Quotes from the Movie The Aviator

Show me all the blueprints.

Howard Hughes

If the hercules does not fly I will leave America and never come back again, and I mean it.

Howard Hughes

He owns Pan-Am. He owns Congress. He owns the Civil Aeronautics Board. But he does not own the sky.

Howard Hughes

Quarantine. Q-u-a-r-a-n-t-i-n-e. Quarantine.

Howard Hughes

I'm Howard Hughes, the aviator.

Howard Hughes

Sometimes I truly fear that I... am losing my mind. And if I did it... it would be like flying blind.

Howard Hughes

Find me some clouds!

Howard Hughes

The way of the future.

Howard Hughes

I sleep...in this room...in the dark. I have a place I can sleep. I have a chair. That's just beautiful. Oh, yeah. I like the desert. It's hot there in the desert, but it's clean. It's clean. I need to sleep. I should drink something first. I should drink something first. Wait a minute. What if that milk is sour? That milk is bad. I shouldn't pick up the bottle of milk with my right hand. And I shouldn't take the top off with my left hand...put it in my pocket. My left pocket.

Howard Hughes

Tell Jimmy I want ten chocolate chip cookies, medium chips, none too close to the outside.

Howard Hughes

Orange juice has... nutritional value. Flies outside the window, though. Little Howard loves orange juice, doesn't he just?

Howard Hughes

You come out of the blue and let me down, and have the nerve to expect graciousness.

Howard Hughes

When I grow up, I'm gonna make the biggest movies, fly the fastest planes ever built, and be the richest man in the world.

Howard Hughes

Do your worst, Mr. Hughes!

Katharine Hepburn

You see, Howard, we're not like other people. Too many acute angles. Too many... eccentricities. We have to be very careful who we let in or they'll make us into freaks.

Katharine Hepburn