Ed Harris Quotes

Richard Brown I wanted to be a writer, that's all. I wanted to write about it all. Everything that happens in a moment. The way the flowers looked when you carried them in your arms. This towel, how it smells, how it feels, this thread. All our feelings, yours and mine. The history of it, who we once were. Everything in the world. Everything all mixed up, like it's all mixed up now. And I failed. I failed. No matter what you start with it ends up being so much less. Sheer fucking pride and stupidity.

Reporter 1# Gentlemen, I'd like to know from each of you whether your wives and children had anything to say about this. Mr. Slayton?

Deke Slayton Uh, mine thinks it's fine.

Reporter 2# Thank you. Mr. Schirra?

Wally Schirra Uh, they're all for it.

John Glenn You know, I don't think any of us could really go on with something like this if we didn't have pretty good backing at home. Really. My wife's attitude toward this has been the same as it's been all along through my flying. If it's what I want to do, she's behind it, and by golly, my kids are too, a hundred percent!

Wayne Tarrance How about you get down on your knees and kiss my ass for not indicting you as a co-conspirator right now, you chickenshit little Harvard cocksucker?

Mitch McDeere I haven't done anything, and you know it!

Wayne Tarrance Who gives a fuck? I'm a federal agent! You know what that means, you lowlife motherfucker? It means you've got no rights, your life is mine! I could kick your teeth down your throat and yank them out your asshole, and I'm not even violating your civil rights!

Mitch McDeere You are Agent Wayne Tarrance.

Wayne Tarrance Yeah, you’re goddamn right I am. Maybe local cops can’t…

Mitch McDeere Let me get this straight: you want me to steal files from the firm, turn them over to the FBI, send my colleagues to jail...

Wayne Tarrance They roped you into this.

Mitch McDeere Breach attorney-client privilege, thus getting myself disbarred for life, then testify in open court against the Mafia...

Wayne Tarrance Well, unfortunately, Mitch...

Mitch McDeere Let me ask you something: are you out of your fucking mind?

Christof We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented, it's as simple as that.

Richard Brown I had this fantastic notion. I took the Xanax and the Ritalin together. It had never occurred to me!

Richard Brown Would you be angry if I died?

Christof That's our hero shot.

Blake Let me have your attention for a moment. Cause you're talking about what? You're talking about bitching about that sale you shot, some son of a bitch don't wanna buy land, somebody don't want what you're selling, some broad you're trying to screw, so forth. Let's talk about something important. Are they all here?

John Williamson All but one.

Blake Well, I'm going anyway. Let's talk about something important. Put that coffee down! Coffee's for closers only. You think I'm fucking with you? I am not fucking with you. I'm here from downtown. I'm here from Mitch and Murray, and I'm here on a mission of mercy! Your name's Levene?

Shelley Levene Yeah.

Blake You call yourself a salesman, you son of a bitch?

Dave Moss I don't gotta listen to this shit.

Blake You certainly don't, pal, cause the good news is you're fired. The bad news is you've got — all of you've got — just one week to regain your jobs, starting with tonight. Starting with tonight's sit. Oh, have I got your attention now? Good, cause we're adding a little something to this month's sales contest. As you all know, first prize is a ]. Anybody wanna see second prize? Second prize's a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired. Do you get the picture? Are you laughing now? You got leads. Mitch and Murray paid good money. Get their names to sell them! You can't close the leads you're given? You can't close shit? You are shit! Hit the bricks, pal, and beat it cause you are going out!

Shelley The leads are weak!

Blake The leads are weak? Fucking leads are weak? You're weak. I've been in this business 15 years.

Dave What's your name?

Blake Fuck you! That's my name! You know why, mister? Cause you drove a ] to get here tonight. I drove an $80,000 ]. That's my name! And your name is: you're wanting and you can't play in a man's game. You can't close them? Then go home and tell your wife your troubles. Because only one thing counts in this life! Get them to sign on the line which is dotted! You hear me, you fucking faggots? A–B–C. A: Always, B: Be, C: Closing. Always be closing. Always be closing! A–I–D–A. Attention, Interest, Decision, Action. Attention: do I have your attention? Interest: are you interested? I know you are, cause it's fuck or walk. You close, or you hit the bricks! Decision: have you made your decision for Christ? And action. A–I–D–A. Get out there! You got the prospects coming in; you think they came in to get outta the rain? A guy don't walk on the lot unless he wants to buy. They're sitting out there waiting to give you their money. Don't you want to take it? Are you man enough to take it?

