Benedict CumberbatchQuotes

Julian Assange: *2:02:35–2:02:38.

Julian Assange: [[dangerous] As long as you keep searching, you are ] to them.

Julian Assange: *2:00:23–2:01:35.

Julian Assange: [[WikiLeaks] There is no proof that anyone came to any harm as a result of the full disclosure of the unredacted documents published on the ] website.  Not one shred of evidence.

Julian Assange: *1:52:11–1:52:37.

Julian Assange: [[Revolution; [struggle; [past; [future; [begun] ] is the ] between the ] and the ], and the future has just ].

Julian Assange: [[w:July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike|July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike] *See also: ].

Julian Assange: *1:18:45–1:19:25.

Julian Assange: [[w:Collateral Murder|video; [slaughter; [Reuters; [barbarity; [war; [bleeding; [death; [killed; [w:Boeing AH-64 Apache|Apache; [miraculously] The ] shows the brutal ] of two ] reporters.  Here, we have firsthand evidence of the ] of ].  A man, going to drop his children at school, sees another man ] to ] on the pavement, stops to aid this civilian, and, in the process, is ], and his vehicle turned one-hundred and eighty degrees by the sheer force of the ] helicopter's thirty-millimetre bullets ripping into the side of the vehicle, ] not killing the two children inside.

Julian Assange: *0:47:35–0:47:49.  (This line is partially repeated in voice-over from 1:51:43 to 1:51:55.)

Julian Assange: [[change; [surprised; [ideas; [commitment; [sacrifice] It takes two things to ] the world, and you'd be ] how many people have good ], but—]? true commitment?—that's the hard one.  It requires ].

Julian Assange: [[federal government of the United States of America] *By "bastion of free speech," he means the ].

Julian Assange: *0:26:52–0:26:58.

Julian Assange: [[censorship; [free speech] Who ever thought that we'd need extra servers to fight ] attacks from the "bastion of ]"?

Julian Assange: *First spoken out loud 0:22:57–0:22:58.  (This line is also spoken at other times throughout the film.  It makes its first appearance, however, on a WikiLeaks flyer at 0:09:22.)

Julian Assange: [[Courage] ] is contagious.

Julian Assange: *0:13:42–0:14:07.

Julian Assange: [[government; [destroyed; [tyranny; [w:Reichstag dome|glass dome; [ideal] A ], ] by ], rebuilt under a ] so the whole world could look in: there's an ] to aspire to.

Julian Assange: *0:11:58–0:12:04.

Julian Assange: [[fear] And if the whistleblower's identity is secret, then he has nothing to ].

Julian Assange: *0:10:35–0:10:52.

Julian Assange: [[moral; [whistleblower] If we can find one ] man, one ], someone willing to expose all these secrets, that man could topple the most repressive of régimes.

Julian Assange: *0:05:40–0:05:49.

Julian Assange: [[revelations; [secrecy; [War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|this war] These are ] which pierce the veil of ] surrounding ], hiding a more-complete portrait of events we thought we understood, but we may not have known at all.

Peter Guillam: [on Karla] He went back to die, rather than give in.

George Smiley: And that's how I know he can be beaten. Because he's a fanatic. And the fanatic is always concealing a secret doubt.

Ricki Tarr: Mr Guillam, I'm sorry I was out for so long.

George Smiley: Ricki's been helping us, Peter! He's been telling us all about his adventures.

Peter Guillam: [turns on Tarr.] He's a double, George! There is no mole! Irina's been locked up by Moscow! I stole that, because of you! I spied on my own, because of him! Do you know how that makes me feel?

Peter Guillam: You got clearance for that?

Bill Haydon: Well, I'm not bloody chaining it up outside. Mind you, probably no better off in here with this bunch of bloody cut-throats, they'll have the gold out of your teeth!

George Burbank: Rose isn't well, Phil. She's ill.

Phil Burbank: Not well? It is high time that bozo and you got next to a few... whatever you call them? Facts! She stashes alcohol all around the place, even drinking in the stinking alley. Look at your face in the mirror! Is it that she could like? Or our money? WAKE! THE HELL UP!

