The Stunt Man Quotes

Cameron: If you want to get home for Thanksgiving, you better figure the guy coming at you is trying to kill you. Learned that from the gooks.
Eli Cross: Gooks? That has a nostalgic ring. You really did call them gooks? I thought that was just Time Magazine.

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Cameron: [after completing stunt] That was the hardest thousand dollars I ever earned.
Eli Cross: [Starts to turn away, then turns back] Thousand dollars? What thousand dollars? The stunt pays six-fifty.
Cameron: [angrily] Chuck said the stunt paid a thousand dollars. You're cheatin' me!
Eli Cross: [dismissing him] Chuck could have promised you the moon. The stunt pays six-fifty.

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Cameron: [after Eli urges him to read how to get out of a sunken car, and avoid Burt's fate of presumed drowning] Did Burt read this book?
Eli Cross: Offhand, I'd say no.

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Eli Cross: He's a hopeless yo-yo, Jake, but he's not dead... YET!

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