Highlander Quotes

Connor MacLeod: You're a liar!
Ramirez: You have the manners of a goat. And you smell like a dung-heap! And you have no knowledge whatsoever of your potential! Now. [shouts]
Ramirez: Get out! [rocks the boat, sending MacLeod into the lake]
Connor MacLeod: [as Ramirez rows away] Help me, I'm drowning!
Ramirez: You can't drown, you fool, you're immortal! [continues rowing]

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Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez: You must leave her, brother. I was born 2,437 years ago. In that time I've had three wives. The last was Shakiko, a Japanese Princess... When Shakiko died I was shattered. I would save you that pain. Please, let Heather go.

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Methos: [deleted scene, about the skulls of their victims] Caspian keeps the heads, he thinks it makes him smarter... so far it hasn't worked.

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News Reporter: The garage is watered from the sprinklers. It also left a man's decapitated body lying on the floor next to his own severed head. The head, which of this time, has no name.
Kurgan: I know his name. [Inserts cassette tape into car stereo]

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Richard H. 'Richie' Ryan: If somebody starts playing a banjo, I'm outta here.

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[to a german soldier during WWII]
Connor MacLeod: Whatever you say, Jack. You are the master race.

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[after waking, becoming an Immortal]
Richie Ryan: Mac, I'm alive.

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[At Methos' apartment. Amanda is banging on the door]
Amanda: Methos. Open the door. I know you're there. Methos! Methos, it's Amanda.
Methos: [opens door] Do you want to knock a bit louder? I don't think they heard you in Philadelphia.
Amanda: I'm sorry. It was an emergency, okay?
Methos: No, it was a good way to get your head cut off is what it was.
Amanda: You're turning into an old grouch, aren't you? Or did I interrupt something important?
Methos: Amanda, it is the middle of the night and I wasn't expecting anyone. Give me a minute. You want some coffee?
Amanda: Yeah.

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[From "Revelations 6: 8"]
Kronos: You don't understand, I am the end of time.
Duncan MacLeod: You're history.

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[From "Saving Grace"]
Darius: Pride doth goest before the fall, and victory to those who hold the high ground. To some war is just a game of inches.
Duncan MacLeod: So why make a game out of it?
Darius: To deny what I was is to deny what I am.

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[From "The Modern Prometheus"]
Byron: My task is done. My song has ceased. My theme has died into an echo... It is fit.

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[muttering to himself after being tossed over a stone wall by Duncan]
Methos: I'm too old for this.

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[Opening narration]
Narrator: He is immortal. Born in the Highlands of Scotland 400 years ago. He is not alone. There are others like him, some good, some evil. For centuries he has battled the forces of darkness, with holy ground his only refuge. He cannot die, unless you take his head, and with it his power. In the end there can be only one. He is Duncan MacLeod, the Highlander.

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[Referring to Duncan]
Connor MacLeod: He has most of the fun, and all of the good women.

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[Referring to mortals]
Methos: THey have so little time to SEE anything or DO anything.

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[to Duncan MacLeod]
Methos: Don't go, MacLeod. It's a trap, MacLeod. MacLeod, your pants are on fire.

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[to Duncan MacLeod]
Methos: Great, you knock me on my bum because I make a bad joke, very macho.

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[to Duncan]
Richie Ryan: You know, I used to stay up at night wondering. Thinking that there must be some special thing I'm supposed to do with my life because I'm Immortal. And I had this illusion that because you were my teacher, that you would show me what it was. And you did. I got it now. There can be only one.

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[to Joe Dawson]
Methos: We ate, we drank, we vomited.

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Amanda: For 300 years you've been telling me to go legit. Now that I'm straight you want me to steal.

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Amanda: MacLeod, why don't you believe me?
Duncan MacLeod: Experience.

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Amanda: The longer I live the more I get attached to myself.

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Amanda: What if I kiss it and make it better?
Duncan MacLeod: How much better?

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Amanda: You won't let me change, you know that? You really expect me to steal.
Duncan MacLeod: I expect sharks to bite too. Don't take it personally.

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Duncan MacLeod: He's using your name.
Methos: Well, it's not like it's got a patent or anything...

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Duncan MacLeod: I've just had a thought.
Methos: Ooooooo.

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Duncan MacLeod: There's a guy watching you, you know.
Amanda: There usually is.

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Duncan MacLeod: You really thought I'd lose?
Methos: Yeah. And you didn't?
Duncan MacLeod: It wasn't about that. You guys still don't get it, do you?
Methos: No.
Duncan MacLeod: I had to take responsibility for what I'd done. Nothing you two could do was ever going to solve it for me. I had to face him and fight the best fight of my life knowing he'd do the same. It's just the Fates that decide the winner.
Methos: Trial by combat. Whoever survives is proved right in the eyes of the law.
Duncan MacLeod: Bright boy.
Amanda: But what if he comes after you again?
Duncan MacLeod: He won't.
Amanda: How do you know that?
Duncan MacLeod: Because I wouldn't.
Amanda: Well, he's not you.
Duncan MacLeod: He's not that different. None of us are. We all make mistakes.
Methos: And we all have mistakes to forgive.
Amanda: Speaking of mistakes, there seems to be an inspector who is determined to put my cute little butt in jail.
Duncan MacLeod: Sorry about that.
Amanda: She won't forgive me?
Duncan MacLeod: Oh no, I don't think she should.
Methos: I think this is my cue to leave.
Amanda: Bye Methos.
Duncan MacLeod: Bye Methos.
Methos: You guys be good.
Duncan MacLeod: If not, we'll try to be better.

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Joe Dawson: He is Duncan MacLeod, the Highlander. Born in 1592 in the Highlands of Scotland and he is still alive. He is immortal. For 400 years he's been a warrior, a lover, a wanderer, constantly facing other immortals in a combat to the death. The winner takes his enemy's head and with it his power. I am a Watcher, part of a secret society of men and women who observe and record, but never interfere. We know the truth about immortals. In the end, there can be only one. May it be Duncan MacLeod, the Highlander.

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Joe Dawson: Sometimes in life you have to do more than just watch.

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