Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet. He starts a high technology company to get the billions of dollars he needs to build a return ... See full summary »

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Waiter: I think perhaps Mr. Newton has had enough, don't you?
Nathan Bryce: I think... perhaps... you're right.
Thomas Jerome Newton: Ask me...
Nathan Bryce: What?
Thomas Jerome Newton: The question you've been wanting to ask ever since we met.
Nathan Bryce: Are you Lithuanian?
Thomas Jerome Newton: [grins] I'm from England.
Nathan Bryce: Well that's not as bad.
Thomas Jerome Newton: We'd have probably done the same to you, if you'd come 'round our place.
Thomas Jerome Newton: If I stay, I'll die.
Mary-Lou: What're you talking about? Take me with you, I'll see you don't die.
Thomas Jerome Newton: I can't stay.
[walks away from her]
Mary-Lou: You're an alien!
Thomas Jerome Newton: What is this music Farnsworth keeps sending me? I don't like it.
Mary-Lou: Some big named composer.
Thomas Jerome Newton: I don't want it. I want something with singing on it.
Thomas Jerome Newton: Well I'm not a scientist. But I know all things begin and end in eternity.
Thomas Jerome Newton: The strange thing about television is that it doesn't *tell* you everything. It *shows* you everything about life for nothing, but the true mysteries remain. Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.
Mary-Lou: I don't love you anymore.
Thomas Jerome Newton: And I don't love you.
Jewelery Store Owner: Can I help?
Thomas Jerome Newton: I'm sorry. I want to sell this ring.
Jewelery Store Owner: [looks it over] Where'd you get it from?
Thomas Jerome Newton: My wife gave it to me. You see it has initials.
Jewelery Store Owner: [reads] T.J.N. Do you have any I.D.?
Thomas Jerome Newton: I'm British, I have a passport.
[shows it to her]
Jewelery Store Owner: [reads] Thomas Jerome Newton. This is not a pawn shop, Mr. Newton.
Thomas Jerome Newton: I beg your pardon?
Jewelery Store Owner: If you sell it to me now, you can't redeem it later.
Thomas Jerome Newton: I understand.
Jewelery Store Owner: $20.
Thomas Jerome Newton: $20?
Thomas Jerome Newton: Mary Lou! Help me!
Mary-Lou: You know Tommy, you're a freak. I don't mean that unkindly. I like freaks. And that's why I like you.
Mary-Lou: What are they like, your children?
Thomas Jerome Newton: They're like children. Exactly like children...
Thomas Jerome Newton: My interest is energy - transference of energy.
Thomas Jerome Newton: My life isn't secret, Mr. Farnsworth, but it is private.
Thomas Jerome Newton: [Mary-Lou starts the elevator] I'll just walk.
Mary-Lou: It's five flights.
[Thomas leans against the wall and falls to the floor]
Mary-Lou: Should I stop it?
Thomas Jerome Newton: Just keep going.
Mary-Lou: Oh my God.
Thomas Jerome Newton: They're stuck! I'll never get them off.
Thomas Jerome Newton: You put alcohol in my drink.