The Rocketeer (1991)
Alan Arkin: Peevy
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Quotes
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Peevy : [in their home, referring to Jenny] You got a good thing goin' on with that girl, Clifford. And I'm tellin' you right now, if she flies the coop, it's gonna be your fault.
Cliff Secord : Aw, what do you know about women, Peev? You haven't had a date since 1932.
Peevy : [wistfully] Flora Maxwell. There wasn't any point datin' nobody after her.
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Cliff Secord : [donning the Rocketeer helmet outside the Dog Café] How do I look?
Peevy : Like a hood ornament.
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Peevy : [in the attic of the Dog Café] House? We don't got a house. We got a gazebo.
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Peevy : [reading the newspaper to Cliff and Jenny inside the Dog Café] "Film fans were saddened by the news that actor Neville Sinclair was killed in a tragedy when flaming debris fell on his touring car." That's terrible! That was a nice car.
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Peevy : [to a pair of FBI agents] You chase a couple of two-bit crooks across our runway, crash into my pilot, and it's our fault?
FBI Agent 'Wooly' Wolinski : Look, no offense, pops, but we got more important things to do than get all sweaty about whose fault it was.
Peevy : Listen here, buddy, building that plane took three years of our lives and every damn cent we had!
FBI Agent Fitch : Oh, file a claim with Uncle Sam. Who knows? You could get lucky.
Cliff Secord : Yeah, and what, wait six months? A year? We made a living with that plane!
FBI Agent Fitch : Well, maybe it's time to get a real job.
[Cliff punches Fitch; Fitch punches back; everyone restrains the two men]
FBI Agent Fitch : You got that one free, kid! One more like that, you'll be eating soft food for a month! You hear?
FBI Agent 'Wooly' Wolinski : [grabbing Fitch] Take it easy! Relax.
FBI Agent Fitch : That flyboy hangs on my kisser and you let him waltz?
FBI Agent 'Wooly' Wolinski : Maybe you had it coming.
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[first lines]
Peevy : [as they bring the Gee Bee out for its maiden flight] Keep her straight, keep her level. It's your first time up, so don't do anything interesting.
Cliff Secord : Who, me?
Peevy : And remember, she stalls out at about a hundred. So keep the air speed up. Otherwise, you're gonna be drifting around all over the sky. And if the ailerons start to shimmy...
Cliff Secord : Peevy, I have flown a plane or two in my life.
Peevy : Not like this one, you haven't. This one's... This one's a handful. You sneeze in this thing and you're gonna end up upside-down in the bean field.
[walking past the tail of the Gee Bee, Cliff takes some chewed-up gum from his mouth and puts it on the rudder]
Peevy : That's fresh paint, dammit!
Cliff Secord : You want me to crash?
Peevy : Chewing gum ain't gonna keep your butt up in the air.
[Cliff gets into the cockpit of the Gee Bee]
Peevy : You treat her nice, Clifford. She's gonna take us all the way to the nationals.
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Cliff Secord : [after the test flight, using a wooden statue] Peevy, you'd pay to see a man fly, wouldn't you?
Peevy : Ha! You've gotta be outta your mind!
Cliff Secord : Look, I'm talking about making some real money here, Peevy. Not just ten bucks a show, but enough to get us back on our feet and into the nationals.
Peevy : Are your eyes painted on, Clifford? This thing's like strapping nitroglycerine to your back. Besides, the feds are mixed up in this.
Cliff Secord : I don't want to keep it, I just want to borrow it for a while.
Peevy : Clifford, when you borrow something and you don't tell nobody, they call that stealing, you know.
Cliff Secord : Just a couple of weeks. As soon as we can afford a new plane, we'll give it back, I swear.
Peevy : Clifford, did you see what this thing did back there?
Cliff Secord : You're always telling me what a genius you are, Peev! Fix it!
Peevy : We're gonna need one hell of a lawyer.
Cliff Secord : [seeing the destroyed statues' head, worriedly] I think we're gonna need a helmet.