George Burbank: [calmly] That's enough, Phil. Well, what is the harm? The hides were only going to be burned.

Phil Burbank: [with a pained expression] I needed them. I needed them.

George Burbank: [walks away] Well, I apologize.

Phil Burbank: They were MINE! I needed them!

Jock: How come you don't wear gloves?

Phil Burbank: How bout cause they're not needed... . Castrate fifteen hundred head, then nick your thumb on the last.

Peter Gordon: Is something wrong, Phil?

Phil Burbank: [furious] Wrong? For Christ's sake. Every goddamn hide is gone! Oh, she really put her foot in it this time!

Peter Gordon: You think she did it? She sold them?

Phil Burbank: Bloody tootin'. Or maybe even gave them away.

Peter Gordon: W-why? Why would she do that, Phil? She knew we needed the hides.

Phil Burbank: [exploding] Because she was drunk! Pie eyed, she was smashed! I think you'd know from the books your pa left you, that your ma's got... . uhhh whatchamacallit alcoholic personality? It comes under the letter A!

Peter Gordon: You're not going to say anything to her?

Phil Burbank: Say anything? I won't say nothin'. But sure as one good hell brother George is going to.

Phil Burbank: You got a sore gut?

George Burbank: No.

Phil Burbank: It looks it pains you to hit two words together.

Rose Gordon: Well, brother Phil, we had such a nice trip.

Phil Burbank: I'm not your brother. You're a cheap schemer.

George Burbank: Did you write to the old lady?

Phil Burbank: Yeah, I dropped them both a line.

George Burbank: Did you say something about Rose?

Phil Burbank: Rose. Yeah well, you and I know what the old lady would feel if she thought you were getting mixed up with her. She'd likely have a hemorrhage.

George Burbank: The old lady would feel as one Mrs. Burbank would for another Mrs. Burbank.

Phil Burbank: Come again?

George Burbank: We were married Sunday. She got rid of her property in Beech.

George Burbank: What you said about her boy tonight, Phil. It made her cry.

Phil Burbank: She had her ear to the door?

George Burbank: She was crying, Phil.

Phil Burbank: Well, hell. The boy had to snap out of it and get human. Just pointed it out, is all. She should damn well know.

George Burbank: I was looking for you.

Phil Burbank: Well, you found me.

George Burbank: Everyone's here. We're just about to eat. They were asking after you.

Phil Burbank: Really?

George Burbank: Yes, we're counting on your conversation. I wanted to apologize for what I said...

Phil Burbank: You two can keep your apologies to yourself, I'm not coming.

George Burbank: And what will I say? The Old Lady wants to see you, they've both come a long way.

Phil Burbank: Then you tell them the truth. That I stink and I like it!

George Burbank: I just came over here to speak about something.

Phil Burbank: Come on partner. Open your talker. What is it?

George Burbank: His Nibs will be joining us for dinner. And the old gent and the old lady.

Phil Burbank: Well sir, ain't we going into society.

Phil Burbank: [on Rose] She on the "panana" again? Setting your teeth on edge?

George Burbank: No. I like to hear Rose play.

Phil Burbank: Well, old timer, what is it? What's in the noodle?

George Burbank: Well... Phil... I... I just...

Phil Burbank: Go on, spit it out.

George Burbank: It's just... about His Nibs, the governor.

Phil Burbank: Alright.

George Burbank: And er... it's not so much about His Nibs... but er, his wife, actually. I was thinking, His Nibs probably wouldn't mind so much. But... his missus might.

Phil Burbank: Might what, for dear Christ's sake?

George Burbank: Well, it's sort of a hard thing... to say. She might mind if you come to the table without a wash up.

George Burbank: [leaving] Yeah.

Phil Burbank: [looking at some paper flowers] Well, well. Ain't them purdy? I wonder, what little lady made these?

Phil Burbank: [toasting; [w:Romulus and Remus|Romulus and Remus] So, to us brothers, ], and the wolf who raised us. Bronco Henry. El Lupo.

Phil Burbank: [amused, to Rose] You didn't play? Sure did practice a terrible lot. She wouldn't think there was that much difference between a cinema pit and a dinner party.

