Mark Watney Hi, I'm Mark Watney and I'm still alive... obviously.
Played by Matt Damon 
The Martian (2015) · 23 quotes
The Martian (2015) · 23 quotes
Most-quoted character in The Martian (2015): in 15 of its 23 quotes
A line from Mark WatneyAt some point, everything's gonna go south on you... everything's going to go south and you're going to say, this is it. This is how I end. Now you can either accept that, or you can get to work. That's all it is. You just begin. You do the math. You solve one problem... and you solve the next one... and then the next. And If you solve enough problems, you get to come home. All right, questions?
More lines from Mark Watney
12 quotes Mark Watney Mark Watney I'm the first person to be alone on an entire planet.
Mark Watney If the oxygenator breaks down, I'll suffocate. If the water reclaimer breaks down, I'll die of thirst. If the hab breaches, I'll just kind of implode. If none of those things happen, I'll eventually run out of food and starve to death. So, yeah... Yeah...
Mark Watney In the face of overwhelming odds, I'm left with only one option: I'm gonna have to science the shit out of this.
Mark Watney I've got to make a lot more water. The good thing is, I know the recipe: You take hydrogen, you add oxygen, and you burn. Now, I have hundreds of liters of unused hydrazine at the MDV. If I run the hydrazine over an iridium catalyst, it'll separate into N2 and H2. And then if I just direct the hydrogen into a small area and burn it. Luckily, in the history of humanity, nothing bad has ever happened from lighting hydrogen on fire.
Mark Watney [after trying to make water by burning hydrogen]
So... I blew myself up.
Mark Watney Good news: I may have a solution to my heating problem. Bad news: it involves me digging up the radioisotope thermoelectric generator. Now, if I remember my training correctly, one of the lessons was titled: "Don't dig up the big box of plutonium, Mark." I get it; RTGs are good for spacecraft, but if they rupture around humans... no more humans, which is why we buried it when we arrived. And planted that flag so we would never be stupid enough to accidentally go near it again. But, as long as I don't break it... [trails off, then starts laughing] I almost just said "Everything will be fine," out loud. Look, the point is, I'm not cold anymore.
Mark Watney I don't want to come off as arrogant here, but I'm the greatest botanist on this planet.
Mark Watney I've been thinking about laws on Mars. There's an international treaty saying that no country can lay claim to anything that's not on Earth. By another treaty if you're not in any country's territory, maritime law applies. So Mars is international waters. Now, NASA is an American non-military organization, it owns the Hab. But the second I walk outside I'm in international waters. So here's the cool part. I'm about to leave for the Schiaparelli Crater where I'm going to commandeer the Ares IV lander. Nobody explicitly gave me permission to do this, and they can't until I'm on board the Ares IV. So I'm going to be taking a craft over in international waters without permission, which by definition... makes me a pirate. Mark Watney: Space Pirate.
Mark Watney They say once you grow crops somewhere, you have officially colonized it. So, technically, I colonized Mars. In your face, Neil Armstrong!
Mark Watney [after hearing he has to take the top off of the Mars Ascent Vehicle]
I know what they're doing. I know exactly what they're doing. They just keep repeating "go faster than any man in the history of space travel", like that's a good thing. Like it'll distract me from how insane their plan is. Yeah, I get to go faster than any man in the history of space travel, because you're launching me in a convertible. Actually it's worse than that, because I won't even be able to control the thing. And by the way, physicists, when describing things like acceleration do not use the word "fast". So they're only doing that in the hopes that I won't raise any objections to this lunacy, because I like the way "fastest man in the history of space travel" sounds. I do like the way it sounds... I mean, I like it a lot. [pauses] I'm not gonna tell them that.
Mark Watney I admit it's fatally dangerous, but I'd get to fly around like Iron Man.
Scenes with Mark Watney
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Melissa Lewis All right team, stay in sight of each other. Let's make NASA proud today.
Rick Martinez
How's it looking over there, Watney?
Mark Watney Well, you will be happy to hear that in Grid Section 14-28, the particles were predominately coarse but in 29, they're much finer and they should be ideal for chem analysis.
Rick Martinez
Oh, wow. Did everybody hear that? Mark just discovered dirt. [laughs] Should we alert the media?
Melissa Lewis You're in Martinez's hands now.
Mark Watney Well... tell that asshole no barrel rolls.
