Ed Harris movie quotes

View Quote I suggest you gentlemen invent a way to put a square peg in a round hole. Rapidly.

View Quote Launch Control, This is Houston, We are go for Launch

View Quote Goddammit! I don't want another ESTIMATE! I want procedures! NOW!

View Quote [trying to revive Lindsey] Goddamn, you bitch, you never backed down from anything in your life! Now fight! Fight! Fight!

View Quote [Typing] LOVE YOU WIFE

View Quote Keep your pantyhose on.

View Quote Good move, partner.

View Quote No excuses.

View Quote Too high!

View Quote Who's my pal, Ricky? And what are you? What, what are you, Bishop Sheen? What are you, friend of the working man? Big deal! **** YOU.

View Quote Yes, well that's very cute, but you're running this office like a bunch of bullshit.

View Quote You got the memory of a **** fly.

View Quote Would you be angry if I died?

View Quote I had this fantastic notion. I took the Xanax and the Ritalin together. It had never occurred to me!

View Quote I've stayed alive for you. But now you have to let me go.

View Quote I miss you so much. There's something I've gotta do, Barb. Something I couldn't do while you were here. I tried. You know I tried everything, and I still don't have their attention. Let's hope this elevates their thinking. But whatever happens...please don't think less of me.

View Quote For Major Baxter and I, this is the last campaign dating back to Tet '68. Likewise for Captain Hendrix and Gunnery Sergeant Crisp, who cut their teeth under my command in Desert Storm. Captain Frye, Captain Darrow, this is my first operational situation with you and your men and I have to say thus far and your conduct here reflects your reputation.

View Quote The Men of Marine Force Recon are selected to carry out illegal operations throughout the world. When they don't come home, and their families are told fairy tales about what happened to them and denied compensation. Well, I have choked on these lies my entire career! Well here and now, the lies stop!

View Quote We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.

View Quote If he [Truman] was more than just a vague ambition, if he was absolutely determined to discover the truth, there's no way we could prevent him.

View Quote Cue the sun!

View Quote Still crazy **** Joey.

View Quote You should ask Tom... how come he's so good at killing people?

View Quote Any last words before I blow your brains out you miserable prick?

View Quote Kate Whitney: Quit wasting my time. He doesn't want you to find him, you're not gonna find him.
Seth Frank: You're saying what? He left town, he skipped the country? What?
Kate Whitney: I'm saying, you won't recognize him. I'm saying, he could be right around the corner.

View Quote Walter Sullivan: For eighty years, I've tried to live... a decent life. I've given a billion dollars to charity. If this comes to trial... none of that will be remembered. I'll just go out... the joke of the world.
Seth Frank: I understand, sir. I'll do what I can.
Walter Sullivan: [chuckles] Will you listen to me whine? I apologize, Mr. Frank. Bother me all you want, just do your job. And I'll try to do mine.

View Quote Seth Frank: Why does he bother to dig a slug out of the wall when he knows there's already another one stuck in her head?
Laura Simon: Uh, different from the one in her body?
Seth Frank: Two guns means two burglars. They broke in together, they both went out the window? That's bullshit! And by the way, why did he, or they, go out the window in the first place when he, or they, got in by breaking a zillion-dollar security system?

View Quote Wayne Tarrance: Man, I don't understand you. What'd you do it for? You didn't win a thing.
Mitch McDeere: Oh, yes I did. I won my life back. YOU don't run me, and THEY don't run me!

View Quote Mitch McDeere: I got mine, Wayne, you get the rest of them.
Wayne Tarrance: Get 'em with what? Overbilling, mail fraud? Oh, that's exciting.
Mitch McDeere: It's not sexy, but it's got teeth! Ten thousand dollars and five years in prison. That's ten and five for each act. Have you really looked at that? You've got every partner in the firm on overbilling. There's two hundred fifty acts of documented mail fraud there. That's racketeering! That's minimum one thousand, two hundred fifty years in prison and half a million dollars in fines. That's more than you had on Capone.