Phil Burbank: Bronco Henry told me that a man was made by patience in the odds against him.

Paul Marshall: Bite it! You have to bite it.

Schofield: Colonel Mackenzie! This attack is not to go ahead! You have been ordered to stop!

Colonel Mackenzie: Who the hell are you?

Schofield: Lance Corporal Schofield, sir, Eighth. I have orders from General Erinmore to call off this attack.

Colonel Mackenzie: You're too late, Lance Corporal.

Schofield: Sir, these orders are from Army Command. You have to read them.

Major Hepburn: Should we hold back the second wave, sir?

Colonel Mackenzie: No, Major, hesitate now and we lose; victory's only five hundred yards away.

Schofield: Sir, please read the letter!

Colonel Mackenzie: I have heard it all before. I'm not going to wait until dusk or for fog. I'm not calling back my men only to send them out there again tomorrow, not when we've got the bastards on the run. This is their last stand.

Schofield: The Germans planned this, sir. They've been planning it for months. They want you to attack. Read the letter.

Colonel Mackenzie: Major.

Major Hepburn: Yes, sir?

Colonel Mackenzie: Stand them down.

Major Hepburn: Yes, sir.

Colonel Mackenzie: [to his other officers] Call up the orderlies. Tend the wounded. Hold the line in case they counter.

Officers: Yes, sir.

Major Hepburn: [runs outside] Stand down! Stand down! Cease fire!

Colonel Mackenzie: [wearily; Schofield doesn't respond] I hoped today might be a good day. Hope is a dangerous thing. That's it for now, and then next week Command will send a different message. "Attack at dawn." There is only one way this war ends: Last man standing. Have someone see to your wounds. Now fuck off, Lance Corporal.

Major Hepburn: [as Schofield passes him at the entrance] Well done, lad.

Colonel Mackenzie: Have someone tend to your wounds...Now fuck off, Lance Corporal.

Colonel Mackenzie: There is only one way this war ends: Last man standing.

Colonel Mackenzie: I hoped today might be a good day. Hope is a dangerous thing.

Colonel Mackenzie: Hesitate now and we lose. Victory's only five hundred yards away.

Alan Turing: [explaining the [[w:Turing test#Imitation Game|Turing Test] The Imitation Game.

Detective Nock: Right, that's... that's what it's about?

Alan Turing: Would you like to play?

Detective Nock: Play?

Alan Turing: It's a game. A test of sorts. For determining whether something is a... a machine or a human being.

Detective Nock: How do I play?

Alan Turing: Well, there's a judge and a subject, and... the judge asks questions and, depending on the subject's answers, determines who he is talking with... what he is talking with, and, um... All you have to do is ask me a question.

Alan Turing: [long pause] I have something to tell you... I'm a homosexual...

Joan Clarke: [not surprised] Alright.

Alan Turing: No no, men Joan! Not women!

Joan Clarke: So what? I had my suspicions. I always did. But we're not like other people. We love each other in our own way, and we can have the life together that we want. You won't be the perfect husband? I can promise you I harbored no intention of being the perfect wife. I'll not be fixing your lamb all day, while you come home from the office, will I? I'll work. You'll work. And we'll have each other's company. We'll have each other's minds. Sounds like a better marriage than most. Because I care for you. And you care for me. And we understand one another more than anyone else ever has.

Alan Turing: ...I don't.

Joan Clarke: What?

Alan Turing: Care for you. I never did. I just needed you to break Enigma. I've done that now, so you can go.

Joan Clarke: [slaps him; pause] I am not going anywhere. I have spent entirely too much of my life worried about what you think of me, or what my parents think of me, or what the boys in Hut 8 or the girls in Hut 3 think, and you know I am done. This work is the most important thing I will ever do. And no one will stop me. Least of all you. You know what? They were right. Peter. Hugh. John. You really are a monster.

Stewart Menzies: Why are you telling me this?

Alan Turing: We need your help, to keep this a secret from Admiralty, Army, RAF, uh...as no one can know that we've broken Enigma, not even Dennison.

Stewart Menzies: Who's in the process of having you fired.

Joan Clarke: You can take care of that.

