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Crimson Tide (film) Quotes

Crimson Tide (film) is a television show that debuted in 1970 . Crimson Tide stopped airing in 1970.

It features Don Simpson as producer, Hans Zimmer in charge of musical score, and Dariusz Wolski as head of cinematography.

Crimson Tide (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Crimson Tide (film) is 116 minutes long. Crimson Tide (film) is distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

The cast includes: Gene Hackman as Capt. Ramsey, Denzel Washington as Hunter, Matt Craven as Zimmer, James Gandolfini as Lt. Bobby Dougherty, Rocky Carroll as Lt. Darik Westergard, Danny Nucci as Petty Officer First Class Danny Rivetti, Rick Schroder as All, and Lillo Brancato, Jr. as Vossler.

Crimson Tide (film) Quotes

Denzel Washington as Hunter

  • (Denzel Washington) "Chief of the Boat."
  • (Chief of the Boat) "Sir?"
  • (Denzel Washington) "Thank you, COB."
  • (Chief of the Boat) "Thank you? f*** you. Get it straight Mr Hunter, I'm not on your side. Now you could be wrong. But wrong or right, the Captain can't just replace you at will. That was completely improper. And that's why I did what I did. By the book."
  • (Denzel Washington) "I thank you anyway."
  • (Denzel Washington) "Get the radio fixed Vossler. I could've built one by now."
  • (Denzel Washington) "Rivetti, what's up?"
  • (Danny Nucci) "I'm sorry, Sir. It's just a difference of opinion that got out of hand."
  • (Denzel Washington) "What about?"
  • (Danny Nucci) "It's really too silly to talk about, Sir. I'd really just forget about --"
  • (Denzel Washington) "I don't give a damn about what you'd rather forget about. Why were you two fighting?"
  • (Danny Nucci) "I said, the Kirby Silver Surfer was the only real Silver Surfer. And that the Moebius Silver Surfer was s***. And Bennefield's a big Moebius fan. And it got of hand. I pushed him. He pushed me. I lost my head, Sir. I'm Sorry."
  • (Denzel Washington) "Rivetti, you're a supervisor. You can get a commission like that."
  • (Danny Nucci) "I know, Sir. You're 100 percent right. It will never happen again."
  • (Denzel Washington) "It better not happen again. If I see this kind of nonsense again, I'm going to write you up. You understand?"
  • (Denzel Washington) "Do you understand?"
  • (Danny Nucci) "Yes, Sir."
  • (Denzel Washington) "You have to set an example even in the face of stupidity. Everybody who reads comic books knows that the Kirby Silver Surfer is the only true Silver Surfer. Now am I right or wrong?"
  • (Danny Nucci) "You're right, Sir."
  • (Denzel Washington) "Now get out of here."
  • (Danny Nucci) "Yes, Sir."
  • (Denzel Washington) "How long's it gonna take?"
  • (Lillo Brancato, Jr.) "I don't know, sir."
  • (Denzel Washington) "You know what's going on here?"
  • (Lillo Brancato, Jr.) "Yes sir."
  • (Denzel Washington) "No I don't think you do. Let me explain it to you. If we launch, and we're wrong, what's left of Russia is gonna launch at us. There will be a nuclear holocaust beyond imagination, now it's all about knowing, Mr --"
  • (Denzel Washington) "Vossler. We have to know whether our order to launch has been recalled or not. The only way we're gonna know, is if you fix that radio, you understand?"
  • (Denzel Washington) "You ever watch Star Trek?"
  • (Lillo Brancato, Jr.) "St- yeah, Star --"
  • (Denzel Washington) "Star Trek. The USS Enterprise? All right, now you remember when the Klingons were gonna blow up the Enterprise and Captain Kirk calls down to Scotty he says "Scotty, I gotta have more power-""
  • (Lillo Brancato, Jr.) "He needs more, more warp speed, yeah."
  • (Denzel Washington) "Warp speed, exactly. Now I'm Captain Kirk, you're Scotty, I need more power. I'm telling you if you do not get this radio up, a billion people are gonna die; now it's all up to you, I know it's a s***ty deal but you got it, can you handle it?"
  • (Denzel Washington) "Scotty?"
  • (Lillo Brancato, Jr.) "Aye, Captain."
  • (Denzel Washington) "Look, it wasn't a mutiny, I did everything by the book."
  • (Chief of the Boat) "It's not about the book. If the Russians are gonna launch and we sit here and do nothing -- who's gonna stop 'em? Half of me's glad the Captain came back."
  • (Rear Admiral Anderson, Board of Inquiry President) "I have known Captain Ramsey for almost 30 years. We served together on more than a few occasions. If he is lying this will be the first I've heard of it."
  • (Denzel Washington) "Yes, sir."
  • (Rear Admiral Anderson, Board of Inquiry President) "My primary concern here is the breakdown in the system. In this instance the system failed because the two senior officers did not work to resolve their differences, while preserving the chain of command."
