(Article is below...)

National Treasure (film series) Quotes

National Treasure (film series) is a television show that debuted in 1970 . National Treasure completed its run in 1970.

It features Jerry Bruckheimer as producer, Trevor Rabin in charge of musical score, and Caleb Deschanel (1) as head of cinematography.

National Treasure (film series) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of National Treasure (film series) is 255 minutes long. National Treasure (film series) is distributed by Buena Vista Pictures (1).

The cast includes: Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates as Ben Gates, Riley Poole as Riley Poole, Patrick Henry Gates as Patrick Gates, Emily Appleton-Gates as Emily Appleton, Abigail Chase as Abigail Chase, Agent Peter Sadusky as Sadusky, Mitch Wilkinson as Mitch Wilkinson, and Agent Peter Sadusky as Agent Hammer.

National Treasure (film series) Quotes

Riley Poole as Riley Poole

  • (Riley Poole) "So, what's new with you?"
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "Well, my girlfriend kicked me out, I'm living with my dad, and my family killed President Lincoln."
  • (Riley Poole) "All right."
  • (Riley Poole) "So let's recap: We've broken into Buckingham Palace, and the Oval Office, stolen a page from the President's super-secret book, and actually kidnapped the President of the United States. What are we gonna do next, short-sheet the Pope's bed?"
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "Well, you never know."
  • (Riley Poole) "Now I know I'll probably regret asking this, but what happened with you and Abigail?"
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "I don't know, you know? I don't know. She started using the word "so" alot."
  • (Riley Poole) "So?"
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "Yeah, like "so, I guess my opinion doesn't matter", "so, you seem to always know what's best", "SO, I guess I'm invisible" and now I've moved out, and we're dividing the furniture."
  • (Riley Poole) "Women. Can't live with 'em, especially if they change the alarm codes."
  • (Riley Poole) "Did no one read my book?"
  • (Riley Poole) "That -- was brilliant."
  • (Riley Poole) "Do you know what the taxes are on 5 million dollars? 6 million dollars."
  • (Control Room Guard) "The fire alarm's gone off."
  • (Riley Poole) "Uh-oh. God save the Queen."
  • (Riley Poole) "Mitch, we gotta be on the other side of that door."
  • (Mitch Wilkinson) "Nobody leaves unless I say so. That doors not going to stay open by itself. We both know what has to happen here Ben."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "One of us keeps the door open, and stays behind."
  • (Riley Poole) "I vote Mitch."
  • (Mitch Wilkinson) "This isn't a democracy."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "Wait. Stop. I'll stay."
  • (Riley Poole) "Is that for us?"
  • (Riley Poole) "Oh, hello."
  • (Riley Poole) "The president's a tattle-tale."
  • (Riley Poole) "Look at it this way; in a hundred years, no one is gonna remember anyone involved in the Lincoln assassination besides Booth."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "That's not true. Do you know the expression "His name is mud?""
  • (Riley Poole) "Yes, of course."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "You do? Do you know the origin of the expression?"
  • (Riley Poole) "Does anyone but you?"
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "Dr. Samuel Mudd was convicted of being a co-conspirator in the Lincoln assassination. The evidence was circumstantial, he was later pardoned, but it didn't matter. Mudd's name still lives in infamy, and I will not let Thomas Gates' name be mud."
  • (Riley Poole) "Ben, if it were you trying to convince me, you'd have less evidence and I'd already believe you by now."
  • (Riley Poole) "I love this car."
  • (Riley Poole) "Oh look. My tax dollars at work, coming to arrest me."
  • (Riley Poole) "Awkward."
  • (Riley Poole) "I'll drive."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "We're in England."

Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates as Ben Gates

  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "Sorry, Mr. President. I need to ask you a question."
  • (Agent Peter Sadusky) "Code 1. Code 1."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "I need your help."
  • (Riley Poole) "Does it involve treasure?"
  • (US President) "All of you will get credit for this discovery."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "Thank you."
  • (Abigail Chase) "Thank you."
  • (Riley Poole) "Heh --"
  • (Palace Guard Sholder) "Sir. You and your missus, take it outside."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "Now look what you've done. You've brought the little bobbies down on us. You take the missus outside. I'm staying right here."
  • (Palace Guard Haggis) "Good afternoon, sir."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "'Ello."
  • (Palace Guard Haggis) "Been drinking, have we?"
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "Just a nip. Popped down to the pub for a pint. Bit of all right. Going to arrest a man for that? Going to detain a blighter for enjoying his whiskey?"
  • (Palace Guard Haggis) "That's enough, sir."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "Bangers and mash. Bubbles and squeak. Smoked eel pie."
  • (Palace Guard Haggis) "Sir."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "Haggis."
  • (Palace Guard Haggis) "That's it. Dismount the banister."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "/I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts. / Here they are, standing in a row. / Small ones, big ones, some as big as your head. /"
  • (Riley Poole) "That was brilliant."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "I'm gonna kidnap him. I'm gonna kidnap the President of the United States."
  • (Riley Poole) "Wouldn't it just have been easier to make an appointment?"
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "So when did you realize it was a fake argument?"
  • (Abigail Chase) "When did you realize that I was actually arguing during the fake argument?"
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "Right in the middle there, at the part where I'm always wrong. Which I don't understand, because when I assume I'm right, and it turns out my assumption is correct, how is that wrong?"
  • (Abigail Chase) "When you make a decision without asking me, and you happen to be right, you got lucky."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "Well, I get lucky a lot."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "Where's the Ferrari?"
  • (Riley Poole) "IRS impounded it."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "The IRS?"
  • (Riley Poole) "Funny story. My accountant set up a corporation on an island that didn't exist and assured me that that's how rich people do it. Then I got audited and slapped with a huge fine plus interest. Wanna know what taxes are on five millions dollars? Six million dollars. But enough about me."
  • (Riley Poole) "What's new with you?"
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "Well, my girlfriend kicked me out, I'm living with my dad and my family killed President Lincoln."
  • (Riley Poole) "Alright."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "I need your help."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "I appreciate you trying to help, but it's kind of a bad time right now."
  • (Abigail Chase) "A bad time?"
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "It's a bad time."
  • (Abigail Chase) "I just flew all the way to England to help you, and --"
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "You're the one making a scene here."
  • (Abigail Chase) "I'm not making a scene."
  • (Riley Poole) "Wait, Ben, we want to make a scene --"
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "Well, fine. If that's how you want it, let's have it out right now."
  • (Riley Poole) "Ah, so subtle."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "Here's the final entry by President Coolidge. "1924; I found a plank in secret desk compartment. Plank photographed and then destroyed. Borglum commissioned to destroy landmarks in sacred Black Hills mountains.""
  • (Abigail Chase) "Borglum -- Mount Rushmore?"
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "He carved Mount Rushmore, to erase the map's landmarks, in order to protect the City of Gold."
  • (Riley Poole) "Mount Rushmore was a cover-up."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "This doesn't make any sense."
  • (Riley Poole) "As if these clues ever do."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "What's the final clue?"
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "Before the Civil War, the states were all separate. People used to say "United States are." Wasn't until the war ended, people started saying "The United States is." Under Lincoln, we became one nation."
  • (Patrick Henry Gates) "And Lincoln paid for it with his life."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "So did Thomas Gates."
  • (Patrick Henry Gates) "Right."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "With his life."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "Riley, how fast can we get to Buckingham Palace?"
  • (Riley Poole) "I don't know, why don't you ask your new best friend."
  • (US President) "Even if something like that really did exist, why do you think I would actually just give it to you?"
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "Because it will probably lead us to the discovery of the greatest Native-American treasure of all time; a huge piece of culture lost. You can give that history back to its descendants. And because you're the President of the United States, sir. Whether by innate character or the oath you took to defend the Constitution or the weight of history that falls upon you, I believe you to be an honorable man, sir."
  • (US President) "Gates, people don't believe that stuff anymore."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "They want to believe it."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "All I need is a few minutes with the President."
  • (Abigail Chase) "The Secret Service is never gonna leave you alone with the President."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "Well, you never know."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "We cannot have him remembered as a conspirator in the assassination of the man that brought this nation together."
  • (US President) "Did you get the chance to look at page 47?"
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "Yes, sir."
  • (US President) "And?"
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "I think I can help you with that, sir."
  • (US President) "So it's good?"
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "Life-altering, sir."
  • (Riley Poole) "Page 47? Wait, are you talking about the book?"
  • (US President) "Book? What book?"
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "Maybe one day I'll wear this to a party I'm actually invited to."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "Well, would you look at that."
  • (Riley Poole) "Oh yeah, it spells "smudge"."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "The hummingbird was good."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "Riley, what do you see?"
  • (Riley Poole) "Death and despair. Mostly death. Uh, I mean a little despair, the last few seconds. But then a hard, sudden death."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "This book can prove my grandfather's innocence."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "Where's the phone?"
  • (Patrick Henry Gates) "I don't know son. I can't find anything in this mess."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "It's only temporary 'til I can find a new place."
  • (Patrick Henry Gates) "Find the old one. I like her."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "What is going on with the education in America?"
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "The past is filled with incredible mysteries. The clues to solving them are all around, hidden in plain sight. But this story begins with the most famous assassination in history. Abraham Lincoln's killer, John Wilkes Booth, kept a diary. A diary that was found the night Booth was killed, with 18 pages missing. Concealed in those pages is the key to something much, much bigger. A conspiracy that crosses the globe, and a discovery that the world isn't ready to believe."

