“The Rock” quotes

(1996)
Plot – The trip of a group of visitors in the ex-prison of Alcatraz turns into a nightmare when they are captured and held hostage by an organization of "rebel" officers of the Marines. The goal of the soldiers is noble: they want the U.S. government to refund the families of the soldiers killed in battle and vilely forgotten by the state. An expert FBI chemist has to neutralize them, but there is only one person who can enter the fortress: the only one who has ever managed to escape from it.
All actors – Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, John Spencer, David Morse, William Forsythe, Michael Biehn, Vanessa Marcil, John C. McGinley, Gregory Sporleder, Tony Todd, Bokeem Woodbine, Jim Maniaci, Greg Collins, Brendan Kelly, Steve Harris, Danny Nucci, Claire Forlani, Celeste Weaver, Todd Louiso, David Bowe, Raquel Krelle, Dennis Chalker, Marshall R. Teague, Duffy Gaver, Steve Decker, Joseph Hawes, Mike Mahrer, Carlos Sandoval, Rick Toms, Billy Devlin, Jack Yates, Juan A. Riojas, Joseph Patrick Kelly, Ingo Neuhaus, John Laughlin, Harry Humphries, Howard Platt, Willie Garson, John Nathan, Robert M. Anselmo, Jack Ford, Thomas J. Hageboeck, Dwight Hicks, Ralph Peduto, Anthony Clark, Andy Ryan, Hans Georg Struhar, Robert C. Besgrove, Sean Skelton, Raymond O'Connor, Jane Sanguinetti, Luenell, John W. Love Jr., Sam Whipple, Tom Towles, Ronald Simmons, Robert Ben Rajab, Leonard McMahan, Anthony Guidera, Jim Caviezel, John Enos III, Ken Kells, Fred Salvallon, Buck Kartalian, , Stanley Anderson, Xander Berkeley, Richard Conti, Raymond Cruz, Ric Drasin, David Marshall Grant, Matt Gulbranson, Philip Baker Hall, Michael Rose, Theodore Carl Soderberg, Jeronimo Spinx, Ezra Stanley, Erick Vinther, Kevin Weisman, Stuart Wilson
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  • “I have a unique knowledge of this prison facility. I was formerly a guest here.”
    Sir Sean Connery - John Patrick Mason
    [Tag:prison]
  • - John Patrick Mason: Are you sure you're ready for this?
    - Stanley Goodspeed: I'll do my best.
    - John Patrick Mason: Your "best"! Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen.

    Sir Sean Connery - John Patrick Mason
    Nicolas Cage - Stanley Goodspeed
  • “- Marvin Isherwood: What's that? And why did you have it sent here?
    - Stanley Goodspeed: Carla wouldn't approve. She thinks it's dumb to spend $600 on an LP.
    - Marvin Isherwood: Carla's right. Why didn't you just spend $13 on a CD, man?
    - Stanley Goodspeed: Well, first of all, it's because I'm a Beatlemaniac. And second, these sound better.”

    Todd Louiso - Marvin Isherwood
    Nicolas Cage - Stanley Goodspeed
    [Tag:money, music]
  • “- Commander Anderson: Have you ever been in a combat situation before?
    - Stanley Goodspeed: Define combat, sir.
    - Commander Anderson: Shep?
    - Lieutenant Shepard: An incursion underwater to re-take an impregnable fortress held by an elite team of U.S. Marines, in possession of eighty-one hostages and fifteen guided rockets loaded with V.X. poison...” (continue)
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    Michael Biehn - Commander Anderson
    Nicolas Cage - Stanley Goodspeed
    Danny Nucci - Lieutenant Shepard
  • “I don't want to know nothing. I never saw you throw that gentleman off the balcony. All I care about is: are you happy with your haircut?”

    Anthony Clark - Paul the Hotel Barber
  • “- Stanley Goodspeed: Why didn't you just tell them where the microfilm was and create a solution?
    - John Patrick Mason: The moment they had the microfilm, they'd suicide me. Some solution.”

    Nicolas Cage - Stanley Goodspeed
    Sir Sean Connery - John Patrick Mason
  • “Make no mistake, gentlemen. We are in the fight of our lives, against one of the greatest battalion commanders of the Vietnam War, I shit you not.”

    Michael Biehn - Commander Anderson
    [Tag:fighting, war]
  • “Ladies and gentlemen, you're being detained against your will, and for that I apologize. It is not our intention in any way to harm you, you will not be detained one minute longer than is necessary for us to complete our mission.”
    Ed Harris - General Francis X. Hummel
    [Tag:motive, prison]
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