"The boat is rated to 90 metres, but of course we can go deeper. There's a limit somewhere. We can only take so much pressure... before the boat will be crushed."

"It's not easy being a cast-iron bitch. It takes discipline, years of training... A lot of people don't appreciate that."

"Michael Biehn - Lt. Coffey (SEAL)"

"Adam Nelson - Ensign Monk (SEAL)"

"Captain Kidd Brewer Jr. - Lew Finler"

"Kimberly Scott - Lisa "One Night" Standing"

"J.C. Quinn - Arliss "Sonny" Dawson"

"John Bedford Lloyd - Jammer Willis"

"Todd Graff - Alan "Hippy" Carnes"

"Leo Burmester - Catfish de Vries"

"Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio - Lindsey Brigman"

"Ed Harris - Virgil "Bud" Brigman"

"Deep below the blue surface, there lies a place no one has ever dreamed of."

"There's everything you've ever known about adventure, and then there's The Abyss."

"A place on earth more awesome than anywhere in space."

"Bendix: Oh no, look who's with them. It's Queen Bitch of the Universe."

"USS Montana Captain: 60 knots, no wave lines; the Reds don't have anything that fast."

"Sniff something? Well did ya, rat boy?"

"Everybody just stay calm. The situation is under control."

"It went straight for the warhead, and they think it's cute."

"We don't need them. We can't trust them. We may have to take steps. We're gonna have to take steps."

"I got to tell you, I give this whole thing a sphincter-factor of about 9.5."

"Heeeeeeeeeeere's M.I.R.V.!"

"[after Cab 3 has landed in the water] Touchdown, and the crowd goes wild."

"Virgil, you wiener."

"I know how alone you feel... alone in all that cold blackness... but I'm there in the dark with you. Oh, Bud you're not alone. You remember that time, you were pretty drunk, you probably don't remember... but the power went out at the old apartment, the one on Orange Street... and we were staring at that one little candle, and I said something really dumb like that candle is me, like every one of us is out there alone in the dark in this life... and you just lit up another candle and put it beside mine and said "No, see? That's me. That's me..." And we stared at the two candles, and then we... well, if you remember any of it, I'm sure you remember the next part. Bud, there are two candles in the dark. I'm with you. I'll always be with you, Bud, I promise that."

"Schoenick, your Lieutenant is about to make a real bad career move."

"We all see what we want to see. Coffey looks and he sees Russians. He sees hate and fear. You have to look with better eyes than that."

"So raise your hand if you think that was a Russian water-tentacle."

"[about the Navy SEALS] These guys are about as much fun as a tax audit."

"There was a time that I would've asked why"

"Huh. Damn rat's breathing that shit. That is no bullshit, hands down, the goddamnedest thing I ever saw."

"[to Hippy] See this? [puts up fist] They used to call this 'The Hammer'."

"Triple-time sounded like a lot of money, Bud. It ain't."

"This here's the bottomless pit, baby. Two and a half miles, straight down."

"[typing] LOVE YOU WIFE"

"[typing] FEELS WEIRD. YOU SHOULD TRY THIS."

"When you're hanging on by your fingernails, you don't go waving your arms around."

"Keep your pantyhose on."

"[trying to revive Lindsey] Goddamn, you bitch, you never backed down from anything in your life! Now, fight! Fight! Fight! Right now! Do it! ( inhales ) Fight!"

"When it comes to the safety of these people, there's me and then there's God, understand?"

"James Earl Jones - Admiral James Greer"

"Larry Ferguson - Chief of the Boat Watson - USS Dallas"

"Sam Neill - Captain 2nd Rank Vasily Borodin"

"Scott Glenn - Commander Bart Mancuso"

"Alec Baldwin - Jack Ryan"

"Timothy Carhart - Bill Steiner"

"Sean Connery - Captain Marko Ramius"