Memorable quotes for
Near Dark (1987) More at IMDbPro »

Caleb Colton: I sure haven't met any girls like you.
Mae: No, you sure haven't.

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Severen: Cut the shit. I know you're awake. I can smell it.

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Bartender: What do you people want?
Jesse: just a few more minutes of your time. About the same duration as the rest of your life.

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Mae: Listen to the night, it's deafening.

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Loy Colton: Caleb, those people back there, they wasn't normal. Normal folks, they don't spit out bullets when you shoot 'em, no sir.

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Jesse: Let's put it this way: I fought for the South. We lost.

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Severen: Hey, Jesse, remember that fire we started in Chicago?

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Severen: We keep odd hours.

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Severen: Fasten your fuckin' seat belt.

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Homer: The name's Homer. H-O-M-E-R. Mispronounce it... and I wouldn't... wanna... be you.

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Severen: How you doin', Jess?
Jesse: Like shit! How 'bout you?
Severen: I'm down to my last inch of skin!

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Mae: Look, I'll take care of him!
Homer: You can't, Mae. I turned you, I taught you.
Mae: Well I turned him and I can teach him!
Severen: [smirking] What's the matter, Homer? You jealous? 'little too little to be jealous.
Homer: Y'have any idea what it's like to be a big man on the inside and have a small body on the outside?
Severen: You have ANY idea what it's like to HEAR about it every NIGHT?

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Severen: Howdy. I'm gonna separate your head from your shoulders. Hope you don't mind none.

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Severen: I hate it when they ain't been shaved.

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Severen: It ain't what's goin' on, son. It's what's comin' off. Your face. Clean off.

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Severen: [sucking blood off his fingers] It's finger-lickin' GOOD!

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Jesse: I taught Severen everything he knew, but not everything I know.

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[first lines]
Caleb Colton: [crushing a mosquito] Dumb suck.

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[last lines]
Mae: Caleb, what's happening?
Caleb Colton: I brought you home.
Mae: I'm afraid.
Caleb Colton: Don't be. It's just the sun.

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[Pale, sweating and in obvious withdrawal, Caleb is being shaken down by a policeman]
Deputy Sheriff: You ain't looking too good, son.
Caleb Colton: I ain't feeling too good, sir.
Deputy Sheriff: What're you on?
Caleb Colton: You wouldn't believe me...

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Sarah Colton: [Homer is staring at Sarah] It's impolite to stare.

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Mae: Y'know, the light that's leaving that star right now will take a billion years to get down here. You wanna know why you've never met a girl like me before? Because I'll still be here when the light from that star gets down here to earth.

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