"You see, fear is a fighter's best friend. You know, but it ain't nothing to be ashamed of. See, fear keeps you sharp, it keeps you awake, you know, it makes you want to survive. You know what I mean? But the thing is, you gotta learn how to control it. All right? 'Cause fear is like this fire, all right? And it's burning deep inside. Now, if you control it, Tommy, it's gonna make you hot. But, you see, if this thing here, it controls you, it's gonna burn you and everything else around you up. That's right, you know?"

"Laurence Fishburne – Theodore Brassel"

"Simon Pegg – Benji Dunn"

"Maggie Q – Zhen Lei"

"Keri Russell – Lindsey Farris"

"Jonathan Rhys-Meyers – Declan Gormley"

"Michelle Monaghan – Julia "Jules" Mead"

"Billy Crudup – John Musgrave"

"Ving Rhames – Luther Stickell"

"Philip Seymour Hoffman – Owen Davian"

"Tom Cruise – Ethan Hunt"

"The Mission Begins 05:05:06."

"Benji Dunn: [talking while working on computer] Maybe we can share, uh, a jail cell together, you know? If this goes tits-up, which it will. The location of that number is Shanghai. There, I just told you. Shanghai. I've just aided and abetted an enemy of the state. Fantastic. Thank you."

"Benji Dunn: [panicked] I just looked it up. Okay, you're on Interpol's most wanted list. And that, by the way, is a spectacular list to be on."

"Brassel: Now I am... not a stranger to disrespect; you don't get to where I am without developing a thick skin. But what I won't stand for -- what I will lose my sleep over, and I love my sleep -- is the idea of an irresponsible, rogue agent working in my office. So... I'm going to slow things way down here. You can look at me with those judgemental, incriminating eyes all you want, but I bullshit you not, I will bleed on the flag to make sure the stripes stay red."

"Zhen: [Mocking Declan] All I do is copy."

"Declan Gormley: [Response to Luther] Please, when do I not copy? All I do is copy."

"Julia Mead: Tell me it's real. I mean us. Tell me it's real."

"Lindsey Farris (dying line) Ethan! Thank you... I-"

"Julia Mead: That's how it is with Rick! He's fine, he's fine and suddenly he's naked and hugging everyone."

"Didn't I tell you she'd call out your name? And I told you I was gonna kill you in front of her? Well, I'm gonna kill her in front of you."

"You only had five seconds left, do you realize that?"

"[to Ethan, on phone] You hung me outside of an airplane. You can always tell someone's character by the way they treat those they don't need to treat well."

"What I'm selling... and who I'm selling it to... is the last thing you should be concerned about... Ethan."

"You don't have any idea what the hell's going on, do you? I mean, you saw what I did to your little blonde friend at the factory, right? Well... Well, that was nothing. That was... fun. That was fun."

"Oh no, it's fine. I always spill red wine on my white custom-made shirt."

"(first lines) We put an explosive charge in your head. Does that sound familiar?"

"It's complicated."

"(In video) This message, let's call it my excellent engagement gift to you, will self-destruct in five seconds."

"I know we've joked about it, but I'm always this close on begging you to stop training our people and get your ass back in the field."

"(after Ethan successfully landed on the building) He made it...he made it! [quietly] I knew he'd make it."

"Wait, wait, Ethan, I'm not saying I have a better idea, but there's a point where bold becomes stupid."

"The look in your eye is a pain in my ass, you know that right?"

"Well, well, well, if it isn't Mr. "Those who can't do, teach" back in the field. Hey, Ethan -- don't worry. We're gonna get the girl. Or have you been away for so long you've forgotten how good we are?"

"[about to get electrocuted] Throw the switch on and off. [slight pause] Don't forget the off."

"I've got a charge in my head, I'm going to die unless you kill me."

"[before jumping down from the wall of Vatican City] Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall."

"[to Luther] In Germany, you asked me what it is I see in Julia. What I see in Julia is life before all this. And it's good."

"It's five years later for Tony Manero. The fever still burns!"

"Tony Manero knows the old days are over - But nobody's gonna tell him he can't feel that good again."

"[Referring to Europa] Oh, there's something down there, all right. We all saw it; we read the data; we know it's there. But suppose, just suppose that it had something to do with the Monolith? Now, before you get that look on all of your faces, just listen to me for a minute. We've been sending probes out here since the 1970s. And so have you guys. But none of us have ever encountered even the slightest signs of chlorophyll on any of Jupiter's moons, never. And we certainly were close enough, weren't we? 9 years ago, the Monolith was detected here. Discovery was sent up and everything went wacko. You catching my drift? So here we are, 9 years later, trying to figure out what the hell happened and what the Monolith was all about. And guess what we discover along the way? The possibility of life of some kind where it had never existed before. I don't think it was electrostatic anything. I think something wants us to stay away from Europa."

