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Amelia: Are you coming or going?
Viktor Navorski: I don't know. Both.
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Viktor Navorski: Officer Torres, my friend say you are stallion.
Officer Dolores Torres: Mr. Navorski! Mr. Navorski...
Viktor Navorski: Stallion.
Officer Dolores Torres: [surprised] A what?
Viktor Navorski: A stallion. Like a horse.
Officer Dolores Torres: [embarrassed] Stand behind the yellow line!
Viktor Navorski: It's horse! Beautiful horse!
Officer Dolores Torres: Who said that?
Viktor Navorski: My food! My friend drive the food.
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Frank Dixon: Sometimes you land a small fish. You unhook him very carefully. You place him back in the water. You set him free so that somebody else can have the pleasure of catching him.
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Frank Dixon: I'm talking about bombs. I'm talking about human dignity. I'm talking about human rights. Viktor, please don't be afraid to tell me that you're afraid of Krakhozia.
Viktor Navorski: Is home. I am not afraid from my home.
[pause]
Viktor Navorski: So?
Frank Dixon: [whispering] All right.
Viktor Navorski: I go to New York City now?
Frank Dixon: No.
Viktor Navorski: No? Uh... Okay. I'm uh... I'm uh... I'm afraid from ghosts.
Frank Dixon: Okay, thanks very much!
Viktor Navorski: I'm afraid from, uh... Dracula!
Frank Dixon: Thanks a lot. Thanks, Viktor!
Viktor Navorski: [as he is escorted outside] Afraid from Wolfmens, afraid from sharks!
Frank Dixon: It's okay. Thank you Viktor! Thanks a lot!
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Enrique Cruz: So, she had a boyfriend, for how long?
[nods yes, holds up two fingers]
Enrique Cruz: Two years, what happened?
Viktor Navorski: He chit.
Enrique Cruz: What?
Viktor Navorski: He chit.
Enrique Cruz: Eat shit?
Viktor Navorski: He chit, he chit, he chit.
Enrique Cruz: Okay, try to repeat exactly what she said.
Viktor Navorski: He chit, she catch him so...
Enrique Cruz: Oh! He cheats!
Viktor Navorski: Yes, yes, yes! What we call Krushkach. We say Krushkach. One man, two womans. So, hmm, crowded. You know? Ha!
Enrique Cruz: Okay, he *cheats*! You say cheats.
Viktor Navorski: Hm-hum. He chit.
Enrique Cruz: No, no. *Cheat*.
Viktor Navorski: Enrique, you, no chit.
Enrique Cruz: No cheat.
Viktor Navorski: No chit.
Enrique Cruz: Yeah, yeah, I won't. I won't. I won't cheat. Not chit.
Viktor Navorski: She's a nice... nice girl, she won't take your chitting.
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Frank Dixon: You could have any man you wanted... why Viktor Navorski?
Amelia: That's something a guy like you could never understand.
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Salchak: I know you've been waiting for years for me to either drop dead or retire...
Frank Dixon: No, I haven't been waiting for you to retire.
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Viktor Navorski: Please. Please. Don't be hurt.
Amelia: How can I not be? He's married.
Viktor Navorski: One man. Two womens. Crowded.
Amelia: You want to know what the worst part is? I never even asked him to leave his wife. I was encouraging him to get counseling. I mean, what kind of sick person am I? I'm rooting for the home team. I just wish the sex wasn't so amazing.
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Gupta Rajan: Do you have an appointment?
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Gupta Rajan: You are a coward! You are a coward! You make me sick!
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Viktor Navorski: So she go to these conventions dressed as... Yeoman Rand. Yeoman Rand.
Enrique Cruz: She's a Trekkie... She's a Trekkie!
Viktor Navorski: Favorite episode is "Doomsday Machine."
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Amelia: I have to go.
Viktor Navorski: I have to stay.
Amelia: Story of my life.
Viktor Navorski: Me too.
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Airport Construction Worker: [watching Viktor build something on a wall they're supposed to be fixing] What's he doing?
Karl Iverson: I can't ask him what he's doing. I'm supposed to tell him what he's doing. I ask him what he's doing and I'm gonna look like an idiot.
