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Quotes of Movie: Local Hero [1983]
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Rev. Macpherson: You want to buy my church?
MacIntyre: Not as a going concern. (unknown)
[after hitting a rabbit on the road]
Oldsen: Why don't we kill it? Hit it with something hard...
Mac: You've already done that with a two-ton automobile! (unknown)
[approaching Ben Knox's beach shanty]
Mac MacIntyre: Where's the door here?
Gordon Urquhart: There is no door. Just knock on the window.
Mac MacIntyre: How do you do business with a man who has no door?
Victor: The ethics are just the same. (unknown)
Townsman: Are you sure there are two l's in dollar, Gideon?
Gideon: Yes! An' there are two g's in bugger off! (unknown)
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Urquhart: [acting as bartender] I want you to try this Scotch. It's 42 years old.
MacIntyre: Old enough to be out on its own. (unknown)
[Mac is buying shampoo]
Mrs. Wyatt: Dry, normal or greasy?
Mac MacIntyre: Normal. Extra normal. (unknown)
Mac MacIntyre: Any comets around?
Ben Knox: Do ye want to buy a comet now?
Mac MacIntyre: Maybe. (unknown)
[Morris is still doing abuse therapy despite Happer's wishers]
Morris: [on phone] You're an asshole, Happer! You love it! Craphound!
[Happer hangs up. He goes back to his omelette, pauses and slowly picks up phone]
Morris: [gleefully] I'm still here, Happer! And you're still a useless mother -...
[Happer slams the receiver back on the phone] (unknown)
Danny: How's the water? Cold?
Marina: Not as cold as it should be. The North Atlantic drift comes in here. That's warmish water from the Caribbean. That's why it's special here. There's stuff fetching up here all the way from the Bahamas.
Danny: Oh, that's a long way.
Marina: You swim?
Danny: Not that far. (unknown)
Victor: How are things? I heard about the ceilihd.
Gordon Urquhart: Oh, we've lots to tell you. We've been invaded by America. We're all gonna be rich.
Victor: Really?
Gordon Urquhart: We won't have anywhere to call home, but we'll be stinkin' rich. (unknown)
Mac: Did you cook my rabbit? (unknown)
Happer: Institute for the study of the sea and sky? I like it! (unknown)
[repeated line]
Happer: Keep watching the sky, MacIntyre. (unknown)
Mac: [drunkenly] I'll make a good Gordon, Gordon. (unknown)
Oldsen: Whaddya thinkin' about?
Mac: Girls... naked girls... in a fishtank. (unknown)
MacIntyre: My parents were Hungarian immigrants. They took the name MacIntyre 'cause they thought it sounded more American! (unknown)
MacIntyre: We're on kind of a mission.
Rev. Macpherson: Same here. (unknown)
MacIntyre: Where are we? (unknown)
Urquhart: [bouncing on his bed] Oh boy, are we going to be rich! (unknown)
MacIntyre: What's the most amazing thing you've ever found?
Ben Knox: Impossible to say. You see, there's something amazing every two or three weeks. (unknown)
Happer: What about the sky?
MacIntyre: [observing the northern lights] Sky, sir? It's amazing. I wish you could see it! I wish I could describe it to you like I'm seeing it! (unknown)
MacIntyre: [desperate to make the deal] Look, how much do you want?
Ben Knox: [fills his hands with sand] Would you pay me a pound for every grain of sand in my hand?
[drops some sand]
Ben Knox: Ah, well, that saves you some. Well, would you do it?
MacIntyre: No. Of course not.
Ben Knox: Ah, well that's a pity. You missed out on a good bargain, for I can only hold about ten thousand grains of sand in my hands. Did you think it would be more? (unknown)
Happer: [wants MacIntyre to observe the sky while in Scotland] Anything out of the ordinary, you telephone me. Night or day. (unknown)
MacIntyre: [repeated line]
[concerning the payphone]
MacIntyre: I need more change! (unknown)
Happer: Take the chopper, go to Aberdeen, get on over to Houston. (unknown)
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Movie: Local Hero [1983]
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