This is my goddamn house!
Officer Monica Romero: Yes, and these are my handcuffs, and if you don't cooperate, you'll be wearing my handcuffs in your goddamn house!
Eliot Arnold
Tim Allen · 20 quotes
Henry Desalvo
Dennis Farina · 15 quotes
Snake
Tom Sizemore · 13 quotes
Arthur Herk
Stanley Tucci · 11 quotes
Officer Monica Romero
Janeane Garofalo · 8 quotes
Leonard
Jack Kehler · 7 quotes
Pat Greer
Heavy D · 7 quotes
Matt Arnold
Ben Foster · 6 quotes
Alan Seitz
Omar Epps · 5 quotes
Jenny Herk
Zooey Deschanel · 5 quotes
Eddie
Johnny Knoxville · 3 quotes
Most scenes together: Henry Desalvo & Leonard (5), Pat Greer & Alan Seitz (5), Arthur Herk & Officer Monica Romero (4)
Big Trouble quotes
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Bruce I hope you realize you've just committed assault.
I know, I know. Time was, you actually had to hit somebody.
Deeber
[points to his computer monitor]
If you want to continue working at this newspaper, you will put something in here before you go home.
Why don't I put something in there right now?
[He climbs onto Deeber's desk and kicks his shoe straight through the screen.] [v.o.]
Deeber picked the wrong day to be a jerk. Earlier that day I found out my wife was having an affair with her tennis instructor.
The Kingpin will never let go of the Kingpin's suitcase! [opens fire on him]
Airplane Captain Justin Hobart It's a bomb! It's a bomb! Get it off the plane!
[Eliot grabs an emergency lever...] [to Snake]
Have it your way!
[...And pulls it, jettisoning the stairs and sending Snake and the suitcase plummeting towards the ocean.]
Do you think someone's trying to kill your husband?
Anna Herk
God, I hope so!
I hope you're not gonna give me a ticket for this.
Officer Walter Kramitz If I don't see them, I don't write them.
Look, I'm sorry that my kid squirted your daughter... I-I mean, I'm sorry that he got her wet... I mean... the way he described it, it was just supposed to be a game.
Anna Herk
Well, hey, kids.
Strip poker. Strip poker. Now, that's a good game.
Dad, no offense, but only a moron would mistake that for a real gun.
You could've been killed. And where's your partner in crime?
Andrew?
He ran the other way.
Did anybody call the police?
What does a guy like Arthur do for a living?
Anna Herk
He's an executive at Penultra Corporation.
[chuckles]
I did an article on them once. They built the jail downtown where the plumbing doesn't work. I called it, "Crapital Punishment."
Anna Herk
Eliot Arnold, from The Herald? I used to read your column! You were so funny. What happened?
I lost my sense of humor in the divorce.
[Anna laughs] [more seriously]
How does a guy like Arthur end up with someone like you?
Anna Herk
I married him when Jenny was little. My first husband left us kind of early, and we had to move to this crappy little apartment, and I met Arthur. He was different then. I keep looking up divorce lawyers in the phone book, but then I think about that horrible apartment.
It's unavailable. I live there.
[She laughs again.]
The Kingpin will never let go of the Kingpin's suitcase! [Opens fire on him]
[Grabs an emergency lever]
Have it your way [pulls the lever disconecting the stairs from the plane]
Geo Salesman Sweet little vehicle. Just get divorced? Ah, it doesn't matter. Forty-two miles to the gallon, AM/FM radio. I'll even throw in the undercoating. Anything else you'd like to know?
Yeah. How many clowns can it hold?
[back at his table]
You go tell your employer it's gonna cost him another 10 G's apiece.
His Boss
Okay. But we want this finished as soon as possible.
Well, believe me, we don't want to spend anymore time in this garden spot than we have to.
Got that right.
There was another shooter.
Voice on Payphone
What do you mean?
What do I mean? What do you mean "what do I mean". I mean there was another shooter is what I mean.
[Henry pretends to drop an item only to reach for his ankle holstered gun.] [While aiming at the gangstas]
Not right now, okay.
Gang Leader
It's cool, bro.
We have a die-hard situation developing in the kitchen.
What's happening?
Well, either he's going to whack 'em with a rolling pin or bake him a cake. I don't know. Could go either way with this crew.
Good thing you ran away, Arthur, you might have gotten wet.
Shut up!
Easy...
Don't tell me easy, this is my goddamn house!
And these are my handcuffs, and if you don't take it easy, you'll be wearing my handcuffs in your goddamn house.