Big Trouble in Little China
Big Trouble in Little China

Jack Burton: When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the

check is in the mail."

Big Trouble in Little China
Big Trouble in Little China

[last lines]
Jack Burton: Just remember what ol' Jack Burton does when the earth quakes, and the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake. Yeah, Jack Burton just looks that big ol' storm right square in the eye and he says, "Give me your best shot, pal. I can take it."

Big Trouble in Little China
Big Trouble in Little China

Jack Burton: Okay. You people sit tight, hold the fort and keep the home fires burning. And if we're not back by dawn... call the president.

Big Trouble in Little China
Big Trouble in Little China

Wang Chi: Here's to the Army and Navy and the battles they have won; here's to America's colors, the colors that never run.
Jack Burton: May the wings of liberty never lose a feather.

Big Trouble in Little China
Big Trouble in Little China

Jack Burton: Everybody relax, I'm here.

Big Trouble in Little China
Big Trouble in Little China

Gracie: I'd go with you but...
Jack Burton: I know, there's a problem with your face.

Big Trouble in Little China
Big Trouble in Little China

Jack Burton: I'm a reasonable guy. But, I've just experienced some very unreasonable things.

Big Trouble in Little China
Big Trouble in Little China

Jack Burton: Like I told my last wife, I says, "Honey, I never drive faster than I can see. Besides that, it's all in the reflexes."

Big Trouble in Little China
Big Trouble in Little China

Jack Burton: Would you stop rubbing your body up against mine, because I can't concentrate when you do that.

Big Trouble in Little China
Big Trouble in Little China

Jack Burton: You can go off and rule the universe from beyond the grave.
Lo Pan: Indeed!
Jack Burton: Or check into a psycho ward, which ever comes first, huh?

Big Trouble in Little China
Big Trouble in Little China

Jack Burton: [pointing to Chinese writing on elevator] What does that say?
Wang Chi: [speaks Chinese] Hell of Boiling Oil.
Jack Burton: You're kidding.
Wang Chi: Yeah, I am. It says Keep Out.

Big Trouble in Little China
Big Trouble in Little China

Jack Burton: You know what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like this?
Thunder: Who?
Jack Burton: Jack Burton. *Me*!

Big Trouble in Little China
Big Trouble in Little China

Jack Burton: What's in the flask, Egg? Magic potion?
Egg Shen: Yeah.
Jack Burton: Thought so, good. What do we do, drink it?
Egg Shen: Yeah!
Jack Burton: Good! Thought so.

Big Trouble in Little China
Big Trouble in Little China

[Jack points to the wall]
Jack Burton: Hollow?
Wang Chi: Hollow.
Jack Burton: Fuck it.
[Jack wacks open the hollow wall with his knife]

Big Trouble in Little China
Big Trouble in Little China

Margo: God, aren't you even gonna kiss her goodbye?
Jack Burton: Nope.

Big Trouble in Little China
Big Trouble in Little China

Jack Burton: We really shook the pillars of heaven, didn't we, Wang?

Big Trouble in Little China
Big Trouble in Little China

Jack Burton: All I know is, this Lo Pan character comes out of thin air in the middle of a goddamn alley while his buddies are flying around on wires cutting everybody to shreds, and he just stands there waiting for me to drive my truck straight through him with *light* coming out of his mouth!

Big Trouble in Little China
Big Trouble in Little China

Jack Burton: Sooner or later I rub everybody the wrong way.

Big Trouble in Little China
Big Trouble in Little China

Jack Burton: Son of a bitch must pay!

Big Trouble in Little China
Big Trouble in Little China

Wang Chi: You ready, Jack?
Jack Burton: I was born ready.