The Running Man (1987)

Maria Conchita Alonso: Amber Mendez

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Quotes 

• Amber Mendez : [1:11:48]  Me and my big mouth. We should have taken the trip to Hawaii.

  Ben Richards : I had the shirt for it, but you fucked it up.

• Amber Mendez : I'm warning you, I get sick. Air sick, car sick. I'm gonna throw up all over you.

  Richards : Go ahead. Won't show on this shirt.

• Amber Mendez : [after Richards cut Buzzsaw in half with a chain saw]  What happened to Buzzsaw?

  Ben Richards : Aw, he had to split.

• Amber Mendez : [seeing Fireball enter the game]  Jesus Christ!

  Ben Richards : [seeing Fireball discharge a burst from his flamethrower]  Guess again!

• Dynamo : Thought it was pretty funny out there in the zone. What's the matter now, bitch? Why aren't you laughing?

  Amber Mendez : Because there's nothing funny about a dickless moron with a battery up his ass.

• Ben Richards : Now I'm gonna untie you, and then you're gonna get dressed, and then you're gonna come with me.

  Amber Mendez : Oh yeah? Why should I?

  Ben Richards : Because I'm gonna say "please"...

  [Arnold tears up the bench Amber is tied to from the floor it was bolted to] 

  Amber Mendez : Well, why didn't you say so?

• Amber Mendez : They think I'm your girlfriend.

  Ben Richards : I can straighten that out. See that camera up there? I'll strangle you in front of the whole audience.

• [Referring to dead bodies] 

  Amber Mendez : They're running men. Last season's winners.

  Fireball : No. Last season's losers.

• [Amber is being introduced to the audience as a special guest 'runner'] 

  Phil Hiton : ...Later, she cheated on college exams. Had sexual relationships with two, sometimes three different men in a year. And then she met Mad Dog Ben Richards, her *Confederate*, her LOVER!

  Amber Mendez : That was a lie!

  Damon Killian : Dear, dear, dear. Let's reunite these little lovebirds! GO!

  [audience cheers] 

  Damon Killian : [Amber is sent down to the game zone] 

• Damon Killian : [after the introduction of Dynamo]  Oh, thank you. You're beautiful. Well, it's been an exciting show so far, right? We've had shocks. We've had surprises. And we thought, why not one more surprise?

  [Killian laughs] 

  Damon Killian : Will you please help me welcome our mystery contestant: Miss Amber Mendez!

  [Amber is dragged onstage by Sven and his other two guards; audience applauds] 

  Amber Mendez : Let me go!

  Damon Killian : Amber. Amber! Now I understand that you're single, Amber, and that you live on the West Side. And not surprisingly, she's flaunted the law and traditional morality all of her life.

  Amber Mendez : Go ahead. Tell some lies about me now.

  Damon Killian : We don't lie. Phil, tell us all about her.

• Amber Mendez : [Fireball arrives in the game zone by jetpack]  Jesus Christ!

  Ben Richards : Guess again.

• Mic : What is it?

  Amber Mendez : It's the original video from the Bakersfield massacre, before they edited for broadcasting.

  Ben Richards : Where did you hide that?

  Amber Mendez : It's none of your business.