It (1990) quotes

View Quote Pennywise: (indicating a number of freshly dug graves) Take your pick, B-B-B-Billy boy. Oh, except for the one on the end, that's already taken. Sorry.
Bill: I remember you, and I remember we beat you. I'm not afraid of you.
[Pennywise snarls and bares his teeth angrily]

View Quote Pennywise: Last chance, Tozier - get out before it gets dark tonight. You're TOO OLD to stop me! You're ALL TOO OLD!
Richie (to the Librarian): Tell Mike Hanlon, if you see him--
Pennywise: Excuse me, sir, do you have Prince Albert in a can? You DO?! Well, you better let the poor guy out! Wa-ha! Wa-ha! Wa-ha!
Richie (to the Librarian): Tell Mike Hanlon that I had to go, that I had to get cleaned up! Tell him! Tell him! Tell him, I'll see him tonight!
Pennywise: GET OUT!! Last chance, Tozier! Get out! Get out while you can!
[Richie runs out of the library.]
Pennywise: (off-screen) Excuse me, ma'am, is your refrigerator running? [gasps] It IS?! Well, you better catch it before it runs away! Wa-ha! Wa-ha! Wa-ha! Oh, I kill myself!

View Quote Pennywise: Let go. Be afraid! You all taste so much better when you're afraid.
Bill: Kill It, Bev!
Pennywise: Kill?! [laughs] Me?! Oh you are priceless, brat! I am eternal, child. I am the eater of worlds, and of children. And you are next!
Eddie: This is battery acid, you slime!
[Eddie sprays It/Pennywise with his aspirator.]

View Quote Pennywise: [from inside the drain] Hiya, Georgie! [reveals himself] Aren't cha gonna say... hello? [Georgie shakes his head] Awww, come on, bucko. Don't you want a... balloon? [Georgie is initially tempted, but hesitates]
Georgie: I'm not supposed to take stuff from strangers; My dad said so.
Pennywise: Very wise of ya dad, Georgie - very wise indeed. I, Georgie, am Pennywise, the Dancing Clown. You are Georgie. So now we know each other. Keeerect?!
Georgie: [still somewhat nervous] I guess so. I gotta go.
Pennywise: Go?! Without this? [shows Georgie his fallen paper boat]
Georgie: [cheerful] My boat!
Pennywise: EX-actly! Go on, kiddo. Take it. [Georgie stares, unsure about reaching into the stormdrain for his boat] Awww. You want it, don't you, Georgie? Of course you do. And there's cotton candy, rides, and all sorts of surprises down here. And balloons too. All colors.
Georgie: [skeptical] Do they float? [reaches in for his boat]
Pennywise: [face begins changing from a smile to a frown] Ohh, yes. They float, Georgie. They float. And when you're down here, with me... 'YOU'LL FLOAT TOO!!!!'
[It/Pennywise grabs Georgie's arm and pulls him toward the stormdrain]

View Quote Richie: Don't talk. You're gonna be fine, Spaghetti-Man.
Eddie: Richie, please. For the last time, don't call me that. You know how I... [dies]

View Quote Richie: I hope that someone remembered to bring something useful, like a machine gun.
Bev: [holding up slingshot] I brought this. It's the only thing I saved from those days.
Ben: I remember you were a dead shot, Bev.
Eddie: Couldn't miss.
Ben: It was like it was supposed to be, Bev. Remember? You hit the clown, Pennywise, in the head. It broke open.
Bev: And underneath it was a light.
Ben: Bright lights.
Bill: Deadlights.

View Quote Richie: I just flew in from L.A., and boy is my tail-section tired... We're hot tonight, it's great to be back here in Derry, breathing in that old Derry Air. Eddie, get all of their names, I want to put them on my Christmas mailer, no, Denbrough there, let's put him on my Norman Mailer. [puts Eddie in a head-lock] I love this guy, he's like the brother I never had. [turns Eddie face-up] Wait a minute! He IS the brother I never had!
Mike: Beep beep, Richie. [on the telephone] Hello, Stan? ..Is this the Uris residence? I'm trying to get hold of Stan Uris-- [pause] Oh... Thank you. Thank you, very much. [hangs up] Stan is dead. He cut his wrists in the bathtub right after I phoned him.

