Life on Mars

Life on Mars Quotes

Episode 7: "The Man Who Sold the World"

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.
 • Rating: Unrated

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.
 • Rating: Unrated

Episode 6: "Tuesday's Dead"

Ray: You OK with this, Loot?
Gene: Give him what he needs.
Ray: All right, I'll get the damn bus. I'll get the damn plane ... just in time to fly his cold corpse right to the morgue.
Gene: My thoughts exactly.
 • Rating: Unrated

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.
 • Rating: Unrated

Sam: Just for tonight, if you be a hooker, I'll be a tool.
 • Rating: Unrated

Gene: You know something, Tyler? You're not so special. We all go crazy at some point. Happens to every cop who gives a crap about what he does. That's why we're alcoholics. That's why our women leave us. We're broken toys. What makes us different from those folks in the psych ward ... We keep each other sane. That's what it's about. Any decent precinct house ... We keep each other sane.
 • Rating: Unrated

Sam: (typing on an old manual typewriter) Stupid analog piece of crap machine.
 • Rating: Unrated

Sam: (after falling off the desk dancing) Who's bad?
 • Rating: Unrated

Episode 5: "Things to Do in New York When You Think You're Dead"

Ray: I got a pair of pliers and hammer in my desk. I play the handyman. You play the busted radiator.
 • Rating: Unrated

Gene: And this is my kingdom. Huntlandia. Home of the blueberry crepe. Where little girls are off-limits.
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Episode 4: " Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadows "

Annie: I'm telling you Sam, you find their killers, you save Mama Rose.
 • Rating: Unrated

Annie: Come on, Sam. We're here to have fun.
Sam: (sarcastically) Right, that must be why I'm here.
 • Rating: Unrated

Sam: (to his Mom when he goes to talk to her after she leaves the precinct) Aside from the fact that you took money from a thug and your husband's never home, how are you?
 • Rating: Unrated

Sam: (sarcastically) Right, that must be why I'm here.
 • Rating: Unrated

Annie: Come on Sam. We're here to have fun.
 • Rating: Unrated

Episode 3: "My Maharishi is Bigger than Your Maharishi"

Ray: Shut your bazoo. 1968 called. It wants its dashiki back.
 • Rating: Unrated

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.
 • Rating: Unrated

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?
 • Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

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?
 • Rating: Unrated

Episode 2: "The Real Adventures of the Unreal Sam Tyler"

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.
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

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