Viva Knievel! (1977)

Evel Knievel: Evel Knievel

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Quotes 

• Jessie : End of the line Evel.

  Evel Knieval : What did you say?

  Jessie : End of the line, man.

  Evel Knieval : What are you talking about, your suppose to be at the other end.

  Jessie : No. I always have been before, but not anymore. Today is my turn, my shot at the glory, I'm making this jump.

  Evel Knieval : What are you talking about. Those people paid their pesos to see me jump.

  Jessie : No way, man. I'm jumping. I've always known I was better than you. Today I'm gonna prove it. Now you just get out of my way.

  Evel Knieval : Hey! You been smoking something? You're high!

  Jessie : Man, maybe you oughtta get high! Hey man, Millard wants to kill you and your buddy Will to. You know, he even thinks he's gonna kill me.

  Evel Knieval : Why? Why would he do that?

  Jessie : Millard only brought you down here for one purpose and that's to take your body back to the United States as cover for about fifty million bucks worth of cocaine.

  Evel Knieval : Look, I've got a jump to make.

  [Jessie hits Evel in the head with his helmet and is knocks him out] 

  Evel Knieval : .

• Ralph Thompson : He's among friends. You see, this is an American sanitarium, Mr. Knieval. We're staffed by Americans and we accept only American patients.

  Evel Knieval : Boy, you sound too good to be true.

• Evel Knieval : I didn't forget your favorite fudge. I picked it up in New York. Here, enjoy.

  Sister Charity : Oh, you're wicked! You know I'll get fat!

  Evel Knieval : Nobody will notice.

  Sister Charity : Thank you, Brother Evel.

• Evel Knieval : That's me: Super Evel.

• Sister Charity : What the Devil? Knievel!

  Evel Knieval : Sister Charity, you haven't changed a bit. You look just as pretty as a picture.

  Sister Charity : None of your blarney!

• Evel Knieval : [to an autograph seeker]  Honey, I've known what to write to pretty girls like you ever since I was in kindergarten.

• Evel Knieval : If you're not Knievel, you're not number one. Right?

• Evel Knieval : You must dig making enemies, Miss.

  Kate Morgan : Who? Me? And, I'm no Miss.

  Evel Knieval : Then you're a Mrs. and you dig making enemies.

  Kate Morgan : Wrong again. It's Ms.

  Evel Knieval : Oh, that makes you one of them.

  Kate Morgan : It makes you one of those.

  Evel Knieval : I'm just a man doing my own thing. Are you a woman or a Ms.?

  Kate Morgan : Mr. Knieval, chances are you'll never know.

• Evel Knieval : Boy, you take every edge you can get, don't you?

  Kate Morgan : From what I've seen of the local competition, I think I started here with an edge. As a matter of fact, you might call it a downright unfair advantage.

  Evel Knieval : You're one of the biggest blowhards I've ever heard.

  Kate Morgan : Takes one to know one.

• Evel Knieval : You're Kate Morgan, the fearless photographer. So, they sent the chump out to shoot the champ. You are going to see a great jump, honey.

• Evel Knieval : Honey, I was such a good little boy, they nicknamed me Evel.

• Ben Andrews : Look, I got no complaints, Evel. No complaints at all. I swear I'm happy. I'm happy!

  Evel Knieval : Yeah, okay, happy man, make me happy. Pay me what you owe me. No pay - no Evel.

• Evel Knieval : You want to see my van? I think you'll like it.

  Tommy Atkins : I've liked it since I read about it, Mr. Knievel - I mean, Evel.

• Evel Knieval : Tommy, in every person's life, they have to come to grips with themselves. They have to know when they've gone far enough. Like - like your Dad. You've got to know when it's time to quit.

  Tommy Atkins : But, you're just not another person. You're Evel Knievel!

• Evel Knieval : So, you think today's the day I'm going to get it, huh?

  Kate Morgan : Hey, you said that. I didn't.

• Evel Knieval : Boy, it sure is good to - wake up in a hospital.

  Evel Knieval , Will Atkins : At least I know I'm alive.

• Evel Knieval : The other photographers are over there. You're over here, all by yourself. What are you? A loner?

  Kate Morgan : Well, I don't run with the pack. Never did, never will.

  Evel Knieval : Neither do vultures.

  Kate Morgan : Or eagles.

• Evel Knieval : Hey, Will. Viva Tequila.

  Will Atkins : Viva Knievel!

• Governor Garcia : I have followed all your exploits with great interest - especially that cannon shot in Idaho.

  Evel Knieval : Well, thank you. Thank you very much. But, you haven't seen nothing yet. Wait till you see this jump here in Mexico. Come on, let's have some of your famous Tequila.

  Governor Garcia : Excellent!

• Kate Morgan : I'm flying out to cover that new revolution in South America.

  Evel Knieval : Big deal. There's always a revolution in South America.

• Evel Knieval : You ought to stick around. I'm - going to make more noise than you've ever heard *anywhere* before.

• Evel Knieval : No way. No way. If he's been drinking, all right. But, dope? No way.

• Evel Knieval : We're on our way to old Mexico. Will, why don't you call Frank Gifford and tell him to come along? Tell him it's - fiesta time.

• Evel Knieval : I need a hand from you. I've got one of those goons down and I want to make sure he stays down. Come on with me for a minute.

• Evel Knieval : I go to Indianapolis every year to see the Indy 500. I go there with friends that drive and race. Every year when they go there to qualify, they usually have to go as fast as they possibly can to get a front row position. They put nitro in their cars sometimes instead of the fuel that's intended to be in the cars so that their cars will go faster - and they do - for 5 or 10 laps. And then the blow to hell. And you people, you kids, if you put nitro in your bodies, in the form of narcotics so that you can do better, or so that maybe you think you can do better, you will will for about 5 or 10 years. And then you'll blow - all to hell. You're a wonderful crowd.