Starman (1984)

Charles Martin Smith: Mark Shermin

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• Mark Shermin : Have people from your world been here before?

  Starman : Before yes. We are interested in your species.

  Mark Shermin : You mean you're some kind of anthropologist? Is that what you're doing here? Just checking us out?

  Starman : You are a strange species. Not like any other. And you'd be surprised how many there are. Intelligent but savage. Shall I tell you what I find beautiful about you?

  [Shermin nods] 

  Starman : You are at your very best when things are worst.

• [Fox looks in diner to verify that Starman and Jenny Hayden have been set free] 

  George Fox : Shermin, you are finished. I will have you eviscerated for this.

  Mark Shermin : 'ell, as much as I hate to stoop to symbolism.

  [Shermin takes a puff from cigar and blows smoke into Fox's face] 

• Mark Shermin : [after seeing the pathology table with straps, bitterly:]  Welcome to Planet Earth.

• George Fox : [referring to the word "greetings"]  It's also what the cannibal said to the missionary just before he ate him.

  Mark Shermin : Well, I guess the question is who's the missionary, and who are the cannibals?

• George Fox : Good. I'm glad you're here.

  Mark Shermin : What the hell is this about?

  George Fox : You're a man of some scientific attainment. You mean to tell me you don't recogonize an emergency autopsy room when you see one?

  Mark Shermin : With leather tie straps?

  George Fox : You behave yourself, Mark.

• Mark Shermin : Listen, Mr. Fox, I'd like to be a team player and all of that, but, there's something that I want to call to your attention.

  George Fox : There's one thing I don't need from you is a lecture on morality.

  Mark Shermin : Alright, okay, screw morality. What the hell ever happened to good manners? We invited him here!

  George Fox : I don't have time for this Shermin.

  Mark Shermin : I'm trying to make a point.

  George Fox : So am I, damn it! You make a great show of being a rebel; but, the fact is this: you are a GS-11 public servant. Anytime that becomes too much of a burden, you can go back to Cornell or whenever the hell it was that we found you and lets see you make it through on an instructor's salary. Now, shape up! Or, get out.