Nope (2022) Best Movie Quotes

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Starring: Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yeu, Barbie Ferreira, Brandon Perea, Michael Wincott

OUR RATING: ★★★☆☆

Story:

Horror written and directed by Jordan Peele. Nope (2022) follows residents in a lonely isolated town in California who bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery.

Our Favorite Quotes:

'This dream you're chasing, the one where you end up at the top of the mountain, all eyes on you, it's the dream you never wake up from.' - Antlers Holst (Nope) Click To Tweet

Best Quotes

“I will cast abominable filth upon you, make you vile, and make you a spectacle.” —Nahum 3:6

Otis Haywood Sr.: [to OJ] I mean, we really put on a show. Well, you know they’re going to bring us back for the sequel.

Buster: Oh. Hi, horsie.
OJ Haywood: Hey, hey, hey. Don’t look him in the eyes, please.

Fynn Bachman: [referring to Otis Sr.] Where’s the other guy? The senior guy?
Buster: Dude, he died. About six months ago. A bunch of random s**t fell out of a plane. So I guess we’re stuck with Junior over here.
Fynn Bachman: No.
Buster: Yeah.

Fynn Bachman: Ant, how we looking?
Antlers Holst: Yeah, good, if we’re selling a horse’s a**.

'What's a bad miracle? They got a word for that?' - OJ Haywood, 'Nope.' - Emerald Haywood (Nope) Click To Tweet

Emerald Haywood: Now, did you know that the very first assembly of photographs in sequential order to create a motion picture was a two-second clip of a Black man on a horse? Yes, it was. Yes, it was. Look it up.

Emerald Haywood: Does anybody know the name of the Black jockey that rode the horse? Antlers Holst: No.
Emerald Haywood: Nope? I mean, the very first stuntman, animal wrangler, and movie star all rolled into one, and there is literally no record of him. That man was a Bahamian jockey that went by the name of Alistair E. Haywood. And he is my great-great-grandfather.
OJ Haywood: Great.
Emerald Haywood: There’s another “great” grandfather. That’s why back at the Haywood Ranch, as the only Black-owned horse trainers in Hollywood, we like to say, “Since the moment pictures could move, we had skin in the game.”

Emerald Haywood: I’m Emerald Haywood. I direct, write, produce, act. I do a little singing on the side. Motorcycles, baby. Look, I make a mean grilled cheese if you’re looking for crafty. Just holler at me.

Emerald Haywood: Can I get fun OJ out this b**ch? Because this wack-a** OJ is really making me feel like I’m not loved. Is that how you want your little sister to feel?

OJ Haywood: I’m developing a business relationship, and you’re a liability right now.
Emerald Haywood: How am I a liability?
OJ Haywood: Don’t promote your f***ing side s**t on the job.
Emerald Haywood: Oh, my God.
OJ Haywood: Actor, singer, dancer, seamstress, motorcycles. You want to promote something, promote this business.

'He got caught up trying to tame a predator. You can't do that. You got to enter an agreement with one.' - OJ Haywood, 'Yeah. Ask Siegfried and Roy.' - Antlers Holst (Nope) Click To Tweet

OJ Haywood: Lucky. He’s my second-best horse, you know. He lost focus. So, I mean, I did too. But I can’t fire myself.

Ricky ‘Jupe’ Park: So, Gordy’s Home is a short-lived but fabled sitcom I starred in in ’96 after Kid Sheriff blew up.
Emerald Haywood: Yeah, my pops told me about this show. The monkey went crazy or some s**t.

Ricky ‘Jupe’ Park: [referring to the photo of his younger self and Gordy] That’s the first exploding fist bump.
Emerald Haywood: What? Really? Y’all came up with that?

Ricky ‘Jupe’ Park: Then, one day, we were shooting an episode in season two entitled, Gordy’s Birthday. And, boom. One of the chimps that plays Gordy just hit his limit. And it was six minutes and thirteen seconds of havoc. Network tried to bury hit, but it was a spectacle. People are just obsessed.

OJ Haywood: [referring to Jupe] He offered to buy the ranch.
Emerald Haywood: Oh, really? That’s interesting. How much?
OJ Haywood: Why?
Emerald Haywood: Because, I’m trying to see how big of a dumb-a** you are.
OJ Haywood: Big dumb-a**, probably.

