Our list of the best quotes from Amazon Prime Video post-apocalyptic drama television show developed by Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, based on the video game franchise of the same name. Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind, and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them. See more about Fallout on Amazon.
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'You will have to adapt. Question is, will you still want the same things when you have become a different animal altogether?' - Wilzig (Fallout) Share on X
Weather Newscaster: I can’t do the weather if I don’t even know if there’s going to be a next week.
Cooper Howard: Well, back when I was in the Marines, they taught us that if they ever drop a really big bomb, told us to hold up your thumb just like this. And if the cloud is smaller than your thumb, well, you run for the hills.
Janey Howard: And if it’s bigger than your thumb?
Cooper Howard: They told us not to bother running.
Lucy MacLean: My reproductive organs are intact, my hygiene well-maintained, and yet I have been unable to find a suitable marriage partner. At least, one I’m not related to. And we have rules about that for a reason.
Lucy MacLean: Messing around with your cousin, it’s all well and good for kids. But it’s not a sustainable, long-term sexual practice, you know?
Overseer Hank MacLean: After two hundred years, we don’t know much about what’s up there. Desperation, violence, lawlessness. These survivors will need to be shown a better way.
Monty: [to Lucy, as he’s about to attack her] Just so you know, this was the best day of my life.
Lee Moldaver: [to Hank] Everyone knows who I am. But do they know who they are? They are the product of one of life’s tricky little choices.
Overseer Hank MacLean: [to Lucy] You are my world.
Lee Moldaver: [to the vault dwellers] Maybe you should do what you do best. Run and hide.
Dane: Flesh is weak, but steel endures.
Norm MacLean: They don’t want to find Dad. If they did, they wouldn’t get to be in charge.
Chet: [to Lucy] What you’re doing is insane. You don’t even know which way to go. It isn’t like the vault out there. It’s big.
Elder Cleric Quintus: Violence is merely a tool. We use it to bring order to the Wasteland, but violence against a Brother of Steel is a sign of weakness. But are you? Weak?
Maximus: I don’t want to be.
The Ghoul: Well, well, well. Why, is this an Amish production of The Count of Monte Cristo, or just the weirdest circle jerk I’ve ever been invited to?
The Ghoul: Whenever somebody says they’re doing one last job, that usually means their heart’s not in it. Probably never was. But for me, well, I do this s**t for the love of the game.
The Ghoul: You right, friend, about one thing. This right here was your last job. My paycheck wasn’t quite what you expected, but, well, you know what they say. Us cowpokes, we take it as it comes.
Wilzig: Before the war, people joked about cockroaches surviving a nuclear blast. But they didn’t merely survive. They improved.
Wilzig: You need to go home, miss. Vault dwellers are an endangered species here. You come from a world of rules, of laws. This place is indifferent to all of that. I do not think you would be willing to do what it takes to survive up here.
Lucy MacLean: I’m not going back without my dad.
'There's what people say they did and what they really did.' - The Ghoul (Fallout) Share on X
Ma June: You’re an actual vault dweller.
Lucy MacLean: I am.
Ma June: I thought all you sardine-f***ing dips**ts were dead.
Ma June: [to Lucy] And I’m telling you you’re going to go through a whole lot worse if you stay around here. Trust me. I can tell by looking at you. Clean hair. Nice teeth. And all ten fingers. Must be nice.
Lucy MacLean: Well, you see, the idea is that we’re going to save America.
Ma June: Ah! And when exactly were you planning on saving America? The vaults were nothing more than a hole in the ground for rich folks to hide in while the rest of the world burned.
Ma June: You know what folks up here say about the vaults?
Lucy MacLean: What?
Ma June: F*** the vaults.
Wilzig: [to Lucy] You’ve been brought up in a meritocracy, where people pride themselves on doing the right thing. I think I know enough to know you need to go home.
The Ghoul: Well, I’d offer you one of these cherry tomatoes, but you got a hole in your neck.
The Ghoul: Well, now that is a very small drop in a very, very large bucket of drugs.
Wilzig: You can change the future if you can bring me to Moldaver.
Lucy MacLean: But how am I going to bring you if you’re…
Wilzig: No. Not my whole body. Just my head.
Wilzig: [to Lucy] You are a vault dweller. But if you’re going to survive up here, you need to start acting like a surface dweller.
'Everyone wants to save the world. They just disagree on how.' - Maximus (Fallout) Share on X
The Ghoul: Torturing a person don’t do s**t.
Lucy MacLean: Then why are you doing this?
The Ghoul: Well, I ain’t torturing you, sweetheart. I’m using you as bait.
Lucy MacLean: The golden rule. “Do unto others as you would have done unto you.”
The Ghoul: The Wasteland’s got its own golden rule. Thou shalt get sidetracked by bulls**t every goddamn time.
Thaddeus: It just occurred to me. We’re definitely picking up an abomination of some kind or another. Just not sure, I’m not sure we’re tracking the right abomination.
'We can judge a person, and a society, by how they treat their enemy.' - Woody Thomas (Fallout) Share on X
The Ghoul: Well, Lucy MacLean, it ain’t all canned peaches and marmalade left up here, sweetheart. Sometimes a fella’s got to eat a fella.
The Ghoul: Well, one good question deserves another.
Lucy MacLean: What are you?
The Ghoul: Oh, I’m you, sweetie. You just give it a little time.
Lucy MacLean: What the fudge?
