Inception Quotes
Cobb : She locked away a secret, deep inside herself, something she once knew to be true... but chose to forget.
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Cobb : I came here to tell you... something. [ pause ]
Cobb : Something that... you once knew to be true.
Saito : [ remembering ] Impossible...
Cobb : Something that... you once knew to be true.
Saito : [ remembering ] Impossible...
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Cobb : You shouldn't be here.
Ariadne : I just wanted to see what kind of tests you're doing on your own every night.
Cobb : This has nothing to do with you.
Ariadne : This has everything to do with me. You've asked me to share dreams with you.
Cobb : Not these. These are my dreams.
Ariadne : I just wanted to see what kind of tests you're doing on your own every night.
Cobb : This has nothing to do with you.
Ariadne : This has everything to do with me. You've asked me to share dreams with you.
Cobb : Not these. These are my dreams.
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Ariadne : These aren't just dreams. These are memories. And you said never to use memories.
Cobb : I know I did.
Ariadne : You're trying to keep her alive. You can't let her go.
Cobb : You don't understand. These are moments I regret, the memories that I have to change.
Cobb : I know I did.
Ariadne : You're trying to keep her alive. You can't let her go.
Cobb : You don't understand. These are moments I regret, the memories that I have to change.
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Ariadne : Why is it so important to dream?
Cobb : Because, in my dreams we are together.
Cobb : Because, in my dreams we are together.
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Cobb : I can't stay with her anymore because she doesn't exist.
Mal : I'm the only thing you do believe in anymore.
Cobb : I wish. I wish more than anything. But I can't imagine you with all your complexity, all you perfection, all your imperfection. Look at you. You are just a shade of my real wife. You're the best I can do; but I'm sorry, you are just not good enough.
Mal : I'm the only thing you do believe in anymore.
Cobb : I wish. I wish more than anything. But I can't imagine you with all your complexity, all you perfection, all your imperfection. Look at you. You are just a shade of my real wife. You're the best I can do; but I'm sorry, you are just not good enough.
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Fischer : [ handing his abductors his wallet ] There's five hundred dollars in there. And the wallet's worth more than that.
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Cobb : The moment's passed. Whatever I do I can't change this moment. I'm about to call out to them. They run away. If I'm ever going to see their faces I've gotta get back home. The real world.
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Ariadne : These aren't just dreams, these are memories and you said never to use memories!
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[ Mal attacks Cobb and Ariadne; Cobb closes elevator door before Mal can reach them ]
Mal : You promised! You promised!
Cobb : Please, I just have to keep you here, just for now.
Mal : You said we'd be together! You said we'd grow old together!
Cobb : I'll come back, I promise. [ Mal glares at them ]
Mal : You promised! You promised!
Cobb : Please, I just have to keep you here, just for now.
Mal : You said we'd be together! You said we'd grow old together!
Cobb : I'll come back, I promise. [ Mal glares at them ]
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Cobb : You create the world of the dream, you bring the subject into that dream, and they fill it with their subconscious.
Ariadne : How could I ever acquire enough detail to make them think that its reality?
Cobb : Well dreams, they feel real while we're in them, right? It's only when we wake up that we realize how things are actually strange. Let me ask you a question, you, you never really remember the beginning of a dream do you? You always wind up right in the middle of what's going on.
Ariadne : I guess, yeah.
Cobb : So how did we end up here?
Ariadne : Well we just came from the a...
Cobb : Think about it Ariadne, how did you get here? Where are you right now?
Ariadne : We're dreaming?
Cobb : You're actually in the middle of the workshop right now, sleeping. This is your first lesson in shared dreaming. Stay calm.
Ariadne : How could I ever acquire enough detail to make them think that its reality?
Cobb : Well dreams, they feel real while we're in them, right? It's only when we wake up that we realize how things are actually strange. Let me ask you a question, you, you never really remember the beginning of a dream do you? You always wind up right in the middle of what's going on.
Ariadne : I guess, yeah.
Cobb : So how did we end up here?
Ariadne : Well we just came from the a...
