Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) quotes

Cast
Harrison Ford.
Karen Allen.
Paul Freeman.

In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before Adolf Hitler’s Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.

You’re not the man I knew ten years ago.
– Marion
It’s not the years, honey, it’s the mileage.
– Indiana

Do we need the monkey?
– Indiana
I’m surprised at you. Talking that way about our baby. He’s got your looks, too.
– Marion
And your brains.
– Indiana
Yes she does! She’s very smart.
– Marion

I can only say I’m sorry so many times.
– Indiana
Well, say it again anyway!
– Marion
Sorry.
– Indiana

Meet me at Omar’s. Be ready for me. I’m going after that truck.
– Indiana
How?
– Sallah
I don’t know, I’m making this up as I go!
– Indiana

You can’t do this to me, I’m an AMERICAN.
– Marion

How odd that it should end this way for us after so many stimulating encounters. I almost regret it. Where shall I find a new adversary so close to my own level?
– Belloq
Try the local sewer.
– Indiana

What a fitting end to your life’s pursuits. You’re about to become a permanent addition to this archaeological find. Who knows? In a thousand years, even you may be worth something.
– Belloq
Ha ha ha ha.
– Indiana
Son of a bitch.
– Indiana

Let us hurry. There is nothing to fear here.
– Satipo
That’s what scares me.
– Indiana

Indy, why does the floor move?
– Sallah
Give me your torch.
– Indiana
Snakes. Why’d it have to be snakes?
– Indiana
Asps… very dangerous. You go first.
– Sallah

You want to talk to God? Let’s go see him together, I’ve got nothing better to do.
– Indiana

He said you were a bum.
– Marion
Aw, he’s being generous.
– Indiana
The most gifted bum he ever trained. You know, he loved you like a son… took a hell of a lot for you to alienate him.
– Marion
Not much… just you.
– Indiana

You and I are very much alike. Archeology is our religion, yet we have both fallen from the pure faith. Our methods have not differed as much as you pretend. I am but a shadowy reflection of you. It would take only a nudge to make you like me. To push you out of the light.
– Belloq
Now you’re getting nasty.
– Indiana

There’s a big snake in the plane, Jock!
– Indiana
Oh, that’s just my pet snake Reggie.
– Jock
I hate snakes, Jock! I hate ’em!
– Indiana
Come on! Show a little backbone, will ya!
– Jock

We have top men working on it right now.
– Maj. Eaton
Who?
– Indiana
Top… men.
– Maj. Eaton

Marion’s the least of your worries right now, believe me, Indy.
– Brody
What do you mean?
– Indiana
Well, I mean that for nearly three thousand years man has been searching for the lost ark. It’s not something to be taken lightly. No one knows its secrets. It’s like nothing you’ve ever gone after before.
– Brody
Oh, Marcus. What are you trying to do, scare me? You sound like my mother. We’ve known each other for a long time. I don’t believe in magic, a lot of superstitious hocus pocus. I’m going after a find of incredible historical significance, you’re talking about the boogie man. Besides, you know what a cautious fellow I am.
– Indiana

Belloq.
– Indiana
Good afternoon, Doctor Jones.
– Belloq
I oughta kill you right now.
– Indiana
Not a very private place for a murder.
– Belloq

Good evening, Fraulein.
– Toht
The bar’s closed.
– Marion
We are… hehe… not thirsty.
– Toht

Oh, my friends! I’m so pleased you’re not dead!
– Sallah

Next time, Indiana Jones, it will take more than children to save you.
– Belloq

All your life has been spent in pursuit of archaeological relics. Inside the Ark are treasures beyond your wildest aspirations. You want to see it opened as well as I. Indiana, we are simply passing through history. This, this *is* history.
– Belloq

Indy, there is something that troubles me.
– Sallah
What is it?
– Indiana
The Ark. If it is there, at Tanis, then it is something that man was not meant to disturb. Death has always surrounded it. It is not of this earth.
– Sallah

Marion, don’t look at it. Shut your eyes, Marion. Don’t look at it, no matter what happens!
– Indiana

Please, sit down before you fall down.
– Belloq

Indy, you have no time. If you still want the ark, it is being loaded onto a truck for Cairo.
– Sallah
Truck? What truck?
– Indiana

Dr. Jones. Again we see there is nothing you can possess which I cannot take away.
– Belloq

Shoot them. Shoot them both.
– Toht