'You don't turn your back on a bear. You don't wear red around a bull. It's like that. You don't look at it unless you want its attention.' - OJ Haywood (Nope) Click To Tweet

Emerald Haywood: [to OJ] For my ninth birthday, I was supposed to get to train Jean Jacket. But then Pops got some Western, and Jean Jacket wasn’t mine no more. Classic Otis Senior. I distinctly remember standing right here, at this window, watching y’all train my horse. My horse. Pops never looked up at me.

OJ Haywood: [referring to Otis Sr.] That man was hardheaded as f***. And so are you. That’s it. But at the end of the day, you got to admit, man, Pops did something when he made this place. He changed the industry. That’s real. I can’t just let that go.

Ghost

OJ Haywood: What’s a bad miracle? They got a word for that?
Emerald Haywood: Nope.

OJ Haywood: They said it was a prop plane or something that killed Pops. That s**t ain’t never made sense to me. Then tonight, I heard Ghost make a sound I ain’t never heard a horse make.
Emerald Haywood: What did you see? Hmm?
OJ Haywood: It was big.
Emerald Haywood: How big?
OJ Haywood: Big.

Emerald Haywood: What did it look like?
OJ Haywood: I don’t know. It was fast. Too fast. Too quiet to be a plane.
Emerald Haywood: OJ. Are you saying what I think you’re saying?

'The word is getting out, and when it does, you know people going to come and do what they always do. Try and take it all for themselves.' - OJ Haywood (Nope) Click To Tweet

Emerald Haywood: This s**t right here is a moment, our moment. We set it up, release it the right way. Man, I’m talking rich and famous for life.

OJ Haywood: Well, I’m saying there’s plenty of videos of flying s**t online. I saw one the other day. That wasn’t on Oprah.
Emerald Haywood: N****, I didn’t say Oprah. You said Oprah. You love Oprah.

Emerald Haywood: Look, all I’m saying is all that s**t online is fake. Low quality. Ain’t nobody going to get what we going to get.
OJ Haywood: What we going to get?
Emerald Haywood: The shot.
OJ Haywood: What shot?
Emerald Haywood: The shot. The money shot. Undeniable. Singular. The Oprah shot.

'He's big, he's bad, and he's got a lot of spirit. But anything with a spirit can get broke.' - OJ Haywood (Nope) Click To Tweet

Angel Torres: Cell phones, they don’t just drop in power. Right? I mean, maybe your Wi-Fi drops out whenever your system dips. So, that’s technology. Okay, or maybe you’re in a UFO hot spot.
Emerald Haywood: No one believes in that.

Angel Torres: [to OJ and Emerald] Damn. Did not realize you guys were this far out. I don’t mind though. Smell of horse s**t and fresh air. Right?

Angel Torres: Do you know they don’t call them UFOs anymore? It’s f***ing UAPs now.
OJ Haywood: Why they got to change the name?
Angel Torres: Yeah. Exactly.

Angel Torres: I’ll tell you why they changed the name, alright? It’s because they want to keep us in the dark. Remember when they declassified all that UFO footage a couple years ago? Yeah. Well, people started paying attention. So they changed the name to UAPs. And no one knows what the f*** a UAP is, so everyone lost interest.

'We don't deserve the impossible.' - Antlers Holst (Nope) Click To Tweet

Angel Torres: It’s s**tty footage of exact proof that there’s an alien civilization out there in the universe.
OJ Haywood: So, who’s that?
Angel Torres: Come on, man. The little guys with the big eyes.

Angel Torres: There’s lots of theories. Either they’re intergalactic travelers looking for peace. Or futuristic humans coming back in time to stop us from destroying the planet. Or they’re f***ing world killers. Planetary destroyers. And that means that they’ve been f***ing watching us, and studying us, waiting for the perfect time to beam us up, and shove metal probes up our f***ing a**es.
OJ Haywood: Cool.

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Angel Torres: [to OJ and Emerald] Oh, no. You guys are doing something shady.

Ricky ‘Jupe’ Park: Thumbs up!
Emerald Haywood: Should I do it?
OJ Haywood: Yeah, do it.
Ricky ‘Jupe’ Park: Thumbs up!

Angel Torres: I mean, you’re really not going to tell me what the f*** is going on?
Emerald Haywood: You’ll know soon enough.
Angel Torres: Oh. Cool, cryptic.

