How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Quote #1
FEDORA: You got heart, kid, but that belongs to me.
YOUNG INDIANA: It belongs to Coronado.
FEDORA: Coronado's dead, and so are all of his grandchildren.
YOUNG INDIANA: This should be in a museum.
Fedora isn't just Indiana's fashion mentor—he's also a father figure, a stand-in dad. No wonder Indiana dresses like him for the rest of his life.
Quote #2
DONOVAN: Our project leader has vanished, along with all his research. We received a cable from his colleague, Dr. Schneider, who has no idea of his whereabouts or what's become of him. I want you to pick up the trail where he left off. Find the man, and you will find the Grail.
INDIANA: You've got the wrong Jones, Mr. Donovan. Why don't you try my father?
DONOVAN: We already have. Your father is the man who's disappeared.
And just like that, we're off: the Holy Grail brings the Joneses together and gives this father and son a chance to repair their relationship. Henry may not be Indiana's favorite person, but he's still his dad, and he'll do anything to save him.
Quote #3
ELSA: The last time I saw your father we were in the library. He was very close to tracking down the knight's tomb. I've never seen him so excited. He was as giddy as a schoolboy.
INDIANA: Who, Attila the Professor? He was never giddy, even when he was a schoolboy.
There's not a lot of reverence or affection for Henry here, is there? Indiana may be willing to go to great lengths to save his dad, but it doesn't mean that he's willing to rewrite history.
Quote #4
HENRY: (Examining the vase he just broke over Indiana's head:) Late 14th century Ming Dynasty. Oh, it breaks the heart.
INDIANA: And the head. You hit me, Dad.
HENRY: I'll never forgive myself.
INDIANA: Don't worry. I'm fine.
HENRY: Thank God.
Indiana smiles broadly.
HENRY: (Pointing at the vase:) It's fake. See, you can tell with the cross sections.
It's not too hard to see why Indiana's spent his whole life being a wee bit perturbed at his pop. Henry's work pretty much always comes first for him. It's like an obsession that just never lets up.
Quote #5
NAZI OFFICER: You have the diary in your pocket.
HENRY: You dolt! You think my son would be that stupid? That he would bring my diary all the way back here?
(Pause.)
HENRY: (To Indiana:) You didn't, did you?
(Pause.)
HENRY: You didn't bring it, did you?
INDIANA: Well, uh...
HENRY: You did!
INDIANA: Look, can we discuss this later?
HENRY: I should have mailed it to the Marx Brothers.
INDIANA: Will you take it easy?
HENRY: Take it easy? Why do you think I sent it home in the first place? So it wouldn't fall into their hands!
INDIANA: I came here to save you!
HENRY: Oh, yeah? And who's gonna come to save you, Junior?
INDIANA: I told you— (Grabs a Nazi officer's gun and shoots all of the officers dead.)
INDIANA: Don't call me Junior!
HENRY: Look what you did! I can't believe what you did!
Could these two sound any more like a bickering father and son here? (We mean, that is what they are, after all, but still.) Henry puts his faith in Indiana, which is a step in the right direction for improving their relationship, but Indiana promptly goofs up, as sons (and daughters) so often do.
Quote #6
HENRY: The quest for the Grail is not archaeology. It's a race against evil. If it is captured by the Nazis, the armies of darkness will march all over the face of the Earth. Do you understand me?
INDIANA: This is an obsession, Dad. I never understood it. Never. Neither did Mom.
HENRY: Yes, she did. Only too well. Unfortunately, she kept her illness from me. All I could do was mourn her.
The family drama plot thickens. Not only do we have a dysfunctional father and son, but now we have a mother in the middle, hiding an illness. Is this an action adventure movie or an episode of Empire?
Quote #7
INDIANA: Remember the last time we had a quiet drink? Huh?
Henry pages through his Grail diary.
INDIANA: I had a milkshake.
HENRY: (Looking through his diary:) Hmm. What did we talk about?
INDIANA: We didn't talk. We've never talked.
HENRY: (Looking through his diary:) Do I detect a rebuke?
INDIANA: A regret. It was just the two of us, Dad. It was a lonely way to grow up—for you, too. If you'd been an ordinary, average father like the other guys' dads, you'd have understood that.
HENRY: (Looking through his diary:) Actually, I was a wonderful father.
INDIANA: When?
Henry finally looks up from his diary.
HENRY: Did I ever tell you to eat up, go to bed, wash your ears, do your homework? No, I respected your privacy, and I taught you self-reliance.
INDIANA: What you taught me was that I was less important to you than people who'd been dead for five hundred years in another country, and I learned it so well, that we've hardly spoken for 20 years.
HENRY: You left just when you were becoming interesting.
INDIANA: Unbelievable. Dad…
HENRY: Heh. I'm here now.
Henry closes his diary.
HENRY: What do you want to talk about? Hmm?
INDIANA: (Stammers, then laughs in resignation.) I can't think of anything.
HENRY: Then what are you complaining about? We have work to do!
Now we're talking—literally—and here's what we learn: it's taken Indiana a long time to gather up the courage to air his grievances with Henry, while Henry thinks he was a rad dad precisely because he was so hands off. Who's right? It doesn't matter. What matters most is that they're talking. Kind of.
Quote #8
HENRY: Those people are trying to kill us!
INDIANA: I know, Dad!
HENRY: Well, it's a new experience for me.
INDIANA: Happens to me all the time.
This exchange reinforces the conversation that Indiana and Brody have earlier in the film, when Indiana says his dad's not a field man but a bookworm. When it comes to hijacking planes, shooting guns, and avoiding getting shot, Indiana assumes the paternal, mentor role, and Henry has to follow his lead. Hey, we all know how that feels. Put a smartphone in your parents' hands, and suddenly you're the parent, are we right?
Quote #9
SALLAH: Please, what does it always mean, this...this "Junior"?
HENRY: That's his name. Henry Jones, Jr.
INDIANA: I like "Indiana."
HENRY: We named the dog "Indiana."
BRODY: May we go home now, please?
SALLAH: The dog?
Sallah starts laughing.
SALLAH: You are named after the dog?
Sallah laughs boisterously.
INDIANA: I've got a lot of fond memories of that dog.
So Indiana rebelled against his absentee dad by…naming himself after the family dog? At least the pooch wasn't named Fluffles or Popcorn, we guess. Fluffles Jones and the Last Crusade. Yeah, that's not going to cut it.