Mad Max (1979) quotes

Director
George Miller.

Cast
Mel Gibson.
Joanne Samuel.
Hugh Keays-Byrne.

In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.

The chain in those handcuffs is high-tensile steel. It’d take you ten minutes to hack through it with this. Now, if you’re lucky, you could hack through your ankle in five minutes. Go.
– Max

They say people don’t believe in heroes anymore. Well damn them! You and me, Max, we’re gonna give them back their heroes!
– Fifi
Ah, Fif. Do you really expect me to go for that crap?
– Max
You gotta admit I sounded good there for a minute, huh?
– Fifi

That there is Cundalini… and Cundalini wants his hand back!
– Toecutter

I’m scared, Fif. You know why? It’s that rat circus out there. I’m beginning to enjoy it.
– Max
What is this, funny week?
– Fifi
Look. Any longer out on that road and I’m one of them, you know? A terminal crazy… only I got a bronze badge to say I’m one of the good guys.
– Max

The Toecutter – he knows who I am. I am the Nightrider! I am the chosen one. The mighty hand of vengeance, sent down to strike the unroadworthy! I’m hotter than a rollin’ dice. Step right up, chum, and watch the kid lay down a rubber road, right to FREEDOM!
– Nightrider

That scag and his floozie, they’re gonna die!
– Roop

What a turkey! Hey, fella! You’re a turkey!
– Goose

You’ve seen it!… You’ve heard it!… and you’re still asking questions?
– Goose

Jimmy the Goose, larger than life and twice as ugly!
– Goose

Main force Patrol.
– Roop
Were out of the game unable to continue pursuit.
– Roop
You better send a Meat Truck. Charlie’s copped a saucepan in the throat.
– Roop

I just can’t get it clear in my head, Jess. He was so full of living, you know? He ran a franchise on it. Now there’s nothing. And here I am trying to put sense to it, when I know there isn’t any.
– Max

Whacked right out of his skull man! He ain’t never comin’ back!
– Johnny the Boy

We’re still mobile.
– Charlie
For Christ’s sake, shove over!
– Roop
You’re blaspheming again. I don’t have to work with a blasphemer.
– Charlie