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Paul Reubens in Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)

Paul Reubens: Pee-wee Herman

Pee-wee's Big Adventure

Paul Reubens credited as playing...

Pee-wee Herman

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  • Pee-wee: There's a lotta things about me you don't know anything about, Dottie. Things you wouldn't understand. Things you couldn't understand. Things you shouldn't understand.
  • Dottie: I don't understand.
  • Pee-wee: You don't wanna get mixed up with a guy like me. I'm a loner, Dottie. A rebel. So long, Dott.
  • [after Pee Wee passes out]
  • Cowboy #1: What's your name?
  • Pee-wee: I can't remember.
  • Cowboy #2: Where are you from?
  • Pee-wee: I can't remember.
  • Cowboy #1: Can you remember anything?
  • Pee-wee: I remember... the Alamo.
  • [Texans cheer]
  • [Pee-wee has been picked up by a trucker]
  • Pee-wee: Some night, huh?
  • Large Marge: On this very night, ten years ago, along this same stretch of road in a dense fog just like this. I saw the worst accident I ever seen. There was this sound, like a garbage truck dropped off the Empire State Building...
  • [cut to a few minutes later]
  • Large Marge: And when they finally pulled the driver's body from the twisted, burning wreck. It looked like this...!
  • [Turns to Pee-wee and makes grotesque face]
  • Pee-wee: Aaaaaahh!
  • Large Marge: Yes, Sir! The worst accident I ever seen.
  • Simone: I know you're right, Pee-wee, but...
  • Pee-wee: But what? Everyone I know has a big "But...? C'mon, Simone, let's talk about *your* big "But".
  • Pee-wee: I'm here to see Francis!
  • Butler: Francis is busy.
  • Pee-wee: Busy doing what?
  • Butler: He's having his bath.
  • Pee-wee: Oh, really?
  • [shouts]
  • Pee-wee: Where are they hosing him down?
  • Pee-wee: This box contains over 217 bits and pieces of information, evidence. Exhibit A: A photograph of the victims, my bike and me.
  • [Speck growls]
  • Pee-wee: Exhibit B: Another photograph. What's missing from this picture? It's just me... WITHOUT MY BIKE!
  • [Amazing Larry whispers something to Mario]
  • Pee-wee: Is this something you can share with the rest of us Amazing Larry?
  • Amazing Larry: Uh... no.
  • Pee-wee: Exhibit C: The horn I was picking up at Chuck's Bikeorama when my bike was actually stolen!
  • [Honks the horn loudly scaring everyone]
  • Pee-wee: Exhibit D: Jimmy what is this? Too late! Chip!
  • Chip: It looks like a pen.
  • Pee-wee: Exactly! I bought this pen exactly one hour before my bike was stolen. Why? What's the significance? I DON'T KNOW!
  • [last lines]
  • Pee-wee: Come on, Dottie. Let's go.
  • Dottie: Let's go? Don't you wanna see the rest of the movie?
  • Pee-wee: I don't have to see it, Dottie. I lived it.
  • Biker #2: [the whole gang holds Pee-wee hostage] I say we kill him!
  • Biker Gang: [shout] Yeah!
  • Biker #3: I say we hang him, *then* we kill him!
  • Biker Gang: [shout] Yeah!
  • Biker #4: I say we stomp him!
  • Biker Gang: [shout] Yeah!
  • Biker #4: Then we tattoo him!
  • Biker Gang: [shout] Yeah!
  • Biker #4: Then we hang him...!
  • Biker Gang: [shout] YEAH!'!
  • Biker #4: And then we kill him!
  • Biker Gang: [shout] YEAH!'!'!
  • Pee-wee: [tries to throw voice without moving lips] I say we let him go.
  • Biker Gang: [shout] NO!'!'!
  • Biker Mama: [whistles] I say ya let me have him first!
  • Biker Gang: [break out in raucous laughter]
  • [Dottie answers the phone]
  • Dottie: Hello?