Alan Turing: While we develop a system to help you determine how much intelligence to act on. Which, uh, attacks to stop, which to let through. Statistical analysis: the minimum number of actions it will take for us to win the war, but the maximum number we can take before the Germans get suspicious.

Stewart Menzies: And you're going to trust of this all to statistics, to maths?

Alan Turing: Correct.

Joan Clarke: And then MI6 can come up with the lies we will tell everyone else.

Alan Turing: You'll need a believable alternative source for all the pieces of information that you use.

Joan Clarke: A false story, so that we can explain how we got our information, that has nothing to do with Enigma, and then you can leak those stories to the Germans.

Alan Turing: And then to our own military.

Stewart Menzies: [Lights a cigarette] Maintain a conspiracy of lies at the very highest levels of government. ...Sounds right up my alley.

Hugh Alexander: My God, you did it. You just defeated Nazism with a crossword puzzle.

John Cairncross: There are five people in the world who know the position of every ship in the Atlantic. They are all in this room.

Joan Clarke: Oh, good God.

Hugh Alexander: Oh, I don't think even He has the power that we do right now.

Joan Clarke: [getting closer to map] No. There's going to be an attack on a British passenger convoy. Right there.

John Cairncross: God, you're right. Those U-boats are only twenty, thirty minutes away.

Joan Clark: Civilians. Hundreds of them. We can save their lives.

John Cairncross: And knock out a whole German fleet in the process.

Hugh Alexander: I'll phone Denniston's office so that he can alert the Admiralty.

Alan Turing: No.

Joan Clarke: Do you think there's enough time to save them?

John Cairncross: There should be. If we can get a message to that convoy—

Hugh Alexander: [into phone] Commander Denniston's office please, it's urgent—

Alan Turing: [grabs and hangs up phone] No, no!

Hugh Alexander: What the hell are you doing?

Alan Turing: You-you can't call Denniston. You-you can't tell him about the attack.

Hugh Alexander: What are you talking about?

John Cairncross: We can have air support over that convoy in ten minutes.

Alan Turing: Let the U-boats sink the convoy.

John Cairncross: Look, it's been a big day, maybe you're suffering from—

Alan Turing: Oh, shut up—

Hugh Alexander: [tries to grab phone back] We don't have time—

Alan Turing: No!

Joan Clarke: Oh, Hugh! Hugh! Stop! That's enough!

John Cairncross: Stop, Hugh!

Peter Hilton: John, the attack is in minutes.

Joan Clarke: [rushes to Alan's side] Are you all right?

Alan Turing: [to Hugh] Yes, no, I'm fine, I'm fine. I'm fine. Do you know why people like violence, Hugh? It's because it feels good. Sometimes we can't do what feels good. We have to do what is logical.

John Cairncross: What's logical?

Alan Turing: The hardest time to lie is when the other person is expecting to be lied to.

Joan Clarke: [getting it] Oh, God.

John Cairncross: What?

Alan Turing: If someone's waiting for a lie, you can't just, uh, give them one.

Joan Clarke: Damn it, Alan's right.

Peter Hilton: What?

Alan Turing: What would the Germans think if we destroy their U-boats?

Peter Hilton: Nothing. They'll be dead.

John Cairncross: No. No, you can't be right.

Alan Turing: So our convoy suddenly veers off course... a squadron of our air bombers miraculously descends on the coordinates of the U-boats... what will the Germans think?

Hugh Alexander: The Germans will know that we have broken Enigma.

Joan Clarke: They'll stop all radio communications by midday, and they'll have changed the design of Enigma by the weekend.

Hugh Alexander: Yes.

Alan Turing: Two years work. Everything we've done here will all be for nothing.

John Cairncross: There are 500 people in that convoy. Women. Children. We're about to let them die.

Alan Turing: Our job isn't to save one passenger convoy, it is to win the war.

Hugh Alexander: Our job was to crack Enigma.

Alan Turing: Oh, we've done that. Now for the hard part. Keeping it a secret.

Peter Hilton: Carlisle.

Joan Clarke: What?

Peter Hilton: [points to the map] The convoy you're about to... it's, uh... The HMS Carlisle is one of the ships. We can't act on every piece of intelligence? So fine, we won't. Just this one.

