Carpenter cast Piper in his 1988 sci-fi movie and political allegory They Live. Piper plays a construction worker who discovers that America is in fact ruled by aliens. After learning the truth, a shotgun-wielding Piper marches into a bank and announces what has over time become of the most famous and beloved lines in genre cinema: “I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass—and I’m all out of bubblegum.“