"Viewers have a chance to take a crash course in tastelessness by watching another piece of nouveau blaxploitation, where black people decked out in their bling-bling sing and dance to raunchy hip-hop music and eat fried chicken while sipping Alize. [...] An hour and a half of real airplane turbulence is better than sitting through the bad, offensive material that makes up "Soul Plane.""

"This is the bomb! [everything goes silent] What...? Let's dance!"

"I'm a player, but I don't play that way!"

"[in Spanish, to Muggsy]: I'll bet you have the tiniest penis."

"Now, how much Colt 45 to Sierra Mist do you mix to get bubbly? Probably half and half."

"[After hearing Muggsy say he's got a cock fight in 10 minutes] Cock fight? I'm in."

"[calmly, after a stewardess has whispered something into his ear] I'll handle this. [screams] THE CAPTAIN'S DEAD!"

"[looking into the cockpit] This is some cool shoot, fit for a real nerve."

"Ladies and Gentlemen, we have reached our cruising altitude of 33 thousand feet... 33 THOUSAND FEET? Oh shoot, man! We flyin' higher than Redman at the Source Awards!"

"Testicles, 1, 2... Testicles, 1, 2. Hey y'all, what's crackalackin? This is your soul plane chauffeur Captain Antoine Mack speaking. Welcome aboard NWA flight 069 from the 310 to the 212. It's time to bust this coney y'all. In a hot second, I'll be hittin' them switches and gettin' this bitch pumpin' and jumpin'. So screw your shoot on tight and enjoy the flight."

"[after seeing that business class has been turned into a casino] I'm going back to the front of the plane. When I get back, I want this to be business class."

"You know hard it is to get 84 inch tires?!"

"Lonette McKee — Ella Brashear"

"Holt McCallany — Machinist's Mate First Class Dylan Rourke"

"David Conrad — Captain Hanks"

"Joshua Leonard — Petty Officer Second Class Timothy Douglas Isert"

"Carl Lumbly — Mac Brashear"

"Glynn Turman — Chief Floyd"

"Joshua Feinman — DuBoyce"

"Dennis Troutman — Boots"

"[to the new diver school trainees] The men you are watching are going to be Navy divers. You bottom-suckers are not fit to observe them. Avert your eyes!! [trainees look forward] 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!"

"David Keith — Captain Hartigan"

"Powers Boothe — Captain Pullman"

"Michael Rapaport — Gunner's Mate First Class Snowhill"

"Hal Holbrook — Captain 'Mr. Pappy'"

"Aunjanue Ellis — Jo Brashear"

"Charlize Theron — Gwen Sunday"

"Cuba Gooding, Jr — Boatswain's Mate Second Class/Senior Chief Petty Officer Carl Brashear"

"Robert De Niro — Master Chief Petty Officer Leslie William 'Billy' Sunday"

"History is made by those who break the rules."

"You were right, Chief. You and I have nothing in common. I may be some dirt dumb nigger from Podunk, but at least I'm making something of myself. You, you're the same hateful, little man you started out as. Without diving, you're nothing but a lost, broke-down son of a bitch who used to be something."

"You see this pipe? General MacArthur himself smoked this pipe. I served with him in Leyte Gulf. Biggest naval battle in history. Kamikaze ripped into this escort carrier, name of Saint Lo. She went down on a shallow reef, trapping me and six boys in the fire room. Only one way out. (Carl Brashear: Flood the compartment and swim up.) Five decks, cookie. Five fuckin' decks. Locked bulkheads, dead bodies everywhere. You got to have your balls screwed on tight for that swim. We still had intercom. Old MacArthur himself came over that squawk box, "Sunday, you cocky son of a bitch, I bet you can't hold your breath for four minutes and swim out of there." Know what I said back ? "No, Mac, I can't, but I'll bet you your cob pipe I can hold it for five, 'cause that's what it's gonna take, motherfucker.""

"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. Hell, I don't know why anybody'd want to be a Navy diver."

"Timo Cruz: Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Sir I just wanna say thank you...you saved my life."

"Channing Tatum — Jason Lyle"

"Antwon Tanner — Worm"

"Rick Gonzalez — Timo Cruz"