The Core
2003
Serge Leveque: I came here to save my wife and my two children and... six billion lives... it's too much. I just hope I'm, I'm smart enough and brave enough to save three.
Col Robert Iverson: Hang on. This isn't going to be subtle.
(Keyes has an idea) Dr Conrad Zimsky: Are you interested? Dr Josh Keyes: Yes. (sounding very frustrated) Dr Josh Keyes: We're interested. Dr Conrad Zimsky: (calmly) Then let me smoke a cigarette, and I'll tell you.
Dr Josh Keyes: I'm married to my work. Serge Leveque: So am I. Which makes my wife my mistress. That's why I'm still in love with her.
(when asked what it would take to get the ship ready within 3 months) Dr Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton: (laughing) Fifty billion dollars... I... General Thomas Percell: (with straight face) Will you take a check? Dr Josh Keyes: Why don't you use a credit card? You get miles.
Dr Josh Keyes: Do this and I'll sign your doctorates blindfolded. Danni: Blindfolded? Dr Josh Keyes: Blindfolded. Do not pass go. Go directly to PhD.
Col Robert Iverson: I have done this approach two hundred and thirteen times on the simulator. We are NOT where we should be.
Talma Stickley: You are 129 miles off-course. Maj. Rebecca Childs: Ah, roger Houston - we kind of noticed that.
Dr Josh Keyes: I think we are in the wrong place here... Serge Leveque: Yeah, we're in the wrong place! General Thomas Percell: No - if you were in the wrong place you'd have already been shot.
FBI Agent: Dr Keyes, your presence is required in the pentagon. Dr Josh Keyes: Aaah, it's my best buddies! Hey! Why don't you join us for a drink? FBI Agent: We'd be grateful if you could join us - for a ride, sir. Dr Josh Keyes: And if I were to say no? I'm just asking. FBI Agent: Well, we have no sense of humor. Dr Josh Keyes: That's true. FBI Agent: And we're armed.
Dr Josh Keyes: As the EM field becomes more and more unstable, we'll start seeing isolated incidents - one plane will fall from the sky, then two, then, in a few month, anything, everything electronic will be fried. Dr Conrad Zimsky: Static discharges in the atmosphere will create superstorms with hundreds of lightning strikes per square mile. Dr Josh Keyes: After that it gets bad.
Dr Josh Keyes: Feel free to throw up. I know I did.
Taz 'Rat' Finch: How many languages do you speak? Dr Conrad Zimsky: Five, actually. Taz 'Rat' Finch: I speak one. One Zero One Zero Zero. With that I could steal your money, your secrets, your sexual fantasies, your whole life. In any country, any time, any place I want. We multitask like you breathe. I couldn't think as slow as you if I tried.
(first lines) Dave Perry: (referring to his watch) It stopped.
(last lines) Taz 'Rat' Finch: Destiny, meet world. World, meet Destiny.
Taz 'Rat' Finch: (after successfully hacking into DESTINI and stopping it) Your Kung-Fu is not strong.
Dr Josh Keyes: What's going on? FBI Agent: We don't know your security clearance is higher than ours. Dr Josh Keyes: I have security clearance? FBI Agent: We're taking you your private jet. Dr Josh Keyes: I have a private jet?
(space shuttle Endeavor is way off course) Maj. Rebecca Childs: I show possible touchdown at 335 North 118 West. Talma Stickley: Endeavor, that is confirmed. Turn right, heading 175. Expect visual contact with Los Angeles River in five seconds.
Dr Conrad Zimsky: (recording his voice on a tape recorder, then realizing he's about to die) What the fuck am I doing?
Taz 'Rat' Finch: (after playing with Keyes' cell phone) Here, you now have free long distance on this phone. Forever.