Escape from New York Quotes

Bob Hauk: [referring to the Gullfire] Is the glider intact?
Snake Plissken: Yeah, but takin' off is for ****... I'll work it out.

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Bob Hauk: You going to kill me, Snake?
Snake Plissken: Not now, I'm too tired. [pause]
Snake Plissken: Maybe later.

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Brain: Swear to God Snake, I thought you were dead...
Snake Plissken: Yeah, you and everybody else!

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Cabbie: Brain? Brain, I brought somebody to see you.
Snake Plissken: Harold Hellman...
Brain: Snake?
Maggie: Harold? You never told me you knew Snake.
Snake Plissken: I'm glad you remember me. Yeah, a man should remember his past. Kansas City, four years ago, you ran out on me. You left me sitting there.
Brain: You were late.
Snake Plissken: We were buddies, Harold. You, me, and Fresno Bob. You know what they did to Bob?

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President: God save me, and watch over you all.

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[first lines]
Narrator: In 1988, the crime rate in the United States rises four hundred percent. The once great city of New York becomes the one maximum security prison for the entire country. A fifty-foot containment wall is erected along the New Jersey shoreline, across the Harlem River, and down along the Brooklyn shoreline. It completely surrounds Manhattan Island. All bridges and waterways are mined. The United States Police Force, like an army, is encamped around the island. There are no guards inside the prison, only prisoners and the worlds they have made. The rules are simple: once you go in, you don't come out.

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