What do you want to do?
Dirk Uhhhhh...I think we need to pull a Panama.
A Panama? A PANAMA?!
Panama?
You think? Really?
Dirk Yeah! Really!
Played by Matthew McConaughey 
Sahara (2005) · 28 quotes
Sahara (2005) · 28 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in Sahara (2005): in 16 of its 28 quotes
Most scenes with: Al Giordino (10), Eva Rojas (2), Admiral James Sandecker (2)
I hope you don't throw like a girl!
Scenes with Dirk Pitt
15 scenes Dirk Dirk Dirk and Al are eating in a restaurant.
Dirk (has an idea and leaves)
I'll meet you at the boat.
(after Dirk has gone)
No! I got the check. Don't worry about it. I'm serious. I know, i get it all the time. Sit down, I'll get the check!
Next time you go!
Dirk What the hell took you so long?
What? I stopped for coffee.
Dirk Did you get a receipt?
Yeah, I got a receipt, and you know what? I got you one too!
Dirk You're the best Al!
You know what? I'll even get you the money from Sandecker.
Dirk All right Rudi, you gonna run sonar of the river.
Rudi But,I was hoping to meet a girl on the australian trip.
No. African war zone, ship of death!
...later...
Rudi Got a profile!
Another truck bumper? Bicycle? VCR?
Dirk What would you do if you were about to be exposed as the biggest polluter in history?
I don't know. Run for president?
Dirk Al, did you get the explosives from Massardes?
Couldn't find them.
Dirk Al...
Didn't have time.
Dirk AL!
Of course I brought the explosives!
Dirk I'm sorry I don't speak English.
Gunboat Officer You are speaking English right now.
Dirk No, I only know how to say, "I don't speak English" in English.
Dirk Hey Al, Do remember that time when we were in Morocco?
Ya, when you made me ride that damn camel, that bit my ass.
Dirk Yeah, that's the time.
Why?
Hey, you know how it is when you see someone that you haven't seen since high school, and they got some dead-end job, and they're married to some woman that hates them, they got three kids who, like, think he's a joke? Wasn't there some point where you stood back and said, "Bob, don't take that job! Bob, don't marry that harpy!" You know?
Dirk Your point?
Well, we're in the desert, looking for the source of a river pollutant, using as our map a cave drawing of a Civil War gunship, which is also in the desert. So I was just wondering when we're gonna have to sit down and re-evaluate our decision-making paradigm?
Dirk (seeing the old fort from the cave painting)
I don't know. It seems to be working so far.
Dirk Admiral, have you ever seen a confederate gold dollar?
Dirk Of course not, because the Confederacy never made a gold dollar. The mint was destroyed at the end of the war.
I beg you on my hands and knees, don't.
Dirk But not before Jefferson Davis had five samples made. He gave four of those samples to his top generals: Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Jeb Stuart and Johnston.
Every time we come to Africa outcomes that stupid ship model, outcomed the old port generals. We're leaving for Australia tomorrow.
Dirk Four of those samples have been found. But the fifth never was. That one was given to an old family friend of Davis, a brilliant young sea captain named Mason Tombs. Captain of the CSS ironclad Texas. (producing the coin and handing it to Sandecker)
And you found that coin?
Dirk Not just a coin. I found the coin. Now I also had a letter from the captain's widow alluding to her husband's urgent eastern voyage. Had a sailor's log on a Atlantic clipper, who swore on the stack of Bibles, he saw a great iron beast standing two miles off the African coast.
Hey, you know my dad collected ancient coins, from Rome, China, Siam, Persia... somehow they all ended up in a shoe box in New Jersey.
Dirk Meaning?
Coins travel, Dirk. I mean, even if that poor guy was still alive, it could have been nothing.
Dirk Yeah, but the coin traveled from somewhere Al. Unless it hitched a ride on the back of a dolphin, I'm gonna guess it's jumping off point was a little closer to where we're sitting.
Really? You can see that ironclad steaming up the river? I mean really? Isn't it more likely that we missed it somewhere up the coast off Virginia?
Dirk (untying her bonds)
Eva. How many times am I gonna have to save your ass?
Well, in case you didn't notice, I actually saved yours.
Yves (to Dirk, while holding a gun to Eva's head)
I apologize, Mr. Pitt. This is not what it appears.
Dirk (dropping his gun)
Did I miss something? I've seen your toxic dump. I've seen sick Tuareg women and children and I saw the dead in Asselar. Did I leave something out?
On the Ship (Dirk and Al)
Dirk: on the phone.
Al: Hey buddy,um how did you tell me to do this? Somethin about a fox and a rabbit?
Dirk: -sigh- Here, you chase the rabbit AROUND the tree and DOWN the hole.
Dirk (after sliding down the hill on the truck-bed and finding the skeleton) (seeing the name tag on the jacket)
K. Mannock... no way!
Why no way ?
Dirk Kitty Mannock. She flew from London to Cape Town in 1931. They never found her or her plane. This must be where she crashed.
