Pearl Harbor (2001) · 16 quotes
The mission I am asking you to volunteer for is exceptionally dangerous. Take a look at the man beside you. It's a good bet that in the next six weeks, you, or he, will be dead. Everyone brave enough to accept this...step forward. [all of the men go forward]
Col. James Doolittle
Your grandma could take a B-25 off a mile-long runway. Well, I'm gonna train you to do it at 467 feet, because at 468 feet, you're dead, and once you get it up, you're gonna learn to fly it like a fighter. Thirty feet off the ground. I want you to say hello to Lt Jack Richards, Navy Aviation. He's gonna help us lighten these fat ladies here.
Col. James Doolittle
Victory belongs to those who believe in it the most and believe in it the longest. We're gonna believe. We're gonna make America believe too.
I heard what you did.
Rafe
We can explain that, sir.
Explain what?
Danny
Whatever it is you heard about us, sir.
You mean the hoola shirts you were flying in... or the seven planes you shot down.
What if we have to bail out over Japan?
Well, in that situation, I can't tell you what to do.
Rafe
What would you do, colonel?
I wasn't built to be a prisoner... so I would have my crew bail out. I'd find the sweetest military target I could and drive my plane right smack into the middle of it and kill as many of those bastards as I possibly could.
Secretary of the Navy gave me these.
Danny
What are they?
Friendship medals the Japanese gave us when they were pretending they wanted peace.
Rafe
What do you want me to do with them sir?
We're gonna wire them to the bombs and give them back.
Where'd you find religion?
When you assigned me to this mission, sir.
I want you to do me a favor.
What's that, Colonel?
Pray for both of us.
