Armageddon (1998) · 28 quotes
3rd most-quoted character in Armageddon (1998): in 9 of its 28 quotes
Most scenes with: Col. William Sharp (4), Harry Stamper (4), Oscar (2)
Guess what guys, it's time to embrace the horror! Look, we've got front row tickets to the end of the earth!
Rockhound You wanna compare brainpans? I won the Westinghouse prize when I was 12. Big deal. Published at 19, so what. I got a double doctorate from MIT at 22. Chemistry and Geology. I taught at Princeton for two and a half years. Why do I do this? Because the money's good, the scenery changes and they let me use explosives, okay?
Rockhound Wow. Got a great view of the Earth from here. Too bad we'll never set foot on her again.
Rockhound We're staying, we're going, we're staying, we're going, make up your mind!
Rockhound Hey Harry.
What?
Rockhound 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.
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.
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.
Rockhound 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.
Rockhound I don't mean to be the materialistic weasel of this group, but…do you think we'll get hazard pay out of this?
Rockhound 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?
Rockhound Because I'm a genius.
Watts The gauges will not read. They're all peaked like we're plugged into some magnetic field.
Rockhound Who on this spaceship wants to know why?
Gruber By all means.
Rockhound 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!
Rockhound Just wanted to feel the power between my legs, brother.
NOW!
Rockhound 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?
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.
Rockhound Harry!
Yeah, one more thing, um...none of them wanna pay taxes again. Ever. [Kimsey and Truman stare at Harry, who smirks and shrugs]
Mr. Pink
Carl Showalter
Nikita Khrushchev
Horace Nebbercracker
Wayne
Francis Francis
Starscream
Cornell Shaw