View Quote Wayne Tarrance: How about you get down on your knees and kiss my ass for not indicting you as a co-conspirator right now, you chickenshit little Harvard ****?
Mitch McDeere: I haven't done anything, and you know it!
Wayne Tarrance: Who gives a ****? I'm a federal agent! You know what that means, you lowlife mother****er? It means you've got no rights, your life is mine! I could kick your teeth down your throat and yank them out your asshole, and I'm not even violating your civil rights!
Mitch McDeere: You are Agent Wayne Tarrance.
Wayne Tarrance: Yeah, you’re goddamn right I am. Maybe local cops can’t…

View Quote [After giving his ID tag and Knight's Cross to General Paulus] Please also take this War Merit Cross. It was awarded posthumously to a lieutenant of the 116th Infantry Division who was killed here during the first days of the battle. He was my son.

View Quote [On rumors of Vassili's death] Don't listen to them. It's just propaganda. He isn't dead. And do you know why? Because I haven't killed him yet.

View Quote [The morning after König escapes a trap set for him by information he now knows Sacha gave the Soviets, König is waiting for Sacha as he crawls out of a pipe in the tractor factory] Good morning, Sacha. [Outside, pulling Sacha along] Once again, he knew exactly where to find me. Don't you think that's strange? Apart from me, only you knew. I don't hold it against you, Sacha. You've done a very brave thing. You've chosen your camp; I respect that. But it isn't my camp. We're both soldiers. We're both enemies. So, I... I know you understand. I'm annoyed with you, little Sacha, for not staying at home as I made you swear to do. I'm annoyed with you for obliging me to do what I'm going to have to do. [The camera pans away slightly; König is leading Sacha to a makeshift gallows]

View Quote Kowalski: Houston, I have a bad feeling about this mission.
Mission Control: Please elaborate.
Kowalski: It's the same feeling I had about Mardi Gras in 1987.
Mission Control: That is affirmative. Surprisingly, Control hasn't heard the Mardi Gras story. Please proceed.
Kowalski: Well, it's day one and I'm bumping my way down Bourbon Street looking for a sister of a friend of mine. The streets are full of people, I'm thinking there's no way I'm gonna find this girl...
Ryan: Proceeding to override.
Kowalski: Then all of a sudden, I look up, and there she is, and I'm about to yell out and I see she's holding hands with a short hairy guy in board shorts and a Margaritaville shirt. And then I realize that this guy is not a guy, that my girl is holding hands with a—
Mission Control: ISS, this is Houston. Explorer, this is Houston.
Explorer Captain: Go ahead, Houston.
Mission Control: Mission abort. Repeat, mission abort. Initiate emergency disconnect from Hubble. Begin re-entry procedure. ISS, initiate emergency evacuation.
Explorer Captain: Copy all, Houston, and in work. Matt, immediate return to Explorer. Repeat, immediate return to Explorer.
Kowalski: Copy, Explorer, prep airlock.
Explorer Captain: Airlock engaged. Ready to receive.
Kowalski: Houston, elaborate.
Mission Control: Debris from the missile strike has caused a chain reaction, hitting other satellites and creating new debris. Travelling faster than a high-speed bullet up towards your altitude. How copy?
Kowalski: Copy all. [to Ryan] Put a bow on it, Dr. Stone.
Ryan: I can't. The board is still initializing.
Kowalski: I'm not gonna ask you again.
Ryan: One second.
Kowalski: Not one second, now. Shut it down. That's an order!
Ryan: Okay, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I'm done, I'm done.
Explorer Captain: Kowalski, initiate emergency disconnect from the Hubble.
Kowalski: [thrusts himself to the base of the Hubble] All right, Shariff, let's do this.
Shariff: Roger, Matt.
Kowalski: Houston, update.
Mission Control: Well, we have a full-on chain reaction. It's been confirmed that it's the unintentional side effect of the Russians striking one of their own satellites.
Shariff: They shot down their own satellite?
Kowalski: Right of disposal. Most likely a spy sat gone bad. Now it's shrapnel. Explorer, ready to disengage H.S.T.
Explorer Captain: Locks releasing in three, two, one.
[The locks attaching the Hubble to Explorer release. Matt and Shariff give the Hubble a push away from the cargo bay]
Mission Control: Explorer, new data coming through.
Kowalski: What's the blowback, Houston?
Mission Control: It's not good. Most of our systems are gone. Debris chain reaction is out of control and rapidly expanding. Multiple satellites are down and they keep on falling.
Kowalski: Define multiple satellites.
Mission Control: Most of them are gone. Telecommunication systems are dead. Expect a communications blackout at any moment.
Ryan: Kowalski, visual of debris at nine o'clock.
Kowalski: Half of North America just lost their Facebook.
Mission Control: Explorer, repeat, expect a communications blackout at any moment.
Explorer Captain: Copy that, Houston.
[A piece of a BSE satellite, spirals toward them]
Kowalski: Explorer, this is Kowalski, confirming visual contact with debris, debris is from a BSE sat.
Shariff: Heads up!
[More debris begins hurtling by at high speeds]
Kowalski: To repeat, I have—
Ryan: Dr. Stone requesting faster transport.
Kowalski: We have to go, we have to go, go, go!
Mission Control: Kennedy reports meteorological conditions no-go for re-entry— [transmission cuts off]
Explorer Captain: Houston, Explorer. Copy.
Ryan: Explorer, Dr. Stone requesting faster transport to bay area. Explorer, do you copy?
Kowalski: Explorer, permission to retrieve Dr. Stone.
Explorer Captain: You are a go, Kowalski. Houston, this is Explorer, copy? We've lost Houston. We've lost Houston.
[Kowalski thrusts himself over to Ryan]
Kowalski: Unstrap. Look, we need to get the hell out of here.
Shariff: Need some help there, Matt?
Kowalski: No, don't wait for us.
[A piece of debris strikes Shariff in the head, killing him instantly]
Ryan: It's stuck!
Kowalski: Man down! Man down!
Explorer Captain: Houston, this is Explorer, copy? Houston, this is Explorer, copy? Kowalski, report—
[A large piece of debris pierces strikes the right wing of Explorer, shattering it, and the shuttle begins to roll, carrying Ryan with it]
Kowalski: Explorer has been hit! Explorer, do you read? Explorer, over? Explorer!
[Another piece of debris hits the robotic arm and detaches it from the shuttle. The broken piece of the arm spins away with Ryan attached to it]
Kowalski: Astronaut is off structure, Dr. Stone is off structure! Dr. Stone, detach!
Dr. Stone: No!
Kowalski: You must detach. If you don't detach, that arm's gonna carry you too far. Listen to my voice! You need to focus!
Ryan: I can't!
Kowalski: I'm losing visual of you. In a few seconds I won't be able to track you. You need to detach. I can't see you anymore! Do it now!
Ryan: I'm trying, I'm trying...
[Ryan detaches herself from the arm and is sent hurtling into the void of space]
Kowalski: Houston, I've lost visual of Dr. Stone. Houston, I've lost visual of Dr. Stone.

