How Roddy Piper Gave Us One of the Greatest Lines in Movie History At WrestleMania III in 1987, John Carpenter met “Rowdy” Roddy Piper and immediately saw something Hollywood couldn’t fake—authentic grit. Impressed by Piper’s toughness and charisma, Carpenter cast him as Nada in They Live. On set, Piper handed him a notebook of promo lines, including the now-iconic: “I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubblegum.” Carpenter used it, it became legendary, and even i