“Interstellar” quotes

“Maybe it's some evidence, some artifact of a higher dimension that we can't consciously perceive. I'm drawn across the universe to someone I haven't seen in a decade, who I know is probably dead. Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space. Maybe we should trust that, even if we can't understand...” (continue)(continue reading)

Anne Hathaway - Brand

“- Doyle: You can't just think about your family. You have to think bigger than that.
- Cooper: I'm thinking about my family and millions of other families.”
Wes Bentley - Doyle
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper

“I'm not afraid of death. I'm an old physicist... I'm afraid of time.”
Sir Michael Caine - Professor Brand

“Once you're a parent, you're the ghost of your children's future.”
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper

“- Murph (10 Yrs.): Why did you and momname me after something that's bad?
- Cooper: Well, we didn't.
- Murph (10 Yrs.): Murphy's law?
- Cooper: Murphy's law doesn't mean that something bad will happen. It means that whatever can happen, will happen. And that sounded just fine to us.”
Mackenzie Foy - Murph (10 Yrs.)
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper

“- Cooper: There are no such things as ghosts, babe.
- Murph (10 Yrs.): Grandpa says you can get ghosts.
- Cooper: Maybe that's because Grandpa is a little too close to being one himself. Go back to bed.”
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper
Mackenzie Foy - Murph (10 Yrs.)

“- Cooper: Humor, seventy-five percent.
- TARS: Confirmed. Self destruct sequence in T minus 10, 9...
- Cooper: Let's make that sixty percent.
- TARS: Sixty percent, confirmed. Knock knock.
- Cooper: You want fifty-five?”

Matthew McConaughey - Cooper
Bill Irwin - TARS

“- Cooper: Doctor Brand and Edmonds, they close?
- TARS: I wouldn't know.
- Cooper: Is that a ninety percent wouldn't know, or ten percent wouldn't know?
- TARS: I also have a discretion setting, Cooper.
- Cooper: Ah. But not a poker face, huh?”
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper
Bill Irwin - TARS

“When I was a kid, it seemed like they made something new every day. Some, gadget or idea, like every day was Christmas.”
John Lithgow - Donald

“- Murph (10 Yrs.): What are you gonna do with it?
- Cooper: I'm going to give it something socially responsible to do. Like drive a combine.
- Murph (10 Yrs.): Can't we just let it go? It wasn't hurting anybody.
- Cooper: This thing needs to learn how to adapt, Murph. Like the rest of us.”

Mackenzie Foy - Murph (10 Yrs.)
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper

“- Cooper: Hey TARS, what's your honesty parameter?
- TARS: 90 percent.
- Cooper: 90 percent?
- TARS: Absolute honesty isn't always the most diplomatic nor the safest form of communication with emotional beings.”
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper
Bill Irwin - TARS

“Time is relative, okay? It can stretch and it can squeeze, but... it can't run backwards. Just can't. The only thing that can move across dimensions, like time, is gravity.”
Anne Hathaway - Brand

“- Brand: Couldn't you've told her you were going to save the world?
- Cooper: No. When you become a parent, one thing becomes really clear. And that's that you want to make sure your children feel safe. And that rules out telling a 10-year old that the world's ending.”
Anne Hathaway - Brand
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper

“Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here.”
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper

“A machine doesn't improvise well because you cannot program a fear of death. Our survival instinct is our greatest source of inspiration.”
Matt Damon - Mann

“Popcorn at a ball game is unnatural. I want a hot dog.”
John Lithgow - Donald

“- Professor Brand: The Lazarus missions.
- Cooper: That sounds cheerful.
- Professor Brand: Lazarus came back from the dead.
- Cooper: Sure, but he had to die in the first place.”
Sir Michael Caine - Professor Brand
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper

“- Cooper: Okay. Now you need to tell me what your plan is to save the world.
- Professor Brand: We're not meant to save the world. We're meant to leave it.”
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper
Sir Michael Caine - Professor Brand

“- Doyle: We have a mission.
- Cooper: Yeah, and our mission is to find a planet that can habitate the people living on Earth right now. Okay? Plan A does not work if the people on Earth are dead by the time we pull it off.”
Wes Bentley - Doyle
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper

“This world's a treasure, Don; but it's been telling us to leave for a while now.”

Matthew McConaughey - Cooper

“Six billion people, just imagine that. And every last one of them trying to have it all. This world isn't so bad. You're the one who doesn't belong. Born forty years too late, or forty years too early... my daughter knew it, God bless her. And your kids know it.”

John Lithgow - Donald

“We've always defined ourselves by the ability to overcome the impossible. And we count these moments. These moments when we dare to aim higher, to break barriers, to reach for the stars, to make the unknown known. We count these moments as our proudest achievements.”
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper

“- Cooper: You're ruling my son out for college now? The kid's fifteen.
- School Principal: Tom's score simply isn't high enough.
- Cooper: What's your waistline? 32? With, what, a 33 inseam?
- School Principal: I'm not sure I see what you're getting at.
- Cooper: You're telling me it takes two numbers to measure your own ass but only one to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper
David Oyelowo - School Principal

“- TARS: I have a cue light I can use to show you when I'm joking, if you like.
- Cooper: That might help.
- TARS: Yeah, you can use it to find your way back to the ship after I blow you out the airlock. [cue light flashes]”
Bill Irwin - TARS
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper

“- Brand: Listen to me when I say that love isn't something that we invented. It's... observable, powerful. It has to mean something.
- Cooper: Love has meaning, yes. Social utility, social bonding, childrearing...
- Brand: We love people who have died. Where's the social utility in that?”
Anne Hathaway - Brand
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper