"Before rock and roll , Before diet soda , Before designer jeans , running shoes and video games… One boy had a vision of what was to come — because he had just been there."

"Marty's parents were destined to meet in 1955. Until Marty dropped in from the future."

"The story of a young man with a great future behind him."

"Marty McFly took a spin in a new sports car last night. But he never got past '55. 1955."

"Marty McFly's future is catching up with him."

"Marty McFly has just come between the most unlikely couple in high school... His parents."

"Hello? Anybody home? Think McFly, Think!"

"He's the only kid ever to get into trouble before he was born."

"Bumping into your parents is no big deal unless you bump into them before you were born."

"He was never in time for his classes... He wasn't in time for his dinner... Then one day... he wasn't in his time at all."

"Marty McFly's having the time of his life. The only question is—what time is it?"

"Marty McFly just broke the time barrier. He's only got one week to get it fixed."

"17-year-old Marty McFly got home early last night. 30 years early."

"Meet Marty McFly. He's broken the time barrier. Busted his parents' first date. And, maybe, botched his chances of ever being born."

"Since you're new here, I-I'm gonna cut you a break, today. So, why don't you make like a tree and get outta here?"

"Great Scott!"

"I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by."

"Next Saturday night, we're sending you back to the future!"

"If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit."

"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."

"[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."