The Island (2005)

Steve Buscemi: James McCord

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Quotes 

• McCord : [At Lincoln Six-Echo]  All right, look. I know you're new to this whole human experience and all, but there's one universal truth and that is you NEVER give a woman your credit card.

  Lincoln Six-Echo : Right. mmm.

• McCord : Just cause people wanna eat the burger doesn't mean they wanna meet the cow.

• Lincoln Six-Echo : What's "God"?

  McCord : Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you.

• [from trailer] 

  McCord : I know you're new to this whole human thing, but... backpacks for boys, purses for girls. Ya understand?

  Jordan Two-Delta : We're not idiots.

  McCord : Well, excuse me, Miss "I'm-so-smart-I-can't-wait-to-go-to-the-Island!"

• Lincoln Six-Echo : [talking to McCord and sees a poster]  Are these your friends?

  McCord : eh... sometimes

  Lincoln Six-Echo : Where are their clothes?

  McCord : um... well

• McCord : Jeez, why do I always have to be the one to tell the kids there is no Santa Claus?

• [Jordan Two-Delta and Lincoln Six-Echo have just been told they are clones by McCord] 

  Jordan Two-Delta : Bu- I have a mother! I remember her!

  McCord : Yeah, I know...

  Jordan Two-Delta : I grew up on a farm! I had a little dog a - and I had a bike...

  McCord : A bike, yeah. A pink, fluffy Flyer with little tassels on the handlebars? And you rode it up the street to your Grandmother's house, you'd ring the little bell, she came out and served you cookies on a hot plate?

  Jordan Two-Delta : Yes.

  McCord : No. Memory imprints. I've seen 'em - a buddy of mine is a programmer at the institute, he showed me. There's only, like, twelve stories, they change around little details, but they're all pretty much the same. The life you think you had before the 'contamination' - it never happened.

• [From the trailer] 

  McCord : You're not real. You're copies of people out here in the world.

• [just before a clone is being born] 

  McCord : Whoa seriously, guys, unless you wanna see me blow chunks, can you wait till I'm gone?

• McCord : Do you remember the talk we had about... all the talk?

• McCord : No, no, no, no, no... That's the worst idea I've ever heard. Do you have any idea how *dead* I would be? Not to mention *fired*.

• [from trailer] 

  McCord : The life you thought you had... it never happened.

• Jordan Two-Delta : But why doesn't Merrick want our owners to know we're alive?

  McCord : Just because people eat the burger doesn't mean they wanna meet the cow.

• McCord : The whole reason you exist is because everyone wants to live forever. It's the new American dream. There's people out there that are rich enough to pay anything for it.

• Jordan Two-Delta : But why doesn't Merrick want our owners to know we're alive?

  McCord : Just because people eat the burger doesn't mean they wanna to meet the cow.