Armageddon (1998)

William Fichtner: Colonel Willie Sharp

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• Rockhound : We're in segment 202, lateral grid 9, site 15H32 - give or take a few yards. Captain America here blew the landing by 26 miles!

  Colonel William Sharp : How the hell do you know that?

  Rockhound : Because I'm a genius.

  Watts : The gauges will not read; they're all peaked like we're plugged into some magnetic field

  Rockhound : [sarcastically]  Well, who on the spaceship wants to know why?

  Gruber, Munitions Specialist : By all means.

  Rockhound : The reason we were shooting for grid 8 was because thermographics indicated that grid 9 was compressed iron ferrite. Which means you landed us on a goddamn iron plate!

• Colonel William Sharp : Miss Stamper? Colonel Willie Sharp, United States Airforce, ma'am. Requesting permission to shake the hand of the daughter of the bravest man I've ever met.

• Colonel William Sharp : [In response to Rockhound riding the nuclear warhead]  Get off... the nuclear... warhead.

  Rockhound : I was doing that guy from that movie, you know, Slim Pickens, where he rides it all the way in, the nuclear warhead.

  Colonel William Sharp : Now.

  Rockhound : Oh, you didn't see that one, huh?

• Harry Stamper : For god's sakes, think about what you're doin'. Why are you listening to someone that's a 100,000 miles away? We're here, nobody down there can help us. So if we don't get this job done, everybody's gone.

  Chick : One minute.

  Harry Stamper : I have been drilling holes in the earth for 30 years. And I have never, NEVER missed a depth that I have aimed for. And by God, I am not gonna miss this one, I will make 800 feet.

  Chick : 42 seconds.

  Harry Stamper : But I can't do it alone, Colonel. I need your help.

  Colonel William Sharp : Do you swear on your daughter's life, on my family's, that you can hit that mark?

  Harry Stamper : I will make 800 feet. I swear to God I will.

  Colonel William Sharp : Then let's turn this bomb off.

• Rockhound : What does that mean?

  Colonel William Sharp : It means we've got a busted ship.

  Rockhound : A busted ship? And I'm strapped in here? I had a great spot picked out there!

• Colonel William Sharp : United States astronauts train for years. You have twelve days.

• Colonel William Sharp : This is insane.

  Harry Stamper : [to Rockhound]  Have you lost your mind?

  Colonel William Sharp : He's got space dementia.

• Colonel William Sharp : It takes two people to fly this thing. Either we all stay and die, or you guys draw straws.

  Rockhound : I say we all stay and die.

  [pause, everyone looks at Rockhound] 

  Rockhound : But that's me.

  AJ : I'll draw. Let's draw.

  Harry : Nobody's gonna draw straws. I'll stay and take care of it.

  Chick : Well, I can't live with that sort of thing.

  Lev Andropov : Nobody asked you if you could live with it, all right?

  Lev Andropov : Bullshit! No way I will let you volunteer for this, so I can go back to my home country like the man who did not volunteer! No way!

  Bear : Hey man, let's draw, and let's see who's gonna stay up here and dance.

  Rockhound : Hey guys? I-I know you guys think I'm crazy right now but, I would really like this responsibility.

  Harry : All right. All right.

  Rockhound : I can do it!

  Harry : Let's just draw straws and get it over with. Come on.

  Chick : I ain't drawin' against you, Harry.

  Harry : Well, I'm gonna draw against you Chick, so you better just go ahead and do it.

  [They draw straws] 

  Chick : Just gimme this thing.

  Lev Andropov : [Lev looks at the straw he has drawn]  Is this good, or bad?

  [A.J. has drawn the short straw] 

  AJ : Oh man. Well, we all gotta die right? I'm the guy who gets to do it saving the world.

• Colonel William Sharp : Miss Stamper. Colonel Willie Sharp, United States Air Force, ma'am. Requesting permission to shake the hand of the daughter of the bravest man I've ever met.

• Colonel William Sharp : [Just before zero barrier]  Somethings not right, too much time has gone by. We're going back to do it ourselves.

  Chick : Just don't, wait one minute.

• Colonel William Sharp : [Seeing the drillers in their NASA uniforms, after most of them have failed their tests]  Talk about the wrong stuff.

• Colonel William Sharp : We have visual of the target, Houston.

• Colonel William Sharp : Houston, we have no fire,

  Rockhound : What's that mean?

  Colonel William Sharp : It means we got a busted ship.

  Rockhound : A busted ship? And I'm strapped in here. I had a great spot picked out there.