17 quotes
Trusting Intuition in High-Stakes Situations
The European
I have survived in this business with the help of a voice in my head. This voice is never wrong, and whenever I meet you, it tells me the same thing...
Ethan
What's that?
The European
Nothing.
Ethan
I'm here to do business. Tell the voice to flip a coin.
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Determination in Uncertainty
Ethan Hunt
I'll/We'll figure it out!
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Commitment to Not Failing Others
Ethan Hunt
I won't let you down! I won't let you down.
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GPS Guidance and Parachute Instructions
Ethan Hunt
Hey, your heads-up display has a built-in GPS guidance system. Follow it to the target. Open your chute when the system says -- not before, and definitely not after, or the last thing that goes through your mind will be your kneecaps. Is that clear?
['''Walker:''' ''Crystal.'']
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Unexpected Reactions in High-Stakes Situations
Ilsa Faust
What the hell is he doing?!
Benji
I find it best not to look.
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Acceptance of Finality in Decision Making
Ethan Hunt
What's done is done when we say it's done.
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Frustration with Complicated Situations
August Walker
Why did you have to make this so fucking complicated?!
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Professional Detachment in High-Stakes Situations
August Walker
It's just the job. No hard feelings.
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The Risks of the IMF Mission
Sloane
The IMF is Halloween, Alan. A bunch of grown men in rubber masks playing trick-or-treat. (regarding Ethan) And if he’d held on to the plutonium in Berlin, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
Hunley
And his team would be dead.
Sloane
Yes. They would. That's the job.
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Guardian Angel's Threat to Ethan Hunt
August Walker
I'm her guardian angel, Hunt. If I see you again, she dies. If you try to warn her, she dies. Know when you're beat.
[referring to [[Mission: Impossible III|Julia]
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Contrasting Approaches to Terrorism and Influence
Erika Sloane
You use a scalpel. I prefer a hammer.
Solomon Lane
Terrorists are schoolboys desperate for attention, hoping to shape public opinion through fear. I don't care in the least what people think or feel. In my experience, they don't do either for very long.
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Missions Beyond Choice
Taglines
Some missions are not a choice.
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The Cost of Peace and Revenge
Lane
There cannot be peace without first a great suffering. The greater the suffering, the greater the peace.
Walter / Lark
When I wrote those words, I wasn’t referring to your peace, or Hunt’s suffering. The old world order needs dismantling and we have the tools to dismantle it. All you seem to care about is that Hunt lives to take the blame. That’s not anarchy. That’s revenge.
Lane
Yes, it is. And when I have what I want, the Apostles will give you the Plutonium.
Walker
Hunt's the only friend you've got! You’re only alive today because he didn’t have the guts to kill you. Sloane was right. The IMF is Halloween. Nothing but grown men wearing...
Lane
...what?
Benji
It's just the job. No hard feelings.
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A Character's Frustration with Another's Survival
August Walker
Why don't you just die?!
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Skepticism About Deception in Technology
August Walker
(re: Mask Machine) People actually fall for this shit?
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Confronting Threats Within the Room
Ethan
The only real threats are in this room, and we have them.
Walker
Do you? Go.
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Questioning Methods in Mission Acceptance
August Walker
If you have a problem with my methods, you can always stay behind. "Your mission, should you choose to accept it." Isn't that the thing?
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