  • (Rear Admiral Anderson, Board of Inquiry President) "Now you may have been proven right, Mr Hunter, but insofar as the letter of the law is concerned, you were both right, and you were also both wrong."
  • (Rear Admiral Anderson, Board of Inquiry President) "This is the dilemma that will occupy this panel, this navy and this country's armed forces as a whole long after you leave this room."
  • (Denzel Washington) "Mr. Vossler, this is Captain Kirk. I need warp speed on that communications unit."
  • (Denzel Washington) "Radio, X-O. Mr. Zimmer, get those communication systems back online now."
  • (Matt Craven) "We're working on it sir."
  • (Matt Craven) "Aye, aye, Captain."
  • (Lillo Brancato, Jr.) "Are we ready?"
  • (Matt Craven) "Yeah, we're ready. Go."
  • (Lillo Brancato, Jr.) "Oh f***."
  • (Matt Craven) "The system crashed, the radio buoy got severed, what the f*** does he want us to do?"
  • (Lillo Brancato, Jr.) "s*** electrons?"
  • (Matt Craven) "Hey, we need this radio repaired. Not smart-ass remarks."
  • (Denzel Washington) "Captain, here's the results from the missile drill."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Is this the best they can do?"
  • (Denzel Washington) "No sir. But, that's what they did."
  • (Gene Hackman) "I want this down to five minutes. Train on it."
  • (Denzel Washington) "Yes, sir."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Tell your buddy Weps to do it again, and keep on doing it until he gets it right."
  • (Denzel Washington) "Yes, sir."
  • (Gene Hackman) "It looks like the whole crew needs a kick in the ass."
  • (Denzel Washington) "Or a pat on the back, sir. I have witnessed a fight down in crew's mess, no big deal. It appears that the crew is a bit on edge about all we're going through. Morale seems a bit low."
  • (Gene Hackman) "May I have your attention please, crew of the Alabama, Mr. Hunter has brought it to my attention that Morale maybe a bit low. and you might be a bit --"
  • (Denzel Washington) "On edge."
  • (Gene Hackman) "On edge. so, I suggest this. Any crew member who thinks that they can't handle the situation, can leave the ship right now. Gentlemen, we are at DEFCON 3, war is imminent. This the captain. That is all."
  • (Denzel Washington) "Very inspiring, sir."
  • (Denzel Washington) "In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself."
  • (Denzel Washington) "Captain Ramsey, under operating procedures governing the release of nuclear weapons, we cannot launch our missiles unless both you and I agree."
  • (Gene Hackman) "COB, what're you waiting for?"
  • (Denzel Washington) "This is not a formality, sir. This is expressly why your command must be repeated. It requires my assent, I do not give it and furthermore, you continue upon this course, and insist upon this launch without confirming this message first --"
  • (Gene Hackman) "Son of a bitch. As commanding officer of the U.S.S Alabama, I order you to place the XO under arrest under charges of mutiny."
  • (Denzel Washington) "I will act, backed by the rules of precedence --"
  • (Gene Hackman) "I say again, as commanding officer of the U.S.S Alabama, I order you --"
  • (Denzel Washington) "-- authority in command, regulations number 815, to relieve -- you -- of -- command, Captain."
  • (Gene Hackman) "-- to place the XO under arrest, under charges of mutiny."
  • (Gene Hackman) "COB."
  • (Chief of the Boat) "Captain, please, the XO is right. We can't launch unless he concurs."
  • (Gene Hackman) ""To the U.S.S. Alabama: Rebel-controlled missiles being fueled. Launch codes compromised, dissidents threaten to launch at continental United States, set DEFCON 2. Immediately launch ten Trident missile sorties." They're fueling their missiles. We don't have time to f*** around."
  • (Denzel Washington) "Sir, I think you need time to think this over."
  • (Gene Hackman) "I don't have to think this over."
  • (Denzel Washington) "Captain, I relieve you of your command of this ship. COB, escort the Captain to his state room. I'm assuming command."
  • (Gene Hackman) "You're not assuming anything."
  • (Denzel Washington) "Chief of the Boat, Captain Ramsey is under arrest. Lock him in his state room."
  • (Chief of the Boat) "Captain, please --"
  • (Denzel Washington) "Now, COB."
  • (Denzel Washington) "What if Radchenko surrendered and it's over, huh? We launch. They see us, and they launch. Our birds pass each other in the air. Boom. What have you got?"
  • (Chief of the Boat) "Nuclear War."
  • (Denzel Washington) "Nuclear Holocaust."
  • (Denzel Washington) "See you in my dreams."

