Magnum, P.I. Quotes
Higgins: Magnum, I don't know if you're pulling my leg as yanks put it, or not. But you are acting frightfully strange.
Magnum: Strange?
Higgins: Yes. You're being nice.
Magnum: I'm sorry Higgins, I didn't know that was bad.
Higgins: Well with anyone else it wouldn't be, but with you, one must be suspicious.
Magnum: Well, I will try and revert to type.
Higgins: Please. You're upsetting our relationship. Being nice makes me... quite uncomfortable.
Magnum: Strange?
Higgins: Yes. You're being nice.
Magnum: I'm sorry Higgins, I didn't know that was bad.
Higgins: Well with anyone else it wouldn't be, but with you, one must be suspicious.
Magnum: Well, I will try and revert to type.
Higgins: Please. You're upsetting our relationship. Being nice makes me... quite uncomfortable.
Movie: Magnum, P.I.
Nina Shutenberg: [while watching Joe at 'targert practice'] Wow! That's incredible.
Joe Saeba: Anyone can shoot like this if they practice a little. [reloads his gun and offers it to Nina]
Joe Saeba: Here, do you wanna give it a try?
Nina Shutenberg: [smiles and shakes her head] You know, it's almost like you're a different person when you hold a gun, Mr. Saeba. Usually, you are perverted and unreliable.
Joe Saeba: [embarrassed] Would ya' stop calling me 'perverted'? I'm what you call 'nookie dependant'.
Nina Shutenberg: [puzzled] I thought the two were the same. What's the difference?
Joe Saeba: Well... it's... complicated... like me.
Joe Saeba: Anyone can shoot like this if they practice a little. [reloads his gun and offers it to Nina]
Joe Saeba: Here, do you wanna give it a try?
Nina Shutenberg: [smiles and shakes her head] You know, it's almost like you're a different person when you hold a gun, Mr. Saeba. Usually, you are perverted and unreliable.
Joe Saeba: [embarrassed] Would ya' stop calling me 'perverted'? I'm what you call 'nookie dependant'.
Nina Shutenberg: [puzzled] I thought the two were the same. What's the difference?
Joe Saeba: Well... it's... complicated... like me.
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Officer Phil Sweet: What kind of a load do you use in that .44?
Harry Callahan: It's a light Special. This size gun it gives you better control and less recoil than a .357 Magnum with wadcutters.
Harry Callahan: It's a light Special. This size gun it gives you better control and less recoil than a .357 Magnum with wadcutters.
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Thomas Sullivan Magnum III: One of the cliches of my profession is that to get information from a bartender you have to slip him bills of various denominations. Bills that you can't afford with pictures of unfamiliar presidents and usually for information that isn't worth it.
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Thomas Sullivan Magnum III: Did you see the sun rise?
Ivan: Yes. It was beautiful. [Magnum spins around and fires at Ivan]
Ivan: Yes. It was beautiful. [Magnum spins around and fires at Ivan]
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Margo Perina: [Magnum is trying to tell one women why another is in his room] It would take a 1930's movie to explain this and I bear no resemblence to Myrna Loy.
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Thomas Sullivan Magnum III: [voiceover] Hawaii is one of those places that keeps topping itself - just when you think you'll never see a sunset as beautiful, there comes a sunrise that even Gauguin can only imagine. It kind of makes unemployment easier to take.
Jonathan Quayle Higgins III: Magnum... [seeing him sunbathing]
Jonathan Quayle Higgins III: oh, Magnum.
Thomas Sullivan Magnum III: Hi, Higgins, Di.
Jonathan Quayle Higgins III: I have a proposition for you, Magnum.
Thomas Sullivan Magnum III: Now wait a minute, just wait a second, Higgins. Now this is really getting depressing, this constant deal making - I'll give you this if you give me that, it's so unnecessary. Now here we are in paradise, we have everything we could ever possibly want out of life just here. So why, why can't we just do things for one another simply because we want to, simply because we're friends, simply because we feel like helping each other?
Jonathan Quayle Higgins III: Magnum, I want you to know I'm quite touched, I never thought you were capable of those admirable sentiments, I really mean that.
Thomas Sullivan Magnum III: Thank you.
Jonathan Quayle Higgins III: I came here this morning to, just as you so aptly describe it, make a deal. You see the lads have been under the weather and I need to pick up some paperwork from the club. I was going to ask you to fetch it for me and in return I was going to give you the use of the tennis court for one week. Now I'm just asking you as a friend.
Thomas Sullivan Magnum III: Make it two weeks.
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Thomas Sullivan Magnum III: [voiceover] I know what you're thinking. Forcing the issue with Blaylock was kind of like cramming for finals the night before. But you can't be a student forever. Sooner or later, you have to graduate.
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Thomas Sullivan Magnum III: Did you see the sun rise?
Ivan: Yes. It was beautiful. [Magnum spins around and fires at Ivan]
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Thomas Sullivan Magnum III: If basketball was all there was to life, you'd be set.
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Thomas Sullivan Magnum III: One of the cliches of my profession is that to get information from a bartender you have to slip him bills of various denominations. Bills that you can't afford with pictures of unfamiliar presidents and usually for information that isn't worth it.
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Thomas Sullivan Magnum III: Thanks doctor, you're a lifesaver.
Coroner in morgue: Lifesaver... I'm a coroner.
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Ralph the Bartender: Kacy left with a different guy every night, what's the difference?
Thomas Sullivan Magnum III: Difference is she's dead.
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Jonathan Quayle Higgins III: [Higgins and Magnum find out Central Grocers is a front for laundering money] Well, I doubt you'll still find the money in your local accommodating bank. The funds have probably been transferred to a tax haven country. I'm quite familiar with this type of laundering scheme from my days in MI6. I remember one most intriguing case...
Thomas Sullivan Magnum III: [Interrupting] Do you have the number of the Central Grocers?
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Jonathan Quayle Higgins III: I did it because you have more dumb luck than anyone I know.
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Orville 'Rick' Wright: [Rick is trying to pay Higgins] Here, for your inconvenience.
Jonathan Quayle Higgins III: [Refusing it] I don't accept tips.
Theodore 'TC' Calvin: I'll bet you don't give 'em either.
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Alice Cook: [referring to the Navy] Why did you quit?
Thomas Sullivan Magnum III: It wasn't anything earth shattering. I woke up one day, age 33, and realized I'd never been 23.
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