- Priest: This is a house of God. People are trying to pray. You're disturbing them.
- Kurgan: He cares about these helpless mortals?
- Priest: Of course He cares. He died for our sins.
- Kurgan: That shall be His undoing.
- [gets up]
- Kurgan: Father! Forgive me , I am a worm...
- [starts laughing diabolically]
- Kurgan: [to everyone in the church] I have something to say! It's better to burn out than to fade away!
- Ramirez: [narrating] From the dawn of time we came; moving silently down through the centuries, living many secret lives, struggling to reach the time of the Gathering; when the few who remain will battle to the last. No one has ever known we were among you... until now.
- Kurgan: [to a pair of nuns passing by him] Happy Hallowe'en, ladies!
- Kurgan: Nuns. No sense of humor.
- Connor MacLeod: Ramirez's blade did not cut deeply enough. He was right about you. You're slime.
- Kurgan: Ramirez was an effete snob! He died on his knees. I took his head and raped his woman before his blood was even cold.
- [MacLeod looks at him in fury]
- Kurgan: Ah, I see. Ramirez lied. She was not his woman. She was *your* woman. And she never told you. I wonder why. Perhaps I gave her something you never could, and secretly she yearned for my return.
- Kurgan: [MacLeod attempts to throttle Kurgan in a church] Holy *ground*, Highlander! Remember what Ramirez taught you.
- Ramirez: The Kurgan. He is the strongest of all the immortals. He's the *perfect* warrior. If he wins the Prize, mortal man would suffer an eternity of darkness.
- Connor MacLeod: How do you fight such a savage?
- Ramirez: With heart, faith and steel. In the end there can be only one.
- Connor MacLeod: I am Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod. I was born in 1518 in the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel. And I am immortal.
- [after Connor has called Ramirez a "haggis"]
- Ramirez: Haggis? What is haggis?
- Connor MacLeod: Sheep's stomach, stuffed with meat and barley.
- Ramirez: And what do you do with it?
- Connor MacLeod: You eat it.
- Ramirez: How revolting!
- Connor MacLeod: I don't like boats, I don't like water. I'm a man, not a fish.
- Ramirez: So you complain endlessly.
- Connor MacLeod: You look like a woman you stupid haggis.
- Ramirez: Haggis? What is haggis?
- Connor MacLeod: Sheep's stomach stuffed with meat and barley
- Ramirez: And what do you do with it?
- Connor MacLeod: You eat it!
- Ramirez: How revolting!
- [Ramirez sneezes]
- Connor MacLeod: Be still for God's sake! You'll tip us over.
- Ramirez: So?
- Connor MacLeod: I cannot swim you Spanish peacock.
- Ramirez: I'm not Spanish, I'm Egyptian.
- Connor MacLeod: You said you were from Spain! You're a liar!
- Ramirez: You have the manners of a goat and you smell like a dung-heap. And you've no knowledge whatsoever of your potential. Now, get out!
- [Throws MacLeod into the lake]
- Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez: You must leave her, brother. I was born 2,437 years ago. In that time I've had three wives. The last was Shakiko, a Japanese Princess... When Shakiko died I was shattered. I would save you that pain. Please, let Heather go.
- Sunda Kastagir: Macleod, it's good to see you again. It seems like a hundred years.
- Connor MacLeod: It's been a hundred years.
- News Reporter: The garage is watered from the sprinklers. It also left a man's decapitated body lying on the floor next to his own severed head. The head, which of this time, has no name.
- Kurgan: I know his name.
- [Inserts cassette tape into car stereo]
- Heather: Don't see me, Connor - let me die in peace. Where are we?
- Connor MacLeod: We're in the Highlands, where else? Running down a mountainside. The sun is shining. It's not cold. You've got your sheepskins on, and the boots I made for you. Good night, my bonny Heather.
- Connor MacLeod: [Paying his respects at church] For you, my bonny Heather: Happy birthday. And you, Juan Ramirez: Take care of her, you overdressed haggis.
- [after some passionate sex]
- Heather: You can do that to me forever if you like, my Lord.
- Connor MacLeod: Aye! I will.
- Ramirez: MacLeod, I was born 2,437 years ago. In that time, I've had three wives. The last was Shikiko, a Japanese princess. Her father, Masamune, a genius, made this for me
- [shows MacLeod his Samurai sword]
- Ramirez: in 593 B.C. It is the only one of its kind... like his daughter. When Shikiko died, I was shattered. I would save you that pain. Please... let Heather go.
- Tony the Hotdog Vendor: [as Tony reads a newspaper headlined: Headhunter-3, Cops-Zero] Hey Moran! Have you read what it says in here?
- Lieutenant Frank Moran: You kiddin' Tony? You know cops can't read.
