Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)

Robert Sterling: Capt. Lee Crane

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  Admiral Nelson : Full speed for home, Lee.

  Capt. Lee Crane : Aye, aye, sir.

• Admiral Nelson : Well, Lee, it's been a long, tough haul from conception to execution, but, my boy, we've done it.

  Capt. Lee Crane : *You've* done it, sir. You know, it bears out what you taught us at Annapolis: that "The wild dreams of today are the practical realities of tomorrow."

  Admiral Nelson : I'm glad you remembered one of my more temperate quotes. Some of our colleagues haven't been quite so diplomatic.

• Lt Cathy Connors : Will they break me, Captain?

  Capt. Lee Crane : Well, they've broken better men for less. How do you explain this undignified behavior?

• Capt. Lee Crane : Are they still at it, Cookie?

  Cookie : For more than 24 hours, sir. And they've eaten nothing but coffee and pencils in all that time.

• Capt. Lee Crane : I need fighters, not fatalists.

• Capt. Lee Crane : What kind of talk is this anyway?

  Alvarez : I only came to offer comfort.

  Capt. Lee Crane : Comfort? You offer defeatism! May I remind you this is a federal ship and these are federal seamen. By what right do you dare preach of imminent death of meek resignation to the inevitable?

  Alvarez : Captain, I...

  Capt. Lee Crane : Nothing is inevitable except defeat - for those who give up without a fight. I'll remind you to keep your sniveling philosophies to yourself.

• Capt. Lee Crane : Sir, may I ask why you blacked out the news?

  Admiral Nelson : A matter of morale, Captain. No news is better than bad news.

  Capt. Lee Crane : I can't agree, sir. This is no time to cut the men off from the world.

  Admiral Nelson : There may be no world at all if we don't start making news instead of listening to it.

• Capt. Lee Crane : Doctor, this is a submarine, not a nursery school.

• Admiral Nelson : That fire in my cabin was deliberately set.

  Capt. Lee Crane : Begging your pardon, sir. Romano.

  Lt (j.g.) Danny Romano : Fire detail found a cigar burning on the floor, sir.

  Admiral Nelson : Meaning I was smoking in bed?

  Capt. Lee Crane : Apparently, sir.

• Capt. Lee Crane : Dive! Dive!

  Lt (j.g.) Danny Romano : Dive! Dive!