Kurt Russell credited as playing...
Jack Burton
- Jack Burton: When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."
- [last lines]
- Jack Burton: Just remember what ol' Jack Burton does when the earth quakes, and the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake. Yeah, Jack Burton just looks that big ol' storm right square in the eye and he says, "Give me your best shot, pal. I can take it."
- Jack Burton: Okay. You people sit tight, hold the fort and keep the home fires burning. And if we're not back by dawn... call the president.
- Jack Burton: You know what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like this?
- Thunder: Who?
- Jack Burton: Jack Burton. *Me*!
- Jack Burton: [They are swimming through a tunnel filled almost to the top with water.] Would you stop rubbing your body up against mine? Because I can't concentrate when you do that.
- Gracie: What a pig you are, Burton!
- Jack Burton: What's in the flask, Egg? Magic potion?
- Egg Shen: Yeah.
- Jack Burton: Thought so, good. What do we do, drink it?
- Egg Shen: Yeah!
- Jack Burton: Good! Thought so.
- Wang Chi: Here's to the Army and Navy and the battles they have won; here's to America's colors, the colors that never run.
- Jack Burton: May the wings of liberty never lose a feather.
- Jack Burton: Like I told my last wife, I says, "Honey, I never drive faster than I can see. Besides that, it's all in the reflexes."
- Jack Burton: [pointing to Chinese writing on elevator] What does that say?
- Wang Chi: [speaks Chinese] Hell of Boiling Oil.
- Jack Burton: You're kidding.
- Wang Chi: Yeah, I am. It says Keep Out.
- [Jack points to the wall]
- Jack Burton: Hollow?
- Wang Chi: Hollow.
- Jack Burton: Fuck it.
- [Jack wacks open the hollow wall with his knife]
- Jack Burton: I don't get this at all. I thought Lo Pan...
- Lo Pan: Shut up, Mr. Burton! You are not brought upon this world to get it!
- Egg Shen: Can see things no one else can see. Do things no one else can do.
- Jack Burton: Real things?
- Egg Shen: As real as Lo Pan!
- Jack Burton: Hey, what more can a guy ask for?
- Egg Shen: Oh, the six-demon bag!
- Jack Burton: Terrific, a six-demon bag. Sensational. What's in it, Egg?
- Egg Shen: Wind, fire, all that kind of thing!
- Jack Burton: All I know is, this Lo Pan character comes out of thin air in the middle of a goddamn alley while his buddies are flying around on wires cutting everybody to shreds, and he just stands there waiting for me to drive my truck straight through him with *light* coming out of his mouth!