Moonraker Quotes

Dr. Holly Goodhead: You know him?

James Bond: Not socially. His name's Jaws, he kills people.

[Bond dangles from a cable car a thousand feet up]

Dr. Holly Goodhead: Hang on, James!

James Bond: The thought had occurred to me.

Hugo Drax: Mr. Bond, you defy all my attempts to plan an amusing death for you. You're hardly a sportsman, so why did you break off the encounter with my pet python?

James Bond: I discovered she had a crush on me.

Miss Moneypenny: James! But, why are you so late?

James Bond: I fell out of an airplane without a parachute. Who's in there?

Miss Moneypenny: Q and the Minister of Defense.

James Bond: You don't believe me do you?

Miss Moneypenny: No. And you should go right in.

Hugo Drax: [Hastily grabs pistol, trains it on Bond who has cornered him] At least I shall have the pleasure of putting you out of my misery, Mr. Bond.

[Drax chuckles as Bond raises his hands]

Hugo Drax: Desolated, Mr. Bond?

James Bond: [Bond shoots Drax with a poison dart from his wrist-gun. Drax, gasping, drops his pistol and staggers backwards toward the airlock] Heartbroken, Mr. Drax. Allow me.

[He opens the airlock door and pushes Drax in]

James Bond: Take a giant step for mankind!

[He closes the door and ejects Drax into space]

Dr. Holly Goodhead: [rejoining 007] Where's Drax?

James Bond: Oh, he had to fly.

Hugo Drax: James Bond. You appear with the tedious inevitability of an unloved season.

James Bond: I didn't think there WERE any seasons in space.

Hugo Drax: So far as you're concerned, there's only winter.

James Bond: My name is Bond, James Bond. I'm looking for Dr. Goodhead.

Dr. Holly Goodhead: You just found her.

James Bond: A woman!

Dr. Holly Goodhead: Your powers of observation do you credit Mr. Bond.

Sir Frederick Gray, Minister of Defence: My God, what's Bond doing?

Q: I think he's attempting re-entry, sir.

[Bond and Drax are shooting pheasants]

Hugo Drax: You missed, Mr. Bond.

[a sniper falls from a tree]

James Bond: Did I?

James Bond: [flying over Moonraker's expansive production facilities] Well, I'd heard that Hugo Drax is obsessed with the conquest of space. Now I can believe it.

James Bond: [looks up and is shocked to see an enormous chalet] Good Lord!

Corinne: The Drax residence. Every stone brought from France. Cute, isn't it?

James Bond: Magnificent. Why didn't he buy the Eiffel Tower as well?

Corinne: He did, but the French government refused him an export permit.

Dr. Holly Goodhead: Come on, Mr. Bond. A 70-year-old can take 3 G's.

James Bond: Well, the trouble is there's never a 70-year-old around when you need one.

James Bond: Oh, I suppose you're right, Holly. We would be better off working together. Détente?

Dr. Holly Goodhead: Agreed.

James Bond: Understanding?

Dr. Holly Goodhead: Possibly.

James Bond: Co-operation?

Dr. Holly Goodhead: Maybe.

James Bond: Trust?

Dr. Holly Goodhead: Out of the question.

Hugo Drax: Frederick Gray! What a surprise. And in distinguished company, all wearing gas masks. You must excuse me, gentlemen; not being English, I sometimes find your sense of humor rather difficult to follow!

Sir Frederick Gray, Minister of Defence: On behalf of the British government, I apologize.

M, James Bond: I believe you owe us some explanation, 007.

James Bond: I quite agree, sir.

[Drax addresses his staff aboard the space station]

Hugo Drax: First there was the dream, now there is reality. Here in the untainted cradle of the heavens will be created a new super race, a race of perfect physical specimens. You have been selected as its progenitors. Like gods, your offspring will return to Earth and shape it in their image. You have all served in public capacties in my terrestrial empire. Your seed, like yourselves, will pay deference to the ultimate dynasty which I alone have created. From their first day on Earth they will be able to look up and know that there is law and order in the heavens.

