The best Quotes from Alien

You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them f-ing each other over for a goddamn percentage.

It's a rescue mission, you'll love it. There's some juicy colonists' daughters we have to rescue from their virginity.

Hudson: "Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?"
Vasquez: "No, have you?"

We didn't leave Earth to be safe.

We're on an express elevator to hell - going down!

What the hell are we supposed to use, man? Harsh language?

We're all gonna die. The only question is when. This is as good a place as any to take your first steps to Heaven.

Ellen Ripley: "Well, someone's gonna have to go down there, take a portable transmitter and patch in."
William Hudson: "Yeah, sure, with those things running around? You can count me out."
Dwayne Hicks: "Well I guess we can count you out of everything then."

Serve in heaven or reign in hell?

Larry Purvis: "God, I'm so tired."
Ron Johner: "Sleep when you die, man."

There's a monster in your chest... it's a really nasty one. And in a few hours, it's gonna burst through your ribcage, and you're gonna die. Any questions?

Dallas: "Ripley. This is an order. Do you hear me?"
Ripley: "Yes. I read you. The answer is negative."

You've been in my life so long, I can't remember anything else.

You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility. I admire its purity. A survivor... unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.

Ellen Ripley: "How do we kill it, Ash? There's gotta be a way of killing it. How? How do we do it?"
Ash: "You can't."

Bring back life form. Priority one. All other priorities rescinded.

If those things get loose, it's gonna make the Lacerta Plague look like a f-ing square dance!

In space, no one can hear you scream.

The animal itself - wondrous! The potential? Unbelievable - once we've tamed them. We'll teach them tricks!

I got you... you son of a b*tch!

Final report of the commercial starship Nostromo. Third Officer reporting. The other members of the crew - Kane, Lambert, Parker, Brett, Ash, and Captain Dallas - are dead. Cargo and ship destroyed. I should reach the frontier in about six weeks. With a little luck, the network will pick me up. This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off.