Space Cowboys (2000)

Clint Eastwood: Frank Corvin

Photos 

Quotes 

• Frank Corvin : Well, what do you say, Reverend? You think a prayer's in order?

  Tank Sullivan : I was just reciting the Shepard's Prayer. Alan Shepard's prayer. Oh Lord, please don't let us screw up. Amen.

• Frank Corvin : You know what the worst day of my life was? The day Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. I was probably the only person in America who wanted to commit suicide that day.

  Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : Well, thanks a lot Frank. We haven't spoken in twelve years and that's basically been the big question on my mind, what could make you commit suicide.

• Frank Corvin : This is Jerry O'Neill.

  Sara Holland : No nickname for you?

  Jerry O'Neill : You can call me

  [kisses her hand] 

  Jerry O'Neill : anytime.

• Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : [Frank and Hawk are inside the centrifuge/spinning machine, which is about to be started]  The first one to pass out buys the beers tonight...

  Frank Corvin : [machine start spinning]  You're on...

  Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : [machine speed increases and it's moving really fast]  This thing's moving?...

  Frank Corvin : I don't know... Doesn't seems to be moving to me...

  Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : [machine speed continues to increase]  Say, fellas, is y'all's equipment broke down? Fellas?

  [everybody's watching the show] 

  Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : You're a pushover, Frank!

  Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : [machine is now spinning at top speed]  I do believe it's moving now...

  Tank Sullivan : That sure will take the wrinkles out.

  Eugene 'Gene' Davis : [walking into the control room]  WHAT the hell is going on here?

  [crowd disappears] 

  Eugene 'Gene' Davis : [really pissed, hits the emergency stop on the centrifuge]  I'm sure you think you're putting on a great show, but this is not a toy! Now which one of you assholes wants to explain this?

  Frank Corvin : Gene?

  Eugene 'Gene' Davis : What?

  Frank Corvin : Which one of us passed out first?

  Eugene 'Gene' Davis : I'm getting too old for this shit...

• Frank Corvin : My only hope is that whatever doesn't burn up lands on Gerson's house.

• Tiny, Bar Bouncer : I'll put you in the hospital, old man.

  Frank Corvin : Yeah? Well, I've got Medicare. Go ahead and shoot your best shot!

• [Frank and Hawk are asking a waitress who she would prefer to 'take home'] 

  Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : Would you prefer this man, with his asymmetrical sagging ass-cheeks, his love-handles the size of Nebraska, and his oh-so-ugly in-grown toenail...?

  Frank Corvin : [interrupting]  Or this son of a bitch with the chicken-gizzard neck and the face that looks like thirty miles of Death Valley fire trail?

• Frank Corvin : Clock's ticking, Bob. And I'm only getting older.

• [Last Lines] 

  [Frank and Barbara Corvin are standing by their home and staring at the Moon] 

  Barbara Corvin : Do you think he

  [Hawkins] 

  Barbara Corvin : made it?

  Frank Corvin : Yeah, I think he made it.

• Eugene 'Gene' Davis : Morning, Hawk.

  Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : Good morning.

  Eugene 'Gene' Davis : What happened to your eye?

  Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : l fell in the shower. Tell maintenance to put some no-slip adhesives on that slippery floor.

  Eugene 'Gene' Davis : How's it going, Frank?

  Frank Corvin : Fine, fine.

  Eugene 'Gene' Davis : Whats with the eye? Slip in the shower?

  Frank Corvin : How would you know that?

  Eugene 'Gene' Davis : l think I'll have a chat with the janitor.

• Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : What are you doing here?

  Frank Corvin : Keeping a promise I made years ago.

  Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : Was that the promise you made to kill me or the promise you made to have both my legs broke?

• Frank Corvin : [after Hawk crashes the shuttle during a simulation]  Hawk, this isn't a stripped-down showplane. You've got to do it their way.

  Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : I don't need a damn computer to tell me how to land an aircraft.

  Roger Hines : It's not an aircraft, Colonel. It's a flying brick, and you've GOT to use the computer's protocols.

  Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : What if the on-board computer fails?

  Ethan Glance : It never has.

  Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : [to the simulator supervisor]  Houston, Horizon.

  Mission Control Tech : Go ahead.

  Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : Request second landing please.

  [pause] 

  Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins : Houston - Horizon, request on board computer FAILURE on second landing.

  Eugene 'Gene' Davis : Run it again. Sock it to 'em.

• Barbara Corvin : Would you like me to read the instructions to you again?

  Frank Corvin : Let me tell you something, my dear. Those instructions were written by a fellow in Japan when they made this damn thing. They were probably translated by some gringo who was an expatriate American that couldn't get a job in this country. And then the Japanese guy probably translated him just to double check on him. You don't need these instructions. Not at all. Tear them up.

• Frank Corvin : You sent us up to this bastard, have us put it back into orbit, fully armed, just to save your own ass?

• Frank Corvin : [after hes told Tank and Jerry to bail out]  I thought i told you to bail out!

  Tank Sullivan : We're staying! If you don't mind!

• Ethan Glance : I'm your backup, okay? I'm on a need to know basis!

  Frank Corvin : You don't need to know dick, and I don't need a backup.

• Frank Corvin : Put a sock in it, sonny.

• Bob Gerson : How old are ya, Frank?

  Frank Corvin : Old enough to know your ass is in a sling.