Pitch Black quotes

View Quote Hassan: Captain? Captain?!
Carolyn Fry: I'm not your ****ing captain.

View Quote Imam: Just because you do not believe in God, Mr. Riddick, does not mean God does not believe in you–
Riddick: You think someone could spend half their life in a slam with a horse bit in their mouth and not believe? You think he could start out in some … liquor store trash bin with an umbilical cord wrapped around his neck and not believe in God? You got it all wrong, holy man. I absolutely believe in God … and I absolutely hate the ****er.

View Quote Imam: Where's Johns?
Riddick: Which half?
About Pitch Black (film)[edit]

View Quote Jack: [sneaking up on Ogilvie] He'd probably get you right here...under the jaw, and you'd never even hear him coming. Because that's how good he is.
Paris P. Ogilvie: Did you run away from your parents or did they run away from you?

View Quote Jack: We're gonna lose everybody out here. We should've stayed at the ship.
Riddick: He died fast, and if we have any choice about it, that's the way we should all go out. Don't you cry for Johns. Don't you dare.

View Quote Jack: Where the hell can I get eyes like that?
Richard B. Riddick: Gotta kill a few people.
Jack: Okay. I can do it.
Richard B. Riddick: Then you gotta get sent to a slam where they say you'll never see daylight again. You dig up a doctor and you pay him 20 menthol Kools...to do a surgical shine job on your eyeballs.
Jack: So you can see who's sneaking up on you in the dark?
Richard B. Riddick: Exactly.

View Quote Johns: Doctors decide who lives and dies on the battlefield. It's called Triage.
Riddick: Kept calling it murder when I did it.

View Quote Richard B. Riddick: Looks clear.
[A creature lunges out and almost decapitates Johns before taking flight into the dark]
William J. Johns: I thought you said it was CLEAR!
Richard B. Riddick: I said, it looks clear!
William J. Johns: Well what does it look like now?
Richard B. Riddick: … Looks clear.

View Quote Riddick: [Riddick shuts off the ship's engines] We can't leave.
Jack: [panicked as creatures approach the ship] Why not?!
Riddick: Without saying "goodnight". [fires the ship's engines, incinerating the creatures behind it as it takes off]

View Quote William J. Johns: [freeing Riddick] I want you to remember this moment. The way it could have gone and didn't. Here.
[Riddick suddenly grabs Johns' shotgun off him and aims it]
William J. Johns: Take it easy...
Richard B. Riddick: **** you!
William J. Johns: Do we have a deal?
Richard B. Riddick: [after a pause, Riddick hands the shotgun back] "I want you to remember this moment."

View Quote [A creature is heard invading the shipwreck]
Riddick: Come on, Johns. You've got the big gauge.
Johns: I'd rather piss glass. Why don't you go in and check?

View Quote [Caroline came back to the ship where Riddick already was]
Riddick: Strong survival instinct. I admire that in a woman.
Caroline: I promised them that we would go back with more light.
Riddick: Did you?
Caroline: What? Are you afraid?
Riddick: (laughs) Me afraid?
Caroline: Come on, Riddick. There's gotta be some part of you that wants to rejoin the human race.
Riddick: Truthfully, I wouldn't know how.
Caroline: Well, then just give me more light for them, and I'll go back by myself.
Riddick: Okay.
[Riddick gives her light]
Riddick: There you go.
Caroline: Please, just come with me.
Riddick: I got a better idea. Come with me.
Caroline: You're ****ing with me! I know you are!
Riddick: You know I am? You don't know anything about me. I will leave you here. Step inside.
Caroline: I can't.
Riddick: Sure, you can.
Caroline: I can't.
Riddick: Here. I'll make it easy on you. [he lends her his hand] Take my hand. Come on. Come on … look. No one's gonna blame you. Save yourself, Caroline.
Caroline: I …
Riddick: Come on … come on … [she's getting to the ship] That's it. That's it. Good girl.
[She suddenly hears a creature, bringing back memories of the people she leaves, and changes her mind]
Caroline: Now, you! You listen to me! I am the captain of this ship. And I am not leaving anyone on this rock with those ****ing things, even if it means –
[Riddick brings the knife to her throat]
Caroline: Get that thing off my neck.
Riddick: Shut up! You'd die for them?
Caroline: I would try for them.
Riddick: You didn't answer me.
Caroline: Yes, I would, Riddick. I would – I would die for them.
Riddick: (pauses) .........Interesting.

View Quote [Caroline is taken by a creature when she was helping Riddick]
Riddick: Not for me! [weakly] Not for me!

View Quote [Ogilvie drops a bottle of wine. He runs to fetch it, but just as he reaches out, it is picked up by Riddick].
Paris P. Ogilvie: [extending his hand] Paris P. Ogilvie. Antiquities dealer. Entrepreneur.
Richard B. Riddick: [grinning, taking his hand] Richard B. Riddick. Escaped convict. Murderer.

View Quote [about the passengers] I'm not gonna die for them!