They Live (1988)

Roddy Piper: Nada

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• Nada : I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum.

• Nada : You, you're okay. This one: real fuckin' ugly.

• Nada : You know, you look like your head fell in the cheese dip back in 1957.

• Nada : You see, I take these glasses off, she looks like a regular person, doesn't she? Put 'em back on...

  [puts them back on] 

  Nada : ...formaldehyde-face!

• Nada : I'm giving you a choice: either put on these glasses or start eatin' that trash can.

  Frank : Not this year!

• Nada : Mama don't like tattletales.

• Nada : Brother, life's a bitch... and she's back in heat.

• Frank : Listen, man, I don't like anyone following me if I don't know why they are.

  Nada : Well, I don't join up with anyone unless I know where they're going.

• Nada : Put the glasses on! Put 'em on!

• Nada : A long time ago things were different man. My old daddy took me down to the river, kicked my ass, told me about the power and the glory. I was saved. He changed when I was little. Turned mean and started tearin' at me. So I ran away when I was thirteen. He tried to cut me once. Big old razor blade. Held it up against my throat. I said "Daddy please"... Just kept moving' back and forth... like he was sawin' down a little tree...

  Frank : Maybe they're always been with us... those things out there. Maybe they love it... seeing us hate each other, watching us kill each other off, feeding on our own cold fuckin' hearts...

  Nada : I got news for 'hem... There's gonna be hell to pay. 'Cause I ain't daddy's little boy no more.

• Nada : That's like pouring perfume on a pig.

• Frank : I have a wife and kids in Detroit. I haven't seen them in six months. Steel mills were laying people off left and right. They finally went under. We gave the steel companies a break when they needed it. Know what they gave themselves? Raises. The Golden Rule: He who has the gold, makes the rules. They close one more factory we should take a sledgehammer to one of their fancy fuckin foreign cars.

  Nada : You know, you ought to have a little more patience with life.

  Frank : Yeah, well I'm all out!

  Nada : The whole deal is like some kind of crazy game. They put you at the starting line. And the name of the game is make it through life. Only, everyone's out for themselves and looking to do you in at the same time. OK, man here we are. You do what you can, but remember, I'm going to do my best to blow your ass away. So how are you going to make it?

  Frank : I deliver a hard day's work for my money I just want the chance. It'll come. I believe in America. I follow the rules. Everybody's got their own hard times these days.

• Nada : [seeing politician on TV for the first time]  Ha! Figures it'd be something like this.

• Nada : [to Frank]  You ain't the first son of a bitch to wake up out of their dream.

• Nada : Wooo. It's like a drug. Wearing these glasses gets you high, but you come down hard.

• Frank : We can't be the only ones who can see, we've got to find the people who made these.

  Nada : Yeah, if any of them are still alive.

• Frank : So how you gonna make it?

  Nada : I deliver a hard day's work for my money. I just want the chance. It'll come. I believe in America. I follow the rules. Everybody's got their own hard times these days.

• Blonde Haired Cop : Where did you get those sunglasses?

  Nada : From the Tooth Fairy!

• Nada : And who are you, little fella? Come to show 'em where I am, huh? Not nice!

• Nada : Don't wear them glasses too long. Starts to feel like a knife turnin' in your skull.

• Nada : I don't like this one bit. Not one bit.

• Holly : You're fighting the forces of evil that none of us can see without sunglasses.

  Nada : Take a look.

  Holly : If you want me to look through your sunglasses, I'll look through your sunglasses. If I don't see what you see, I'm going to see it anyway.

• Female Interviewer : Last place of employment?

  Nada : Denver, Colorado. I worked there for ten years and things just seemed to dry up. They lost fourteen banks in one week. So, well...

  Female Interviewer : There's nothing available for you right now.

• Blonde Haired Cop : You look as shitty to us as we do to you.

  Nada : Impossible.

• Nada : Now look, uh, things turned out a little sour for me today.

  Holly : You're not the only one.

  Nada : Yeah, well, I'm sorry. But I needed you to get away.

  Holly : No, you have two guns. You're not sorry. You're in charge.

• Nada : You're married?

  Holly : Yes.

  Nada : Please don't lie to me.

  Holly : No.

• Frank : I have a job, now and I plan on keeping it. I'm walking a white line all the time. I don't bother nobody, nobody bothers me. You better start doing the same.

  Nada : White line's in the middle of the road. That's the worst place to drive.