View Quote Mission Control: Shariff, what's your status?
Shariff: Nearly there. Replacing battery module A1 and C.
Mission Control: Could you be a little more specific? Indeterminate estimates make Houston anxious.
Shariff: No, no, no, Houston, don't be anxious. Anxiety's not good for the heart. System is ready to reactivate.
Mission Control: Hubble Telescope engaged, upgrade fully functional. That applause you hear is for you, Shariff. Congratulations. Kick back, take the rest of the day off.
[Shariff cheers and begins singing a pop tune in Hindi]
Mission Control: Matt, do you have visual on just what Mission Specialist Shariff is doing up there?
Kowalski: He appears to be doing some form of the Macarena, but that would be just a best guess scenario on my part.

View Quote Kowalski: Houston, I have a bad feeling about this mission.
Mission Control: Please expand.
Kowalski: Okay, let me tell you a story. It was '96, I'd been up here 42 days. Every time I passed over Texas, I'd look down, knowing that Mrs. Kowalski, was looking up, thinking of me. Six weeks I'm blowing kisses to that woman. Then we land at Edwards and I find out she's run off with some lawyer, so I packed my car and I headed to...
Mission Control: Tijuana. You've told this story, Kowalski. As Houston recalls, she took off in your '74 GTO. Engineering requests a fuel status on the jetpack prototype.
Kowalski: Five hours off the reservation, and I show 30% drain. My compliments to Engineering. Except for a slight malfunction in the nulling of the roll axis, this jetpack is one prime piece of thrust.
Mission Control: Engineering says thank you.
Kowalski: Tell them I still prefer my '67 Corvette, though. Speaking of which, did I ever tell you...
Mission Control: We know the Corvette story, Matt.
Kowalski: Even Engineering?
Mission Control: Especially Engineering. We're going to miss you, Matt.

