Bruce Willis credited as playing...
John McClane
- Thomas Gabriel: On your tombstone it should read, "Always in the wrong place at the wrong time".
- John McClane: How about, "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfu - "
- [gunshot]
- John McClane: You know what you get for being a hero? Nothin'. You get shot at. You get a little pat on the back, blah, blah, blah, attaboy. You get divorced. Your wife can't remember your last name. Your kids don't want to talk to you. You get to eat a lot of meals by yourself. Trust me, kid, nobody wants to be that guy.
- John McClane: You know, chicks dig scars.
- Matt Farrell: [looks at Lucy] Really?
- John McClane: Not that one.
- John McClane: Mai? Oh, yeah. Little Asian chick, likes to kick people? I don't think she's gonna be talkin' to anybody for a really long time. Last time I saw her she was at the bottom of a elevator shaft with an SUV rammed up her ass.
- John McClane: You know what you get for being a hero? Nothin'. You get shot at. You get a little pat on the back, blah, blah, blah, attaboy. You get divorced. Your wife can't remember your last name. Your kids don't want to talk to you. You get to eat a lot of meals by yourself. Trust me, kid, nobody wants to be that guy.
- Matt Farrell: Then why you doing this?
- John McClane: Because there's no body else to do it right now, that's why. Believe me, if there were somebody else to do it, I'd let them do it, but there's not. So we're doing it.
- Matt Farrell: Ah. That's what makes you that guy.
- [after McClane flings Rand from his car]
- Matt Farrell: Did you see that?
- John McClane: Yeah I saw it, I did it!
- John McClane: I know I'm not as smart as you guys with all this computer shit. But, hey... I'm still alive, ain't I? I mean, you've *got* to be running out of bad guys by now, right? Huh? Gabriel? Honestly, you can tell me. I mean, how does that work? Got some kind of service or something? Some kind of 800 number? 1-800-HENCHMEN? Oh, you know what? I bet you're still on hold with, "Can I get another dead Asian hooker bitch over here right away?"
- Thomas Gabriel: I can't talk this guy. You talk to him. See if you can get him to focus.
- [hands cell phone to Lucy]
- Lucy McClane: Dad?
- John McClane: Hi, baby.
- Lucy McClane: Now there are only five of them.
- Matt Farrell: Awww, great! There goes the cell phone.
- John McClane: They knocked the satellites out of the skies, now?
- Matt Farrell: No, your battery ran out.
- John McClane: [covering the webcam] You think you can, uh, find a track where he is?
- Thomas Gabriel: Detective, covering the camera with your hand does not turn off the microphone.
- Matt Farrell: Have you done stuff like that before?
- John McClane: Stuff like what?
- Matt Farrell: Like killing people?
- John McClane: Yeah. But not for a long time.
- Matt Farrell: [upset] So, who were those guys? Huh? Why were they trying to kill you? Why'd they blow up my goddamn apartment?
- John McClane: They were there to kill you.
- Matt Farrell: Why would they wanna kill me?
- John McClane: You tell me, kid. You're the criminal.
- The Warlock: What, like, you a big fan of the Fett?
- John McClane: [standing next to a stand-up cardboard cut-out of Boba Fett] No. I was always more of a Star Wars guy.
- Matt Farrell: Jesus Christ. It's a fire sale.
- John McClane: What?
- Matt Farrell: It's a fire sale.
- Deputy Director Miguel Bowman: Hey! We don't know that yet.
- Taylor: Yeah, it's a myth anyway. It can't be done.
- Matt Farrell: Oh, it's a myth? Really? Please tell me she's only here for show and she's actually not in charge of anything.
- John McClane: Hey, what's a fire sale?
- Matt Farrell: It's a three-step... it's a three-step systematic attack on the entire national infrastructure. Okay, step one: take out all the transportation. Step two: the financial base and telecoms. Step three: You get rid of all the utilities. Gas, water, electric, nuclear. Pretty much anything that's run by computers which... which today is almost everything. So that's why they call it a fire sale, because everything must go.
- Lucy McClane: Daddy, you're out of your mind.
- John McClane: What're you talkin' about?
- Lucy McClane: You shot yourself!
- John McClane: [groaning] It seemed like a good idea at the time.
- John McClane: [pissed off] All you gotta do is go pick up a kid down in New Jersey, and drive him down to D.C. How hard can that be, huh? Can't be that hard, no, can it? No, gotta be a senior detective. A thing like a traffic jam, throwing a car at me's gonna stop me?
- John McClane: [Matt's showing interest in Lucy] After all we've been through, I'd *hate* to have to beat you to death.
- Matt Farrell: What are we doing?
- John McClane: It's a little thing they invented back in the sixties called 'jogging'. You're gonna love it. Come on.
- John McClane: Hey, thanks for saving my daughter's life.
- Matt Farrell: [shrugs] What was I going to do?
- John McClane: That's what makes you "that guy."
- Matt Farrell: [smiles] Yeah.