Space Cowboys (2000)
Tommy Lee Jones: Hawk Hawkins
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Quotes
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Frank Corvin : You know what the worst day of my life was? The day Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. I was probably the only person in America who wanted to commit suicide that day.
Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : Well, thanks a lot Frank. We haven't spoken in twelve years and that's basically been the big question on my mind, what could make you commit suicide.
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Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : [Frank and Hawk are inside the centrifuge/spinning machine, which is about to be started] The first one to pass out buys the beers tonight...
Frank Corvin : [machine start spinning] You're on...
Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : [machine speed increases and it's moving really fast] This thing's moving?...
Frank Corvin : I don't know... Doesn't seems to be moving to me...
Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : [machine speed continues to increase] Say, fellas, is y'all's equipment broke down? Fellas?
[everybody's watching the show]
Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : You're a pushover, Frank!
Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : [machine is now spinning at top speed] I do believe it's moving now...
Tank Sullivan : That sure will take the wrinkles out.
Eugene 'Gene' Davis : [walking into the control room] WHAT the hell is going on here?
[crowd disappears]
Eugene 'Gene' Davis : [really pissed, hits the emergency stop on the centrifuge] I'm sure you think you're putting on a great show, but this is not a toy! Now which one of you assholes wants to explain this?
Frank Corvin : Gene?
Eugene 'Gene' Davis : What?
Frank Corvin : Which one of us passed out first?
Eugene 'Gene' Davis : I'm getting too old for this shit...
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Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : Have you noticed how everybody seems to be dead lately?
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Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : What is a pancreas, anyhow? I mean, I don't know what the damn thing does for you, besides give you cancer.
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[Frank and Hawk are asking a waitress who she would prefer to 'take home']
Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : Would you prefer this man, with his asymmetrical sagging ass-cheeks, his love-handles the size of Nebraska, and his oh-so-ugly in-grown toenail...?
Frank Corvin : [interrupting] Or this son of a bitch with the chicken-gizzard neck and the face that looks like thirty miles of Death Valley fire trail?
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Eugene 'Gene' Davis : Morning, Hawk.
Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : Good morning.
Eugene 'Gene' Davis : What happened to your eye?
Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : l fell in the shower. Tell maintenance to put some no-slip adhesives on that slippery floor.
Eugene 'Gene' Davis : How's it going, Frank?
Frank Corvin : Fine, fine.
Eugene 'Gene' Davis : Whats with the eye? Slip in the shower?
Frank Corvin : How would you know that?
Eugene 'Gene' Davis : l think I'll have a chat with the janitor.
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Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : What are you doing here?
Frank Corvin : Keeping a promise I made years ago.
Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : Was that the promise you made to kill me or the promise you made to have both my legs broke?
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Frank Corvin : [after Hawk crashes the shuttle during a simulation] Hawk, this isn't a stripped-down showplane. You've got to do it their way.
Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : I don't need a damn computer to tell me how to land an aircraft.
Roger Hines : It's not an aircraft, Colonel. It's a flying brick, and you've GOT to use the computer's protocols.
Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : What if the on-board computer fails?
Ethan Glance : It never has.
Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : [to the simulator supervisor] Houston, Horizon.
Mission Control Tech : Go ahead.
Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : Request second landing please.
[pause]
Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : Houston - Horizon, request on board computer FAILURE on second landing.
Eugene 'Gene' Davis : Run it again. Sock it to 'em.
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[challenging Frank to fight]
Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : Okay, bad guy, we're taking this outside! I want to whip your asymmetrical sagging ass! Get out there in that parking lot!
[Frank and Hawk step outside]
Jerry O'Neill : Here we go again...
Tank Sullivan : I've got ten on Frank!
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Young Pilot #1 : Hey, Hawk. This guys wants a scary ride.
Jason : It's my birthday!
Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : [pause] Happy birthday.
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Sara Holland : I have never met a kid who didn't dream of being an astronaut when he grew up.
Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : Did you ever meet a kid who didn't grow up?
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Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : Flying brick... I like that.
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Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : Hello, Ikon. How we feeling today?
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Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : [to Sara] So what brings you to the men's locker room?