Pee-wee's Big Adventure Quotations

Pee-wee's Big Adventure is a 1985 film directed by Tim Burton and written by Paul Reubens, Phil Hartmen, and Michael Varhol.
The Story Of A Rebel And His Bike. Tagline

Pee-wee Herman

[as hotel desk clerk; in deep voice] Paging Mr. Herman! Mr. Herman, you have a telephone call at the front desk!
[falls off bike after attempting tricks] I meant to do that.
Go ahead and scream your head off! We're MILES from where anyone can hear you!
Is there something you can share with the rest of us, Amazing Larry?!

Dialogue

Francis: Today's my birthday and my father says I can have anything I want.

Pee-wee: Good for you and your father.

Francis: So guess what I want.

Pee-wee: A new brain!

Francis: No. Your bike!

Pee-wee: I wanna see Francis.

Butler: Francis is busy.

Pee-wee: Busy doin' what?

Butler: He's having his bath.

Pee-wee: Oh, really? Where are they hosin' him down?!

[Pee-wee confronts Francis in his large pool-like bath]

Pee-wee: Still wanna buy my bike, Francis?!

Francis: What would I do with that old relic?! I can have any bike in the world!

Pee-wee: AHA! You don't want it anymore, because you already have it! Tell me where it is before I lose patience with you, Francis!

[Pee-wee enters a noisy biker bar and tries to use the payphone but can't because of the noise]

Pee-wee: SHH!!!! I'm trying to use the phone!!

[one of the bikers puts the phone back on the cradle]

Biker 1: Did anybody tell you that this is the private club of the Satan's Helpers?

Pee-wee: Nobody hipped me to that, dude.

Biker 1: It's off limits!

Dottie: I was wondering if you would go someplace... with me.

Pee-wee: Like where?

Dottie: The drive-in.

Pee-wee: Look, Dottie, I like you. Like! I like you!

Dottie: That's the thing. I like you, too--

Pee-wee: [shouts] Dottie! [calm voice] There's a lotta things about me you don't know anything about, Dottie. Things you wouldn't understand. Things you couldn't understand. Things you shouldn't understand.

Dottie: I don't understand.

Pee-wee: You don't wanna get mixed up with a guy like me. I'm a loner, Dottie. A rebel.

Pee-wee: Thanks for stopping. Some night, huh?

Large Marge: On this very night, ten years ago, on this same stretch of road, in the dense fog, just like this, I saw the worse accident I ever seen. There was this sound, like a garbage truck dropped off the Empire State Building. And when they finally pulled the driver's body from the twisted, burning, WRECK, it looked like... THIS! [makes a hideously deformed face, causing Pee-wee to scream] Yes, sir. That was the worst accident I ever seen.

Large Marge: Be sure and tell 'em, Large Marge sent ya! HA HA HA HA HA!

Pee-wee: Jimmy, what is this? Too late! Chip?

Chip: Uh... looks like a pen.

Pee-wee: Exactly! I bought this pen one hour before my bike was stolen. Why? What's the significance? I DON'T KNOW!

Biker #2: I say we kill him!

Biker Gang: YEAH!

Biker #3: I say we hang him, then we kill him!

Biker Gang: YEAH!

Biker #4: I say we stomp him!

Biker Gang: YEAH!

Biker #4: Then we tattoo him!

Biker Gang: YEAH!

Biker #4: Then we hang him!

Biker Gang: YEAH!!

Biker #4: And then we kill him!

Biker Gang: YEAH!!!

Pee-wee: [tries to throw his voice without moving his lips] I say we let him go.

Biker Gang: NO!!!

Biker Mama: [whistles] I say ya let ME have him first!

(the Biker Gang laughs)

Kevin: Well, is everything straightened out?

Jerry: We are ready whenever you are.

Kevin: Doesn't it look like I'm ready? [loudly] I am ALWAYS ready! I have BEEN ready since first call! I AM READY! ROLL!

Jerry: Quiet, please! This is a take. Roll, please.

Cameraman: Speed!

Kevin: ACTION!!!

Jerry: Action!

(last lines)

Pee-wee: Come on, Dottie. Let's go.

Dottie: Let's go? Don't you wanna see the rest of the movie?

Pee-wee: I don't have to see it, Dottie. I lived it.

Cast

Paul Reubens - Pee-wee Herman
Elizabeth Daily - Dottie
Mark Holton - Francis Buxton
Diane Salinger - Simone
Judd Omen - Mickey
Jason Hervey - Kevin Morton

Quoternity