Earthquake Movie Quotes
Sam Royce
Barbara, take off your pantyhose, damnit! You too, c'mon, take off your pantyhose!
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Sgt. Lew Slade
[clumsily attempting to comfort a young woman who has just been sexually assaulted]
C'mon, Rosa, settle down. Earthquakes bring out the worst in some guys, that's all
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Jody
You've got to forget about the way it used to be. Your brother could be dead! Nobody left but me to take care of you.
Rosa
Well, I have another brother in San Francisco... and he's in the Mafia.
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Denise
I'm not a nympho. Mind you, I'm not Mary Poppins either but I'm far from being, what's the male equivalent of a nympho?
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Chief Inspector, L.A. Dept. of Water & Power
Find anything?
[submerges]
Chief Inspector, L.A. Dept. of Water & Power
I guess we won't find anything until after the shaft is pumped out, but everything looks fine.
Max, Assistant Dam Caretaker
Right. People drown in elevators every damn day of the week!
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Stewart Graff
I didn't know you were a clock watcher.
Remy Royce-Graff
What did you say?
Stewart Graff
[quietly]
I said I didn't know you were a clock watcher.
Remy Royce-Graff
Don't you lower your voice to me!
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Remy Royce-Graff
You know, if it wasn't 7:30 in the morning I would have a drink.
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Mayor Lewis
The governor and I aren't even in the same party. If this turns out to be a false alarm, he'll make me out to be the biggest fool west of the Mississippi.
Dr. Stockle
Second biggest. I'll top the list.
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Denise
Oh, and the character I'm playing is also supposed to be a nymphomaniac. And the director of the picture is a strong believer in type casting. But, anyway, I'll cope with that.
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Sgt. Lew Slade
I'm sorry I ever arrested you two, I've been paying for it ever since.
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Rosa
[to Lew]
My brother told me you were a strange kind of cop.
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[last lines]
Dr. James Vance
This used to be a helluva town, officer.
Sgt. Lew Slade
[on the edge of tears]
Yeah...
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Stewart Graff
Your last words to me last night; your first words this morning. Ever thought about expanding your vocabulary?
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Stewart Graff
I think there are still people alive down there and I want to get them out.
Brawny Foreman
Well, nobody else is... and you can't do it alone.
Stewart Graff
Yeah, well I won't be alone.
[points to Lew]
Stewart Graff
He's coming with me.
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Barbara
[hysterically]
Mr. Cameron threw me out of the elevator, and then I heard all those people screaming!
Sam Royce
[trying to ease the panic]
Probably the first time the old bastard ever did anybody a favor!
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Sgt. Lew Slade
[Explaining to his irate captain why he punched a rival police officer in the face]
That kid stole a car. Then, he got stoned, and he slammed into a little girl, a little Mexican girl. That girl was thrown fifteen feet in the air, she was probably dead before she hit the sidewalk. Blood covered three whole cement squares, not splattered, solid, just like paint! The driver never even slowed down. And, he almost got away because some pecker-wood, rich man's whore in cop's uniform was worried about a hedge!
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Sal
Now, Rosa, would you listen to me. Daredevil motorcyclists always have to have beautiful, sexy broads hangin' around.
Miles
Rosa, I'm your best friend. What do you want us to look like? Phonies or what?
Sal
RIght.
Rosa
Sal, I'm your sister! What about Maureen? She's your girlfriend.
Miles
Come on, Rosa. Maureen is too flat-chested!
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Drunk
[after major earthquake, sitting on a barstool in a wrecked neighborhood bar, injuries and damage everywhere]
Who do you have to know to get a drink around here?
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Sgt. Lew Slade
[to the citizens bombarding him for help]
Now look. STOP! You're all going to have to help yourselves! Most of the police in this district were killed in that station house. And the guys that were on patrol when the quake hit, well they probably got more to do than they can handle. Now look you, get as many volunteers as you can, go to that hardware store over there. Now if it's locked, break in, find as many picks and shovels as you can, and start looking for people who are buried alive, there are plenty of them believe me. Give him a hand. MOVE YOUR ASS!
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Dr. Stockle
No one was sure the atom bomb would work, until they dropped it. It worked.
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Drunk
Spiro C. Agnew...
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Drunk
... Bobby Riggs...
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Drunk
... Peter Fonda...
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Drunk
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Stewart Graff
Sweet Christ...
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Loudspeaker Voice
Please keep moving. More doctors are waiting in the first garage level. All cars must leave the garage area after dropping off patients. Hot coffee and food is available in basement shopping levels 2 and 3.
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Loudspeaker Voice
This is a precautionary evacuation. We repeat. There is no present danger of the dam collapsing. Move to high ground west of Highland Avenue and north of Franklin. It is a precautionary evacuation. We repeat. This is a precautionary evacuation.
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Sgt. Lew Slade
Women first!
Stewart Graff
Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Relax! There's lots of time!
Sgt. Lew Slade
Take it easy! Take it easy! One at a time! Women first! Take it easy! Take it easy!
Stewart Graff
Don't panic! Go on Remy!
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Stewart Graff
[referring to a model of a tall building, shaking on a motorized platform]
Now, the motion of this model was programmed from the actual recorded ground motions of a 6.4 earthquake. Long Beach, '33. Now, a motion of 8 would...
Cameron
What's your point?
Stewart Graff
Bill, we live in an earthquake zone, what can I tell you?
Cameron
Have I failed to meet city building and safety codes?
Stewart Graff
That's not the point, I think we should go beyond the codes. You remember the Sylmar Quake... a lot of buildings that met the codes collapsed.
Cameron
Do you know how much money I pour into this company every year?
Stewart Graff
You bet I do.
Cameron
And, you're willing to risk losing my business for something like this?
Stewart Graff
Yes, I am.
Carl Leeds
[enters Graff's office]
Revised prints of the interior in my office, Mr. Cameron, I figured you'd want to go over them.
Cameron
I'll see what it costs me
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Cameron
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Jody
[increasingly invasive with its advances] You always like me too, I could tell. Youn never said anything, but I could tell.
Rosa
[he harasses her by trying to take off her jacket] Don't, don't don't hurry me...
Rosa
[feigning malice, but scared to death] It's no real fun that way.
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