David Grant Quotes in Executive Decision (1996)

David Grant: If you don't believe me, what are you doing up here?

Lt. Colonel Austin Travis: Well... who the hell else is gonna do it? You?

David Grant: Colonel, grab my hand!

[Travis reaches his hand but falls back down]

David Grant: Colonel, we're not gonna make it!

Lt. Colonel Austin Travis: *You* are!

[Travis shuts himself in and is sucked out of the plane to his death]

David Grant: It's over.

Nagi Hassan: Over? It's not over.

[Grant holds up the detonator]

David Grant: It's over.

Nagi Hassan: Who are you?

David Grant: No one.

Nagi Hassan: You're very clever, but you're too late. You've solved nothing.

[fires his gun into the cockpit]

[after the Navy pilots have gotten their Morse Code message]

David Grant: Jesus, they got it!

Baker: [astounded] They got it?

David Grant: They got it!

Baker: I take back every rust-pickin', squid-hatin' thing I've ever said about swabbies!

[Rat is attempting to take command of the mission]

David Grant: Look, I'm not telling you how to do your job, but if that DZ5 is on board, there's gonna be a bomb attached to it, and you goddamn well better find it!

[on the ground, after Cahill helped defuse the bomb]

David Grant: Cahill, I don't know how you did it, but you did it.

Cahill: [shakes his head] No... you did it.

[hands him the straw from his mouth]

David Grant: What's this?

Cahill: That's a memento for ya. Listen, I'll tell you all about it another time, but right now, I need a drink. A *big* drink.

[after ploughing through lots of light aircraft and runway lights and overshooting the runway on landing the 747]

David Grant: These things almost land themselves, don't they?

David Grant: Can you hook up a probe so that I can see into the main cabin on this monitor?

Baker: No, we can't transmit between the probe and the monitor.

David Grant: Would a video camera work?

Baker: Yeah.

David Grant: You got one?

Baker: No.

[as Jean shows a seat number to the hidden camera]

David Grant, Baker: 2, 1, K... 21K!

Receptionist: Does he have Alzheimer's?

David Grant: No, he just believes what people tell him.

Receptionist: That's too bad.

Kate Grant: [looking at graves] There's Woody's little sister, Rose. She was only nineteen when she was killed in a car wreck near Wausa. What a whore!

David Grant: Mom!

Kate Grant: Nah, I liked Rose, but my God, she was a slut.

David Grant: C'mon...

Kate Grant: I'm just telling you the truth!

David Grant: Where's your family?

Kate Grant: Oh, they're over in the Catholic cemetery. Catholics wouldn't be caught dead around all these damn Lutherans.

[Approaches another tombstone]

Kate Grant: Here's Delmer, Woody's cousin, he was a drunk. One time we were wrestling and he felt me up. Grabbed a handful of boob and Woody was right there and didn't have a clue, did ya Woody?

David Grant: Dad, why didn't you tell us that wasn't Ed's house?

Woody Grant: I didn't know what the hell you were doing.

Ross Grant: Have you ever seen us steal machinery before?

Woody Grant: I never know what you boys are up to.

Ross Grant: Why didn't you say it wasn't yours?

Woody Grant: I thought you wanted it.

Ross Grant: What would we want an old compressor for?

Woody Grant: That's what I couldn't figure out.

Kate Grant: That's Ed Pegram singing.

Ed Pegram: And his momma cried, cause if there's one thing that she don't need, it's another hungry mouth to feed... in the ghetto. people don't ya understand...

Kate Grant: He always did have a nice voice. It was the only nice thing about that bastard.

Woody Grant: It's all right.

Kate Grant: All right? Did you know... he was always trying to get into my bloomers?

David Grant: Jesus mom. Was the whole town trying to seduce you?

David Grant: How did she die?

Kate Grant: Saw herself in the mirror one day.

David Grant: ...and all your brothers are coming over today, remember?

Woody Grant: Some of 'em are dead.

David Grant: The dead ones won't be here.

Kate Grant: Why do you want meatloaf if it isn't even on the dinner menu?

Woody Grant: 'cause I like it.

Waitress: What can I get you?

Woody Grant: Do you have any meatloaf?

Waitress: No, that's only part of our lunch specials.

Kate Grant: He'll have the chicken.

Waitress: Fried or grilled?

Woody Grant: ...fried.

Kate Grant: He'll have it grilled. I think I'd like the roast beef, but I'm not entirely sure. What do you recommend?

Waitress: Everything's all good ma'am, but I especially like the tilapia.

Kate Grant: Oh, then I'll have the roast beef.

David Grant: ...I'll have the tilapia.

David Grant: Hey Dad, you finally got your compressor back.

Woody Grant: That's not my compressor.

David Grant: Sure it is.

Woody Grant: Mine didn't look anything like that.

David Grant: It has to be yours. It's an old compressor we found in Ed Pegram's barn.

Woody Grant: That wasn't Ed's barn.

David Grant: Oh. Okay. Dad, I found it. Here it is.

[Runs up holding partial]

David Grant: Oh. Wait. This isn't yours.

Woody Grant: [Goes back to looking]

David Grant: I was kidding. Here.

[Hands it over]

Woody Grant: [Examines it] These ain't mine.

David Grant: Of course they're yours.

Woody Grant: No.

David Grant: Whose else is it going to be? See if it fits.

Woody Grant: They're not my teeth.

David Grant: They have to be.

Woody Grant: I ought to know my own teeth.

David Grant: [Walks off]

Woody Grant: Of course they're my teeth. Don't be a moron.

Receptionist: [after telling Woody he hasn't won the money] I can give you a free gift. Would you like a hat or a seat cushion?

David Grant: Dad. Do you want a hat or a seat cushion?

Woody Grant: I'll take a hat.

Bart: We could get you to Lincoln in an hour.

David Grant: Lincoln is over 200 miles.

Bart: Okay, hour-and-a-half.

David Grant: So, what do you think, dad?

Woody Grant: It doesn't look finished to me.

David Grant: How do you mean?

Woody Grant: [upon seeing Mount Rushmore] Well, it looks like somebody got bored doing it. Washington's the only one with any clothes, and they're just kind of roughed in. Lincoln doesn't even have an ear.

Bart: Hell, I drove up from Dallas one time. That's 850 miles, I done that in eight hours.

David Grant: That's, like, over 100 miles an hour.

Cole: Oh, Bart was movin'.

Woody Grant: Where's my teeth?

David Grant: You lost your teeth?

David Grant: How did you and mom end up getting married?

Woody Grant: She wanted to.

David Grant: And you didn't?

Woody Grant: I figured, what the hell.

David Grant: Were you ever sorry you married her?

Woody Grant: All the time.

David Grant: Well, why did you have kids, then?

Woody Grant: I like to screw, and your mother's a Catholic, so you figure it out.

Bart: So, you got any other cars?

David Grant: No. Just that one.

Bart: What's the engine?

David Grant: It's uh... four cylinder?

Bart: Yeah. But, what size?

David Grant: Oh, I don't really know.

Cole: What's your brother drive?

David Grant: Who, Ross?

Cole: Yeah, what does he drive?

David Grant: Ross has a Kia Rondo and Marcy has a Nissan Pathfinder. She carts the kids around a lot.

Bart: So, you all got Jap cars?

David Grant: Actually, Kia is Korean.

David Grant: So, you told the Sheriff you were walking to Nebraska?

Woody Grant: That's right. To get my million dollars.

Peg Nagy: I knew I didn't have a chance anyway.

David Grant: Yeah?

Peg Nagy: I wouldn't let him round the bases.