Robbie Ferrier Quotes in War of the Worlds (2005)

Robbie Ferrier: What is it? Is it terrorists?

Ray Ferrier: These came from some place else.

Robbie Ferrier: What do you mean, like, Europe?

Ray Ferrier: No, Robbie, not like Europe!

Ray Ferrier: Ketchup. Mustard. Thousand Island Dressing. Vinaigrette. This is good, Robbie. I told you to pack *food*. What the hell is this?

Robbie Ferrier: That's all that was in your kitchen.

Ray Ferrier: [playing catch with Robbie] Mom says you got a report due on Monday, so you're going to work on that when you're done here.

Robbie Ferrier: Yeah, I'm almost finished, I just gotta type it up.

Ray Ferrier: Yeah, bullshit.

Robbie Ferrier: Yeah? What do you know, Ray?

Ray Ferrier: Everything. Haven't you heard? Between me and my brother, we know everything.

Rachel Ferrier: What's the capital of Australia?

Ray Ferrier: That's one my brother knows.

Robbie Ferrier: Okay with you if I just laugh the first five hundred times you tell that one?

Ray Ferrier: ...Just do your report. We don't send you to school so you can flunk out.

Robbie Ferrier: You don't pay for it, Tim does.

Ray Ferrier: [hesitates furiously for a second, then throws the ball really hard at Robbie, Robbie catches it hardly] That's half of what I got.

Robbie Ferrier: You're an asshole.

[throws the ball hard at Ray]

Robbie Ferrier: ...I hate coming here.

Ray Ferrier: Is that why you act like such a dick?

Ray Ferrier: [throws the ball super hard, but Robbie steps out of the way and allows the ball to crash through the window]

Ray Ferrier: Where the hell did you go?

Robbie Ferrier: Over on Lincoln Avenue. By the church.

Ray Ferrier: You saw the lightning? Were you near it?

Robbie Ferrier: Yeah. 26 times we counted, over and over again. The lightning just started hitting. It opened up this, like, hole or something. I don't know.

Ray Ferrier: 26 times?

Robbie Ferrier: Yeah.

Ray Ferrier: You're okay?

Robbie Ferrier: Yeah.

Ray Ferrier: Good. All right, well, your sister is in the house. And I want you to go in that house and I want you to stay with her. And the next time you take my car with no driver's license and no permission, I call the cops.

[Robbie is trying to hitch a ride with passing soldiers]

Ray Ferrier: Robbie, you want to go in that direction? There is nothing *living* in that direction!

Robbie Ferrier: What do you care? You never gave a shit before! You never gave a shit!

Ray Ferrier: Okay, hard-ass. You're in charge now? So what's your plan?

Robbie Ferrier: We catch up with these soldiers, and we head back there, and we get back at them! We get back at them!

Ray Ferrier: Okay, now come up with a plan that doesn't involve your 10-year-old sister joining the Army! You got anything like that?

Robbie Ferrier: Why don't you tell the truth? You don't know where to go! You only chose Boston because you hope Mom is there; You hope she is there, and then you can dump us on her! Then you will only have to care about yourself, which is exactly the way you like it!

Rachel Ferrier: If everything's fine, why do we have to sleep in the basement? We got perfectly good beds.

Ray Ferrier: It's like a slumber party.

Robbie Ferrier: What are you afraid's gonna happen to us?

Ray Ferrier: Nice basement.

Rachel Ferrier: I wanna sleep in my bed, got back problems.

Ray Ferrier: Ok, well uh, you know on the weather channel, when there's a tornado, and they, tell you to go down to the basement for safety? It's like that.

Rachel Ferrier: There's gonna be tornadoes?

Ray Ferrier: Rachel? No more talking. Ok?

Rachel Ferrier: Could you be a little nicer to me? God!

Robbie Ferrier: This is your space. You own this.

Robbie Ferrier: If we had any balls we'd go back there, find one of those things and kill it.

Ray Ferrier: Thank you, but maybe you should let me handle the big decisions.

Robbie Ferrier: When will that be, Ray? Never? Never's about your speed.

Ray Ferrier: Ok, enough of the "Ray" shit! It"s "Dad," or "Sir!" Or if you want, "Mr. Ferrier."... That sounds a little weird to me but you decide.

Rachel Ferrier: [Calling out] Mom?... Tim? Mom!

Robbie Ferrier: ...They're gone.

Rachel Ferrier: [to Ray] Is she dead?

Ray Ferrier: She's not dead. Alright? She's just not here, okay. They were never here.

Robbie Ferrier: How do you know?

Ray Ferrier: Because they're on their way to Boston.

Robbie Ferrier: Ray, I'm standing right next to you. Talk to me. What's going on?

Robbie Ferrier: I have to see this, Dad. You have to let me go. I want to fight. Please! I have to see this. Just let me go!