echo have just been told they are clones by McCord]

Jordan Two-Delta: Bu- I have a mother! I remember her!

McCord: Yeah, I know...

Jordan Two-Delta: I grew up on a farm! I had a little dog a - and I had a bike...

McCord: A bike, yeah. A pink, fluffy Flyer with little tassels on the handlebars? And you rode it up the street to your Grandmother's house, you'd ring the little bell, she came out and served you cookies on a hot plate?

Jordan Two-Delta: Yes.

McCord: No. Memory imprints. I've seen 'em - a buddy of mine is a programmer at the institute, he showed me. There's only, like, twelve stories, they change around little details, but they're all pretty much the same. The life you think you had before the 'contamination' - it never happened.

[From the trailer]

McCord: You're not real. You're copies of people out here in the world.

McCord: Do you remember the talk we had about... all the talk?

[just before a clone is being born]

McCord: Whoa seriously, guys, unless you wanna see me blow chunks, can you wait till I'm gone?

[from trailer]

McCord: The life you thought you had... it never happened.

McCord: [their last conversation, until the end of the movie] ... Don't you move. If you need to piss, you sit here and go in your pants; it'll serve you right. But, if the dome is falling down around your ass, *Don't move*! Understand?

Tyler: Sure, I'll remember.

[the arraignment of the burglars begins]

Judge: Your names, please, and state your professions.

Barker: Bernard Barker, anti-communist.

Judge: Anti-communist? That, sir, is not your average profession.

McCord: James McCord, security consultant.

Judge: With?

McCord: Government, uh, recently, uh, retired.

Judge: Where in the government?

McCord: [quietly] Central Intelligence Agency.

[Pinky introduces himself to the new "marshal"]

Pinky Snyder: Pinky Snyder - M.D., D.V.M. and D.V.G., P.D.Q. and C.O.D., and T.N.T.

McCord: Why, whittled down to size, that sounds like a pill peddler.

Pinky Snyder: Shucks, how'd you guess?

Ted Carson: Dobie and Shad should be waitin' for us at the top of the grade.

McCord: You know, kid, I've just been thinkin'. What's the use of us playing Santa Claus?

Ted Carson: Whaddya mean?

McCord: Why split the gold four ways when you don't have to?

Ted Carson: Sure, that's only good arithmetic!