The Mummy (1999)

Brendan Fraser: Rick O'Connell

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• Beni : [after a shipwreck]  O'Connell! Hey, O'Connell! It looks to me like I've got all the horses!

  Rick : Hey, Beni! Looks to me like you're on the wrong side of the *river*!

• Hangman : [Rick is about to be hanged]  Any last requests, pig?

  Rick : Yeah. Loosen the knot and let me go.

  [the hangman says something to the warden in Arabic] 

  Warden Gad Hassan : [angrily]  Of course we don't let him go!

  [the hangman smacks Rick on the back of the head] 

• Rick : Well if it ain't my little buddy Beni. I think I'll kill you.

  Beni : Think of my children.

  Rick : You don't have any children.

  Beni : Someday I might.

• Rick : I only gamble with my life, never my money.

• Evelyn : Look, I... I may not be an explorer or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am.

  Rick : And what is that?

  Evelyn : I... am a librarian.

• Evelyn : [upon opening Imhotep's sarcophagus and he falls forward]  Oh, my God, I *hate* it when these things do that.

  Rick : Is he supposed to look like that?

  Evelyn : No, I've never seen a mummy look like this before. He-He's still... still...

  Rick , Jonathan : ...juicy.

• Evelyn : [preparing to open the sarcophagus]  Oh, I've dreamt about this since I was a little girl.

  Rick : You dream about dead guys?

• Evelyn : [singsong]  Patience is a virtue.

  Rick : Not right now, it isn't.

• Rick : And unlike your brother, Miss, you, I just don't get.

  Evelyn : [a little drunk]  Ah. I know. You're wondering... what is a place like me doing in a girl like this?

  Rick : Yeah, something like that.

• Evelyn : You were actually at Hamunaptra?

  Rick : Yeah, I was there.

  Evelyn : You swear?

  Rick : Every damn day.

• Rick : Can you swim?

  Evelyn : Well, of course I can swim, if the occasion calls for it.

  Rick : [throwing her overboard]  Trust me. It calls for it.

• Beni : As long as I serve him, I am immune.

  Rick : Immune from what?

  Beni : [in Hungarian]  Filthy animal.

  Rick : What did you say?

  Beni : I don't wanna tell you. You'll just hurt me some more.

• Rick : Let me get this straight. They ripped out your guts and they stuffed them in jars?

  Evelyn : And then they take out your heart as well. Oh, and you know how they took out your brains?

  Jonathan : Evy, I don't think we need to know this.

  Evelyn : They take a sharp, red-hot poker, stick it up your nose, scramble things about a bit, and then rip it all out through your nostrils.

  Rick : Ooh, that's gotta hurt.

  Evelyn : It's called mummification. You'll be dead when they do this.

  Rick : For the record, if I don't make it out of here, don't put me down for mummification.

  Jonathan : Likewise.

• Evelyn : Um... by the way... why did you kiss me?

  Rick : I was about to be hanged. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

  Evelyn : Ooh!

  [gets up and walks away in a huff] 

  Rick : [Calling after her]  What? What'd I say?

• Winston : So, what's your little problem got to do with His Majesty's Royal Air Corps?

  Rick : Not a damn thing.

  Winston : Is it dangerous?

  Rick : Well, you probably won't live through it.

  Winston : By Jove, do you really think so?

  Jonathan : Well, everybody else we've bumped into has died. Why not you?

• Rick : That's called stealing, you know.

  Evelyn : According to you and my brother, it's called borrowing.

• Rick : The Book of the Dead? Are you sure you want to be playing around with this thing?

  Evelyn : It's just a book. No harm ever came from... reading a book.

• Rick : Sorry. Didn't mean to scare you.

  Evelyn : The only thing that scares me, Mr. O'Connell, are your manners.

• Warden Gad Hassan : O'Connell! O'Connell! What are we going to do? What are we going to do?

  Rick : Wait here! I'll go get help!

  Warden Gad Hassan : Right!

  [Rick jumps overboard] 

• Rick : [trying to pack Evelyn's things into a suitcase, but, as he's packing, she's taking her things back out again]  I thought you said you didn't believe in all this fairy tales and hokum stuff!

  Evelyn : Well, having an encounter with a three thousand-year-old walking, talking corpse does tend to convert one.

  Rick : Forget it! We're out the door, we're down the hall, and we're gone.

  Evelyn : Oh, no, we are not!

  Rick : Oh, yes, we are!

  Evelyn : Oh, no, we are not! We woke him up, and we are going stop him!

