Firefox (1982)

Clint Eastwood: Mitchell Gant

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• Maj. Gant : [to Upenskoy]  Don't you Jews ever get tired of fighting City Hall?

• Upenskoy : Gant, can you fly that plane? Really fly it?

  Maj. Gant : Yeah, I can fly it. I'm the best there is.

• Maj. Gant : Aren't you gonna threaten me or something?

  First Secretary : I will do so, if that is what you wish. But first I will merely ask you to return what does not belong to you.

• First Secretary : This is the First Secretary. I am speaking to the individual who has stolen the property of the U.S.S.R. Can your hear me, Mr. Gant?

  Maj. Gant : [in the MiG-31]  Oh, we're getting the royal treatment.

  [activates radio] 

  Maj. Gant : Yeah, go ahead, I'm listening.

  First Secretary : Are you enjoying your ride, Mr. Gant? Like our new toy?

• Riga Technician : Target does not appear to be taking avoiding action, Captain!

  Captain of the Riga : He will!

  Maj. Gant : [in the MiG-31]  I can't take evasive action, I'm too low on fuel. I'm going in. Let's see what this baby can do.

• Dr. Baronovich : Do you smoke?

  Maj. Gant : No, not for years.

  Dr. Baronovich : [throws a pack of cigarettes onto the table]  Learn again, now.

  Maj. Gant : [picking up the pack]  These aren't even Russian cigarettes.

  Dr. Baronovich : Foreign cigarettes in the mouth of the person you are pretending to be will be even more convincing than anything else - even your papers.

• [repeated line] 

  Maj. Gant : Let's see what this baby can do.

• Maj. Gant : [On his "meeting" with the airliner]  I may have cut it a little close, but you'll have heard that already by now!

• Maj. Gant : Oh? Where is it?

  Buckholz : Russia.

  [Gant studies him] 

  Buckholz : You've got to steal it.

• Maj. Gant : [after outrunning two missiles in the MiG-31]  Boy, is this a machine!

• [last lines] 

  Maj. Gant : Punching in the coordinates... I'm coming home.

• Maj. Gant : But you want me to fly?

  Buckholz : Yes, we want you to fly. We want you to fly the greatest warplane ever built.

• Upenskoy : [indicating a gun]  : You can use this?

  Maj. Gant : Yeah, I can use it.

  Upenskoy : Good. DON'T, unless it's absolutely necessary.

• Maj. Gant : All right. The bait's been swallowed. Let's head north to the Urals.

• Maj. Gant : [after knocking Voskov unconscious]  Oh, hell, you didn't do anything.

• [Russian helicopters from the Riga are approaching the Firefox refueling site] 

  Captain Seerbacker : You gotta go now, Gant.

  Maj. Gant : I'm a little worried about you guys. They're gonna be watching my heat trail.

  Captain Seerbacker : Don't worry about us. We're in international waters. As long as you're outta here when they get here... you will be outta here, won't you?

  Maj. Gant : So fast you can't believe it!

  Captain Seerbacker : You better be right!

• Maj. Gant : [Preparing to take off, after refueling]  So long, Captain. Thanks.

  Captain Seerbacker : Get outta here, you bum!

• [Firefox is on an ice floe, being refueled and re-armed by a submarine] 

  Captain Seerbacker : Fleischer, what's the news on our friends?

  Lt. Commander Fleischer : We've got trouble, Captain. Radar contact, two aircraft heading our way. They were heading west into the decoy area when we noticed them.

  Maj. Gant : Yeah. Helicopters from that cruiser.

  Captain Seerbacker : You know how to make trouble for me, Gant. You really, really do.