Rhonda LeBeck Quotes in Tremors (1990)

[trapped on top of a boulder by a Graboid, Val, Earl, and Rhonda are thinking of explanations for where the creatures came from]

Valentine McKee: [joking] They're mutations caused by radiation. No, wait; the government made 'em. *Big* surprise for the Russians.

Rhonda LeBeck: Well, there's nothing like them in the fossil record... Okay, so they predate the fossil record.

[not buying it herself]

Rhonda LeBeck: That'd make them a couple of billion years old... and we've just never seen one until now. Right.

Earl Bassett: I vote for outer space. No way these are local boys.

[Earl Bassett and Valentine McKee have just been chased by a 30 foot long monster]

Rhonda LeBeck: Did you notice anything weird a minute ago?

Rhonda LeBeck: They only respond to vibration, right? Couldn't we... distract them somehow?

Valentine McKee: Yeah, something to keep 'em busy, like a... like a decoy!

Earl Bassett: Hey Melvin... wanna make a buck?

[as the graboid feels at the building]

Valentine McKee: What's it doing, Rhonda?

Rhonda LeBeck: Why do you keep asking me?

Rhonda LeBeck: [to Val] Well, thanks for everything, you know, saving my life and stuff.

Rhonda LeBeck: I think I have a plan. Why don't we throw a bomb the way we want to go and then when it goes off, we run like goddamn bastards!

[Everyone looks at her]

Rhonda LeBeck: Pardon my French.

Rhonda LeBeck: No, you don't understand, these creatures are absolutely unprecedented.

Nestor: Yeah, but where do they come from?

Earl Bassett: [Graboid eats Rhonda's shovel] Don't he have a home to go to?

Valentine McKee: That's why Edgar never got down off that damn tower.

Rhonda LeBeck: I think I have an idea.

Earl Bassett: You know, we're gonna have to come up with some sort of plan, he's just going to wait us to death.