Richard Thornburg quotes

View Quote [During an attempt for a live broadcast aboard the NEA plane] Put me on live broadcast or start typing your resum

View Quote McClane: Look, I'm a cop. LAPD. How about a little team spirit, eh?
Car Impounder: Oh, I was in LA once. Hated it.

View Quote McClane: Honey. What are you doing? Where are you? Did you land yet?
Holly: Honey, it's the nineties, remember? Micro-chips, Micro-waves, faxes, air phones.
McClane: He, he, he. Okay, well, as far as I'm concerned, progress peaked at frozen pizza.

View Quote Thornburg: You cannot put me near that woman.
Air Stewardess: Excuse me?
Holly: He means he's filed a restraining order against me. I'm not allowed within 50 feet of him.
Thornburg: 50 yards. So, by keeping me in this section, you are violating a court order. I can sue you and this airline. That woman assaulted me and she humiliated me in public.
Air Stewardess: What did you do?
Holly: Knocked out two of his teeth.
Air Stewardess: Would you like some champagne?

View Quote McClane: Captain Lorenzo?
Lorenzo: Yeah.
McClane: John McClane.
Lorenzo: Yeah, yeah. I know who you are. You're the asshole that's just broke 7 FAA and 5 District of Columbia regulations, running around my airport with a gun, shooting at people. What do you call that shit?
McClane: Self-defense.

View Quote Al: Well, what is it about?
McClane: Oh, just a feeling I have.
Al: Ouch. When you get those feelings, the insurance companies start to get bankrupt.

View Quote Al: Hey, I'm right here partner. Your stiffed ass is coming through right now.
McClane: What can you tell me about him?
Al: He's dead.
McClane: You needed a computer to figure that one out?
Al: No, no, no. You don't follow me. According to the department of defense, he's been dead for two years.

View Quote Trudeau: All right, not a word of this leaves this room. There must 15,000 people in this airport and we don't need panic on our hands. We just bought ourself maybe two hours. After that, those planes with low fuel ain't gonna be circling, they are gonna be dropping on the White House lawn. McClane, is this what you've expected?
McClane: No. This is just the beginning.

View Quote Lorenzo: Hey McClane, I've got a first class unit in here, SWAT team and all. We don't need any Monday morning quarterback.
McClane: **** Monday morning, my wife is on one of the goddamn planes these guys are ****ing with, that puts me on the playing field. And if you had moved your fat ass when I told you to, we wouldn't be hip deep in shit right now...

View Quote Samantha: Big drug dealer on his way to prison. Gun fired in airport. Every controller and cafe shop getting beeped and hauling ass. And you, rocking the boat. Connection? Come on, McClane. Just a few words.
McClane: Ok, just a few words. **** off.
Samantha: Thanks, but I already got that from Colonel Stewart.

View Quote Grant: McClane, you showed some balls out there man.
McClane: Yeah.
Grant: Now, show some good sense. Let the pros handle this.
McClane: Well, looks like the pros are on the wrong team tonight.

View Quote Esperanza: Who are you?
McClane: A cop.
Esperanza: A cop?
McClane: Yeah, one of the good guys. You see, you're one of the bad guys and now that I've got your sorry ass, I'm gonna trade it for my wife.

View Quote Grant: You're the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time.
McClane: Story of my life.

View Quote McClane: Guess I was wrong about you, you're not such an asshole after all.
Grant: No, you were right. I'm just your kind of asshole.

View Quote Samantha: Jesus, you give me the story and I'll have your baby.
McClane: Not the kind of ride I'm looking for.

View Quote Helicopter Pilot: What's the matter cowboy, the ride too rough?
McClane: I don't like to fly.
Helicopter Pilot: Then, what are you doing here?
McClane: I don't like to lose either!

View Quote Stewart: How is it going? [pushes McClane off the plane] Bon voyage! [McClane pulls off the gas cap as he falls] Happy landing asshole!
McClane: [pulls out lighter] Yippie kai yay, mother****er. [throws lighter onto gas trail, igniting it and blowing up the plane as it takes off]

View Quote Holly: They told me there were terrorists at the airport.
McClane: Yeah, I heard that too.