Terminator Your foster parents are dead.
2nd most-quoted character in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991): in 30 of its 68 quotes
Most scenes with: John Connor (22), Sarah Connor (5), Dr. Miles Bennett Dyson (2)
I need a vacation.
More lines from Terminator
5 quotes Terminator Terminator [To Sarah]
Come with me if you want to live.
Terminator Stay here. I'll be back.
Terminator [To the T-1000]
Hasta la vista, baby.
Terminator [Saying goodbye to John and Sarah]
I know now why you cry, but it's something I could never do.
Scenes with Terminator
24 scenes Terminator I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle.
Biker
[Laughs]
You forgot to say please.
Now don't take this the wrong way, but you are a Terminator, right?
Terminator Yes. Cyberdyne Systems, Model 101.
[Pokes at one of Terminator's bullet wounds.]
Holy shit! You're really real! I mean, you're like a machine underneath, right? But sort of alive outside?
Terminator I'm a cybernetic organism. Living tissue over a metal endoskeleton.
This is intense. Get a grip, John. OK, uhm, you're not here to kill me. I figured that part out for myself. So what's the deal?
Terminator My mission is to protect you.
Yeah? Who sent you?
Terminator You did. Thirty-five years from now, you re-programmed me to be your protector here, in this time.
Oh, this is deep...
[Cuts to them riding a motorcycle at night]
So this other guy? He's a terminator like you, right?
Terminator Not like me. A T-1000. Advanced prototype.
You mean more advanced than you are?
Terminator Yes. A mimetic polyalloy.
What the hell does that mean?
Terminator Liquid metal.
[Terminator is riding John out of the city]
Listen, I gotta stop by my house. I wanna pick up some stuff.
Terminator Negative. The T-1000 will definitely try to acquire you there.
You sure?
Terminator I would!
You're telling me that this thing can imitate anything it touches?
Terminator Anything it samples by physical contact.
Get real. Like it could disguise itself as a pack of cigarettes?
Terminator No, only an object of equal size.
Well why not just become a bomb or something to get me?
Terminator It can't form complex machines. Guns and explosives have chemicals, moving parts. It doesn't work that way. But he can form solid metal shapes.
Like what?
Terminator Knives and stabbing weapons.
We spent a lot of time in Nicaragua and places like that. For a while there, she was with this crazy ex-Green Beret guy, running guns. Then there were some other guys. She'd shack up with anybody she could learn from so she could teach me how to be this great military leader. Then she gets busted and it's like, "Sorry kid, your mom's a psycho. Didn't you know?" It's like, everything I'd been brought up to believe was all made of bullshit? I hated her for that. But everything she said was true. She knew and nobody believed her. Not even me. Listen, we gotta get her out of there.
Terminator Negative. The T-1000's highest probability for success now would be to copy Sarah Connor and to wait for you to make contact with her.
Great. And what happens to her?
Terminator Typically, the subject being copied is terminated.
Shit! Why didn't you tell me?! We gotta go right now!
Terminator Negative. It's not a mission priority.
You have to do what I say huh?
Terminator That's one of my mission parameters.
Prove it! Stand on one foot. [The Terminator lifts one leg] Yes! Cool. My own Terminator! Wow.
Jesus, you were gonna kill that guy!
Terminator Of course. I'm a Terminator.
Listen to me very carefully, OK? You're not a Terminator anymore. All right? You got that? You just can't go around killing people!
Terminator Why?
Whattaya mean, why? Cause you can't!
Terminator Why?
Because you just can't, OK? Trust me on this. Look. I'm gonna go get my mom. And I order you to help me!
Now, you gotta promise me you're not gonna kill anyone, right?
Terminator Right.
Swear.
Terminator What?
Just put up your hand and say, 'I swear I won't kill anyone.'
Terminator [Raises hand]
I swear I will not kill anyone.
Terminator […] [The Terminator shoots the guard in both knees]
He'll live.
Todd and Janelle are dicks, but I've gotta warn them. Got a quarter?
[the Terminator bashes into the coin bin and hands John a quarter] [answers the phone]
Hello?
Hey, Janelle, it's me.
John? John, it's getting late, I want to have dinner with you, I'm making beef stew.
John I'm getting worried about you, where are you?
Todd Voight [hearing Max barking outside]
What the hell is that goddamn dog barking at?
Todd Voight [shouting to Max]
Hey, shut-up you worthless piece of shit!
Todd Voight We should tell John to get rid of that ****in' mutt.
The Terminator [takes the phone from John and impersonates his voice to talk]
I'm here Janelle, I'm fine.
John, it's late, where are you?
The Terminator [to John]
What's the dog's name?
Max.
The Terminator [impersonating John's voice]
Hey Janelle, what's wrong with Wolfie? I can hear him barking.
Wolfie's fine, honey, Wolfie's just fine. Where are you?
The Terminator [hangs up the phone]
Your foster parents are dead.
Terminator My body senses injuries. The data would be called "pain".