  Rick : We? What 'we'? We didn't read that book. I told you not to play around with that thing, didn't I tell you not to play around with that thing?

  Evelyn : Yes, that's right, me, me, me, me, I, I, I woke him up and I intend to stop him.

  Rick : Oh yeah? How? You heard the man, no mortal weapons can kill this guy.

  Evelyn : Then we're just going to have to find some immortal ones!

  Rick : There goes that 'we' again, y'know I wonder if-

  [Evelyn slams the suitcase shut on Rick's fingers] 

  Rick : Ah!

  Evelyn : Listen we've got to do something! Once the creature's been reborn, his curse is going to spread until the whole of the earth is destroyed!

  Rick : And is that my problem?

  Evelyn : Well, it is everybody's problem!

  Rick : Evelyn, I appreciate you saving my life and all, but when I signed on, I agreed to take you out there and bring you back, end of job, end of story, contract terminated!

  Evelyn : Oh, that's all I am to you, a contract?

  Rick : Ok look, you can either tag along with me or stay here... and try to save the world! What's it gonna be?

  Evelyn : I'm staying.

  Rick : Fine!

  Evelyn : Fine!

  Rick : Fine.

  Evelyn : Fine.

  Rick : Fine.

  [leaves and slams the door] 

  Evelyn : Ooh...

• Evelyn : Have you got any bright ideas?

  Rick : I'm thinking, I'm thinking...

  Evelyn : You better think of something fast, because if he turns me into a mummy, you're the first one I'm coming after.

• [a scarab has just crawled under Jonathan's skin and he starts screaming] 

  Rick : What?

  Jonathan : It's my arm! My arm!

  Rick : [to Ardeth Bay]  Hold him!

  Jonathan : Do something! Do something!

  [Rick flicks a knife out] 

  Jonathan : Not that! Not that!

• Rick : [a bunch of mummies start coming out of the ground]  Who the hell are these guys?

  Ardeth Bay : Priests. *Imhotep's* priests.

  Rick : All right then.

  [Starts shooting] 

• Rick : You came back from the desert with a new friend, didn't you, Beni?

  Beni : What friend? You are my only friend.

• Winston : What's the, uh, What's the challenge, then?

  Rick : Rescue the damsel in distress, kill the bad guy, and save the world.

• Beni : You never believed in Hamunaptra, O'Connell. Why are you going back?

  Rick : You see that girl?

  [points to Evelyn] 

  Rick : She saved my neck.

  Beni : You always did have more balls than brains.

• Jonathan : [they have just walked into a large room full of gold]  Can you see...

  Rick : Yeah.

  Jonathan : Can you believe...

  Rick : Yeah.

  Jonathan : Can we just...

  Rick : No.

• Rick : Oh, yeah. This just keeps gettin' better and better.

• Rick : [to Mr. Henderson]  This door doesn't open. She doesn't come out, and no one goes in, right?

  Mr. Henderson : Right.

  Rick : [to Mr. Daniels]  Right?

  Mr. Daniels : Right.

  Evelyn : [locked in the bedroom]  O'Connell! Jonathan!

  Rick : Let's go, Jonathan.

  Jonathan : Oh, uh, I thought I could just stay at the fort and, uh, reconnoiter.

  Rick : Now!

  Jonathan : Yeah. Right. We're just gonna rescue the... Egyptologist.

• Rick : So, what's the scam, Beni? You take them out into the middle of the desert and then you leave 'em to rot?

  Beni : Unfortunately, no. These Americans are smart. They pay me only half now, half when I get them back to Cairo. So this time I must go all the way.

  Rick : Them's the breaks, huh?

• Evelyn : We must stop him from regenerating. Who opened that chest?

  Mr. Henderson : Well, there was me, and Daniels here. Oh, and Burns, of course.

  Mr. Daniels : And that Egyptologist feller.

  Rick : What about my buddy, Beni?

  Mr. Daniels : Nah, he scrammed out of there 'fore we opened the damn thing.

  Mr. Henderson : Yeah. He was the smart one.

  Rick : Well, yeah, that sounds like Beni.

• Jonathan : [Trying to buy some camels from a Bedouin]  I only want four! Four! I only want four, not a whole bloody herd! O'Connell! Can you believe the cheek?

  Rick : Will you just pay the man!

  Jonathan : Oh, for heaven's sake! Can't believe the price of these fleabags! Yes, happy. Very good.

  Rick : You probably could've got 'em for free. All we had to do was give him your sister.

  Jonathan : Yes. Awfully tempting, wasn't it?

