Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)

Robert Vaughn: Gelt

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Quotes 

• [in Gelt's lair and treasure chamber] 

  Shad : I'm hiring mercenaries to protect against an invasion, but food and shelter is all we can offer in payment. All of our wealth is in our culture.

  Gelt : I could buy your planet ten times over with what I've gathered in this room: plutonium, cadmium, qualine crystals... I've been very well paid for my work.

  Shad : I'm sorry. I've wasted your time.

  Gelt : NO! Wait. Listen to the rest of it: I sleep with my back to the wall - when I CAN sleep. I eat serpents seven times a week. There's not a major city in this galaxy where I can show my face, or spend my wealth. Right now, your offer looks very attractive to me... A meal, and a place to hide.

• Gelt : What a place to end up - a minor planet in a third-rate galaxy.

  [Gelt dies] 

  Shad : Have somebody prepare a meal.

  unknown (extra) : A meal?

  Shad : Full course, then bury it with him.

  unknown (extra) : Bury it?

  Shad : That was our arrangement: A meal and a place to hide.

• Cowboy : [upon seeing Gelt's ship approach]  Here comes somebody else. Who's that?

  Shad : [switching over to Gelt]  Do you want your name used?

  Gelt : My name is Gelt.

  Cowboy : Where ya from, Gelt? I'm from Earth. Know where that is?

  Gelt : I was born in space.

  Cowboy : Oh, well, put in between us. I'll cover you.

  Gelt : I don't like anyone behind me.

  Cowboy : Okay, you keep a scanner on our tail.

  Gelt : I always do.

• [after "Hammerhead" wings Gelt] 

  Shad : Gelt, are you all right?

  Gelt : [just prior to force-landing back on Akir]  That remains to be seen, Shad. Have a nice fight!

• Akira Boy : Mister, are you a bad man?

  Gelt : That's right.

  Akira Girl : Why?

  Gelt : I don't think the way you Akira do. If you think different, you get called "bad."

  Akira Girl : How DO you feel?

  Gelt : I don't.

  Akira Boy : Mister, were you bad when you were little?

  Gelt : I was never that little.

• Gelt : ...I came back here for a rest. There aren't many other planets left in the galaxy where I don't have a bounty on my head.

  Shad : What makes you so... popular?

  Gelt : I settle disputes... very quickly. I'm very good at it. I don't care who I work for, or with. That's why I've collected a lot of enemies along the way.

  Shad : You kill... for pay?

  Gelt : I have no home, no family, no ideals. What else would I kill for?

  Shad : ...Pleasure?

  Gelt : No. It's strictly business with me. Now, then... What's your pitch?