Howard Hughes: [doesn't hear what Kate says] Excuse me? Katharine Hepburn: Well, if you're deaf, you must own up to it. Get a hearing aid, or see my father. He's an urologist, but it's all tied up inside the body, don't you find? Howard Hughes: Mmm. ...
Professor Fitz: Well, the cumulonimbus formations about which you speak that look like... Howard Hughes: Giant breasts full of milk. I want clouds, damn it. Professor Fitz: Yes, clouds that look like giant breasts full of milk, cannot exactly be guar...
Howard Hughes: I've been to Chatsworth, Santa Cruz, Encino, San Diego, Riverside, Van Nuys, and Bakersfield. It has been eight months! Where are my goddamn clouds, huh? Professor Fitz: They move, Mr. Hughes! Clouds move. That's what they do. They mov...
Sen. Ralph Owen Brewster: ...we would like him to reappear. Would you ask him to return? Howard Hughes: No, I don't think I will. Sen. Ralph Owen Brewster: Will you try to have him return? Howard Hughes: No, I don't think I'll try. Sen. Ralph Owen Br...
Juan Trippe: If you let him testify at that hearing, the whole world will see what he's become. They should remember him for what he was.
Katharine Hepburn: [flying Howard's plane] Howard, there's a rather alarming mountain heading our way.
Sen. Ralph Owen Brewster: [talking of Howard Hughes] I'll have him dragged here to Washington. I want to see the whites of his lies.
Glenn Odekirk: 352 on your last run! Howard Hughes: She'll go faster.
[from trailer] Howard Hughes: I'm in a street fight, and I'm not going to lose.
Katharine Hepburn: Can't you just eat ice cream out of a bowl, like everyone else?
[first lines] Allene Hughes: Q-u-a-r-a-n-t-i-n-e. Young Howard Hughes: Quarantine. Q-u-a-r-a-n-t-i-n-e. Quarantine.
Katharine Hepburn: I've got a better idea, take me flying! Or better yet, I'll take you flying! Howard Hughes: Do your worst, Miss Hepburn.
Howard Hughes: I care very much about aviation.
Ava Gardner: Oh, a box of trash! You shouldn't have.
Noah Dietrich: Nice day. Howard Hughes: Yeah, very funny. Noah Dietrich: Listen, I got a call from Houston. They're getting real nervous about all this. Howard Hughes: Stop showing them the damn bills, Noah. Noah Dietrich: That would be illegal, Howa...
Howard Hughes: Stop there, if you please, Miss Domergue. Have you had surgery, Miss Domergue? Faith Domergue: No. Howard Hughes: Do you have scars of *any* kind? Faith Domergue: No. Howard Hughes: Wipe off your lipstick. That's much better. Now you u...
Juan Trippe: [walks away from TV showing the Hughes investigation trial] Switch it off. Pan-Am Employee: The hearings aren't over yet. Juan Trippe: The hearings *are* over. [Is looking at a map of the globe] Juan Trippe: The airline bill will be defe...
Howard Hughes: Boy, you are just hitting on all six cylinders, aren't you? My God. Would you do me a favor and just? Would you just smile for me one time? Just once? [cigarrete girl smiles] Howard Hughes: Yeah. Yeah. You see, you got a short upper li...
