“- Frank Corvin: Hawk, this isn't a stripped-down showplane. You've got to do it their way.
- 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.”

Clint Eastwood - Frank Corvin
Tommy Lee Jones - Hawk Hawkins
Courtney B. Vance - Roger Hines

“- Oscar Madison: Okay what do you wanna talk to me about?
- Felix Ungar: Wait until the seat belt light is off.
- Oscar Madison: You can't talk with your seat belt on? Is that some new federal law?”
Walter Matthau - Oscar Madison
Jack Lemmon - Felix Ungar

“Everyone has sex on aeroplanes.”
Rufus Sewell - Frank

“- Nick: The exits are located here and here. In the quite likely event of an emergency, put your head between your knees...
- Fetcher: and kiss your bum goodbye!”

Timothy Spall - Nick
Phil Daniels - Fetcher

“- General William Grey: Mr. President, I'd sure like to know what you're doing.
- President Thomas J. Whitmore: I'm a combat pilot, Will. I belong in the air.”
Robert Loggia - General William Grey
Bill Pullman - President Thomas J. Whitmore