The Terminator Movie Quotes
The Terminator
[59:15]
I'm a friend of Sarah Connor. I was told she was here. Could I see her please?
Desk Sergeant
No, you can't see her she's making a statement.
The Terminator
Where is she?
Desk Sergeant
[uses his pencil to point to the bench]
Look, it may take a while. Want to wait? There's a bench over there.
[points to bench]
The Terminator
[looks around, examining the structural integrity of the room, then looks back at him]
I'll be back!
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Cleaning Man at Flophouse
[1:14:18]
Hey, buddy. You got a dead cat in there, or what?
[the Terminator visualizes: 'POSSIBLE RESPONSE: YES/NO; OR WHAT?; GO AWAY; PLEASE COME BACK LATER; FUCK YOU, ASSHOLE; FUCK YOU']
The Terminator
Fuck you, asshole.
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Sarah Connor
[to the Terminator as she's about to push a button that will crush the terminator]
You're terminated, fucker.
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[after Sarah tries to escape and bites Reese's hand, in a stolen car]
Kyle Reese
Listen, and understand! That Terminator is out there! It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead!
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The Terminator
Nice night for a walk.
Punk
Wash day tomorrow? Nothing clean, right?
The Terminator
Nothing clean. Right.
Punk Leader
Hey, I think this guy's a couple cans short of a six-pack.
The Terminator
Your clothes... give them to me, now.
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Pawn Shop Clerk
That's Italian. You can go pump or auto.
[hands the Terminator the pump action shotgun]
The Terminator
The .45 long slide, with laser sighting.
Pawn Shop Clerk
[hands the Terminator a .45 gun from a glass case under the counter]
These are brand new; we just got them in. That's a good gun. Just touch the trigger, the beam comes on and you put the red dot where you want the bullet to go. You can't miss. Anything else?
The Terminator
Phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range.
Pawn Shop Clerk
You know your weapons, buddy. Any one of these is ideal for home defense. So uh, which will it be?
Pawn Shop Clerk
I may close early today. There's a 15-day wait on the handguns, but the rifles you can take right now.
[sees the Terminator load the shotgun]
Pawn Shop Clerk
You can't do that.
[shoots the clerk]
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Kyle Reese
There was a nuclear war. A few years from now, all this, this whole place, everything, it's gone. Just gone. There were survivors. Here, there. Nobody even knew who started it. It was the machines, Sarah.
Sarah Connor
I don't understand.
Kyle Reese
Defense network computers. New... powerful... hooked into everything, trusted to run it all. They say it got smart, a new order of intelligence. Then it saw all people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side. Decided our fate in a microsecond: extermination.
Sarah Connor
Did you see this war?
Kyle Reese
No. I grew up after. In the ruins... starving... hiding from H-K's.
Sarah Connor
H-K's?
Kyle Reese
Hunter-Killers. Patrol machines built in automated factories. Most of us were rounded up, put in camps for orderly disposal.
[pulls up his right sleeve, exposing a mark]
Kyle Reese
This is burned in by laser scan. Some of us were kept alive... to work... loading bodies. The disposal units ran night and day. We were that close to going out forever. But there was one man who taught us to fight, to storm the wire of the camps, to smash those metal motherfuckers into junk. He turned it around. He brought us back from the brink. His name is Connor. John Connor. Your son, Sarah... your unborn son.
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Dr. Peter Silberman
[56:24]
Why didn't you bring any weapons, something more advanced? Don't you have, uh... ray guns? Show me a piece of future technology.
Kyle Reese
You go naked. Something about the field generated by a living organism. Nothing dead will go.
Dr. Peter Silberman
Why?
Kyle Reese
I didn't build the fucking thing!
Dr. Peter Silberman
Okay, okay. But this cyborg, if it's metal...
Kyle Reese
Surrounded by living tissue!
Dr. Peter Silberman
Oh, right, right.
Dr. Peter Silberman
[shuts off the VCR screen on which the police and Sarah have been watching the interview]
This is great stuff. I could make a career out of this guy! You see how clever his part is? How it doesn't require a shred of proof? Most paranoid delusions are intricate, but this is brilliant!
