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Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, and Tim Allen in Galaxy Quest (1999)

Tony Shalhoub: Fred Kwan

Galaxy Quest

Tony Shalhoub credited as playing...

Fred Kwan

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Quotes15

  • Sir Alexander Dane: Could they be the miners?
  • Fred Kwan: Sure, they're like three years old.
  • Sir Alexander Dane: MINERS, not MINORS.
  • Fred Kwan: You lost me.
  • Sir Alexander Dane: I played Richard III.
  • Fred Kwan: Five curtain calls...
  • Sir Alexander Dane: There were five curtain calls. I was an actor once, damn it. Now look at me. Look at me! I won't go out there and say that stupid line one more time.
  • Guy Fleegman: HEY! Don't open that! It's an alien planet! Is there air? You don't know!
  • [Guy holds his breath. Kwan sniffs the air and shrugs]
  • Fred Kwan: Seems okay.
  • Guy Fleegman: I'm just a glorified extra, Fred. I'm a dead man anyway. If I'm gonna die, I'd rather go out a hero than a coward.
  • Fred Kwan: Guy, Guy, maybe you're the plucky comic relief. You ever think about that?
  • Guy Fleegman: Plucky?
  • Gwen DeMarco: Fred, you had a part people loved. I mean, my TV Guide interview was six paragraphs about my BOOBS and how they fit into my suit. No one bothered to ask me what I do on the show.
  • Fred Kwan: You were... the umm, wait a minute, I'll think of it...
  • Gwen DeMarco: I repeated the computer, Fred.
  • [On traveling through space in a pod]
  • Fred Kwan: That was a hell of a thing.
  • Fred Kwan: Hey guys, I just wanted you to know that, the reactors won't take it; the ship is breaking apart and all that... Just FYI.
  • [after blowing two of Sarris' men out the airlock]
  • Fred Kwan: Sorry, I was - door was a little sticky. Did you see that? I'll get one of my boys up here with a can of WD-40.
  • Fred Kwan: It's the simple things in life you treasure.
  • Fred Kwan: Hey, Commander. Listen, we found some beryllium on a nearby planet. And we might be able to get there if we reconfigure the solar matrix in parallel for endothermic propulsion. What'd'ya think?
  • Jason Nesmith: We'll do that!
  • Guy Fleegman: All right!
  • Fred Kwan: [to his engineering team] That's right again. That's... come on, group hug.
  • [first lines]
  • Laredo: Exiting the time knot now, Sir.
  • Tech Sgt. Chen: We're alive.
  • Laredo: We made it, Commander. We made it.
  • Dr. Lazarus: By Grabthar's hammer, we live to tell the tale.
  • Voice of Computer: Systems registering functional.
  • Lt. Tawny Madison: All systems are working, Commander.
  • Commander Peter Quincy Taggart: I don't like it. It was too easy.
  • Laredo: Wait. Oh, no! They're everywhere. There are time knots opening everywhere.
  • Lt. Tawny Madison: A trap!
  • Dr. Lazarus: We're surrounded, Commander.
  • [crew screaming as the ship is hit]
  • Tech Sgt. Chen: It's a core meltdown, sir. It can't be stopped.
  • Dr. Lazarus: Surrender may be our only option.
  • Commander Peter Quincy Taggart: No! Never give up, never surrender.
  • Laredo: Your orders, sir?
  • [pause]
  • Laredo: Sir, your orders?
  • Commander Peter Quincy Taggart: Activate the Omega 13.
  • [?to be continued? appears on the screen]
  • Fred Kwan: Wow, the floors are so clean.
  • Fred Kwan: Sorry, the door was a little sticky. Did you see that. I'll get one of my boys up here with a can of WD-40.
  • Fred Kwan: [Trying to work the matter-transmitter] So what do we test it on?
  • Tommy Webber: [Sees Taggart, on the monitor, grappling with Grignak on the Berillium-Sphere planet] How about that Pig-Lizard?
  • Fred Kwan: That was a helluva thing.

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