Life on Mars
Sam Tyler Quotes
Annie: Come on, Sam. We're here to have fun.
Sam: (sarcastically) Right, that must be why I'm here.
Sam: I was feeling everything coming down around me (exhales deeply) so I came in here looking for answers but ... I-I ... I don't know what's real anymore.
Annie: In my clinic work, I met a paranoid schizophrenic who had learned to live without his meds and his treatment. And he said whenever he felt the walls really starting to cave in, he would remember his happiest memory, because at least that was real.
Just for tonight, if you be a hooker, I'll be a tool.
Sam: You're missing the point. Maybe this is the reason why I'm here. To figure out what happened to my family ... and to prevent my father from leaving.
Annie: Are you saying that that filthy kidnapper is your father?
Sam: That's exactly what I'm saying ... Happy Birthday to me.
Sam: Wait, he's missing eyes, ears and a nose.
Chris: And hands and tongue. You can't see it in that photo.
Sam: Ugh-h-h.
Lee: Word on the street - The Pignatos wanted it known if you cross them you have violated one of their five senses. They retaliate symbolically.
(typing on an old manual typewriter) Stupid analog piece of crap machine.
(after falling off the desk dancing) Who's bad?
Ray: Look at these clowns. Too molly for their hometowns, so they come here. Thought Nixon ending the war was gonna put an end to this freak show.
Sam: This counterculture, Ray, will one day be looked upon as a time when a politicized youth rebelled against the excesses of the Vietnam war, the excesses of corporate arrogance, and the excesses of racial intolerance.
Sam: You see? Reeves' murder is looking more and more like a hate crime.
Gene: What? As opposed to an "I really, really like you" crime?
Windy: Book 'em Danno. Do you ever say that? Book 'em Danno.
Sam: I would if I worked with a guy named Danno.
Windy: You should hire one. How cool would that be?
Lee Crocker: (to Detective Ray Carling) Detective, if ignorance was a drug, you'd be high all the time.
Sam: Now that was an analogy.
Mrs. Salvaggio: (discussing her ashtray with Sam) My granddaughter Sofia made it for me. She loves to come over and see all the butts in there.
Sam: Beautiful story. You should tell that to the Surgeon General.
