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Close Encounters of the Third Kind Quotes

Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a TV program that was first aired in 1970 . Close Encounters of the Third Kind ended its run in 1970.

It features John Williams in charge of musical score, and Vilmos Zsigmond as head of cinematography.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Close Encounters of the Third Kind is 135 minutes (Theatrical Version) long. Close Encounters of the Third Kind is distributed by Columbia Pictures.

The cast includes: J. Patrick McNamara as Project Leader, Cary Guffey as Barry Guiler, Bob Balaban as David Laughlin, Merrill Connally as Team Leader, Roberts Blossom as Farmer, Teri Garr as Ronnie Neary, and Warren Kemmerling as Wild Bill.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind Quotes

Bob Balaban as David Laughlin

  • (Bob Balaban) "We didn't choose this place. We didn't choose these people. They were invited."
  • (Claude Lacombe) "They belong here more than we."
  • (Roy Neary) "I wanna speak to the man in charge."
  • (Bob Balaban) "Mr. Lacombe is the highest authority."
  • (Roy Neary) "He isn't even an American."
  • (Bob Balaban) "Have you recently had a close encounter?"
  • (Bob Balaban) "Who flies crates like these anymore?"
  • (J. Patrick McNamara) "No one. These planes were reported missing in 1945."

Cary Guffey as Barry Guiler

  • (Cary Guffey) "Clean everything up."
  • (Cary Guffey) "You can come and play now."
  • (Cary Guffey) "Goodbye."

Roberts Blossom as Farmer

  • (Roberts Blossom) "I saw Bigfoot once."
  • (Roberts Blossom) "Sequoia National Forest, 1951. It made a sound that I would not want to hear twice in my life."
  • (Roberts Blossom) "They can fly rings around the moon. But we're years ahead of them on the highway."

Teri Garr as Ronnie Neary

  • (Roy Neary) "Hey, you know what's playing tonight? Pinocchio. You guys have never seen Pinocchio, you're in luck."
  • (Brad Neary) "Aw, who wants to see some dumb cartoon rated 'G' for kids?"
  • (Roy Neary) "How old are you?"
  • (Brad Neary) "Eight."
  • (Roy Neary) "You wanna be nine?"
  • (Brad Neary) "Yeah."
  • (Roy Neary) "Then you're going to go see Pinocchio tomorrow night."
  • (Teri Garr) "Roy, that is a terrific way to win over your children."
  • (Roy Neary) "I'm not serious, I'm just saying that I grew up with Pinocchio, and if kids are still kids, they're going to eat it up."
  • (Roy Neary) "Okay, I'm wrong, all right? I'm Wrong Roy."
  • (Roy Neary) "TOBY. You are close to death. Come out here."
  • (Roy Neary) "Okay, let's have a vote. Tomorrow night you can play Goofy Golf, which is a lot of standing in line and shoving and pushing, and probably getting a 'zero,' or you can see Pinocchio, which is a lot of furry animals and magic, and you'll have a wonderful time. Okay? So let's vote."
  • (Teri Garr) "You know, that movie is four hours long."
  • (Roy Neary) "I said they'd only watch five."
  • (Teri Garr) "All right, everybody to bed."
  • (Toby Neary) "No, wait. Dad said we could watching The Ten Commandments."
  • (Teri Garr) "Roy, that movie is four hours long."
  • (Roy Neary) "I said they could watch the five commandments."
  • (Teri Garr) "Let go of this fence right now. You come with me. Do you want me to hit you? You let go of that fence."
  • (Teri Garr) "Roy, what did it look like?"
  • (Roy Neary) "It was like an ice cream cone."
  • (Teri Garr) "What flavor?"
  • (Roy Neary) "Orange. It was orange; and it wasn't like an ice cream cone. It was, it was more like a shell. You know, it was like this."
  • (Teri Garr) "Like a taco? Was it like one of those Sara Lee, um, moon-shaped cookies? Those crescent cookies? Don't you think I'm taking this really well? I remember when we used to come to places like this just to look at each other -- and snuggle."
  • (Teri Garr) "Hey. This is not your toy to play with every time I turn around."

J. Patrick McNamara as Project Leader

  • (J. Patrick McNamara) "He says the sun came out last night. He says it sang to him."
  • (J. Patrick McNamara) "Could we have the lights in the arena down 60 percent, please -- 60 percent."
  • (J. Patrick McNamara) "I don't think we could have asked for a more beautiful evening, do you? Okay, watch the skies please -- We now show uncorrelated targets approaching from the north-northwest."
  • (J. Patrick McNamara) "If everything's ready here on the Dark Side of the Moon -- play the five tones."

Warren Kemmerling as Wild Bill

  • (Dirty Tricks #4) "Contaminated water. Affects people, crops, animals. Disease."
  • (Dirty Tricks #3) "Yeah, epidemic."
  • (Dirty Tricks #1) "What kind of disease?"
  • (Dirty Tricks #3) "A plague. A plague epidemic."
  • (Dirty Tricks #1) "Nobody's gonna believe a plague in this day and age."
  • (Dirty Tricks #2) "Anthrax."
  • (Dirty Tricks #4) "Ranching country."
  • (Dirty Tricks #3) "Yes."
  • (Dirty Tricks #2) "There are a lot of sheep up in those hills."
  • (Warren Kemmerling) "Wait, that's good, that's good, I like that. But it may not evacuate everybody. There's always some joker who thinks he's immune. What I need is something so scary it'll clear three hundred square miles of every living Christian soul."

Merrill Connally as Team Leader

  • (Unnamed) "Einstein WAS right."
  • (Merrill Connally) "Einstein was PROBABLY one of them."

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