Angel Torres: You’ll be getting a call from my supervisor asking how my service was.
Emerald Haywood: Five stars, Angel. Five stars.

Clover

OJ Haywood: Nope. Nope, I’m out. I’m going. F*** this s**t.

Angel Torres: [to Emerald, over phone] Camera B is down. Like Ancient-f***ing-Aliens down.

Angel Torres: [over phone] What do you see? Do you see like lights or anything? Like a f***ing saucer?
Emerald Haywood: It’s in the cloud. It’s in the cloud. OJ! It’s in the cloud!

Emerald Haywood: Yeah. No, no, no. Run, OJ! Run!

Emerald Haywood: F***ing praying mantis. That m**herf***er better pray I don’t ever see him, because if I do, I’m going to eat him.

Emerald Haywood: Bro, I ain’t never seen no s**t like this. It ain’t worth it. No. Nope. It’s too much.

Otis Haywood Sr.: [flashback, to OJ] You hear that? Ghost out there. Acting all territorial. I guess some animals ain’t fit to be trained.

Emerald Haywood: [over phone] So, we have a project, and, you know, what if I told you it was the offer of a lifetime?
Antlers Holst: Yeah. Hopefully not my lifetime.

Antlers Holst: [over phone] So, again, what’s it about?
Emerald Haywood: It’s about the s**t dreams is made of, baby.
Antlers Holst: Listen, horse girl. I got a, pretty damn superb lemon tart in the oven that I’m about to serve to ten of my closest friends, so.

Emerald Haywood: [over phone] According to American Cinema magazine, you make the cinematically impossible possible. Well, we looking for the impossible shot.
Antlers Holst: That’s impossible.

Emerald Haywood: [over phone] There’s something out here in Agua Dulce, and you’re probably the only person in the world that can get it on film. That’s it.
Antlers Holst: Horse girl, this dream you’re chasing, the one where you end up at the top of the mountain, all eyes on you, it’s the dream you never wake up from.
Emerald Haywood: [as Holst hangs up] I don’t like him.

Angel Torres: [as he looks at the cloud] Holy s**t it’s real.

Angel Torres: [referring to the footage] That cloud has been right there, at least since I set the cameras up.
OJ Haywood: Yeah, now you mention it, I’ve probably been looking at the same damn cloud every day for the last six months.

Emerald Haywood: I mean, we have proof of aliens on video.
Angel Torres: Yeah, I wouldn’t call it proof.
Emerald Haywood: Are you serious?
Angel Torres: Look, I’ve seen crazy weather phenomenons online before. That’s all I’m saying.
OJ Haywood: He’s right. It’s good, but it ain’t it. Ain’t Oprah.

Angel Torres: Okay. Are you guys telling me that there’s an alien spaceship in that f***ing cloud right there?
OJ Haywood: It doesn’t move like a ship.
Emerald Haywood: What you mean, OJ?
OJ Haywood: What if it’s not a ship?

Gordy

Phyllis Mayberry: [on the TV show, just before Gordy kills them all] Somehow, you’d think that a man who can send a rocket into space would be able to manage a halfway decent birthday present. Nope.

Lucky

Ricky ‘Jupe’ Park: What if I told you, that in about an hour, you’ll leave here different? See, every Friday, for the last six months, my family and I bore witness to an absolute spectacle.

Ricky ‘Jupe’ Park: Now, I could barely see my hand in front of my face for the fog, but I swear on my wife, and children’s lives, that at 6:13 PM, I see a flying saucer descend through the mist.

Ricky ‘Jupe’ Park: Now, just to be clear, what we saw was a flying saucer. No doubt about that. Slightly flatter in the front, with a circular hole in the bottom about two school bus lengths wide.

Ricky ‘Jupe’ Park: I kid you not. We are being surveilled by an alien species I call “the Viewers”. And though they have yet to emerge from their ship, I believe they trust me. If they didn’t, I don’t think any of us would be here right now.
[the UFO arrives and devours Jupe and the entire audience]

OJ Haywood: [over phone] I was right. It’s not a ship.
Emerald Haywood: What happened?

OJ Haywood: [over phone] It ate them, Em. It ate them all. It’s alive, Em. It’s an animal. It’s territorial, and it thinks that this is its home.

Angel Torres: Oh, God. Something very bad is happening.

Angel Torres: [as the UFO rains blood on the Haywood home] Yeah, we’re f***ed.

