Pearl Harbor (2001)

Alec Baldwin: Doolittle

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• Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle : You know what top secret is?"

  Rafe : Yes, sir. It's the kind of mission where you get medals, but they send 'em to your relatives.

• Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle : There's nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer.

• 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.

• A pilot : What if we have to bail out over Japan?

  Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle : Well, in that situation, I can't tell you what to do.

  Rafe : What would you do, colonel?

  Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle : I wasn't built to be a prisoner... so I would have my crew bail out. I'd find the sweetest military target I could and drive my plane right smack into the middle of it and kill as many of those bastards as I possibly could.

• Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle : Where'd you find religion?

  Doolittle Co-Pilot : When you assigned me to this mission, Sir.

  Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle : I want you to do me a favor.

  Doolittle Co-Pilot : What's that, Colonel?

  Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle : Pray for both of us.

• 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.

• Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle : That's bull-shit MacCawley... but it's very, very good bull-shit.

• Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle : Victory belongs to those who believe in it the most and believe in it the longest. We're gonna believe. We're gonna make America believe too.

• Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle : [to his men]  Boys, there's a phrase I want you to memorize, "Wo si yi ge mei guo ren.", it means "I am an American." in Chinese.

• Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle : You know at Pearl they hit us with a sledgehammer. This raid, even if it makes it through, it'll only be a pinprick... but it'll be straight through their hearts.

• [Later after Col Doolittle explains the mission] 

  Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle : And I will tell you one thing... leave your goddamn hula shirts at home.

• Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle : [to Rafe and Danny]  You know, at Pearl, they hit us with a sledgehammer... This raid, even if we make it through, it'll only be a pinprick... but it will be straight through their hearts.