Stanley Goodspeed I love pressure, I eat it for breakfast.
Played by Nicolas Cage 
The Rock (1996) · 57 quotes
The Rock (1996) · 57 quotes
Most-quoted character in The Rock (1996): in 27 of its 57 quotes
Most scenes with: John Patrick Mason (10)
"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!
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Stanley Goodspeed (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.
Stanley Goodspeed Well, I'm one of those fortunate people who like my job, Sir. Got my first chemistry set when I was seven, blew my eyebrows off, we never saw the cat again, been into it ever since.
Stanley Goodspeed I'm a chemical superfreak actually, but, I still need a gun.
Stanley Goodspeed Okay, you wanna play tough with me? You wanna play tough? OK, FBI! Freeze, sucker!
Stanley Goodspeed Listen, I'm just a bio-chemist. Most of the time I work in a glass jar and lead a very uneventful life. I drive a Volvo. A beige one. But what I'm dealing with here, is one of the deadliest substances the earth has ever known so whaddaya say you cut me some friggin' slack?
Stanley Goodspeed Why don't we cut the chit chat, A-hole?!
Stanley Goodspeed But how in the name of Zeus' butthole did you get out of your cell? I only ask because given our current situation, that information may prove useful. Maybe!
Stanley Goodspeed Eat that, you ****!
Stanley Goodspeed Honey? Uh, you wanna know who really killed JFK?
Scenes with Stanley Goodspeed
15 scenes
Goodspeed If the rocket renders it aerosol, it could take out an entire city of people.
Really? And what happens if you drop one?
Goodspeed Happily, it'd just wipe out you and me.
How?
Goodspeed It's a cholinesterase inhibitor. Stops the brain from sending nerve messages down the spinal cord within thirty seconds. Any epidermal exposure or inhalation and you'll know. A twinge at the small of your back as the poison seizes your nervous system...[Mason has lifted the chem round to look at it] Do NOT move that! Your muscles freeze, you can't breathe, you spasm so hard you break your own back and spit your guts out. But that's after your skin melts off.
Goodspeed Oh, I think we'd like God on our side at the moment, don't you?
Kid on motorbike
Hey man, you just **** up your Ferrari!
Goodspeed It's not mine. [the kid laughs] Neither is this. [takes the kid's motorbike]
Goodspeed Well, there's a problem sir, he has a gun.
Paxton What do you have, a **** water pistol?!
Carla You didn't really mean what you said about bringing a child into this world...being an act of cruelty, did you?
Goodspeed I meant it at the time.
Carla Stanley, you said it seven and a half seconds ago!
Goodspeed Well, gosh, kind of a lot's happened since then.
Commander Andersson
Have you ever been in a combat situation?
Goodspeed 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.
Goodspeed Oh. In that case, no, Sir.
Goodspeed Hi, I'm an agent with the Federal, FBI, I'm Stanley Goodspeed!
But of course you are.
Goodspeed Of course.
And you have an emergency?
Goodspeed Right.
And you need my help?
Goodspeed Exactly right.
Coffee?
Goodspeed No, I'm fine, thank you.
Offer me coffee!
Are you sure you're ready for this?
Goodspeed I'll do my best.
Your best? Losers always whine about their best, winners go home and **** the prom queen!
Goodspeed Carla was the prom queen!
Really?
Goodspeed (**** his gun)
Yeah!
Goodspeed You've been around a lot of corpses, is that normal? (Points to a dead marine whose legs are twitching)
What, the feet thing?
Goodspeed Yeah, the feet thing.
Yeah, it happens.
Goodspeed Yeah, well I'm having a hard time concentrating. Can you do something about it?
Like what? Kill him again?
Goodspeed The mission is not complete!
It is. When this is over, you'll go back home, driving Carla and the baby insane, in your beige Volvo. And I'll be dead, or back in prison which is the same thing.
Goodspeed You're not leaving--arrgh! (Mason punches him and walks off) All right, I'll do it myself! I got three weeks weapons training. I'll kick the...hell out of a platoon full of Marines! No problem.
