Other Titles • The Rock • The Rock - Fels der Entscheidunge (1996)
Quotes from The Rock (1996)
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John Mason: Are you sure you're ready for this? Stanley Goodspeed: I'll do my best. John Mason: Your "best"! Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen. Stanley Goodspeed: Carla was the prom queen. John Mason: Really? Stanley Goodspeed: [cocks his gun] Yeah.
(37 votes)
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Stanley Goodspeed: How, in the name of Zeus's butthole, did you get out of your cell?
(29 votes)
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Tourist in the prison: What kind of a fucked up tour is this?
(27 votes)
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Commander Anderson: Have you ever been in a combat situation? Stanley Goodspeed: Define combat, sir. Commander Anderson: Shep... Lt. Shephard: An incursion underwater to retake an impregnable fortress held by an elite team of US Marines in possession of 81 hostages and fifteen guided rockets armed with VX poison gas. Stanley Goodspeed: Oh. In that case, no, sir.
(25 votes)
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Paul (hotel barber): I never saw you throw that gentleman off the balcony. All I care about is: are you happy with your haircut?
(22 votes)
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General Hummel: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson. John Mason: "Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious," according to Oscar Wilde. [Hummel strikes him and Mason falls to his knees] John Mason: Thank you for making my point.
(3 votes)
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General Hummel: Major Anderson, if you have any concern for the lives of your men, you will order them to safety their weapons and place them on the deck. Agent Paxton: This is not happening. Commander Anderson: Sir, we know why you're out here. God knows, I agree with you. But like you, I swore to defend this country against all enemies, foreign sir, and domestic. General we've spilled the same blood in the same mud. And you know god damn well I can't give that order. Navy SEAL: We're dead! General Hummel: Your unit is covered from an elevated position, Commander. I'm not gonna ask you again. Don't do anything stupid. No-one has to die here. Commander Anderson: [raising his voice] The men following the General: you're under oath as United States Marines, have you forgotten that? We all have shipmates we remember, some of them were shit on and pissed on by the Pentagon. But that doesn't give you the right to mutiny! General Hummel: You call 'em what you want! You're down there, we're up here! You walked into the wrong goddamn room, Commander!
(3 votes)
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Stanley Goodspeed: I love pressure. I eat it for breakfast.
(3 votes)
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John Mason: Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes. Stanley Goodspeed: I fear the Greeks even when they bear gifts. John Mason: An Educated Man, that rules out Field Agent
(1 vote)
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"Well, yeah, OK, that's just about the most awful thing I've ever seen."--Stanley Goodspeed (Nicolas Cage), after seeing a villain crushed to death
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"This isn't about terrorism, this is about justice."--Gen. Francis X. Hummel (Ed Harris), about his reason for taking hostages at Alcatraz
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"I'm too old for this."--John Patrick Mason (Sean Connery)
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Stanley Goodspeed: Why didn't you just tell them were the microfilm was and create a solution? John Mason: The moment they knew where the microfilm was, they'd suicide me. Some solution.
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General Hummel: [while having Mason detained] Do you know who I am? Did they tell you why I am doing this? Why I am out here? Or are they using you like they did everyobdy else? John Mason: All I know is that you were big in Vietnam. I saw the highlights on television. General Hummel: Then you probably have got no fucking idea what it means to lead some of the finest gentlemen on God's earth into combat and then watch their memories get betrayed by their own damn government. John Mason: I don't quite see how you can cherrish the memory of the dead by killing another million. This is not combat, it's an act of lunacy, General Sir. Personally, I think you're a fucking idiot. General Hummel: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriotism." Thomas Jefferson. John Mason: "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious," according to Oscar Wilde. [Hummel smacks him to his knees] John Mason: Thank you for making my point. General Hummel: [points his gun to Mason's face] Where're the guidance chips? John Mason: I destroyed them. General Hummel: That's a bad move, soldier! John Mason: Does that mean you'll execute us both? [referring to himself and the civilian Hummel has a gun pointed to]
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Stanley Goodspeed: Honey? Uh... You wanna know who really killed JFK?
