Volcano 1997 - Movie Quotes

Amy Sometimes magma can find one of those fissures and rise up through it.

Roark What's magma?

Rachel Lava.

Roark Lava? Right here in L.A?

Amy It is one of the possibilities.

Roark We have a history of that here in the downtown area?

Rachel Paricutin... 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.

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Roark [Roark ordered 200 freeway dividers aka K-rails to redirect the lava. Trucks arrive with only 82] Where's the rest of 'em?

Truck driver What "rest of 'em?" This is it!

Lt. Fox Hey, there only about eighty here!

Truck driver 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!

Truck driver So what are you blaming me for?

Lt. Fox CONVENIENCE, OK?

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Kelly Roark Paper beats rock, but scissors beat paper.

Tommy I'm not paper; I'm lava... what beats lava?

Kelly Roark My dad... I hope!

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[Museum personnel are moving paintings from a threatened museum]

1st. Guard Man, this Hieronymus Bosch is heavy!

2nd. Guard That's because he deals with man's inclination towards sin, in defiance of God's will.

1st. Guard I didn't mean it like that.

2nd. Guard Oh.

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TV Anchorwoman Well, we now have a *name* for this crisis. It is, according to the US Geological Survey, a *volcano*! As crazy as it sounds, a volcano, *here*, has been...

[continues on indistinctly]

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Amy [calling Roark on his phone] How fast can you get to the corner of Wilshire and Western, we have a problem.

Roark No, no. Not anymore. We have it stopped.

Amy The volume of ash is too high to think that we're out of danger.

Roark So, why did it just stop?

Amy Well, maybe it didn't, maybe it went someplace else.

Roark So, how do you know it didn't stop?

Amy 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 vent released anywhere NEAR that amount of energy yet?

Roark No.

Amy Well, lets just assume that we haven't seen the real bulk of the magma yet. Trust me, get down here.

[hangs up the phone]

Amy Shit.

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[last lines]

Text on screen C.I.G.S. Volcano Databank

Text on screen Name: Mount Wilshire

Text on screen Location: Los Angeles, California

Text on screen Status: ACTIVE

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Roark 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!

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Chief Sindelar Tell him he's not in Kansas anymore.

Emmet You're not in Kansas anymore Mike.

Roark St. Louis, I'm not in St. Louis.

Emmet [into phone] St. Louis, he's not in St. Louis.

Chief Sindelar I don't give a shit where's he's not! He has a desk now that's where...

Emmet [to Mike] He doesn't give a shit. You have a desk, that's where you work.

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Woman Mike, you have a call on your private line...

Roark Oh, that'll be my little girl wanting a tattoo.

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Kelly Roark Please, please. You can't just leave me here.

Roark Kelly, you can not be here and I have to.

Kelly Roark Why?

Roark Because it's my responsibility.

Kelly Roark Well, so am I. Please I promise I won't get in the way.

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Roark [looking at the bodies on the ground at Macarthur park] Steam did that?

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Kevin Yo man, my street's on fire you gotta get some trucks down there.

L.A. Fire Chief What Street?

Kevin What Street? You know the one with the smoke coming out of it, Stanley right over there.

L.A. Fire Chief We'll get to you as soon as we get this under control.

Kevin But, there won't be any houses left by then man.

L.A. Fire Chief Look, I'm sorry. We'll get to you as soon...

Kevin [grabbing the fire chief's arm] Yo! I'm talking about people's houses, and you're over here saving museums.

L.A. Fire Chief You wanna get this guy off me.

Terry Jasper Hey.

Kevin Oh great. Mark Fuhrman.

Terry Jasper Gimme your hands.

[grabs Bud's hands and cuffs him]

Kevin Yo! Get your goddamn hands off me man.

Bud McVie What's going on?

Terry Jasper He was harassing a fire fighter.

Kevin Bullshit. I was asking that guy for help.

Bud McVie This is stupid. Let him go.

Terry Jasper I'm taking him in.

Bud McVie All right he's all yours.

Kevin Shouldn't you be saving lives?

