Quotes from
The Thing (1982)
Garry: I know you gentlemen have been through a lot, but when you find the time, I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!Clark: I dunno what the hell's in there, but it's weird and pissed off whatever it is.
Childs: How will we make it?
MacReady: Maybe we shouldn't.
[last lines]
MacReady: Why don't we just wait here for a while... see what happens.
MacReady: I know I'm human. And if you were all these things, then you'd just attack me right now, so some of you are still human. This thing doesn't want to show itself, it wants to hide inside an imitation. It'll fight if it has to, but it's vulnerable out in the open. If it takes us over, then it has no more enemies, nobody left to kill it. And then it's won.
MacReady: Trust is a tough thing to come by these days.
MacReady: First goddamn week of winter.
[Norris' head grows legs and tries to walk away]
Palmer: You gotta be fucking kidding.
[Thing roars and screams]
MacReady: Yeah, fuck you too!
Garry: The generator's gone.
MacReady: Any way we can we fix it?
Garry: It's "gone", MacReady.
MacReady: Hey, Sweden!
Childs: You're gonna have to sleep sometime, MacCready.
MacReady: I'm a real light sleeper, Childs.
Palmer: I was wonderin' when El Capitan was gonna get a chance to use his popgun.
MacReady: Somebody in this camp ain't what he appears to be. Right now that may be one or two of us. By spring, it could be all of us.
Childs: So, how do we know who's human? If I was an imitation, a perfect imitation, how would you know it was really me?
Garry: This is pure nonsense. It doesn't prove a thing.
MacReady: I thought you'd feel that way, Garry. You were the only one who could've gotten to that blood. We'll do you last.
MacReady: Now I'm gonna show you what I already know.
MacReady: Childs, we're going out to give Blair the test. If he tries to make it back here and we're not with him... burn him.
Childs: I just cannot believe any of this voodoo bullshit.
Palmer: Childs, it happens all the time, man. They're falling out of the sky like flies. Government knows all about it, right, Mac?
Childs: You believe any of this voodoo bullshit, Blair?
Palmer: Childs, Childs, Chariots of the Gods, man. They practically own South America. I mean, they taught the Incas everything they know.
Garry: My god, what was happening to him?
MacReady: If it had more time to finish it would have looked and sounded and acted just like Bennings!
Garry: I don't know what you're saying.
MacReady: That was one of those things out there, trying to imitate him, Garry. Come on.
Garry: MacReady, I know Bennings, I've known him for ten years. He's my friend.
MacReady: We've gotta burn the rest of him.
MacReady: I just wanna get up to my shack and get drunk...
MacReady: I dunno, it's like this: thousands of years ago this spaceship crashes, and this thing, whatever it is, jumps out or crawls out and gets entombed in the ice.
Garry: So, the Norwegians find it, and they dig it out of the ice...
MacReady: That's right, Garry. They dig it up, they cart it back to their base. Somehow it gets thawed, it wakes up, probaly not the best of moods, and... I don't know, I wasn't there!
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