100 Best The Terminal Quotes

Amelia: Do I know you from someplace?
Viktor: Sensible heels. Payless Shoes. Second floor.

- He love that goat.
- Do you think I need an excuse to put you back in that cell to keep you there for five years?
- You go to war with me, and you go to war with the United States.
- Then you'll know why Krakozhians wait in line for cheap toilet paper while Uncle Sam wipes his ass with Charmin two-ply.

- Why do you wait here every day when there's nothing I can do for you?
- Your new visa will not arrive until your country is recognized by the U.S.
- You have two stamp.
- One red, one green.
- So?
- I have chance to go New York, 50-50.
- Yes. That's a beautiful way to look at it, but America doesn't work that way.

Viktor: Please. Please. Don't be hurt.
Amelia: How can I not be? He's married.
Viktor: One man. Two womens. Crowded.
Amelia: You want to know what the worst part is? I never even asked him to leave his wife. I was encouraging him to get counseling. I mean, what kind of sick person am I? I'm rooting for the home team. I just wish the sex wasn't so amazing.

- Come on. In a few minutes, you'll be somebody else's problem.
- He wants to make sure nobody's watching.
- I told him nobody would be watching.
- Come on. All right, here we go.
- Call the Airport Police.
- He's on his way.
- Excuse me.

- Look at me.
- I was going to help you.
- Now I want you to ask him... No, not you.
- I want you to ask him.
- I want to hear him say it.
- I want to hear him say who the medicine is for.
- Please. Who the medicine is for.

Amelia: I usually read history books. They're long and cheap and usually about men killing each other.

Frank: You could have any man you wanted... why Viktor Navorski?
Amelia: That's something a guy like you could never understand.

- Watch it.
- Please.
- Please, telephone? Telephone?
- Please, please.

- Where you go?
- 161 Lexington. Please take Van Wyck
- Expressway to Queensboro Bridge.
- It's faster than BQE.
- Where you from?
- Krakozhia. Viktor Navorski.
- I'm Goran. Albania.
- When do you come to New York?
- Thursday.

Salchak: I know you've been waiting for years for me to either drop dead or retire...
Frank: No, I haven't been waiting for you to retire.

- What do you import?
- Computer software.
- That's a lot of walnuts.
- Yeah. My mother-in-law loves these things.
- Every time I go to Brazil,
- I bring her back a bag.
- Your mother-in-law?
- Yeah.
- Mind if I try one?

- Stand by. He's fishing.
- Copy that.
- See this bunch of Mickey
- Mouse sweatshirts?
- That's the tour from China, connecting to Orlando.
- When was the last time you saw Chinese tourists on their way to Disney
- World without any cameras?
- Possible forged documents on 10 and 11.

- It doesn't look good, Frank.
- I was just following the rules.
- Sometimes you have to ignore the rules and concentrate on the people.
- The people, I know.
- The people, compassion. That's the foundation of this country.
- You could learn something from Navorski.
- Cheer up. It's not over yet.

Frank: I'm talking about bombs. I'm talking about human dignity. I'm talking about human rights. Viktor, please don't be afraid to tell me that you're afraid of Krakhozia.
Viktor: Is home. I am not afraid from my home.
[pause]
Viktor: So?
Frank: [whispering] All right.
Viktor: I go to New York City now?
Frank: No.
Viktor: No? Uh... Okay. I'm uh... I'm uh... I'm afraid from ghosts.
Frank: Okay, thanks very much!
Viktor: I'm afraid from, uh... Dracula!
Frank: Thanks a lot. Thanks, Viktor!
Viktor: [as he is escorted outside] Afraid from Wolfmens, afraid from sharks!
Frank: It's okay. Thank you Viktor! Thanks a lot!

- Just calm him down, and I'll let you back in the terminal.
- No. New York. No red stamp.
- Green. I green.
- New York.
- Okay, yes.
- You say yes?
- Yes.
- We have somebody here to talk to you.
- Somebody to talk to you. Go ahead.
- Stay out.

[first lines]
PA: United Airlines announcing the arrival of Flight 9435 from Beijing. Customer service representative, please report to gate C42.

