"I can't work in an office. I don't like wearing suits. I like to ride. Fixed gear, steel frame, no brakes. The bike cannot coast. The pedals never stop turning. Can't stop. Don't want to either. There are 1,500 bike messengers on the streets of New York City. You can e-mail it, FedEx it, fax it, scan it, but when none of that shit works and this thing has to be at that place by this time, you need us. Some of us get killed out here. Pedestrians are a menace. Cabs are killers. One time or another we all get hit. Sometimes we gotta hit back. And we stick together, 'cause most people just wish we'd get off the street. "Go get a haircut. Take a shower. Get out of the way." They have no idea why anyone would risk their lives in a death maze for 80 bucks on a good day. But if you're out here thinking about the money, you're not gonna be around to spend it."

"[To Nima] If you lose the ticket I cannot give you back the money. You understand? This ticket now is money... for whoever holds it. If you have problems you don't call the police. You call this number. The Hawala system settles its own problems."

"Ride Like Hell"

"Racing against the clock."

"Joseph Gordon-Levitt – Wilee, a bicycle messenger"

"Kenneth Branagh as Andrei Sator"

"Michael Caine as Sir Michael Crosby"

"Himesh Patel as Mahir"

"Clémence Poésy as Barbara"

"Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Ives"

"Dimple Kapadia as Priya"

"Martin Donovan as Fay"

"Robert Pattinson as Neil"

"Elizabeth Debicki as Katherine "Kat" Barton"

"Fiona Dourif as Wheeler"

"John David Washington as The Protagonist"

"Yuri Kolokolnikov as Volkov"

"See? It’s me in there again, weaving another past in the fabric of this mission."

"Lying is the Standard Operational Procedure."

"You have to start looking at the world in a new way."

"“What's happened’s happened.” Which is an expression of faith in the mechanics of the world. It’s not an excuse to do nothing."

"The world needs Tenet."

"We’re the people saving the world from what might’ve been. World would never know what could happen. Even if they did, they wouldn’t care. Because no one cares about the bomb that didn’t go off, only the one that did. It’s the bomb that didn’t go off, the danger no one knew was real; that’s the bomb with the real power to change the world."

"I'll see you at the beginning, friend!"

"Sator's lifelong mission, financed and guided by the future, has been to find and reassemble the algorithm."

"You have a future in the past. Years ago for me, years from now for you."

"I realized I wasn’t working for you, we’ve both been working for me."

"You may have an inflated idea of my powers of seduction."

"Anupam Kher – Chef Hemant Oberoi"

"Suhail Nayyar – Abdullah"

"November 26, 2008...Terror struck the heart of India."

"Ordinary people - extraordinary heroes."

"Dev Patel – Arjun"

"Armie Hammer – David"

"Nazanin Boniadi – Zahra Kashani"

"Tilda Cobham-Hervey – Sally"

"Cole Hauser - Carter Verone"

"Chris "Ludacris" Bridges - Tej Parker"

"Eva Mendes - Monica Fuentes"

"Thom Barry - Bilkins"

"Devon Aoki - Suki"

"[after Brian pulls off a reverse drive to impress Agent Fuentes] He did the "stare and drive" on you, didn't he? He got that from me!"

"[at the Tarpon Point rendezvous, after Brian gives him part of the hidden money] So you know nothing about the agents that stormed my jet? The funny thing is, I only told one person about the airstrip. [touches Agent Fuentes' face] Customs agents sure are getting pretty, aren't they? Put her on the boat."

"Paul Walker - Brian O'Conner"

"[flips the bird at Rome while driving backwards] YEAH, ROME! HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES?! THAT'S THE BRIAN O'CONNER SCHOOL OF DRIVING RIGHT THERE, BABY!"

"Tyrese Gibson - Roman "Rome" Pearce"