Q: [explaining operation of dart wrist-gun] It's activated by nerve impulses from the wrist muscles.

James Bond: Like this?

[dart pierces a painting on M's wall]

M: Oh, thank you, 007!

Q: Be careful, will you? Now, there's ten darts: five blue-tipped, with armour-piercing heads; five red-tipped, cyanide coated, causing death in thirty seconds.

James Bond: Very novel, Q. Must get them in the stores for Christmas. Good day, gentlemen!

Hugo Drax: Allow me to introduce you to the airlock chamber. Observe, Mr Bond, your route from this world to the next.

[opens airlock door]

Hugo Drax: And you, Dr Goodhead, your desire to become America's first woman in space will shortly be fulfilled.

[his only line in the Bond series]

Jaws: Well, here's to us.

[Bond runs his hands up the Hostess' leg]

Hostess Private Jet: Any higher, Mr Bond, my ears will pop.

Pilot Private Jet: This is where we leave you, Mr Bond.

James Bond: A little premature isn't it?

Dr. Holly Goodhead: Have you broken something?

James Bond: Only my tailor's heart.

[she kisses him]

James Bond: What was that for?

Dr. Holly Goodhead: For saving my life.

James Bond: Remind me to do it more often!

[Holly and James are discussing how to destroy the death globes en route to Earth]

James Bond: Moonraker 5, that's the answer. Drax's shuttle is armed with a laser. We can track those globes and destroy them.

Dr. Holly Goodhead: [Bond surprises Holly by emerging from the shadows of her hotel room] ... To what do I owe this - ah - unexpected pleasure?

James Bond: ...Your friend Chang just tried to kill me.

Dr. Holly Goodhead: I hope you don't think *I* had anything to do with that. Where is Chang now?

James Bond: [in reference to having tossed Chang through a large glass clock-face to his death] Well, he was being a naughty boy, so I gave him a time-out. A permanent one.

[He discovers a concealed arsenal among her baggage]

James Bond: ... Standard CIA equipment. And the CIA placed you with Drax, correct?

Dr. Holly Goodhead: Very astute of you, James.

James Bond: Oh, not really. I have friends in low places.

Dr. Holly Goodhead: Could this possibly be the moment for us to pool our resources?

James Bond: It could have its compensations.

[They embrace and kiss]

James Bond: Haven't we met somewhere before?

Dr. Holly Goodhead: The face is familiar.

[he touches her hand]

Dr. Holly Goodhead: As is the manner.

Dr. Holly Goodhead: This evening I'm giving my address.

James Bond: Then can you think of a reason why we can't go for a drink afterwards?

Dr. Holly Goodhead: Not immediately. But I'm sure I shall.

[first lines]

Captain: How are we doing, Richard?

RAF Officer: We should pass over the English coast 15 minutes ahead of time, sir.

Captain: Wow! With this load on our back, that's good going.

RAF Officer: Just trust the RAF, sir.

[last lines]

Dr. Holly Goodhead: James?

James Bond: I think it may be time to go home.

Dr. Holly Goodhead: Take me 'round the world one more time.

James Bond: Why not?

James Bond: Where did you learn to fight like that? NASA?

Dr. Holly Goodhead: No. Vassar.

Hugo Drax: You have arrived at a propitious moment, coincident with your country's one indisputable contribution to Western Civilization: Afternoon tea. May I press you to a cucumber sandwich?

James Bond: Thank you, no, nothing at all.

[At Vandenburg Air Force Base Colonel Scott is on the hotline with Soviet General Gogol after Drax's space station has suddenly appeared on radars]

Col. Scott: Will you please listen, General Gogol! We didn't put it up there.

General Anatol Gogol: [amid a snowstorm outside his mansion] Neither did we, Colonel Scott! So, what do you propose?

Col. Scott: We're taking action. We're sending up a spacecraft to investigate.

General Anatol Gogol: Very well. But if we do not hear from you within twelve hours we will take action outselves and hold you responsible for the consequences.

Col. Scott: We'll be in touch. Sorry to have awoken you.

