[while he's kicking Leo on the floor] John Anderton: Is he alive? He's alive. Where've you got him? Is he all right? [shouting] John Anderton: Tell me, you fuck, where is he?
John T. Chance: Stumpy! Stumpy: What? [Stops playing harmonica] John T. Chance: They don't need any help with that tune. Stumpy: What's the matter? Is it getting through to you? Yiuk, yiuk! [cackles]
Little John: [after sitting on Hiss] Oh, excuse me, Buster. Hiss: Buster? You, sir, have taken my seat! Prince John: [laughs] Hiss, with you around, who needs a court jester?
Prince John: Robbed! I've been robbed! Hiss! You're never around when I need you! [clears his throat] Prince John: I've been robbed. Hiss: Of course you've been robbed!
Marianne: Sir John, might I play your pianoforte? Sir John Middleton: Yes, yes, of course. My goodness. Yes, we do not stand upon ceremony here, my dear.
Dr. John Watson: [reading a note from Holmes] Come at once if convenient. [flips the note over to back side] Dr. John Watson: If inconvenient, come all the same.
John Connor: We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean. The Terminator: It's in your nature to destroy yourselves. John Connor: Yeah. Major drag, huh?
John Connor: [the Terminator rips open the steering column of a car to hotwire it, John interrupts, jingling a set of keys before him] Are we learning yet?
John Van Horne: I'm just an untalented old has-been. Dorothy Michaels: Were you ever famous? John Van Horne: No. Dorothy Michaels: Then how can you be a has-been?
Major John Smith: You are going up to the castle tonight as, well, yes as a domestic. Mary Ellison: How? Naked? Major John Smith: Not a bad idea, but it's a bit obvious.
Action: We gotta show them who's on top! The Jets! Baby John: Haven't you had enough? Action: What are you scared? Baby John: Who's scared?
Lieutenant John Chard: [shouting] Front rank fire! Rear rank fire, reload! Lieutenant John Chard: [repeats a few times as one line of soldiers fires and the other kneels and reloads their rifles]
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