Volcano (1997 film) Quotes

Volcano (1997 film) is a TV program that debuted in 1970 . Volcano completed its run in 1970.

It features Andrew Z. Davis as producer, Alan Silvestri in charge of musical score, and Theo van de Sande as head of cinematography.

Volcano (1997 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Volcano (1997 film) is 104 minutes long. Volcano (1997 film) is distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The cast includes: Anne Heche as Amy, Tommy Lee Jones as Roark, Valente Rodriguez as Truck driver, Don Cheadle as Emmet, Bo Eason as Bud McVie, Gaby Hoffmann as Kelly Roark, Bert Kramer as L.A. Fire Chief, Jacqueline Kim as Dr. Jaye Calder, and John Corbett as Norman Calder.

Volcano (1997 film) Quotes

Gaby Hoffmann as Kelly Roark

• (Gaby Hoffmann) "Please, please. You can't just leave me here."
• (Tommy Lee Jones) "Kelly, you can not be here and I have to."
• (Gaby Hoffmann) "Why?"
• (Tommy Lee Jones) "Because it's my responsibility."
• (Gaby Hoffmann) "Well, so am I. Please I promise I won't get in the way."

• (Gaby Hoffmann) "Paper beats rock, but scissors beat paper."
• (Tommy) "I'm not paper; I'm lava -- what beats lava?"
• (Gaby Hoffmann) "My dad -- I hope."

• (Gaby Hoffmann) "I wanna go home."
• (Tommy Lee Jones) "We're going to the safest place in town, baby, I promise."

Tommy Lee Jones as Roark

• (Tommy Lee Jones) "We're going to put as many people in front of it as it takes. Listen up, people. Let me tell you what's south of us: no more museums, no more department stores, just homes. People. If we turn and run now, they're going to be defenseless. You don't like my plan? That's good. Give me a another plan, but don't tell me we're backing out."

• (Tommy Lee Jones) "Steam did that?"

• (Tommy Lee Jones) "I gave that woman my child, she gave me this card."

• (Tommy Lee Jones) "All right Kelly, get your jacket and lets go. I have to go to the office for a while."
• (Gaby Hoffmann) "But, you said that if I visited, you would take the week off."
• (Tommy Lee Jones) "I am taking the week off."
• (Gaby Hoffmann) "I'll just wait here."
• (Tommy Lee Jones) "I can't leave you here after an earthquake."
• (Gaby Hoffmann) "Dad, I'm 13 years old, I know what to do."
• (Tommy Lee Jones) "Okay, what do you do?"
• (Gaby Hoffmann) "Get into a doorframe, stick your head between your knees and kiss your ass goodbye."
• (Tommy Lee Jones) "All right, that's it"
• (Gaby Hoffmann) "Who are you calling?"
• (Tommy Lee Jones) "Hello, Anita."
• (Gaby Hoffmann) "Dad."
• (Tommy Lee Jones) "Shut up."
• (Tommy Lee Jones) "I need a babysitter."

• (Tommy Lee Jones) "to redirect the lava. Trucks arrive with only 82]Where's the rest of 'em?"
• (Valente Rodriguez) "What "rest of 'em?" This is it."
• (Lt. Fox) "Hey, there only about eighty here."
• (Valente Rodriguez) "Eighty-two; everything else is stuck on the 5 and the 10."
• (Lt. Fox) "We're trying to keep the city in one piece, pinhead. Eighty rails ain't gonna do it."
• (Valente Rodriguez) "So what are you blaming me for?"
• (Lt. Fox) "CONVENIENCE, OK?"

Anne Heche as Amy

• (Anne Heche) "Sometimes magma can find one of those fissures and rise up through it."
• (Tommy Lee Jones) "What's magma?"
• (Rachel) "Lava."
• (Tommy Lee Jones) "Lava? Right here in L.A?"
• (Anne Heche) "It is one of the possibilities."
• (Tommy Lee Jones) "We have a history of that here in the downtown area?"
• (Rachel) "Paracutin -- 1943, a Mexican farmer sees smoke coming out of the middle of his cornfield. A week later there's a volcano a thousand feet high. There's no history of anything until it happens. Then there is."

• (Anne Heche) "How fast can you get to the corner of Wilshire and Western, we have a problem."
• (Tommy Lee Jones) "No, no. Not anymore. We have it stopped."
• (Anne Heche) "The volume of ash is too high to think that we're out of danger."
• (Tommy Lee Jones) "So, why did it just stop?"
• (Anne Heche) "Well, maybe it didn't, maybe it went someplace else."
• (Tommy Lee Jones) "So, how do you know it didn't stop?"
• (Anne Heche) "I don't. But what I do know is when Mount Saint Helens blew, the force was twenty seven thousand times greater then that of the Hiroshima bomb. Do you think that the vent reached to that amount of energy yet?"
• (Tommy Lee Jones) "No."
• (Anne Heche) "Well, lets just assume that we haven't seen the real bulk of the magma yet. Trust me, get down here."
• (Anne Heche) "s***."

