2012 (I) (2009)

John Cusack: Jackson Curtis

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Quotes 

• Kate Curtis : [on the "ark"]  Where have you been all my life?

  Jackson Curtis : Gift shop.

• [They're about to drive out from the plane with the Bentley] 

  Jackson Curtis : All right, let's go!

  Tamara : Wait! Where's Sasha?

  Gordon Silberman : Sasha's fine. We need to get out of here before he touches down.

  Tamara : No, no, no! We have to wait for him.

  Yuri Karpov : Go Jackson, go!

  Jackson Curtis : [Tries to start the car]  It won't start!

  [Everyone panics] 

  Yuri Karpov : Shut up, everbody!

  [Everyone stops screaming] 

  Yuri Karpov : Engine... start!

  [Car starts] 

• Lilly Curtis : [inside Charlie's camper]  That guy's crazy. Right, daddy?

  Jackson Curtis : No. I don't think so.

• Charlie Frost : You'd have to keep a thing like this underwraps. I mean, just think about it, okay? First, the stock market would go. Then the economy, boom! The dollar, boom! And then pandemonium in the streets. War, genocide, ba-ba-ba-ba, boom, boom, boom!

  Jackson Curtis : Bullshit. Nobody could keep that big a secret, Charlie. Somebody would blow the whistle.

  Charlie Frost : And every once in a while, some poor little sucker tries. Well, like these guys, boom, boom!

  [pulls down a screen of posted obituaries] 

  Charlie Frost : Every one of these guys, dead, dead, dead.

  Jackson Curtis : [notices one of them]  Whoa, whoa, whoa! That's Professor Meyers.

  Charlie Frost : He ran the Atlantis shuttle program. Why, did you know him?

  Jackson Curtis : Yeah, he helped me with research on my book.

  Charlie Frost : Well, that must have been before this "accident."

  Jackson Curtis : Meyers is dead?

  Charlie Frost : Oh, two months ago. He was one of my most avid listeners and he had it all figured out. Everything the government was doing, where and why... He even sent me a map.

  Jackson Curtis : A map for what Charlie? What's the map for?

  Charlie Frost : They're building spaceships, man.

  Jackson Curtis : Shit, man, I have to go because I gotta get back to Earth.

• Jackson Curtis : [as Kate's house is collapsing in an earthquake]  Get in the fucking car!

• [Yellowstone's caldera erupts. The giant ash cloud and fire is rushing behind them] 

  Lilly Curtis : Daddy, it's following us.

  Jackson Curtis : Don't look at it! Get down on the ground. Get on the ground and hold on. Don't look back. Don't look back. Look at me. Do I look scared?

  Lilly Curtis : Uh-huh.

• Jackson Curtis : Hey, have a safe trip, you little bastards.

  Oleg : Now you're laughing, Curtis, but we have tickets to go on on a big ship. We will live and you will die.

• Jackson Curtis : [to pilot]  Here. Take this. This is a very expensive watch. My editor gave it to me when he thought I was gonna be somebody.

• Kate Curtis : [on the phone with Jackson]  Hello?

  Jackson Curtis : [in the limo en route to Kate's house]  Kate, stop what you're doing.

  Kate Curtis : Jackson?

  Jackson Curtis : Listen to me. I've rented a plane. Pack up the kids, I'm gonna be there in five minutes.

  Kate Curtis : What are you talking about? We're gonna do our regular Saturday. Noah has music at 2 and Lil has karate.

  Gordon Silberman : Not gonna expect him to remember.

  Jackson Curtis : Kate, California is going down! Pack up the kids now!

  Kate Curtis : They just got back. God, you sound like a cray person. The Governor just said we're fine.

  Jackson Curtis : The guy's an actor! He's reading a script! When they tell you not to panic...

  [makes a hard left] 

  Jackson Curtis : that's when you run!

  Kate Curtis : Look, will you call me back when you calm down?

  [hangs up phone] 

  Lilly Curtis : Mommy, why is Daddy so crazy?