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Chief of Staff Hayden Sinclair: Southern China? We've never even admitted we sent troops into China! General Hummel: Who is this? Identify yourself! Chief of Staff Hayden Sinclair: This is White House Chief of Staff Hayden Sinclair, General. General Hummel: How OLD are you Mr. Sinclair? Chief of Staff Hayden Sinclair: I'm 33. General Hummel: Well Mr. Sinclair, you've probably got no FUCKING idea what I'm talking about! By your 9th birthday, I was running BlackOps into China and my men were responsible for over two-hundred enemy kills! Now someone put some riggin tape over Mr. Sinclair's mouth, he's wasting my time!
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John Mason: I'm fed up saving your ass. I'm amazed you made it past puberty.
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[about killing] Stanley Goodspeed: How do you... do it? John Mason: I was trained by the best. British intelligence. But in retrospect I would rather have been a poet. Or a farmer. Stanley Goodspeed: Okay.
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Commander Anderson: Thank you very fucking much Mr. Mason, you've led us into a room with no exit.
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General Hummel: Put the phone down. Major Tom Baxter: I'm calling them Frank, I'm asking for more time. General Hummel: You're being asked by a friend. [Baxter continues] General Hummel: You're being ordered by a superior officer. [Baxter carries on, Hummell draws] General Hummel: Now you're being given your last chance by a man with a gun.
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John Mason: When all this is over, you'll go back home driving Carla and your baby insane in your beige Volvo. And I'll be dead or in jail which is the same thing.
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Carla: You didn't mean what you just said, did you? Stanley Goodspeed: When? Carla: Just right now, when you were talking about bringing a child into the world, and how it'd be an act of cruelty. Stanley Goodspeed: I meant it at the time. Carla: "At the time"? Stanley, you said it seven and a half seconds ago! Stanley Goodspeed: Well... gosh, kind of a lot's happened since then.
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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.
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Stanley Goodspeed: 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 psycophatic marines, SHAME ON THEM! Stanley Goodspeed: Anyway, I only got one chemround and there's two left. Mason? John Mason: Yes, I'm here. I was just thinking how wonderful it was when the inmates weren't allowed to talk in here.
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Stanley Goodspeed: Hi, I'm an agent with the federal... FBI... I'm Stanley Goodspeed. John Mason: But of course you are. Stanley Goodspeed: Of course. John Mason: And you have an emergency. Stanley Goodspeed: Right. John Mason: And you need my help. Stanley Goodspeed: Exactly right. John Mason: Coffee? Stanley Goodspeed: No, I'm fine, thank you. John Mason: Offer me coffee.
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John Mason: I'm sure all this will make a great bed time story to tell your kid. Stanley Goodspeed: You're insane, Mason. The kid'll have nightmares. I'll spend all my money on shrinks.
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Stanley Goodspeed: You mean I'm going out there, under the water? Womack: Earlier you wanted a gun. Now you're getting a gun and a wet suit.
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Stanley Goodspeed: I'm unarmed sir. I am unarmed, sir. Womack: Where's your issue? Stanley Goodspeed: I left in my, uh, in my [coughs] Stanley Goodspeed: sock draw. FBI Agent Hunt: A gun? For what? You're a chemical freak! Stanley Goodspeed: Heh. I'm a chemical superfreak, actually, but I still need a gun. Agent Paxton: Give him a goddamn gun.
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Major Tom Baxter: I thought you weren't ready to kill. General Hummel: I'm warmin' up.
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John Mason: This is more enjoyable than my average day... reading philosophy, avoiding gang rape in the washrooms... though, it's less of a problem these days... maybe I'm losing my sex appeal.
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Stanley Goodspeed: You've been around a lot of corpses. Is that normal? John Mason: What, the feet thing? Stanley Goodspeed: Yeah, the feet thing. John Mason: Yeah, it happens. Stanley Goodspeed: Yeah, well I'm having a hard time concentrating. Can you do something about it? John Mason: Like what, kill him again?
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John Mason: I have a unique knowledge of this prison facility. I was formerly a guest here.
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Stanley Goodspeed: You know, I like history too, and maybe when this is all over you and I can stop by the souvenir shop together but right now I just... I just wanna find some *rockets*!
