The Best Glenn Odekirk Quotes

[on "The Outlaw"]
Glenn: Howard, you really think they're gonna let you put out a whole movie just about tits?
Howard: [beat] Sure. Who doesn't like tits?
[cut to a panel of frowning members of the Motion Pictures Association of America]

Glenn: We installed the 450 radial, but the struts won't take the vibration. Minute we go contact, the struts start craking at the attach points.
Howard: Dammit, Odie, if the 450's too big, figure something else out!
Glenn: We've done everything - we've rebuilt her from top to bottom. If we drain the fuel tank for a couple of runs she might make 180 mph.
Howard: I want minimum 200.
Glenn: Yeah, well, I want a date with Theda Bara, but that ain't gonna happen either.
Howard: Don't be so sure... OK, OK, OK, this is a simple engineering problem. We just gotta think it out.
[pause]
Howard: So if the struts won't sustain the engine we need - then we gotta get rid of them.
Glenn: Then the top wing falls off.
Howard: Then let it.
Glenn: What?
Howard: Who says we need a top wing?
[pauses]
Howard: Who says we need *anything*?
[Glenn is warming up to Hughes' idea]
Glenn: A monoplane...
Howard: A cantilevered monoplane. They're doing it in France. To the hell with the top wing and the struts...
Glenn: 550 Whitney Wasp engine...
Howard: 100 octane fuel will give us a top horsepower of - what?
Glenn: Seven hundred.
Howard: Squeeze it to a thousand and we got the fastest plane ever built.
Glenn: You know, I just gotta say... we've already spent over $200,000 rebuilding this plane.
Howard: To the hell with it.
[smiles]
Howard: Tear it up, Odie.
[Glenn takes a sledgehammer and annihilates the struts on the top wing; the top wing falls off]

Howard: [Attempting a take-off of the Spruce Goose] Power coming up!
Glenn: Power coming up!
[Howard pushes on the throttles]
James: [On the radio] Howard Hughes has just alerted us. Asked everyone to hold on. Tremendous horsepower kicking up.
Howard: [Continuing to push on the throttles] Let me hear it, Odie!
Glenn: 25 miles per hour! 30!
James: Here we go. Here we go...
Glenn: 35!
James: ...The airspeed indicator has moved up to 25... 30... 35...
Glenn: 40!
James: ...As he pushes the throttle, that's 40...
Glenn: 45!
James: ...45. More throttle. That's 45...
Glenn: 50!
James: ...50. It's 50 over a choppy sea...
Glenn: 55!
James: ...55. That's 55...
Glenn: 60!
James: ...More throttle, that's 60...
Glenn: 65!
James: ...65!
Glenn: 70!
James: ...That's 70...
Glenn: 75!
James: ...75!
[Howard finishes pushing the throttles forward, the plane suddenly stops shaking as it takes off. There's a pause before everyone on the plane starts applauding]
James: And something momentarily cuts out, I believe we are airborne. We are airborne, ladies and gentlemen. I don't believe Howard Hughes meant this to be, I don't know. And we were up in the air. We were clearly up in the air.
James: Ladies and gentlemen, the Hughes mammoth aircraft has flown this afternoon in Los Angeles harbor. And it will personally look, at this moment, that Howard Hughes will be around in the United States for some time to come.