"This is Milson, switching over to KE2 in 5 seconds. Mark. I wish I could bring you better news. It's getting worse. The President addressed a joint session of Congress yesterday. He said he wasn't gonna back down on the blockade. I don't know which was scarier, the speech or the Congress cheering it. He evoked Lincoln. Whenever a president is gonna get us into serious trouble, they always use Lincoln. I honestly don't know if we're gonna be at war or not — it's terrifying to hope that the Russians are less crazy than we are, when they are clearly crazy. Right now, I think you're in a safer place than we are. I just hope that there is an Earth to return to. I heard about the spoiled food in the Discoverys galley. I'm glad that's all it was. I'm also glad that you got the ship under control. Curnow is a capable man. No one knows those systems better than he does. It's a good sign that there was some reserve power. Maybe the rest of the circuitry will work. We have nothing new here on the Monolith. Our data confirms yours. It's not moving."

"HAL was told to lie - by people who find it easy to lie. HAL doesn't know how."

"Whether we are based on carbon or silicon makes no fundamental difference. We should each be treated with appropriate respect."

"My dear Christopher: This is the last time I'll be able to speak to you for a long while. I'm trying to put into words what has happened. Maybe that's for historians to do sometime later. They will record that the next day, the President of the United States looked out of the White House window and the Premier of the Soviet Union looked out of the Kremlin window, and saw the new distant sun in the sky. They read the message, and perhaps they learned something because they finally recalled their ships and their planes. I am going to sleep now. I will dream of you and your mother. I will sleep knowing that you are both safe, that the fear is over. We have seen the process of life take place. Maybe this is the way it happened on Earth millions of years ago. Maybe it's something completely different. I still don't know really what the Monolith is. I think it's many things. An embassy for an intelligence beyond ours. A shape of some kind for something that has no shape. Your children will be born in a world of two suns. They will never know a sky without them. You can tell them that you remember when there was a pitch black sky with no bright star, and people feared the night. You can tell them when we were alone, when we couldn't point to the light and say to ourselves, "There is life out there." Someday, the children of the new sun will meet the children of the old. I think they will be our friends. You can tell your children of the day when everyone looked up and realized that we were only tenants of this world. We have been given a new lease and a warning from the landlord."

"Dear Caroline: This is finally it. After 9 years and hundreds of millions of miles, we are about to come face to face with the Monolith. The last human being who did that disappeared and was never seen or heard from again. Something truly amazing is going on out here, and I really believe this black giant is controlling it all. We have so much to ask. I have a feeling that the answers are bigger than the questions."

"Floyd to Milson: My news is a little better than yours. Discovery has been partially revived. I don't know how much damage has been done, or if we'll be able to bring it back home. Most of that is up to HAL. The drive system could be operated manually, so we were able to pull Discovery away from its decaying orbit around Io. I must say, the farther away I get from Io, the happier I am. It's a violent moon, even for Jupiter. Europa, for all its cold gray, is a lot more comforting. I tell you, Victor, there's some kind of new life down there, trying to get through all that ice. We are 10,000 kilometers away from the Monolith. I can't see it, except I know it's there. I also think it knows we're here. It's time to unleash Chandra. We'll see if our computer brain surgeon and psychiatrist can put HAL back together again. To tell you the truth, I don't know if HAL is homicidal, suicidal, neurotic, psychotic, or just plain broken."

"Dear Caroline: The first part of this journey is coming to an end. We are about to rendezvous with the Discovery. The race will be on now. We're going to send a boarding party over to climb inside this 800-foot long shipwreck, which is floating over Io, to see if she can be rescued before her orbit gives out. There are 9 years of secrets inside, including a sleeping computer who knows the answers. My past is also inside, and I want those answers."

"Dear Caroline: I miss you terribly. The time has come to put ourselves in orbit around Io, which is where the Discovery is. And we don't have enough fuel to slow ourselves down, so we are about to use a technique called aerobraking. The theory is that we will enter the outer layer of Jupiter's atmosphere, using what is called a ballute for a shield. The atmosphere will slow us down, and Jupiter's gravity will grab hold of us and slingshot us around behind the dark side. If all goes well, we'll wind up in a gentle orbit around Io. It's dynamite on paper. Of course, the people who came up with the numbers on the paper aren't here. Since no one has ever done this before, everyone up here is as scared as I am. The difference is they're busy. I have nothing to do but wait for it to happen. And I hope this is all worth it."

"Natasha Shneider - Irina Yakunina"