Ava Gardner: You listened to my phone calls?
Howard Hughes: No! No! No! Honey I would never do that! I'd never do that! I... I just read the transcripts, that's all.
Howard Hughes: I want ten chocolate chip cookies. Medium chips. None too close to the outside.
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, Howard.
Howard Hughes: Shit, no. Maybe it's a little bit naughty.
Howard Hughes: Come in with the milk. Come in with the milk. Come in with the milk.
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 Brewster: You don't think you'll try?
Howard Hughes: No, I don't think so.
Howard Hughes: Look at me, Kate. Stop acting.
Katharine Hepburn: Ha. I'm not acting.
Howard Hughes: I wonder if you even know any more.
Katharine Hepburn: Don't be unkind.
Howard Hughes: I care very much about aviation.
Katharine Hepburn: What's that on the steering wheel?
Howard Hughes: Cellophane. If you had any idea of the crap that people carry around on their hands.
Katharine Hepburn: What kind of crap?
Howard Hughes: You don't wanna know.
Howard Hughes: Does that look clean to you?
Ava Gardner: Nothing's clean, Howard. But we do our best, right?
Howard Hughes: Pull back on the wheel a bit.
Katharine Hepburn: Golly.
Howard Hughes: I don't think I've ever met anyone who uses the word Golly.
Howard Hughes: Do you know those men? Do they work for me?
Noah Dietrich: Everybody works for you, Howard.
Howard Hughes: What the hell does a senator from Maine need to fly to Peru for?
Howard Hughes: I'm in a street fight, and I'm not going to lose.
Howard Hughes: That's just what we do in my business.
Howard Hughes: You have called me a liar and a thief and a war profiteer.
Howard Hughes: I feel like a little adventure.
Katharine Hepburn: Do your worst, Mr. Hughes.
Howard Hughes: Will you marry me?
Ava Gardner: You're too crazy for me.
Howard Hughes: You don't care about money because you've always had it.
Jim Carroll: First, it's a Saturday night thing when you feel cool like a gangster or a rockstar - just something to kill the boredom, you know? They call it a chippie, a small habit. It feels so good, you start doing it on Tuesdays... then Thursdays... then it's got you. Every wise ass punk on the block says it won't happen to them, but it does.
Jim Carroll: I just wanna be pure, I just wanna be pure.
