Sparks Quotes in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)

Sparks: U.S.O.S. Seaview calling Washington. Come in, Washington.

[pause]

Sparks: Twenty-five hours of static in my ear. Man, I'm getting shell-shocked.

Chunk: [up in the vending machine with the other toys, referring to Buzz] He ain't the sharpest knife in the... place where... they keep the knives...

Sparks: Neither are you, Chunk!

[everyone laughs]

Sparks: How come they picked you?

Wolf: I don't know. Strong arm, strong back, weak mind!

Doctor: [Speaking in Spanish, before speaking in English] I Go! We are prepared. I go!

Bat Kilgallen: Well, he's evidently going.

Sparks: Oh, you hurt his feelings.

Geoff Carter: Yeah, why?

Sparks: He was quoting Shakespeare. From Henry IV, I think. He said, "A man can die but once, we owe God a death; you could pay it today, we don't owe it tomorrow."

Bat Kilgallen: He's no fool.

Sparks: [shaking hands] Do you feel that grip?

First Mate: I do sir. I do.

Sparks: Powerful enough to snap the neck of a small beast, and yet sensitive enough to caress the tender throat of a young castrato. Coax a song out of him.

Sparks: [Maurice is in drag and has just slapped him] Was that your best shot, savage gypsy lover?

Sparks: Are either of you Greek?

Arthur: No.

Maurice: Well, yes, actually I'm half-Greek.

Sparks: Top half or bottom half?

Sparks: Perhaps we should wrestle sometime. Do you like the taut roundness that exercise brings to the buttocks?

Maurice: [uneasy] Yeah.

Sparks: Do you enjoy the warmth of the Mediterranean sun on that self-same place? I once wrestled a man on the steps of the Acropolis, when the sun was at its height, wearing only what God sent me into the world with. Can you picture that? That's where we'll wrestle, my semi-Grecian lad. That's where I'll make a man of you.

Sparks: I jest, I jibe!

Maurice: [taking off his drag costume] I'm a man!

Sparks: So am I!

Happy Franks: Don't kid a kidder kid! People are afraid of poverty, of war, of pestilence, of not knowing who they are or what they want, of dogs, and I say - Don't! Don't fear these things! They're not real. You want something to fear? Do you know what to fear? Love. Fear love. Love is real and it is terrifying. If you're going to be afraid, be afraid when someone says...

[he is cut off in mid-sentence as other camera angles show the other characters say "I love you" in different ways]

Johnny Leguard: [to Mrs. Essendine] I love you.

Maxine: [to the sheik] Je t'aime.

Captain: [to the deposed queen] Ti amo.

Meistrich: [to Lili] Ich liebe dich.

Sparks: [to Maurice, who is dressed in drag] I lo-

[Maurice stops him]

First Mate: [in foreign language, to bomb which he hid in his coat] I love you.

Emily: [to Happy] I love you!

Jeff Farnley: [Gil lights a cigarette during the posse's night in the woods] Put out that light you fool. You wanna give us away?

Gil Carter: Who to?

Jeff Farnley: [pulling gun] Chuck that butt or I'll plug you.

Gil Carter: Start somethin'. For every hole you make, I'll make two.

Sparks: [when eight other men promptly light up] Looks like you gonna have a lot of shootin' to do, Mr. Farnley.

Gil Carter: They're kiddin' you, Sparks.

Sparks: I know sir. But maybe Mr. Smith's accidentally right. Maybe I ought to go along.