General Anatol Gogol: I was already awake. How can I sleep? Nothing but problems. Problems, problems.

[Gogol hangs up and returns to bed with his lovely secretary]

Corinne: [while riding in a helicopter] This is the Drax estate now. Everything you see belongs to Mr. Drax.

James Bond: He owns a lot, doesn't he?

Corinne: What he doesn't own, he doesn't want.

Miss Moneypenny: Why James, you look like you've just fallen off a mountain.

James Bond: Funny you should say that, Moneypenny, actually I was in a cable car. It doesn't matter.

Dr. Holly Goodhead: I still don't know if I trust you.

James Bond: I don't know if I trust you either. That's what makes it more exciting, doesn't it?

James Bond: Tell me about your mother's list?

Corinne: I never learned to read.

[They kiss]

Hugo Drax: Jaws, you obey me!

[Jaws hesitates]

Hugo Drax: EXPEL THEM!

M: Moneypenny, is 007 back from that African job?

Miss Moneypenny: He's on his last leg, sir.

[smash-cut to Bond caressing a stewardess' thigh, his hand pushing her skirt up toward her underwear]

Hostess Private Jet: Any higher, Mr. Bond, and my ears will pop.

James Bond: I don't think I'm ever going to fly with anybody else.

Hostess Private Jet: That's right, Mr. Bond.

[she pulls a gun on him]

James Bond: Do you come with the suite?

Manuela: It depends who's renting it. Vodka martini? Shaken, not stirred.

Manuela: ...Drax has a warehouse on Carioca Avenue.

James Bond: I'd like to pay it a discreet visit tonight.

Manuela: Tonight? You may find that difficult.

James Bond: Difficult or no, it's still urgent. In the meanwhile, how do you kill five hours in Rio - if you don't Samba?

[starts to undress her]

Q: Ah, there you are 007.

James Bond: Balls, Q?

Q: Bolas, 007.

Drax Radarman 1: U.S. spacecraft on course to intercept us, sir.

Hugo Drax: Activate laser. Prepare to destroy spacecraft.

NASA Technician: Houston calling Dr. Goodhead. Houston calling. Confirm your position.

[she's making out with 007 in zero gravity aboard Moonraker 5]

Rio de Janeiro Hotel Manager: The President's Suite

[Hotel Manager dangles the keys with a flourish]

James Bond: Really? Well don't bother showing me the rest. If I get lost, I'll take a cab

[Hotel Manager rolls his eyes and leaves]

James Bond: What exactly are you up to here, Drax? And why the orchids?

Hugo Drax: The curse of a civilization. It was neither war nor pestilence that wiped out the race who built the great city lying around us. It was their reverence for this lovely flower.

James Bond: Because long-term exposure to its pollen causes sterility.

Hugo Drax: Correct, Mr. Bond. As you discovered, I have improved upon sterility. Those same seeds now yield death. Not, of course, to animals or plant life; one must preserve the balance of nature.

James Bond: ...One more thing, Drax: You delivered a shuttle to the U.S. government, then you yourself hijacked it. Why?

Hugo Drax: Because I needed it. One of my own Moonrakers developed a fault during assembly.

Hugo Drax: Despite your efforts, my finely-wrought dream approaches its fulfillment.

James Bond: And what dream are you speaking of?

Hugo Drax: Witness the splendor of my conception. First: a necklace of death about the Earth. Fifty globes, each releasing its nerve gas over a designated area, each capable of killing 100 million people. The human race, as you know it, will cease to exist. Second: a rebirth, the rise of a new world.

Dr. Holly Goodhead: Any dream rooted in that sort of holocaust hasn't a chance, Drax. Hitler thought so, remember?

Hugo Drax: [chuckles] So I've been told by others. We shall see whether I have learned enough from the mistakes of his Third Reich to succeed where he failed.

Hugo Drax: [On the phone] Now, regarding a replacement for Chang, do you have someone in mind?

Hugo Drax: [the person on the phone mentions Jaws] Oh, yes, well, if you can get him, of course.