Joan Clarke: Peter, what's the matter with you?

Peter: My brother's... well, he's on the Carlisle. A gunnery ensign.

Alan Turing: I'm... I'm so sorry.

Peter Hilton: Who the hell do you think you are? This is my brother. He's my big brother, alright, and you have a few minutes to call off his murder.

Alan Turing: We can't.

John Cairncross: He's right.

Peter Hilton: Alan. Joan. Hugh. John. Please, I... the Germans, they won't get suspicious just because we stopped one attack. No one will know. I'm asking you. As your friend. Please.

Alan Turing: I'm so sorry.

Peter Hilton: You're not God, Alan. You don't get to decide who lives and who dies.

Alan Turing: Yes, we do.

Peter Hilton: Why?

Alan Turing: Because no one else can.

Hugh Alexander: So who do you agree with? Alan or myself?

Helen: Well, Alan, of course.

Alan Turing: [stammering; Joan kicks him under the table] I'm very flattered really, but I... I don't think that...

Hugh Alexander: Rubbish.

Helen: Well, I work beside a man every day, and I can't help but have developed a bit of a crush on him.

Hugh Alexander: Well, who is this man? So I can kick his arse.

Helen: Oh, there's no need to worry, it's been chaste. We've never even met. He's a German.

Hugh Alexander: Now I really want to kill him.

Alan Turing: Er... How... How do you mean you work alongside a German?

Helen: Well, each of us intercepts messages from a specific German radio tower. So we have a counterpart on the other side, who's tip-tapping out the messages. Everyone types a touch differently, so you get to know the rhythm of your counterpart. It's strangely intimate. I feel as if I know him so well. It's a pity he has a girlfriend, but that's why I disagree with you, Mr. Alexander, because I'm in love with a coworker of sorts and we've never even met.

Hugh Alexander: Well, allow me to buy you another pint and I'll tell you why you're wrong.

Helen: Let's.

Hugh Alexander: Excellent.

Joan Clarke: In case you were wondering, that's what flirting looks like.

Alan Turing: [loudly] HELEN!

Joan Clarke: [slightly embarrassed, as his shout has drawn attention to them] Alan!

Helen: Yes, Alan?

Alan Turing: [gets up and faces her] Why do you think your German counterpart has a girlfriend?

Helen: It's just a stupid joke. Don't worry about it.

Alan Turing: No, no, no, no, no, tell me.

Helen: Well, each of his messages begins with the same five letters. C-I-L-L-Y. So I suspect that Cilly must be the name of his amore.

Alan Turing: But that's impossible. The Germans are instructed to use five random letters at the start of every message.

Helen: Well, this bloke doesn't.

Hugh Alexander: Love will make a man do strange things, I suppose.

Alan Turing: In this case.... love just lost Germany the whole bloody war!

Hugh Alexander: If you run the wires across the plugboard matrix diagonally, you'll eliminate rotor positions 500 times faster.

Alan Turing: This is actually not an entirely terrible idea.

Joan Clarke: That's Alan for "thank you.

John Cairncross: What's wrong?

Alan Turing: What if... what if I don't fancy being with Joan in that way?

John Cairncross: Because you're a homosexual? I suspected.

Alan Turing: Sh-should I tell her that I've had affairs with men?

John Cairncross: You know, in my admittedly limited experience, women tend to be a bit touchy about accidentally marrying homosexuals. Perhaps not spreading this information about might be in your best interest.

Alan Turing: I care for her, I truly do, but... I-I just don't know if I can pretend...

John Cairncross: You can't tell anyone, Alan. It's illegal. And Denniston is looking for any excuse he can to put you away.

Alan Turing: I know.

John Cairncross: This has to stay a secret.

Stewart Menzies: [candidates are taking a timed test] Six minutes... is that even possible?

Alan Turing: No, it takes me eight.

Alan Turing: You're finished?... Five minutes forty-eight seconds.

Joan Clarke: You said to finish under six minutes.

John Cairncross: The boys, we're going to get some lunch.

John Cairncross: Alan?

Alan Turing: Yes?

