Mad Max Quotes

[Mrs. Rockatansky]

Fifi: They say people don't believe in heroes anymore. You and me, Max, we're gonna give them back their heroes!
Max: Ah, Fif. Do you really expect me to go for that crap?
Fifi: You gotta admit I sounded good there for a minute, huh?

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[Max hands Fifi his letter of resignation]
Fifi: What's this?
Max: I'm through.
Fifi: Again?
Max: No, not again. I'm through. I'm quitting.
Fifi: Sit down.
Max: I didn't come here to dicuss it, I came here to say it. I'm through.
Fifi: Now just a minute! Alright, so the Goose bought it, but that's the way he always came in the world...
Max: -Off beat!

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Max: I'm scared, Fif. It's that rat circus out there, I'm beginning to enjoy it. Look, any longer out on that road and I'm one of them, a terminal psychotic, except that I've got this bronze badge that says that I'm one of the good guys.

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Roop: That scag and his floozie, they're gonna die!

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[the Kid is handcuffed to a car that's about to explode]
Max: The chain in those handcuffs is high-tensile steel. It'd take you ten minutes to hack through it with this. Now, if you're lucky, you could hack through your ankle in five minutes. Go.
[the hacksaw is dropped next to The Kid, and Max limps off]

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Fifi: They say people don't believe in heroes anymore. Well, d**n them! You and me, Max, we're gonna give 'em back their heroes!

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Nightrider: I am the Nightrider. I'm a fuel injected suicide machine. I am the rocker, I am the roller, I am the out-of-controller!

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Bubba Zanetti: We're here to meet a friend. Comin' on the train.
Station Master: Nothin' comin' on the train except a couple of crates and a, uh, coffin!
Bubba Zanetti: Our friend.

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Station Master: That must be your friend over there. They didn't leave much of him.
Bubba Zanetti: Must've cut his heart out, eh?
Station Master: Yes. That's what I meant. Poor bastard!
Toecutter: [whirls on the Station Manager] The Nightrider. That is his name... the Nightrider.
Station Master: [frightened] The NightRider.
Toecutter: Remember him when you look at the night sky!
Station Master: I will.
Toecutter: Take your hat off.
Station Master: Anything you say.
Toecutter: Anything I say. What a wonderful philosophy you have. Take him away.

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Toecutter: That there is Cundalini... and Cundalini wants his hand back!

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Grease Rat: Like the sign says, "speed's just a question of money. How fast can you go?"

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Goose: You've seen it!... You've heard it!... and you're still asking questions?

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Kid: Hey Mister! What happened to the car?
Bubba Zanetti: What do you think happened?
Kid: Looks like it's been chewed up and spat out.
Bubba Zanetti: Perhaps it was a result of anxiety.

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Fifi: [sarcastically, as his superior walks out of earshot] Thanks, Labatouche. You're a real human being.

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Ziggy: [about Cundalini's hand] Well, unless someone makes a claim for it, I figure it's lost property.

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Goose: [describing the supercharged Interceptor that's idling, in particular the supercharger itself] You can shut the gate on this one, Maxie... it's the duck's guts!
Barry, MFP Garage Mechanic: [excitedly] She sips nitro... with Phase 4 heads! 600 horsepower through the wheels! She's meanness set to music and the pregnant dog is born to run!
Goose: [looking at Max just staring at the engine] He's in a coma, man!

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[after Roop and Charlie crash into a bystander's van]
Charlie: Boy, we're really going to get it this time. He had his indicator on.
Roop: Shut up!

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Johnny the Boy: Whacked right out of his skull man! He ain't never comin' back!

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Goose: See you on the road, skag. See you like we saw your friend, The Nightrider.
Johnny the Boy: We remember The Nightrider! And we know who you are!

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Goose: What a turkey! Hey, fella! You're a turkey!

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Goose: It was like slow motion. He leaves his seat and goes through the windshield, headfirst straight into the tree, right? And then bounces back through the windshield. And by the time we got to him, he was just sitting there, trying to scream with his face ripped off.
[pause]
Goose: What's the matter?
Restaurant Patron: Not hungry anymore.
Goose: Give it here.

