David Bowie credited as playing...
Thomas Jerome Newton
- Thomas Jerome Newton: Ask me...
- Nathan Bryce: What?
- Thomas Jerome Newton: The question you've been wanting to ask ever since we met.
- Nathan Bryce: Are you Lithuanian?
- Thomas Jerome Newton: [grins] I come from England.
- Nathan Bryce: Ah, that's not so terrible.
- Thomas Jerome Newton: Television. The strange thing about television is that it - doesn't *tell* you everything. It *shows* you everything about life on Earth, but the true mysteries remain. Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.
- Mary-Lou: What are they like, your children?
- Thomas Jerome Newton: They're like children. Exactly like children...
- Nathan Bryce: Don't you feel bitter about it? Everything?
- Thomas Jerome Newton: Bitter? No. We'd have probably treated you the same, if you'd come over to our place.
- Nathan Bryce: Why'd you come here?
- Thomas Jerome Newton: Where I come from, there's a terrible drought. We saw pictures of your planet on television. We saw the water. In fact, our word for your planet means - planet of water.
- Nathan Bryce: You watched it all on television?
- Nathan Bryce: Don't you feel bitter about it - everything?
- Thomas Jerome Newton: Bitter, no. We'd have probably treated you the same if you'd come over to our place.
- Thomas Jerome Newton: If I stay, I'll die.
- Mary-Lou: What're you talking about? Take me with you, I'll see you don't die.
- Thomas Jerome Newton: I can't stay.
- [walks away from her]
- Mary-Lou: You're an alien!
- Thomas Jerome Newton: What is this music Farnsworth keeps sending me? I don't like it.
- Mary-Lou: Some big named composer.
- Thomas Jerome Newton: I don't want it. I want something with singing on it.
- Mary-Lou: I really like you mister. What do you do? For a living, I mean?
- Thomas Jerome Newton: Oh, I'm just visiting.
- Mary-Lou: Oh, a traveler!
- Thomas Jerome Newton: Do you think I could have something to drink?
- Mary-Lou: Are you sure you should drink?
- Thomas Jerome Newton: I'd like a glass of...
- Mary-Lou: Gin? A nice gin and tonic with four cubes of ice and a slice of lime. Hmm. How's that sound mister?
- Thomas Jerome Newton: Just a glass of water.
- Nathan Bryce: [Referring to Newton's phonograph record] Who'd you make it for, then?
- Thomas Jerome Newton: For my wife. She'll get to hear it one day - on the radio.
- Nathan Bryce: We hear most everything on the radio these days.
- [last lines]
- Waiter: I think maybe Mr. Newton has had enough, don't you?
- Nathan Bryce: I think maybe, he has.
- Thomas Jerome Newton: Ah.
- Jewelery Store Owner: Can I help?
- Thomas Jerome Newton: I'm sorry. I want to sell this ring.
- Jewelery Store Owner: [looks it over] Where'd you get it from?
- Thomas Jerome Newton: My wife gave it to me. You see it has initials.
- Jewelery Store Owner: [reads] T.J.N. Do you have any I.D.?
- Thomas Jerome Newton: I'm British, I have a passport.
- [shows it to her]
- Jewelery Store Owner: [reads] Thomas Jerome Newton. This is not a pawn shop, Mr. Newton.
- Thomas Jerome Newton: I beg your pardon?
- Jewelery Store Owner: If you sell it to me now, you can't redeem it later.
- Thomas Jerome Newton: I understand.
- Jewelery Store Owner: $20.
- Thomas Jerome Newton: $20?
- Thomas Jerome Newton: I can't go to church.
- Mary-Lou: Oh, come on, Tommy, it's a real good church. You won't feel out of place. Makes me feel so good. Gives me something to believe in. Everybody needs that: a meaning to life. I mean, when you look out at the sky at night, don't you feel that somewhere, out there, there's gotta be a God. There's gotta be.