"Leon's pictures had to be as phony as Rachael's. I didn't know why a Replicant would collect photos. Maybe they were like Rachael... they needed memories."

"Tyrell really did a job on Rachael. Right down to a snapshot of a mother she never had... a daughter she never was. Replicants weren't supposed to have feelings... neither were blade runners. What the hell was happening to me?"

"And family photos? Replicants didn't have families either."

"Whatever was in the bathtub was not human. Replicants don't have scales."

"I didn't know whether Leon gave Holden a legit address. But it was the only lead I had, so I checked it out."

"I'd quit because I'd had a belly full of killing. But then I'd rather be a killer than a victim, and that's exactly what Bryant's threat about "little people" meant. So I hooked in once more thinking if I couldn't take it I'd split later. I didn't have to worry about Gaff. He was brown-nosing for a promotion, so he didn't want me around anyway."

""Skin jobs". That's what Bryant called Replicants. In history books he's the kind of cop who used to call black men "niggers"."

"The charmer's name was Gaff, I'd seen him around. Bryant must have upped him to the Blade Runner unit. That gibberish he talked was city speak, gutter talk. A mishmash of Japanese, Spanish, German, what have you. I didn't really need a translator, I knew the lingo, every good cop did. But I wasn't going to make it easier for him."

"Sushi. That's what my ex-wife used to call me. "Cold fish.""

"They don't advertise for killers in the newspaper. That was my profession. Ex-cop. Ex-blade runner. Ex-killer."

"I've had people walk out on me before, but not when I was being so charming."

"[Revealing to Rachael that she is a replicant] You ever tell anyone that? Your mother, Tyrell? They're implants. Those aren't your memories, they're somebody else's. They're Tyrell's niece's. Okay, bad joke, I'm sorry... No, really, I made a bad joke. Go home, you're not a Replicant... (sigh) you wanna drink? I'll get you a drink."

"Replicants are like any other machine. They're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem."

"I was quit when I came in here. I'm twice as quit now."

"I'm Deckard. Blade Runner. B Two sixty-three fifty-four. I'm filed and monitored."

"Arnold Schwarzenegger – Terminator"

"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"

"Before Terminator came out I began to hear from people, 'Gee, there's this script they're going to shoot that reads an awful lot like your script for Soldier. Now Soldier had been available on videocassette for many years. Demon with a Glass Hand had won all the awards but Soldier was right there in popularity."

"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"

"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."

"There is no fate but what we make for ourselves."

"[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"

"Your future is in its hands."

"[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."