Movie Quotes Blog

Marty McFly:
Hey, lighten up, jerk!

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Bartender:
Emmett! What can I get you? The usual?

Doc:
No, Chester, I’m gonna need something a lot stronger than that tonight.

Bartender:
Sarsaparilla?

Doc:
Whiskey, Chester.

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Young Doc:
Remember, where you’re going, there are no roads.

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Jennifer Parker:
Dr. Brown, I brought this note back from the future and now it’s erased.

Doc:
Of course it’s erased.

Jennifer Parker:
But what does that mean?

Doc:
It means your future hasn’t been written yet. No one’s has. Your future is whatever you make it. So make it a good one, both of you.

Marty McFly:
[Marty wraps his arm around Jennifer] We will, Doc.

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Doc:
Marty, we all have to make decisions that affect the course of our lives. You’ve got to do what you’ve got to do. And I’ve got to do what I’ve got to do.

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Doc:
Each detonation will be accompanied by a sudden burst of acceleration. Hopefully, we’ll hit 88 mph, before the needle gets much past 2000.

Marty McFly:
Why, what happens when it hits 2000?

Doc:
The whole boiler explodes.

Marty McFly:
Perfect!

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Marty McFly:
[holding up a plate that says “Frisbee”] Hey, look, Frisbee, far-out.

Seamus McFly:
Wonder what he meant by that?

Maggie McFly:
It was right in front of him.

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Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen:
Smile, Sheriff. After all, this *is* a party!

Marshall Strickland:
The only party I’ll be smilin’ at is the one that sees you at the end of a rope.

Strickland’s Deputy:
Have fun.

[Buford and his gang head toward the town festival]

Marshall Strickland:
[turns to his son] See, that’s how you handle them, son. Never give ‘em an inch, and maintain discipline at all times. Remember that word - “discipline.”

Marshal Strickland’s son:
I will, Pa.

[the Marshall pats his son on the leg]

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[Clara is crawling on the train car filled with wooden fire logs]

Marty McFly:
[Into walkie talkie] You better hold on to something Doc, the yellow log is about to blow!

[a large explosion occurs, sending a wave of sparks at Clara, knocking her over]

Clara Clayton:
[Sits up] Golly!

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Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen:
[to his gang members] Let’s go, boys. Let these sissies have their party.

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[Marty McFly just found a tombstone with Emmett Brown’s name]

Marty McFly:
Doc! Doc! Come quick!

Young Doc:
What’s the matter? You look like you’ve seen a ghost.

Marty McFly:
You’re not far off.

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[Clara is running over to Doc’s barn]

Clara Clayton:
Emmitt!

[Enters barn]

Clara Clayton:
Emmitt! Emmitt!

[She stops to catch her breath and looks down]

Clara Clayton:
[Whispers] Time machine…

[Clara’s slowly picks up the model time machine with her gloved hands and examines it]

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Young Doc:
[while exploring the cave that holds the Delorean in it] This reminds me of the time I attempted to reach the center of the earth. I’d be reading my favorite author, Jules Verne. I spent weeks preparing for the expedition, I didn’t even get this far. Of course, I was only 12 at the time. It was the writings of Jules Verne that had a profound effect on my life. I was 11 when I first read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. That’s when I realized that I must devote my life into science.

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Marty McFly:
[to Young Doc Brown in 1955] After as you get the time circuits fixed and put new tires on the DeLorean, I’m going back to 1885, and I’m bringing you home.

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Marty McFly:
I had this horrible nightmare. Dreamed I w-… dreamed I was in a western. And I was being chased by all these Indians… and a bear.

Maggie McFly:
Well… you’re safe and sound here, now, at the McFly farm.

Marty McFly:
McFly farm? Why, you’re my, my, my… who are you?

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Bartender:
[the bartender and his assistant, Joey mix up a special “wake-up juice” using hot peppers, Tabasco sauce and chili powder] In about ten minutes, he’s gonna be as sober as a priest on Sunday.

Marty McFly:
[sees clock outside - they have 10 minutes to get to the train] Ten minutes? Why do we have to cut these things so damn close?