Dave Incredible.

Blake What's the problem, pal? You, Moss.

Dave You're such a hero. You’re so rich. How come you’re coming down here and waste your time with such a bunch of bums?

Blake You see this watch? You see this watch?

Dave Yeah.

Blake That watch cost more than your car. I made $970,000 last year. How much you make? You see, pal, that's who I am, and you're nothing. Nice guy? I don't give a shit. Good father? Fuck you! Go home and play with your kids. You wanna work here? Close! You think this is abuse? You think this is abuse, you cocksucker? You can't take this, how can you take the abuse you get on a sit? You don't like it, leave. I can go out there tonight with the materials you got, make myself $15,000, tonight, in two hours! Can you? Can you? Go and do likewise! A–I–D–A! Get mad, you son of a bitches! Get mad! You know what it takes to sell real estate? It takes brass balls to sell real estate. Go and do likewise, gents. The money's out there. You pick it up, it's yours. You don't, I got no sympathy for you. You wanna go out on those sits tonight and close — close! — it's yours. Not, you're gonna be shining my shoes. And you know what you'll be saying — bunch of losers, sitting around in a bar? "Oh yeah, I used to be a salesman. It's a tough racket." These are the new leads. These are the Glengarry leads, and to you, they're gold, and you don't get them. Why? Because to give them to you is just throwing them away. They're for closers. I'd wish you good luck, but you wouldn't know what to do with it if you got it. And to answer your question, pal, why am I here? I came here because Mitch and Murray asked me to. They asked for a favor. I said, the real favor? Follow my advice and fire your fucking ass because a loser is a loser.

Richard Brown *Richard's last words, quoting Virginia's suicide note, before he jumps out the window

Christof I've given Truman the chance to lead a normal life. The world, the place you live in is the sick place. Seahaven is the way the world should be.

Richard Brown I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

Christof Where you going, Truman?

Curtis There's not a soul on this train who wouldn't trade places with you.

Wilford Would you trade places with me?

Curtis Fuck you.

Wilford Curtis, dear boy, the fact is that we are all stuck inside this blasted train. We are all prisoners in this hunk of metal. Medium rare? And this train is a closed ecosystem. We must always strive for balance. Air, water, food supply, population must always be kept in balance. For optimum balance, however, there have been times when more radical solutions were required. When the population needed to be reduced, rather... drastically.

John Glenn It's important to America to get a man up there first. I'm planning on being the first man to ride the rocket.

Wilford I believe it is easier for people to survive on this train if they have some level of insanity. As Gilliam well understood, you need to maintain a proper balance of anxiety and fear and chaos and horror in order to keep life going. And if we don't have that, we need to invent it. In that sense, the Great Curtis Revolution you invented was truly a masterpiece.

Wilford Our original agreement was for the insurgency to end at the Yaketerina Tunnel. And all the survivors would go back to the tail section to enjoy much more space.

Curtis You're a fucking liar. Gilliam would never do that.

Wilford Well, it all worked out in the end. Your counterattack actually made the insurgency ten times more exciting. Unfortunately, the front suffered more losses than anticipated, and Gilliam had to... ...pay the price. Ironic, isn't it? How people dramatically cross that thin barrier between life and death.

Gordon Cooper Uh, where are you putting the window?

German Scientist #1 Window? There is no window.

Gus Grissom No window? What about the hatch?

German Scientist #1 The hatch?

Gus Grissom Yeah, the hatch. We need a hatch with explosive bolts that we can open ourselves.

German Scientist #1 I think there is something you do not understand. This is the final form of the capsule. No hatch.

Deke Slayton What if the automatic controls went out?

German Scientist #1 Backups, checks, etcetera. This would not happen.

Deke Slayton I said, what would happen if it did?

Scott Carpenter The pilot would have to fly it back.

German Scientist #2 This is the way it is.

John Glenn You know, I wonder how the press is going to feel about this.

