Have you ever heard of Evel Knievel?
Lev Andropov No, I never saw Star Wars.
Col. William Sharp
14 quotes
Harry Stamper
Bruce Willis · 11 quotes
Rockhound
Steve Buscemi · 9 quotes
Dan Truman
Billy Bob Thornton · 6 quotes
A.J.
Ben Affleck · 4 quotes
Charles "Chick" Chapple
Will Patton · 4 quotes
Oscar
Owen Wilson · 3 quotes
Most scenes together: Harry Stamper & Col. William Sharp (6), Rockhound & Col. William Sharp (4), Harry Stamper & Rockhound (4)
Armageddon quotes
Page 1 of 2 Lev Andropov No. If anybody's anybody, I'm Han and you're Chewbacca.
Chewie! Have you even seen Star Wars?
Tell Grace that I'll, I'll always be with her. Can you do that?
Yeah. Okay, kid. [pulls AJ's air hose out and rips off his own mission badge and hands it to AJ] Give this to Truman! Make sure Truman gets that! Get in there. [pushes AJ back into the hatch and closes the door] It's my turn now.
Harry! You can't do this to me! It's my job!
You go take care of my little girl now. That's your job. I always thought of you as a son. I'd be damn proud to have you marry Grace.
Harry…
You take care of yourself. [pushes a button sending the hatch up] I love you.
No wait Harry I love you! Harry don't do this! I love you! No wait a minute!
Bye son.
Grace Stamper [talking to Harry on the monitor]
Daddy? [chuckles happily]
Hi, Gracie. Hi, honey. Grace, I know I promised you I was comin' home.
Grace [confused]
I don't under... understand.
Grace [emotionally]
I, um, I lied to you too, when I told you that I didn't wanna be like you... [smiles] because I am like you. Everything good that I have inside of me, I have from you. I love you so much, Daddy. I'm so proud of you. I'm so scared. I'm so scared.
I know, baby. But there won't be anything to be scared of soon. Gracie, I want you to know that AJ saved us. He did. I want you to tell Chick, that I couldn't have done it without him. None of it. I want you to take care of AJ. I wanna see your granddad come so far from up here, Grace. He told me that God gives us children so we could have roses in December. He gave me a gardenful, a whole gardenful, Gracie. He really did. I wish I could be there to walk you down the aisle. [Grace gets teary-eyed] But I'll... I'll look in on you from time to time, okay, honey? [a tear streams down his face as he looks at Grace one last time] I love you, Grace.
Grace [cries]
I love you too.
Gotta go now, honey.
Grace Daddy, no! [touches the screen as Harry cuts the video feed] No. No, Dad, no! [breaks down crying]
What's your contingency plan?
Contingency plan?
Your backup plan. You gotta have some kind of backup plan, right?
No, we don't have a back up plan, this is, uh…
And this is the best that you-that the government, the U.S. government could come up with? I mean, you're NASA for crying out loud, you put a man on the moon, you're geniuses! You're the guys that're thinking shit up! I'm sure you got a team of men sitting around somewhere right now just thinking shit up and somebody backing them up! You're telling me you don't have a backup plan, that these eight boy scouts right here [gestures to USAF pilots], that is the world's hope, that's what you're telling me?
Yeah.
None of you have to go. You can all just sit here on Earth and wait for this big rock to crash into it, killing everything and everybody we know. The United States government just asked us to save the world. Anybody wanna say no?
20 years. Haven't turned you down once. Not about to start now. I'm there.
Freddy Noonan
Guess I can't let you go up there alone.
Bear I'm with you.
Man, this is historic. Guys, this is, like, deep blue hero stuff! Of course I'm in.
While I don't share his enthusiasm…you know me. Beam me up, Scotty!
You all right, Max?
Max I…I…whatever you think?
I'm in.
All right then. We go.
I don't mean to be the materialistic weasel of this group, but…do you think we'll get hazard pay out of this?
President I address you tonight not as the President of the United States, not as a leader of a country, but as a citizen of humanity. We are faced with the very gravest of challenges. The Bible calls this day "Armageddon"-the end of all things. And yet, for the first time in the history of the planet, a species has the technology to prevent its own extinction. All of you praying with us need to know that everything that can be done to prevent this disaster is being called into service.
The human thirst for excellence, knowledge, every step up the ladder of science, every adventurous reach into space, all of our combined technologies and imaginations, even the wars that we've fought have provided us the tools to wage this terrible battle. Through all of the chaos that is our history, through all of the wrong and the discord, through all of the pain and the suffering, through all of our times, there is one thing that has nourished our souls, and elevated our species above its origins, and that is our courage.
