Rules Don't Apply * Quotes

Marla Mabrey: "Maybe I'm not the right girl for this. I'm a square, a movie actress should have big bosoms and be sexy. I mean, in this town aren't those the rules?"
Frank Forbes: "You're an exception, the rules don't apply to you."

"I am finally going to do something that I haven't done for far too long."

Howard Hughes: "You think I'm nuts, right?"
Noah Dietrich: "I really think you need help."

"You are a gifted young woman with a wonderful future. This game Howard Hughes plays with young women doesn't fool me one bit. Nobody's getting any younger."
[to Marla]

Judge: "Mr. Hughes, someone is making a profit on a plane that can't fly!"
Howard Hughes: "This plane will fly. If it were to be a failure I would leave this country and never come back, and I mean it."

"Billionaire, goddammit, not millionaire, and what the hell happened to the close-up of me in the cockpit?"

"You ain't seen nothing yet."