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Malcolm Reynolds Quotes

Total quotes: 25
“Mal: Whatever happens, remember I love you.

Zoë: Sir?

Mal: Because you're my wife.

Zoë: Right. Sir. Honey.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Love, Marriage, Wife
“That sounds like the Alliance. Unite all the planets under one rule so that everybody can be interfered with or ignored equally.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Unity
“The next time you decide to stab me in the back, have the guts to do it to my face.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: Ariel
Tagged: Guts, Backstabbing, Bravery
“The way it is, is the way it is. We gotta deal with what’s in front of us.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: Serenity
Tagged: Practical, Pragmatic, Reality
“My estimation is that...every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of a son of a bitch or another.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: Jaynestown
Tagged: Statue, Son of a Bitch
“Tracey: Do you think I’m stupid?

Malcolm: In every way possible!”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Message
Tagged: insults, Stupid
“You can’t open the book of my life and jump in the middle. Like woman, I’m a mystery.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: Our Mrs. Reynolds
Tagged: Mystery, Book of Life
“Niska: Oh, you do not like I kill this man?

Mal: Oh no, I'm sure he was a...very bad person.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Murder
“Ladies and menfolk…[holds out a slip of paper]…we have ourselves a job. Take us out of the world, Wash. Got us some crime to be done.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Crime
“My days of not taking you seriously are certainly comin’ to a middle.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: Our Mrs. Reynolds
Tagged: insults, Sick Burns
“Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill them right back.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: Our Mrs. Reynolds
Tagged: overkill, Revenge, Reciprocation
“Haven’t you killed me enough for one day?”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: War Stories
Tagged: Overstatement, Murder
“Mal: [on Niska] He's not the first psycho to hire us. Nor the last. You think that's a commentary on us?

Zoë: I just have an image in my head of a guy hanging from the ceiling.

Mal: I've got an image of it not being me. Let's do the thing.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: psycho, murder plot
“Sheriff Bourne: You were truthful back in town. These are tough times. A man can get a job. He might not look too close at what that job is. But a man learns all the details of a situation like ours... well... then he has a choice.

Mal: I don't believe he does.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Truthful, Tough Times, Job
“Half of writing history is hiding the truth.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: Serenity
Tagged: History, Fake News, Deception, Truth
“We are just too pretty for God to let us die.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: Serenity
Tagged: Vanity, Pretty, God, Death
“There’s a lot of fine ways to die.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: Serenity
Tagged: Death, Death with Dignity
“I start fighting a war, I guarantee you’ll see something new.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: Serenity
Tagged: Fighting, War, Creativity
“It's a real burden being right so often.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: Bushwhacked
Tagged: Humblebragging
“Mal: Well, what about you, Shepherd? How come you're flying about with us brigands? I mean, shouldn't you be off bringing religiosity to the fuzzy-wuzzies or some such?

Book: Oh, I got heathens aplenty right here.

Mal: If I'm your mission, Shepherd, best give it up. You're welcome on my boat. God ain't.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Religion, God, Heathen
“Mal: [after getting tossed out a simulated bar window] Wash, we got some local color happening. A grand entrance would not go amiss.

[Zoe comes out fighting a drunk; more join in as Mal takes on the one Zoe knocked down]

Mal: Is Jayne even awake?
[Jayne comes out fighting two at once, pushing them back with his stool]”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: local color, fights
“Mal: Now, this is all the money Niska gave us in advance. You bring it back to him. Tell him the job didn't work out. We're not thieves. But we are thieves. Point is, we're not takin' what's his. Now we'll stay out of his way as best we can from here on in. You explain that's best for everyone, okay?

Crow: Keep the money. Use it to buy a funeral. It doesn't matter where you go or how far you fly. I will hunt you down, and the last thing you see will be my blade.

Mal: Darn….[Kicks Crow through running engines. Next bad guy is brought forward]…Now, this is all the money Niska gave us in advance...

One of Niska's Soldiers: Oh, I get it! I'm good. Best thing for everyone. I'm right there with ya.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Thieves, Money, Violence
“Sheriff Bourne: You mind telling me, uh, when it was you last spoke to Joey Bloggs?

Mal: Never did, myself.

Sheriff Bourne: Right. Your uncle. And it was indicated to you that, uh, Joey had an opening?

Mal: Any job would do.

Sheriff Bourne: It's funny your Uncle never went to mentioning the Bowden's problem. Or that Joey Bloggs ate his own gun 'bout eight months back.

Mal: Did he?

Sheriff Bourne: Yep. Blew the back of his head right off.

[long pause]
Mal: So... would his job be open?”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Uncle, Suicide
“Lund: [drunk] Hey, you gonna drink t'the Alliance with me? Six years today, the Alliance sent the Browncoats runnin', pissin' their pants. You know, your coat is kind of a brownish color.

Mal: It was on sale. [drinks]

Lund: You didn't toast. Y'know, I'm thinkin' you're one o' them In'apendants.

Mal: And I'm thinking you weren't burdened with an overabundance of schooling. So why don't we just ignore each other till we go away?

Lund: The Independents were a bunch o' cowardly inbred piss pots. Should'a been killed off o' every world spinnin'.

Mal: [puts down drink] Say that to my face.

Lund: [threateningly] I said... you're a coward and a pisspot. Now what're you gonna do about it?

Mal: [smiles suddenly] Nothing. I just wanted you to face me so she could get behind ya…[Lund turns, and Zoë hits him in the face with the butt of her gun]…Drunks are so cute.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Drinking, Drunks, Violence
“Book: How's the girl?

Mal: Still a little whimsical in the brainpan. Seems calm enough, though.

Mal: [River knocks over a tray of medical instruments; both look her way at the sound of instruments clattering] Mm-hmm.

Book: That young man's very brave.

Mal: Yeah. [sarcastically]

Mal: He's my hero.

Book: Gave up everything to free his sister from that place. Go from being a doctor on the central planets to hiding on the fringes of the system... Not many who would do that.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Brave, Hero
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