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Joe Mulroy: You better be careful. You know those flight attendants ain't like regular women, Viktor. They're flying back and forth between all those time-zones kinda messes with their biological clock or something. Always ready for sex. Why do you think they can't stop smiling?
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Milodragovich: Goat! Medicine for goat.
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[last lines]
Cab Driver: Where you wanna go?
Viktor Navorski: I am going home.
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[first lines]
PA announcer: United Airlines announcing the arrival of Flight 9435 from Beijing. Customer service representative, please report to gate C42.
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Frank Dixon: Why doesn't he try to escape?
Joe Mulroy: Sir, you told him to wait.
Frank Dixon: I didn't think he'd actually do it. I mean, he's in a crack. Who the hell waits in a crack?
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Amelia: I've been waiting my whole life, I just don't know what the hell for.
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Amelia: I usually read history books. They're long and cheap and usually about men killing each other.
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Businessman/passenger in bathroom: [Viktor is shaving in the bathroom] Ever feel like you're living in an airport?
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Amelia: You told me you were delayed, you never said it was for nine months!
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Joe Mulroy: Buddy, I think you been spending too much time inhaling them cleaning products.
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Officer Dolores Torres: Let me ask you something, Mr. Navorski. Why do you wait here two hours every day when I've told you there's nothing I can do for you - that your new visa will not arrive until your country is recognized by the United States?
Viktor Navorski: You... you have two stamp. One red, one green.
Officer Dolores Torres: So?
Viktor Navorski: So, I have chance go New York, 50-50.
Officer Dolores Torres: [laughs] Yes, that's a beautiful way to look at it. But America doesn't work that way.
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Frank Dixon: Do you know, one of my own men came up to me the other day, asked me if I wanted to join the big pool. Look at 'em, look at 'em, look at 'em. Place a bet on when Navorski was gonna leave this airport. Have you heard about this?
Thurman: [nodding] I have January 3rd.
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Amelia: I just keep injesting these poisonous men until I make myself sick.
Viktor Navorski: You're not sick, Amelia, no. You're a little far-sighted.
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Viktor Navorski: Amelia, would you like an eat to bite?
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Gupta Rajan: If I go home, I go to jail for 7 years.
Viktor Navorski: What if United States catch you? They deport you.
Gupta Rajan: As long as I keep my floor clean, keep my head down, they have no reason to deport me, they have no reason to notice a man like me.
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Viktor Navorski: Eat to bite... bite to eat, bite to eat, bite to eat, bitetoeat bitetoeat bitetoeatbitetoeatbitetoeatbitetoeat
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Thurman: What exactly are you doing in the United States, Mr. Navorski?
Viktor Navorski: [reading from a notecard] Yellow taxicab, please. Take me to Ramada Inn, 161 Lexington.
Thurman: You're staying at the Ramada Inn?
Viktor Navorski: Keep the change.
Thurman: Do you know anyone in New York?
Viktor Navorski: Yes.
Thurman: Who?
Viktor Navorski: Yes.
Thurman: Who?
Viktor Navorski: Yes.
Thurman: No. Do you know anyone in New York.
Viktor Navorski: Yes, yes.
Thurman: Who?
Viktor Navorski: Yes. 161 Lexington.
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Frank Dixon: Okay. Look. Imagine that these potato chips are Krakozhia.
Viktor Navorski: Eh, Kra-ko-zhia.
Frank Dixon: Kra-ko-zhia.
Viktor Navorski: Yes. Krakozhia. Okay.
Frank Dixon: Eh, so the potato chips are Krakozhia. Okay. And this apple..
Viktor Navorski: Big Apple. Big Apple.
Frank Dixon: Big Apple represents the Liberty Rebels. Okay?
[smashes the bag with the apple spraying chips all over Viktor]
Frank Dixon: No more Krakozhia! Okay? New government. Revolution! You understand? So, all the flights in and out of your country have been suspended indefinitely. And the new government has sealed all borders, which means that your passport and visa are no longer valid. So, currently you are a citizen - of nowhere.
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Cab Driver Goran: Where you from?
Viktor Navorski: Krakozhia. Viktor Navorski.
Cab Driver Goran: I'm Goran. Albania.
Viktor Navorski: Oh. When you come to New York?
Cab Driver Goran: Oof!
