Lev Andropov Quotes in Armageddon (1998)

Lev Andropov: It's stuck, yes?

Watts: Back off! You don't know the components!

Lev Andropov: [annoyed] Components. American components, Russian Components, ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!

Lev Andropov: I'm stepping outside.

A.J.: You're-you're going outside?

Lev Andropov: I am the only certified astronaut. And I'm saving your American ass!

A.J.: Have you ever heard of Evel Knievel?

Lev Andropov: No, I never saw Star Wars.

Colonel William Sharp: It takes two people to fly this thing. Either we all stay and die, or you guys draw straws.

Rockhound: I say we all stay and die.

[pause, everyone looks at Rockhound]

Rockhound: But that's me.

AJ: I'll draw. Let's draw.

Harry: Nobody's gonna draw straws. I'll stay and take care of it.

Chick: Well, I can't live with that sort of thing.

Lev Andropov: Nobody asked you if you could live with it, all right?

Lev Andropov: Bullshit! No way I will let you volunteer for this, so I can go back to my home country like the man who did not volunteer! No way!

Bear: Hey man, let's draw, and let's see who's gonna stay up here and dance.

Rockhound: Hey guys? I-I know you guys think I'm crazy right now but, I would really like this responsibility.

Harry: All right. All right.

Rockhound: I can do it!

Harry: Let's just draw straws and get it over with. Come on.

Chick: I ain't drawin' against you, Harry.

Harry: Well, I'm gonna draw against you Chick, so you better just go ahead and do it.

[They draw straws]

Chick: Just gimme this thing.

Lev Andropov: [Lev looks at the straw he has drawn] Is this good, or bad?

[A.J. has drawn the short straw]

AJ: Oh man. Well, we all gotta die right? I'm the guy who gets to do it saving the world.

[A.J, Lev, and Bear are making the canyon jump and Lev is flying outside on the armadillo trying to fix it]

Lev Andropov: I'm sorry A.J. I was way off on the odds!

[after escaping the Russian Space Station explosion]

Freddy Noonan: Pretty intense, huh?

Lev Andropov: That's why I told you "touch nothing". But you're bunch of cowboys!

Lev Andropov: This is how we fix problem in the Russian space station!

[hits panel with tool]

Lev Andropov: Welcome everybody !

Lev Andropov: Now I'm really a Russian hero!

Lev Andropov: Don't touch my uncle! You know? He's a genius of my family.

A.J.: This is great. We just happen to run into the Grand Canyon on the asteroid.

Lev Andropov: I told you, you took wrong way, wrong road.

A.J.: What? What road? Do you see any roads around here?

Lev Andropov: You know what, I do not have much pleasure being near God's ear, but you think this is looking good or what?

A.J.: Lev, why don't you just do humanity a favor and just shut the hell up?

Lev Andropov: Welcome home, astronauts.

Lev Andropov: I am not gas station. This is sophisticated laboratory.

Lev Andropov: I am not a gas station. This is a sophisticated laboratory.

Lev Andropov: He used to make the tip of the bomb. The thing that finds, uh, New York or Washington, you know?