Dr. Peter Silberman
Why were the other two women killed?
Kyle Reese
Most of the records were lost in the war. Skynet knew almost nothing about Connor's mother. Her full name, where she lived. They just knew the city. The Terminator was just being systematic.
Dr. Peter Silberman
Uh-huh. Well, let's go back to what I was...
Kyle Reese
[interrupts]
Look! You have heard enough! I have answered your questions! Now, I have to see Sarah Connor!
Dr. Peter Silberman
I'm afraid that's not up to me.
Kyle Reese
Then why am I talking to you? Who is in authority here?
Dr. Peter Silberman
Please, I...
[He glares into the camera]
Kyle Reese
You still don't get it, do you? He'll find her! That's what he does! That's ALL he does! You can't stop him! He'll wade through you, reach down her throat and pull her fuckin' heart out!
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Kyle Reese
[1:20:28]
John Connor gave me a picture of you once. I didn't know why at the time. It was very old - torn, faded. You were young like you are now. You seemed just a little sad. I used to always wonder what you were thinking at that moment. I memorized every line, every curve... I came across time for you, Sarah. I love you; I always have
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Cop in Alley
12th... May... Thursday...
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Sarah Connor
[recording a tape for her future son while sitting in her jeep at a gas station]
The hardest thing is deciding what I should tell you and what not to. But I guess I've got a while yet before you're old enough to even understand the tapes. They're more for me at this point just so I can get it straight. Should I tell you about your father? Boy, that's a tough one. Will it affect your decision to send him here, knowing that he is you father? If you don't send Kyle, you can never be. God, a person can go crazy thinking about all this... I suppose I will tell you... I owe him that. Maybe it'll be enough if you know that, in the few hours we had together, we loved a lifetime's worth.
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[opening title card]
Title card
The machines rose from the ashes of the nuclear fire. Their war to exterminate mankind had raged for decades, but the final battle would not be fought in the future. It would be fought here, in our present. Tonight...
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[last lines while sitting in her jeep at a gas station]
Sarah Connor
What did he just say?
Gas Station Attendant
He said there's a storm coming in.
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Kyle Reese
[39:35]
I'm here to help you. I'm Reese. Sergeant Tech-Com, DN38416. Assigned to protect you. You've been targeted for termination
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Kyle Reese
I'm sure.
Sarah Connor
[angrily]
Oh, come on. Do I look like the mother of the future? I mean am I tough, organized? I can't even balance my checkbook! Look Reese, I didn't ask for this honor and I don't WANT IT, ANY OF IT!
Kyle Reese
Your son gave me a message to give to you. He made me memorize it. Thank you Sarah for your courage through the dark years. I can't help you with what you must soon face except to say that the future is not set.
[reciting message]
Kyle Reese
Thank you, Sarah, for your courage through the dark years. I can't help you with what you must soon face, except to say that the future is not set. You must be stronger than you imagine you can be. You must survive, or I will never exist.
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Lieutenant Ed Traxler
[inside an office inside the police station]
I can hear it now. He's going be called the goddamned phone book killer.
Detective Hal Vukovich
I hate these press cases, especially the weird press cases. Where you going?
Lieutenant Ed Traxler
To make a statement. Maybe make these jackals work for us. If I can get on the tube by 11:00, maybe she'll call us. Well, how do I look?
Detective Hal Vukovich
Like shit, boss.
Lieutenant Ed Traxler
Yo momma.
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Kyle Reese
[in a stolen car]
The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy, but these are new. They look human... sweat, bad breath, everything. Very hard to spot. I had to wait till he moved on you before I could zero him.
Kyle Reese
Not yet, not for about 40 years.
Kyle Reese
One possible future. From your point of view. I don't know tech stuff.
Sarah Connor
Then you're from the future, too. Is that right?
Kyle Reese
Right.
Sarah Connor
Right.
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Dr. Peter Silberman
[in a interrogation room inside the police station]
Why this elaborate scheme with the Terminator?
Kyle Reese
It had no choice. Their defense grid was smashed. We'd won. Taking out Connor then would make no difference. Skynet had to wipe out his entire existence!