Goodspeed You enjoying this?
Well, it's certainly more enjoyable than my average day: reading philosophy, avoiding gang rape in the shower room. Though its been less of a problem these days. Maybe I'm losing my sex-appeal.
Goodspeed You're not leaving! Theres a madman in there, with his hand on a--on a button!
Shh. Some sniper's gonna get his ass.
Goodspeed [Holding VX Poison Nerve Gas]
Do you know how this shit works?
Capt. Darrow [Holding his knife]
Do you know how this shit works?! (flashes his knife) Come on, come on, I don't need the gun. I'll put it down, come on. Let's play! Come on, come on!
Goodspeed Listen, I think we got off on the wrong foot. Stan Goodspeed, FBI. Uh, let's talk music. Do you like the Elton John song "Rocket Man"?
Capt. Darrow I don't like soft-ass shit!
Goodspeed Oh, oh you don't, ok. Well, I only ask because it's you. You're the rocket man! [he fires the rocket out the window, taking Darrow with it] How do you like how that shit works?!
Goodspeed You broke out, let me see if I can get this straight. You went down the incinerator chute, on the mine car, through the tunnels to the power plant, under the steam engine–that was really cool by the way–and into the cistern through the intake pipe. But--ahem-hem!--how, in the name of Zeus's butthole, did you get out of your cell?! I only ask because in our current situation, well, it could prove to be useful information. Maybe!
Goodspeed [Mason and Goodspeed are defusing a poison gas rocket when Goodspeed notices a twitching corpse]
You've been around a lot of corpses. Is that normal?
Goodspeed Yeah, the feet thing.
Yeah, that happens.
Goodspeed Well, I'm having kind of a hard time concentrating. Can you do something about it?
Like what? Kill him again?
Goodspeed Listen, I'm just a biochemist. And most of the time I work in a glass jar and lead a very uneventful life. I drive a Volvo--a beige one. But what I'm dealing with here, is one of the most deadly substances the Earth has ever known. So what do you say you cut me some friggin slack?
Goodspeed [Goodspeed composes himself for a brief moment before removing its contents]
A really elegant string-of-pearls configuration. Unfortunately, incredibly unstable.
And what exactly does this stuff do?
Goodspeed If the rocket renders it aerosol, it could take out an entire city of people.
Really? And what happens if you drop one?
Goodspeed Happily, it'd just wipe out you and me.
How?
Goodspeed It's a cholinesterase inhibitor. Stops the brain from sending nerve messages down the spinal cord within 30 seconds. Any epidermal exposure or inhalation and you'll know. A twinge at the small of your back as the poison seizes your nervous system- [Mason has lifted the chem round to look at it] DO NOT MOVE THAT! Your muscles freeze, you can't breathe, you spasm so hard you break your own back and spit your guts out. But that's after your skin melts off.
Goodspeed [smiles grimly]
Oh, I think we'd like God on our side at the moment, don't you?
Stanley Goodspeed [Goodspeed just told the FBI that Mason is dead]
Womack tore up your pardon, John.
But of course. I knew he would.
Goodspeed The S.D.U.s and the scuba gear should still be where we came ashore. If you can get to the Pan Pacific Hotel, there's clothes in my closet, $200 in the Bible, Room 26.
Well, it's been a long time since I've said thank you to anybody... but thank you. Well, Stanley, I guess this is where we go our separate ways. I'm sure you understand the etymology of your name, "Goodspeed".
Goodspeed Yeah, God speed: To wish someone a prosperous journey. Why?
Well, if you fancy a journey, I recommend Fort Walton, Kansas.
Goodspeed I was thinking of Maui.
No... [puts something into Goodspeed's hand] Forget Maui.
Goodspeed [reads piece of paper]
St Michael's Church, Fort Walton, Kansas. Front pew, right leg, hollow. Is this what I think it is-[looks back at Mason, but he's disappeared] MASON!?
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