Galaxy Quest (1999)

Tony Shalhoub: Fred Kwan

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Quotes 

• Sir Alexander Dane : Could they be the miners?

  Fred Kwan : Sure, they're like three years old.

  Sir Alexander Dane : MINERS, not MINORS.

  Fred Kwan : You lost me.

• Sir Alexander Dane : I played Richard III.

  Fred Kwan : Five curtain calls...

  Sir Alexander Dane : There were five curtain calls. I was an actor once, damn it. Now look at me. Look at me! I won't go out there and say that stupid line one more time.

• Guy Fleegman : HEY! Don't open that! It's an alien planet! Is there air? You don't know!

  [Guy holds his breath. Kwan sniffs the air and shrugs] 

  Fred Kwan : Seems okay.

• Guy Fleegman : I'm just a glorified extra, Fred. I'm a dead man anyway. If I'm gonna die, I'd rather go out a hero than a coward.

  Fred Kwan : Guy, Guy, maybe you're the plucky comic relief. You ever think about that?

  Guy Fleegman : Plucky?

• Gwen DeMarco : Fred, you had a part people loved. I mean, my TV Guide interview was six paragraphs about my BOOBS and how they fit into my suit. No one bothered to ask me what I do on the show.

  Fred Kwan : You were... the umm, wait a minute, I'll think of it...

  Gwen DeMarco : I repeated the computer, Fred.

• Fred Kwan : Hey guys, I just wanted you to know that, the reactors won't take it; the ship is breaking apart and all that... Just FYI.

• [On traveling through space in a pod] 

  Fred Kwan : That was a hell of a thing.

• [after blowing two of Sarris' men out the airlock] 

  Fred Kwan : Sorry, I was - door was a little sticky. Did you see that? I'll get one of my boys up here with a can of WD-40.

• Fred Kwan : It's the simple things in life you treasure.

• Fred Kwan : Hey, Commander. Listen, we found some beryllium on a nearby planet. And we might be able to get there if we reconfigure the solar matrix in parallel for endothermic propulsion. What'd'ya think?

  Jason Nesmith : We'll do that!

  Guy Fleegman : All right!

  Fred Kwan : [to his engineering team]  That's right again. That's... come on, group hug.

• [first lines] 

  Laredo : Exiting the time knot now, Sir.

  Tech Sgt. Chen : We're alive.

  Laredo : We made it, Commander. We made it.

  Dr. Lazarus : By Grabthar's hammer, we live to tell the tale.

  Voice of Computer : Systems registering functional.

  Lt. Tawny Madison : All systems are working, Commander.

  Commander Peter Quincy Taggart : I don't like it. It was too easy.

  Laredo : Wait. Oh, no! They're everywhere. There are time knots opening everywhere.

  Lt. Tawny Madison : A trap!

  Dr. Lazarus : We're surrounded, Commander.

  [crew screaming as the ship is hit] 

  Tech Sgt. Chen : It's a core meltdown, sir. It can't be stopped.

  Dr. Lazarus : Surrender may be our only option.

  Commander Peter Quincy Taggart : No! Never give up, never surrender.

  Laredo : Your orders, sir?

  [pause] 

  Laredo : Sir, your orders?

  Commander Peter Quincy Taggart : Activate the Omega 13.

  [?to be continued? appears on the screen] 

• Fred Kwan : Wow, the floors are so clean.

• Fred Kwan : Sorry, the door was a little sticky. Did you see that. I'll get one of my boys up here with a can of WD-40.

• Fred Kwan : [Trying to work the matter-transmitter]  So what do we test it on?

  Tommy Webber : [Sees Taggart, on the monitor, grappling with Grignak on the Berillium-Sphere planet]  How about that Pig-Lizard?

• Fred Kwan : That was a helluva thing.