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Steve McGarrett quotes from Hawaii Five-0

Played by Alex O'Loughlin · 265 quotes · page 3 of 18

Steve McGarrett

Played by Alex O'Loughlin

Hawaii Five-0 · 427 quotes

Most-quoted character in Hawaii Five-0: in 265 of its 427 quotes
Most scenes with: Danny Williams (167), Lou Grover (28), Catherine Rollins (18)

Scenes with Steve McGarrett 260

[Steve notices a New Jersey postcard, but Danny had to bring up his old eating joints]

Steve

Do you realize how much of your life revolves around food?

Do you realize how much of your life revolves around armed conflict?

Steve

Let me ask you a question: Where do people from New Jersey vacation?

Um, I don't know. I-I would imagine they vacation all over the place.

Steve

Okay. And you're you're aware the fact that perhaps many people from New Jersey vacation here in Hawaii?

I'm sure some misguided people do, sure, yeah.

Steve

Okay, good. And how many Hawaiians do you think vacation in New Jersey?

I don't know.

Steve

I can help you with that answer if you want. The answer is zero, Danny, because nobody here, except you, wants to be there, okay? Because aside from a couple of great singers, New Jersey doesn't exactly scream––

[interrupts] Oh, oh..Whoa, a few great singers?!! Sinatra, Springsteen...

Steve

Right.

A few great sing––Jonathan Bon Jovi.

Steve

I'm sorry, Bon Jovi?!

Absolutely Bon Jovi.

Steve

You serious?

He's right up there. "You Give Love a Bad Name", "Wanted Dead or Alive"...

Steve

Now you're giving me song titles.

I'm giving you classic song titles!

[after finding out Nick used to be Special Activities Division] I thought you guys were Navy SEALs?

Steve

When you have certain specialties, you can be recruited into different units as needed.

Are you gonna answer any one of my questions?

Steve

What do you want to know?

What was his specialty?

Steve

It's classified information, Danny.

Okay. What was your specialty?

Steve

I can't tell you that either.

Okay, please, you have done this before. Where was that? When exactly was that?

Steve

[looks around uncomfortably] I worked the other side.

The other side's a sniper rifle. Was that your specialty? [Steve does not reply and instead half-smiles at him]

[Having escaped assassination at the hands of Nick Taylor's team, Steve brings everybody to his house and asks General Pak why he came to the US]

GPGeneral Pak

Why do you think I brought my family here?

Steve

I don't know. Because you're a mass murderer?

PPak

My family's here because I'm seeking political asylum. That's why you couldn't postpone the trip.

Steve

That's why everybody's trying to kill you.

Let me get this straight. So you commit all these horrible, horrible crimes, and then you come over to the United States, and you say, "Hey, I'd like to make a deal now. Please."

PPak

I'm going to testify at the UN against a military junta and my chairman. I am going to admit to the world what I've done and pay for the crimes I've committed.

Steve

Well, that's that's good, man. You should've told us, okay? Somebody should have told us.

PPak

The information was too dangerous.

Steve

That information is more dangerous if I don't have it! My entire team could have been killed. Not to mention your family.

PPak

My testimony will end the war!! The suffering. You save me, and my family, and you save a country.

Howzit, ma haole?

[greets Kamekona] Baby Huey, it's good. [to Steve] What's the matter with you, huh? We got a situation. Where've you been? I’ve been calling you like you owe me money.

Steve

What are you talking about? I didn't hear my phone.

Called you like five, six times.

Steve

I believe you. I didn't hear my phone, I left it right over here. [points to where Kamekona is sitting] Where's my phone? You see my phone?

[pulls Steve's cellphone from under his butt] Oh. Oh sorry.

You didn't feel that vibrating? Ever?

Oh, that's what it was.

[The GPS leads the Five-O team to the harbor]

Anyone up for a swim?

Ah, forgot to bring my board shorts.

Looks like the rookie is going swimming.

Steve

I'll go in with you.

Very nice of you.

Steve

Sure you don't want to come for a swim?

No, you go ahead, uh with your pants. I'll just be here with a dry towel.

What are the odds, huh? Guy gets a bullet in the dome, goes through four hours of brain surgery, and he survives, yet 150 people die every year from falling coconuts. It's a fact. I read it online.

Steve

What, so now you're not going to let Grace go near coconut trees?

Not without a helmet, I'm not.

Steve

Looks like our guys are dopers.

What? What does that mean?

Steve

You draw a pint of your own blood, your store it in the fridge, and then you reinject it days later.

Why, what for?

Steve

Increases your red cell count and it allows your muscles to work harder for up to 12 hours. Some SEALs in Coronado would do it before their underwater drills.

Kinda like an all-natural steroid.

Yeah, for vampires.

Steve

Or ultra-endurance athletes.

[Chin and Steve are amused at the sight of Danny using a laptop with Hello Kitty stickers on it.]

Steve

Okay, how are you going there, Kitty?

Not good.

Is that how they do it in Jersey?

No, it's not how they do it in Jersey. This is Grace's computer. It's the only one Rachel could give me.

First rule of spearfishing is you kill what you eat, you eat what you kill.

Steve

[looks at the fish he caught, laughs] Guess what's for lunch today?

Steve

Take that tie off. No one on a cruise ship wears a tie.

Yes, they do. They do all the time, so they can hang themselves when they’re bored.

Steve

Well, put it in your pocket. You can kill yourself later.

[hands Steve an ice pack] Ice, for your head.

Steve

I'm fine.

Don't be a tough guy, okay? I've been popped with a stun gun before, it's no fun. Ice helps.

[curiously] You've been stun gunned?

Yes, I've been stunned. Hoboken, Halloween '02. It's a long story I don't want to tell you right now. [turns back to Steve] How many guys were there?

Steve

Three.

Three. Okay, good, 'cause I was wondering how one little burglar comes in and takes advantage of a Navy SEAL.

[Steve is frantically calling his sister Mary but she is not answering]

Steve

Something's wrong.

Do me a favor, please. Will you not go there? Okay? You don't know anything. Maybe she went out last night. Maybe she got a little goofy, she's sleeping it off. And let me be honest about something, if, first thing in the morning, I see your face pop on my phone, I might not answer it either.

Steve

Mamo lived in our old neighborhood when Mary and I were just kids. He's the one who taught us how to surf. Guy's been a beach boy since the days of Duke Kahanamoku.

Beach Boy, huh? You know, I've heard of, um, Mike Love, Brian Wilson, but I've never heard of Mamo the Beach Boy.

Steve

Yeah, different beach boys, Danny. They were locals who set up shop in Waikiki to teach people how to surf.

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