100 Best The Mummy Quotes

Rick: You came back from the desert with a new friend, didn't you, Beni?
Beni: What friend? You are my only friend.

Evelyn: [about O'Connell to Jonathan] Well, personally, I think he's filthy, rude, a complete scoundrel. I don't like him one bit.
Rick: [walking up from behind] Anyone I know?

- Excuse me.
- A little help would be useful, if it's not too much trouble!
- Yeah. All right.
- Winston!
- Quicksand! Get back! It's quicksand.

- Imhotep.
- Let's go, let's go!
- -Get it in gear.
- -Let's get out of here.
- -Come on, Evy. Hurry up.
- -Imhotep!
- You're gonna get yours, Beni!
- You hear me?
- -You're gonna get yours!
- -Like I've never heard that before!

Rick: [to Mr. Henderson] This door doesn't open. She doesn't come out, and no one goes in, right?
Mr. Henderson: Right.
Rick: [to Mr. Daniels] Right?
Mr. Daniels: Right.
Evelyn: [locked in the bedroom] O'Connell! Jonathan!
Rick: Let's go, Jonathan.
Jonathan: Oh, uh, I thought I could just stay at the fort and, uh, reconnoiter.
Rick: Now!
Jonathan: Yeah. Right. We're just gonna rescue the... Egyptologist.

Winston: [as the plane spins through the sandstorm] Here I come, laddies! Ha-ha-ha-ha!

- -Evelyn?
- -Evy?
- Mr. Burns. Thank goodness.
- I was just starting to get scared.
- I've lost everyone. I--
- My eyes. My eyes.

- Ancient mirrors.
- It's an ancient Egyptian trick. You'll see.
- Here, this is for you.
- Go ahead. It's something I borrowed off our American brethren.
- I thought you might like it.
- You might need it...
- ...for when you're....
- What are you looking at?

- -I can't figure out this last symbol.
- -What does it look like?
- It's a bird, a stork!
- Ahmenophus!
- Yes, I see.

- What was that?
- Sounds like...bugs.
- He said bugs.
- What do you mean, bugs? I hate bugs.
- The legs of Anubis.
- The secret compartment should be hidden somewhere inside here.

Dr. Bey: [stutters in disbelief] What... How... Oh, look at this! Sons of the pharaohs! Give me frogs! Flies! Locusts! Anything but *you*! Compared to you, the other plagues were a joy!
Evelyn: I am so very sorry. It was an accident.
Dr. Bey: My girl, when Rameses destroyed Syria, that was an accident. You are a *catastrophe*!

Evelyn: Look, I... I may not be an explorer or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am.
Rick: And what is that?
Evelyn: I... am a librarian.

- I...
- ...am a librarian.
- And I am going to kiss you...
- ...Mr. O'Connell.
- Call me Rick.
- Oh, Rick.

Winston: So, what's your little problem got to do with His Majesty's Royal Air Corps?
Rick: Not a damn thing.
Winston: Is it dangerous?
Rick: Well, you probably won't live through it.
Winston: By Jove, do you really think so?
Jonathan: Well, everybody else we've bumped into has died. Why not you?

- Last but not least, my favorite plague... boils and sores.
- They have become his slaves.
- So it has begun, the beginning of the end.
- Not quite yet. Come on.

Evelyn: Oh, my God. It's a... it's a sarcophagus. Buried at the base of Anubis. He must have been someone of great importance. Or he did something *very* naughty.

- Yes, anytime.
- Stay out of trouble.
- He's just leaving us here.
- I guess we go home empty-handed again.
- I wouldn't say that.
- Please!

Beni: It is better to be the right hand of the devil than in his path.

Evelyn: You were actually at Hamunaptra?
Rick: Yeah, I was there.
Evelyn: You swear?
Rick: Every damn day.

- -Is it dangerous?
- -You might not live through it.
- By Jove, do you really think so?
- Everybody else we've run into has died.
- Why not you?
- What's the challenge then?
- Rescue the damsel in distress, kill the bad guy and save the world.
- Winston Havelock at your service, sir.

- Anck-su-namun.
- Get your ugly face off of her!
- Look what I got.

- Anck-su-namun.
- O'Connell! Jonathan!
- Damn, these guys just don't quit, do they?
- Keep digging.

- Run, Beni! Run!
- Get inside! Get inside!
- Don't you close that door!
- Don't you close that door!