View Quote Richie: One out of ten. You're worse than I am, kiddo. At this rate, we might as well let that damn clown take us one by one.
Bill: Beep beep, Richie. Who's left? Ben? Bev?
Richie: Yeah, and one of them better be good, Bill, because right now, you're in the lead with a pathetic three out of 10.
Bill: Richie, will you PLEASE shut up?!
Richie: You know, you don't stutter all the time?

View Quote Richie: So, you, Haystack, what are you building? A dam or something?
Ben: Yeah.
Richie: Have you ever built one before?
Ben: No.
Richie: How do you know it will work?
Ben: Well, of course it would. Why wouldn't it?
Richie: Yeah, but how do you know?
Ben: I just know.
Bill: Yeah, he just knows.
Bev: Yeah.
Eddie: Yeah.
Stan: Yeah.
Richie: Well, okay.

View Quote Richie: What are you saying, Eddie? You're still a virgin?
Eddie: Yeah.
Richie: Well I can't help you there, pal.

View Quote [Ben bikes out to the riverbank after an argument with his mother]
Offstage voice: Ben! Benny! Up here, Ben!
Ben: [turns around and gets up] Daddy?
Captain Hanscom: Benny! [Ben motions towards waterworks building] Ben! Ben! Hi, Ben!
Ben: Daddy?
Captain Hanscom: That's my home now, son! [Ben cannot believe it when suddenly he sees his father holding balloons]
Captain Hanscom: You want a balloon, Ben? They float!
Pennywise: They all float.
Captain Hanscom: Come here, son! You'll like it down there!
Pennywise: You'll never have to grow up! [laughs, changes back to normal and disappears as a skeleton comes out of the water] They float. They all float. And when you're down here with me, Fatboy, you'll float too. [laughs]

View Quote [Ben is sitting outside at his aunt Jean and cousin Jim's house with his mother Arlene after he had a fight with his cousin and got scolded for that]
Arlene: We'll have a home of our own one day, Benny, I promise.
Ben: I know, Mama.
Arlene: Benny, as long as we're guests in this house, I need you to help me.
Ben: They wouldn't treat us like this if Daddy were still alive.
Arlene: Come on inside now and apologize.
Ben: Apologize? But he was...
Arlene: Benny, you must.
Ben: No, I hate it here! I hate it here! [climbs onto his bicycle and rides off in despair]
Arlene: Benny, come on, Benny! Benny!

View Quote [Ben has just finished telling a story]
Eddie: That's great, Ben. You should write that one down.
Ben: Bill's our writer.
Bill: I just write horror stories.

View Quote [last dialogue] Silly boy. You still think you can see...me. [soft chuckle] You'll never see me. You'll see only what your little mind can allow. Go! Now...for if you stay, you'll lose your little mind in my deadlights, like all the others... Like all the others. [chuckles, then laughs maniacally and fades away]

View Quote [Speaking as Stan's disembodied head and voice] Sorry I'm late. Well, let's see who's here. B-B-B-B-B-B-Billy boy! Richie, you still here? We never expected you to stick around. Nice nose job, no one would ever suspect. Haystack! Putting on a little weight, huh? Speaking of dads, Bevvy, yours isn't worried about you anymore. He loves your choice in men. Wheezy, how's your sex life? What's your sex life? Well, Mikey, you did it. You got us all back here. I guess it's 'cause it's the only way you'd ever see us, since you're so lame, you'd never leave this town! I finally made it, guys. I'm in the deadlights now. [Voice changes to It’s/Pennywise's voice] And you know what? It's true what they say. We all float down here, and you will, too. In fact, they ALL FLOAT! THEY ALL FLOAT! THEY-! [Mike shuts the fridge door closed]