View Quote It's important to America to get a man up there first. I'm planning on being the first man to ride the rocket.

View Quote [The seven Mercury astronauts are being shown their spacecraft.]
Gordon Cooper: Uh, where are you putting the window?
German Scientist #1: Window? There is no window.
Gus Grissom: No window? What about the hatch?
German Scientist #1: The hatch?
Gus Grissom: Yeah, the hatch. We need a hatch with explosive bolts that we can open ourselves.
German Scientist #1: I think there is something you do not understand. This is the final form of the capsule. No hatch.
Deke Slayton: What if the automatic controls went out?
German Scientist #1: Backups, checks, etcetera. This would not happen.
Deke Slayton: I said, what would happen if it did?
Scott Carpenter: The pilot would have to fly it back.
German Scientist #2: This is the way it is.
John Glenn: You know, I wonder how the press is going to feel about this.
German Scientist #2: The press? What does the press have to say about this?
German Scientist #1: Yeah, what do they have to say about it?
Gordon Cooper: You boys know what makes this bird go up? Funding makes this bird go up.
Gus Grissom: That's right. No bucks, no Buck Rogers.
Gordon Cooper: And, uh, the press over there, they want to see Buck Rogers.
Deke Slayton: And that's us. Buck Rogers.
John Glenn: You see, those fellas over there, they've been making us out as the seven finest, and bravest pilots in all America. And if a story were to come out in the press that we were not being allowed to fly as pilots...
Alan Shepard: We want a window.
German Scientist #2: Uh, there could maybe be in future capsules, be a window, right here.
Gus Grissom: No, that's where the hatch with explosive bolts goes.
German Scientist #1: The hatch with the explosive...? Yeah. There could be a hatch with explosive bolts on the capsule.
Alan Shepard: That is a spacecraft, sir. We do not refer to it as a "capsule". Spacecraft.
German Scientist #1: Yeah. The hatch with explosive bolts on the... spacecraft. There. And there will be pitch and yaw thrusters which will enable the astronaut occupant—
Deke Slayton: The pilot. "Astronaut occupant"?
German Scientist #1: Yeah, the astronaut... pilot to have some...
John Glenn: [Holds up a hand, interrupting him.]
German Scientist #1: To have...
John Glenn: [Points at the press, then gestures to the scientist that he may continue speaking.]
German Scientist #1: ... control of the re-entry procedures.
John Glenn: Thank you. we appreciate it. You wouldn't mind if we had the press over here take a few photos of us by our spacecraft now, would you?

View Quote Reporter 1#: Gentlemen, I'd like to know from each of you whether your wives and children had anything to say about this. Mr. Slayton?
Deke Slayton: Uh, mine thinks it's fine.
Reporter 2#: Thank you. Mr. Schirra?
Wally Schirra: Uh, they're all for it.
John Glenn: You know, I don't think any of us could really go on with something like this if we didn't have pretty good backing at home. Really. My wife's attitude toward this has been the same as it's been all along through my flying. If it's what I want to do, she's behind it, and by golly, my kids are too, a hundred percent!

View Quote [trying to break up an argument between Deputy Norris and Buster] You know, guys, I moved here and I thought, Great! I'm outta the big city and I'm finally in a place where everybody isn't gonna be crawling up everybody's asshole every day! A place where maybe my biggest nightmare is gonna be getting some goddamn cat out of a tree! But forget that! EVERYBODY IS INSANE, EVERYWHERE!

View Quote Father Meehan: If there's a devil in this town, it's that damned Reverend Willie Rose!
Sheriff Pangborn: [about Leland Gaunt] You believe me now, Father? You still think he's a decent man? The Devil just blew up your damn church!
Father Meehan: That's not the Devil. It's those God-damned Baptists!

View Quote She thinks I'm an asshole. And if she thinks that about me, what in the long run is she going to think about you?

View Quote Either they forgot about us, or this entire ****in' neighborhood better get ready to duck.