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From Alan Rickman To Sigourney Weaver – 70+ Famous Galaxy Quest Quotes

Here’s a selection of Galaxy Quest Quotes, covering topics such as Mathesar, Grabthar Hammer, never giving up, inspiration and life.

We really hope you enjoy these quotes and that they give you something to think about.

[Quellek has been shot, and is dying. Alexander rushes to him] Quellek? [sees Quellek’s wound] That’s not too bad. We’ll get you to the medical quarters, and you’ll be fine.
Alexander Dane

[The shuttle has landed and Fred is opening the hatch]
Guy Fleegman: Hey! Don’t open that! It’s an alien planet! Is there air?! You don’t know!
Fred Kwan: [calmly sniffs the air and takes a few quick breaths] Seems okay.

Jason Nesmith: Am I too late for Alexander’s panic attack?
Jason Nesmith: Apparently not.

Gwen DeMarco: Fred, you had a part people loved. I mean, my TV Guide interview was six paragraphs about my BOOBS and how they fit into my suit. No one bothered to ask me what I do on the show.
Fred Kwan: You were… umm, wait…
Gwen DeMarco: I repeated the computer, Fred.

Oh *that’s* not right.
Guy Fleegman

Guy Fleegman: I don’t like this. I don’t like this at all.
Gwen DeMarco: They are *so* cute.
Guy Fleegman: Sure, they’re cute now, but in a second they’re gonna get mean, and they’re gonna get ugly somehow, and there’s gonna be a million more of them.

Gwen: They’re not all historical documents. Surely, you don’t think Gilligan’s Island is a …
Mathazar: Those poor people.

Announcer: And now,
back again after 18 years: The New Adventures of Galaxy Quest.

You broke the ship. You broke the bloody ship.
Sir Alexander Dane

Jason, we are actors, not astronauts.
Gwen DeMarco

You’re not gonna die on the planet, Guy.
Jason Nesmith

Sir Alexander Dane: You’re just going to have to figure out what it wants. What is its motivation?
Jason Nesmith: It’s a rock monster. It doesn’t have motivation.
Sir Alexander Dane: See, that’s your problem, Jason. You were never serious about the craft.

Sir Alexander Dane: Could they be the miners?
Fred Kwan: Sure, they’re like three years old.
Sir Alexander Dane: MINERS, not MINORS.
Fred Kwan: You lost me.

Guy Fleegman: Wait, don’t open that. It’s an alien planet. Is there air? You don’t know.
Fred Kwan: Seems okay.

Jason Nesmith: You all came. Who wants the grand tour?
Jason Nesmith: Anybody else?

Did you guys ever WATCH the show?
Guy Fleegman

Guy Fleegman: Hey guys, there’s a red-thingy moving toward the green-thingy.
Jason Nesmith: What?
Guy Fleegman: Red-thingy moving toward the green-thingy. I think we’re the green-thingy.

Never give-up, never surrender.
Jason Nesmith

Guy Fleegman: I’m just a glorified extra, Fred. I’m a dead man anyway. If I’m gonna die, I’d rather go out a hero than a coward.
Fred Kwan: Guy, Guy… maybe you’re the plucky comic relief. You ever think about that?
Guy Fleegman: Plucky?

This is great. Usually it’s just cardboard walls in a garage.
Jason Nesmith

Sir Alexander Dane: You don’t hold the turbo down, it’s for quick boosts!
Commander Peter Quincy Taggart: Oh, like you know!

HEY! Don’t open that! It’s an alien planet! Is there air? You don’t know!
Guy Fleegman

Sir Alexander Dane: I played Richard III.
Fred Kwan: There were five curtain calls.
Sir Alexander Dane: There were five curtain calls. I was an actor once, damn it. Now look at me. Look at me. I won’t go out there and say that stupid line one more time.