- Tell them it was a bad idea to let them go to Jamaica.
- Come on, let's go. South America and Madrid are on the tarmac.
- I want them out of here in half an hour.
- Mr. Thurman.
- There's a man walking around the terminal in a bathrobe.
- I know, sir. You put him there.

- Good luck.
- Oh, no.
- I'm going to miss you.
- Try not to get stuck wherever you're going.
- Arrest him! Arrest him!
- God damn it!

- Viktor. Remember us.
- From the Discovery Store,
- I want to give you this.
- It's good luck.
- A digital camera for Cousin Katia.
- I don't know where you're going, but these will keep your feet warm.

Joe: Gupta, relax, would you? He isn't a spy.
Gupta: How do you know? He could be recording everything we say. A wire in his shirt. A microphone up in his ass.

Joe: You better be careful. You know, those flight attendants ain't like regular women, Viktor. You know, they're flying back and forth between all those time zones, it kinda messes with their biological clock or something. They're always ready for sex. Why do you think they can't stop smiling?

- If I stay, you stay.
- You will not set one foot in New York City.
- Not a single toe in the
- United States of America.
- Do you understand what
- I am saying to you?
- Yes.
- You don't like fish.

- "of comedy hit Friends,"
- "which is set in New York."
- Friends.
- Friends.
- Due to the heavy snowfall, all flights have been canceled...

Thurman: Beyond those doors is American soil. Mr. Dixon wants me to make it very clear to you, that you are not to enter through those doors. You are not to leave this building. America is closed.
Viktor: America closed.

- He isn't a spy.
- How do you know?
- He could be recording everything we say. A wire in his shirt.
- A microphone up in his ass.
- I'm not going to lose my job.
- Fine.
- What if we x-rayed him?
- Yes.
- Close your eyes.

- 451-1226.
- All right. When's the best time to reach you?
- Now?

- What's he doing?
- I can't ask him. I'm supposed to tell him what he's doing.
- If I ask him, I look like an idiot.

Gupta: If I go home, I go to jail for 7 years.
Viktor: What if United States catch you? They deport you.
Gupta: As long as I keep my floor clean, keep my head down, they have no reason to deport me, they have no reason to notice a man like me.

- Medicine for goat.
- Medicine for goat.
- Medicine for goat.
- Give him the pills.
- Medicine for goat.
- Medicine...

- And he gave her a piece of the paper.
- Was it microfilm?
- A coupon from Payless Shoes.
- Must be some kind of the code.
- You been spending too much time inhaling them cleaning products.
- I'm warning you guys.
- You watch yourself.
- This guy is here for a reason.
- And I think that reason is us.

- ...taken hostage.
- We're also hearing that the
- Vice President has been killed along with four cabinet members,
- 13 injured soldiers and 20 civilians.
- By dawn, rebel leaders had surrounded the state houses.
- In a symbolic gesture, the national flag of Krakozhia was torn down from the Presidential Palace and the parliament building.

Amelia: You told me you were delayed, you never said it was for nine months!

- It should shoot, big water up to ceiling.
- Just tell me the truth. Did you escape from an institution?
- Are you a criminal?
- You're living here, Viktor.
- You're living at Gate 67.
- I just want to know why.
- Here. I show you.

Frank: I have a bit of bad news: it seems that your country has suspended all traveling privileges on passports that have been issued by your government and our state department has revoked the visa that was going to allow you to enter into the United States. That's it in a nut shell: while you were in the air, there was a military coup in your country. Now, most of the dead were members of the presidential guard. They were attacked in the middle of the night, they got it all on GHN. There were very few civilian casualties, so I'm sure your family is fine.

- I'm sorry. What did you say?
- I will go home.
- Leave them alone. I will go.
- Today.
- Yes.
- If you don't get on that plane, they're all gone.
- Do you understand?
- Yes.
- Okay. Good.