Dr. Peter Silberman
Is that when you captured the lab complex and found the, uh, what was it called... the time displacement equipment?
Kyle Reese
That's right. The Terminator had already gone through. Connor sent me to intercept him and they blew the whole place.
Dr. Peter Silberman
Well, how are you supposed to get back?
Kyle Reese
I can't. Nobody goes home. Nobody else comes through. It's just him - and me.
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Matt Buchanan
[sitting on a chair, seductively]
First I'm gonna rip the buttons off your blouse one by one, then run my tongue down your neck to your bare, gleaming breasts. And then slowly... slowly pull your jeans off inch by inch.
Matt Buchanan
And lick your belly in circles further and further down, and then pull your panties off with my teeth.
Matt Buchanan
God. Sarah? Jesus. I'm Sorry. I thought you were... Can I talk to Ginger please?
Sarah Connor
Sure, Bunky.
Matt Buchanan
First I'm gonna rip the buttons off your blouse one by one...
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Sarah Connor
[checks the grocery bags Kyle has brought back to the hotel room]
What've we got? Moth balls, corn syrup, ammonia. What's for dinner?
Kyle Reese
Plastique.
Sarah Connor
That sounds good. What is it?
Kyle Reese
Nitroglycerine-base; it's a bit more stable. I learned to make it when I was a kid.
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Sarah Connor
[in a stolen car, while being chased by the police and the terminator]
This is a mistake. I haven't done anything.
Kyle Reese
No, but you will. It's very important that you live.
Sarah Connor
This isn't true. How could that man just get up after you just...
Kyle Reese
He's not a man - a machine. Terminator, Cyberdyne Systems Model 101.
Sarah Connor
A machine? Like a robot?
Kyle Reese
Not a robot. A cyborg. Cybernetic organism.
Sarah Connor
No, he was bleeding.
Kyle Reese
Just a second. Keep your head down!
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Kyle Reese
[in a stolen car, while being chased by the police and the terminator]
All right, listen. The Terminator's an infiltration unit: part man, part machine. Underneath, it's a hyperalloy combat chassis, microprocessor-controlled. Fully armored; very tough. But outside, it's living human tissue: flesh, skin, hair, blood - grown for the cyborgs.
Sarah Connor
Look, Reese, I don't know what you want from...
Kyle Reese
Pay attention! I gotta ditch this car.
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Dr. Peter Silberman
In technical terminology: he's a loon.
Lieutenant Ed Traxler
[shows a bullet-proof vest]
Sarah, this is what they call body armor. Our tac guys wear these. It can stop a 12-gauge round. This other individual must have been wearing one under his coat. Feel that. Go ahead.
Detective Hal Vukovich
He was probably on PCP. Broke every bone in his hand and wouldn't feel it for hours. There was this guy once, you see this scar?
[Traxler interrupts him by handing him back the vest]
Detective Hal Vukovich
Thank you.
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Kyle Reese
He's about my height. He has your eyes.
Sarah Connor
What's he like?
Kyle Reese
You trust him. He's got a strength. I'd die for John Connor.
Sarah Connor
Well... at least now I know what to name him. I don't suppose you know who the father is, so I won't tell him to get lost when I meet him?
Kyle Reese
John never said much about him. I know he dies before the war.
Sarah Connor
Wait. I don't want to know.
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Kyle Reese
Good fighters.
Sarah Connor
That's not what I meant. Was there someone special?
Kyle Reese
Someone?
Sarah Connor
A girl, you know.
Kyle Reese
No. Never.
Sarah Connor
Never? I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. So much pain.
Kyle Reese
Pain can be controlled - you just disconnect it.
Sarah Connor
So you feel nothing?
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Kyle Reese
White light. Pain. It's like being born, maybe.
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Sarah Connor
I'm on my break, Chuck. Carla's got my station.
Nancy
Sarah, come here! It's about you. I mean, sort of. This is so incredible, You're not gonna believe this, Sit down, You are going to love this.
Sarah Connor
What?
TV Anchorwoman
...has been compiled from several witnesses. Once again, Sarah Connor, thirty-five, mother of two... brutally shot to death in her home this afternoon.
