Alien: Earth Quotes

You used to be food, you know.[Kirsh]Me?[Wendy]Humanity. Your lives were short and filled with fear. Then your brains grew. You built tools and used them to conquer nature. You built impossible machines and went to space. You stopped being food. Or, I should say, you told yourself you weren’t food anymore. But in the animal kingdom, there is always someone bigger, or smaller, who would eat you alive if they had the chance. That’s what it is to be an animal. You’re born, you live, you die.[Kirsh]

You’re acting like a child. Do you know what grown-ups do when they make a mistake? They own up to it.[to Slightly]

You know what I like most about killing synths? They don’t feel pain. So, nothing clouds their minds when I start chopping them up.[Morrow]See, I would imagine it’s the pain that makes it satisfying. Especially for cyborgs. That moment when you realize you’re not a machine after all, when the first eyeball pops.[Kirsh]

When the corporation gives you something, there’s always a price.

When is a machine not a machine?

What do we do now?[Curly]Now we rule.[Wendy]

We’re all in this cell because we can’t be kids anymore. But they won’t let us be adults.

This isn’t over.[Morrow]Nothing ever is.[Kirsh]

So, what am I? If I’m not human, what am I?[Wendy]Whatever you want to be.[Kirsh]

She won’t let you have them. What’s on this ship, she spent billions. People’s lives. They belong to her.[Morrow]If you’re not careful, you’re gonna belong to them.[Kirsh]

My brother is not gonna die.[Wendy]Of course he will. Injury, illness, old age. They all do. Generation after generation. All we can do is watch and take names.[Kirsh]

Is this a test?[Slightly]That’s what being an adult is. A constant test.[Kirsh]