Emerald Haywood: I’ve got to get out this f***ing house!
Angel Torres: No. We’re alive still because we stayed here!

Angel Torres: You never go wrong with a fried fish sandwich. Tartar got tang.
Emerald Haywood: Stupid. Tartar got tang?
Angel Torres: Right?

OJ Haywood: I don’t think it eats you if you don’t look it in the eye.

Emerald Haywood: OJ, what’s this about, man? What’s this about? You want me to say, “I’m sorry?” I was wrong? It’s dumb?”
OJ Haywood: It wasn’t dumb. Own the moment.

OJ Haywood: It was good. But the moment about to pass. And we don’t own s**t.

OJ Haywood: There’s s**t to do.
Emerald Haywood: Always. Always some s**t to do.

Antlers Holst: [to OJ and Emerald] That cloud ain’t moved a goddamn inch. So you’re not completely full of s**t.

Antlers Holst: [referring to the UFO] How do we see it?
OJ Haywood: It’s going to get hungry again. So, you know, just ring the dinner bell.

OJ Haywood: Now, we know what it doesn’t like. That little fake horse and flags messed it up good. Got stuck in its windpipe, or something. I bet it ain’t going to f*** with flags like that in a minute.
Emerald Haywood: Yeah. We pi**ed him off.

OJ Haywood: We’re not the reason it settled down here. That was Jupe. He got caught up trying to tame a predator. You can’t do that. You got to enter an agreement with one.
Antlers Holst: Yeah. Ask Siegfried and Roy.

Angel Torres: How exactly do you enter an agreement with a f***ing a UFO, alien entity, or whatever the hell you want to call it?
OJ Haywood: Jean Jacket. Call him Jean Jacket.

OJ Haywood: I’ve been up under it a couple times now. I get him. It’s an animal. You don’t turn your back on a bear. You don’t wear red around a bull. It’s like that. You don’t look at it unless you want its attention.

OJ Haywood: And we ain’t got a lot of time. One day. Two days, tops. Because the word is getting out, and when it does, you know people going to come and do what they always do. Try and take it all for themselves.

OJ Haywood: Well, let them come. It ain’t going to matter. Because what we about to do, they can’t erase that. He’s big, he’s bad, and he’s got a lot of spirit. But anything with a spirit can get broke.
Antlers Holst: So you break it. I’ll get the shot.

Angel Torres: What we’re doing’s important. Right? Like what we document, it’s going to do some good, huh? I mean, besides the money, and f***ing fame, like we can save some lives. F***, we can even save Earth. Right?

Antlers Holst: [singing] He was a one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater.

OJ Haywood: [to the horse] He ain’t going to f*** with you.

Jean Jacket

Antlers Holst: How exquisitely stupid is that?

Emerald Haywood: We going to get you today, m**herf***er.

Ryder Muybridge: Who are you?
Emerald Haywood: Nobody.
Ryder Muybridge: You don’t look like a nobody to me.

Angel Torres: Jean Jacket is definitely in those clouds, and he’s definitely coming this way.

Ryder Muybridge: What’s the matter? Don’t you want to be on TV?
Emerald Haywood: Man, I’m trying to tell you. You don’t want to go that way.
Ryder Muybridge: F*** it. Your loss, Nobody.

Angel Torres: Pop quiz, guys. What happens when an electric bike going sixty miles per hour hits an anti-electric field going in the opposite direction?

OJ Haywood: [over radio] I’m going dark. Over.

Emerald Haywood: [referring to the reporter] Okay. OJ, if you die trying to save that guy, I’ll kill you.

Emerald Haywood: Guys, OJ’s hooded up. He’s doing the run. OJ’s doing the run!

Antlers Holst: [over radio] The light. The light, it’s going to be magic soon.
OJ Haywood: What you mean, Ant?

Antlers Holst: It’s going to be alright, Angel. We don’t deserve the impossible.

Angel Torres: Hey, guys. Holst just said some creepy, cryptic s**t. Took his camera, and he’s heading up the mountain.

Emerald Haywood: Don’t look. Don’t look. Don’t look.

Emerald Haywood: [as she untethers the giant balloon mascot] It’s going to f*** you up.

Emerald Haywood: I’m going to take you to Oprah. Let’s go to Oprah.

Emerald Haywood: [as she watches the UFO explode] Nobody f***s with Haywood, b**ch! Nobody! You hear me?!

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