  Rick : [as Evelyn walks up looking beautiful in her new black clothes with a veil hiding her face except the eyes]  Awfully...

• Evelyn : The map! The map! I forgot the map!

  Rick : Relax. I'm the map. It's all up here.

  [points to his head] 

  Evelyn : Oh, that's comforting.

• Evelyn : [about O'Connell to Jonathan]  Well, personally, I think he's filthy, rude, a complete scoundrel. I don't like him one bit.

  Rick : [walking up from behind]  Anyone I know?

• [last lines] 

  Jonathan : Well, I guess we go home empty-handed... again.

  Rick : I wouldn't say that.

  [looks at Evelyn] 

  Jonathan : Oh, please.

  [Rick kisses Evelyn] 

  Jonathan : [to his camel]  How about you, darling? Would you like a little kissy-wissy?

  [the camel breathes on him] 

  Jonathan : Whew!

• Rick : [to Imhotep]  Look what I got.

  [holds up the cat, Imhotep gasps, cat hisses, and Imhotep shrieks and flees in a dust storm] 

• Jonathan : Let's see what our friend the warden believed in.

  [starts looking through the warden's pouch. Suddenly he cuts himself on something] 

  Rick : What?

  Evelyn : My God, what is it?

  Jonathan : A broken bottle. Glenlivet, twelve years old! Well, he may have been a stinky fellow, but he had good taste.

• Rick : [being chased by a sandstorm]  Hey, Winston! Pedal faster.

• [after seeing their commander turn and flee] 

  Beni : You just got promoted.

  Rick : [shouting to troops]  Prenez vos positions! Steady!

  Rick : [to Beni]  You're with me on this one, right?

  Beni : Oh, your strength gives me strength.

  [as the enemy continues to advance, Beni runs away] 

• Evelyn : Keep him busy.

  Rick : [being thrown against a pillar by Imhotep]  No problem.

• Rick : [Seeing Imhotep regenerate]  We are in serious trouble.

• Rick : [to Evelyn]  You all right?

  Jonathan : [standing behind Rick]  Well, I'm not sure.

• Rick : Hey! Get your ugly face off of her!

• Evelyn : There's only one person I know that can possibly give us any answers.

  [sees Ardeth Bay with Dr. Bey] 

  Evelyn : You!

  [the men draw their guns and point them at Ardeth] 

  Dr. Bey : Miss Carnahan. Gentlemen.

  Evelyn : [about Ardeth]  What is *he* doing here?

  Dr. Bey : Do you really want to know, or would you prefer to just... shoot us?

  Rick : After what I just saw, I'm willing to go on a little faith here.

• Rick : You're gonna get yours, Beni! You hear me? You're gonna get yours!

  Beni : Oh, like I've never heard *that* before!

• Rick : [while brandishing a sword]  Yaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!

  Mummy Soldiers : [Mouths opening wide]  Rhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

  Rick : [Scared]  Uh-uh.

  [runs away] 

• Rick : [Hamunaptra is about to be destroyed]  Time to go.

• Winston : You know, O'Connell, ever since the end of the Great War, there hasn't been a-a single challenge worthy of a man like me.

  Rick : Yeah? We all got our little problems today. Don't we, Winston?

• Mr. Henderson : [when Hamunaptra is revealed in the morning]  Will you look at that?

  Mr. Daniels : Can you believe it?

  Mr. Burns : Hamunaptra.

  Rick : Here we go again.

• Jonathan : [about a noise]  What was that?

  Rick : Sounds like... bugs.

  Evelyn : [to the warden]  He said bugs.

  Warden Gad Hassan : What do you mean, bugs? I hate bugs!

• Rick O'Connell : [re: Evelyn]  Has your sister always been, uh...?

  Jonathan Carnahan : Oh, yes. Always.

• Rick : [after a mysterious wind blows up for the umpteenth time]  That happens a lot around here.

• Rick : Time to close the door.

• Rick : [to Evelyn]  Well, forget it! We're out the door, we're down the hall, and we're gone.

• Rick : [inspecting Imhotep's sarcophagus]  This looks like some sort of a lock.

  Jonathan : Well, whoever's in here sure wasn't getting out.

• Ardeth Bay : [speaking Arabian]  The Creature remains undiscovered.

  Arabian Soldier : [speaking Arabian]  And what of this one?

  Rick : [runs up the hill and sees some strange Arabian Soldiers, then runs away] 

  Arabian Soldier : [speaking Arabian]  Should we kill him?

  Ardeth Bay : [speaking Arabian]  No. The desert will kill him.