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Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen:
Listen up, Eastwood! I intend to shoot somebody today and I’d prefer it to be you. But if you’re just too damn yellow, I guess it’ll just have to be your blacksmith friend.

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Doc:
Marty, I gave you explicit instructions not to come here but to go directly back to 1985.

Marty McFly:
I know, Doc. But I had to come.

Doc:
But it’s good to see you, Marty.

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Marty McFly:
[Doc and Marty use explosives to get in the old Delgado mine, which is near a graveyard] I think you woke up the dead with that blast!

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Maggie McFly:
I hope you’re considering your own future, Mr. Eastwood.

Marty McFly:
I think about it all the time.

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Doc:
Marty, you can’t go losing your judgment every time someone calls you a name. It’s exactly what causes you to get into that accident in the future.

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[at the town festival]

Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen:
Then let’s settle it, right now!

Buford’s Gang Member #1:
Uh, not now, Buford. Marshal’s got our guns.

Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen:
Like I said, we’ll finish this tomorrow.

Buford’s Gang Member #2:
Tomorrow, we’re robbing the Pine City Stage.

Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen:
What about Monday? Are we doing anything Monday?

Buford’s Gang Member #1:
Uh, no, Monday would be fine. You can kill him on Monday.

Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen:
I’ll be back this way on Monday! We’ll settle this then… right there… out in the street… in front of the Palace Saloon!

Marty McFly:
Yeah, like when? High noon?

Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen:
Noon? I do my killin’ before breakfast! Seven o’clock!

Marty McFly:
Eight o’clock. I do my killing after breakfast!

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Marty McFly:
Listen, you got a back door to this place?

Bartender:
Yeah, it’s in the back.

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Doc:
Great Scot, Clara!

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Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen:
What’s your name, dude?

Marty McFly:
Uh, Mar-, uh… Eastwood. Clint Eastwood.

Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen:
What kind of stupid name is that?

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[Marty is left-behind back in 1955, with the young Doc of then as his only hope to getting back to the future]

Marty McFly:
I’m sorry, Doc. It’s all my fault you’re stuck back there. I never should have let Biff get to me!

Young Doc:
Well, there are plenty worse places to be than the Old West. I could’ve ended up in the Dark Ages. They probably would have burned me at the stake as a heretic or something.

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[Holding baby William]

Marty McFly:
So you’re my great-grandfather. The first McFly born in America. And you peed on me.

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[1885 - Marty walks into a saloon, dressed in the outfit that Doc Brown gave him in 1955]

Saloon Old-Timer #1:
Take a look at what just breezed in the door.

Saloon Old-Timer #2:
Why, I didn’t know the circus was in town.

Saloon Old Timer #3:
Musta gotten that shirt off a dead Chinese.

Bartender:
What’ll it be, stranger?

Marty McFly:
Uh, I’ll have, uh, ice water.

[the old-timers laugh]

Saloon Old Timer #3:
Ice?

Bartender:
Water? You want water, you better go dunk your head in the horse trough out there.

[pulls out a shot glass and pours into it]

Bartender:
In here, we pour whiskey.

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[in the library]

Young Doc:
“William McFly and family”. Your relatives?

Marty McFly:
My great-grandfather’s name was William.

[the photo of William looks just like Marty]

Marty McFly:
That’s him. Good-looking guy.

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Doc:
Clara was one in a million. One in a billion. One in a googolplex!

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Jennifer Parker:
[Marty floors his truck in reverse and turns the other way while Needles speeds off down the street] Did you do that on purpose?

Marty McFly:
Yeah. You think I’m stupid enough to race that asshole?

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Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen:
You know what I think? I think you ain’t nothing but a gutless yellow turd! And I’m giving you to the count of ten to come out here, and prove I’m wrong!

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[Reading his own gravestone in 1955]

Young Doc:
“Shot in the back by Buford Tannen, over a matter of eighty dollars.” What kind of future do you call that?

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Doc:
Marty, you’re going to have to do something about those clothes. You walk around town dressed like that, you’re liable to get shot.

Marty McFly:
Or hanged.

Doc:
What idiot dressed you in that outfit?

