They Live (1988)

Keith David: Frank

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Quotes 

• Nada : I'm giving you a choice: either put on these glasses or start eatin' that trash can.

  Frank : Not this year!

• Frank : Listen, man, I don't like anyone following me if I don't know why they are.

  Nada : Well, I don't join up with anyone unless I know where they're going.

• Frank : What do these things want?

  Gilbert : They're free-enterprisers. The earth is just another developing planet. Their third world.

• Nada : A long time ago things were different man. My old daddy took me down to the river, kicked my ass, told me about the power and the glory. I was saved. He changed when I was little. Turned mean and started tearin' at me. So I ran away when I was thirteen. He tried to cut me once. Big old razor blade. Held it up against my throat. I said "Daddy please"... Just kept moving' back and forth... like he was sawin' down a little tree...

  Frank : Maybe they're always been with us... those things out there. Maybe they love it... seeing us hate each other, watching us kill each other off, feeding on our own cold fuckin' hearts...

  Nada : I got news for 'hem... There's gonna be hell to pay. 'Cause I ain't daddy's little boy no more.

• Frank : I have a wife and kids in Detroit. I haven't seen them in six months. Steel mills were laying people off left and right. They finally went under. We gave the steel companies a break when they needed it. Know what they gave themselves? Raises. The Golden Rule: He who has the gold, makes the rules. They close one more factory we should take a sledgehammer to one of their fancy fuckin foreign cars.

  Nada : You know, you ought to have a little more patience with life.

  Frank : Yeah, well I'm all out!

  Nada : The whole deal is like some kind of crazy game. They put you at the starting line. And the name of the game is make it through life. Only, everyone's out for themselves and looking to do you in at the same time. OK, man here we are. You do what you can, but remember, I'm going to do my best to blow your ass away. So how are you going to make it?

  Frank : I deliver a hard day's work for my money I just want the chance. It'll come. I believe in America. I follow the rules. Everybody's got their own hard times these days.

• Drifter : What's wrong with having it good for a change? Now they're gonna let us have it good if we just help 'em. They're gonna leave us alone, let us make some money. You can have a little taste of that good life too. Now, I know you want it. Hell, everybody does.

  Frank : You'd do it to your own kind.

  Drifter : What's the threat? We all sell out every day, might as well be on the winning team.

• Frank : We can't be the only ones who can see, we've got to find the people who made these.

  Nada : Yeah, if any of them are still alive.

• [Nada and Frank are fighting, and Nada, trying to get up, tries to grab Frank's testicles] 

  Frank : You dirty motherfucker!

• Frank : So how you gonna make it?

  Nada : I deliver a hard day's work for my money. I just want the chance. It'll come. I believe in America. I follow the rules. Everybody's got their own hard times these days.

• Frank : [picks up Nada]  Man, I told you, I don't want to be in-VOLVED!

  [punches Nada back to the ground] 

• Frank : Leave it alone.

• Frank : I have a job, now and I plan on keeping it. I'm walking a white line all the time. I don't bother nobody, nobody bothers me. You better start doing the same.

  Nada : White line's in the middle of the road. That's the worst place to drive.

• Frank : I got a job and I plan on keeping it I walk a white line I don't bother nobody and nobody bothers me. you better start doing the same.