Look! I have one job on this ship. It’s stupid, but I’m going to do it. Okay?
Gwen DeMarco

Does the rolling *help*?
Gwen DeMarco

I see you’ve managed to get your shirt off.
Alexander Dane

Fred Kwan: We gotta turn off that valve. Their oxygen’s almost gone.
Guy Fleegman: Listen. I’ll go in. I’ll create a distraction. I got this, [brandishes an oversize alien gun] I’m okay. I might be able to hold them back long enough for the aliens to escape.
Fred Kwan: [concerned] That’s suicide.
Guy Fleegman: I’m just a glorified extra, Fred, I’m a dead man anyway. If I gotta die, I’d rather go out a hero than a coward.
Fred Kwan: Guy. Guy, maybe you’re the plucky comic relief, you ever think about that?
Guy Fleegman: Plucky?
Fred Kwan: Besides, [goofy laugh] I just had this really interesting idea. Yeah, let’s go.
Guy Fleegman: Are you stoned?

Whoever wrote this episode should DIE.
Gwen DeMarco

Hey guys, I just wanted you to know that, the reactors won’t take it; the ship is breaking apart and all that… Just FYI.
Fred Kwan

Jason Nesmith: Mathesar, there’s no such person as Captain Taggart. My name is Jason Nesmith. I’m an actor. We’re all actors.
Sarris: He doesn’t understand. Explain as you would a child.
Jason Nesmith: We, uh, we pretended.
Jason Nesmith: We lied.

Mathesar: Commander, standing here in your presence is the greatest honor we could ever have hoped to achieve in our lifetimes.
Jason Nesmith: Thanks, appreciate it… Anybody seen my other shoe?

Jason Nesmith: Give me any kind of signal?
Tommy Webber: I’
ll do this: CAW. CAW.
Jason Nesmith: What are you, an infant?

Sarris: Let me remind you,
sonny: I am a general. If you are counting on me to blink, then you are making a deadly mistake.
Jason Nesmith: Well, let me tell you something, Sarris! It doesn’t take a great actor to recognize a bad one. You’re sweating!
Gwen DeMarco: Armor almost gone, Jason!
Sarris: You fool! You fail to realize that with your armor gone, my ship will tear through yours like tissue paper!
Jason Nesmith: And what you fail to realize is my ship is dragging mines![The Protector is shown to have mines trailing it towards Sarris’ ship]
Sarris: OH, NO! TURN! TURN![Sarris quickly does something on a console as the mines slam into his ship and destroy it. The actors cheer]

Jason Nesmith: Where are you going?
Sir Alexander Dane: To see if there’s a pub.

Gwen DeMarco: They’re not ALL “historical documents.” Surely, you don’t think Gilligan’s Island is a…
Mathesar: Those poor people.

Alexander Dane: How did I come to this?
Tommy Webber: Not again.
Alexander Dane: I played Richard III at the Royal National Theatre before Her Majesty the Queen.
Fred Kwan: Five curtain calls.
Alexander Dane: There were five curtain calls. I was an actor once, damn it. Now look at me. Look at me! I can’t go out there, and I won’t say that stupid line one more time. I can’t. I won’t.
Gwen DeMarco: Well, Alex, at least you had a part. Okay? You played a character people loved. I mean, my TV Guide interview was six paragraphs about my boobs and how they fit into my suit! No one even bothered to ask what I do on the show.
Fred Kwan: You had the – wait. Wait, I’ll think of it.
Gwen DeMarco: I repeated the computer, Fred.

Mathesar: We were hoping you could come with us. Our people have no commander.
Commander Peter Quincy Taggart: Mathesar, I think your people have a great commander, sir.

Jason Nesmith: You used to pull your punches.
Sir Alexander Dane: It’s “Scene-Stealing Hack,” thank you.
Jason Nesmith: “Raving Egomaniac”?
Sir Alexander Dane: Can’t think where I got THAT from.

Brandon’
s Mom: Where are you going with those fireworks?
Brandon: Well, the Protector got super-accelerated coming out of the black hole, and it, like, nailed the atmosphere at Mach 15, which, you guys know, is pretty unstable, obviously, so we’re gonna help Laredo guide it on the vox ultra-frequency carrier and use Roman candles for visual confirmation.Brandon’
s Mom: Uh, all right, dinner’s at seven.Brandon’
s Mom: Well, he’s outside.