Agent Peter Sadusky as Agent Hammer

  • (FBI Agent Hendricks) "Treasure hunter Ben Gates is on the news again."
  • (Agent Peter Sadusky) "What did he find now, Atlantis?"
  • (Agent Peter Sadusky) "There is a book and it has the information you need. The President's Book of Secrets. A collection of documents for President's eyes only. The truth behind the JFK conspiracy. The missing minutes from the Watergate tapes. And of course, Area 51."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "It contains all of our nation's secrets. I need to see that book."
  • (Agent Peter Sadusky) "The only way you'll ever see that book is if you get elected President."
  • (Agent Peter Sadusky) "Your friend writes a book about government conspiricies and you think we don't know about it?"

Mitch Wilkinson as Mitch Wilkinson

  • (Mitch Wilkinson) "Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, one of the missing pages of the diary of John Wilkes Booth."
  • (Mitch Wilkinson) "A man has only one life time. But history can remember you forever."

Patrick Henry Gates as Patrick Gates

  • (Patrick Henry Gates) "The Statue of Liberty. But which one?"
  • (Riley Poole) "Exactly. Wait is there more than one?"
  • (Angry College Girl) "I hate her."
  • (Patrick Henry Gates) "This is the right place."
  • (Patrick Henry Gates) "My first felony."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "Take it from the best. You're a natural."
  • (Patrick Henry Gates) "The resolute desk. The resolute desk? The President's desk?"
  • (Riley Poole) "The President? Which President? Our President?"
  • (Abigail Chase) "Unfortunately, yes."
  • (Riley Poole) "But that means, so we have to -- the White House?"
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "The Oval Office, to be exact."
  • (Patrick Henry Gates) "Why would I overreact to that?"
  • (Patrick Henry Gates) "What is it about treasure that makes history so fascinating?"
  • (Patrick Henry Gates) "You've got to find where that leads before they do."

Emily Appleton-Gates as Emily Appleton

  • (Emily Appleton-Gates) "But Ben, it could contain something dangerous."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "Aaahhh --. I'm sorry, I couldn't resist."
  • (Emily Appleton-Gates) "And so it begins, another Gates family quest."
  • (Emily Appleton-Gates) "This could be a horrible trap."
  • (Emily Appleton-Gates) "Tell him it could be a horrible trap."
  • (Patrick Henry Gates) "It could be a horrible trap."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "Sorry couldn't resist."
  • (Emily Appleton-Gates) "All this doesn't involve another treasure hunt, does it?"
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "Oh, no --"
  • (Emily Appleton-Gates) "You're a treasure hunter, aren't you?"
  • (Mitch Wilkinson) "I'm just a man, trying to make his mark on history."

Abigail Chase as Abigail Chase

  • (Abigail Chase) "It's him."
  • (Riley Poole) "You have his number on speed dial?"
  • (Abigail Chase) "Oh, shut --"
  • (Abigail Chase) "Look."
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "It's a cipher --"
  • (Riley Poole) "Clever."
  • (Abigail Chase) "Just because you may know what my answer is going to be, doesn't mean you don't have to ask me."
  • (Abigail Chase) "Okay, I've been doing the math here, and --"
  • (Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates) "I know. One of us is going to have to stay behind."
  • (Riley Poole) "I've been doing the math too -- just promise you'll come back for me."
  • (Riley Poole) "Riley. No Riley. We won't leave you behind."
  • (Riley Poole) "No, I'm just kidding. Just go."

Add or Update Quotes

If you have a quote to add or change and want to let us know, please fill in the form below. Include the time in the film/video if possible so we can find it.




Additional Film and TV Quotes

Union City (film) Quotes | Beautiful People (UK TV series) Quotes | Gold for the Tough Guys of the Prairie Quotes | Il Capo dei Capi Quotes | Hellfire (1949 film) Quotes | Me and My Kid Brother and Doggie Quotes | Modern Love (film) Quotes | Real Chance of Love (season 1) Quotes | Duel of the Titans Quotes | Voltron: The Third Dimension Quotes | Sherlock Holmes (2009 film) Quotes | Mig og min lillebror og storsmuglerne Quotes | Me and My Kid Brother Quotes | La Vie de Bohème (1992 film) Quotes | Här kommer bärsärkarna Quotes | McGee and Me! Quotes | Some Girls (film) Quotes | The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams Quotes | Where the Legend Begins Quotes | Justice Sung II Quotes | Triumphs of a Man Called Horse Quotes | The Buddhism Palm Strikes Back Quotes | The Gift (1997 TV series) Quotes | Oh! That Wife of Mine Quotes | There Was a Crooked Man (film) Quotes |