The Stuff (1985)
Michael Moriarty: David
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Quotes
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David 'Mo' Rutherford : Well, everybody has to eat shaving cream once in a while.
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David 'Mo' Rutherford : No one is as dumb as I appear to be.
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David 'Mo' Rutherford : Are you eating it or is it eating you?
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David 'Mo' Rutherford : You're Chocolate Chip Charlie!
'Chocolate Chip' Charlie W. Hobbs : Well, I sure as hell ain't the Kentucky Colonel!
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David 'Mo' Rutherford : The name's Mo Rutherford. They call me that 'cause when people give me money, I always want mo'.
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Jason : 'Scuse me, sir, I kinda just threw up in your car.
David 'Mo' Rutherford : I know!
Jason : I'm sorry!
David 'Mo' Rutherford : That's all right.
Jason : I just ate shaving cream!
David 'Mo' Rutherford : Everybody has to eat shaving cream once in a while
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[pursuing escaping Stuff]
'Chocolate Chip' Charlie W. Hobbs : You are not thinkin' about goin' after it!
David 'Mo' Rutherford : I hope you got a gun on you, Charlie!
'Chocolate Chip' Charlie W. Hobbs : How many times am I supposed to tell you my hands are lethal weapons?
David 'Mo' Rutherford : I hope you're right, 'cause if that thing tries to kill me, you kill me first!
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David 'Mo' Rutherford : Sweaty palm, sweaty palm, sweaty palm...
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David 'Mo' Rutherford : Okay, lethal hands, kill the door.
'Chocolate Chip' Charlie W. Hobbs : Watch out for splinters.
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David 'Mo' Rutherford : There nobody here but you?
Gas Attendant : Well, don't you wanna wash your hands or somethin'? I put in a new towel!
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David 'Mo' Rutherford : Did you find anything out?
'Chocolate Chip' Charlie W. Hobbs : What you gonna find out, man, in a town that has just dried up and blown away, man? Must be a side effect of eatin' too much dessert. An urge to migrate.
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'Chocolate Chip' Charlie W. Hobbs : The only thing Chocolate Chip Charlie knows better than fighting is running.
David 'Mo' Rutherford : Pick a direction!
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Fletcher : Let go of it, Mr. Rutherford. You can't stop it.
David 'Mo' Rutherford : I can shut you down.
Fletcher : [laughs] I don't know. I really don't know. I don't think anybody'd pay too much attention to a disreputable guy like you. You're a rogue; you're a crook in the pay of the ice cream companies just out trying to screw the competition.
David 'Mo' Rutherford : I could always kill you.
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[discussing the Stuff-possessed postman]
David 'Mo' Rutherford : What do you think, Charlie?
'Chocolate Chip' Charlie W. Hobbs : The man is not in proper operating order.
David 'Mo' Rutherford : Absolutely.
'Chocolate Chip' Charlie W. Hobbs : I'd like to take him someplace and get him X-rayed.
David 'Mo' Rutherford : Yeah, but what if he doesn't wanna come along with us?
'Chocolate Chip' Charlie W. Hobbs : We snatch 'im.
David 'Mo' Rutherford : Oh, now, Charlie, I run a high-tech operation. I don't go in for things like that.
'Chocolate Chip' Charlie W. Hobbs : I got a few low-tech solutions for our problem. We hit that sucker over the head.
David 'Mo' Rutherford : Oh, well, ummm... we could do that.
'Chocolate Chip' Charlie W. Hobbs : We throw him in the trunk of the car.
David 'Mo' Rutherford : We could do that, too.
'Chocolate Chip' Charlie W. Hobbs : And we take off.
David 'Mo' Rutherford : In whose car?