Tracy Letts movie quotes

View Quote Lee Iacocca: James Bond does not drive a Ford, sir.
Henry Ford II: That's because he's a degenerate.

View Quote Carroll Shelby: [about to take Ford on a drive in the GT40] You ready?
Henry Ford II: The name on the middle of that steering wheel should tell you that I was born ready, Shelby. Hit it.
Carroll Shelby: Attaboy.
[Shelby proceeds to drive the GT40 with a fast acceleration]
Henry Ford II: Woah! It's got a little...kick. Doesn't it?
[Shelby continues to accelerate and drive the GT40 faster and faster through the course]
Henry Ford II: Woah! Oh my God...oh my God! [Shelby accelerates faster] Yeahhhh, baby!
[Shelby weaves faster around cones, then finally spins to a stop. Ford frantically pants then starts openly crying]
Carroll Shelby: ...Mr. Ford...you okay? Mr. Ford, you alright?
Henry Ford II: [through sobs] I had no idea...I had no idea. I wish my daddy...he were alive to see this...to feel this.
Carroll Shelby: Now, this is not a machine just anybody can get in and easily control.
Henry Ford II: [still gently sobbing] Absolutely not. I had no idea.
Carroll Shelby: Now, you wanna win Le Mans, if you really wanna take first place, Ken Miles is the man to do it. [Ford finally calms down] Now he knows this car, because he helped me build it.
Henry Ford II: Shelby, you know I've already appointed Leo Beebe Director of Racing.
Carroll Shelby: Which is exactly why I'm talking to you. Now, you let Ken Miles race at Daytona. If he wins, he gets to drive Le Mans.
Henry Ford II: And if he doesn't?
Carroll Shelby: Ford Motor Company gets full ownership of Shelby American. Lock, stock, and brand...forever.

View Quote [Henry Ford II enters the assembly plant.]
Henry Ford II: Shut it down, Mr. Beebe
[Leo Beebe turns around and faces the head engineer.]
Leo Beebe: John!
[The head engineer nods and shuts down the assembly line.]
Henry Ford II: Hear that? That's the sound of the Ford Motor Company out of business.
[Henry II walks around the plant.]
Henry Ford II: In 1899, my grandfather, Henry "By God" Ford, was walking home from Edison Illumination after working a double shift. He was ruminating. That morning, he had himself an idea that changed the world. Sixty-five years, and 47 million automobiles later, what shall be his legacy? Getting it in the tail pipe from a Chevy Impala!
[Some of the workers chuckle.]
Henry Ford II: Here's what I want you to do. Walk home.
[The workers suddenly go silent.]
Henry Ford II: While you're walking, I want you to ruminate. Man comes to my office with an idea, that man keeps his job. Rest of you, second-best losers... stay home. You don't belong at Ford.

View Quote Fritz Beebe: If the government wins and we're convicted, the Washington Post as we know it will cease to exist.
Ben Bradlee: Well, if we live in a world where the government could tell us what we can and cannot print, then the Washington Post as we know it has already ceased to exist.

View Quote Roger Clark: What if we wait? What if we hold off on printing today. Instead we call the Attorney General and we tell them that we intend to print on Sunday. That way we give them and us time to figure out the legality of all of it, while the Court in New York decides the Times case.
Ben Bradlee: Are you suggesting we alert the Attorney General to the fact that we have these documents, that we're going to print, in a few days?
Roger Clark: Well, yes, that is the idea.
Ben Bagdikian: Yeah, well, outside of landing the Hindenburg in a lightning storm, that's about the shittiest idea I've ever heard.
Fritz Beebe: Oh boy!

View Quote Katharine Graham: The Nixon White House is nothing if not vindictive. Just this morning they barred us from covering Trisha Nixon's wedding.
Fritz Beebe: Somehow, I doubt that will rise to the level of catastrophe.
Katharine Graham: [laughs] No. Probably not. Although, when Ben sets his mind to plunder, its not hard to imagine something more serious. Catastrophic events - do occur, you know.

View Quote Hey, I'm like Keith Richards. I'm just happy to be anywhere.

View Quote You're not gonna get in a car with a guy that honks, are ya?