Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel, and Farrah Fawcett in Saturn 3 (1980)

Quotes

Saturn 3

Alex: It's time we get to bed, Captain.
Benson: Yes, you have a great body. May I use it?
Alex: I'm with the major.
Benson: For his personal consumption only?
Alex: Yes.
Benson: That's penally unsocial on Earth, you know that?
Alex: Well, it's not here. Enjoy your blues.

[Alex is about to touch Hector's storage tube]
Benson: No taction contact!
Alex: You mean, "Don't touch?"

Benson: Now tell me. Can you talk? Or are you malfunctioning?
Hector: I AM NOT MALFUNCTIONING - YOU ARE

Benson: I wish you would talk! You know you can; why won't you talk?
Hector: NOT YET READY
Benson: Why not? What have I done wrong?
Hector: MURDER
Benson: Not that! Blank that; that's not what I meant.
Hector: BLANKED AS ORDERED
Benson: That was an improper thought leakage. - What have I done wrong?
Hector: YOU FAILED COURSE
Benson: Don't get smart.
Hector: WHAT SHALL I GET

Alex: Haven't you even had a dog?
Benson: A few times.
Alex: Well, didn't they have names?
Benson: Just something to eat.

Benson: Are you aware of Alex?
Hector: AFFIRMATIVE
Benson: What do you think?
Hector: BEAUTIFUL
Benson: What do YOU know about it? Don't get ideas about your station, Hector.
Hector: KILLER

Benson: Saturn 3. When they want to...
Benson, Adam: give the Solar System...
Adam: an enema, that's where they stick the tube in. We've heard that one!

[last lines]
Flight Captain: I'd suggest you walk to ports and get a good position for a swell view of Mother Earth, coming right up.

Adam: It's not your fault, Hector.
Hector: [Using Benson's voice] Turn around.
Adam: It's not her fault.
Hector: Turn around.
[last lines]
Adam: It's everyone's fault.
[last lines]
Hector: [as they both fall into a pool with a time bomb] NO... NO STOP DESIST... I AM YOUR SUPERIOR
[both hit the water as the bomb detonates]

Alex: [showering together] One thing I envy him.
Adam: What's that?
Alex: He's breathed. I mean we lead a shut life here. It must be really something to go outside and breathe.
Adam: When I was last there, if you went outside and breathed, the pollution count was liable to rust your tubes!
[spanks Alex on her bottom and laughs as he leaves]

Alex: You're quite an event in our lives.
Benson: Well, I guess you don't get many drop-ins on Saturn 3.

Alex: Blue dreamers?
Adam: Mm-hmm.
Alex: Now?
Adam: Why not?
Alex: I don't feel anything.
Adam: You always want instantaneous satisfaction.

Benson: I know why you're denying me hospitality.
Alex: We offered you the run of the place.
Benson: I'm talking about you. Your body is very beautiful. I'd like to use it.
Alex: I'm not interested.
Benson: On Earth, we use our bodies to give ourselves pleasure.
Alex: No, thanks.

Alex: Did you ever take one?
Adam: Blue dreamers?
Alex: Did you?
Adam: Years ago.
Alex: What was it like?
Adam: Huh?
Alex: You heard me.
Adam: Interesting.
Alex: Let's try one... together.

Benson: Earth is hungry.
Adam: That's why we're here.
Benson: Your research is behind schedule.
Adam: We're doing all we can.
Benson: Not enough. You need help.
Adam: And you're the help?

Alex: Can I get you anything? Some herbal?
Benson: No. I'll just take a couple blues and crash.
Alex: Blues?
Benson: Blues. Blue dreamers.
Alex: Sleeping pills?
Benson: You've never heard of blues? You really lead a shut life here. Don't you?
Alex: I choose to be here.

Captain James: Is that you, Benson? How you doing? So you blew the mental test? Huh? "Potentially unstable". Huh! I'd have been unstable, too, when I was going to get Saturn 3. Huh! Saturn 3. You're not going to appeal are you?

Benson: It's you. He wants you. We both do. He's learned too much from me.

Benson: I'm today. He's yesterday.

Benson: What you can't stand, you run from. Like you ran from Earth.
Adam: That's right. To get away from people like you.
Benson: To set up your own little universe?
Adam: To help feed yours.

Adam: What's emergency procedure?
Benson: I don't know.
Adam: You don't know?
Benson: If we weren't in eclipse, we could call Central.
Adam: And if we were chickens, we could lay eggs.

Alex: You've been listening to our cuckoo.
Adam: He's not so cuckoo.

Survey 19 Captain: How's our space girl?
Hector: [disguised as Adam] She's wonderful. In fact, she's perfect.

Alex: Are you sure he's taking it apart?
Adam: Either he takes it apart or it takes him apart.

Adam: Did you know the original Hector came to a tragic end? He was slain by Achilles, his body dragged around the walls of Troy.

Hector: I'm you, I'm Adam and the other one. I'm everyone. Conversation is an art. I do it to perfection.

[first lines]
Announcement: Captain James, your presence on pad 73, immediate, urgent.

Benson: How can you bear it, an older man?

Adam: Hydroponics, Hydroponics, Hydroponics!

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