It doesn’t take a great actor to recognize a bad one.
Jason Nesmith

[Sarris believes that Nesmith plans to ram his ship] Let me remind you, sonny: I am a general. If you are counting on me to blink, then you are making a deadly mistake.
Sarris

It’s… another crew member.
Announcer

How adorable. The actors are going to play war with me.
Sarris

There is no “quantum flux”. There’s no “auxiliary”. THERE’S NO GODDAMNED SHIP. You got it?
Jason Nesmith

Let’s get out of here before one of those things kills Guy.
Gwen DeMarco

Gwen DeMarco: You’ve gotta admit, they really do love him.
Tommy Webber: Yeah, almost as much as he loves himself.

I’m not even supposed to be here. I’m just “Crewman Number Six.” I’m expendable. I’m the guy in the episode who dies to prove how serious the situation is. I’ve gotta get outta here.
Guy Fleegman

Jason Nesmith: [Keeping Dane from running away] Come on, old friend!
Alexander Dane: Old friend?! You stole all my best lines, you cut me out of episode two entirely!

Dare to be as great as the people who love you mistakenly think you are.
James S.A. Corey

Jason Nesmith: What? What was that?
Alexander Dane: Uh, nothing.
Jason Nesmith: I heard some squealing or something.
Gwen DeMarco: Oh, no. Everything’s fine.
Teb: But the animal is inside out.
Jason Nesmith: I heard that! It turned inside out?
Teb: And it exploded.
Jason Nesmith: Did I just hear that the animal turned inside out, and then is EXPLODED?

oh that is just not right
Guy Fleegman

Where’s the happy ending, Jason? “Never give up, never surrender”?
Sir Alexander Dane

By Grabthar’s hammer, by the sons of Worvan, you shall be avenged.
Sir Alexander Dane

Sorry, I was – door was a little sticky. Did you see that? I’ll get one of my boys up here with a can of WD-40.
Fred Kwan

Tommy Webber:
You were holding it upside downSir Alexander Dane: Shut up, Tom.

[Tommy is trying to steer the ship through a minefield]
Alexander Dane: Could you possibly try not to hit every single one?!
Tommy Webber: Sorry, man, they’re drifting towards us! I think they’re magnetic!

Voice of Computer: Enemy is matching velocity.
Gwen DeMarco: The enemy is matching velocity.
Sir Alexander Dane: We heard it the first time.
Gwen DeMarco: Gosh, I’m doing it. I’m repeating the darn computer.

It’s like throwing gasoline on a flame.
Sir Alexander Dane

[The actors were watching the miners]
Alexander Dane: Could they be the miners?
Fred Kwan: Sure, they’re like, three years old.[The actors face Fred Kwan]
Alexander Dane: Miners. Not minors.
Fred Kwan: You lost me.

Ducts? Why is it always ducts?
Gwen DeMarco

By Grabthar’s hammer… what savings.
Sir Alexander Dane

Am I too late for Alexander’s panic attack?
Jason Nesmith

Gwen DeMarco: [watching the fans’ reaction to Nesmith] You’ve got to admit, they really do love him.
Alexander Dane: Yeah, almost as much as he loves himself.

Alexander Dane: You’re just going to have to kill it.
Jason Nesmith: Kill it? Well, I’m open to any suggestions.
Tommy Webber: Go for the eyes, like in episode 22!
Jason Nesmith: He doesn’t have any eyes, Tommy!
Tommy Webber: Go for the mouth, then, the throat, his vulnerable spots!
Jason Nesmith: It’s a rock! It doesn’t have any vulnerable spots!
Guy Fleegman: I know! You construct a weapon. Look around, can you form some sort of rudimentary lathe?

Jason Nesmith: You WILL go out there.
Sir Alexander Dane: I won’t and nothing you say will make me.
Jason Nesmith: The show must go on.
Sir Alexander Dane: …Damn you.

