Jurassic Park III (2001)

Sam Neill: Dr. Alan Grant

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• Amanda : This is how you make dinosaurs?

  Dr. Grant : No. This is how you play God.

• Erik : I read both of your books. I liked the first one more. Before you were on the island. You liked dinosaurs back then.

  Dr. Grant : Back then, they hadn't tried to eat me yet.

• Symposium Leader : [Dr. Grant is giving a lecture]  Now, does anyone have a question?

  [many people in the audience raise their hands] 

  Dr. Grant : Fine. Does anyone have a question that does not relate to Jurassic Park?

  [most people lower their hand] 

  Dr. Grant : Or the incident in San Diego, which I did not witness?

  [nearly everyone else lowers their hand] 

• Billy Brennan : You have to believe me, this was a stupid decision, but I did it with the best intentions.

  Dr. Grant : With the best intentions? Some of the worst things imaginable have been done with the best intentions. You know what, Billy? As far as I'm concerned, you're no better than the people that built this place.

• Dr. Grant : I have a theory that there are two kinds of boys. There are those that want to be astronomers, and those that want to be astronauts. The astronomer, or the paleontologist, gets to study these amazing things from a place of complete safety.

  Erik : But then you never get to go into space.

  Dr. Grant : Exactly. That's the difference between imagining and seeing: to be able to touch them. And that's... that's all that Billy wanted.

  [a field of beautiful dinosaurs comes into view] 

• Dr. Grant : [the team come across a rotting carcass]  It's OK. It's dead.

  [a T-Rex raises its head out of the carcass] 

  Dr. Grant : Nobody move a muscle.

  [the T-Rex roars and the team runs off] 

  Dr. Grant : Shit!

• Dr. Grant : Did you read Malcolm's book?

  [Erik nods] 

  Dr. Grant : So?

  Erik : I don't know. It was kinda preachy. And too much Chaos. Everything Chaos. It just seemed like the guy was high on himself.

  Dr. Grant : That's two things we have in common.

• Charlie : [Making toy herbivores fight]  Rawr! Rawr Rawr!

  Dr. Grant : Actually, Charlie, those are herbivores. They really wouldn't be interested in fighting with each other, but these ones here are carnivores, and they really like fighting with each other. They'll use their teeth and claws to rip each other's throats out.

  Ellie Degler : Alan, he's three. Let's wait till he's five.

• Dr. Grant : Erik, I have to tell you, I'm astonished that you've lasted eight weeks on this island.

  Erik : [Stunned]  ... Is that all it's been?

• Dr. Grant : Oh my God.

  Amanda : What is it?

  Dr. Grant : It's a bird cage.

  Amanda : For what?

• Paul : What are you doing? Those things are after us because of those!

  Dr. Grant : Those things know we have the eggs. If I drop them in the river, they'll still be after us.

  Paul : What if they catch us with them?

  Dr. Grant : What if they catch us without them?

• Dr. Grant : Why me?

  Paul Kirby : He said we needed someone who'd been on the island before.

  Udesky : Yes, but I did not tell you to kidnap somebody!

  Dr. Grant : I have never been on this island.

  Paul Kirby : Sure you have, you wrote that book.

  Billy Brennan : That was Isla Nublar. This is Isla Sorna - Site B.

• Erik : Be careful with that. T-Rex. It scares some of the smaller ones away but attracts one really big one with the fin.

  Dr. Grant : This is T-Rex pee?

  [Eric nods yes] 

  Dr. Grant : How'd you get it?

  Erik : You don't wanna know.

• Dr. Grant : Great, just great. We're in the worst place in the world and we're not even being paid.

• Billy Brennan : [Referring to Spinosaurus]  I don't remember that one being on InGen's list.

  Dr. Grant : It wasn't on their list. Which makes you wonder what else they were up to.

• Dr. Grant : On this island there is no such thing as safe.

• Reporter : Are you saying you wouldn't want to get on Isla Sorna and study them if you had the chance?

  Dr. Grant : No force on earth or heaven could get me on that island.

• Dr. Grant : [In the plane hanging up in the tree after crashing]  We haven't landed yet.

• Billy Brennan : I rescued your hat.

  Dr. Grant : Well... that's the important thing.

• Erik : [being rescued]  Wow. You have to thank her now. She sent the Navy and the Marines!

  Dr. Alan Grant : God bless you, Ellie.

• Paul Kirby : [a loud roar rocks the jungle]  What was that?

  Billy Brennan : It's a Tyrannosaurus.

  Dr. Grant : I don't think so. It sounds bigger.

• [last lines] 

  Erik : Where do you think they're going?

  Dr. Grant : I don't know. Maybe just looking for new nesting grounds. It's a whole new world for them.

  Amanda : I dare 'em to nest in Enid, Oklahoma.

• Ellie Degler : So what were you doing?

  Dr. Grant : Evolving.

• Dr. Grant : Either way... you probably won't get off this island alive.

• Dr. Grant : Reverse Darwinism - survival of the most idiotic.

• Billy Brennan : Alan, I want to thank you for bringing me along.

  Dr. Alan Grant : Yeah, well, the bones will still be there when we get back. That's the great thing about bones; they never run away. The truth is, you got me into this, and I have no intention of being on my own with these people. Don't get too excited, Billy. Chances are we won't see a thing. Your turn to be nice. Wake me when we get there.

• Ellie Degler : So, what are you working on now?

  Dr. Alan Grant : Raptors, mostly.

  Ellie Degler : [sardonically]  My favorite.

  Dr. Alan Grant : Do you remember the sounds they made?

  Ellie Degler : I try not to.

  Dr. Alan Grant : Ellie, all our theories about raptor intelligence, what they were capable of... we weren't even close.

  Ellie Degler : Tell me.

  Dr. Alan Grant : Well, we did cranium scans of a fossil skull. We found what looks like a very sophisticated resonating chamber.

  Ellie Degler : Wait a second. So we were right? I mean, they had the ability to vocalize?

  Dr. Alan Grant : I'm convinced that's the key to their social intelligence.

  Ellie Degler : Which explains why they could work together as a team.

  Dr. Alan Grant : Yeah, and coordinate their attacks so their prey wouldn't know what was going on.

  Ellie Degler : They could talk to each other.

  Dr. Alan Grant : To a degree we never imagined. Ellie, they were smart. They were smarter than dolphins or whales. They were smarter than primates.

• Erik : That lady you called.

  Dr. Alan Grant : Hmm?

  Erik : Who is she? How do you that she can help us?

  Dr. Alan Grant : She was the one person I could always count on. I owe her a lot. Although I don't think I ever told her that.

  Erik : You should.

• Billy Brennan : [Alan returns from giving an academic presentation]  So, how'd it go?

  Dr. Grant : Well, it's not too late to change your major, Billy.

  Billy Brennan : Not good, huh?

  Dr. Grant : Worse. We're gonna have to pack up in four weeks.

  Billy Brennan : Three. I had to rent some equipment. Come here, I gotta show you something. You like computers, right?

  Dr. Grant : I like the abacus, Billy.

• Dr. Alan Grant : What are you doing?

  Billy Brennan : [Breathing heavily]  I was photographing the nest.

  Dr. Alan Grant : Don't do that again.

  Billy Brennan : [laughs]  Sorry.