Men of Honor (2000)

Robert De Niro: Master Chief Billy Sunday

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• Billy Sunday : The Navy Diver is not a fighting man, he is a salvage expert. If it is lost underwater, he finds it. If it's sunk, he brings it up. If it's in the way, he moves it. If he's lucky, he will die young, 200 feet beneath the waves, for that is the closest he'll ever get to being a hero.

• Billy Sunday : A Chief Petty Officer shall not drink. However, if he should drink he shall not get drunk. If he should get drunk, he shall not stagger. And if he should stagger, he shall not fall. And if he should fall, he will fall in such a manner as to cover up his rank so that passerbyers will think he is an officer.

• Billy Sunday : My name is Master Chief Billy Sunday. There was a preacher by the same name who cleaned up Chicago of all the whoring spics, drunken wops and motherfucking niggers that was making that place unfit for decent white folks to live. The only difference between me and that old preacher is that he worked for God, and I *am* God!

• Billy Sunday : Goddammit Cookie, move your ass, I want my TWELVE!

• Billy Sunday : Nine! The Navy Diver is not a fighting man, he is a salvage expert. Ten! If it is lost underwater, he finds it. If it's sunk, he brings it up. If it's in the way, he moves it. Eleven! If he's lucky, he will die young, 200 feet beneath the waves, for that is the closest he'll ever get to being a hero. Hell, I don't know why anybody would want to be a Navy Diver. Now you report to this line, Cookie!

• [Sunday regards a picture of Carl's late father] 

  Billy Sunday : What the hell did he ever say to make you try so hard?

  Carl Brashear : Be the best.

  Billy Sunday : Well, you are.

• Billy Sunday : Boatswain's mate second class Carl Brashear. Nine hours, thirty one minutes, perfect assembly.

• Carl Brashear : Why are you doing all this?

  Billy Sunday : To piss people off.

• Billy Sunday : Think you deserve to be here, don't ya? Fraternizing among navy men? Think you're as good as they are? How 'bout me, cookie? You better than me?

  Carl Brashear : You're damn right I am!

• Billy Sunday : You know what the Chinese say, cookie? Beware what you wish for.

• Mr. Pappy : [in his flat, Sunday just walked in]  Did you know that ordinary house dust is composed primarily ofhuman skin ?

  Billy Sunday : No sir, I didn't know that.

  Mr. Pappy : [chuckles]  Makes you think twice about who you invite into your home.

• Billy Sunday : Son, step aside, or I will crack you right in the jaw.

• Carl Brashear : Sir, you may not remember me but we served together in the South Pacific.

  Billy Sunday : Oh Yeah, I remember you now... So What's for Chow Cookie?

  Carl Brashear : Sir I am reporting here for diving school!

  Billy Sunday : I sure hope your food is better than the last cook's. Last cook's food could kill a man's dog.

• Billy Sunday : [Addressing the cadet divers]  gentlemen, this is weekend liberty, remember one night stands maybe over in the morning but Syphilis lasts a lifetime.

• Billy Sunday : [Billy douses Carl with water wile he's sleeping]  Rise and shine, cookie. Time for trainin'.

  [Carl spits out water, he next is seen running out of the cabin but Billy sprays him with a water hose] 

  Billy Sunday : Are you familiar with the principle of Boyle's Law?

  Carl Brashear : [on the ground all wet]  The what?

  [Billy sprays him again] 

  Billy Sunday : I didn't hear you're answer.

  [he sprays Carl again] 

  Billy Sunday : Come on, cookie. Get up.

  [he picks up Carl and drags him over to a barrel filled with water] 

  Billy Sunday : Boyle's Law states that, at a constant temperature, the volume of a confined ideal gas varies inversely with it's pressure!

  [he dunks Carls head in] 

  Billy Sunday : Now why is this law important in divin'?

  Carl Brashear : I don't know, Chief!

  Billy Sunday : [continues to dunk his head as he speaks]  You don't know and you ain't ever gonna know, 'cause you're just some dumb dirt nigger from Podunk! I know you. Your sweet smell hung in every bunk and Goddamn shack I ever lived in. Your nigger face stared at me every time we had to leave 'cause your daddy could farm it cheaper then mine. Mine drank himself into a $7 casket, but that ain't ever gonna happen to me because I'm a master diver! And maybe you'll remember that next time you imply we got *anything* in common! You read me, cookie?

  [Carl coughs up water] 

• [Sunday blasts Snowhill with the water-hose] 

  Billy Sunday : Snowhill, get your Wisconsin ass back in the barracks.

• Billy Sunday : [Carl Brashear is skipping rope. After missing a jump he is laying on the floor. While swearing in walks Billy Sunday]  Cookie. God damn it! It looks like I missed one helluva party.

• Billy Sunday : Swimmin' don't got dick-shit to do with deep-sea divin'. If Johnny fuckin' Weismuller were in the soup wearin' a 200-pound Mark Five divin' rig, he couldn't swim to fuck Esther Williams if she was three feet in front of him buck naked! The only way to survive is to trust each other, 'cause underwater all you got is the man next to you. And that is why the only men that get through my course are the very, very best.