Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) Poster

(1977)

Richard Dreyfuss: Roy Neary

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Quotes 

  • Roy Neary : I guess you've noticed something a little strange with Dad. It's okay, though. I'm still Dad.

  • Roy Neary : Hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it. Is that it? Is that all you're gonna ask me? Well I got a couple of thousand goddamn questions, you know. I want to speak to someone in charge. I want to lodge a complaint. You have no right to make people crazy! You think I investigate every Walter Cronkite story there is? Huh? If this is just nerve gas, how come I know everything in such detail? I've never been here before. How come I know so much? What the hell is going on around here? Who the hell are you people?

  • Roy Neary : Just close your eyes and hold your breath and everything will turn real pretty.

  • Roy Neary : I wanna speak to the man in charge.

    David Laughlin : Mr. Lacombe is the highest authority.

    Roy Neary : He isn't even an American.

  • [Roy is shoveling soil into his kitchen window] 

    Roy Neary : Ronnie, if I don't do this, *that's* when I'm going to need a doctor.

  • Roy Neary : I know this sounds crazy, but ever since yesterday on the road, I've been seeing this shape. Shaving cream, pillows... Dammit! I know this. I know what this is! This means something. This is important.

  • Brad Neary : I don't understand these fractions.

    Roy Neary : What's one third of sixty?

    Brad Neary : [bewildered]  That's a fraction, I don't understand them.

    Roy Neary : [using a model train as an object lesson]  Alright, let's say that this boxcar is sixty feet long, OK?, and one third of it is across this switch here, alright... And now another train is coming... Now, how far do you have to move this boxcar so that the other train doesn't smash it? Quickly Brad, there are thousands of lives at stake... Brad any answer...

    [CRASH] 

  • Roy Neary : You can't fool us by agreeing with us.

  • Soldier in gas mask : Are you OK sir?

    Roy Neary : Yeah, I'm fine! And the only gas around here is from you guys farting around!

  • Roy Neary : Can you tell me where Cornbread is? Turkey!

  • Claude Lacombe : Mr. Neary, what do you want?

    Roy Neary : I just want to know that it's really happening.

  • [Roy's wife does not believe how he got the burns on his face] 

    Roy Neary : Well they're not moon burns, goddamnit.

  • Ronnie Neary : Alright, everybody to bed!

    Toby Neary : No way! Dad said we could finish watching "The Ten Commandments"!

    Ronnie Neary : Roy, that movie is four hours long.

    Roy Neary : I told them they could watch only five commandments.

  • Roy Neary : [checking the paper]  Hey, you know what's playing in town? "Pinocchio"! You guys have never seen "Pinocchio". You guys have never seen "Pinocchio", you're in luck!

    Brad Neary : Aw, who wants to see some dumb cartoon rated 'G' for kids?

    Roy Neary : How old are you?

    Brad Neary : Eight.

    Roy Neary : You wanna be nine?

    Brad Neary : Yeah.

    Roy Neary : Then you're going to go see Pinocchio tomorrow night.

    [Brad makes a disgusted gesture, but shuts up] 

    Ronnie Neary : Roy, that is a wonderful way to win over your children.

    Roy Neary : I'm not serious, I'm just saying that I grew up with "Pinocchio", and if kids are still kids, they're going to eat it up.

    [Ronnie looks at him in disgust] 

    Roy Neary : Okay. Okay, I'm wrong. I'm wrong. I'm Wrong Roy, alright.

    [Yells at his youngest son, who is demolishing his sister's doll] 

    Roy Neary : Toby! You are close to death! Come out here!

    [Toby giggles, but obeys] 

    Roy Neary : Okay, now, I'm gonna give you your choice. I'm not gonna be biased in any way. Tomorrow night you can either play Goofy Golf, which means a lot of waiting and shoving and pushing and probably getting a zero or you can see "Pinocchio" - which is a lot of furry animals and magic and you'll have a wonderful time. Okay? Now, let's vote.

    Brad Neary , Toby Neary : Golf!

  • David Laughlin : These people strangers to you?

    [placing photographs of people on the table, one is of Jillian] 

    Roy Neary : Yeah. Except for her.

    David Laughlin : [interpreting for Lacombe]  And the two of you felt compelled to be here?

    Roy Neary : Yeah, you might say that.

    David Laughlin : But what did you expect to find?

    Roy Neary : An answer! That's not crazy, is it?

  • Ronnie Neary : Roy, what did it look like?

    Roy Neary : It was like an ice cream cone.

    Ronnie Neary : What flavor?

    Roy Neary : Orange. It was orange - and it wasn't like an ice cream cone. It was, it was more like a shell. You know, it was like this.

    Ronnie Neary : Like a taco? Was it like one of those Sara Lee, um, moon-shaped cookies? Those crescent cookies? Don't you think I'm taking this really well? I remember when we used to come to places like this just to look at each other... and snuggle.

  • Roy Neary : [angrily]  Who are you people?

    Claude Lacombe : Mr. Neary, please, one more question.

    David Laughlin : Have you recently had a close encounter... A close encounter with something very unusual?

    Roy Neary : [cautiously]  Who are you people?

  • Roy Neary : [as Lacombe and Laughlin show him a drawing of Devil's Tower]  Yeah, I've got one just like it in my living room. Who are you people?

  • [Trying to get his kids to look for UFOs at 4 AM] 

    Roy Neary : It's better than Goofy Golf!

  • Jillian Guiler : [watching two lights moving in the night sky]  It's like Halloween for grownups.

    Roy Neary : [funny and amazed]  Trick or treat.

  • Barry Guiler : Ice cream!

    Roy Neary : This is nuts.

  • Roy Neary : I saw something last night that I can't explain.

    Ronnie Neary : I saw something last night *I* can't explain.

    Roy Neary : I'm going out there again tonight, you know.

    Ronnie Neary : No, you're not.

    Roy Neary : Yes, I am.

    Ronnie Neary : No, you're not.

    Roy Neary : Yes, I am.

    Ronnie Neary : No, you're not.

  • Roy Neary : Wake up! Honey, Ronnie, wake up! You're not gonna believe what I saw! Ronnie?

    Ronnie Neary : [in bed sleeping]  No, don't! Not now.

    Roy Neary : No, no, listen! Ronnie, I never would have believed it! There was this - eh - in the cab there was this whole - it went - it was - there was a red whoosh!

  • Ronnie Neary : Roy, look, don't talk about this until you know what you're talking about, okay?

    Roy Neary : Ronnie, that's crazy. If I can't talk about it, then how will I know what's going on?

    Ronnie Neary : What?

  • Roy Neary : I don't think I know what's happening to me.

  • Roy Neary : That's not right. What is it? What is it? It's not fair. Tell me.

  • Roy Neary : You ever look at something crazy, and then see it another way and it's not?

    Ronnie Neary : No, I haven't.

  • Roy Neary : We're the only ones who know. The only ones.

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