Die Hard Quotes (1988)
Holly Gennero McClane: After all your posturing, all your speeches, you’re nothing but a common thief.
Hans Gruber: I am an exceptional thief, Mrs. McClane. And since I’m moving up to kidnapping, you should be more polite.
John McClane: A hundred million terrorists in the world and I gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister.
Hans Gruber: And what idiot put you in charge?
Holly Gennero: You did. When you killed my boss. Now everyone’s looking to me. Personally, I’d pass on the job. I don’t enjoy being this close to you.
Karl: No one kills him but me! Understood?
Dwayne T. Robinson: They’re gonna need some more FBI guys, I guess.
Hans Gruber: When you steal $600, you can just disappear. But when you steal $600 million, they will find you, unless they think you’re already dead.
Tony: You’re not going to hurt me.
John McClane: Oh, yeah? Why not?
Tony: Because you’re a policeman. There are rules for policemen.
John McClane: Yeah. That’s what my captain keeps telling me.
Joseph Takagi: You want money? What kind of terrorists are you?
Hans Gruber: Who said we were terrorists?
Businessman: You don’t like flying, do you?
John McClane: What gives you that idea?
Businessman: You want to know the secret to surviving air travel? After you get where you’re going, take off your shoes and your socks then walk around on the rug bare foot and make fists with your toes.
John McClane: Fists with your toes?
[Reading what McClane wrote on the dead terrorist's shirt.]
Hans Gruber: Now I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho.
[John throws a body onto a cop car to get his attention.]
John McClane: Welcome to the party, pal!
FBI Special Agent Johnson: Figure we take out the terrorists. Lose twenty, twenty-five percent of the hostages.
FBI Agent Johnson: I can live with that.
John McClane: [before jumping] I promise I will never even THINK about going up in a tall building again. Oh, God. Please don’t let me die.
Harry Ellis: Business is business. You use a gun, I use a fountain pen. What’s the difference?
Hans Gruber: You can unlock the vault, can’t you?
Theo: You didn’t bring me along for my charming personality.
FBI Agent Johnson: [on the phone] Hello this is agent Johnson.
FBI Agent Johnson: No, the other one.
John McClane: Now I know what a TV dinner feels like.
Hans Gruber: I am going to count to three, there will not be a four. Give me the code.
Argyle: So, why didn’t you come with her man? What’s up?
John McClane: ‘Cause I’m a New York cop. I got a six-month backlog on New York scumbags I’m still trying to put behind bars. I can’t just pick up and go that easy.
Hans Gruber: You an American?
John McClane: Only if New Jersey counts.
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John McCLane: {after he’s in the vent system and flicks his lighter on} “Come out to the coast, we’ll get together, have a few laughs.”