• (Anne Heche) "Roark, Roark. There's lava in the red line. This just came through on the radio. The lava had overtaken a subway train in MacArthur park and completely destroyed it."
• (Tommy Lee Jones) "Is it still flowing?"
• (Anne Heche) "It stopped. But there's more under us. There's has to be something feeding this. We know that the lava broke through here at the tar pits and created this vent, and we know that it broke through at MacArthur park, so that means it is traveling laterally underground over a course of at least eight miles."
• (Tommy Lee Jones) "Yesterday, you said it would flow straight up."
• (Anne Heche) "I've never tracked lava under a city before. I don't know what it will do with man-made tunnels to travel through."
• (Tommy Lee Jones) "I doesn't matter. I have to deal what's in front of me right now. I don't have time to read a filer on geological theory."
• (Anne Heche) "Well, somebody has to."
• (Tommy Lee Jones) "I can only fight what I can see."
• (Anne Heche) "Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and check it out."

• (Anne Heche) "Right over the Red Line"
• (Tommy Lee Jones) "That steam could come anywhere -- maybe the earthquake broke a water main"
• (Anne Heche) "How did it get heated?"
• (Tommy Lee Jones) "I don't know"
• (Anne Heche) "You gotta lower me down there"
• (Tommy Lee Jones) "I'm not letting you down there"
• (Anne Heche) "Why -- It's too dangerous?"
• (Tommy Lee Jones) "Yes"
• (Anne Heche) "I thought it was a water main?"
• (Tommy Lee Jones) "All right -- I'll go"
• (Anne Heche) "You'll go -- How are you gonna get up -- I'm gonna lift you"
• (Tommy Lee Jones) "I'm not letting you go"
• (Anne Heche) "Then what are we going to do?"

Bo Eason as Bud McVie

• (Bo Eason) "Yo man, my street's on fire you gotta get some trucks down there."
• (Bert Kramer) "What Street?"
• (Bo Eason) "What Street? You know the one with the smoke coming out of it, Stanley right over there."
• (Bert Kramer) "We'll get to you as soon as we get this under control."
• (Bo Eason) "But, there won't be any houses left by then man."
• (Bert Kramer) "Look, I'm sorry. We'll get to you as soon --"
• (Bo Eason) "Yo. I'm talking about people's houses, and you're over here saving museums."
• (Bert Kramer) "You wanna get this guy off me."
• (Terry Jasper) "Hey."
• (Bo Eason) "Oh great. Mark Fuhrman."
• (Terry Jasper) "Gimme your hands."
• (Bo Eason) "Yo. Get your god**** hands off me man."
• (Policeman) "What's going on?"
• (Terry Jasper) "He was harassing a fire fighter."
• (Bo Eason) "Bulls***. I was asking that guy for help."
• (Policeman) "This is stupid. Let him go."
• (Terry Jasper) "I'm taking him in."
• (Policeman) "All right he's all yours."
• (Bo Eason) "Shouldn't you be saving lives?"
• (Terry Jasper) "Don't move."

Don Cheadle as Emmet

• (Chief Sindelar) "Tell him he's not in Kansas anymore."
• (Don Cheadle) "You're not in Kansas anymore Mike."
• (Tommy Lee Jones) "St. Louis, I'm not in St. Louis."
• (Don Cheadle) "St. Louis, he's not in St. Louis."
• (Chief Sindelar) "I don't give a s*** where's he's not. He has a desk now that's where --"
• (Don Cheadle) "He doesn't give a s***. You have a desk, that's where you work."

Jacqueline Kim as Dr. Jaye Calder

• (Jacqueline Kim) "We have put the kids in the mall. The Hard Rock I think."
• (John Corbett) "Okay, you've done your duty. Can we go now?"
• (Anne Heche) "Are you sure she is there?"
• (Jacqueline Kim) "Yes. I've left her with some kids."
• (Jacqueline Kim) "Norman, hold this."
• (John Corbett) "Here take this."
• (John Corbett) "These people are strangers Jaye. Are you gonna die for them? Jaye, answer me."
• (Jacqueline Kim) "I am answering you Norman."
• (Jacqueline Kim) "This man is under cardiac arrest. I'm defibrilating."
• (John Corbett) "Oh s***. I'm outta here."

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