Bishop from Alien: 11 Movie Quotes with Audio

Updated: May 16, 2026

Movie quotes spoken by Bishop from Alien, ranked by user ratings. Listen online or download free MP3 and WAV clips.

1 Believe me, I'd prefer not to. I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid.

Lance Henriksen as Bishop in Aliens (1986)

2 How long till it blows? -Four hours. With a blast radius of 30 kilometers, equal to about 40 megatons.

3 Bishop, how much time? -Plenty. Twenty-six minutes.

4 It is impossible for me to harm, or by omission of action, allow to be harmed, a human being.

Lance Henriksen as Bishop in Aliens (1986)

5 Bishop here. I'm afraid I have some bad news.

Lance Henriksen as Bishop in Aliens (1986)

6 Not bad for a human.

Lance Henriksen as Bishop in Aliens (1986)

7 I prefer the term artificial person myself.

Lance Henriksen as Bishop in Aliens (1986)

8 I'm shocked. Was it an older model?

Lance Henriksen as Bishop in Aliens (1986)

9 I'm not sure. It must be something we haven't seen yet.

Lance Henriksen as Bishop in Aliens (1986)

10 I'm sorry. The crash caused too much damage. An overload is inevitable at this point.

Lance Henriksen as Bishop in Aliens (1986)