“- Jack Ryan: I can never sleep on a plane. Turbulence.
- Flight Attendant: Pardon?
- Jack Ryan: Turbulence. Solar radiation heats the Earth's crust, warm air rises, cold air descends - turbulence. I, I don't like that.”
Alec Baldwin - Jack Ryan

“- Capt. Joe Patroni: I've flown just about every type of aircraft through three wars and forty pounds. Only thing I'm afraid of is heights. Are you afraid of anything, Metrand?
- Capt. Paul Metrand: American pilots.”
George Kennedy - Capt. Joe Patroni
Alain Delon - Capt. Paul Metrand

“Nothing like a little thirty knot crosswind to exercise that ol' sphincter muscle.”
Denzel Washington - Whip Whitaker

“You really think the pilot is controlling this plane? That would really scare me.”
John Cusack - Nick Falzone

“- Molly: Want to know how people really die, in their sleep? First, they go to bed. Then, about two in the morning, they go... Ahhh! Oh! Get a doct...
- Fumes: I ain't never goin' to sleep again!”
Lesley Ann Warren - Molly
Teddy Wilson - Fumes