"Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?"
— Indiana Jones
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Iconic Lines"It's not the years, honey. It's the mileage."
— Indiana Jones
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Iconic Lines"Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory."
— Indiana Jones
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Iconic Lines"Nazis. I hate these guys."
— Indiana Jones
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Iconic Lines"I'm making this up as I go."
— Indiana Jones
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Iconic Lines"That belongs in a museum!"
— Indiana Jones
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Iconic Lines"I don't know. I'm making this up as I go."
— Indiana Jones
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Dialogue"Give me the whip."
— Indiana Jones
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Opening"I hate snakes, Jock! I HATE 'EM!"
— Indiana Jones
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Plane"Adiós, Sapito."
— Indiana Jones
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Opening"Marion, don't look at it. Shut your eyes, Marion. Don't look at it, no matter what happens."
— Indiana Jones
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Ark Opening"Fools! Bureaucratic fools! They don't know what they've got there..."
— Indiana Jones
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Ending"I'm not trying to be a hero. I'm just a guy trying to get a job done."
— Indiana Jones
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Philosophy"You wanna talk to God? Let's go see him together. I've got nothing better to do."
— Indiana Jones
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Belloq Confrontation"I'm like a bad penny. I always turn up."
— Indiana Jones
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Confidence"I can only say I'm sorry so many times."
— Indiana Jones
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Marion"Trust me. Follow me."
— Indiana Jones
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Action"I'm going after that truck."
— Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones (1981)
Determination"This is it. This is where Forrestal cashed in."
— Indiana Jones
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Opening"Too bad the Hovitos don't know you the way I do, Belloq."
— Indiana Jones
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Opening Confrontation"There's a big snake in the plane, Jock!"
— Indiana Jones
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Plane"Hello, Marion."
— Indiana Jones
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Nepal"I need one of the pieces your father collected."
— Indiana Jones
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Nepal"Well maybe you could find it."
— Indiana Jones
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Nepal"Now you're getting nasty."
— Indiana Jones
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Belloq"Try the local sewer."
— Indiana Jones
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Belloq"Balloq's staff is too long."
— Indiana Jones
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Discovery"They're digging in the wrong place!"
— Indiana Jones
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Discovery"Marion! God damn it! I thought I told you to stay in the truck!"
— Indiana Jones
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Anger"Here. Wave it at anything that slithers."
— Indiana Jones
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Well of Souls"Indiana Jones: Hello Marion. Marion Ravenwood: Ha! Indiana Jones! Always knew someday you'd come walking back through my door. I never doubted that. Something made it inevitable. So what are you doing here in Nepal? Indiana Jones: I need one of the pieces your father collected."
— Indiana Jones & Marion
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Nepal Reunion"God damn it, Indy, where doesn't it hurt?"
— Marion Ravenwood
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Sarcasm"You can't do this to me! I'm an American!"
— Marion Ravenwood
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Protest"You're not the man I knew ten years ago."
— Marion Ravenwood
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Observation"I was a child! I was in love! It was wrong and you knew it!"
— Marion Ravenwood
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Accusation"Now I do. This is my place. Get out!"
— Marion Ravenwood
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Anger"Do you know what you did to me? To my life."
— Marion Ravenwood
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Pain"Yeah, everybody's sorry. Abner was sorry for dragging me all over this earth, looking for his little bits of junk. I'm sorry to still be stuck in this dive. Everybody's sorry for something."
— Marion Ravenwood
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Resignation"We never seem to get a break, do we?"
— Marion Ravenwood
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Companionship"Indy?"
— Marion Ravenwood
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Calling"The Ark. If it is there, at Tanis, then it is something that man was not meant to disturb. Death has always surrounded it. It is not of this earth."
— Sallah
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Warning"Asps... very dangerous. You go first."
— Sallah
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Well of Souls"Bad dates."
— Sallah
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Humorous"Indy, why does the floor move?"
— Sallah
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Well of Souls"Positive!"
— Sallah
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Confirmation"Holy smokes my friends! I'm so pleased you're not dead!"
— Sallah
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Reunion"Cairo - city of the living! Paradise on earth!"
— Sallah
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Arrival"My services are entirely inconsequential to them. They hired or shanghaied every digger in Cairo. The excavation is enormous. They hire only strong backs and they pay pennies for them. It's as if the pharaohs have returned."
— Sallah
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Observation"Indy, you have no time. If you still want the ark, it is being loaded onto a truck for Cairo."
— Sallah
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Urgency"Again, we see there is nothing you can possess which I cannot take away. And you thought I'd given up."
— René Belloq
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Taunting"You and I are very much alike. Archeology is our religion, yet we have both fallen from the pure faith. Our methods have not differed as much as you pretend. I am but a shadowy reflection of you. It would take only a nudge to make you like me. To push you out of the light."
— René Belloq
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Philosophy"How odd that it should end this way for us after so many stimulating encounters. I almost regret it. Where shall I find a new adversary so close to my own level?"
