Aviator

Howard Hughes:
I feel like a little adventure.

Katharine Hepburn:
Do your worst, Mr. Hughes.

Juan Trippe:
If you let him testify at that hearing, the whole world will see what he's become. They should remember him for what he was.

Howard Hughes:
Do you know those men? Do they work for me?

Noah Dietrich:
Everybody works for you, Howard.

Howard Hughes:
Come in with the milk. Come in with the milk. Come in with the milk.

Ava Gardner:
Get that crazy b*tch away from me!

Howard Hughes:
Will you marry me?

Ava Gardner:
You're too crazy for me.

Howard Hughes:
Show me all the blueprints. Show me all the blueprints. Show me all the blueprints... show me all the blueprints... show me all the blueprints... show me all the blueprints...

Howard Hughes:
The way of the future.

Howard Hughes:
You want to go to war with me?

Sen. Ralph Owen Brewster:
It's not me, Howard. It's the United States Government. We just beat Germany and Japan. Who the hell are you?

Glenn Odekirk:
352 on your last run!

Howard Hughes:
She'll go faster.

Katharine Hepburn:
Let me take the wheel.

Howard Hughes:
I'm in a street fight, and I'm not going to lose.

Howard Hughes:
I want ten chocolate chip cookies. Medium chips. None too close to the outside.

Spencer Tracy:
Something the matter?

Katharine Hepburn:
There's just too much "Howard Hughes" in "Howard Hughes". That's what's the matter.

Katharine Hepburn:
Can't you just eat ice cream out of a bowl, like everyone else?

Katharine Hepburn:
I just... don't love you anymore.

Howard Hughes:
Stop acting.

Katharine Hepburn:
Ha. I'm not acting.

Howard Hughes:
Sometimes I wonder whether you know the difference anymore.

Katharine Hepburn:
Don't be unkind.

Jack Frye:
You want me to bribe senators?

Howard Hughes:
I don't want them bribed, Jack. I want this done legal. I want them BOUGHT.

Noah Dietrich:
Get a doctor! No one sees him like this!

Katharine Hepburn:
Your kind of a joint, is it? Wouldn't have thought.

Howard Hughes:
Yeah, well, they're open late. I go to a hot dog stand on LaCienega, too; they're open 'til around 4.

Katharine Hepburn:
Are they? How marvelous!

Katharine Hepburn:
You know, fame is supposed to be MY turf.

Howard Hughes:
No, wait! Honey, you can't move! You can't move, you're safe here! You're in the germ-free zone now, y'understand?

Ava Gardner:
I'll take my chances.

Howard Hughes:
No, no! Honey, wait... wait, uh...

Ava Gardner:
Love what you've done with the place...

Howard Hughes:
Does that look clean to you?

Ava Gardner:
Nothing's clean, Howard. But we do our best, right?

Howard Hughes:
You're the tallest woman I have ever met.

Katharine Hepburn:
And all sharp elbows and knees. Beware.

Allene Hughes:
Q-u-a-r-a-n-t-i-n-e.

Young Howard Hughes:
Quarantine. Q-u-a-r-a-n-t-i-n-e. Quarantine.

Katharine Hepburn:
I've got a better idea, take me flying! Or better yet, I'll take you flying!

Howard Hughes:
Do your worst, Miss Hepburn.

Glenn Odekirk:
Howard, you really think they're gonna let you put out a whole movie just about tits?

Howard Hughes:
Sure. Who doesn't like tits?

Ava Gardner:
You don't own me, Howard. I'm not one of your teenage whores and I'm not some damn airplane!

Katharine Hepburn:
I've been famous - for better or worse - for a long time now... I wonder if you know what that really means.

Howard Hughes:
I got my fair share of press on Hell's Angels. I'm used to it.

Katharine Hepburn:
Are you?

Katharine Hepburn:
Howard, we're not like everyone else. Too many sharp angles. Too many eccentricities. We have to be very careful not to let people in or they'll make us into freaks.

Howard Hughes:
Kate, they can't get in here. We're safe.

Katharine Hepburn:
They can always get in. When my brother killed himself there were photographers at the funeral. There's no decency to it.

Glenn Odekirk:
We installed the 450 radial, but the struts won't take the vibration. Minute we go contact, the struts start craking at the attach points.

Howard Hughes:
Dammit, Odie, if the 450's too big, figure something else out!

Glenn Odekirk:
We've done everything - we've rebuilt her from top to bottom. If we drain the fuel tank for a couple of runs she might make 180 mph.

Howard Hughes:
I want minimum 200.

Glenn Odekirk:
Yeah, well, I want a date with Theda Bara, but that ain't gonna happen either.

Howard Hughes:
Don't be so sure... OK, OK, OK, this is a simple engineering problem. We just gotta think it out.

Howard Hughes:
So if the struts won't sustain the engine we need - then we gotta get rid of them.

Glenn Odekirk:
Then the top wing falls off.

Howard Hughes:
Then let it.

Glenn Odekirk:
What?

Howard Hughes:
Who says we need a top wing?

Howard Hughes:
Who says we need *anything*?

Glenn Odekirk:
A monoplane...

Howard Hughes:
A cantilevered monoplane. They're doing it in France. To the hell with the top wing and the struts...

Glenn Odekirk:
550 Whitney Wasp engine...

Howard Hughes:
100 octane fuel will give us a top horsepower of - what?

Glenn Odekirk:
Seven hundred.

Howard Hughes:
Squeeze it to a thousand and we got the fastest plane ever built.

Glenn Odekirk:
You know, I just gotta say... we've already spent over $200,000 rebuilding this plane.

Howard Hughes:
To the hell with it.

Howard Hughes:
Tear it up, Odie.

Howard Hughes:
I care very much about aviation.

Ava Gardner:
Oh, a box of trash! You shouldn't have.

Howard Hughes:
Thats just what we do in my buisness.

Howard Hughes:
I read in the magazines that you play golf.

Katharine Hepburn:
on occcasion...

Howard Hughes:
How 'bout nine holes?

Katharine Hepburn:
NOW Mr. Hughes?

Howard Hughes:
Sometimes I truly fear that I... am losing my mind. And if I did it... it would be like flying blind.

Howard Hughes:
Little Howard likes citrus.