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John Mason: I've been in jail longer than Nelson Mandela. Maybe you want me to run for president.
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General Hummel: The men of marine force recon are selected to carry out illegal operations throughout the world. When they don't come home, their families are told fairy tales about what happened to them... and denied compensation. Well, I have choked on these lies my entire career. Well here and now the lies stop.
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Stanley Goodspeed: Glass or plastic, glass or plastic?
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Commander Anderson: Make no mistake, gentlemen. We are in the fight of our lives, against one of the greatest battalion commanders of the Vietnam War, I shit you not.
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General Hummel: You made a terrible mistake, and more of our brothers have died in vain. Damn you for forcing me into this position.
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Stanley Goodspeed: Mason, the second you don't respect this, it kills you.
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John Mason: Your mother, she was very special. Jade Angelou: Yeah, she was. But I don't think that we should romanticize what happened between you and her. Two people meet in a bar after a Led Zepplin concert, head out, and I was the result. John Mason: Well, I'd like to think it would have led somewhere if... Jade Angelou: If what? Six federal marshals hadn't kicked down her door and dragged you back to prison?
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Stanley Goodspeed: Look, I'm just a biochemist. Most of the time, I work in a little 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 say you cut me some FRIGGIN' SLACK?
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Captain Darrow: Excuse me, general... but what about the fucking money? General Hummel: There is no fucking money. The mission's over. Captain Frye: Bullshit it's over. Major Tom Baxter: You're talking to a General, soldier. Maintain discipline. Captain Darrow: I'm not a soldier, Major. The day we took hostages, we became... mercenaries. And mercenaries get paid. I want my fucking money.
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John Mason: I want a suite, a shower, a shave, the feel of a suit. Stanley Goodspeed: May I also suggest a haircut? John Mason: Why, am I out of style? Stanley Goodspeed: Unless you're a 20 year old guitarist from Seattle. It's a grunge thing.
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FBI Director Womack: No scissors. Just clippers. Paul the Hotel Barber: What? Are you kidding me? No scissors? Did they tell Picasso 'No brush'? FBI Director Womack: With scissors, this man could kill you. John Mason: I can't cut off anyone's balls with a pair of clippers, now can I? Let's do this outside, get some sun.
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John Mason: Welcome to the Rock.
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Captain Frye: You changed the coordinates, didn't you, General? General Hummel: That's affirmative, Captain. Sergeant Crisp: So now they think we're gutless, the feds? They think we won't actually do it? Captain Frye: They're going to come at us with everything they got. Air and sea. They're going to bomb our ass back to the Stone Age. Major Tom Baxter: They don't know we missed on purpose. Captain Frye: Great. We're not gutless, we're incompetent.
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Captain Frye: Me and my boys are cocked, locked and ready to rock.
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[Mason And Goodspeed are defusing a poison gas rocket] John Mason: What exactly does this stuff do? Stanley Goodspeed: If the rocket renders it aerosol, it could take out the entire city of people. John Mason: Really? And what happens if you drop one? Stanley Goodspeed: Happily, it'd just wipe out you and me. John Mason: How? Stanley 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] Stanley Goodspeed: DO NOT MOVE THAT. Your muscles freeze, you can't breathe, and you spasm so hard you break your own back and spit your guts out. But this is after your skin melts off. John Mason: My God. Stanley Goodspeed: Oh, I think we'd like God on our side at the moment, don't you?
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Stanley Goodspeed: Some Terrorists decided to send a little care package. Box of goodies. Which had to be neutralized before blowing up the office... [strums his guitar] Stanley Goodspeed: ...so I took the rest of the day off. Glass of wine, little guitar... Just relaxing. I mean it honey, the world is being faxed to hell in a hand cart. I really believe anyone thinking even thinking of bringing a child in to the world is coldly considering an act of cruelty. [pause, Carla stares at Stanley] Stanley Goodspeed: I know, I'm rambling, I'm complaining, I'm sorry. What's your news, baby? Carla: I'm pregnant.
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[reading Hummel's file] 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. Chief of Staff Hayden Sinclair: Well, now we can add kidnapping and extortion to his list of accolades. General Al Kramer: Mr. Sinclair, General Hummel is a man of honor.
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