- Tony the Hotdog Vendor: [Teasingly to Moran] What does 'INCOMPETENT' mean?
- Lieutenant Frank Moran: [Speaking to Detective Bedsoe] That mayor, he calls me at 2 o'clock in the morning! I mean I don't even answer the phone anymore!
- Tony the Hotdog Vendor: Hey! What does 'BAFFLED' mean? Hee hee hee hee! Ha ha ha ha!
- [Moran and Bledsoe give Tony an irritated look]
- Connor MacLeod: [Drunk with a wig covering his eyes whilst in the middle of a duel] Christ, I've gone blind!
- Connor MacLeod: Tell me, how'd it happen for God's sake?
- Ramirez: Why does the sun come up? Hmm? Or are the stars just pin holes in the curtain of night, who knows? What I do know is that because you were born different, men will fear you... try to drive you away, like the people of your village.
- Connor MacLeod: [MacLeod turns his back]
- [MacLeod has a flashback of when he was banished from his village]
- Ramirez: You must learn to conceal your special gift, and harness your power, until the time of the Gathering.
- Connor MacLeod: What Gathering?
- Ramirez: When only a few of us are left, we will feel an irresistible pull towards a far away land... to fight for the prize.
- Connor MacLeod: Wanna hear another theory?
- Lieutenant Frank Moran: Uh-huh.
- Connor MacLeod: This Fasil was so upset about the lousy wrestling tonight, that he went down to the garage and in a fit of depression cut off his *own* head!
- Connor MacLeod: What is it?
- Sunda Kastagir: Boom-boom. A big strong man like you shouldn't be afraid of a little boom-boom. Or maybe you think I'm trying to poison you.
- Connor MacLeod: I think you're crazy, Kastagir.
- [last lines, in voice over]
- Ramirez: Patience, Highlander. You have done well. But it'll take time. You are generations being born and dying. You are at one with all living things. Each man's thoughts and dreams are yours to know. You have power beyond imagination. Use it well, my friend. Don't lose your head.
- Connor MacLeod: I've been alive for four and a half centuries, and I cannot die.
- Brenda: Well, everyone has got their problems
- [after Kurgan rips the top of a car off and throws the driver out]
- [looking over at the old woman in the passenger seat with insincere affection]
- Kurgan: [smiling] Mom...
- Ramirez: The sensation you are feeling is the quickening.
- Connor MacLeod: Who are you?
- Ramirez: We are the same, MacLeod. We are *brothers*!
- Garfield: Are you a faggot, Nash?
- Connor MacLeod: Why, Garfield? Cruisin' for a piece of ass?
- Garfield: I'll tell you what happened, Russell. You went down to that garage for a blow job. But you didn't want to pay for it.
- Connor MacLeod: You're sick.
- Angus MacLeod: He's a Highlander, by God, and the last sound he hears should not be that of a wailing woman!
- Rachel: Will you listen to me for one moment? You can't hide your feelings from me! I've known you too long.
- Connor MacLeod: What feelings?
- Rachel: How about loneliness?
- Connor MacLeod: I'm not lonely. I've got everything I need right here.
- Rachel: Oh no you don't. You refuse to let anyone love you.
- Connor MacLeod: Love is for poets.
- Motel Clerk: Hey, Rockefeller. I hear you liked Candy. She said you were kinda kinky.
- Kurgan: Don't ever speak to me.
- [Looking at the body lying next to its head]
- Garfield: What do you think the cause of death was, Lieutenant?
- Connor MacLeod: What are you looking at, Rachel?
- Rachel: The eyes in the back of your head. People are asking about you. What am I supposed to tell them?
- Connor MacLeod: Simple. Tell them I'm immortal.
- Connor MacLeod: I have the power! Aye, the quickening that empowers me! I feel everything! I know... I know everything! I am everything!
- Ramirez: You cannot die, MacLeod. Accept it.
- Connor MacLeod: I hate you!
- Ramirez: Good. That is a perfect way to start.
- Ramirez: [singing] B-A-L-A-N-C-E, balance...
- Connor MacLeod: I don't like boats, I don't like water. I'm a man, not a fish!
- Ramirez: Oh, you complain endlessly.
- Connor MacLeod: You look like a woman, you stupid haggis!
- Det. Walter Bedsoe: Frank, Frank. 2 days ago, the teletype. There was a guy that was killed just like this over in Jersey.
- Lt. Frank Moran: Yeah but I figure, what the hell, that's Jersey.
- Lieutenant Frank Moran: [showing Nash a photo] Ever see this guy before, Nash? Name's Vasilnek, Polish national. Had his head chopped off in New Jersey two nights ago. You ever get over to New Jersey, Nash?
- Nash: Not if I can help it.
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