Snip Snip: Fudge? There’s no fudge here.
Lucy MacLean: Listen, a big fish ate my head, and I need my head to get back to my dad.
Lucy MacLean: And I thought I was here to be a s** s***e.
Snip Snip: What?! No! What a disgusting idea. I’m simply going to harvest your organs.
Lucy MacLean: Do as I say, and Snip Snip doesn’t get hurt.
Huey: It’s a f***ing robot.
Squirrel: Yeah, you might as well be holding an air conditioner hostage.
Lucy MacLean: [to the Ghoul] I may end up looking like you, but I’ll never be like you. Golden Rule, m*****f***er.
Lucy MacLean: [to Maximus] I really want to believe you, but practically every person I’ve met up here has tried to kill me, so. Lucy MacLean: I’m from a place where the worst someone can do to you is forget to say thank you. Lucy MacLean: Look, I come from a place where the world is what you make of it. Okay? It’s not like up here. We’re naive down there. Lucy MacLean: So like Earth is round, Earth is flat. Where are you guys on that these days? Lucy MacLean: [to Maximus] So, you guys use prewar technology, to find and collect prewar technology, to make sure no one has prewar technology? Sebastian Leslie: [to Cooper] Hollywood is the past. Forget Hollywood. The future, my friend, is products. You’re a product. I’m a product. The end of the world is a product. And for those of us who can successfully embrace that, I’d say the future is golden. Birdie: Nothing wrong with a little bit of comfort. Maximus: When you say “hot shower”, what does that mean, exactly? Sorrel Booker: [to the Ghoul] Look at you. Two hundred years. I don’t know what keeps you going. Maybe you just like the feeling of that good old California sunshine on your wrinkly-a** face. Or maybe you’re still looking for her. The Ghoul: [to Sorrel] I sure as hell ain’t still alive so that I can have unintelligent conversations with dips**ts like yourself. The Ghoul: Well, when it comes to leadership these days, dangerous is what they call a prerequisite. Lucy MacLean: We need to leave. Right now. These people are insane. Lucy MacLean: You people are crazy! Your entire culture is insane! Lee Moldaver: When you think of the promise of the American Dream, you think of California. But it is just a dream. It’s not real. Lee Moldaver: We were told America’s always getting better, it’s always moving toward a better future. But the future is getting closer, and we can see it. Their “better future” is a cliff’s edge. And it’s coming up fast, isn’t it? Lee Moldaver: There’s a lot of money in selling the end of the world. Cooper Howard: [to Moldaver] So, what are you, a millionaire communist? Cooper Howard: I got a little showbiz secret for you. A good bad guy doesn’t see themselves as the bad guy. Birdie: [to Lucy] Your ignorance cannot excuse your cruelty. Birdie: It doesn’t matter where you come from or what you believe. You deserve safety. Unless you threaten that peace. Lucy MacLean: If my dad found out that I destroyed an entire community to save him, that’d break his heart. Lucy MacLean: I don’t have the best luck when it comes to strangers. Norm MacLean: You’re a coward. You know that, Chet? Bud Askins: What is the ultimate weapon of mass destruction? Time. Bud Askins: Time is the apex predator. And in the event of an incident, time is the weapon with which we will defeat all of our enemies. That is how we will win the great game of capitalism. Not by outfighting anyone, but by outliving them. Brain-on-a-Roomba: The future of humanity comes down to one word, management. Robert House (RobCo): There’s a lot of earning potential with the end of the world. Overseer Hank MacLean: I did what was necessary to save our people. Overseer Hank MacLean: You’ve seen what it’s like up here. Everyone equally afraid, equally miserable. Forced to do horrible things in order to survive. Lucy, I had to make a choice. Between their violent world and our peaceful one. And I believe, Lucy, I know I made the right choice. Overseer Hank MacLean: If the problem with the world is factions endlessly fighting, endlessly at war, then what is the solution but to get rid of the factions? To make the world us, only ours to shape. Overseer Hank MacLean: I’m your father, Lucy. You came all this way for me. You’re not going to hurt me. The Ghoul: [referring to Hank] Hell, this kid used to pick up my wife’s dry cleaning. Now, I’ve waited over two hundred years to ask somebody one question. Where’s my f***ing family? The Ghoul: Well, it’s easier to track a stuck pig than to ask it where it’s off to. The Ghoul: [to Lucy] You want to know how I know your daddy, don’t you? Let’s just say that everything about your whole little world was decided over two hundred years ago. Now, you can stay here with him, but when his tin can soldier friends take this place, and they going to take this place, they will kill you and everybody here. Or you could come meet your makers. You coming? Lucy MacLean: [to the unconscious Maximus] I’ll find you. Okey-dokey. Lee Moldaver: [to Maximus, before she dies] What do you suppose your Brotherhood would do with infinite power? Maybe you can stop them. Maybe you can’t. Maybe all you can do is try.
Maximus: Yeah, they’re like you. A little weird, but nice.
Birdie: I’m sure if we came to your home, we would say the same thing.
'This is America. Everybody has a sponsor.' - Cooper Howard (Fallout) Share on X
Cooper Howard: Well, I’m sure there’s a lot of money in selling a political ideology that ends in breadlines.
Chet: We all are, Norm. That’s why we live in a vault.
'War never changes. You look out at this Wasteland, looks like chaos. But there's always somebody behind the wheel.' - The Ghoul (Fallout) Share on X