Matt Craven as Zimmer

  • (Matt Craven) "This is a mutiny, Peter. There's only two sides to a mutiny."
  • (Peter "Weps" Ince) "Okay. What's going on?"
  • (Matt Craven) "We're not going to let this go down with the X-O and Helm."
  • (Peter "Weps" Ince) "We're not?"
  • (Matt Craven) "No. We're not?"
  • (James Gandolfini) "We've been following the captain for years, and now this asshole Hunter shows up, and we're supposed to follow him because he said so?"
  • (Peter "Weps" Ince) "You're not supposed to, you were ordered to. That's what this is about, proper orders."
  • (James Gandolfini) "Proper Orders? He has proper orders, he won't act on them"
  • (Peter "Weps" Ince) "He's in command now. If they order him to launch, we'll launch, and we'll blow 'em all to hell. But, I rather go down myself then get this one wrong."
  • (Rocky Carroll) "Weps. Our procedures are clear. In the absence of a contravening order and in a situation like this, we follow the orders in hand."
  • (Matt Craven) "That's right. You know how many checks that we have to go through to make sure that a message is authentic? The X-O agreed to those orders, now he just wants to throw them away they don't count?"
  • (James Gandolfini) "He's lost his nerve."
  • (Peter "Weps" Ince) "Bulls***. I know this guy Bobby."
  • (Rocky Carroll) "Weps. We're prepared for launch. How can we just sit here and do nothing when they're prepared to launch at us?"
  • (Peter "Weps" Ince) "Well, we don't know that for sure that's the whole point. That is why he needs time to confirm the message."
  • (Matt Craven) "That's the whole f***in' point is that we don't got time. Radchenko is fueling his birds and why do you think he's doing that? Huh? Why? Because you don't put on a condom until you're gonna f***."

