All Quotes

"This time there are two."

"Same Make. Same Model. New Mission."

"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"

"[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"

"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."

"[to the pilots at Area 51 before the mass sortie] Good morning. [turns on mic] Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world, and you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. [pauses] Mankind. That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom. Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution… but from annihilation. We're fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice: We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!"

"EARTH: Take a good look. It could be your last."

"We've always believed we weren't alone. On July 4, we'll wish we were."

"The question of whether or not we are alone in the universe...has been answered."

"Don’t make plans for August."

"WARNING! Your next stop may not be there."

"On the Fourth of July, you will have a ringside seat for the ultimate fireworks show."

"They only want one thing...DESTRUCTION."

"On July 2, they arrive. On July 3, they strike. On July 4, we fight back."

"A war is on, pitting superior alien technology against Humankind's will to survive. The odds are even."

"Today, the human race celebrates their Independence Day."

"Enjoy the Super Bowl - it may be your last."

"All of this feeds into a sliding scale of villain power. Culminating with the aliens of Independence Day. Notice, in that case, that you no longer need incompetence or corruption of our institutions. Jeopardy takes care of itself. The invaders are so badass that even the United States government and military are allowed to simultaneously be both capable and good! In order to provide spear-carrier support for the two or three point-of-view heroes."

"At one point the news comes that New York, Washington and Los Angeles have been destroyed, and is there grief? Despair? Anguish? Speculation about what that will mean for professional sports? Not a bit – the characters nod and hurry on to the next scene."

"I felt guilty about making my work look so good. I started thinking maybe I did my job too well, and it might have been the nucleus of an idea for someone to say: ‘Hey, let’s crash a plane into the White House.’"

"Bill Pullman - President Thomas Whitmore"

"Margaret Colin - Constance Spano"

"Jeff Goldblum - David Levinson"

"Will Smith - Captain Steve Hiller, USMC"

"Robert Loggia - Gen. William Grey, USMC"

"Vivica A. Fox - Jasmine Dubrow"

"Randy Quaid - Russell Casse"

"Judd Hirsch - Julius Levinson"

"Happiness is … the grace of being permitted to unfold … all the spiritual powers planted within us."

"That's how it always was:/growing among the columns of poetry./Big brother, it was no pleasure, no."

"For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation is possible."