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[last lines]
Johnny the Boy: [Max limps away after handcuffing Johnny to the car, leaking gas next to a fire] HAA! You're funny man, YOU'RE REAL FUNNY! PLEASE! PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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Max: I just can't get it clear in my head, Jess. He was so full of living, you know? He ran a franchise on it. Now there's nothing. And here I am trying to put sense to it, when I know there isn't any.

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Goose: [via radio] Max.
Max: [via radio] Go ahead.
Goose: We are 100% SNAFU.
Max: You ok?
Goose: Nothin' a year in the tropics wouldn't fix.
Max: Much damage?
Nightrider: [via radio] You should see the damage, bronze. Huh? metal damage, brain damage. Heheheh. You listen bronze. I am the Nightrider. I'm a fuel injected suicide machine. I am the rocker, I am the roller, I am the out-of-controller! I'm the Nightrider, baby,
[unintelligible]
Nightrider: , and we ain't never comin' back!

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Nightrider: The Toecutter - he knows who I am. I am the Nightrider! I am the chosen one. The minor hand of vengeance, sent down to strike the unroadworthy! I'm hotter than a rollin' dice. Step right up, germ, and watch the kid lay down the rubber road, ride to freedom!

[Mrs. Rockatansky]

Mad Max 2:

Wez: They kill us, we kill them! Kill them! Kill them! Kill! Kill!
The Humungus: Be still my dog of war. I understand your pain. We've all lost someone we love. But we do it my way! We do it my way. Fear is our ally. The gasoline will be ours. Then you shall have your revenge.

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The Gyro Captain: Lingerie. Oh, remember lingerie?

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The Gyro Captain: No! It's *my* snake, I trained it, I'm going to eat it! I got a recipe for snake. Delicious. Fricassee of reptile. You are what you eat.

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Max: I'm just here for the gasoline.

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Humungus: I am gravely disappointed. Again you have made me unleash my dogs of war.

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Toady: Greetings from The Humungus! The Lord Humungus! The Warrior of the Wasteland! The Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla!

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Max: If it's all the same to you... I'll drive that tanker.
Pappagallo: The offer is closed. Too late for deals.
Max: No deals. I want to drive that truck.

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Max: Two days ago, I saw a vehicle that would haul that tanker. You want to get out of here? You talk to me.

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[Max starts to pull a concealed knife from under his car. The Captain puts a loaded crossbow to his neck from behind]
The Gyro Captain: A fellah, a QUICK fellah, might have a weapon under there. I'd have to pin his head to the panel...

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Pappagallo: If you had a contract, it was with him. And it died with him.

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[Max loads his shotgun with a shell found on a dead body]
The Gyro Captain: How do we know that one's not a dud?
[Max aims at the Captain's face]
Max: Find out.

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The Gyro Captain: Don't touch please, that's a precision instrument.

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Max: I got all I need here.
Papagallo: You don't have a future. I could offer you that.

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Curmudgeon: Ya have to come, sonny. This is where we're going.
[Unfolds a multi-panel scenic postcard]
Curmudgeon: Paradise! Two thousand miles from here. Fresh water. Plenty of sunshine. Nothing to do but breed!
[Gives Max a knowing wink]

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Pappagallo: What is it with you, huh? What are you looking for? C'mon, Max, everybody's looking for something. You're happy out there, are you? Eh? Wandering? One day blurring into another? You're a scavenger, Max. You're a maggot. Did you know that? You're living off the corpse of the old world. Tell me your story, Max. C'mon. Tell me your story. What burned you out, huh? Kill one man too many? See too many people die? Lose some family?
[Max turns to Pappagallo and gives him an angry glare]
Pappagallo: Oh, so that's it, you lost your family? That makes you something special, does it?

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Pappagallo: Do you think you're the only one that's suffered? We've all been through it in here. But we haven't given up. We're still human beings, with dignity. But you? You're out there with the garbage. You're NOTHING.

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The Gyro Captain: They've got you wrong. You're not a coward. STUPID, maybe. But not a coward.

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The Gyro Captain: Look, we had a deal. I show you the gas, and you let me go, right?
Max: The arrangement was I wouldn't kill you.
The Gyro Captain: After all I've done for you...
[Max jerks the Captain's face to his own by the collar]
Max: I reckon you got a bargain, didn't you?

