Alien (franchise)/Quotes

Let me see if I have this correct, Lieutenant - it's an 8-foot creature of some kind with acid for blood, and it arrived on your spaceship. It kills on sight, and is generally unpleasant.

—Harold Andrews, Alien³

Ripley: How do we kill it Ash? There's gotta be a way of killing it. How? How do we do it?
Ash: You can't.
Parker: That's bullshit.
Ash: You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility.
Lambert: You admire it.

Ash: I admire its purity. A survivor... unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.

—Alien

Vasquez: Look man, I only need to know one thing: where they are.

Drake: Yeah Vasquez!"

Vasquez: Anytime, anywhere.

Hudson:' Yeah, right. Someone said "aliens" she thought they said "illegal aliens", signed up!

Vasquez: Fuck you, man.

Hudson: Anytime, anywhere...

Ripley: Are you finished!? (to Vasquez) I hope you're right. I really do. ... Because just one of those things managed to wipe out my entire crew in less than twenty-four hours! And if the colonists have found that ship, there's no telling how many have been exposed. Do you get it?

—Aliens

Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?

—Ripley addressing the Weyland-Yutani review board, Aliens

I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

—Ripley with one of her one of her most famous quotes, Aliens