  [Gordon looks at Kate] 

  Kate Curtis : Finish your pancakes, Al Capone.

• Sasha : Boss, I found us a plane.

  Yuri Karpov : Can you still fly that thing?

  Sasha : Sure, boss. But I need co-pilot.

  Lilly Curtis : Gordon's a pilot.

  Gordon Silberman : No, I'm not. I'm not.

  Jackson Curtis : Yes, he is. Great pilot. Let's go.

  Yuri Karpov : Good. Let's go!

  [both groups set out for the plane] 

  Gordon Silberman : [just before going outdoors]  Jackson, stop saying I'm a pilot.

• Kate Curtis : Do you think people change?

  Jackson Curtis : By "people," do you mean me?

  Kate Curtis : Yes. Do you think you've changed since we separated?

  Jackson Curtis : I certainly eat a lot more cereal now.

• Lilly Curtis : I'm not scared. No more Pull-Ups.

  Jackson Curtis : Nice.

• [Outside the gates of the ark docks] 

  Kate Curtis : You don't have to save us, but please, just take my kids!

  Tenzin : Why should I do that?

  Jackson Curtis : The same reason you let in your family.

• Jackson Curtis : Going to this place really special place that I know. Actually, it's a place where your Mom and I used to hang out a lot.

  Noah Curtis : I don't wanna know where you and Mom had sex. I'm not ready for that, Jackson.

  Jackson Curtis : Stop calling me that. It's creeping me out. What's wrong with "Dad"?

• Kate Curtis : Does anybody got any money? We could bribe them.

  Gordon Silberman : I do, I do.

  Jackson Curtis : You got a billion euros?

• Charlie Frost : Hey. Hey, guess what? They're selling seats.

  Jackson Curtis : Put me down for three.

  Charlie Frost : No, guys like you and me don't have a chance. You'd have to be Bill Gates or Rupert Murdoch or some Russian billionaire or something.

  Jackson Curtis : Hey, keep it down. My kids are sleeping.

  Charlie Frost : Get them out of Yellowstone. It's gonna get ugly up here.

• [from trailer] 

  Jackson Curtis : No matter what happens, we'll all stay together.

• Kate Curtis : So, now that you have your map, where are we going?

  [Jackson holds a one-finger signal before unfolding the map with the ships to discover that it is located in "China"] 

  Jackson Curtis : We're going to need a bigger plane.

  [looks back at the map] 

• Jackson Curtis : We gotta get to the Santa Monica Airport!

  Gordon Silberman : Well, take the freeway! It'll be half the time!

  Jackson Curtis : [as the freeway collapses from the earthquake]  Yeah, right!

• Kate Curtis : [as they escape Los Angeles in the plane]  I don't understand. How did you know this was to happen?

  Jackson Curtis : It's not just California. It's the whole goddamned world that gone to shit. I met this guy at Yellowstone, this crazy guy, but he's been right about that's happened so far. And he says that the government is building these ships, spaceships, I don't know what, but something.

  Gordon Silberman : What, ships?

  Jackson Curtis : Yeah, places where we can be safe. He knows where they are. He's got a map.

  Kate Curtis : Jackson...

  Jackson Curtis : Kate, you gotta just trust me on this, okay?

  Gordon Silberman : Guys... look.

  [L.A. is sinking into the Pacific as they fly away] 

• Jackson Curtis : I was listening to the broadcast and I was wondering what is exactly that's gonna start in Hollywood?

  Charlie Frost : It's the apocalypse. End of days. The Judgment Day, the end of the world, my friend. Christians called it the rapture, but the Mayans knew about it, the Hopis, the I Ching, the Bible, kind of...

• Jackson Curtis : [looks at his watch after being awaken by the morning news]  I'm a dead man. I'm a dead man.

• Kate Curtis : Do you think you've changed since we separated?

  Jackson Curtis : I certainly eat a lot more cereal now.

• Jackson Curtis : Do you love him?

  Kate Curtis : I love him enough.