The dreams of an entire planet are focused tonight on those fourteen brave souls traveling into the heavens. And may we, citizens the world over, see these events through. God speed, and good luck to you.
President What is this thing?
It's an asteroid, sir.
President How big are we talking?
Scientist
Sir, our best estimate is 97.6 billion…
It's the size of Texas, Mr. President.
President Dan, we didn't see this thing coming?
Well, our object collison budget's about a million dollars a year. That allows us to track about 3% of the sky, and begging your pardon sir, but it's a big-ass sky.
President Is this, going to hit us?
We're efforting that as we speak sir.
President What kind of damage?
Damage? A total, sir. It's what we call a global killer. The end of mankind. Doesn't matter where it hits, nothing would survive, not even bacteria.
President My God. What do we do?
Hey Harry.
What?
You realize we're sitting on 45,000 pounds of fuel, one nuclear warhead and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder? Makes you feel good doesn't it?
Yeah, Rock.
[after the asteroid landing goes wrong]
We're in segment 202, lateral grid 6, site 15H32-give or take a few yards. Captain American here blew the landing by 26 miles!
How the hell do you know that?
Because I'm a genius.
Watts The gauges will not read. They're all peaked like we're plugged into some magnetic field.
Gruber By all means.
The reason we were shooting for grid 8 was because thermographics indicated that grid 9 was compressed iron ferrite…which means you've landed us on a goddamn iron plate!
[Chick arrives at his estranged wife's house to apologize before getting back to prepare for the launch; Aerosmith's "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing" plays faintly in the background]
Hey.
Denise What are you doin' here?
I was just passin' by on the, uh, I came... [a boy comes onto the porch with a toy and sees Chick]
Tommy Who's he?
Denise That man's a salesman. Would you go inside? [Tommy obeys] Thank you.
He got big.
Denise Can't come around like this. Court says you can't. Confuses him.
No, I know. I just... I wanted to say that I'm sorry... about everything, and... I got somethin' comin' up, some'n kinda big. You just might be proud of me. Would you do somethin' for me? Would you just give him this? You don't have - you don't have to tell him who it's from, just... [puts a toy shuttle on the porch]
[during the standoff with the bomb]
For God's sakes, think about what you're doin'. Why are you listening to someone that's a hundred thousand miles away? No one down there can help us and if we don't get this job done, then everybody's gone.
Forty two seconds.
I have been drilling holes in the earth for thirty years. And I have never, never missed a depth that I have aimed for. And by God, I am not gonna miss this one. I will make 800 feet.
You swear on your daughter's life, on my family's, that you can hit that mark?
I will make 800 feet. I swear to God I will.
Just wanted to feel the power between my legs, brother.
NOW!
[Rockhound climbs off]
Hey Colonel! [Sharp turns to look at him] NO NUKES! NO NUKES! NO NUKES!
You got any bullets left in that gun?
They'll do it. They've made a few requests though.
Such as?
[riffles through sheets of paper]
Well, there's uh, few things here, uh... nothin' really big, uh, just- Well, as an example, uh, uh, Oscar here, he's got some outstanding parking tickets. Wants them wiped off his record.
Okay.
Uh, Noonan's got two women friends that he'd like to see made American citizens, no questions asked. Max would like you to...bring back eight-track tapes. Not sure if that's gonna work, but, uh, let's see what else. Um, Chick wants a full week's Emperor's Package at Caesar's Palace. Um - hey, you guys wouldn't be able to tell us who actually killed Kennedy, would ya? [Truman and the General look at him] Didn't think so. Um, Bear would like to stay at the... [tries to read writing] "White horse"? [looks up at Bear]
Bear White. House. White House.
White House. Yeah, he'd like to stay in the Lincoln bedroom of the White House for the summer. Stuff like that.
Sure, I think we can, uh, take care of... some of that.
[motions back at Rockhound]
Yeah, one more thing, um...none of them wanna pay taxes again. Ever. [Kimsey and Truman stare at Harry, who smirks and shrugs]
[addressing staff on the NASA flight center network after the space shuttle Atlantis is destroyed]
Okay, I want three groups. One: internal malfunction; get the log tape and start working back; maybe it's a glitch. Two: I want NORAD, Space Command and the 50th Tactical comparing all the space junk you tracked in every orbit. I want you to check, re-check and then do it all over again. Number three: wild cards, anything and everything alright? Now, Big Russ, I want you to get on the phone and wake up 11,000 people. Walt, get 'em going.