The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

Rip Torn: Nathan Bryce

Photos 

Quotes 

• Thomas Jerome Newton : Ask me...

  Nathan Bryce : What?

  Thomas Jerome Newton : The question you've been wanting to ask ever since we met.

  Nathan Bryce : Are you Lithuanian?

  Thomas Jerome Newton : [grins]  I come from England.

  Nathan Bryce : Ah, that's not so terrible.

• Nathan Bryce : Don't you feel bitter about it? Everything?

  Thomas Jerome Newton : Bitter? No. We'd have probably treated you the same, if you'd come over to our place.

• Nathan Bryce : Why'd you come here?

  Thomas Jerome Newton : Where I come from, there's a terrible drought. We saw pictures of your planet on television. We saw the water. In fact, our word for your planet means - planet of water.

  Nathan Bryce : You watched it all on television?

• Nathan Bryce : Don't you feel bitter about it - everything?

  Thomas Jerome Newton : Bitter, no. We'd have probably treated you the same if you'd come over to our place.

• Nathan Bryce : If I had the copyright on the Bible, I wouldn't sell it to Random House.

• Nathan Bryce : You see, Mr. Newton, I'm kind of a cliche. I'm the disillusioned scientist, that goes with the cynical writer, the alcoholic actor and the spaced-out spaceman. A man like you wouldn't understand a guy like me.

• Nathan Bryce : [Referring to Newton's phonograph record]  Who'd you make it for, then?

  Thomas Jerome Newton : For my wife. She'll get to hear it one day - on the radio.

  Nathan Bryce : We hear most everything on the radio these days.

• [last lines] 

  Waiter : I think maybe Mr. Newton has had enough, don't you?

  Nathan Bryce : I think maybe, he has.

  Thomas Jerome Newton : Ah.

• Nathan Bryce : Per ardua ad astra... That's Latin.

  Thomas Jerome Newton : Latin?

  Nathan Bryce : You must know that in England? The Royal Air Force, their motto.

  Thomas Jerome Newton : Yes.

  Nathan Bryce : Per ardua ad astra. Through difficulties to the stars.

• Nathan Bryce : Well, I'm not a lecherous old man; but, you're a lecherous little girl!

  Jill : But, no one would ever believe it!

• [after many years, Bryce meets Newton, who is just served another drink by the waiter, at an outdoor restaurant] 

  Nathan Bryce : Mr. Newton?

  Thomas Jerome Newton : [somewhat delighted]  Nathan Bryce.

  Nathan Bryce : That's right. May I sit down?

  Thomas Jerome Newton : Hmm? Go ahead.

  [slight smile] 

  Thomas Jerome Newton : Strangely enough, I was thinking of you just the other day.

  [notices a helicopter far off in the sky] 

  Thomas Jerome Newton : How did you find me?

  Nathan Bryce : Your record.

  Thomas Jerome Newton : Hmm?

  Nathan Bryce : It took me a while, but I traced you.

  Thomas Jerome Newton : Did you like it?

  Nathan Bryce : [shakes his head]  Not much.

  Thomas Jerome Newton : Oh. Well, I didn't make it for you anyway.

  Nathan Bryce : Who'd you make it for then?

  Thomas Jerome Newton : For my wife. She'll get to hear it one day. On the radio.

  Nathan Bryce : [slight smile]  We hear most everything on the radio these days.

  Thomas Jerome Newton : Do you see anything of Mary-Lou?

  Nathan Bryce : [shakes head]  Not much.

  Thomas Jerome Newton : [sardonically]  I don't want her to get lonely. She must still have enough money.

  Nathan Bryce : Don't you feel bitter about it, everything?

  Thomas Jerome Newton : Bitter? No. We'd have probably treated you the same if you'd come around to our place.

  Nathan Bryce : Is there no chance then?

  Thomas Jerome Newton : Of what? Of course there's a chance. You're the scientist, Dr. Bryce. You must know there's always a chance.

  [pause] 

  Thomas Jerome Newton : Do you need money?

  [Bryce shakes his head] 

  Thomas Jerome Newton : Let me know if you do, will you? I may not see so well anymore. I still have money.