The Best Kodi Smit-McPhee Quotes

Kurt: [at the academy] It's my first time in America. I'm very excited to see your culture.
Scott: Well, you're not gonna see it here. The only thing American about this place is that it used to be British.

Peter: Did Bronco Henry teach you to ride, Phil?
Phil: Yep. He taught me to use my eyes in ways that other people can't. Take that hill over there. Most people look at it and just see a hill. Where Bronco looked at it, what do you suppose he saw?
Peter: A barking dog.
Phil: The hell, you just saw that now?
Peter: No. When I first came here. See, it looks like a dog with its jaw wide open.
Phil: You... you just saw that?
Peter: Yeah.

Phil: Pete. Hey, Pete. Peter.
Peter: You want me, Mr. Burbank?
Phil: Well, I don't see any Mr. Burbank here. I'm Phil.
Peter: Yes, Mr. Burbank.
Phil: I guess it's hard for a young'un like you to call an old fella like me just plain Phil, at first. Now come and take a look at this. Have you done any braiding or plaiting yourself, Pete?
Peter: No, I never have, sir.
Phil: Peter, we kind of got off on the wrong foot.
Peter: Did we, sir?
Phil: Forget the Sir stuff. That can happen to people. People who get to be good friends. Well, you know what?
Peter: What? What, Phil?
Phil: Now, you see? You did it. You called me Phil. I'm gonna finish this rope and give it to you and teach you how to use it. Sort of a lonesome place out here, Pete. Unless you get in the swing of things.
Peter: Thank you... Phil.

[last lines]
Peter: [reading from the Psalms] "Deliver my soul from the sword. My darling from the power of the dog."

Jean: [to Mystique] Seeing you that day on TV changed my life.
Kurt: Mine too.
Peter: Mine too. I mean, I still live in my mom's basement, but pfft. Everything else is, uh... well, it's pretty much the same. I'm a total loser.
[laughs]

Raven: It's a simple extraction. We go into space, we get the astronauts, we bring them home. Any questions?
Scott: Yeah, like a thousand.
Raven: We don't have time for a thousand.
Kurt: So we're going to space?
Raven: Yes, Kurt, we are going into space.
Peter: We're doing space missions now. Cool.

[first lines]
Peter: When my father passed, I wanted nothing more than my mother's happiness. For what kind of man would I be if I did not help my mother? If I did not save her?

Scott: Where's Jean? Kurt, where is she? Where is she?
Kurt: I'm sorry!

Peter: How old were you when you met Bronco Henry?
Phil: About the age you are now.
Peter: Was he your best friend?
Phil: Yeah... he was. He was more than that. Once, he saved my life. We were way off up in the hills shooting elk, and the weather turned mean. Bronco kept me alive by... lying body against body in a bedroll. Fell off to sleep that way.
Peter: Naked?

Peter: Is something wrong, Phil?
Phil: [furious] Wrong? For Christ's sake. Every goddamn hide is gone! Oh, she really put her foot in it this time!
Peter: You think she did it? She sold them?
Phil: Bloody tootin'. Or maybe even gave them away.
Peter: W-why? Why would she do that, Phil? She knew we needed the hides.
Phil: [exploding] Because she was drunk! Pie eyed, she was smashed! I think you'd know from the books your pa left you, that your ma's got... . uhhh what chamacallit alcoholic personality? It comes under the letter A!
Peter: You're not going to say anything to her?
Phil: Say anything? I won't say nothin'. But sure as one good hell brother George is going to.