"All right! You put a shiv in my partner. You know what that means? Goddammit! All winter long I got to listen to him gripe about his bowling scores. Now I'm gonna bust your ass for those three bags and I'm gonna nail you for picking your feet in Poughkeepsie."

"Frédéric de Pasquale - Henri Devereaux"

"There are no rules and no holds barred when Popeye cuts loose!"

"Harold Gary - Joel Weinstock"

"Your condescension, as always, is much appreciated, Arthur."

"[In a firefight; Arthur is defending with an assault rifle] You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling. [hefts a huge grenade launcher]"

"An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious. And even the smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you."

"Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange."

"You're waiting for a train. A train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you don't know for sure. Yet it doesn't matter, because we'll be together."

"Downward is the only way forward."

"Mr. Nolan doesn’t cater to the executives at some big company, he really does what he wants to with a film. He manages to do it within the current big system because he’s that good and he can, but ‘Inception’ and his films aren’t developed by committee. And it wasn’t him saying, ‘How am I going to make a big summer hit?’ ‘Inception’ was about him following his own fascinations."

"The clash of objective reality with our subjective view of the world, that’s pretty interesting stuff. This is something I thought about doing for a very long time. I’ve been thinking about it off and on since I was about 16. It was the approach I wanted to take to an almost alternate reality — approaching the dream life as another state of reality. And one that in certain circumstances can be manipulated."

"[after narrowly escaping an avalanche] Couldn't someone have dreamt up a goddamn beach?!"

"Your mind is the scene of the crime."

"The dream is real."

"Philip Seymour Hoffman as Frank Hansen"

"Burton Gilliam as Gollie"

"Richard Farnsworth as Slim"

"Elske McCain as Driver"

"Jennifer Tilly as Fran Carvey"

"James Stephens as Harold Carvey, DVM"

"Alec Baldwin as Carter "Doc" McCoy"

"Kim Basinger as Carol McCoy"

"It's been my experience that having friends is overrated."

"Michael Madsen as Rudy Travis"

"Simon Reynolds - Agent Tom DiPaola"

"Kristin Lehman - Cindy Breckinridge"

"James Woods as Jack Benyon"

"Clark Johnson - Agent Charlie Merriweather"

"Blair Brown - National Security Advisor"

"Raynor Schine - Walter Xavier"

"Ritchie Coster - The Handler"

"Chuck Schamata - Director Overbrook"

"Paul Calderon - Deputy Director Cortes"

"David Morse as Jim Deer Jackson"

"David Rasche - President John Ballentine"

"In the 141-year history of the United States Secret Service, there's never been a traitor... until now."

"Michael Douglas - Agent Pete Garrison"

"Bill, what do you think would happen to the power of the President if people thought I wasn't even safe from my own Secret Service? It took over two hundred years to create the symbol of the presidency and I'm not going to undermine it with something like this. Let's circle the wagons, okay?"

"Kiefer Sutherland - Agent David Breckinridge"

"A lot of people are looking for you, Pete."

"Pete. They think you're an assassin. They will kill you."

"Eva Longoria - Agent Jill Marin"

"Pete Garrison and I are having an affair. I don't know all the evidence you have against him, but I do know why he failed the lie-detector test. And I know why he was in that coffee shop looking for someone."

"C'mon, Pete. People would understand that. I mean, Jesus Christ, you took a bullet for the President of the United States, and in the twenty-five years since, you haven't made shift supervisor on a Presidential Detail, and that I know you wanted. But they don't put guys that bend the rules—not even a little bit—in charge of P.P.D., do they? Even if they did take a bullet for the old man."

"Now I know it's hard to believe Pete Garrison could be involved in something like this. For some of you, he's a friend. To some, a legend. But the fact is, the evidence against him is overwhelming. So how do we find him? To begin with, know this—he is smarter and more experienced than all of you. You've never trained for this. You are chasing your worst nightmare. He knows how you think. He knows how you operate, and he will use that against you. He also knows it's going to be difficult for you to pull the trigger if you have him in your sights. So I want you to take a second and visualize that. Because there is a very good chance that is exactly how this is going to end."

"An agent maybe draws his weapon once an entire Presidential term. When we draw our weapon, we intend to use it. Bottom line? Agent Merriweather was assassinated. I want the murder weapon; I don't care if you have to drag the Potomac. If this guy had been one of yours, you would have treated him with a lot more respect."

"Listen to me: Pete Garrison was my best friend for ten years...until he slept with my wife. So trust me when I tell you that the only thing Pete Garrison cares about is Pete Garrison."

"You wanna shoot me? Forget about the Kevlar! Shoot me in my face! Dave! My buddy! C'mon! Shoot me!"