Blue Thunder (1983)

Warren Oates: Braddock

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Quotes 

• [Icelan and Braddock are discussing Murphy] 

  Icelan : He checks his sanity with a wrist watch!

  Jack Braddock : What do you check yours with, a dipstick?

• Jack Braddock : But there's a bright side to this, and a moral. I think morals are good for you, I love morals, and the moral of this story is: If you're walkin' on eggs, don't hop.

• Jack Braddock : You think I don't know about that silly twit up in Encino, for Chrissakes? I had twenty years in this outfit, when your idea of a good time was sittin' in front of the TV tube, watchin' Bugs Bunny and gnawing on your Fudgsicle!

• Jack Braddock : [after Lymangood interrupts him chewing out Murphy]  You're supposed to be stupid, son. Don't abuse the privilege.

• Jack Braddock : Who are you fooling with that phony radio bullshit? Jesus Christ, Frank, that went out three days after Marconi invented the fucking thing!

• [Murphy walks out to the pad] 

  Jack Braddock : Well Murph, feeling any pressure?

  Frank Murphy : Yeah. About 15 pounds per square inch at sea level.

• Jack Braddock : [to Murphy]  You know what they'll do with this? They'll burn you... me... your idiotic friend here... and my whole damn division. And I don't want my division burnt!

• Jack Braddock : [about Col. F.E. Cochrane]  Irritating little cocksucker, isn't he?

• Jack Braddock : [26:16]  I've been trying to get you all night. Why don't you answer your fucking beeper?

  Frank Murphy : I just wanna tell you, Jack, that the next time I'm suspended, so is my fucking beeper!

  Jack Braddock : Feel better?

  Frank Murphy : Yeah. A little.

  Jack Braddock : Well then get your ass on down here. We just came up with a hot mince pie under each arm.

• [after the demonstration, Murphy and Braddock walk over to meet Blue Thunder's pilot] 

  Frank Murphy : [recognizes Cochrane as the pilot] 

  [35:27] 

  Frank Murphy : Well, what do you know!

  Jack Braddock : Friend of yours?

  Frank Murphy : [smiling ruefully]  An old war buddy. Bastard tried to have me court-martialed once.

• Kress : If it was me, I'd ground him.

  Jack Braddock : He'll be all right.

  Kress : Personally, I wouldn't fly with him for a bull that pissed Jack Daniels.

  Jack Braddock : Is that right?

• Jack Braddock : Son, you're a trainee, You're supposed to be stupid. Don't abuse the privilege.