[Gwen and Jason encounter the chompers] What is this thing? I mean, it serves no useful purpose for there to be a bunch of chompy, crushy things in the middle of a hallway. No, I mean we shouldn’t have to do this, it makes no logical sense, why is it here?
Gwen DeMarco

By Grapthar’s hammer, you shall be avenged!
Alexander Dane

Perhapes I’m not as stupid as I am ugly, Commander.
Sarris

Guy Fleegman: I changed my mind. I wanna go back.
Sir Alexander Dane: After the fuss you made about getting left behind?
Guy Fleegman: Yeah, but that’s when I thought I was the crewman that stays on the ship, and something is up there, and it kills me. But now I’m thinking I’m the guy who gets killed by some monster five minutes after we land on the planet.
Jason Nesmith: You’re not gonna die on the planet, Guy.
Guy Fleegman: I’m not? Then what’s my last name?
Jason Nesmith: It’s, uh, uh – -I don’t know.
Guy Fleegman: Nobody knows. Do you know why? Because my character isn’t important enough for a last name, because I’m gonna die five minutes in.
Gwen DeMarco: Guy, you have a last name.
Guy Fleegman: DO I? DO I? For all you know, I’m “Crewman Number Six”.

We have enjoyed preparing many of your esoteric dishes. Your Monte Cristo sandwich is a current favorite among the adventurous.
Mathesar

Okey dokey, Okey dokey. Lets fire blue particle cannons full, red particle cannons full, gannet magnets fire them left and right, and let ’em run all chutes. And while you’re at it, why don’t ya toss that at ’em killer[tossing empty Coke can to gunner] That should take care of old lobster head shouldn’t it?
Jason Nesmith

Give him a hand, he’s British.
Announcer

I remember that sound. It’s a bad sound.
Gwen DeMarco

Gwen DeMarco: What is this thing? I mean, it serves no useful purpose for there to be a bunch of chompy, crushy things in the middle of a hallway. No, I mean we shouldn’t have to do this, it makes no logical sense, why is it here?
Jason Nesmith: ‘Cause it’s on the television show.
Gwen DeMarco: Well forget it, I’m not doing it, this episode was badly written.

You know, what I could really use here is a cup holder and some Advil.
Jason Nesmith

You know, with all that makeup and stuff, I actually thought you were SMART for a second.
Tommy Webber

It’s the simple things in life that you treasure.
Fred Kwan

Jason Nesmith: All right, let’s settle down. If we’re going to get through this we’re going to need self control.
Gwen DeMarco: Self control? That’s funny coming from the guy that slept with every Terrakian slave and the Moon Princess on the show.

That was a hell of a thing.
Fred Kwan/Tech. Sgt. Chen

As long as there is injustice, whenever a Targathian baby cries out, wherever a distress signal sounds among the stars, we’ll be there. This fine ship, this fine crew. Never give up… and never surrender.
Commander Peter Quincy Taggart

[In disgust] By Grapthar’s hammer… what a savings.
Alexander Dane

Tommy Webber: Whoo!
Guy Fleegman: We’re getting hammered, Jason! Return fire?
Jason Nesmith: No! Divert all energy to the armor!
Sarris: How adorable. The actors are going to play war with me.
Gwen DeMarco: Sarris’ ship accelerating toward us at Mark 2.
Jason Nesmith: Accelerate to Mark 4!

I avoided capture by using your Mak’tar stealth haze.
Quellek

Wow, the floors are so clean.
Fred Kwan

Brandon Wheeger: I just wanted to tell you that I thought a lot about what you said.
Jason Nesmith: It’s okay, now listen…
Brandon Wheeger: But I want you to know that I’m not a complete brain case, okay? I understand completely that it’s just a TV show. I know there’s no beryllium sphere…
Jason Nesmith: Hold it.
Brandon Wheeger: no digital conveyor, no ship…
Jason Nesmith: Stop for a second, stop. It’s all real.
Brandon Wheeger: Oh my God, I knew it. I knew it! I knew it!

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