Hancock Quotes

John Hancock: All of you people, blocking the intersection, you're all idiots.
Rail Crossing Crowd #1: You're the one that threw the dude's car at her. And what's with the train?
Rail Crossing Crowd #2: Why didn't you just go straight up in the air with the car? You've obviously injured that poor woman.
Rail Crossing

Crowd #3: She's right. She should sue you.
John Hancock: Okay. Well, you should sue McDonald's, 'cause they fucked you up.

Boy at Bus Stop: [hits Hancock, passed out on bench] Hancock!
John Hancock: [slowly wakes up] What, boy?
Boy at Bus Stop: [points to TV screens] Bad guys.
[pause]
John Hancock: What you want, a cookie? Get the hell out my face.
Boy at Bus Stop: Asshole.
John

Hancock: What?
Boy at Bus Stop: You heard me.

Mary Embrey: [referring to Hancock] We broke up decades ago. Long before you were born. He just can't remember.
Ray Embrey: But you can. Right? You knew? That's something you might want to bring up on the first date, Mary. "I don't like to travel. I'm allergic to cats. I'm immortal." Okay? Those are some of the things you might want to give a little

heads-up on.
Mary Embrey: Whatever we are, we were built in twos, okay? We were drawn to each other. No matter how far I run, he's always there. He finds me. It's physics.
Ray Embrey: What are you saying? Are you saying you two are fated to be together?
Mary Embrey: I've lived for a very long time, Ray. And the one thing I've

learned: Fate doesn't decide everything. People get to choose.
Hancock: And you chose to let me think I was here alone.
Mary Embrey: I didn't think you'd miss what you didn't remember.

Ray Embrey: What about you, buddy? You're from another planet, aren't you?
Hancock: No man, I'm from Miami.
Ray Embrey: You didn't come on in, like, a meteor or...
Hancock: Nope. Woke up at a hospital, first thing I remember.
Ray Embrey: Government hospital. Yes? Experimenting on you

and...
Hancock: No, Ray. Regular old Miami emergency room.
Ray Embrey: Come on.
Hancock: Yeah, uh, my skull was fractured. They told me I tried to, uh, stop a mugging.
Ray Embrey: Somebody knocked you out.
Hancock: Guess I was a regular guy before and when I woke up, I was

changed. Uh, and the hospital nurse tried to put a needle in my arm and it just broke against my skin. And then my skull healed, in, like in an hour. The doctors were astounded and, uh, they wanted to know my story. Just like you. But, uh, I couldn't tell 'em. I don't know who I am.
Mary Embrey: Amnesia. You know, the blow to the head.
Hancock: Yeah,

well, that's what they figure.
Ray Embrey: You don't remember anything?
Hancock: No. Only thing I had in my pocket was bubble-gum, two movie tickets. Boris Karloff. Uh, Frankenstein. Uh... But no ID, nothing. I went to sign out. The, uh, nurse asked me for my John Hancock. And, uh... I actually thought that's who I was.

Ray Embrey: [shows Hancock a comic book with a picture of a spandex clad superhero on it] What do you think of when you see this?
Hancock: Homo.
Ray Embrey: [shows him another comic with a hero in red spandex] And this?
Hancock: Homo in red.
Ray Embrey: [shows him a third comic with a

blonde-haired hero] And this?
Hancock: Norwegian homo.

Ray Embrey: My basic diagnosis of your fundamental problem is... do you want to hear it?
Hancock: No.
Ray Embrey: You're an asshole. I know. I call it like I see it, though. It's not a crime to be an asshole, but it's very counter-productive. Not a crime, but you are an asshole, don't you think?
Hancock: Be

careful.

Hancock: You and I...
Mary Embrey: You and I what?
Hancock: ...we're the same.
Mary Embrey: No. I'm stronger.
Hancock: Really?
Mary Embrey: [smiling] Oh yeah.
Hancock: Who are we?
Mary Embrey: Gods, angels...

Different cultures call us by different names. Now all of a sudden it's superhero.
Hancock: Are there more of us?
Mary Embrey: There were. They all died. It's just the two of us.

Michel: Asshole.
John Hancock: [leans in close to Michel] Call me a asshole one more time.
Michel: Assho...
John Hancock: [launches Michel into the sky; turns to chubby kid] How about you, Thickness?
[chubby kid shakes his head; turns to kid with glasses]
John Hancock: Goggles?

[kid with glasses shakes his head]