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

“- Joe: You can get some sleep on the plane!
- Al: You kiddin'? I could sooner fall asleep on a roller coaster. I don't like them jets. I don't trust no plane that ain't got no propellers.”

George Burns - Joe
Art Carney - Al

“- 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

“- 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

“In the event of a water landing, I have been designed to act as a flotation device.”
Brent Spiner - Data