Papillon Quotes in The Exterminators of the Year 3000 (1983)

Trash: Didn't you used to be an astronaut?

Papillon: That was so long ago, I couldn't even remember how to get to the moon!

Papillon: Hey you bastards, I'm still here.

[Papillon is contemplating a daring leap from a cliff to escape]

Dega: [the plan] It seems so desperate. You think it will work?

Papillon: Does it matter?

Judge in Dream: I accuse YOU... of a WASTED LIFE!

Papillon: Guilty... guilty... guilty...

Papillon: We're something, aren't we? The only animals that shove things up their ass for survival.

Papillon: [to Dega] Me they can kill... You they own!

Toussaint: How did you know I have dry leprosy, that it isn't contagious?

Papillon: I didn't.

Doctor: [Briefly examining Dega in a prefunctory manner] You're fine. NEXT!

Dega: [Walking away] Must be better than I feel.

Doctor: [Briefly examining Papillon] You're in wonderful shape.

Papillon: How do you fail an examination like this?

Doctor: NEXT!

Dega: Remember what the chicken said to the weasel?

Papillon: If he was a healthy weasel, the chicken didn't get a chance to say anything.

Maturette: I'll do what you ask, on one condition: You keep your money and you take me with you.

Papillon: No.

Maturette: I'm the only one who can get you out of here.

Papillon: You're...

Maturette: I know. I'm a queer, a fairy, a poof, huh? But there's one thing you forgot. You may have been framed, as you say you were... but I wasn't. Between the two of us... I'm the one who's killed a man, not you.

Papillon: Okay.

Toussaint: We do a lot of smuggling here. We raid the mainland. We steal boats. When an outsider comes in we generally kill him, as a security measure.

Papillon: That makes sense.

Toussaint: Well... a man of Christian understanding.

Dega: Well, it now seems quite possible that until we get to a decent jail with bribeable guards, I may stand in some need of... rather close physical protection.

Papillon: That depends on how long you want to live.

Dega: For a long time.

Papillon: Then you got a problem.

Dega: Well, I presume that you have some, uh, goals, some particular need that outrates all the others. I mean, if so... may I aslk what it is?

Papillon: Money!

Dega: For what?

Papillon: Escape.

Dega: Very good. You keep me alive until we land in Guyana, and I'll underwrite any escape you care to arrange.

Papillon: Escape for me, not for us!

Dega: Oh, of course. I, I, I...

[laughs]

Dega: . I have no intention, uh, of even attempting to escape - ever!

Papillon: Done!

George: 'Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.'

Scarlett: Oh.

Papillon: What?

Scarlett: According to mythology, that's the inscription over the gates of hell.

Papillon: What? I'm... I'm not going in there.

Papillon: It wasn't my fault.