10 Cloverfield Lane Quotes

Howard: Crazy is building your ark after the flood has already come.

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Howard: [the three friends are playing charades in the shelter]I'm always watching.
Emmett: Uh, God...?
Howard: [solemnly]I know what you're doing. I see everything.
Emmett: [faltering]Wha... uh, uh...
Howard: I see you when you're sleeping! I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING!
Emmett: ...Um... [Emmet and Michelle stare at each other nervously]
Howard: [seemingly going into a fit]I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO! I SEE EVERYTHING YOU DO! I'M ALWAYS WATCHING!
Emmett: Uh, Howard...?
Michelle: [blurting out]Santa Claus!
Howard: [suddenly calm and cheerful]... Yeah, Michelle! Except it was Emmet's turn, not yours. I'm claiming five points.

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Emmett: Could have been the Russians, aliens, maybe the South Koreans...
Michelle: You mean North Koreans?
Emmett: Is that the crazy one? Then yeah.

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Howard: [deformed, sing-songy]Michelle...! [begins stabbing at Michelle through the air vents]
Howard: [pleading]Don't leave me! You don't know what's out there!

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Howard: Have a drink.
Michelle: What is it?
Howard: ...Technically, it's vodka... it's safe, I distilled it myself. [Michelle tries some and then makes a disgusted face]
Howard: I just said I distilled it, I didn't say anything about it actually tasting good.

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Howard: People are strange creatures. You can't always convince them that safety is in their best interest.

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Howard: I know that this isn't the life that you prefer, and that it's been hard for you to come down here... but I really want us to be a happy family, you and me. The mess is all taken care of... so, I'll go get dinner started.

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Howard: One chance to answer with some dignity or I swear you're going into this barrel while you're still alive to feel the pain!

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Howard: [talking about his 50-gallon drum of bubbling chemical acid]It's used as rocket fuel on the launch pads in Seattle... HIGHLY corrosive. [Emmet and Michelle exchange horrified glances, knowing what Howard intends to do with the acid]

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Howard: [voice distorted with pain]You can't run from them! STAY WITH ME!

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Emmett: Y.O.L.O... I don't even know what that means, but everybody says it, so it's gotta be cool, right? [Michelle laughs, and Howard looks disgusted and annoyed]

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Howard: I saved your life, you know! I couldn't just leave you there.

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Howard: I'm sorry, but no one's looking for you.

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Howard: [angrily]You think I don't know what's goin' on around here?

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Michelle: [apprehensively to Howard]Yes, I will behave... and I'm SO sorry.

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Howard: NO! NO! No, no! No! Don't open that door! You're going to get all of us killed!

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Howard: My goal in life was to be prepared - and I WAS.

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Emmett: It's the end of the world and he's upset about a dead pig.

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Howard: [Yelling at Michelle]You need to eat, you need to sleep, and you need to start showing me a little more appreciation around here!

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Michelle: [to Howard, about using the toilet]I... I can't go with you standing right here!
Howard: Look, I'm not some pervert! Just go!... Don't flush until you've gone. Flushing wastes water.

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Michelle: [holds up one of Howard's daughter's outdated girly magazines]Look, look at this! We could use this.
Emmett: [incredulous]What, the 'ten new ways to style your bangs'?

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Howard: I have a collection of films on DVD and VHS cassette... make sure you put 'em back when you're done with 'em. We're gonna be down here for a very long time.

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Leslie: [shouting madly while her skin blisters away from her face]Open up that door, you bitch! Let me in, LET ME IN! [Michelle tearfully turns and walks away]
Leslie: No no no no, NO! NO!

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Emmett: [Referring to a Polaroid snapshot that Howard has kept]... Oh my god... she was a girl from town, she went missing... her body was found in a pond down the street from here...! [He and Michelle freeze in realization]

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Emmett: We're here. We're alive. That means something... It's gotta.

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Emmett: [talking to Michelle privately about Howard]He was in the navy, I know that much.

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Howard: [Referring to Michelle]You've got a lot of fight in you... I respect that.

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Howard: You gonna walk out on ME? After I've saved you and kept you safe, this is how you repay me? [Michelle screams and tips over the corrosive acid onto Howard. He moans in agony as his face melts off right down to the bone on one side, and Michelle runs]

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Howard: Everything I wanted to do I did. I focused on being prepared. And I was. And here we are.

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Howard: He knocked over a shelf with a whole week's worth of food!... But he's sorry, aren't you?
Emmett: [nonchalant]... Totally.
Howard: [Realizing that Michelle has noticed Emmet's injuries]That's what happens when you don't behave. Now I'm gonna tell you the same thing that I told him - you need to eat, you need to sleep and you need to start showing me a little more appreciation around here!

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