Sneakers (1992 film) Quotes

Sneakers (1992 film) is a TV show that appeared on TV in 1970 . Sneakers ended its run in 1970.

It features Lawrence Lasker, and Walter Parkes as producer, James Horner in charge of musical score, and John Lindley (cinematographer) as head of cinematography.

Sneakers (1992 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Sneakers (1992 film) is 126 minutes long. Sneakers (1992 film) is distributed by Universal Studios.

The cast includes: Ben Kingsley as Cosmo, Robert Redford as Martin Bishop, David Strathairn as Whistler, James Earl Jones as Bernard Abbott, River Phoenix as Carl, James Earl Jones as NSA Agent Mary, Mary McDonnell as Liz, Timothy Busfield as Dick Gordon, Dan Aykroyd as Mother, Sidney Poitier as Donald Crease, Eddie Jones as Buddy Wallace, Sidney Poitier as Crease, Donal Logue as Dr. Gunter Janek, Lee Garlington as Dr. Elena Rhyzkov, and George Hearn as Gregor.

Sneakers (1992 film) Quotes

George Hearn as Gregor

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Ben Kingsley as Cosmo

• (Ben Kingsley) "Pain? Try Aspirin."

• (Ben Kingsley) "I cannot kill my friend."
• (Ben Kingsley) "Kill my friend."

• (Ben Kingsley) "You will give me the box, right now, or I will kill you, right now."

• (Ben Kingsley) "Anyway, I couldn't have you talking to the Russians. Five years ago, yes, we could trust them not to go running to the F.B.I., or if they did we could trust the F.B.I. not to believe them, but today we can't trust anybody."

• (Ben Kingsley) "No more secrets, Marty."

• (Ben Kingsley) "Pollution. Crime. Drugs, poverty, disease, hunger, despair; we throw GOBS of money at them and problems only get worse. Why is that? Because money's most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don't have it."
• (Robert Redford) "I agree. Now who did you say you were working for?"
• (Ben Kingsley) "Oh, that's just my day job."

• (Ben Kingsley) "Who else is going to change the world, Marty? Greenpeace?"

• (Ben Kingsley) "Martin Brice; my old and good friend who promised me we would not get in trouble and who, I might add, did not."

• (Ben Kingsley) "There I was in prison. And one day I helped a couple of nice older gentlemen make some free telephone calls. They turned out to be, let us say, good family men."
• (Robert Redford) "Organized crime?"
• (Ben Kingsley) "Hah. Don't kid yourself. It's not that organized."

• (Ben Kingsley) "I'm sorry if he hurt you. I'm afraid Wallace doesn't like you very much."
• (Robert Redford) "You oughta have that guy checked for rabies."
• (Ben Kingsley) "Rabies occurs only in warm-blooded animals."

• (Ben Kingsley) "Posit: People think a bank might be financially shaky."
• (Robert Redford) "Consequence: People start to withdraw their money."
• (Ben Kingsley) "Result: Pretty soon it is financially shaky."
• (Robert Redford) "Conclusion: You can make banks fail."
• (Ben Kingsley) "Bzzt. I've already done that. Maybe you've heard about a few? Think bigger."
• (Robert Redford) "Stock market?"
• (Ben Kingsley) "Yes."
• (Robert Redford) "Currency market?"
• (Ben Kingsley) "Yes."
• (Robert Redford) "Commodities market?"
• (Ben Kingsley) "Yes."
• (Robert Redford) "Small countries?"
• (Ben Kingsley) "I might even be able to crash the whole damn system. Destroy all records of ownership. Think of it, Marty: no more rich people, no more poor people, everybody's the same. Isn't that what we said we always wanted?"
• (Robert Redford) "Cos, you haven't gone crazy on me, have you?"

Timothy Busfield as Dick Gordon

• (Timothy Busfield) "National Security Agency."
• (Robert Redford) "Ah. You're the guys I hear breathing on the other end of my phone."
• (Timothy Busfield) "No, that's the FBI. We're not chartered for domestic surveillance."
• (Robert Redford) "Oh, I see. You just overthrow governments. Set up friendly dictators."
• (Timothy Busfield) "No, that's the CIA. We protect our government's communications, we try to break the other fella's codes. We're the good guys, Marty."
• (Robert Redford) "Gee, I can't tell you what a relief that is -- Dick."

