Galaxy Quest (1999)
Tony Shalhoub: Fred Kwan
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Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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[On traveling through space in a pod]
Fred Kwan : That was a hell of a thing.
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[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.
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Fred Kwan : It's the simple things in life you treasure.
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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.
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[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]
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Fred Kwan : Wow, the floors are so clean.
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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.
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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?
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Fred Kwan : That was a helluva thing.