Back to the Future

This page is for quotations from the Back to the Future series of films.

Back To The Future (1985)

Written by: Robert Zemeckis & Bob Gale; Directed by: Robert Zemeckis

• Doc Brown: "That reminds me. You might not want to hook up to the amplifier, Marty. There's a slight possibility of overload."
• Strickland: "No McFly ever amounted to anythin in the history of Hill Valley!"
  Marty: "Yeah, well, history is gonna change."
• Campaign van (in 1985): "Re-elect mayor Goldie Wilson! Progress is his middle name. Mayor Wilson's progress platform means more jobs, better education, bigger civic improvements and lower taxes! On election day, cast your vote for a proven leader..." (trails off)
• Marty: "Then where the hell are they?"
  Doc Brown: "The appropriate question is WHEN the hell are they!"
• Marty: "Are you telling me you built a time machine out of a DeLorean?"
  Doc Brown: "Well, the way I see it, if you're going to build a time machine into a car, you might as well do it with style."
• Marty: "Does it run like, on regular unleaded gasoline?"
  Doc Brown: "No, unfortunately it requires something with a little more kick- Plutonium !"
• Marty: "Doc, you don't just walk into a store and buy plutonium! Did you rip that off?"
  Doc Brown:"Of course! From a group of Libyan nationalists. They wanted me to build them a bomb, so I took their plutonium and instead gave them a shoddy bomb casing filled with used pinball machine parts!"
• Doc Brown: "Things have certainly changed around here. I remember when this was all farmland, as far as the eye could see! Old man Peabody owned ALL of this! He had this crazy notion... about breeding pine trees."
• Mrs. Peabody: "What is it Paw, what is it?"
  Old Man Peabody: "Looks like an aero-plane... without wings!"
• Peabody's kid: "It's already mutated in to human form, shoot it, Pa!"
  Old Man Peabody: "Take that, you mutated sonofabitch!"
• Old Man Peabody: "My pine, why you... You space bastard! You killed my pine!" (trails off)
• Biff: "So why don't you make like a tree... and get outta here."
• Campaign car (in 1955): "Re-elect mayor Red Thomas! Progress is his middle name. Mayor Thomas' progress platform means more jobs, better education, bigger civic improvements and lower taxes! On election day, cast your vote for a proven leader..." (trails off)
• Doc Brown: "1.21 GIGAWATTS!?! 1.21 gigawatts!"
  Marty: "What the hell is a gigawatt ?!"
  Note: Doc Brown pronounces the term "jigga-watt".
• Marty: "Doc, this is heavy."
  Doc Brown: "Weight has nothing to do with it."
• Marty: "This is heavy, Doc."
  Doc Brown: "There's that word again, 'heavy'. Why are things all so heavy in the future- is there some problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?"
• Doc Brown: (pointing at a poster for a dance) "Look! There's a rythmic ceremonial ritual this Saturday night!"
• George:: "Wwho are you?"
  Marty: "My name is Darth Vader." (heavy breathing) "I am an extraterrestial from the planet Vulcan!"
• Biff: "Hey McFly! I thought I told you never to come in here!"
• Biff: "I hate manure!"
• Marty: "Wait, you don't understand. If you don't play there's no music. If there's no music they don't dance. If they don't dance they don't kiss, they don't fall in love and I'm history!"
• Marty: "Oh, by the way, if you ever have kids and one of them, when he's eight years old, accidently sets fire to the living room rug- go easy on him"
• Doc Brown: "Don't worry. As long as you hit the connecting wire at exactly 88 miles per hour at the exact time the lightning hits the tower... everything will be fine!"
• Marty: What about all that talk about screwing up future events? The space-time continuum?
  Doc Brown: I figured: what the hell!
• Doc Brown: "Roads? Where we're going, we don't need... roads."