Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow quotes

View Quote Captain Francesca Cook: Alert the amphibious squadron!

View Quote Dexter Dearborn: Oh, great, we all made up!

View Quote Hindenberg Announcer: [first lines] Attention. Please prepare for docking procedure.

View Quote Police Sergeant: They've broken through the perimeter. Send reinforcements... send everything you've got!

View Quote Capt. Francesca Cook: Reconnaissance located an island three kilometers northeast of our current position. It is not, however, on any of our charts.
Polly Perkins: That has to be him.
Capt. Francesca Cook: That has to be who? What have you gotten me into this time, Joseph?
Joseph Sullivan: Nothing you can't handle, Franky. [Polly trips and slams her hand into some controls, causing sirens to go off] Polly, try not to touch anything.

View Quote Capt. Francesca Cook: You're all clear. Good luck, Joe.
Joseph Sullivan: Thank you, Franky. We'll take it from here.
Polly Perkins: She's some kind of girl.
Joseph Sullivan: Yes, I know. I'm taking us up.

View Quote Captain Francesca Cook: Joseph Sullivan, I was sure you'd be dead by bow.
Joseph Sullivan: It's good to see you too, Franky.
Capt. Francesca Cook: This had better be important or one of us is in trouble.
Joseph Sullivan: It's important.
Capt. Francesca Cook: What is that? [watching Polly trying to climb off the wing of the plane]
Joseph Sullivan: You be nice. Commander Cook, meet Polly Perkins.
Capt. Francesca Cook: Polly Perkins, I've heard so much about you. It's a pleasure to finally meet the competition. It's been a long time since Nanjing, hasn't it, Joseph?

View Quote Dr. Totenkopf: Who dares come before me? Who dares enter this place? What has begun cannot be stopped. The time for this world is over.
Polly Perkins: Totenkopf.
Joseph Sullivan: Hello, doctor. Why are you doing this?
Dr. Totenkopf: I have been witness to a world consumed by hatred and bent on self-destruction, watched as we have taken what was to be a paradise. and failed in our responsibilities as its steward. I know now that the course of the human race has set for itself and cannot be changed. I am the last desperate chance for a doomed planet. Now, leave this place or die!
[Dexter unplugs the Tesla coils that previously electrocuted Dr. Kessler]
Joseph Sullivan: Is it safe?
Dexter Dearborn: Well, there's only one way to find out.
[Sky Captain and Polly cross the threshold together and are relieved to be unharmed]
Dexter Dearborn: I meant throw something.

View Quote Editor Paley: I don't like this business you're getting yourself into.
Polly Perkins: I'll be just fine, Mr. Paley. You know what a careful girl I am.
Editor Paley: I move my mouth, words come out, you don't hear.
Polly Perkins: I'm late for a movie. [smiles]
Editor Paley: I don't like it when you smile at me.
Polly Perkins: You don't like my smile?
Editor Paley: I don't like what's behind it! Listen, Polly, six scientists are missing, probably dead. Somebody out there means business. I don't want you in the middle of it.
Polly Perkins: It's only a movie, Mr. Paley. I'll bring you some popcorn.

View Quote Editor Paley: What's going on? They're calling for midtown to evacuate.
Polly Perkins: Listen, Mr. Paley, I don't have time for this. I need you to dig up anything you can about a Dr. Walter Jennings, and someone named Totenkopf. An address, a phone number, anything you can. It's important.
Editor Paley: Quick as you can. Polly, listen to me. I want you to get out of there. I want you to put the phone down, close your notepad and get the hell out of there.
Polly Perkins: [about the robots] Wait a minute. I can see something now coming into sight above the Palisades. They're crossing Sixth Avenue... Fifth Avenue... they're a hundred yards away...
Editor Paley: Polly, Polly!
Polly Perkins: Oh, my God.

View Quote Joseph Sullivan: Come in, Dex.
Dexter Dearborn: Look, what ever you do don't shoot!
Joseph Sullivan: Er... Okay!
Dexter Dearborn: You shot it, didn't you?
Joseph Sullivan: Yes.

View Quote Joseph Sullivan: I thought you said this thing was big? Can I have it?
Dexter Dearborn: You find out where it came from and I'll buy you one for Christmas.

View Quote Joseph Sullivan: It's a mobile airstrip. Dex has a hand in designing it. You can keep a secret, can't you, Polly?
Polly Perkins: [raising her camera to photograph it] Yeah, I can keep a secret. [looks at her camera] Two shots. [doesn't take a picture]

View Quote Joseph Sullivan: [flies over the sidewalk where Polly is standing] Polly.
Polly Perkins: [snaps a picture of Sky Captain flying overhead] Joe.

View Quote Joseph Sullivan: [Polly laughs] What?
Polly Perkins: I missed you. Thanks for saving my life today.
Joseph Sullivan: Oh, you were nice down there.
Polly Perkins: You missed me, too? How nice.