Warden: O'Connell! O'Connell! What are we going to do? What are we going to do?
Rick: Wait here! I'll go get help!
Warden: Right!
[Rick jumps overboard]

Evelyn: [upon opening Imhotep's sarcophagus and he falls forward] Oh, my God, I *hate* it when these things do that.
Rick: Is he supposed to look like that?
Evelyn: No, I've never seen a mummy look like this before. He-He's still... still...
Rick,34860: ...juicy.

- To hell with this.
- I'm going downstairs to get a drink.
- You want something?
- -Get me a glass of bourbon.
- -All right.
- -And a shot of bourbon.
- -Yeah, okay.
- -And a bourbon chaser.
- -I'll get your damn bourbon!
- Don't worry about the door.

Rick: The Book of the Dead? Are you sure you want to be playing around with this thing?
Evelyn: It's just a book. No harm ever came from... reading a book.

- The Book of Amun-Ra.
- Save the girl.
- Kill the creature.
- What are you waiting for?
- Get out! Get out!
- You all right? Let's go.

- -Who cares?
- -Have a care, Mr. Henderson.
- On these hallowed grounds, that set forth in ancient times...
- -...is as strong today as it was then.
- -We understand.
- What's it say?
- "Death will come on swift wings...
- "...to whomsoever opens this chest."

Dr. Bey: We are part of an ancient secret society. For over three thousand years, we have guarded the City of the Dead. We are sworn at manhood to do any and all in our power to stop the High Priest Imhotep from being reborn into this world.
Ardeth: And now, because of you, we have failed.
Evelyn: And you think this justifies the killing of innocent people?
Dr. Bey: To stop this creature? Let me think...
Dr. Bey,25639: *Yes*!

- ...ancient burial site for the sons of pharaohs...
- ...and resting place for the wealth of Egypt.
- For his love, Imhotep dared the gods' anger by going deep into the city...
- ...where he took the black Book of the Dead from its holy resting place.
- Anck-su-namun's soul had been sent to the dark underworld...
- ...her vital organs removed and placed in fiive sacred canopicjars.

- And for 3,000 years...
- ...we, the Magi, the descendants of
- Pharaoh's sacred bodyguards, kept watch.

- I thought you said it was gonna kill him!
- He's mortal.

- There he is!
- Hello, Horus, old boy.
- Time to close the door.

- My God.
- Winston!
- Paddle faster.
- Hang on, men!

- Blood.
- "And the rivers and waters of Egypt ran red...
- "...and were as blood."
- He's here.
- -Evelyn!
- -So you're still here.
- We've got problems.

- It's just a book. No harm ever came from...
- ...reading a book.
- That happens a lot around here.
- What's it say?
- "Amun-Ra. Amun-Dei."
- It speaks of the night and of the day.

- You all right?
- I'm not sure.

- He said it would be worth its weight in gold.
- -What does he want the book for?
- -I don't know.
- Something about bringing his dead girlfriend back to life.
- But that's all.
- He just wants the book, I swear.
- Just the book, I swear. And your sister.
- But other than that--

Evelyn: The map! The map! I forgot the map!
Rick: Relax. I'm the map. It's all up here.
[points to his head]
Evelyn: Oh, that's comforting.

- -Come on, Evy. Faster.
- -Patience is a virtue.
- Not right now it isn't.
- I think I'll go and get the car started.
- I've got it. The Book of Amun-Ra is at...
- ...Hamunaptra inside the statue of Horus.
- Take that, Bembridge scholars.

- My pleasure.
- O'Connell...
- ...nice camel.
- Get ready for it.
- For what?
- We're about to be shown the way.

- Stop it! You'll kill them!
- That's the idea.
- Here I come, laddies!

- Go! Go!
- There you are! Stop playing hide-and-seek.
- Let's get out of here.
- Evy!

- This, gentlemen...
- ...this is treasure.
- I wouldn't trade you for a brass--
- Look at that.
- There's your treasure, gentlemen.
- Now we're onto something.

- No!
- You must not read from the book!

- ...who knows how to properly code and catalog this library, that's why.
- I put up with you because your father and mother were our finest patrons.
- That's why!
- Allah rest their souls.
- I don't care how you do it,
- I don't care how long it takes.
- Straighten up this meshiver!

- Abdul?
- Mohammed?
- Bob?

