Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief Quotes

Percy Jackson: [watching a kid playing a game based on The French Connection movie] The French Connection, huh?
Seventies Kid - Casino: Yeah. You seen it yet?
Percy Jackson: Yeah, yeah, I think so, on DVD.
Seventies Kid - Casino: What's DVD?
Percy Jackson: Seriously?

Seventies Kid - Casino: Whatever. I think it's the best movie of the year.
Percy Jackson: What? Wait. This year?
Seventies Kid - Casino: Yeah, this year. 1971.

Luke: Percy Jackson! Well, you're weren't supposed to make it out alive. I can't let you that bolt to Olympus. I'm the lightning thief.
Percy Jackson: You hid the bolt in my shield. Why?
Luke: Well, when you said you were going to the Underworld, it hit me. That is the perfect opportunity to get the bolt to Hades.

Percy Jackson: Why would you do that?
Luke: To bring Olympus crumbling down.

Zeus: Give me the bolt, lightning thief.
[Percy lobs the bolt to Zeus. In Zeus' grasp, the lightning bolt grows to its true size]
Zeus: You're wise to betray your father.
Percy Jackson: I didn't steal it. And I have no connection to Poseidon.
Zeus: But tell me... if you didn't steal it, then who did?

Percy Jackson: Luke, son of Hermes.
[Hermes glances at Percy in surprise]
Percy Jackson: You see, he was angry at you. *All* of you. He wanted you to destroy yourselves.

Medusa: I hear you have the lightning bolt. May I see it?
Percy Jackson: I don't have it!
Medusa: Let me see you eyes. I hear they're bluer than the Circassian Sea! Open them, or my hungry babies will have to open them for you. But it would be such a pity to destroy such a young, handsome face. Stay with me, Percy. All you have to do

is look.

Hades: Percy Jackson, bring me the bolt! Be a good boy. Hand it to me and I will exchange it for your mother.
Chiron: Percy! Listen, Percy!
Percy Jackson: [he walks towards Hades] My mother's gone!
Hades: No, your mother is still alive. I sent the Minotaur to abduct her. She is here with me in the Underworld.

[He holds out his palm to reveal a ball of fire that forms into a figure of Percy's mom]
Percy Jackson: Mom?
Sally Jackson: Percy.
[Hades swipes his hand and she disappears]
Percy Jackson: What have you done with my mother?
Hades: If you ever want to see your mother again, you will bring

me the bolt!
[disappears in a fiery display]

Grover: Look, don't worry. But you're not alone. There's hundreds in the world. Some lead normal lives, and some, I'm not allowed to divulge their names, are very famous. I'm talking about, like, White House famous. See, man, this is a place right here, this's the place where you'll learn to harness your powers. You'll train to become leaders, warriors and heroes.

Percy Jackson: I think you have the wrong guy, all right? I'm not a hero. I'm a loser. I have dyslexia, ADHD.
Grover: And those are your greatest gifts. When you try to read, the words float off the page, right? That's because your brain is hardwired for Ancient Greek, not English.
Percy Jackson: Like at the museum, I could read.

Grover: Yeah. And your ADHD? You're impulsive, Percy. You can't by still! Those are your natural battle reflexes, man. They kept you alive in your fight.