The Octopus

"It's your own fault anyway, drinking all that free wine and turning into an octopus with hands."
"You misunderstood. You flatter yourself. I was only trying to be friendly."
I Was a Male War Bride (1949)

written by Henri Rochard, Charles Lederer, Leonard Spigelgass, Hagar Wilde

"Well, you had moments of kind of making like an octopus. I never saw so many hands in all my life."
"All right. All right. Look, my only excuse is that I liked you."

The Thing from Another World (1951)

written by Charles Lederer, Howard Hawks, Ben Hecht

The Alien

"Yes, the neat and unconfused reproductive technique of vegetation. No pain or pleasure as we know it. No emotions. No heart. Our superior in every way."

The Thing from Another World (1951)

written by John W. Campbell Jr. & Charles Lederer

"Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility. A survivor, unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality."

Alien (1979)

written by Dan O'Bannon & Ronald Shusett