Nancy
You're dead, honey.
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Detective Hal Vukovich
I put a cigarette in it.
Detective Hal Vukovich
No, I keep getting an answering machine.
Lieutenant Ed Traxler
Send a unit.
Detective Hal Vukovich
I sent a unit. There's no answer to the door, and the apartment appears empty.
Lieutenant Ed Traxler
Call her.
Detective Hal Vukovich
I just called her!
Lieutenant Ed Traxler
Call her again!
[forgetting about the cigarette in his left hand]
Lieutenant Ed Traxler
Give me a cigarette.
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[Reese has just traveled back in time and appears in an alley]
Derelict in Alley
[7:44]
Hey, buddy, did you just see a real bright light?
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[first lines]
[the garbage truck's engine stops]
Truck Driver
What the hell? Goddamn son of a bitch...
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The Terminator
[in the voice of the police officer while looking for Reese and Sarah]
This is 1-L19. Westbound on Olympic approaching Overland.
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Dr. Peter Silberman
Hi, Sarah
Sarah Connor
Is Reese crazy?
Dr. Peter Silberman
Well, that's what we're gonna find out.
Dr. Peter Silberman
[clicks his pen]
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Kyle Reese
Sleep. It'll be light soon.
Sarah Connor
Okay. Talk some more.
Kyle Reese
About what?
Sarah Connor
About where you're from.
Kyle Reese
All right. You stay down by day, but at night, you can move around. The H-K's use infrared so you still have to watch out. But they're not too bright. John taught us ways to dust them. That's when the infiltrators started to appear. The Terminators were the newest and the worst...
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Nancy
[after Sarah has a handful of mishaps at work]
Look at this way: in a hundred years, who's gonna care?
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Detective Hal Vukovich
[referring to Reese in a room inside the police station]
Come on, Ed. That was loon talk. The guy's a wacko, right?
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Sarah Connor
[awakens from a dream while hiding inside a cave not from the road]
I was dreaming about dogs.
Kyle Reese
We used them to spot Terminators.
Sarah Connor
Your world... it's pretty terrifying.
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Phone Booth Man
Hey man, you got a serious attitude problem.
[a man, off camera, tells the Terminator who had just pulled him out of a telephone booth, while he was talking to someone on the phone]
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Punk
[sees the Terminator who's completely naked, standing next to a telescope]
Hey! What's wrong with this picture?
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Ginger Ventura
[23:36]
That bum. So what if he has a Porsche? He can't treat you like this. It's Friday night, for Christ's sake.
Ginger Ventura
I'll break his kneecaps.
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Detective Hal Vukovich
[in a room inside the police station]
That guy Silberman cracks me up. Last week, he had this guy in here that burned his Afghan. He screwed it first and then he set it on fire...
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Ginger Ventura
Machines need love too!
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Derelict in Alley
[7:58]
That son-of-a-bitch took my pants!
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Ginger Ventura
[after being startled by Sarah's pet Iguana]
Shoo! Go on! Gonna make a belt out of you!
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Policeman
Twelfth, May... Thursday... .
Kyle Reese
What YEAR?
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Ginger Ventura
[Standing next to Sarah, Admiring their reflections in the mirror]
Better than mortal man deserves!
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Kyle Reese
The 132nd under Perry. From '21 to '27.
Dr. Peter Silberman
That's the year 2027?
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Dr. Peter Silberman
I see. And this computer thinks it can win by killing the mother of its enemy. Killing him, in effect, before he's even conceived. A sort of retroactive abortion?
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Lieutenant Ed Traxler
Alright, now listen Miss Connor, listen carefully. You're in a public place, so you'll be safe till we get there.
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Lieutenant Ed Traxler
Look you are perfectly safe we have 30 cops in this buliding.
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Wrong Sarah
Yes?
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Kyle Reese
Not a man, a machine. A terminator. Cyberdine Systems model 101
Sarah Connor
A machine? Like, a robot?
Kyle Reese
Not a robot. Cyborg. Cybernetic organism
Sarah Connor
No. He was bleeding
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The Terminator
[39:52] This is 1L-19 westbound on Olympic approaching Overland
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