Quotes for
Chiun (Character)
from Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)

Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)

Chiun: Women should stay home and make babies. Preferably, manchild.
Major Rayner Fleming: [to Remo] I see you both went to the same charm school.

[Remo dangles from a car on the Wonder Wheel]
Remo Williams: Jesus!
Chiun: Concentrate! This is NO time for prayer!

Chiun: You move like a pregnant yak. Sit.

Chiun: It would be better for you to eat this can than what is inside of it. Why must everything in this country be coated with monositi-... monosoti...
Remo Williams: Monosodium glutamate. You can't even say it.
Chiun: I can say "rat droppings." That does not mean I want to eat them.

Chiun: You did not ask to be white. So perhaps that is not your fault. You did not ask to be here. Perhaps that is not your fault, either.

Chiun: Breathe out... slowly... do not gulp. If you do not breathe correctly, you do not move correctly. Pitiful. I can see the deadly hamburger has done its evil work.

Remo Williams: You know, Chiun, there are times when I really like you.
Chiun: Of course. I am Chiun.
Remo Williams: And there are times when I could really kill you.
Chiun: Good. We will practice that after dinner.

Remo Williams: Are you hurt?
Chiun: No. When you approach middle age, there is a tendency toward bruising, my son.
Remo Williams: What? What did you call me?
Chiun: I called you a clumsy oaf. You drive like a monkey in heat.

Chiun: The trained mind does not need a watch. Watches are a confidence trick invented by the Swiss.

Chiun: Professional assassination. It's the highest form of public service.

Remo Williams: You know, Chiun, you're a real pain in the ass.
Chiun: That is because it is the fastest way to your brain.

Remo Williams: Chiun, you're incredible!
Chiun: No, I am better than that.

Chiun: Fear is just a feeling. You feel hot. You feel hungry. You feel angry. You feel afraid. Fear can never kill you.

Remo Williams: Do you always talk like a Chinese fortune cookie?
Chiun: [outraged, strikes Remo, who falls to the ground in pain] Chinese! *Korean* is the most perfect creature ever to sanctify the earth with the imprint of its foot.

Chiun: [talking to Remo] Put your hands behind your head.
[Remo complies, and doubles over from a blow from Chiun, too fast to be seen ]
Chiun: I did not say keep them there. Your reflexes are pitiful! The seasons move faster.

Remo Williams: [Remo hears Chiun singing a song in Korean] Is it painful?
Chiun: I was singing an old Korean love song.
Remo Williams: It's a wonder the race isn't extinct.

[Chiun pulls the trigger on a revolver, click, click, click]
Remo Williams: You used the other four yesterday.
Chiun: [Chiun fires a round nearly hitting Remo in the head] I reloaded.

Chiun: Karate, Kung Fu, Ninjitsu - they are but shadows. Sinanju is the Sun.

Remo Williams: I've got a job to do.
Chiun: Remo!
[whispers in Remo's ear]
Chiun: Do not embarrass us.
Remo Williams: I won't... Little Father.

Chiun: It is called fast food because it speeds you to the grave.

Chiun: You move like a baboon... with two clubbed feet!

Chiun: Success is a journey, not a destination.

Chiun: [having just sprinted across the surface of a lake] You must run *very* fast.

Remo Williams: How old are you, Chiun. I mean really, you must be pretty old, right?
Chiun: For an apricot, yes. For a head of lettuce, even more so. For a mountain, I have not even begun. For a man, just right.

[last lines]
Remo Williams: You're incorrigible, Chiun.
Chiun: No, I'm better than than.

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