Pearl Harbor (2001)

Josh Hartnett: Danny Walker

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Quotes 

• Rafe : Danny, you can't die. You can't die. You know why? 'Cause you're gonna be a father. You're gonna be a daddy. I wasn't supposed to tell you. You're gonna be a father.

  Danny : No, you are.

• Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle : I heard what you did.

  Rafe : We can explain that, sir.

  Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle : Explain what?

  Danny : Whatever it is you heard about us, sir.

  Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle : You mean the hoola shirts you were flying in... or the seven planes you shot down.

• Danny : Why the hell is the US Navy practicing this early on a Sunday morning?

• Rafe : J, L, M, K, P, O, E, T, X. Eyes like an eagle, ma'am.

  Evelyn : Slow down, flyboy. And instead of the bottom, read the very top. Both eyes.

  Rafe : Yeah. C. Sorry, J.

  [Clears throat] 

  Rafe : C, W, uh, Q, uh, Q

  Evelyn : [Smiles]  Read the bottom line again, please, but read it right to left and every other letter.

  Rafe : E, X...

  Danny : X, E.

  Rafe : X, E. X, E, ma'am. Ma'am, I know how this looks.

  Evelyn : I'm sorry, Lieutenant. I really am, but army and navy requires 20/20 vision.

  Rafe : Oh, I... It's not a problem with my eyes. I mean, I can see. I mean I can hit a runnin' rabbit with a $3.00 pistol. I got a problem with letters, that's all.

  Evelyn : Well, maybe after some schooling, you could come back and take the test again.

  Rafe : No, I had schooling. I mean, the teachers just never knew what to make of it, I... It's just letters. I mix 'em up sometimes. That's all. I mean, I just get 'em backword sometimes. Look here. My math and spatial reasoning and my verbal scores are all excellent.

  Evelyn : But you barely passed the written exam.

  Danny : Yeah, but he did pass it. So it's my turn now?

  Evelyn : No, you'll wait your turn.

  Danny : Yes, ma'am.

  Rafe : Ma'am, I'm never gonna be an English teacher. But I know why I'm here: to be a pilot. And you don't dogfight with manuals. You don't fly with gauges. I mean, it's all about feeling and speed, and lettin' that plane become like a part of your body. And that manual says that a guy who's a slow reader can't be a good pilot. That file says I'm the best pilot in this room. Ma'am, please, don't take my wings.

• Danny : You're a rotten drunk... always have been.

  Rafe : Well, you're a lousy friend... that's a new development.

• Danny : I think World War II just started.

• Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle : Secretary of the Navy gave me these.

  Danny : What are they?

  Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle : Friendship medals the Japanese gave us when they were pretending they wanted peace.

  Rafe : What do you want me to do with them sir?

  Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle : We're gonna wire them to the bombs and give them back.

• Danny : You know, the only thing that scares me is that you might love him more than you love me.

  Evelyn : I love YOU, Danny.

• Danny : Y'all pilots?

  Gooz : Uh, we're working on it. There's a lot of switches and stuff. Pride of the Pacific.

  Earl : Who are you?

  Danny : Terrors of the Skies.

• Rafe : Alright Danny we gonna show 'em how to fly. We gonna play chicken. You ready?

  Danny : This ain't the farm and these ain't no crop dusters, I'm not playin chicken with ya.

  Rafe : Ah, come on, now don't be a baby.

  Danny : Not doin it Rafe.

  Rafe : Well, I'm comin right at ya, you can turn or you can hit me. It's up to you.

  Danny : Aah, why you always bustin my ass Rafe?

  Danny : [sighs] 

  Danny : Which way ya goin?

  Rafe : Uh, right, no left. Left. I'll go left.

  Danny : Okay, we're goin left right?

  Rafe : Right, right?

  Danny : Right, like we're goin left, or right like we're goin right?

  Rafe : Well, now you got me all mixed up, I dunno make up your mind!

  Danny : God, Rafe, we're goin right. Righty-Tighty!

• Danny : To Rafe McCawely the best pilot and the best friend I ever knew... Or ever will know. TO RAFE .

• Danny : You know he taught me to fly, I always knew that not matter what kind of trouble I got into, I wouldn't be in it alone, he'd be there with me. Up there he was always pushin me to be better and faster.

  Evelyn : He told me you were a great flyer... The same night he told me, he volunteered to go to England.

  Danny : He volunteered? He-he told me he'd been assigned. He was always tryin to protect me. But ya know what I look at myself in the mirror in this uniform... and I still don't know who I am, I look like a hero... but I don't feel like it.

  [sighs] 

  Danny : Rafe... he always looked the part didn't he?

  Evelyn : He couldn't wait to be one

• Rafe : Dolittle assigned me. He wanted me to get some... some real combat training.

  Danny : Well guess what? It isn't training over there, it's war. Where losers die and there aren't any winners, just guys who turn into broken-down wrecks like my father. Now if trouble awaits me, I'm ready. But why go looking for it?

• Gooz : Be careful with the lady folk... they cloud the mind.

  Danny : Thanks Gooz.

• Danny : How can I not feel this way? I kinda' like it.

  Evelyn : Oh, you do.

• Rafe : Danny, Lets play some chicken with these Jap suckers.

  Danny : Alright I'm with you.

• Danny : [exiting from theater]  Evelyn!

  Evelyn : Danny! Some comedy, huh?

  Danny : Yeah.

  Evelyn : It's been a while.

  Danny : Yeah, I've been busy training and stuff.

  Evelyn : Yeah, I've kinda been avoiding you too.

  Danny , Evelyn : Listen, do you...

  Danny : Do you want to?

  Evelyn : Yeah.