— René Belloq
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Arrogance"Jones, do you realise what the Ark is? It's a transmitter! It's a radio for speaking to God, and it's within my reach!"
— René Belloq
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Explanation"Let me ask you this: Would you feel more comfortable opening the Ark in Berlin for your Führer? Finding out, only then, if the sacred pieces of the Covenant are inside? Knowing only then whether you have accomplished your mission, and obtained the one, true Ark."
— René Belloq
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Manipulation"It's beautiful!"
— René Belloq
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Last Words"Marion, you are beautiful."
— René Belloq
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Compliment"In a thousand years even you may be worth something!"
— René Belloq
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Mockery"The girl goes with me. It will be part of my compensation, I'm sure your Führer would approve."
— René Belloq
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Demand"Good evening, Fraulein."
— Major Toht
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Nepal"We are not thirsty."
— Major Toht
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Nepal"The same thing your friend Doctor Jones wanted. Surely he told you there would be other interested parties."
— Major Toht
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Nepal"Shoot them. Shoot them both."
— Major Toht
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Command"Now, what shall we talk about?"
— Major Toht
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Interrogation"I'll tell you everything!"
— Marion Ravenwood
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Fear"Yes. I know you will."
— Major Toht
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Menace"Dr. Jones, we've heard a great deal about you."
— Major Eaton
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Government"Professor of Archaeology, expert on the occult and, how does one say it...obtainer of rare antiquities?"
— Major Eaton
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Government"You see for the last two years the Nazis have had teams of archaeologists running around the world looking for all sorts of religious artifacts. Hitler's a nut on the subject. He's crazy. He's obsessed with the occult."
— Major Eaton
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Government"The Nazis have discovered Tanis."
— Indiana Jones
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Revelation"Wait a minute, you're talking about THE Ten Commandments?"
— Major Eaton
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Government"Yes, the actual Ten Commandments. The original stone tablets Moses brought down out of Mt. Horeb and smashed, if you believe in that sort of thing. Didn't any of you guys ever go to Sunday school?"
— Indiana Jones
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Explanation"The Hebrews took the broken pieces and put them in the Ark, and when they settled in Canaan they put the Ark in a place called the Temple of Solomon."
— Indiana Jones
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Explanation"In Jerusalem."
— Marcus Brody
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Explanation"However, an Egyptian pharaoh—"
— Marcus Brody
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Explanation"Shishak."
— Indiana Jones
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Explanation"—invaded the city of Jerusalem in about 980 BC and he may have taken the Ark back to the city of Tanis and hidden it in a secret chamber called the Well of Souls."
— Marcus Brody
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Explanation"However, about a year after the pharaoh had returned to Egypt, the city of Tanis was consumed by the desert in a sandstorm which lasted a whole year, wiped clean by the wrath of God."
— Marcus Brody
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Explanation"That's just my pet snake Reggie!"
— Jock
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Plane"Come on, show a little backbone, will ya?"
— Jock
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Plane"The Hovitos are near, Señor!"
— Satipo
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Opening"Señor, nobody comes out of there alive."
— Satipo
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Opening"If you insist, señor."
— Satipo
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Opening"Throw me the idol! No time to argue, you throw me the idol, I throw you the whip."
— Satipo
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Betrayal"Adiós, señor."
— Satipo
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Betrayal"Marion's the least of your worries right now though, Indy."
— Marcus Brody
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Concern"For nearly three thousand years, man has been searching for the lost Ark. That's not something to be taken lightly. No one knows its secrets. It's like... nothing you've ever gone after before."
— Marcus Brody
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Warning"Yes, that's just what the Hebrews thought."
— Marcus Brody
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Confirmation"The Bible speaks of the Ark leveling mountains and laying waste to entire regions. An army which carries the Ark before it... is invincible."
— Marcus Brody
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Biblical"And the museum? The museum gets the Ark when we're finished?"
— Indiana Jones
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Museum"Oh, yes. Of course."
— Marcus Brody
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Museum"Oh, Marcus! What are you trying to do? Scare me? You sound like my mother! We've known each other for a long time. You know I don't believe in magic, a lot of superstitious hocus-pocus."
— Indiana Jones
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Skepticism"You're talking about the boogie man. Besides, you know what a cautious fellow I am."
— Indiana Jones
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Sarcasm"A competitor. He was good... he was very, very good."
— Indiana Jones
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Opening"Yes, too bad. You could warn them... if only you spoke Hovitos."
— René Belloq
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Mockery"The Nazis have discovered Tanis."
— Indiana Jones
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Revelation"Well, I see we've come to the right man. You seem to know all about this 'Tanis'."
— Colonel Musgrove
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Government"Rubbish, Ravenwood's no Nazi!"
— Marcus Brody
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Defense"What's that supposed to be coming out of there?"
— Colonel Musgrove
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Government"Lightning. Fire. The power of God or something."
— Indiana Jones
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Explanation"We have top men working on it right now."
— Government Official
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Ending