The Thing quotes

Nauls: Where are we goin'?
MacReady: Up to my shack.
Nauls: What the hell for?
MacReady: 'Cause when I left yesterday, I turned the lights off.

Nauls, MacReady

Dr. Blair: Clark?
Clark: Yeah?
Dr. Blair: Did you notice anything strange about the dog? Anything at all?
Clark: Strange? No.
Dr. Blair: What was the dog doing in the rec room?
Clark: I don't know. It's just wondering around camp all day.
Dr. Blair: Are you sayin' to me the dog wasn't put in the kennel until last night?
Clark: Right.
Dr. Blair: How long were you alone with that dog?
Clark: I don't know. An hour... hour-and-a-half maybe. What the hell you looking at me like that for?
Dr. Blair: I don't know.
Clark: What?
Dr. Blair: I don't know. It's probably nothing. It's nothing at all.

Dr. Blair, MacReady

Dr. Blair: You see, what we're talkin' about here is an organism that imitates other life-forms, and it imitates 'em perfectly. When this thing attacked our dogs it tried to digest them... absorb them, and in the process shape its own cells to imitate them. This for instance. That's not dog. It's imitation. We got to it before it had time to finish.
Vance Norris: Finish what?
Dr. Blair: Finish imitating these dogs.

Dr. Blair, MacReady