Stargate (1994)
James Spader: Dr. Daniel Jackson
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Quotes
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Dr. Daniel Jackson : [to Colonel O'Neil] I don't want to die. And your men don't want to die, and these people certainly don't wan to to die. It's a shame you're in such a hurry to.
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[correcting the translation from the cover stone]
Dr. Daniel Jackson : It's not "Door to Heaven"... is...
[writing]
Dr. Daniel Jackson : Stargate.
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Dr. Daniel Jackson : I smell like a yak!
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Catherine Langford : [Catherine meets Jackson in a cab] Jackson.
[shows him photograph]
Catherine Langford : Those your parents?
Dr. Daniel Jackson : Foster parents. What-what's this all about?
Catherine Langford : A job.
Dr. Daniel Jackson : What kind of a job?
Catherine Langford : Translation: ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Interested?
Dr. Daniel Jackson : I-I'm gonna go now.
Catherine Langford : Go where?
[chuckles]
Catherine Langford : I mean, you've just been evicted out of your apartment, your grants have run out: everything you own are in those two bags. You wanna prove that your theories are right? This is your chance.
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Colonel Jonathan "Jack" O'Neil : Your job here is to re-align the star gate. Can you do that or not?
Dr. Daniel Jackson : [nods] I can't.
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Colonel Jonathan "Jack" O'Neil : I wouldn't feed that thing.
Dr. Daniel Jackson : It's got a harness, it's domesticated
[Taps Mastadge on shoulder. Mastadge is frightened and runs off dragging Dr. Daniel Jackson across the Desert]
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Dr. Daniel Jackson : [On a recording of his notes about the symbols after two weeks of no progress] I'm never gonna get paid.
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[after he's reading Hieroglyph on the wall]
Dr. Daniel Jackson : I'll be damned.
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Lieutenant Kawalsky : [Jackson sneezes hard] Cold?
Dr. Daniel Jackson : Allergies: always happens when I travel.
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Dr. Daniel Jackson : [on the natives' language] I can't make it out, sounds familiar. Bit like Berber, maybe Chadic or Omodic.
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Dr. Daniel Jackson : [Kasuf gestures towards his village] He's inviting us to go with him.
Lieutenant Kawalsky : How can you be so sure?
Dr. Daniel Jackson : Because he's
[repeats gesture]
Dr. Daniel Jackson : inviting us to go with him.
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Lieutenant Kawalsky : [in Nagada, the troops begin holding hostages and opening fire; O'Neil looks outside the city walls] Colonel! What do you see?
Colonel Jonathan "Jack" O'Neil : Sandstorm comin' this way.
Dr. Daniel Jackson : [sarcastically] Well, that would have been an excellent reason to shoot everyone.
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Dr. Daniel Jackson : [about the Stargate] It was under the cover-stones?
Catherine Langford : Yes. My father found it, 1928; made out of a mineral unlike any found on Earth.
