Back to the Future – Movie Quotes

If you guys ever have kids, and one of them, when he's eight years old, accidentally sets fire to the living room rug... go easy on him.

— Whoa. This is heavy.
— There's that word again. «Heavy». Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?

— What about all that talk about screwing up future events? The space-time continuum?
— Well, I figured, what the hell.

— You don't just walk into a store and buy plutonium. Did you rip that off?
— Of course. From a group of Libyans. They wanted me to build them a bomb. I took the plutonium and gave them a bomb casing full of pinball machine parts.

— Why, that's me! Look at me! I'm an old man! Thank God, I've still got my hair. What's this thing I'm wearing?
— This is a radiation suit.
— Radiation suit? Of course. 'Cause of all the fallout from the atomic wars.

I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet... but your kids are going to love it.

He's an idiot. Comes from upbringing. His parents are probably idiots, too. Lorraine, you ever have a kid who acts that way, I'll disown you.

Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.

— Then tell me, future boy, who's President of the United States in 1985?
— Ronald Reagan.
— Ronald Reagan? The actor? Then who's vice president? Jerry Lewis?

— Sounds heavy.
— Weight has nothing to do with it.

Last night, Darth Vader came down from Planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn’t take Lorraine out, that he’d melt my brain.

This is truly amazing. A portable television studio. No wonder your president has to be an actor. He has to look good on TV.

One shouldn't know about his own destiny. If I know too much I endanger my own existence just as you've endangered yours.

— Wait a minute. Wait a minute Doc, uh, are you telling me you built a time machine … out of a DeLorean?
— The way I see it, if you’re going to build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?