The Core (2003)

Share this quote on facebook 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.

Share this quote on facebook [After Dr. Josh Keyes states, I'm married to my work.] So am I. Which makes my wife my mistress. That's why I'm still in love with her.

Share this quote on facebook [As walls close in and objects fall and collapse around him.] Josh? Where are you? I can't see you!

Share this quote on facebook [standing in front of a wall of PC towers] Ok, I know these look like computers - totally not!

Share this quote on facebook [to the FBI agents] My handle's Rat. Call me Rat.

Share this quote on facebook Wait a second...you guys aren't here to whack me are you? Cause I was kinda hoping to have sex before that happens...

Share this quote on facebook [Speaking to Zimsky about the number of languages he spoke] I speak one. 1-0-1-0-0. 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.

Share this quote on facebook [replying to Dr. Keyes's help request] You want me to hack the planet? [talking to himself] He wants me to hack the planet.

Share this quote on facebook Here, now you have free long distance on this phone... forever.

Share this quote on facebook OK, if I decide to do this, I'm gonna need an unlimited supply of Xena tapes, and Hot Pockets...they help me focus.

Share this quote on facebook [referring to a virus he created] This is my Kung-Fu and it is strong!

Share this quote on facebook [referring to a superstorm] Rome does not look good.

Share this quote on facebook [Succsssfully hacks and stops DESTINI] Your Kung-Fu is not strong.

Share this quote on facebook DESTINI, meet world. World, meet DESTINI.

Share this quote on facebook Everybody on Earth is dead in a year. Let me explain why.

Share this quote on facebook Feel free to throw up. I know I did.

Share this quote on facebook Why don't you use a credit card? You get miles.

Share this quote on facebook Then we hotwire the nuclear bombs... [Braz: Yes.] ...As one does.

Share this quote on facebook Be wrong, be wrong!

Share this quote on facebook [Looking up at the night sky, seeing it full of aurora borealis and lightning strikes] I hate this sky.

Share this quote on facebook Leadership isn't about ability; it's about responsibility.

Share this quote on facebook You're not really a leader until you've lost.

Share this quote on facebook [as his space shuttle heads into California] I'm not gonna crash into Los Angeles.

Share this quote on facebook It's the simplest things that are the hardest, huh?

Share this quote on facebook [After Iverson questions him about the core] Yes, yes, yes, yes, and what if the core is made of cheese? This is all best guess commander. That's all science is, is best guess.

Share this quote on facebook Let me smoke a cigarette first and I'll tell you.

Share this quote on facebook Oh come on you're a bunch of suicidal morons! What are you, crazy?! Plan C? "Restart the core somehow?" Oh that's a great idea! That's a brilliant idea! I can't believe I'm stuck on this floating septic tank with you lunatics! You may have nothing to lose, you may have nothing to lose, you may have nothing to lose, but I have my life to lose thank you very much while you're up! Now turn it around! He told us to go back, and we're going back! Why? You wanna be a hero? You wanna be a martyr? What do you want to be? You're out of your minds! Thank you!

Share this quote on facebook [Said while recording his final thoughts on a tape recorder sitting next to an armed thermonuclear bomb, waiting for it to detonate and kill him] What the fuck am I doing? (laughs)

Share this quote on facebook Are you going to be doing that Carl Sagan narration all the way down to the core?

Share this quote on facebook Say it with me: "I don't know."

Share this quote on facebook Look, I built the ship in 3 damn months, I never realised I'd be deliberately sabotaging it, I'm sorry!

Share this quote on facebook [Punches Zimsky clean out] It's not a stupid ship.

Share this quote on facebook [On sacrificing himself] If Virgil needs more blood, it will be my blood.

Share this quote on facebook Col. Robert Iverson: Being a leader isn't about ability. It's about responsibility.
Maj. Rebecca Childs: Got it, sir.
Col. Robert Iverson: No you don't, Beck. I mean, you're not just responsible for the good ones. You've got to be responsible for the bad ones. You've got to be ready to make the shitty call.
Maj. Rebecca Childs: What makes you think I'm not?
Col. Robert Iverson: Because you're so damn good. You haven't hit anything you couldn't beat. I mean, hell, you were the one who figured out how to save the space shuttle. You made me, you made the rest of NASA just look like an ass. It's just you're used to winning... and you're not really a leader until you've lost.

Share this quote on facebook Col. Robert Iverson: People. Doctors Zimsky and Keyes? You guys are our resident geophysicists, so what do you make of this?
Dr. Conrad Zimsky: The mantle is a chemical hodgepodge of, a, variety of elements...
Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton: Say it with me: "I don't know."

Share this quote on facebook Beck: Hey guys, we're closing in on the inner core.
Josh: The nukes are ready. The timers are on.
Beck: Great. Let's start dropping them.
Zimsky: No. The bombs are not built for these pressures. That's why they were in that pod. If you send them out now, out of that casing, they'll be crushed instantly.
Beck: And I assume we have a plan D.
Josh: Plan D is Virgil's compartiments. We put a nuke in each section of Virgil and then eject the individual sections. They should stay intact long enough for the nuke to go off. [Braz sighs]
Josh: What?
Braz: The Virgil is not designed to eject undamaged compartments. [Shows them an animation] Okay, these are the ejection mechanisms holding each compartment in place. They're all connected by one master hydraulic gear, kind of like keys on a keyring. What we have to do, we have to unlock the piston. That will release the compartments so the bombs can be jettisoned.
Zimsky: Where's the master gear?
Braz: In the crawl space we used to get out earlier.
Zimsky: [Frustrated] Well, what the hell is it doing there?
Braz: Look, I had this ship built in three damn months; I didn't think I'd deliberately be sabotaging her, I'm sorry!
Josh: So one of us has to go in there.
Braz: Correct.
Beck: Into the crawl space, that has core fluid at over 9000 degrees?
Braz: Yes.
Josh: Can you flush it with liquid nitrogen?
Braz: We don't have enough of it at this point.
Zimsky: 9000 degrees. And our suits are built to withstand...?
Braz: Half that, probably.
Zimsky: Right, half that.
Josh: So what you're saying is, whoever goes into that crawl space, is not coming back.

Share this quote on facebook Earth has a deadline

Share this quote on facebook In a year, everyone on Earth is dead.

Share this quote on facebook The only way out is in.

Share this quote on facebook Say it with me: "I don't know."