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[to Max]
Wez: YOU! You can RUN, but you can't HIDE!

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Max: I want to drive that truck.
Zetta: And how do you plan to do that? Look at yourself. You couldn't drive a wheelchair.

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Narrator: ...and the Road Warrior... He Lives now, only in my memories.

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[first lines]
Narrator: My life fades. The vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos. Ruined dreams. This wasted land. But most of all, I remember The Road Warrior. The man we called "Max". To understand who he was, you have to go back to another time. When the world was powered by the black fuel. And the desert sprouted great cities of pipe and steel. Gone now, swept away. For reasons long forgotten, two mighty warrior tribes went to war and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Without fuel, they were nothing. They built a house of straw. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked. But nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. The cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men. On the roads it was a white line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice. And in this maelstrom of decay, ordinary men were battered and smashed. Men like Max. The warrior Max. In the roar of an engine, he lost everything. And became a shell of a man, a burnt out, desolate man, a man haunted by the demons of his past, a man who wandered out into the wasteland. And it was here, in this blighted place, that he learned to live again...

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Mechanic: The last of the V8 Interceptors... a piece of history!
[Picks up the booby trap he just removed]
Mechanic: Would've been a shame to blow it up.

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[the Gyro Captain realizes Max's shotgun had been empty the entire time]
The Gyro Captain: Empty! All this time!
[reproachful]
The Gyro Captain: That's dishonest! Low!

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Zetta: You're letting him go! Well, let's keep his vehicle at least!
Pappagallo: He fulfilled his contract. He's an honorable man.
Zetta: Ok, so who's going to drive the tanker?
Pappagallo: I am.

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Humungus: [lines spoken offscreen, scarcely audible but coming up in subtitles, while Max is eating the dog food] Smegma crazies to the left! The gate! Gayboy berserkers, to the gate!

[Mrs. Rockatansky]

Mad Max 3:

Barter Town Crowd: Two men enter, one man leave!

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Dr. Dealgood: Listen all! This is the truth of it. Fighting leads to killing, and killing gets to warring. And that was d**n near the death of us all. Look at us now! Busted up, and everyone talking about hard rain! But we've learned, by the dust of them all... Bartertown learned. Now, when men get to fighting, it happens here! And it finishes here! Two men enter; one man leaves.

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Dr. Dealgood: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls... Dyin' time's here.

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Aunty Entity: Welcome, to another addition of Thunderdome!

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Max: Thunderdome. How do I get in there?
Aunty Entity: That's easy. Pick a fight!

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The Collector: Perhaps you've got something to trade after all.
Max: Keep talkin'
The Collector: Twenty-four hours of your life, in return, you'll get back what was stolen.
Max: Sounds like a bargain.
The Collector: It's not. It's the law.

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Aunty Entity: This is no enemy. It's almost family.
Max: Oh, I see, real civilized!
Aunty Entity: The reasons don't concern you, only the conditions. Do you want the deal or not?
Max: Mmm
[nods in agreement]
The Collector: The first is, no one knows you're working for Aunty. You hit him, you go. The second is, it's a fair fight. The third is, it's to the death.
Max: Who's the bunny?

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Aunty Entity: Congratulations! You're the first to survive the audition!

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Max: I don't know anything about methane.
Aunty Entity: You can shovel nuts can't you?

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Master: These our witness, Aunty. Us suffer bad. Want justice. We want Thunderdome!
Aunty Entity: You know the law: Two men enter, one man leaves.
Master: This Blaster! Twenty men enter, only him leave!
Aunty Entity: Then it's your choice. Thunderdome.

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Auntie Entity: Well, ain't we a pair, Raggedy Man.
[Laughs]
Auntie Entity: Goodbye, soldier.

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Pigkiller: Remember: no matter where you go, there you are.

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Aunty Entity: And what did you do before all this?
Max: I was a cop, a driver.
Aunty Entity: But how the world turns. One day, thingy of the walk. Next, a feather duster.

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Master: Who you?
Max: Me Max.

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Aunty Entity: Do you know who I was? Nobody. Except on the day after, I was still alive. This nobody had a chance to be somebody.

