Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)

Michael Preston: Pappagallo

Quotes 

• Papagallo : [Mechanic has just rattled off a long list of things wrong with the big rig]  Well, what does all that mean?

  Zetta : Yeah, okay, but what does that mean?

  Mechanic's Assistant : [to the Mechanic]  What does that mean?

  Mechanic : 24 hours.

  Mechanic's Assistant : [to Papagallo]  24 hours?

  Papagallo : They got 12!

  Zetta : You've got 12!

  Mechanic : Okay.

  Mechanic's Assistant : [to Zetta]  Okay!

• Pappagallo : What is it with you, huh? What are you looking for? C'mon, Max, everybody's looking for something. You're happy out there, are you? Eh? Wandering? One day blurring into another? You're a scavenger, Max. You're a maggot. Did you know that? You're living off the corpse of the old world. Tell me your story, Max. C'mon. Tell me your story. What burned you out, huh? Kill one man too many? See too many people die? Lose some family?

  [Max turns to Pappagallo and gives him an angry glare] 

  Pappagallo : Oh, so that's it, you lost your family? That makes you something special, does it?

• Max : I got all I need here.

  Papagallo : You don't have a future. I could offer you that.

• Max : If it's all the same to you... I'll drive that tanker.

  Pappagallo : The offer is closed. Too late for deals.

  Max : No deals. I want to drive that truck.

• Pappagallo : If you had a contract, it was with him. And it died with him.

• Zetta : You're letting him go! Well, let's keep his vehicle at least!

  Pappagallo : He fulfilled his contract. He's an honorable man.

  Zetta : Ok, so who's going to drive the tanker?

  Pappagallo : I am.

• Curmudgeon : That's two thousand miles from here. How do you expect us to get it there? Drag it?

  Pappagallo : If we have to, yes. There's always a way. But the first step... defend the fuel.

  Big Rebecca : Words, just words. You'll die for a pipe dream.

  Warrior Woman : Wrong, we fight for a belief. I stay.

  The Captain's Girl : I wish it would work, Pappagallo. You can't expect to compete with that. Every day we get weaker while they get stronger. It's finished. I'm sorry.

• Pappagallo : Do you think you're the only one that's suffered? We've all been through it in here. But we haven't given up. We're still human beings, with dignity. But you? You're out there with the garbage. You're NOTHING.