Enrique: So, she had a boyfriend, for how long?
[nods yes, holds up two fingers]
Enrique: Two years, what happened?
Viktor: He chit.
Enrique: What?
Viktor: He chit.
Enrique: Eat shit?
Viktor: He chit, he chit, he chit.
Enrique: Okay, try to repeat exactly what she said.
Viktor: He chit, she catch him so...
Enrique: Oh! He cheats!
Viktor: Yes, yes, yes! What we call Krushkach. We say Krushkach. One man, two womans. So, hmm, crowded. You know? Ha!
Enrique: Okay, he *cheats*! You say cheats.
Viktor: Hm-hum. He chit.
Enrique: No, no. *Cheat*.
Viktor: Enrique, you, no chit.
Enrique: No cheat.
Viktor: No chit.
Enrique: Yeah, yeah, I won't. I won't. I won't cheat. Not chit.
Viktor: She's a nice... nice girl, she won't take your chitting.

- My father, Dimitar Asenov Navorski, was great, great fan of your music.
- Oh, a jazz fan. Fantastic.
- Would you sign your name, please?
- Oh. Can I do it a little later?
- We have to get started now.
- Just a minute.
- I will wait.
- Okay.

- Monica, Viktor's leaving.
- I know. He's going home.
- He's going for the front door, out to the city.
- What? Oh, my...

Joe: You better be careful. You know those flight attendants ain't like regular women, Viktor. They're flying back and forth between all those time-zones kinda messes with their biological clock or something. Always ready for sex. Why do you think they can't stop smiling?

Amelia: I have to go.
Viktor: I have to stay.
Amelia: Story of my life.
Viktor: Me too.

- It means that my authority over the security of this airport is absolute.
- Your ticket and your passport.
- It's time for you to go home.
- Officer Waylin, please show
- Mr. Navorski into the terminal and make sure he does not miss his flight.
- Goodbye, Viktor, and good luck.

Frank: Do you know, one of my own men came up to me the other day, asked me if I wanted to join the big pool. Look at 'em, look at 'em, look at 'em. Place a bet on when Navorski was gonna leave this airport. Have you heard about this?
Thurman: [nodding] I have January 3rd.

- I wait.
- What are you looking at?
- Go back to work. Thank you.
- Oh, God. Shit.

- I'm sorry, sir. This is a private lounge.
- The public lounge is downstairs.
- The tiniest nation in the region has been shaken by another uprising.
- Krakozhia has been involved in civil war throughout the late '80s and '90s as it has tried to transition from Communist rule.

Amelia: Are you coming or going?
Viktor: I don't know. Both.

Thurman: What exactly are you doing in the United States, Mr. Navorski?
Viktor: [reading from a notecard] Yellow taxicab, please. Take me to Ramada Inn, 161 Lexington.
Thurman: You're staying at the Ramada Inn?
Viktor: Keep the change.
Thurman: Do you know anyone in New York?
Viktor: Yes.
Thurman: Who?
Viktor: Yes.
Thurman: Who?
Viktor: Yes.
Thurman: No. Do you know anyone in New York.
Viktor: Yes, yes.
Thurman: Who?
Viktor: Yes. 161 Lexington.

- At least we have that in common.
- Amelia, you know what Napoleon give to Josephine when he win Bavaria?
- No.
- I show you.
- Please.
- Sit. Please.

Milodragovich: Goat! Medicine for goat.

Amelia: This is my problem. I always see men the way I want to see them.

- For security reasons, please keep your luggage with you at all times.
- Unattended luggage will be removed for inspection...

- Did you know the croissant was invented in Romania?
- Tell me.
- Okay.
- It's 1742, and the Turks invade Bucharest, making a surprise attack under the cover of night.
- But the town bakers...
- Sorry.

- He ask the nuns to write
- English. Hundreds letters.
- And then he wait.
- He wait month, week, year.
- My father wait 40 year.
- And they all sign names.
- One by one.

- Where's your green form?
- I can't do anything without it.
- Go to the wall.
- Next!
- Sir.
- The light green form.
- I love New York...

Officer: Who's telling you to ask me these things?
Viktor: Well, it's a man of misery.
Officer: Misery? Mystery?
Viktor: No, no. Misery. Man of misery.

