"A man has dreams of walking with giants To carve his niche in the edifice of time Before the mortar of his zeal Has a chance to congeal The cup is dashed from his lips The flame is snuffed a-borning He's brought to wrack and ruin in his prime."

"Kindly do not attempt to cloud the issue with facts."

"[shakes Winifred's hands] You know, Winifred, I think she will. [Laughs] I think she will!"

"A British bank is run with precision A British home requires nothing less Tradition, discipline and rules Must be the tools Without them: disorder, catastrophe, anarchy In short, you have a mess!"

"It's 6:03 and the heirs to my dominion are scrubbed and tubbed, and adequately fed. And so I'll pat them on the head, and send them off to bed. Ah, lordly is the life I lead."

"It's grand to be an Englishman in 1910 's on the throne; it's the age of men."

"Sacked?! Certainly not, I am never sacked."

"Close your mouth please, Michael, we are not a codfish."

"In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and snap! [snaps her fingers] The job's a game."

"As I expected. "Mary Poppins, practically perfect in every way.""

"[offers his hand to Sarah Connor] Come with me if you want to live."

"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."

"Xander Berkeley – Todd Voight"

"Jenette Goldstein – Janelle Voight"

"Danny Cooksey – Tim"

"Castulo Guerra – Enrique Salceda"

"S. Epatha Merkerson – Tarissa Dyson"

"Joe Morton – Dr. Miles Bennett Dyson"

"Earl Boen – Dr. Peter Silberman"

"Robert Patrick – T-1000"

"Edward Furlong – W:John Connor"

"I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle."

"Linda Hamilton – Sarah Connor"

"Arnold Schwarzenegger – The Terminator, T-800"

"[from trailer] This time, he's back...for good."

"[from trailer] If you thought you had seen it all...look again."

"[from trailer] His loyalty is to a child, and his enemy is the deadliest machine ever built."

"[from trailer] Once he was programmed to destroy the future. Now his mission is to protect it."

"[from teaser] One programmed to destroy. The other programmed to protect."

"[from teaser] They know its face. They know its mission. But there's one thing they don't know: This time there are two."

"Same Make. Same Model. New Mission."

"This time there are two."

"He said he'd be back."

"It's nothing personal."

"The future is not set."

"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."

"Note: bolded portion is ranked #76 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema"

"[carved into a table] NO FATE"

"[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."

"[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."

"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."

"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."

"Stay here. I’ll be back."