• (Timothy Busfield) "Before we begin, something we need to clear up. Most firms of this kind are staffed with ex-law enforcement types, but your team, it's --"
• (Robert Redford) "I know, kind of different."
• (Eddie Jones) "Yes, you are."
• (Eddie Jones) "Darryl Roscow, also known as "Mother." Eighteen months at Denimmoore for breaking and entering."
• (Robert Redford) "Yeah, he was framed. But he's got the best hands in the business."
• (Eddie Jones) "Carl Arbogast, age 19. Caught breaking into the Oakland City School District computer to change his grades."
• (Robert Redford) "I know, we're the ones who caught him."
• (Eddie Jones) "Erwin Emory, also known as "Whistler.""
• (Robert Redford) "Yeah, yeah, I know, he had a little trouble with the phone company --"
• (Eddie Jones) "Sixty-two counts?"
• (Robert Redford) "All right, you want law enforcement? What about Donald Crease? Twenty-two year veteran of the CIA."
• (Eddie Jones) "Terminated, 1987. Why was that?"
• (Robert Redford) "I don't know, I think maybe a personality conflict. Who are you guys?"
• (Timothy Busfield) "Relax, Marty. We have to check on these things. It's just that every member of your team has had some kind of problem in their past."
• (Eddie Jones) "Then there's Martin Bishop --"
• (Eddie Jones) "He doesn't seem to have a past."

David Strathairn as Whistler

• (David Strathairn) "Anybody want to crash a couple of passenger jets?"

• (David Strathairn) "Fellas, Janek's little black box is on his desk between the pencil jar and the lamp."
• (Dan Aykroyd) "Uh, Whistler, I hate to tell you this, but you're blind."

• (David Strathairn) "That was very good, Bish. Remind me to make you an honorary blind person."

• (David Strathairn) "Anybody want to black out New England?"

• (David Strathairn) "Anybody want to shut down the Federal Reserve?"

Robert Redford as Martin Bishop

• (Robert Redford) "Gentlemen. Your communication lines are vulnerable, your fire exits need to be monitored, your rent-a-cops are a tad undertrained -- Outside of that, everything seems to be just fine. You'll be getting our full report and analysis in a few days, but first, who's got my check?"

• (Robert Redford) "You know, I could have been in the NSA, but they found out my parents were married."

• (Robert Redford) "Carl?"
• (River Phoenix) "The, young lady with the -- Uzi. Is she single?"
• (Robert Redford) "Uh, Carl? Excuse us."
• (Robert Redford) "This is the brass ring. Haven't you got any bigger thoughts?"
• (River Phoenix) "I just want her telephone number. Please?"
• (James Earl Jones) "Wait a minute -- you can have anything you want, and you're asking for my phone number?"
• (River Phoenix) "Yes."
• (James Earl Jones) "273-9164. Area code 415."
• (River Phoenix) "I'm Carl."
• (James Earl Jones) "I'm Mary."
• (James Earl Jones) "I'm going to be sick."

• (Bank Secretary) "So, people hire you to break into their places -- to make sure no one can break into their places?"
• (Robert Redford) "It's a living."
• (Bank Secretary) "Not a very good one."

• (Robert Redford) "How's the audio?"
• (David Strathairn) "Good, Mother's pretty close."
• (Sidney Poitier) "He's just wearing four safety belts this time."
• (Robert Redford) "What, no parachute?"

• (Robert Redford) "Gimme a break. We won, they lost, you know? It's been in a couple of the papers."

• (Robert Redford) "Carl?"
• (River Phoenix) "I'd like to have a deep relationship with a beautiful woman who melts from the very first time our eyes meet."
• (Robert Redford) "We're not getting paid that much, Carl."
• (River Phoenix) "Well, you know, someone like Liz."
• (Robert Redford) "We're definitely not getting paid that much."

• (Robert Redford) "SETEC ASTRONOMY -- TOO MANY SECRETS."

• (Robert Redford) "How 'bout a lunch? You can chaperone."
• (James Earl Jones) "No. I will not do this."
• (Robert Redford) "Hey, Abby. Abby, come on now. The FBI'd give him twins."
• (James Earl Jones) "NO."

• (Robert Redford) "If I come in with what I know, can you guarantee my safety?"
• (James Earl Jones) "Do you have the item?"
• (Robert Redford) "No."
• (David Strathairn) "Fifteen seconds."
• (Robert Redford) "Can you guarantee my safety?"
• (James Earl Jones) "Where is the item?"
• (Robert Redford) "Can you guarantee my safety?"

Sidney Poitier as Crease

• (Sidney Poitier) "Did I ever tell you why I had to leave the CIA?"
• (Dan Aykroyd) "No --"
• (Sidney Poitier) "My temper."
• (Dan Aykroyd) "Wow --"
• (Sidney Poitier) "Motherf***ers mess with me, I'll split your head."

• (Sidney Poitier) "You guys'll be chalk outlines without me."

