Mission: Impossible II (2000) - Quotes

Unexpected Timing in Mission Planning

Nyah Nordoff-Hall: [to be first kissed] Awfully short notice .

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A Tense Exchange of Words

Ethan Hunt: You turned around.

Nyah Nordoff-Hall: What are you going to do? Spank me?

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Acknowledging a Difficult Situation

Luther Stickell: Shit.

Ethan Hunt: Yes it is.

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Unexpected Phone Number Inquiry

Nyah Nordoff-Hall: Where did you get this number? I don't even have it!

Ethan: Would you like it?

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Urgent Communication in a Critical Situation

Luther Stickell: [''over radio''] Ethan, Nyah's in the building. Do you copy?

Ethan Hunt: [''dryly, into radio''] Thank you.

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A Surprising Victory in Unlikely Circumstances

Sean Ambrose: Darling, you won!

Nyah Nordoff-Hall: I suppose I did.

Sean Ambrose: What made you pick her? That old nag's never won a thing.

Nyah Nordoff-Hall: [holds up racing form] A Thief in the Night.

Sean Ambrose: Ha! Say no more.

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Identity Misunderstanding in Mission: Impossible II

Sean Ambrose: [''disguised as Ethan Hunt''] You keep calling me Dimitri. You really shouldn't.

Dr. Nekhorvich: You are not Dimitri?

Sean Ambrose: No.

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Fashion Damage in a Dangerous Situation

Billy Baird: You OK, mate?

Luther Stickell: That punk put a hole in my Versace.

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Instructions and Consequences in Mission Execution

Mission Commander Swanbeck: You were under specific instructions to bring back a living sample of the Chimera virus. I'd be very interested to know how, after you'd managed its recovery intact, it subsequently got destroyed.

Ethan Hunt: By fire. That's the best way, really.

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Mission Impossible: Beyond Difficulty

Mission Commander Swanbeck: You think it will be difficult?

Ethan Hunt: Very.

Mission Commander Swanbeck: Well, this is not Mission Difficult, Mr. Hunt. It's Mission Impossible. Difficult should be a walk in the park for you.

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Recruiting a Thief for Intelligence Gathering

Mission Commander Swanbeck: Ms. Hall and Ambrose had a relationship which he took very seriously... she walked away and he's been wanting her back ever since. We believe she's our surest and quickest way of locating him.

Ethan Hunt: And then what?

Mission Commander Swanbeck: Make sure she continues to see him, gets him to confide in her, and report to you.

Ethan Hunt: You made it sound as if I was recruiting her for her skills as a thief.

Mission Commander Swanbeck: Well then I misled you, or you made the wrong assumption. Either way, we are asking her to resume her prior relationship - not do anything she hasn't already done... voluntarily, I might add.

Ethan Hunt: No. She's got no training for this kind of thing.

Mission Commander Swanbeck: What? To go to bed with a man and lie to him? She's a woman, she's got all the training she needs.

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Holiday Plans and Mission Secrets

Mission Commander Swanbeck: [end of briefing delivered through Ethan's sunglasses] ...And Mr. Hunt, the next time you go on holiday, please be good enough to let us know where you're going.

Female voice: This message will self-destruct in five seconds.

Ethan Hunt: If I let you know where I'm going, I won't be on holiday.

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Tensions Rise Over Money and Fashion

Luther Stickell: The satellite doesn't work as fast as I do.

Luther Stickell: [After getting shot at] Oh, I'm mad now!

Luther Stickell: [After getting shot at] That punk put a hole in my Versace!

Nyah Nordolf-Hall: [having injected herself with the virus] You're not gonna shoot me, Sean! Not this bitch. Cause she's worth thirty seven…million pounds!

Nyah Nordolf-Hall: I don't have a conscience. I'm a bloody thief.

Dr. Nekhorvich: [first line, repeated line] Well, Dimitri, every search for a hero must begin with something every hero needs, a villain. Therefore, in a search for our hero, Bellerophon, we have created a monster: Chimera.

Dr. Nekhorvich: Well, I've heard...

Ethan: ...all I need to hear.

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Questioning Authority in High-Stakes Situations

Mission Commander Swanbeck: Well, mate, maybe this is one of those times we shouldn't follow orders.

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Mission Impossible: A Challenge for Hunt

Mission Commander Swanbeck: This is not mission difficult, Mr. Hunt, it's mission impossible. Difficult should be a walk in the park for you.

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Mission Assignment for Mr. Hunt

Mission Commander Swanbeck: [''On recording played through Ethan's sunglasses''] Good morning, Mr. Hunt. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, involves the recovery of a stolen item designated Chimera. You may select any two team members, but it is essential that the third team member be Nyah Nordoff-Hall. She is a civilian, and a highly capable professional thief. You have forty-eight hours to recruit Miss Nordoff-Hall and meet me in Seville to receive your assignment. As always, should you or any member of your I.M. Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow all knowledge of your actions. And Mr. Hunt, the next time you go on holiday, please be good enough to let us know where you're going.

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Pursuing the Target Relentlessly

Sean Ambrose: Run that bastard down.

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A Dangerous Choice in Life and Death

Sean Ambrose: [Ethan approaches him with a knife] Go ahead, Hunt. Use it. It's not a bad way to go. A lot better than the way that bitch is going to die.

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Direct Command to Cease Mumbling

Sean Ambrose: STOP... MUMBLING!

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A Question of Survival and Desperation

Sean Ambrose: [holds up the anti-virus in front of the infected Nyah] Feel like pleading for your life?

Apologies Between Sean Ambrose and Another

Sean Ambrose: You're sorry and I'm sorry.

Challenge of Imitating a Character's Smile

Sean Ambrose: You know, that was the hardest part about having to portray you…grinning like an idiot every fifteen minutes.

Comparing women to monkeys in relationships

Sean Ambrose: You know women, mate. Like monkeys, they are. Won't let go of one branch until they've got a grip on the next!

Expression of eagerness in action

Sean Ambrose: This is what's known as getting your gun off!

Urgent Warning Against Reckless Action

Sean Ambrose: STOP! PUT A SOCK IN IT! Hit that bloody gun and you'll spread the virus all over the place!

A Unique Opportunity for Historical Recognition

Sean Ambrose: [[w:Typhoid Mary|Typhoid Mary] In just a few hours you can be assured of going down in history as the ] of Oz. G'day.

Misdirection Over Confrontation in Strategy

Sean Ambrose: If you look at Hunt's operational history, and I have, he invariably favors misdirection over confrontation.

Misguided Priorities in a High-Stakes Mission

Ethan Hunt: [''Ambrose: I knew where it was!''] I would've thought the hardest part was curbing that pressing need of yours to get your gun off. You were in such a hurry to knock off that 747 that you never figured out where Chimera really was. Then you knew the only way that Nekhorvich could smuggle the live virus is by injecting himself and using his own bloodstream as a Petri dish. You knew that while you were knocking him off, destroying the very thing you came for.