John Cairncross: I said we're going to get some lunch.

John Cairncross: Alan?

Alan Turing: Yes?

John Cairncross: Can you hear me?

Alan Turing: Yes.

John Cairncross: [pause] I said we're off to get some lu- This is starting to get a little bit repetitive.

Alan Turing: What is?

John Cairncross: I had asked if you wanted to come have lunch with us.

Alan Turing: Uhm, no you didn't, you said you were going to get some lunch.

John Cairncross: Have I offended you in some way?

Alan Turing: Why would you think that?

John Cairncross: Would you like to come to lunch with us?

Alan Turing: What time's lunch time?

Hugh Alexander: [frustrated] Christ Alan, it's a bleeding sandwich.

Alan Turing: What is?

Hugh Alexander: Lunch.

Alan Turing: Oh, I don't like sandwiches.

John Cairncross: Never mind.

Alan Turing: They only beat me up because I'm smarter than they are.

Christopher Morcom: No, they beat you up because you're different.

Alan Turing: I like solving problems, Commander. And Enigma is the most difficult problem in the world.

Commander Denniston: Enigma isn't difficult, it's impossible. The Americans, the Russians, the French, the Germans, everyone thinks Enigma is unbreakable.

Alan Turing: Good. Let me try and we'll know for sure, won't we?

Alan Turing: Heil Hitler. Turns out that's the only German you need to know to break Enigma.

Alan Turing: Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine.

Alan Turing: Of course machines can't think as people do. A machine is different from a person. Hence, they think differently. The interesting question is, just because something thinks differently from you, does that mean it's not thinking?

Alan Turing: Think of it. A digital computer. Electrical brain.

Alan Turing: Was I God? No. Because God didn't win the war. We did.

Alan Turing: When people talk to each other, they never say what they mean. They say something else and you're expected to just know what they mean.

Alan Turing: Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes... hollow.

Alan Turing: Some people thought we were at war with the Germans— incorrect. We were at war with the clock. Britain was literally starving to death. The Americans sent over 100,000 pounds of food each week, and every week the Germans would send our desperately needed bread to the bottom of the ocean. Our daily failure was announced at the chimes of midnight. And the sound would haunt our unwelcome dreams.

Alan Turing: [pause] Are you paying attention? Good. If you are not listening carefully, you will miss things. Important things. I will not pause, I will not repeat myself, and you will not interrupt me. You think that because you're sitting where you are, and I am sitting where I am, that you are in control of what is about to happen. You're mistaken. I am in control because I know things that you do not know. What I will need from you now is a commitment. You will listen closely, and you will not judge me until I am finished. If you cannot commit to this, then please leave the room. But if you choose to stay, remember you chose to be here. What happens from this moment forward is not my responsibility. It's yours. Pay attention.

Doctor Strange: Is that everyone?

Wong: What, you wanted more?

Captain America: [he summons Mjolnir] Avengers... ...assemble.

Doctor Strange: The problem is you, trying to live two different lives. The longer you do it, the more dangerous it becomes.

Doctor Strange: (After Peter 1 yanks his magic ring off of his finger with a web) Ow.

Doctor Strange: (To Peter 1) I'll come and get you after it's done.

Doctor Strange: This is the mirror dimension, where I'M in control!!

Doctor Strange: (To Peter 1) Don't.

Doctor Strange: [[w:Peter Parker (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Peter 1] (After giving ] his magic web-shooter) You're welcome.

Doctor Strange: When you botched that spell where you wanted everyone to forget that Peter Parker is Spider-Man, we started getting some visitors from every universe.

Doctor Strange: Be careful what you wish for, Parker.

Doctor Strange: We tampered with the stability of spacetime. The multiverse is a concept about which we know frighteningly little.

Doctor Strange: The entire world is about to forget that Peter Parker is Spider-Man.

Doctor Strange: [[Avengers: Endgame|saved half of the universe together] Please. We ]. I think we're beyond you calling me "sir".

Doctor Strange: [[w:Sorcerer Supreme|Sorcerer Supreme; [Avengers: Infinity War|blipped] (About Wong becoming the ]) He got it on a technicality, because I ] for five years.