Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

The Jem'Hadar (1994)

Armin Shimerman: Quark

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Quotes 

• Quark : I think I figured out why Humans don't like Ferengi.

  Sisko : Not now, Quark.

  Quark : The way I see it, Humans used to be a lot like Ferengi: greedy, acquisitive, interested only in profit. We're a constant reminder of a part of your past you'd like to forget.

  Sisko : Quark, we don't have time for this.

  Quark : You're overlooking something. Humans used to be a lot worse than the Ferengi: slavery, concentration camps, interstellar wars. We have nothing in our past that approaches that kind of barbarism. You see? We're nothing like you... we're better.

• Quark : As a wise man once wrote: "Nature decays, but latinum lasts forever".

  [Rule of Acquisition #102] 

• Quark : Uh, well, what did he say?

  Odo : What did who say?

  Quark : Commander Sisko, about my idea?

  Odo : You mean, using the monitors throughout the station to sell merchandise?

  Quark : Stop torturing me, Odo, tell me what he said.

  Odo : Guess.

  Quark : He said yes!

  Odo : Guess again.

  Quark : It would triple my profits. How can he refuse?

  Odo : Maybe it's because he doesn't like you.

  Quark : Don't be ridiculous. Major Kira's the one who doesn't like me; Sisko...

  Odo : ...doesn't like you either.

  Quark : What'd I ever do to him?

  Odo : Oh, I could think of one or two things.

  Quark : Oh, one or two things, that's nothing. So do you think there's any way I can, uh, change his mind?

  Odo : Ha!

  [and leaves] 

• Quark : I have the right to express my opinion.

  Sisko : I'm about to put my fist in your opinion!

  Quark : You don't scare me. And you want to know why you don't scare me? Because I'm already more scared than I've ever been in my life.

• Quark : [screams]  I'm on fire!

  [screams more] 

  Quark : I'm on fire!

  Sisko : Quark!

  [puts out fire] 

  Sisko : Are you alright?

  Quark : No, I am not alright! My ears itch, my nose is running, I'm eating foreign bugs, now look at me! One minute, I'm trying to pick out a couple of bugs out of that jumbo-whatsit-pot, then the next thing I know... woosh!

• Quark : This has not been a good day.

• [Quark is making smalltalk to Sisko on a wild planet] 

  Quark : I'm glad we could talk like this. There's nothing like facing the wilderness to bring people closer.

  Sisko : The answer is still no, Quark.

• Quark : [to Sisko; complaining about the nature]  It isn't so much of the *humidity*... and the *insects*, and the *stench* of these flowers.

• Quark : [During dinner, Sisko is offering Quark more food. Quark refuses by uses his spoon to hold Sisko's label back; trying poorly to conceal his disgust]  I still say there's some dirt in the sauce... and these bugs...

  [sticks his finger in the food and holds it up] 

  Quark : Look at this! They get into everything... it's disgusting!

  Sisko : I though Ferengis liked eating bugs.

  Quark : Only *certain* bugs. Ferengi Bugs!

• Quark : [screaming angrily at Sisko after getting his sleeve caught on fire]  No, I am NOT alright! My ears itch, my nose is running, I am eating foreign bugs! Now... Look at me!

  [points at his burned sleeve of his loudly colored shirt] 

  Quark : One minute I am trying to pick a couple of bugs out of that jumba-whats-it pot, then next thing I know... *WHOOSH!*

  Sisko : Quark, calm down. Look, do us all a favor. Sit down and try to stay out of trouble.

  Quark : [irately]  *What did I do?*

  Nog : [an embarrassed Nog hisses at Quark and runs off in shame into the shrubbery]