Marty McFly:
You did.

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Colt Gun Salesman:
[the gun salesman is amazed at Marty’s gunmanship at a shooting gallery] Uh, just tell me one thing. Where’d you learn to shoot like that?

Marty McFly:
7-Eleven.

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[Marty and Doc finally say each other’s phrases the opposite way]

Marty McFly:
Great Scott!

Doc:
I know, this is heavy.

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[in an Outdoors Theatre, in 1955]

Young Doc:
All you got to do is drive directly toward that screen accelerating up to 88 miles an hour.

Marty McFly:
Wait a minute, Doc. It I go driving straight towards that screen, I’m gonna crash into those Indians.

Young Doc:
Marty, you’re not thinking fourth dimensionally. You’ll soon enough be transferred back into 1885, and those Indians won’t even be there.

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Undertaker:
Excuse me, Mr. Eastwood. I just need your measurement.

[Measures Marty]

Marty McFly:
Hey. Look, buddy. I do’nt want to buy a suit.

Undertaker:
No. This is for your coffin.

Marty McFly:
[relizing what is going on] My coffin?

Undertaker:
well, the odds are running 2 to 1 against you. Might as well be prepared.

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Young Doc:
No wonder this circuit failed. It says “Made in Japan”.

Marty McFly:
What do you mean, Doc? All the best stuff is made in Japan.

Young Doc:
Unbelievable.

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Buford’s Gang Member #2:
Hey, get a gander at them moccasins! What kinda skins is them? What’s that writing mean?

Buford’s Gang Member #1:
“Nee-kay”? What is that, some kinda Injun talk or something?

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[Breaking up a brawl between Marty and Buford]

Marshall Strickland:
[points rifle at Buford] All right now, break it up. What’s all this about? You causin’ trouble here, Tannen?

Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen:
No trouble, Marshall. Just a little personal matter between me and Eastwood! This don’t concern the law.

Marshall Strickland:
Tonight, everything concerns the law. Now break it up. Any brawlin’, it’s 15 days in the county jail. All right, folks, c’mon, this is a party. Come on, let’s have some fun!

[walks off the stage]

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Marty McFly:
[reading the gravestone of Doc’s future self] “Erected in eternal memory by his beloved Clara.”

Marty McFly:
[he turns to face Doc, inadvertently standing on the grave] Who the hell is Clara?

Young Doc:
[shouts] Marty, please, don’t stand there!

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[in a library in 1955]

Marty McFly:
Maybe it was a mistake, Doc. Maybe that grave wasn’t yours. There could’ve been another Emmett Brown back in 1885.

Young Doc:
No.

Marty McFly:
Didn’t you have any relatives here back then?

Young Doc:
The Browns didn’t come to Hill Valley until 1908, and then they were the Von Brauns. My father changed our name during the First World War.

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Marty McFly:
[upon arriving in 1885; sees Indians on horseback, galloping towards him] Indians!

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Doc:
Clara! Climb out here to me!

Clara Clayton:
I don’t know if i can…

Doc:
You can do it, just don’t look down!

[Clara looks down at the churning wheels]

Doc:
That’s it!

[Clara climbs over the cab and steps her high-heeled boots onto the train’s thin, precarious ledge]

Marty McFly:
[Into walkie talkie] Sixty miles an hour doc!

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Marty McFly:
[shouts] The red log’s about to blow!

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Doc:
[after Doc wakes up from being passed out drunk from one shot of whiskey] The thing I really miss here is Tylenol.

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Young Doc:
Well, good luck for both our sakes. You’ve made a real difference in my life. See you in the future.

Marty McFly:
You mean the past?

Young Doc:
Exactly.

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[Marty is still wearing his 1985 shoes]

Doc:
Marty, you have to wear the boots. You can’t wear those futuristic things back in 1885. You shouldn’t even be wearing them here in 1955.

Marty McFly:
Look, Doc, as soon I get there I’ll put them on. I promise.

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Doc:
[reading a letter his future self wrote] I never knew I could write anything so touching.

Marty McFly:
I know, Doc, it’s beautiful.

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