Frank: When was the last time you saw Chinese tourists on their way to Disney World without a single one without a cameras?

- You want him back in the holding cell?
- No, I'll show him the door.
- Hello.
- Do you have an appointment?
- Yes. 9:30.
- Food document, trash. Tuesday.
- Tuesday. I hate the Tuesday.
- Excuse me.

Frank: Mr. Thurman, there's a man walking around the terminal in a bathrobe.
Thurman: I know, sir. You put him there.

Viktor: So she go to these conventions dressed as... Yeoman Rand. Yeoman Rand.
Enrique: She's a Trekkie... She's a Trekkie!
Viktor: Favorite episode is "Doomsday Machine."

Frank: In my line of work, there are three things that matter: the person, the document and the story. Find the truth of one and you find the truth of all three.

- So?
- Okay, tell him in order to export medicines from this country, he needs to have the proper form, he needs to have a Medicinal
- Purchase License.
- Okay? You understand me, Viktor?

- Gate 24.
- You sure?
- Yes.
- Thanks.
- Wait.
- For you. Payless Shoes.
- Second floor. Sensible heels.

Businessman/passenger: [Viktor is shaving in the bathroom] Ever feel like you're living in an airport?

Frank: See. You don't qualify for asylum, refugee status, temporary protective status, humanitarian parole, or non-immigration work travel or diplomatic visas. You don't qualify for any of these things. You are at this time simply - unacceptable.
Viktor: Unacceptable.
Frank: Unacceptable.
Viktor: Unacceptable.

- "Put the guns away," the man say.
- "Nobody will die today."
- Who?
- Who was it that saved him?
- Yeah, tell us. Who was it?
- Who was this man?
- Navorski. Viktor
- "The Goat" Navorski.

Viktor: Big Apple Tour include Brooklyn Bridge, Empire State, Broadway show: Cats.
Frank: Well, I got more bad news for you, Mr. Navorski. Cats has closed.

Amelia: I've been waiting my whole life, I just don't know what the hell for.

- Is this a good time?
- Yes, I wait for your call all day.
- Well, I got to tell you that the position's been filled.
- Yeah, so could you please go sit someplace else?
- I go to bathroom now.
- That'd be good.
- All right.
- Thank you.
- Okay.

Viktor: What I do?
Thurman: There's only one thing you can do here, Mr. Navorski. Shop.

- Come on, look at me.
- There's something you should know.
- Ladies and gentlemen, United Airlines Flight 865 from Krakozhia has landed and is now taxiing to the gate.
- For those passengers holding tickets for Flight 866 to Krakozhia, we expect departure to be on schedule.

Viktor: Keep the change!

- Taxi.
- Thank you.

- Then what are you waiting for?
- Is okay. I understand.
- I have an idea.
- Come here.
- What you do?
- You sure?
- More than anything, I'm sure of this.
- Ready?

- Amelia, would you like to get eat to bite?
- Bite to eat? Cantaloni?
- Bite to eat?
- Bite to eat?
- Eat to bite? Eat to bite.
- Bite to eat. Bite to eat.
- Bite to eat.

- I am going home.
- Get lost.

Viktor: Officer Torres, my friend say you are stallion.
Officer: Mr. Navorski! Mr. Navorski...
Viktor: Stallion.
Officer: [surprised] A what?
Viktor: A stallion. Like a horse.
Officer: [embarrassed] Stand behind the yellow line!
Viktor: It's horse! Beautiful horse!
Officer: Who said that?
Viktor: My food! My friend drive the food.

Viktor: Amelia, would you like an eat to bite?

Viktor: Eat to bite... bite to eat, bite to eat, bite to eat, bitetoeat bitetoeat bitetoeatbitetoeatbitetoeatbitetoeat

- Oh, my God. Oh, my
- God, you broke my bag!
- I got this in Paris.
- This is my favorite bag.
- I can't believe you just broke my bag.
- Mom, Dad. He broke my bag.

- And now she say,
- "Please. Please come."
- That's... Wait.
- I coming now.
- No, wait. Viktor.
- Viktor, just tell me more.
- I coming. I coming.
- Please, please.

