43 quotes found
"I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle."
"[offers his hand to Sarah Connor] Come with me if you want to live."
"Stay here. I’ll be back."
"Three billion human lives ended on August 29, 1997. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgment Day. They lived only to face a new nightmare: the war against the Machines. The computer which controlled the machines, Skynet, sent two Terminators back through time. Their mission: to destroy the leader of the human Resistance, John Connor, my son. The first Terminator was programmed to strike at me, in the year 1984, before John was born. It failed. The second was sent to strike at John himself, when he was still a child. As before, the Resistance was able to send a lone warrior, a protector for John. It was just a question of which one of them would reach him first."
"Watching John with the machine, it was suddenly so clear. The Terminator would never stop. It would never leave him. It would never hurt him, never shout at him, or get drunk and hit him, or say it was too busy to spend time with him. It would always be there. And it would die to protect him. Of all the would-be fathers who came and went over the years, this thing, this machine was the only one that measured up. In an insane world, it was the sanest choice."
"[epilogue] The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first time with a sense of hope, because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too."
"[alternate epilogue] August 29, 1997, came and went. Nothing much happened. Michael Jackson turned 40. There was no Judgment Day. People went to work as they always do. Laughed, complained, watched TV, made love. I wanted to run to through the street yelling to grab them all and say, "Every day from this day on is a gift. Use it well." Instead, I got drunk. That was 30 years ago. But the dark future which never came still exists for me. And it always will, like the traces of a dream. John fights the war differently than it was foretold. Here, on the battlefield of the Senate, his weapons were common sense and hope. The luxury of hope was given me by the Terminator. Because if a machine can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too."
"[carved into a table] NO FATE"
"Note: bolded portion is ranked #76 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema"
"Ten years ago, the machines who rule the future sent an unstoppable Terminator to assassinate the yet unborn John Connor. They failed. In 1991, the machines will try again."
"The future is not set."
"It's nothing personal."
"He said he'd be back."
"This time there are two."
"Same Make. Same Model. New Mission."
"[from teaser] They know its face. They know its mission. But there's one thing they don't know: This time there are two."
"[from teaser] One programmed to destroy. The other programmed to protect."
"[from trailer] Once he was programmed to destroy the future. Now his mission is to protect it."
"[from trailer] His loyalty is to a child, and his enemy is the deadliest machine ever built."
"[from trailer] If you thought you had seen it all...look again."
"[from trailer] This time, he's back...for good."
"Arnold Schwarzenegger – The Terminator, T-800"
"Linda Hamilton – Sarah Connor"
"Edward Furlong – W:John Connor"
"Robert Patrick – T-1000"
"Earl Boen – Dr. Peter Silberman"
"Joe Morton – Dr. Miles Bennett Dyson"
"S. Epatha Merkerson – Tarissa Dyson"
"Castulo Guerra – Enrique Salceda"
"Danny Cooksey – Tim"
"Jenette Goldstein – Janelle Voight"
"Xander Berkeley – Todd Voight"
"On T2, I wondered if I could get the audience to an emotional place where they would cry for the Terminator. That was my goal: Could I take world's coldest motherfucker and turn you around in a two-hour time period to where you actually felt sorry for him? Forget about all the hoo-ha with the liquid metal guy: that was fun, but getting the audience to cry for the Terminator was the big cinematic challenge. That's the reason I made the movie."
"I'm working with assholes."
"John Lithgow as George Henderson"
"Melinda Dillon as Nancy Henderson"
"Margaret Langrick as Sarah Henderson"
"Joshua Rudoy as Ernie Henderson"
"Kevin Peter Hall as Harry"
"Lainie Kazan as Irene Moffat"
"Don Ameche as Dr. Wallace Wrightwood"
"M. Emmet Walsh as George Henderson Sr."
"David Suchet as Jacques LaFleur"