Cameron Poe "They somehow managed to get every freak and creep in the universe on this one plane, and then somehow managed to let them take it over, and then they somehow managed to stick us right smack in the middle."
Played by Nicolas Cage 
Con Air (1997) · 59 quotes
Con Air (1997) · 59 quotes
Tied for most-quoted character in Con Air (1997): in 16 of its 59 quotes
Most scenes with: Billy Bedlam (2)
"If this thing goes bad, Larkin, I'm afraid my daughter won't understand. If you talk to my wife again, you tell her I love her... she's my hummingbird. I just couldn't leave a fallen man behind."
More lines from Cameron Poe
10 quotes Cameron Poe Cameron Poe "Now, what would my daughter think of me if I left you to be dishonored and die?"
Cameron Poe "Put the bunny back in the box."
Cameron Poe "Now why couldn't you put the bunny back in the box?"
Cameron Poe "There's only two men I trust. One of 'em's me, and the other's not you."
Cameron Poe "What do you think I'm gonna do? I'm gonna save the ****in' day."
Cameron Poe "Well, Baby O, it's not exactly mai-tais and Yahtzee out here — but let's do it."
Cameron Poe "Just so's you know, Marshal Larkin, there's now three men I trust."
Cameron Poe [while slamming Johnny 23's head into a cage repeatedly]
"Don't treat women like that!"
Cameron Poe "on any other day that might seem strange" after seening the corvette attached to the plane
Scenes with Cameron Poe
5 scenesShit, that's Garland Green, man.
Cameron Poe The Marietta Mangler.
"Baby O" Odell That skinny little man butchered thirty-some people up and down the eastern seaboard. They say the way he killed those people makes the Manson Family look like the Partridge Family!
Poe Well...he's on the right flight.
Diamond Dog Yee-ha! What's on your mind, hillbilly?
Cameron Poe Now, let's see, what was I thinking? Oh, yeah — "Yee-ha," that's right. I was just wondering what a black militant - that would be you - is doin' taking orders from a white boy on a power trip? Now don't you think that's strange?
Diamond Dog A means to an end my white friend, a means to an end. See, I can play house **** till we get to where we're going... and then, the day of the Dog begins...shh.
I thought I heard you say you was on north block.
Poe That's right.
Funny thing. I was on north block. I don't know you.
Poe Now what do you think that means? Nothing. Not diddly-shit. See, there were 160 cats on north block, and I didn't want to know 159 of them. Which included you! What do you think about that?
Poe (In the plane's hold, Billy Bedlam has found Poe's personal effects — including Poe's parole certificate and the stuffed bunny he bought for his daughter.)
Put the bunny back in the box.
I knew you was a punk, and I was right. You been playing us all along. You're a free man.
Poe I said, "Put the bunny back in the box"!
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Two went down. One came up.
Poe Wasn't my fault.
Well, you don't have to tell me. Most murders are crimes of necessity rather than desire. But the great ones... Dahmer, Gacy, Bundy... they did it because it excited them.
Poe Don't you... I got nothing in common with them — with you! Don't you talk to me! They were insane!
Now you're talking semantics.
Thanks Poe. You've proven to be a most useful mammal.
Cameron Poe "Many hands make light work." My daddy taught me that.
You know what my daddy taught me?
Poe What's that?
Nothin'.
Poe Self educated man.
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