- Gupta.
- Gupta.

- As acting Field Commissioner, I've created a new position here at JFK.
- Transportation Liaison for
- Passenger Assistance.
- Sir, what will that person do?
- Thank you. I'll take it from here.
- I'm Transportation Liaison in charge of Passenger Assistance.

Frank: I'm sure that Uncle Sam will have this all sorted out by tomorrow and welcome to the United States. Almost.

- Keep looking.
- Warren, right?
- Yes. Yes.
- Warren.
- Amelia Jane Warren?
- Jane?
- Yeah.
- Way to go, Viktor. First class.
- When she come back?
- Three weeks.

- Sir, I have an IBIS hit on six.
- Mr. Navorski, please follow me. from Montreal must proceed to U.S.
- Immigration for luggage.
- All right, Mr. Navorski, we'd like you to wait here, please.
- Next, please.

- and both sides have dug in for the long winter ahead, it's clear that the future of Krakozhia may be in doubt for some time to come.
- Meanwhile, the people of Krakozhia suffer the consequences.
- "And food..."
- Have caused food and energy shortages.
- "In Krakozhia."

- He say he bring the medicine for his father.
- This why he go to Canada.
- Medicine for father.
- It doesn't matter.
- His plane landed in the U.S.
- He needs to have the right form.

- That was gift.
- Napoleon to Josephine.
- One thousand fountains.
- You built this for me?
- Please. Sit. Don't get wet.

- Put it down. Put it down.
- Put it down.
- You try to take my mop.
- You try to take my floor.
- It's my job. Stay off my floor.
- Stay away from my mop.
- Food.
- If you touch it again, I kill you.

- How was your flight?
- Good.
- Thanks.
- Is something wrong?
- You'll have to come with us.
- You're kidding. I come through here twice a month.
- Please follow me.
- I'm supposed to be meeting somebody.

- He's a contractor?
- Yeah.
- That's what he said?
- Amelia. I'm just curious.
- You are the kind of woman who can get any guy she wants.
- Why Viktor Navorski?
- That's something a guy like you could never understand.

Gupta: You are a coward! You are a coward! You make me sick!

- Would you like to have eat to bite?
- Food. Tonight?
- You're asking me out for dinner?
- Yes.
- Yeah. Sure.
- What time?
- Dinnertime.
- Where do you want to go?
- I know place.

- Excuse me.
- Okay, go. Go.
- Good boy. Thank you.
- Bye-bye.
- Welcome to Burger King.
- May I take your...

Cab: Where you from?
Viktor: Krakozhia. Viktor Navorski.
Cab: I'm Goran. Albania.
Viktor: Oh. When you come to New York?
Cab: Oof!
[implicating it was a long time ago]
Cab: Thursday.

- What are you doing? Why is he kneeling? Is he praying?
- No. He's tying his shoelace.
- Come on, leave. Get the cameras.
- Where is he? Where is he?
- To the left of here.
- No. He was just at the door.
- Just go a little left.
- All right.

- fly 27 hours straight literally around the world, and now you tell me you're going to spend July 4th with your wife?
- The woman hates fireworks.
- Don't lie to me, okay?
- I know for a fact you took her to Rome last weekend.
- Because you flew United, Max.

Officer: Let me ask you something, Mr. Navorski. Why do you wait here two hours every day when I've told you there's nothing I can do for you - that your new visa will not arrive until your country is recognized by the United States?
Viktor: You... you have two stamp. One red, one green.
Officer: So?
Viktor: So, I have chance go New York, 50-50.
Officer: [laughs] Yes, that's a beautiful way to look at it. But America doesn't work that way.

- Are you checking in, sir?
- No, no. I don't check in.
- I want to go to this place, please.
- The lobby lounge is around the corner.
- They have happy hour specials and live music. Do you like jazz?

- Sorry, Viktor.
- Take him, Judge.
- Hold it, Viktor. Take it easy.
- You see those doors?
- Those are the entry doors to New York City.
- To the United States of
- America. Turn around.