65 The Running Man Quotes (2024)

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Ben Richards: [after ripping the surveillance monitor off the wall] You cold-blooded bastard! I'll tell you what I think of it: I'll live to see you eat that contract, but I hope you leave enough room for my fist because I'm going to ram it into your stomach and break your god-damn spine!
[Smashes monitor on the floor]

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Ben Richards: Killian, here's your Subzero, now plain zero.

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Damon Killian: There are still two crack stalkers out there. Dynamo and Fireball. Who do you think will make the next kill?
Elderly Lady: Oh, boy. That's a tough one.
Damon Killian: Come on. You can do it. Who do you think?
Elderly Lady: Okay, I think the next kill will be made by... Ben Richards.

Damon Killian: Agnes, Richards is a runner. You gotta pick a stalker.
Elderly Lady: I can pick anyone I choose. And I choose... Ben Richards. That boy's one mean motherfucker.

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Ben Richards: Killian! I'll be back!
Damon Killian: Only in a rerun. GO!

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Amber Mendez: Me and my big mouth. We should have taken the trip to Hawaii.
Ben Richards: I had the shirt for it, but you fucked it up.

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Ben Richards: [to Killian] Hello cutie pie, one of us is in deep trouble.
[Sven enters]
Damon Killian: [laughs] Sven, do you wanna talk to Mr. Richards?
[long pause]
Damon Killian: Well?
Sven: I've got to score some steroids.
[Sven leaves]

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Damon Killian: This is television, that's all it is. It's nothing to do with people, it's to do with ratings! For fifty years, we've told them what to eat, what to drink, what to wear... for Christ's sake, Ben, don't you understand? Americans love television. They wean their kids on it. Listen. They love game shows, they love wrestling, they love sports and violence. So what do we

do? We give 'em *what they want*! We're number one, Ben, that's all that counts, believe me. I've been in the business for thirty years.
Ben Richards: Well, I haven't been in show business as long as you have, Killian. But I'm a quick learner. So, I'm going to give the audience what *I* think they want.

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Amber Mendez: I'm warning you, I get sick. Air sick, car sick. I'm gonna throw up all over you.
Richards: Go ahead. Won't show on this shirt.

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Ben Richards: Uplink, underground! Uplink, underground! If you guys don't shut up, I'm gonna uplink your ass, and you'll be underground!

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Damon Killian: You bastard! Drop dead!
Ben Richards: I don't do requests.

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Amber Mendez: [after Richards cut Buzzsaw in half with a chain saw] What happened to Buzzsaw?
Ben Richards: Aw, he had to split.

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Amber Mendez: [seeing Fireball enter the game] Jesus Christ!
Ben Richards: [seeing Fireball discharge a burst from his flamethrower] Guess again!

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Ben Richards: I told Killian I'd be back. I wouldn't want to be a liar.

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Damon Killian: Hi, cutie pie. You know one of us is in deep trouble. You know who I am?
Ben Richards: I've seen you before. You're the asshole on TV.
Damon Killian: That's funny. I was going to say the same thing about you.

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Dynamo: Thought it was pretty funny out there in the zone. What's the matter now, bitch? Why aren't you laughing?
Amber Mendez: Because there's nothing funny about a dickless moron with a battery up his ass.

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[after killing Damon Killian]
Ben Richards: Well, that hit the spot.

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Agent: [Richards is signing a contract given to him by the agent] Here, here! Use my back, victim.
Ben Richards: [Richards signs the contract on the agent's back and then stabs him with the pen, yelling out a painful scream] Don't forget to send me a copy.
Agent: [Runs screaming in pain while trying to get the pen out of his back]