The Abyss (1989)

Share this quote on facebook When it comes to the safety of these people, there's me and then there's God, understand?

Share this quote on facebook [trying to revive Lindsey] Goddamn, you bitch, you never backed down from anything in your life! Now fight! Fight! Fight!

Share this quote on facebook Keep your pantyhose on.

Share this quote on facebook When you're hanging on by your fingernails, you don't go waving your arms around.

Share this quote on facebook [typing] LOVE YOU WIFE

Share this quote on facebook This here's the bottomless pit, baby. Two and a half miles, straight down.

Share this quote on facebook Triple-time sounded like a lot of money, Bud. It ain't.

Share this quote on facebook [to Hippy] See this? [puts up fist] They used to call this 'The Hammer'.

Share this quote on facebook Huh. Damn rat's breathing that shit. That is no bullshit, hands down, the goddamnedest thing I ever saw.

Share this quote on facebook "There was a time that I would've asked why"

Share this quote on facebook [about the Navy SEALS] These guys are about as much fun as a tax audit.

Share this quote on facebook So raise your hand if you think that was a Russian water-tentacle.

Share this quote on facebook We all see what we want to see. Coffey looks and he sees Russians. He sees hate and fear. You have to look with better eyes than that.

Share this quote on facebook It's not easy being a cast-iron bitch. It takes discipline, years of training... A lot of people don't appreciate that.

Share this quote on facebook Schoenick, your Lieutenant is about to make a real bad career move.

Share this quote on facebook I know how alone you feel... alone in all that cold blackness... but I'm there in the dark with you. Oh, Bud you're not alone. You remember that time, you were pretty drunk, you probably don't remember... but the power went out at the old apartment, the one on Orange Street... and we were staring at that one little candle, and I said something really dumb like that candle is me, like every one of us is out there alone in the dark in this life... and you just lit up another candle and put it beside mine and said "No, see? That's me. That's me..." And we stared at the two candles, and then we... well, if you remember any of it, I'm sure you remember the next part. Bud, there are two candles in the dark. I'm with you. I'll always be with you, Bud, I promise that.

Share this quote on facebook Virgil, you wiener.

Share this quote on facebook [after Cab 3 has landed in the water] Touchdown, and the crowd goes wild.

Share this quote on facebook Heeeeeeeeeeere's M.I.R.V.!

Share this quote on facebook I got to tell you, I give this whole thing a sphincter-factor of about 9.5.

Share this quote on facebook We don't need them. We can't trust them. We may have to take steps. We're gonna have to take steps.

Share this quote on facebook It went straight for the warhead, and they think it's cute.

Share this quote on facebook Everybody just stay calm. The situation is under control.

Share this quote on facebook Sniff something? Well did ya, rat boy?

Share this quote on facebook USS Montana Captain: 60 knots, no wave lines; the Reds don't have anything that fast.

Share this quote on facebook Bendix: Oh no, look who's with them. It's Queen Bitch of the Universe.

Share this quote on facebook [on the bridge monitor, McBride holds up a weather satellite photo]
Leland McBride: Well, it's official, sports fans. They're calling it Hurricane Fredrick, and it's going to make our lives real interesting in a few hours.
Bud: Fred, huh? I don't know,man, I think hurricanes should be named after women, don't you?

Share this quote on facebook Lindsey: I had over four years invested in this project.
Bud: Yeah, you only had three years invested in me.
Lindsey: Well you have to have priorities.

Share this quote on facebook [after a tense communication with Lindsey]
Bud: God, I hate that bitch.
Hippy: Probably shouldn't've married her, then, huh?

Share this quote on facebook Lindsey: Explorer, this is Cab 3, starting the descent along the umbilical.
Finler: Roger that, Cab 3. Good luck.
Lindsey: Luck is not a factor.

Share this quote on facebook [Bud has retrieved his wedding band from a chemical toilet]
Finler: Bud, you know your hand is blue?
Bud: Finler, why don't you just shut up [and] put your gear on?

Share this quote on facebook [crew hears they'll get three times diver's pay to check out the nuclear sub]
Catfish: Hell, for triple time, I'd eat up Beany!
Jammer Willis: Set me on fire and put me out with horse piss.

Share this quote on facebook Hippy: What is all this stuff?
Monk: Fluid breathing system. We just got them. You use it when you go really deep.
Hippy: How deep?
Monk: Deep.
Hippy: How deep?
Monk: It's classified.

Share this quote on facebook Hippy: You know, we got Russian subs creepin' around here; somethin' goes wrong they can say whatever they want happened.
Bud: Relax, will ya? You're makin' the women nervous.
Lindsey: Cute, Virgil.

Share this quote on facebook Bud: Hippy, you think everything's a conspiracy.
Hippy: Everything is.

Share this quote on facebook Lindsey: There is something down there. Something not us.
Catfish: You could be more... specific.
Bud: Something that zigs—
Lindsey: Not us! Not human. Get it? Something non-human, but intelligent. [long pause] A non-terrestrial intelligence.
Hippy: A non-terrestrial intelligence! NTIs. Oh man, that's better than UFOs! Oh, but that works too, huh? "Underwater Flying Objects".

Share this quote on facebook Lisa "One Night" Standing: This tells us how much radiation we're getting?
Hippy: Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. I ain't going near no radiation. No way.
Catfish: Aw, Hippy, you pussy.
Hippy: Well what good's the money [if] six months later your dick drops off?

Share this quote on facebook Bud: Linds, I want you to stay away from that guy. I mean it.
Hippy: The guy is gone. Did you see his hands?
Lindsey: What? He's got the shakes?
Bud: Look, he's operating on his own. He's cut off from his chain of command, he's showing signs of pressure-induced psychosis and he's got a nuclear weapon. So as a personal favor to me, will you try to put your tongue in neutral for a while?

Share this quote on facebook [Bud is being put into the fluid-breathing suit]
Bud: So, I can hear you, but I can't talk, right?
Ensign Monk: The fluid prevents the larynx from making sound. It'll feel a little strange.
Bud: Yeah, no shit.

Share this quote on facebook Lindsey: Bud, how much oxygen you've left?
Bud: [typing] About 5 minutes.
Lindsey: Bud, if you drop all your ballast you can still make it...
Bud: [typing] Gonna stay for a while... I knew this was a one-way trip.

Share this quote on facebook Lindsey: Hi, Brigman.
Bud: Hi, Mrs. Brigman.

Share this quote on facebook A place on earth more awesome than anywhere in space.

Share this quote on facebook There's everything you've ever known about adventure, and then there's The Abyss.

Share this quote on facebook Deep below the blue surface, there lies a place no one has ever dreamed of.