German Scientist #2 The press? What does the press have to say about this?

German Scientist #1 Yeah, what do they have to say about it?

Gordon Cooper You boys know what makes this bird go up? Funding makes this bird go up.

Gus Grissom That's right. No bucks, no Buck Rogers.

Gordon Cooper And, uh, the press over there, they want to see Buck Rogers.

Deke Slayton And that's us. Buck Rogers.

John Glenn You see, those fellas over there, they've been making us out as the seven finest, and bravest pilots in all America. And if a story were to come out in the press that we were not being allowed to fly as pilots...

Alan Shepard We want a window.

German Scientist #2 Uh, there could maybe be in future capsules, be a window, right here.

Gus Grissom No, that's where the hatch with explosive bolts goes.

German Scientist #1 The hatch with the explosive...? Yeah. There could be a hatch with explosive bolts on the capsule.

Alan Shepard That is a spacecraft, sir. We do not refer to it as a "capsule". Spacecraft.

German Scientist #1 Yeah. The hatch with explosive bolts on the... spacecraft. There. And there will be pitch and yaw thrusters which will enable the astronaut occupant—

Deke Slayton The pilot. "Astronaut occupant"?

German Scientist #1 Yeah, the astronaut... pilot to have some...

German Scientist #1 To have...

German Scientist #1 ... control of the re-entry procedures.

John Glenn Thank you. we appreciate it. You wouldn't mind if we had the press over here take a few photos of us by our spacecraft now, would you?

Gene Kranz I want this mark all the way back to Earth with time to spare. We've never lost an American in space, we're sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch. Failure is not an option!

Richard Brown I've stayed alive for you. But now you have to let me go.

Gene Kranz I don't care what anything was designed to do. I care about what it can do.

Gene Kranz Tell me this is not a government operation.

Margaret Lomax Whatever happened between you and Vi, I don't wanna know about it. I don't ever wanna hear about it. Am I right? Am I right?

Wayne Lomax Yes.

Margaret Lomax Maybe you didn't notice, but I'm not the same dumb beauty operator you married eight years ago.

Wayne Lomax What are you gonna do?

Margaret Lomax I don't know. I got the shop. Rosalie and me can get along without you.

Wayne Lomax I'm never gonna see Viola again. It's over between us.

Margaret Lomax It's too late for that. I don't think I could live with you anymore. I don't think I love you anymore.

Wayne Lomax Please don't say that.

Carl Fogarty You should ask Tom... how come he's so good at killing people?

Mitch McDeere I got mine, Wayne, you get the rest of them.

Wayne Tarrance Get em with what? Overbilling, mail fraud? Oh, that's exciting.

Mitch McDeere It's not sexy, but it's got teeth! Ten thousand dollars and five years in prison. That's ten and five for each act. Have you really looked at that? You've got every partner in the firm on overbilling. There's two hundred fifty acts of documented mail fraud there. That's racketeering! That's minimum one thousand, two hundred fifty years in prison and half a million dollars in fines. That's more than you had on Capone.

Dave Moss You're fucked, Rick. Are you fucking nuts? You're hot, so you think you're the ruler of this place. You wanna—

Shelley Levene Now, wait a minute, Dave.

Dave Shut up!

Shelley Okay.

Dave You want to decide who should be dealt with how, is that it? I come in the fucking office today, I get humiliated by some jack-off cop. I get accused of— I get the shit thrown in my face by you, you genuine shit, because you're top name on the board?

Ricky Roma Is that what I did, Dave? I humiliated you? Oh my God. I'm sorry.

Dave Sitting on top of the world. Sitting on top of the world, everything's fucking peach fuzz.

Ricky And I don't get a moment to spare for some bust-out humanitarian down on his luck lately?

Dave Oh, fuck—

Ricky Fuck you, Dave. You know you got a big mouth. You make a close, this whole place stinks with your farts for a week, how much you just ingested. Oh, what a big man you are! "Hey, let me buy you a pack of gum. I'll show you how to chew it." Ooh! Your pal closes, and all that comes out of your mouth is bile! How fucked-up you are!