- Okay! Go, go!
- Imhotep. Imhotep.

- You're with me on this one, right?
- Your strength gives me strength.
- Steady!
- Wait for me!
- Steady!
- Fire!

Evelyn: You lied to me.
Jonathan: I lie to everybody. What makes you so special?
Evelyn: I am your sister.
Jonathan: Yes, well, that just makes you more gullible.

- I say, bloody good show, chaps!
- And did I panic?
- I think not.

- Time to go.
- You've lost the book!
- -I can't believe--
- -Come on!

Evelyn: Oh, for heaven's sake, girl, it wasn't that good of a kiss, anyway.

Rick: Oh, yeah. This just keeps gettin' better and better.

Hangman: [Rick is about to be hanged] Any last requests, pig?
Rick: Yeah. Loosen the knot and let me go.
[the hangman says something to the warden in Arabic]
Warden: [angrily] Of course we don't let him go!
[the hangman smacks Rick on the back of the head]

- Glenlivet. Twelve years old!
- He may have been a stinky fellow, but he had good taste.
- Take this. Stay here.
- -No, wait! Wait for me.
- -Evy!
- Excuse me, but didn't the man just say "stay here"? Evy!
- Mr. Henderson! Wake up!

Beni: You never believed in Hamunaptra, O'Connell. Why are you going back?
Rick: You see that girl?
[points to Evelyn]
Rick: She saved my neck.
Beni: You always did have more balls than brains.

Evelyn: [In a darkened room] Abdul?
[no answer]
Evelyn: Mohammed?
[no answer]
Evelyn: ... Bob?

- "Death...
- "...is only the beginning."

- Look for bugs.
- I hate bugs.
- We're standing inside a room no one has entered in over 3,000 years.
- What is that God-awful stench?

Rick: Let me get this straight. They ripped out your guts and they stuffed them in jars?
Evelyn: And then they take out your heart as well. Oh, and you know how they took out your brains?
Jonathan: Evy, I don't think we need to know this.
Evelyn: They take a sharp, red-hot poker, stick it up your nose, scramble things about a bit, and then rip it all out through your nostrils.
Rick: Ooh, that's gotta hurt.
Evelyn: It's called mummification. You'll be dead when they do this.
Rick: For the record, if I don't make it out of here, don't put me down for mummification.
Jonathan: Likewise.

- Who's there?
- Who's there?
- Daniels?

- Why are you going back?
- You see that girl?
- She saved my neck.
- You always did have more balls than brains.
- Good-bye, Beni.
- O'Connell!

Rick: Well if it ain't my little buddy Beni. I think I'll kill you.
Beni: Think of my children.
Rick: You don't have any children.
Beni: Someday I might.

- Enough!
- We will shed no more blood, but you must leave.
- Leave this place or die.
- You have one day.

- We must now hunt him and find a way to kill him.
- I already told you I got him.
- Know this.
- This creature is the bringer of death.
- He will never eat, he will never sleep...
- ...and he will never stop.

Rick: That's called stealing, you know.
Evelyn: According to you and my brother, it's called borrowing.

- Is it a bet?
- -All right, you're on.
- -What makes you so confident, sir?
- -What makes you?
- -We got a man who's actually been there.
- What a coincidence, because O'Connell--
- Whose play is it? ls it my play?
- Gentlemen, we got us a wager.
- Good evening, Jonathan.

- Scarabs!
- -Run, Evy!
- -Go, go! Run!

Rick: And unlike your brother, Miss, you, I just don't get.
Evelyn: [a little drunk] Ah. I know. You're wondering... what is a place like me doing in a girl like this?
Rick: Yeah, something like that.

Mr. Daniels: I'm going downstairs, get me a drink. You want something?
Mr. Henderson: Yeah. Yeah, get me a glass of bourbon.
Mr. Daniels: Alright.
Mr. Henderson: A-And a shot of bourbon.
Mr. Daniels: Yeah, okay, okay.
Mr. Henderson: And a bourbon chaser!
Mr. Daniels: Yeah, yeah, I'll get your damn bourbon.

- The Book of Amun-Ra! I found it, Evy!
- Shut up and get me off here, Jonathan!
- Open the book.
- It's the only way to kill him.
- You have to open the book and find the inscription.
- I can't open it! It's locked.
- -We need the key, Evy!
- -It's inside his robes.

