Harrison Ford: Rick Deckard

Quotes 

• Rachael : Are you and I lovers?

  Rick Deckard : Yes.

  Rachael : Did you know your wife a long time?

  Rick Deckard : I thought I did...

  [pause] 

  Rick Deckard : What's a long time?

  Rachael : Forever.

• Rick Deckard : [narrating]  I didn't know anything about Holden getting wasted at the Tyrell corporation. Why should I? I was retired. Holden was my replacement. I quit after my wife left me. She went off-world with some guy who made a fortune in the Colonies. I thought I'd have a shot at being human again. I'm Deckard, Blade Runner. Retired. At least... I thought I was retired.

• Rick Deckard : [narrating]  The guy who arrested me, or whatever you wanna to call it, a guy named Gaff. Smartass, real dandy. New in Blade Runner, very ambitious. Couldn't understand much of his chatter, talked garbage, a street dialect. He was probably telling me about the escape, but maybe he was talking about his girlfriend's rear end, I don't know.

• Rick Deckard : [narrating]  Bryant was the head of Replicant Detection, Rep Detect. The Blade Runner unit. An old timer. No particular qualifications. But he held on to his job 'cause he knew a little something about everybody. The things Bryant knew about you were the things... you didn't want anybody else to know. Made you see his point of view.

• Dave Holden : It's all over, it's a wipe-out. They're almost us, Deck, it's a disease!

  [coughs] 

  Dave Holden : Push it. Push that button.

  Rick Deckard : What button?

  Dave Holden : The green one right there.

  Rick Deckard : [Deckard pushes it]  What does that do?

  Dave Holden : It's for pain, asshole.

• Rick Deckard : [narrating]  Gaff picked me up in the morning and gave me the files on the escapees. Useless stuff, but scary. I had a headache by the time I got to page two.

• Rick Deckard : [narrating]  Leon must have found Hannibal Chew's adress in the personel files at Tyrell. Chew was a cottage industry genius who sold genetic research to outfits like Tyrell on a contract basis. His specialty was eyes. He loved eyes...

• Rick Deckard : [narrating]  All I had was a bunch of meaningless snapshots. A flake from a bathtub, a bad headache and a worse temper. I figured if I found them, there was a good chance I'd get killed. And sooner or later, I knew I was gonna find them.

• Rick Deckard : [narrating]  The last census showed a hundred and six million people in the city. Somwhere in the crowd I was supposed to find the four phony ones, the Replicants. I didn't know it then, but they were looking for something too.

• Rick Deckard : [narrating]  J.F. Sebastian was another of those oddball geniuses who did genetic designing. Hands were his his specialty. His hobby was making fancy mechanical toys. Most important, though, he had access to Eldon Tyrell. The poor jerk had no idea what was waiting for him.

• Rick Deckard : [narrating]  There was a sequin dress in the closet. I hadn't seen a sequin dress in twenty years. Not since my days watching hot-pantsers in the fourth sector.

• Rick Deckard : [narrating]  I was restless and hungry. I needed the streets and I needed food.

• Rick Deckard : [narrating]  The Egyptian was a sleaze. He put the same serial number on all his snakes. That was illegal...

• Rick Deckard : [narrating]  It brought back memories, the smoky part of town, the dark side of the city. I was back on the streets of bad dreams. Doin' the toots and belly-holes.

• Rick Deckard : [narrating]  You don't believe a jerk like Taffy Lewis. Not even if he tells you blood is red.

• Bartender : You wanna about snakes , you talk to the artists.

  Rick Deckard : Artists?

  Bartender : The sexies, pal. The ladies. They're the ones what got all the snakes.

  Rick Deckard : Sure...

  Bartender : Yeah, they got all kinds. They're in the dressing rooms, out in the back.

  Rick Deckard : Can I go back there?

  Bartender : You got a badge. What do you want, an invitation?

• Rick Deckard : [narrating]  I remembered why I'd quit. I remembered I used to tell my wife it wasn't really blood on my clothes, not human blood. 'Looks like blood to me', she said.

• Rick Deckard : [narrating]  She wasn't a woman. She was a skin-job. A replicant. She was illegal now. A fugitive. No papers and no permits. I was a lieutenant in Rep Detect. A Blade Runner. I was supposed to turn her in or burn her down. And what was I doing? Trying to wash the blood off my face. There's no rule that says you have to be clean before you waste one.

• Dave Holden : Well what did you do, fuck her?

  Rick Deckard : What?

  Dave Holden : The tit-job. The one with the snake, you stuck it in, didn't you?

  Dave Holden : [Deckard chuckles]  You made zig-zag, then you erred her out and now you got concinence, right?

• Dave Holden : Don't you see what they're after, who they're looking for?

  Rick Deckard : What, who?

  Dave Holden : God.

• Rick Deckard : [narrating]  I watched him die all night. It was a long, slow thing. He never whimpered and he never quit. He took all the time he had as though he loved life very much. Every second of it. Even the pain. Then he was dead.

• Rick Deckard : [narrating]  We were in the clear. Running fast. North, on the old Richter route, past the mountains. I told her about Batty on the roof dying, making every second count. I told her I loved her. She told me it was the happiest day of her life. She told me she loved me too. I figured I wouldn't get the headaches or the shakes anymore, not for a while. It was good enough for me. I hope it was good enough for her.