"I'd take pleasure in guttin' you, boy. I'd take pleasure in guttin' you... boy." What is wrong with these people, huh? Mason? Don't you think there's a lot of, uh, a lot of anger flowing around this island? Kind of a pubescent volatility? Don't you think? A lotta angst, a lot of "I'm sixteen, I'm angry at my father" syndrome? I mean, grow up! We're stuck on an island with a bunch of violence-for-pleasure-seeking psycopathic marines, shame on them!
Stanley Goodspeed
Nicolas Cage · 27 quotes
John Patrick Mason
Sean Connery · 21 quotes
General Francis X. Hummel
Ed Harris · 11 quotes
FBI Director James Womack
John Spencer · 3 quotes
Most scenes together: John Patrick Mason & Stanley Goodspeed (10)
The Rock quotes
Page 1 of 4(To Carla)
I really believe that anyone who's even thinking of having a child in this world is coldly considering an act of cruelty.
Commander Anderson We're in the fight of our lives, against maybe the greatest battalion commander in the Vietnam War, I shit you not.
FBI Agent
He is my age now, for Christ's sake. I have to get up three times a night to take a piss!
Marvin Look how big this is. You want me to stick this into my heart, are you **** nuts?
Ranger Bob I, Ranger Bob, cordially invite you to become inmates of Alcatraz. Temporarily of course.
Stylist
Oh, who did this to you? This is just not right, in fact it's nasty!
Stylist
Okay, I don't wanna know nothing. I never saw you throw that gentleman off the balcony. All I care about is, are you happy with your haircut?
Carla You didn't really mean what you said about bringing a child into this world...being an act of cruelty, did you?
I meant it at the time.
Carla Stanley, you said it seven and a half seconds ago!
Well, gosh, kind of a lot's happened since then.
Chief of Staff Hayden Sinclair
Three tours in Vietnam, Panama, Grenada, Desert Storm, three Purple Hearts, two Silver Stars and the Congressional Medal of–Jesus. This man is a hero.
General Al Kramer
Well, I think "legend" might be a better description, Mr. Sinclair.
Sinclair
Yeah, well, now we can add kidnapping and extortion to his list of accolades.
Gen. Kramer
[mildly indignant]
Mr. Sinclair, General Hummel is a man of honor.
Commander Andersson
Have you ever been in a combat situation?
Define combat, Sir.
Shep An incursion underwater to re-take an impregnable fortress held by an elite team of US Marines in possession of 81 hostages and 15 guided rockets armed with VX poison gas.
Oh. In that case, no, Sir.
FBI Agent Paxton
[to Womack discreetly]
I need to talk to you, right now, alone.
Agent Paxton [Both Paxton and Womack are outside]
Now you told me I'm on a need-to-know basis. And I'm tellin' you right now, I need to know who the **** John Mason is right now, sir?
All right, you wanna know? 1962, J. Edgar Hoover is head of the FBl, some say the country. It's no secret he kept microfilm files on prominent Americans and Europeans: de Gaulle, British members of Parliament, even the prime minister. I mean, this guy had dirt on everybody in the world.
Paxton Yeah, I know all the cloak-and-dagger stories. Where does Mason fit in?
Mason was the British operative who stole the files. But our Bureau agents caught him at the Canadian border. Of course, the British claimed, 'They'd never heard of him.' And we held him without trial until he gave up the microfilm... but he never did.
Paxton Well, I'm surprised Hoover didn't use his daughter as leverage.
Hoover was dead in '72. She wasn't born yet. Today... well, it's a different Bureau.
Paxton So you held this guy without trial his whole life. No wonder he's pissed.
This man knows our most intimate secrets from the last half century: The alien landing at Roswell, the truth about the J.F.K. assassination. Mason's angry, he's lethal, he's a trained killer. And he... is the only hope that we have got.
Gen. Hummel I'm not about to kill 80,000 innocent people! Do you think I'm out of my **** mind? We bluffed, they called it.The mission is over.
Capt. Frye Who said anything about bluffing, General?
Gen. Hummel
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson.
Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious, according to Oscar Wilde. [Hummel strikes him in the back of the neck] Thank you for making my point.
Hi, I'm an agent with the Federal, FBI, I'm Stanley Goodspeed!
But of course you are.
Of course.
And you have an emergency?
Right.
And you need my help?
Exactly right.
Coffee?
No, I'm fine, thank you.
Offer me coffee!