Pushing Tin (1999)

John Cusack: Nick Falzone

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• Nick Falzone : [finds Connie crying in the living room]  What is it?

  Connie Falzone : Sit down, Nick. I've been explaining to the kids what it means that daddy... won't be around anymore.

  Nick Falzone : [drops bouquet]  Hey... hey, hey Connie. Wait a minute, Connie... Connie, do you even want to hear my side of this?

  Connie Falzone : What's your side of my father dying...?

• Nick Falzone : [to Russell Bell]  I'm personally going to see to it that you go down in flames!

  Airplane Pilot : What?

  Nick Falzone : Negative, United. That was not to you. Not to you!

• Nick Falzone : Oh, you really think the pilot is controlling this plane? That would really scare me.

• Nick Falzone : To hold on to sanity too tight is insane.

• Russell Bell : Thought is the enemy.

  Nick Falzone : I know. I've been thinking too much. I had that thought actually.

• Mary Bell : Are there people who find you charming?

  Nick Falzone : Well they pretend, 'cause I try real hard.

• Nick Falzone : [to Russell Bell]  I called your house and Mary said you'd be out here.

  Nick Falzone : She sounds good

  Nick Falzone : Oh, she wanted I give you this message, "See, I told you Colorado wasn't far enough".

• Nick Falzone : [Nick finds Mary crying in the supermarket]  Anything I can do?

  Mary Bell : No, fine.

  Supermarket Clerk : [to Mary]  Is this man bothering you?

  Supermarket Clerk : [to Nick]  What did you say to her?

  Nick Falzone : Hey! Hey, go away. Go battle evil on aisle twelve!

• Mary Bell : [after she has gone to bed with Nick]  I'm so sorry...

  Nick Falzone : Why?

  Mary Bell : I wasn't talking to you.

  Nick Falzone : Who were you talking to?

  Mary Bell : God, I guess!

• Ed Clabes : [When the girls sit down at the table with the controllers at the diner]  I'm married.

  Nick Falzone : [the controllers all laugh]  And you were just about to throw yourself at him, weren't you?

• Jethro (Sparta Pilot) : Sparta 753 for Newark approach.

  Nick Falzone : Hey Sparta 753, is that Jethro?

  Jethro (Sparta Pilot) : Yeehaw!

  Nick Falzone : How's my favorite redneck?

  Jethro (Sparta Pilot) : Falzone, are you mocking me, son?

  Nick Falzone : Yes, before you run out of cornpone or whatever you use for fuel.

  Jethro (Sparta Pilot) : Shoot, we wouldn't waste good moonshine to fly one of these shit-boxes. Now are you going to give me a vector or am I going to have to find New York by the smell?

  Nick Falzone : Oh, all right. Sparta 753 turn left heading zero-zeven-zero, maintain two-thousand till localizer. Cleared ILS runway four.

  Jethro (Sparta Pilot) : ILS runway four. Hey let's have dinner some time control. I want to see if you are as ugly as you sound.

  Nick Falzone : OK, as long as I can find a place where we don't need shoes. Now will your pig be dinning with you or will you be sleeping alone?

• Dynajet Flight Attendant : Sir, will you please sit down! The Captain is in control of the plane!

  Nick Falzone : Oh, you think the Captain is in control? Now THAT would really scare me!