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Aunty Entity: We call it Underworld. That's where Bartertown gets its energy.
Max: What, oil? Natural gas?
Aunty Entity: Pigs.
Max: You mean pigs like those?
Aunty Entity: That's right.
Max: Bullnuts!
Aunty Entity: No. Pig nuts.
Max: What?
The Collector: Pig nuts. The lights, the motors, the vehicles, all run by a high-powered gas called methane. And methane cometh from pig nuts.

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Aunty Entity: You think I don't know the law? Wasn't it me who wrote it? And I say that this man has broken the law. Right or wrong, we had a deal. And the law says: bust a deal and face the wheel!

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[Max recognizes Jedediah]
Max: YOU!
Jedediah the Pilot: Me?
Max: You, it's your lucky day!
Jedediah the Pilot: It is?
Max: Uh huh. You've got a plane.
Jedediah the Pilot: I have?
[Outside, a plane is being started]
Max: It might just save your life.
Jedediah the Pilot: It will?
Max: Uh huh.

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Max: The first place you'll find is a sleaze-pit called Bartertown. Now if the earth doesn't swallow you up first, that place sure as hell will!

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Master: Me order! Me Master! Me run Bartertown!
Max: Sure, that's why you live in nuts!
Master: Not nuts! Energy!
Max: Call it what you like. It still smells like nuts to me!

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Jedediah the Pilot: We're not gonna make it.
Max: We haven't got any choice.
Jedediah the Pilot: between them and us, there isn't enough runway.
Max: There will be.

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Max: I ain't Captain Walker. I'm the guy who carries Mr. Dead in his pocket.

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Max: So, what's the plan?
Pigkiller: [laughing] PLAN? There ain't no plan!

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[last lines]
Savannah Nix: Time counts and keeps countin', and we knows now finding the trick of what's been and lost ain't no easy ride. But that's our trek, we gotta' travel it. And there ain't nobody knows where it's gonna' lead. Still in all, every night we does the tell, so that we 'member who we was and where we came from... but most of all we 'members the man that finded us, him that came the salvage. And we lights the city, not just for him, but for all of them that are still out there. 'Cause we knows there come a night, when they sees the distant light, and they'll be comin' home.

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[Pig Killer's leg been impaled to the door with a spear]
Max: [grabbing the door] Okay, we're going to count to three. One...
[Max rips open the door, freeing Pig Killer's impaled leg]
Pigkiller: [whimpering, in pain] What happened to two...?

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Aunty Entity: Remember where you are - this is Thunderdome, and death is listening, and will take the first man that screams.

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Dr. Dealgood: Right now, I've got two men, two men with a gut full of fear. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls... dyin' times here!

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Max: Who are you?
Slake: We're the waiting ones.

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[the Blaster has reduced Bartertown's power supply]
Auntie Entity: For God's sake, what now?
The Master: Who run Bartertown?
Auntie Entity: Dammit, I told you, no more embargos.
The Master: More, Blaster.
[the Blaster puts all power out]
The Master: Who run Bartertown? Who... run... Bartertown?
Auntie Entity: ...You know who.
The Master: Say.
Auntie Entity: Master Blaster.
The Master: Say loud!
[the Master turns on the town loudspeakers]
Auntie Entity: Master Blaster.
The Master: Master Blaster... what?
Auntie Entity: Master Blaster runs Bartertown.
The Master: Louder!
Auntie Entity: Master Blaster runs Bartertown!
The Master: Lift embargo.
[the Blaster turns power back on]

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Blackfinger: [after inspecting a bomb] It's a class job. One mistake, and it'll blow the crap out of this place! Literally.

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The Master: You want foot in face?

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Jedediah Jr.: [armed with more guns than he can hold] This is a stickup! Anybody moves, and they're dead meat!
Max: [turns around and looks at the approaching vehicles]
Jedediah Jr.: Oh, no, I think we're all dead meat!

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Pigkiller: [sees that Max has discovered Blaster's weakness] Mr., who are ya?
Max: No-one
Pigkiller: What's your name?
Max: Nobody.
Pigkiller: No Mr., I can feel it! The dice are rollin'!

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Dr. Dealgood: [giving instructions to Mad Max and Blaster prior to their battle] Thunderdome's simple. Get to the weapons, use them any way you can. I know you won't break the rules, because there aren't any.