Dave Who's my pal, Ricky? Hmm? What are you? And what are you, Ricky? Huh? ]? What the fuck are you, Mr. Slick? Who— what the fuck are you: friend of the working man? Big deal! Fuck you! You got the memory of a fucking fly! I never liked you, anyway.

Ricky What is this, your farewell speech?

Dave I'm going home.

Ricky Your farewell to the troops?

Dave I'm not going home. I'm going to Wisconsin.

Ricky Have a good trip.

Dave Ah, fuck you! Fuck the lot of you! Fuck you all!

Ricky You were saying?

Gene Kranz Let's work the problem, people. Let's not make things any worse by guessing.

Carl Fogarty Any last words before I blow your brains out you miserable prick?

Walter Sullivan For eighty years, I've tried to live... a decent life. I've given a billion dollars to charity. If this comes to trial... none of that will be remembered. I'll just go out... the joke of the world.

Seth Frank I understand, sir. I'll do what I can.

Walter Sullivan Will you listen to me whine? I apologize, Mr. Frank. Bother me all you want, just do your job. And I'll try to do mine.

Wilford Have you ever been alone on this train? When was the last time you were alone? You can't remember, can you? So please do. Take your time.

Richard Brown Oh, Mrs. Dalloway... Always giving parties to cover the silence.

Gene Kranz The Lunar Module just became a lifeboat.

E. Howard Hunt John, sooner or later, sooner, I think, you're gonna learn a lesson that's been learned by everyone who's ever gotten close to Richard Nixon. That he's the darkness reaching out for the darkness. And eventually, it's either you or him. Your grave's already been dug, John.

Wilford Curtis, everyone has their preordained position, and everyone is in their place except you.

Curtis That's what people in the best place say to the people in the worst place.

Gene Kranz EECOM, GNC, these guys are talking about bangs and shimmies up there; doesn't sound like instrumentation to me.

Kate Whitney Quit wasting my time. He doesn't want you to find him, you're not gonna find him.

Seth Frank You're saying what? He left town, he skipped the country? What?

Kate Whitney I'm saying, you won't recognize him. I'm saying, he could be right around the corner.

Medical Examiner Looks like he tried to strangle her.

Seth Frank He strangled her, then he went to the door to shoot her from behind?

Medical Examiner He also inspected her vagina.

Seth Frank He did what? Why?

Laura Simon Maybe he didn't remember that he did her.

Seth Frank A strong burglar with a weak mind. Obviously another open-and-shut case.

Wayne Tarrance Man, I don't understand you. What'd you do it for? You didn't win a thing.

Mitch McDeere Oh, yes I did. I won my life back. YOU don't run me, and THEY don't run me!

Christof If his was more than just a vague ambition, if he was absolutely determined to discover the truth, there's no way we could prevent him.

Wilford We don't have time for true natural selection. We would all be hideously overcrowded and starved waiting for that. The next best solution is to have individual units kill off other individual units. From time to time, we've had to stir the pot, so to speak. The Revolt of the Seven, the MacGregor Riots, the Great Curtis Revolution. A blockbuster production with a devilishly unpredictable plot. Who could have predicted your counterattack with the torch in the Yaketerina Tunnel? Pure genius. That wasn't what Gilliam and I had in our plan.

Curtis What?

Wilford Oh, don't tell me you didn't know. Gilliam and I... our plan.

Curtis Gilliam?

Wilford Gilliam.

Wilford You've seen what people do without leadership. They devour one another.

Christof I am the creator... of a television show

Gene Kranz GODDAMMIT! I don't want another estimates. I want the procedures, NOW!

Christof Cue the sun!

Wilford When's the last time you got laid? Like Gilliam said, holding a woman is much better with two arms.

Seth Frank Why does he bother to dig a slug out of the wall when he knows there's already another one stuck in her head?

Laura Simon Uh, different from the one in her body?

Seth Frank Two guns means two burglars. They broke in together, they both went out the window? That's bullshit! And by the way, why did he, or they, go out the window in the first place when he, or they, got in by breaking a zillion-dollar security system?

Richard Brown Just wait till I die. Then you'll have to think of yourself. How are you going to like that?

Carl Fogarty Still crazy fucking Joey.

Whitelaw Redfellow Been working your way up the financial ladder. Filthy business though.

Gene Kranz OK, guys, we're going to the moon.