  • Pee-wee: Hi, Dottie, it's Pee-wee!
  • Dottie: Pee-wee? Where are you calling from?
  • Pee-wee: Texas!
  • Dottie: Huh?
  • Pee-wee: Honest! I'll prove it!
  • [singing]
  • Pee-wee: The stars at night are big and bright...
  • Passersby: [singing and clapping] ... deep in the heart of Texas!
  • [Pee-Wee looks at Mickey's hand as he is wearing one handcuff]
  • Pee-wee: What did you do?
  • Mickey: Well, I lost my temper and I took a knife and I uh-. Do you know those "Do Not Remove Under the Penalty of Law" labels they put on mattresses?
  • Pee-wee: Yeah.
  • Mickey: Well I CUT one of them off!
  • Pee-wee: Jee.
  • Mickey: Yeah, I have a real bad temper.
  • Pee-wee: Boy, I always thought that was the dumbest law.
  • Pee-wee: I wouldn't sell my bike for all the money in the world. Not for a hundred million, trillion, billion dollars!
  • Francis: Then you're crazy!
  • Pee-wee: I know you are but what am I?
  • Francis: You're a nerd!
  • Pee-wee: I know you are but what am I?
  • Francis: You're an idiot!
  • Pee-wee: I know you are but what am I?
  • Pee-wee, Francis: I know you are but what am I? I know you are but what am I? I know you are but what am I? Pee-wee: Infinity!
  • Francis: No, I'm not.
  • Pee-wee, Francis: You are! No way! Knock it off! Cut it out!
  • Francis: Shut up, Pee-wee!
  • Pee-wee: Why don't you make me?
  • Francis: Why don't you make me?
  • Pee-wee: Because. I don't make monkeys, I just train 'em.
  • Francis: Pee-wee, listen to reason.
  • [Pee-Wee cuffs his hand around his ear in a listening motion]
  • Francis: Come on!
  • Pee-wee: Shhhh! I'm listening to reason.
  • Francis: Pee-wee!
  • Pee-wee: That's my name, don't wear it out.
  • Francis: Remember the first time I saw your bike? You came riding past my house and I came running out to tell you how much I liked it even way back then?
  • Pee-wee: I love that story.
  • [jumps on bike and pedals away]
  • Francis: You'll be sorry, Pee-wee Herman!
  • Simone: Do you have any dreams?
  • Pee-wee: Yeah, I'm all alone. I'm rolling a big doughnut and this snake wearing a vest...
  • Pee-wee: [falls off bike after attempting tricks] I meant to do that.
  • [Pee-wee is offering a $10,000 reward to whoever finds his bike]
  • Dottie: Pee-wee, how are you ever going to pay a reward like that?
  • Pee-wee: It's simple. Whoever returns the bike is obviously the person who stole it. So they don't deserve any reward!
  • Mother Superior: Oh Rusty, you are an inspiration to us all!
  • Pee-wee: I'll say! I'm going to start a paper route right now.
  • Pee-wee: Is this something you'd like to share with the rest of us, Amazing Larry?
  • Mr. Breakfast: Good morning, Pee-wee!
  • Pee-wee: Good morning, Mr. Breakfast!
  • Mr. Breakfast: Can I have some Mr. T cereal?
  • Pee-wee: Okay!
  • [imitates Mr. T as he prepares his Mr. T cereal]
  • Pee-wee: I pity the poor fool who don't eat my cereal!
  • Pee-wee: Aren't we gonna see the basement?
  • Tina: [laughs] There's no basement at the Alamo!
  • Francis: Today's my birthday and my father says I can have anything I want.
  • Pee-wee: Good for you and your father.
  • Francis: So guess what I want.
  • Pee-wee: A new brain?
  • Francis: No. Your bike!
  • Madame Ruby: For twenty dollars I can tell you a lot of things. For thirty dollars I can tell you more. And for fifty dollars I can tell you *everything*.
  • Pee-wee: Tell me why I'm here first.
  • Madame Ruby: You're here because you... want something!

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