• (Sidney Poitier) "This is what's in Cosmo's office. Best motion sensor on the market."
• (Dan Aykroyd) "And watch this."
• (Sidney Poitier) "Also responds to thermal differentials."
• (Robert Redford) "Does this have a happy ending?"
• (Dan Aykroyd) "Oh, yeah. We can wrap you in a full-body suit of neoprene, heat-resistant rubber. Or we can raise the temperature in Cosmo's office to 98.6 degrees; which is probably what we'll have to do, because the neoprene would suffocate you. Either way, you've got a top speed of two inches per second. Any faster than that --"
• (Dan Aykroyd) "and, uh, big guys with guns. But you'll probably do fine."
• (Robert Redford) "Since when am I the one who's --"
• (Dan Aykroyd) "This is the same model answering machine that Janek used for the shell of his box, now that's what you'll be carrying across the room at two inches per second. I got that for you because I figured you'd just, you know, want to practice. Remember to go real slow."
• (Robert Redford) "Slow."
• (Sidney Poitier) "You get all the fun stuff --"

• (Sidney Poitier) "Now what are you saying, the NSA killed Kennedy?"
• (Dan Aykroyd) "No, they shot him but they didn't kill him. He's still alive."

• (Sidney Poitier) "Who the hell is that?"
• (Dan Aykroyd) "Battle stations."

• (Sidney Poitier) "There isn't a government on this planet that wouldn't kill us all for that thing."

• (Sidney Poitier) "I can't believe we actually made it back."
• (River Phoenix) "I can't believe we pulled off the greatest sneak in history and can't tell anybody about it."
• (Dan Aykroyd) "You know what I can't believe? I can't believe tomorrow's Thursday."

Lee Garlington as Dr. Elena Rhyzkov

• (Lee Garlington) "I leave message here on service, but you do not call."
• (Donal Logue) "Oh, I-I'm sorry, it's just --"
• (Dan Aykroyd) "Okay, that's definitely W-G."
• (Sidney Poitier) "Definitely not. No, that's a "V" --"
• (Robert Redford) "She's in the way."
• (Sidney Poitier) "Mmm."

• (Lee Garlington) "I leave message here on service but you do not call."

• (Lee Garlington) "Oh. Gunter. Oh, Gunter. Let's do what we did in Mexico City. Oh, Gunter --"
• (Robert Redford) "Huh. I didn't know you could do that in Mexico City."

Donal Logue as Dr. Gunter Janek

• (Donal Logue) "I'm sorry. It's just, I have this work."
• (Lee Garlington) "I'll give you something to work, baby."
• (Donal Logue) "OK. Just for a little while."
• (Lee Garlington) "Oh, Gunter."

• (Donal Logue) "It would be a breakthrough of Gaussian proportions and allow us to acquire the solution in a dramatically more efficient manner."

Dan Aykroyd as Mother

• (Dan Aykroyd) "But the key meeting took place July 3rd, 1958, when the Air Force brought the space visitor to the White House for an interview with President Eisenhower. And Ike said, "hey look, give us your technology, we'll give you all the cow lips you want.""

• (Dan Aykroyd) "We got bupkis. We turn ourselves in now, they'll give us twenty years in the electric chair."

• (Dan Aykroyd) "Okay, boss, this LTX-71 concealable mike is part of the same system that NASA used when they faked the Apollo Moon landings. They had the astronauts broadcast around the world from a sound stage at Norton Air Force Base in San Bernadino, California. So it worked for them, shouldn't give us too many problems."

• (Dan Aykroyd) "They've even got photos of the guy leaving the embassy, through the back service entrance. Hey, Crease, you on?"
• (Sidney Poitier) "Yeah, I'm on."
• (Dan Aykroyd) "Were you still in C.I.A. in '72?"
• (Sidney Poitier) "Yeah, why?"
• (Dan Aykroyd) "Did you know the Deputy Director of Planning was down in Managua, Nicaragua the day before the earthquake?"
• (Sidney Poitier) "Now what are you saying, the C.I.A. caused the Managua earthquake?"
• (Dan Aykroyd) "Well, I can't prove it, but --"

• (Dan Aykroyd) "Uh, could we maybe just go back to the "they might kill us" part?"

• (Dan Aykroyd) "Cattle mutilations are up."
• (Sidney Poitier) "Don't."
• (Dan Aykroyd) "Sorry."

River Phoenix as Carl

• (River Phoenix) "It's fascinating what fifty bucks will get you at the county recorder's office."
• (Robert Redford) "What have you got?"
• (River Phoenix) "Playtronics Corporate Headquarters, the complete blueprints."
• (Robert Redford) "Not bad. Not bad, Carl."
• (River Phoenix) "Well, thanks."
• (Robert Redford) "Where'd you get the fifty bucks?"
• (River Phoenix) "Took it from Mother's wallet."
• (Robert Redford) "Good."

• (River Phoenix) "So it's a code breaker."
• (Robert Redford) "No. It's THE code breaker. No more secrets --"

• (River Phoenix) "Hey, that's not easy, what I just did."

Mary McDonnell as Liz

• (Mary McDonnell) "The man who folded this tube of Crest is looking for someone meticulous, refined. Anal."
• (Mary McDonnell) "What?"

• (Mary McDonnell) "It's hot in here. Maybe I'll just open this window a little bit."
• (Dr. Werner Brandes) "I'll join you as soon as I'm through pounding these breasts."

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