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"How much did you earn from your last job?"
"5,200 dollars a year."
"I will give you ten thousand."
"Then I think I have to work harder."
"You have to work harder four times because I am Hire you at half price."

Some guys call me "boy", and you tell them that it's "Mr. Hughes" now.

What you see now is the largest private air force in the world.

If possible, rent. If you can't help it, steal it.

This film will cost as much money as a real war.

"Do you want to hear bad news or good news?"
"Bad news, it’s always the case."
"Okay. We installed a 450-horsepower piston engine, and the struts can’t stand the vibrations. Within a few minutes after starting, the welding part of the struts Split."
"What about the good news?"
"No."

If the film is released now, there will be the first 560-hour movie in the world.

Tell Jimmy I want 10 chocolate cookies. The chocolate chunks should be medium in size and not too close to the edge.

What you do now will cost you $25,000 a day.

It cost 4 million U.S. dollars, and it brought 4 million stimuli.

A good beginning and a good ending are the essentials of golf, just like life.

A man cannot be a woman's friend. Either don't touch them or own them.

Hunting the flesh, killing the flesh, eating the flesh, that's what males are all about.

I take a shower seven times a day to maintain my hygiene.

I have never met anyone who really uses the word "Golly".

When my brother committed suicide...There were many photographers at the funeral, and they didn't care about morality.

You taught me to fly, Howard. Now I will take the direction.

You don’t care about money because you are always rich.

I believe that guy has never read anything longer than a villain in his life.

There is only one real Katie, and that is your Katie.

We did not get enough research results from Jane Russell’s breasts. I want smooth nipples, gentlemen, smooth nipples.

"Do you really think they will let you release a movie full of nipples?"
"Of course, who doesn't like nipples?" Put it

this way, it's a breast buffet.

Can't you eat ice cream in a bowl like everyone else in this world?

Ever since the Japanese stole my H-1 design and transformed it into their own zero aircraft, I decided to build a better one.

I met someone, I fell in love with him, and I am going to leave.

Actresses are quite cheap in this city.

You told me you were going to leave me, do you still expect me to be friendly to you?

He is Pan Am. He can stop anyone.

He owns Pan Am, has the support of Congress, and he even has the Civil Aviation Commission, but it does not mean that he owns the sky.

I've been fighting that kind of pretentious Ivy League bastards all my life.

Those are all employees, how can I marry an employee? That's shameful.

I will never bow to Washington or anyone else!

I will not delete a single shot, and I will let it be released without the permission of the electric inspection!

At this rate, when it is completed, the war is over.

78% of his whole body was burned, 9 ribs were broken, his nose, chin, cheek, left knee, right elbow and face had 60 wounds that can be seen even with bones, his chest was deformed, his left lung was atrophied, and his heart was whole. Move to the right chest cavity.

Bring me a message to Juan Tripp, tell him thank you for the flowers he sent, and... he can kiss my ass, on both sides.

I like the desert. The desert is very hot but very clean.

When the children of the American people died for their country in Anzio (the battlefield of World War II), you made a dirty movie and built an airplane that couldn't fly.

Nothing is clean, Howard.

Inviting senior officials of the Air Force to eat, drink and have fun is very common in our business.

Why are you a Maine senator running to Peru?

Although I have caused the US government to lose a lot of money, I hope that the people will look at the problem with a foresight.

The U.S. government spent a total of 800 million U.S. dollars on planes that could not fly during the war. Over 6 billion munitions have never been delivered.

If Hercules fails, I will leave this country and never return.

Whoever can apply jet technology to commercial aircraft first will win.

When I grow up, I will fly the fastest airplane in the world, make the most ambitious movies in the world, and become the richest person in the world.

The road to the future...the road to the future...the road to the future...

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The Aviator quotes

  • Howard Hughes: What about the girls? How are they in the bomb department?

    Johnny Meyer: Well, let's put it this way. It'll be a regular boob buffet. I don't think the gentlemen from the Air Corps will have any trouble scoring tonight.

  • Ava Gardner: Look, you got girls stashed all over town. You got a damn harem just at the Bel-Air. Why don't you marry one of your bungalow girls?

    Howard Hughes: Those are employees. I'm not gonna marry an employee. Jesus Christ, how would that look?