Tentacles (1977)

Bo Hopkins: Will Gleason

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• Will Gleason : [to two killer whales held at sea in a portable tank]  I guess you know now why I brought you here... I wanted to tell ya more about it, but there've been many people that died... I've lost a loved one. I need your help more now than ever. I remember the times when I was training ya - people used to call you killers. They used ta call me that on the streets. It doesn't mean nothing. You have more, more love in your heart, more affection than any human being I ever met. But now I... I can't ask anybody else, so I'm asking you to help me kill this octopus. I hope you understand that. I know I'm in your environment. I don't want it this way, but if I release ya and you go away, I want ya to know I'll understand. All right, enough said. I gotta go now. If you feel anything - you talk to me. Make some noises. I know people'll think we're crazy. Maybe we are... Maybe we are...

• Ned Turner : Have you never heard 'Behind every great fortune is a crime'?

  Will Gleason : Yes, sir. I also heard 'Never bullshit a bullshitter'.

• Ned Turner : Will, I've heard the suckers on a tentacles are like the claws on a tiger.

  Will Gleason : Compared to suckers on a tentacle, claws are nothing, Mr. Turner. Nothing.

• Mike : Will, I have a feeling the octopus won't come back to his lair any more.

  Will Gleason : He'll be there.

  Mike : But all octopi, large or small, have a sense of foresight! He won't come back.

  Will Gleason : This one's very special. This one has tasted blood. This one thinks he's stronger.

  Mike : It's an animal! Disturbed by man's stupidity.

• Will Gleason : What's on your mind?

  Vicky Gleason : Well, I was just thinking, I could be the happiest woman in the world.

  Will Gleason : What do you mean: could be?

  Vicky Gleason : Will, let's ask them to send us dinner up here. Let's stay here. Let's stay in bed - for as long as you can take it.

  Will Gleason : Well, maybe two weeks.

• Mike : There's ripped up things down there. What could have done all that?

  Will Gleason : There's only one thing big enough or powerful enough.

  Mike : Are you thinking about sharks?

  Will Gleason : No. I'm thinking - a giant octopus.

• Will Gleason : We might even ask Mr. Turner to come along with us - as long as he don't ask his sister.