Quotes and Dialogues
| Hans Gruber talking to the hostages, after shooting their boss Takagi a little earlier ... | |
| Hans Gruber: | I wanted this to be professional. Efficient. Adult. Cooperative. Not a lot to ask. Alas, your Mr. Takagi did not see it that way... So he won't be joining us for the rest of his life. We are prepared to go any way you make us. When we have achieved our aims you can either walk out of here... or be carried out. Decide now, each of you. But remember that we have planned everything to the last detail. We are completely in charge. |
| John McClane addressing Hans Gruber over the radio, after killing two more "terrorists". | |
| Hans Gruber: | I thought I told all of you, I want radio silence until further... |
| John McClane: | Ooooh, I'm very sorry Hans. I didn't get that message. Maybe you should've put it on the bulletin board. I figured since I've waxed Tony and Marco and his friend here, I figured you and Karl and Franco might be a little lonely, so I decided to give you a call. |
| Hans Gruber: | Eh, that's... very kind of you, considering you are a mysterious party crasher. You are most troublesome, for a security guard. |
| John McClane: | Bzzzt. Sorry Hans, wrong guess. Would you like to go for Double Jeopardy where the scores can really change? |
| Hans Gruber: | Who are you then? |
| John McClane: | Just a fly in the ointment, Hans. The monkey in the wrench. The pain in the ass. |
| John McClane: | (to a terrorist he just killed finding his cigarettes) Whoa, these are very bad for you. |
| Dwayne T. Robinson: | (watching the FBI guys getting blown up) They're gonna need some more FBI guys, I guess. |
| Joseph Takagi: | You want money? What kind of terrorists are you? |
| Hans Gruber: | Who said we were terrorists? |
| Holly McClane | I have a request. |
| Hans Gruber | What idiot put you in charge? |
| Holly McClane | You did. When you murdered my boss. Now everyone's looking to me. Personally, I'd pass on the job. I don't enjoy being this close to you. |
| Sergeant Al Powell: | The man is hurting! He's alone, tired, and he hasn't seen diddly-squat from anybody down here. Now you're going to stand there and tell me that he's going to give a damn about what you do to him, IF he makes it out of there alive? Why don't you wake up and smell what you're shoveling? |
| Dwayne T. Robinson: | Now you listen to me, Sergeant. Any time you want to go home, you consider yourself dismissed. |
| Sergeant Al Powell: | No sir. You couldn't drag me away. |
| Karl: | No one kills him but me! Understood? |
| Hans Gruber: | You ask for a miracle, I give you the FBI |