Cobb : Think about it Ariadne, how did you get here? Where are you right now?
Ariadne : We're dreaming?
Cobb : You're actually in the middle of the workshop right now, sleeping. This is your first lesson in shared dreaming. Stay calm.
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Cobb : [ notices that he's being followed ] That price on my head, was that dead or alive?
Eames : Not sure. See if he starts shooting at you.
Eames : Not sure. See if he starts shooting at you.
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Cobb : What do you want?
Saito : Inception. Is it possible?
Arthur : Of course not.
Saito : If you can steal an idea, why can't you plant one there instead?
Arthur : Okay, this is me, planting an idea in your mind. I say: don't think about elephants. What are you thinking about?
Saito : Elephants?
Arthur : Right, but it's not your idea. The dreamer can always remember the genesis of the idea. True inspiration is impossible to fake.
Cobb : No, it's not.
Saito : Inception. Is it possible?
Arthur : Of course not.
Saito : If you can steal an idea, why can't you plant one there instead?
Arthur : Okay, this is me, planting an idea in your mind. I say: don't think about elephants. What are you thinking about?
Saito : Elephants?
Arthur : Right, but it's not your idea. The dreamer can always remember the genesis of the idea. True inspiration is impossible to fake.
Cobb : No, it's not.
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Arthur : Eames, I am impressed.
Eames : Your condescension, as always, is much appreciated, Arthur, thank you.
Eames : Your condescension, as always, is much appreciated, Arthur, thank you.
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Cobb : I need to get home. That's all I care about right now.
Ariadne : Why can't you go home?
Cobb : Because they think I killed her.
Ariadne : [ silence ]
Cobb : Thank you.
Ariadne : For what?
Cobb : For not asking whether I did.
Ariadne : Why can't you go home?
Cobb : Because they think I killed her.
Ariadne : [ silence ]
Cobb : Thank you.
Ariadne : For what?
Cobb : For not asking whether I did.
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Ariadne : Cobb, I'm coming with you.
Cobb : I promised Miles...
Ariadne : The team needs someone who understands what you're struggling with. And it doesn't have to be me, but then you have to show Arthur what I just saw.
Cobb : [ to Saito ] Get us another seat on the plane.
Cobb : I promised Miles...
Ariadne : The team needs someone who understands what you're struggling with. And it doesn't have to be me, but then you have to show Arthur what I just saw.
Cobb : [ to Saito ] Get us another seat on the plane.
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Fischer : After my mother died, you know what he told me? "Robert, there's really nothing to be said."
Peter Browning : He was bad with emotions.
Fischer : I was eleven.
Peter Browning : He was bad with emotions.
Fischer : I was eleven.
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Arthur : What about his security? It's gonna get worse as we go deeper.
Cobb : I think we run with Mr. Charles.
Arthur : No.
Eames : Who's Mr. Charles?
Arthur : Bad idea.
Cobb : The second we get in that hotel with Fischer, his security is gonna be all over us. We run with Mr. Charles like we did on the Stein job.
Eames : So you've done it before?
Arthur : Yeah, and it didn't work. The subject realized he was dreaming and his subconscious tore us to pieces.
Cobb : I think we run with Mr. Charles.
Arthur : No.
Eames : Who's Mr. Charles?
Arthur : Bad idea.
Cobb : The second we get in that hotel with Fischer, his security is gonna be all over us. We run with Mr. Charles like we did on the Stein job.
Eames : So you've done it before?
Arthur : Yeah, and it didn't work. The subject realized he was dreaming and his subconscious tore us to pieces.
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Cobb : [ about Mal ] She had locked something away, something deep inside her. The truth that she had once known, but... she chose to forget. Limbo became her reality.
Ariadne : What happened when you woke up?
Cobb : To wake up from that after, after years, after decades... after we'd become old souls thrown back into youth like that... I knew something was wrong with her. She just wouldn't admit it. Eventually, she told me the truth. She was possessed by an idea, this one, very simple idea, that changed everything. That our world wasn't real. That she needed to wake up to come back to reality, that, in order to get back home, we had to kill ourselves.