Gene Hackman as Capt. Ramsey

  • (Gene Hackman) "What'd you think, son? That I was just some crazy old coot, putting everyone in harm's way as I yelled "YEE-HA."?"
  • (Gene Hackman) "They're fueling their missiles, we don't have time to f*** around."
  • (Gene Hackman) "You repeat this order, or I'll find somebody who will."
  • (Denzel Washington) "Oh no you won't, sir."
  • (Gene Hackman) "At the Naval War College it was metallurgy and nulear reactors, not 19th-century philosophy."
  • (Gene Hackman) ""War is a continuation of politics by other means." Von Clausewitz."
  • (Denzel Washington) "I think, sir, that what he was actually trying to say was a little more --"
  • (Gene Hackman) "Complicated?"
  • (Denzel Washington) "Yes the purpose of war is to serve a political end but hte true nature of war is to serve itself."
  • (Gene Hackman) "I'm very impressed. In other words, the sailor most likely to win the war is the one most willing to part company with the politicians and ignore everything except the destruction of the enemy. You'd agree with that."
  • (Denzel Washington) "I'd agree that, um, that's what Clausewitz was trying to say."
  • (Gene Hackman) "But you wouldn't agree with it?"
  • (Denzel Washington) "No, sir, I do not. No, I just think that in the nuclear world the true enemy can't be destroyed."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Attention on deck. Von Clausewitz will now tell us exactly who the real enemy is."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Von?"
  • (Denzel Washington) "In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself"
  • (Gene Hackman) "We're here to preserve democracy, not practice it."
  • (Gene Hackman) "All I ask is that you keep up with me. If you can't, then that strange sensation you'll be feeling in the seat of your pants will be my boot in your ass."
  • (Gene Hackman) "How do you like that cigar?"
  • (Denzel Washington) "It's good, sir."
  • (Gene Hackman) "It's your first?"
  • (Denzel Washington) "Yeah."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Well, don't like it too much. They're more expensive than drugs."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Yeah, horses're fascinating animals. Dumb as fenceposts but very intuitive. In that way they're not too different from high school girls: they may not have a brain in their head but they do know all the boys want to f*** 'em."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Short of the outbreak of World War Three, the ship sinking -- being attacked by a giant octopus, I'd like to be undisturbed for the next thirty minutes."
  • (Denzel Washington) "I'll see to it sir."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Those sailors out there are just boys -- boys who are training to do a terrible and unthinkable thing, and if that ever occurs the only reassurance they'll have that they're doing the proper thing is gonna derive from their unqualified belief in the unified chain of command. That means we don't question each other's motives in front of the crew. It means we don't undermine each other. It means in a missile drill, they hear your voice right after mine, without hesitation. Do you agree with that policy, sailor?"
  • (Denzel Washington) "Absolutely, sir."
  • (Gene Hackman) "We're here to preserve democracy, not to practice it."
  • (Gene Hackman) "I have the con."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Gimme the missile key."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Gimme the missile key Mr. Hunter."
  • (Gene Hackman) "I am the commander of this f***in' ship. Gimme the god**** key."
  • (Gene Hackman) "This is the captain. Set condition 1SQ for strategic missile launch. Spin up missiles one through five, and 20 through 24. The release of nuclear weapons has been authorized. This is not a drill."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Speaking of horses did you ever see those Lipizzaner stallions."
  • (Denzel Washington) "What?"
  • (Gene Hackman) "From Portugal. The Lipizzaner stallions. The most highly trained horses in the world. They're all white?"
  • (Denzel Washington) "Yes, sir."
  • (Gene Hackman) ""Yes, sir" you're aware they're all white or "Yes, sir" you've seen them?"
  • (Denzel Washington) "Yes, sir I've seen them. Yes, sir I was aware that they're are all white. They are not from Portugal; they're from Spain and at birth, they're not white; they're black. Sir."
  • (Gene Hackman) "I didn't know that. But they are from Portugal."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Some of the things they do, uh, defy belief. Their training program is simplicity itself. You just stick a cattle prod up their ass and you can get a horse to deal cards."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Simple matter of voltage."
  • (Gene Hackman) "I don't trust air I can't see."
  • (Gene Hackman) "God help you if you're wrong."
  • (Denzel Washington) "If I'm wrong, then we're at war; God help us all."

Danny Nucci as Petty Officer First Class Danny Rivetti

  • (Bennefield) "What are you doing down here?"
  • (Danny Nucci) "Jesus, I was just going to the bath --"
  • (Bennefield) "Hey, nobody moves alone. Come on, you know the drill."
  • (Danny Nucci) "What, Bennefield? I need an escort to take a s***?"
  • (Bennefield) "Shut up. Now, I'm gonna call control. You stay right there."
  • (Danny Nucci) "f*** that."
  • (Bennefield) "I mean it, man."
  • (Danny Nucci) "Okay, Moebius, open the door."
  • (Bennefield) "You broke my nose, man."
  • (Danny Nucci) "Shut up, fat boy."

James Gandolfini as Lt. Bobby Dougherty

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