[implicating it was a long time ago]
Cab Driver Goran: Thursday.
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Viktor Navorski: Keep the change!
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Viktor Navorski: You say you are waiting for something. And I say to you, "Yes, yes. We all wait".
Amelia: What are you waiting for?
Viktor Navorski: You. I wait for you...
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Frank Dixon: I have a bit of bad news: it seems that your country has suspended all traveling privileges on passports that have been issued by your government and our state department has revoked the visa that was going to allow you to enter into the United States. That's it in a nut shell: while you were in the air, there was a military coup in your country. Now, most of the dead were members of the presidential guard. They were attacked in the middle of the night, they got it all on GHN. There were very few civilian casualties, so I'm sure your family is fine.
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Frank Dixon: When was the last time you saw Chinese tourists on their way to Disney World without a single one without a cameras?
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Frank Dixon: See. You don't qualify for asylum, refugee status, temporary protective status, humanitarian parole, or non-immigration work travel or diplomatic visas. You don't qualify for any of these things. You are at this time simply - unacceptable.
Viktor Navorski: Unacceptable.
Frank Dixon: Unacceptable.
Viktor Navorski: Unacceptable.
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Viktor Navorski: Big Apple Tour include Brooklyn Bridge, Empire State, Broadway show: Cats.
Frank Dixon: Well, I got more bad news for you, Mr. Navorski. Cats has closed.
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Frank Dixon: I'm sure that Uncle Sam will have this all sorted out by tomorrow and welcome to the United States. Almost.
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Thurman: Beyond those doors is American soil. Mr. Dixon wants me to make it very clear to you, that you are not to enter through those doors. You are not to leave this building. America is closed.
Viktor Navorski: America closed.
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Viktor Navorski: What I do?
Thurman: There's only one thing you can do here, Mr. Navorski. Shop.
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Frank Dixon: Mr. Thurman, there's a man walking around the terminal in a bathrobe.
Thurman: I know, sir. You put him there.
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Officer Dolores Torres: Who's telling you to ask me these things?
Viktor Navorski: Well, it's a man of misery.
Officer Dolores Torres: Misery? Mystery?
Viktor Navorski: No, no. Misery. Man of misery.
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Amelia: This is my problem. I always see men the way I want to see them.
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Amelia: Do I know you from someplace?
Viktor Navorski: Sensible heels. Payless Shoes. Second floor.
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Joe Mulroy: Gupta, relax, would you? He isn't a spy.
Gupta Rajan: How do you know? He could be recording everything we say. A wire in his shirt. A microphone up in his ass.
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Frank Dixon: Do you think this is a game? Do you think I need an excuse to put you back in that cell to keep you there for five years? You go to war with me, and you go to war with the United States of America. And then you'll know when that fight is over why the people of Krakozhia wait in line for cheap toilet paper while Uncle Sam wipes his ass with Charmin two-ply.
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Joe Mulroy: You better be careful. You know, those flight attendants ain't like regular women, Viktor. You know, they're flying back and forth between all those time zones, it kinda messes with their biological clock or something. They're always ready for sex. Why do you think they can't stop smiling?
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Joe Mulroy: I thought we were looking for a way out, not a way in.
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Gupta Rajan: I think he's CIA. The CIA put him here to spy on us.
Joe Mulroy: You don't know what the Hell you're talking about. That guy doesn't even speak English.
Gupta Rajan: If he could learn to speak, this guy. He can't speak English, how could he have a meeting with a beautiful woman? A flight attendant.
Enrique Cruz: Oh, so, she's CIA, too?
Gupta Rajan: No. She look like a Russian. KGB.
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Frank Dixon: I was just following the rules.
Salchak: Sometimes you have to ignore the rules, ignore the numbers, and concentrate on the people.
Frank Dixon: The people, yeah, I know.
Salchak: The people. Compassion, Frank. That's the foundation of this country.
Frank Dixon: I know.
Salchak: You could learn something from Navorski.
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Frank Dixon: In my line of work, there are three things that matter: the person, the document and the story. Find the truth of one and you find the truth of all three.
The Terminal Quotes
Extended Reading
Director: Steven Spielberg
Language: English,Bulgarian,Spanish,Russian,Mandarin,German,French Release date: June 18, 2004