Ariadne : What happened when you woke up?
Cobb : To wake up from that after, after years, after decades... after we'd become old souls thrown back into youth like that... I knew something was wrong with her. She just wouldn't admit it. Eventually, she told me the truth. She was possessed by an idea, this one, very simple idea, that changed everything. That our world wasn't real. That she needed to wake up to come back to reality, that, in order to get back home, we had to kill ourselves.
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Arthur : So, a totem. It's a small object, potentially heavy, something you can have on you all the time...
Ariadne : What, like a coin?
Arthur : No, it has to be more unique than that, like - this is a loaded die. [ Ariadne reaches out to take the die ]
Arthur : Nah, I can't let you touch it, that would defeat the purpose. See only I know the balance and weight of this particular loaded die. That way when you look at your totem, you know beyond a doubt you're not in someone else's dream.
Ariadne : What, like a coin?
Arthur : No, it has to be more unique than that, like - this is a loaded die. [ Ariadne reaches out to take the die ]
Arthur : Nah, I can't let you touch it, that would defeat the purpose. See only I know the balance and weight of this particular loaded die. That way when you look at your totem, you know beyond a doubt you're not in someone else's dream.
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Cobb : Inception. Now, before you bother telling me it's impossible...
Eames : No, it's perfectly possible. It's just bloody difficult.
Eames : No, it's perfectly possible. It's just bloody difficult.
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Mal : What are you doing here?
Ariadne : My name is...
Mal : I know who you are. What are you doing here?
Ariadne : I'm just trying to understand...
Mal : How could you understand? Do you know what it is to be a lover? To be half of a whole?
Ariadne : No...
Mal : I'll tell you a riddle. 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. But it doesn't matter. How can it not matter to you where that train will take you?
Cobb : Because you'll be together.
Ariadne : My name is...
Mal : I know who you are. What are you doing here?
Ariadne : I'm just trying to understand...
Mal : How could you understand? Do you know what it is to be a lover? To be half of a whole?
Ariadne : No...
Mal : I'll tell you a riddle. 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. But it doesn't matter. How can it not matter to you where that train will take you?
Cobb : Because you'll be together.
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Cobb : "I will split up my father's empire." Now, this is obviously an idea that Robert himself would choose to reject. Which is why we need to plant it deep in his subconscious. Subconscious is motivated by emotion, right? Not reason. We need to find a way to translate this into an emotional concept.
Arthur : How do you translate a business strategy into an emotion?
Cobb : That's what we're here to figure out, right? Now, Robert's relationship with his father is stressed, to say the least.
Eames : Well, can we run with that? We could suggest to him breaking up his father's company as a "screw-you" to the old man.
Cobb : No, 'cause I think positive emotion trumps negative emotion every time. We all yearn for reconciliation, for catharsis. We need Robert Fischer to have a positive emotional reaction to all this.
Eames : Alright, we'll try this, umm... "My father accepts that I want to create for myself, not follow in his footsteps."
Cobb : That might work.
Arthur : Might? We're gonna need to do a little better than 'might'.
Eames : Oh, thank you for your contribution, Arthur.
Arthur : Forgive me for wanting a little specificity, Eames. [ Eames appears confused at the word ]
Arthur : Specificity?
Arthur : How do you translate a business strategy into an emotion?
Cobb : That's what we're here to figure out, right? Now, Robert's relationship with his father is stressed, to say the least.
Eames : Well, can we run with that? We could suggest to him breaking up his father's company as a "screw-you" to the old man.
Cobb : No, 'cause I think positive emotion trumps negative emotion every time. We all yearn for reconciliation, for catharsis. We need Robert Fischer to have a positive emotional reaction to all this.
Eames : Alright, we'll try this, umm... "My father accepts that I want to create for myself, not follow in his footsteps."
Cobb : That might work.
Arthur : Might? We're gonna need to do a little better than 'might'.
Eames : Oh, thank you for your contribution, Arthur.
Arthur : Forgive me for wanting a little specificity, Eames. [ Eames appears confused at the word ]
Arthur : Specificity?
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