The Rock Quotes

[John and Jade's conversation is interrupted by police cars converging on the Palace of Fine Arts, Jade backs away from John]
Jade Angelou: Is this about you? You broke out of prison again, didn't you?
[John gropes for a response]
Jade Angelou: Why did you come to me?
Stanley Goodspeed: [appears, showing his badge] FBI,

ma'am. Your father's working with us. He's helping us to resolve a dangerous situation.
Jade Angelou: He is?
Stanley Goodspeed: Yes, ma'am. Well, gee whiz, John, I guess we'd better get going, don't you?
John Mason: Whatever you say, Stanley.
[He clasps hands with Jade, then leaves with Stanley]
John

Mason: Thank you for that. You could have handled it differently.
Stanley Goodspeed: What do you say we cut the chit-chat, a-hole? You almost got me killed twice! And my jaw hurts like hell.
John Mason: ...Good.

John Mason: [while walking in the Palace of Fine Arts] your mother, well... she was very special.
Jade Angelou: Yes, she was. But I don't think that we should romanticize what happened between you and her. Meeting in a bar after a Led Zeppelin concert, ya know? And I was the result.
John Mason: Well, I'd like to think it would have

led somewhere if only...
Jade Angelou: If only what? Six federal marshals hadn't kicked down her door and dragged you back to prison?

Captain Darrow: Sergeant Crisp, secure the General. I'm relieving you of command, sir.
[pause]
Captain Darrow: SERGEANT.
[Sergeant Crisp pulls out his pistol and reaches for General Hummel's gun holster]
Sergeant Crisp: I'll have that sidearm, sir.
[General Hummel pulls out his pistol from behind his back and

points it at Sergeant Crisp]
General Hummel: You mean this sidearm?
[Captains Frye and Darrow pull out their pistols and point them at General Hummel]
Captain Frye: Major Baxter, you're either with us or against us.
Major Tom Baxter: It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve with you, General.
[Pulls out

his pistol and points it General Hummel]
Major Tom Baxter: But like he said, it's over.
[Shoots Captain Darrow]

Agent Paxton: Congratulations, Dr. Goodspeed. You did it.
Dr. Stanley Goodspeed: Thank you, sir.
Agent Paxton: You know, for a while there, I didn't think you were going to make it. Well done, son. So where's Mason?
Dr. Stanley Goodspeed: Vaporized. Blown out to sea.
Agent Paxton: Blown

out to sea, huh?
Dr. Stanley Goodspeed: Yeah.
Agent Paxton: [smiles] Poor bastard.
[They share a knowing glance]
FBI Director Womack: [appears] Goodspeed, where's Mason? Where's his body? I want to see that son of a bitch.
Agent Paxton: Vaporized, sir. Excuse me, gentlemen.
[leaves]

FBI Director Womack: What? Vaporized? A body can... vaporize?
Dr. Stanley Goodspeed: Oh, yeah! Absolutely, sir.

FBI Director Womack: Great job, Goodspeed.
Agent Paxton: [sarcastically, jokingly] Why don't you throw in a trip to Tahiti while you're at it?
FBI Agent: Okay, I'll deliver this to the Attorney General...
FBI Director Womack: [Interrupts and takes the contract from Hunt] Ah, no. You'll give that to me, there's

a car waiting outside for you, thank you.
[He rips up the contract]
Stanley Goodspeed: That's a signed federal document, sir. Isn't that illegal?
FBI Director Womack: You're not acquainted with the full facts, Goodspeed.
Stanley Goodspeed: With all due respect, sir, I'd like clarification. I gave that man my word.