- This keeps getting better and better.
- -Do something.
- -Me?
- -You can command them.
- -You have got to be joking.
- Finish the inscription on the cover, idiot, then you can control them.
- Right.

- It'll take a month to crack into this thing without a key.
- A key?
- A key! That's what he was talking about!
- -Who?
- -The man on the barge.
- The one with the hook.
- He was looking for a key.
- That's mine.

Beni: [after a shipwreck] O'Connell! Hey, O'Connell! It looks to me like I've got all the horses!
Rick: Hey, Beni! Looks to me like you're on the wrong side of the *river*!

Evelyn: We must stop him from regenerating. Who opened that chest?
Mr. Henderson: Well, there was me, and Daniels here. Oh, and Burns, of course.
Mr. Daniels: And that Egyptologist feller.
Rick: What about my buddy, Beni?
Mr. Daniels: Nah, he scrammed out of there 'fore we opened the damn thing.
Mr. Henderson: Yeah. He was the smart one.
Rick: Well, yeah, that sounds like Beni.

- And if you cut him down, we will give you....
- -Ten percent.
- -Fifty percent.
- -Twenty.
- -Forty.
- -Thirty!
- -Twenty-five.
- Deal.
- Cut him down!

- For 3,000 years, men and armies fought over this land...
- ...never knowing what evil lay beneath it.

- Never did like camels.
- Filthy buggers.
- They smell, they bite, they spit.
- Disgusting.
- I think they're adorable.

- ...all my clothes!
- O'Connell!
- It looks to me like I've got all the horses!
- Beni!
- It looks to me like you're on the wrong side of the river!
- Yeah.

Rick: Sorry. Didn't mean to scare you.
Evelyn: The only thing that scares me, Mr. O'Connell, are your manners.

- -Have you got any bright ideas?
- -I'm thinking.
- You better think fast, because if he turns me into a mummy...
- ...you're the first one I'm coming after.
- -No.
- -Don't!
- He must take me to Hamunaptra to perform the ritual.
- She is right. Live today, fight tomorrow.

- My God.
- We're back.
- O'Connell.

- Get off of me! Get off!
- I need a new job.

- Where is the map?
- There.
- And the key? Where is the key?
- The key? What key?

Evelyn,34861: Death is only the beginning.

- Let me get your bags.
- Yes, you're right.
- Filthy, rude, a complete scoundrel.
- Nothing to like there at all.
- Bright good morning to all.
- Oh, no. What are you doing here?
- I'm here to protect my investment, thank you very much.

- May the good Lord protect and watch over me...
- ...as a shepherd watches over his flock.
- No? Okay.

- So long, Beni!
- That serves you right.
- Go, Evy! Go!

- ...one reserved only for the most evil of blasphemers.
- I've never heard of this curse having actually been performed.
- -That bad?
- -Yes, well, they....
- They never used it because they feared it so.
- It's written that if a victim of the Hom-Dai should ever arise...
- ...he would bring with him the ten plagues of Egypt.

- They'd take a sharp, red-hot poker, stick it up your nose...
- ...scramble things about a bit and then rip it out through your nostrils.
- That must hurt.
- It's mummification.
- You're dead when they do it.
- If I don't make it out of here, don't put me down for mummification.
- Likewise.

- -Couldn't we just--
- -No, Jonathan!
- O'Connell!
- -Wait!
- -Come on, give me your hand.
- Good-bye, Beni.

- I've dreamt about this since I was a little girl.
- You dream about dead guys?
- Look, the sacred spells have been chiseled off.
- This man must've been condemned both in this life and the next.
- -Tough break.
- -Yeah, I'm all tears.
- Now, let's see who's inside. Shall we?

- What do you make of this?
- These marks were made with...
- ...fingernails.
- This man was buried alive.
- And he left a message.
- "Death is only the beginning."

Rick: I only gamble with my life, never my money.

Evelyn: [singsong] Patience is a virtue.
Rick: Not right now, it isn't.

- It's a sarcophagus.
- Buried at the base of Anubis.
- He must have been someone of great importance.
- Or he did something very naughty.
- Allah.
- One more.

Evelyn: [after destroying the museum library] Oops.

Evelyn: Have you got any bright ideas?
Rick: I'm thinking, I'm thinking...
Evelyn: You better think of something fast, because if he turns me into a mummy, you're the first one I'm coming after.