Terry Jasper Don't move!

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Amy 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.

Roark Is it still flowing?

Amy 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.

Roark Yesterday, you said it would flow straight up.

Amy I've never tracked lava under a city before. I don't know what it will do with man-made tunnels to travel through.

Roark 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.

Amy Well, somebody has to.

Roark I can only fight what I can see.

Amy Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and check it out.

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Roark All right Kelly, get your jacket and lets go. I have to go to the office for a while.

Kelly Roark But, you said that if I visited, you would take the week off.

Roark I am taking the week off.

Kelly Roark I'll just wait here.

Roark I can't leave you here after an earthquake.

Kelly Roark Dad, I'm 13 years old, I know what to do.

Roark Okay, what do you do?

Kelly Roark Get into a doorframe, stick your head between your knees and kiss your ass goodbye.

Roark [looks at Kelly weird] All right, that's it

[picks up the phone]

Kelly Roark Who are you calling?

Roark [on the phone] Hello, Anita.

Kelly Roark Dad.

Roark [whispers to Kelly] Shut up.

[to Anita on the phone]

Roark I need a babysitter.

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[after an earthquake-induced fender bender]

Kevin [seeing the cops coming] Oh, we cool now! It's the LAPD!

Scared Driver [hiding in the church] Hey, Officer! How about giving us a ride back to civilization, please?

Kevin Hey, you gonna come out or what! This is *our* hood!

Terry Jasper Hey, you want to calm down and tell me what this is about?

Kevin You wanna get outta my face!

Terry Jasper HEY! If I'm in your face you're gonna KNOW IT! All right, BRO!

Kevin Huh, Right!

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Roark I gave that woman my child, she gave me this card.

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Dr. Jaye Calder [while treating the survivor from MacArthur Park] Look at this. Steam doesn't char clothing like this. This is a flame burn.

Nurse Fran Methane?

Dr. Jaye Calder [sniffs] No. It's something else.

Roger Lapher [having overheard Dr. Calder and is now briefing the Press] The latest word from St. V's is that the accident was "not" caused by steam. And if you remember our earlier statement, that was the Department's original position all along.

[It wasn't]

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Dr. Jaye Calder We have put the kids in the mall. The Hard Rock I think.

Norman Calder Okay, you've done your duty. Can we go now?

Amy Are you sure she is there?

Dr. Jaye Calder Yes. I've left her with some kids.

[to Norman]

Dr. Jaye Calder Norman, hold this.

[hands Norman a pack of interferon]

Norman Calder [hands a person the interferon] Here take this.

[to Jaye]

Norman Calder These people are strangers Jaye! Are you gonna die for them? Jaye, answer me!

Dr. Jaye Calder I am answering you Norman.

[to other doctors treating a man who is unconscious]

Dr. Jaye Calder This man is under cardiac arrest. I'm defibrilating!

[uses a defibrilator on the man]

Norman Calder [turns away] Oh shit! I'm outta here.

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Amy Right over the Red Line

[metro tunnel]

Roark That steam could come anywhere... maybe the earthquake broke a water main

Amy How did it get heated?

Roark I don't know

Amy You gotta lower me down there

Roark I'm not letting you down there

Amy Why... It's too dangerous?

Roark Yes

Amy I thought it was a water main?

Roark All right... I'll go

Amy You'll go... How are you gonna get up... I'm gonna lift you

Roark I'm not letting you go

Amy Then what are we going to do?

[lowers a camera down the shaft]

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Amy We're gonna knock a building down.

Roark Yes, I am. Will it work?

Amy I think it might. I think it might.

Cop W-wait, you want to bring that thing down flush against the mall?

Amy Absolutely.

Cop Well, that's a precision drop. Th-that takes days to plan.

Roark Set a speed record.

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Kelly Roark [in the car] I wanna go home.

Roark We're going to the safest place in town, baby, I promise.

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Emmet Hope you have some bright ideas for this.

Roark I do. You handle it. I'm on vacation. I'm going home with my daughter.

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Volcano Movie Quotes