Con Air (1997) - Quotes

Introduction to Con Air

Taglines: Welcome to Con Air.

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Deadly Offenders Take to the Skies

Taglines: They were deadly on the ground. Now they have wings.

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Prepare for Takeoff

Taglines: Buckle Up!

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Prepare for Takeoff

Taglines: Get Ready to Fly.

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The Consequences of a Mistaken Journey

Taglines: One wrong flight can ruin your whole day.

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Cyrus Explains the Boneyard and Plane

Cyrus: [points with a stick] Considering my audience, I'm gonna make this very quick and very simple. This is the boneyard. This is the hangar. This is our plane.

Viking: [points at a rock] What's that?

Cyrus: That's a rock.

Viking: [looks embarrassed] Okay.

Cyrus: [flicks off forward Coke can; hits can; cons mobilize] The convoy will enter the boneyard here. Initially, we take out the first car , then we take out the last, creating a trap... an air-tight cage filled with lots and lots of dead people. Nathan, get everybody in position, yeah? And bring me those propane tanks!

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Lessons from Fathers in Unlikely Circumstances

Cyrus the Virus: Thanks, Poe. You've proven to be a most useful mammal.

Cameron Poe: Many hands make light work." My daddy taught me that.

Cyrus: You know what my daddy taught me?

Poe: What's that?

Cyrus: Nothin'.

Poe: Self-educated man.

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The Nature of Criminal Motivation

Garland Greene: Two went down. One came up.

Poe: Wasn't my fault.

Garland: [[Jeffrey Dahmer|Dahmer; [John Wayne Gacy|Gacy; [w:Ted Bundy|Bundy] Well, you don't have to tell me. Most murders are crimes of necessity rather than desire. But the great ones... ], ], ]... they did it because it excited them.

Poe: Don't you... I got nothing in common with them — with you! Don't you talk to me! They were insane!

Garland: Now you're talking semantics. What if I told you insane was working a 50-hour week for 50 years, at the end of which they tell you to piss off. Ending up in some retirement village, hoping to die rather than suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time. Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?

Poe: Murdering 30 people, semantics or not, is insane.

Garland: [smiles] One girl, I drove through three states wearing her head as a hat.

Poe: It's my daughter's birthday, so please feel free not to share everything with me.

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Establishing Rules for an Interrogation

Cyrus: Good, now here are the rules, I'm going to ask a question and then you will ask a question.

Larkin: Okay... What's your question?

Cyrus: In Carson City, your boys were onto us; how?

Malloy: [Larkin cuts him off] One of the guards-

Larkin: One of the guards faked a heart attack and we had to remove his restraints, okay?

Cyrus: Alright, now what's your question?

Larkin: Where are you going with my plane, Cyrus?

Cyrus: We're going to Disneyland.

Larkin: You're lying, Cyrus.

Cyrus: [mocks him by singsong; Larkin throws the headset he's using] So are you, Vince. Ohh... nothing makes me sadder than the agent lost his bladder in the... aaaiirrrplane.

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Recognizing a Notorious Criminal on a Flight

Johnny "Johnny 23" Baca: Shit, that's Garland Greene, man.

Cameron Poe: The Marietta Mangler.

Mike "Baby O" O'Dell: [[w:Charles Manson|Manson Family; [The Partridge Family] That skinny little man butchered thirty-some people up and down the eastern seaboard. They say the way he killed those people makes the ] look like ]!

Poe: Well...he's on the right flight.

Control and Consequences in High-Stakes Scenario

Cyrus the Virus: [holding the pilot at gunpoint] Say there was a disturbance, but you've got it under control. Say it, or I will kill you.

Pilot: Without me, you got nobody to fly the plane.

Cyrus: I never think that far ahead.

Enforcing Rules on the Aircraft

Guard Falzon: [[w:Hard Copy|Hard Copies; [w:Geraldo Rivera|Geraldo; gestures at Diamond Dog] Well, welcome aboard. My, my; as I look around I see a lot of celebrities among us. I see eleven Current Affairs, two ] and a genuine ] interviewee, but I gotta tell you gentlemen, none of this impresses me. Because we have rules on this aircraft and they're going to be enforced. It's a lot like kindergarten. You'll keep your hands to yourself, keep the decibel level down and, if any of you should feel the need to scream, spit, or bite, you get the treatment.

Inmate: [spits at Falzon's feet] Fuck you, pig.

Guard Falzon: [to another guard; strikes inmate before guards gag him and place a mesh bag over his head] Gag and bag this Nazi muffin. You see, this kind of thing puts me in a foul mood. These rules will be enforced because I can't have trouble. If any of you so much as pass gas in my general direction, upsetting my delicate nasal passages, your testicles will become my personal property. That's pretty clear. Good.

Irony in a Plane Crash Context

Garland Greene: [as the convicts dance to "Sweet Home Alabama"] Define irony: a bunch of idiots dancing on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash.

The Pain of Misplaced Happiness

Garland Greene: [His first spoken words in the movie; regarding Billy Bedlam] He's a font of misplaced rage. Name your cliche: Mother held him too much or not enough, last picked at kickball, late night sneaky uncle, whatever. Now, he gets so angry, moments of levity actually cause him pain, gives him headaches. Happiness, for that gentleman, hurts.

Profile of a Criminal Mastermind

U.S. Marshal Vince Larkin: [on Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom] This one's done it all. Kidnapping, robbery, murder, extortion. His name is Cyrus Grissom, AKA "Cyrus the Virus." Thirty-nine years old, 25 of them spent in our institutions. But he's bettered himself inside. Earned two degrees, including his juris doctorate. He's also killed 11 fellow inmates, incited three riots, and escaped twice. Likes to brag that he's killed more men than cancer. Cyrus is a poster child for the criminally insane. He's a true product of the system.

Return the Bunny to Its Box

Cameron Poe: Put the bunny back in the box.

Chaos on the Plane of Criminals

Cameron Poe: They somehow managed to get every freak and creep in the universe on this one plane, and then somehow managed to let them take it over, and then they somehow managed to stick us right smack in the middle.