John, help me with the light. [To Terminator]Will these heal up?
Terminator Yes.
Good. If you can't pass for human, you're not much good to us.
How long do you live - I mean, last, or whatever?
Terminator A hundred and twenty years with my existing power cell.
Can you learn stuff that you haven't been programmed with? So you can be, you know, more human, and not such a dork all the time?
Terminator My CPU is a neural-net processor. A learning computer. But Skynet presets the switch to read-only when we're sent out alone.
Doesn't want you to do too much thinking, huh?
Terminator No.
Can we reset the switch?
Keep it under sixty-five. We don't want to be pulled over.
Terminator Affirmative.
No, no, no, no, no. You gotta listen to the way people talk. You don't say "affirmative" or some shit like that. You say, "No problemo." And if someone comes off to you with an attitude, you say "eat me." If you wanna shine them on, it's "Hasta la vista, baby."
Terminator Hasta la vista, baby.
Yeah, or "later, dickwad." Or if someone gets upset, you say "chill out." Or you can do combinations.
Terminator Chill out, dickwad.
That's great! See, you're getting it.
Terminator No problemo.
Terminator It's in your nature to destroy yourselves.
Yeah. Major drag, huh?
Mother of Fighting Children
Break it up before I wring both your necks.
Terminator In a few months, he will create a revolutionary type of microprocessor.
Go on. Then what?
Terminator In three years, Cyberdyne will become the largest supplier of military computer systems. All stealth bombers are upgraded with Cyberdyne computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards, they fly with a perfect operational record. The Skynet funding bill is passed. The system goes online on August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware 2:14 AM, Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
Skynet fights back.
Terminator Yes. It launches its missiles against their targets in Russia.
Why attack Russia? Aren't they our friends now?
Terminator Because Skynet knows that the Russian counterattack will eliminate its enemies over here.
Jesus.
Are you ever afraid?
Terminator No
Not even of dying?
Terminator No
You don't feel any emotion about it, one way or another?
Terminator No. I have to stay functional until the mission is complete. Then it doesn't matter.
I have to stay functional too. [Mocking] I'm too important.
I wish I coulda met my real dad
Terminator You will
Yeah, I guess. When I'm like, 45. They sent him back through time to 1984. Man. He hadn't even been born yet. It messes with your head… Mom and him were only together for, like, one night, but she still loves him, I guess. I see her crying sometimes. She denies it totally of course, like she got something stuck in her eye.
Terminator Why do you cry?
You mean people?
Terminator Yeah
I don't know. We just cry. You know. When it hurts.
Terminator Pain causes it?
Uh-unh, no, it's different… It's when there's nothing wrong with you but you hurt anyways. You get it?
Terminator No.
Terminator Killing Dyson might actually prevent the war.
I don't care. Haven't you learned anything yet? Haven't you figured out why you can't kill people?
Terminator I'll take care of the police.
Hey wait! You swore.
Terminator [He grins]
Trust me.
Step on it.
Terminator This is the vehicle's top speed.
I could get out and run faster than this.
Terminator Go! Run!
No, we gotta stick together.
Terminator John, you've got to go!...Go! NOW!
Is it dead?
Terminator Terminated.
[John and the Terminator are riding on a motorcycle at night]
So, this other guy, he's a Terminator like you, right?
Terminator Not like me. A T-1000. Advanced prototype.
You mean more advanced than you are?
Terminator Yes. A mimetic polyalloy.
What the hell does that mean?
Terminator Liquid metal.
Where are we going?
Terminator We have to get out of the city immediately. And avoid the authorities.
Listen, I gotta stop at my house first. I wanna pick up some stuff.
Terminator Negative. The T-1000 will definitely try to reacquire you there.
You sure?
Terminator I would.
Terminator [John and the Terminator arrive at Pescadero State Hospital but a security guard is at the gate]
Why do we stop now?
Now, you gotta promise me you're not gonna kill anyone, right?
Terminator Right.
Swear?
Terminator What?
Just put up your hand and say, 'I swear I won't kill anyone.'
Terminator [raises hand]
I swear I will not kill anyone.
Alright, let's go.
Guard
[they arrive at the gate where a security guard stops them]
Visiting hours is 10 to 4 Monday through Friday.
[Terminator stands up, pulls out his gun and shoots the guard's knees, and the guard screams in pain]
What the hell are you doing?!?
Guard
You son of a bitch, you shot me! You crazy bastard! Don't shoot me again, don't kill me!
Terminator [Terminator breaks glass, opens the gate, takes ammunition magazines from the guard, then goes back to the bike with John]
He'll live.
[John and the Terminator have stopped Sarah killing Miles Dyson] [voiceover]
Dyson listened while the Terminator laid it all down. Skynet, Judgment Day, the history of things to come. It's not every day that you find out you're responsible for three billion deaths. He took it pretty well.
[after the Terminator completes his story]
I feel like I'm gonna throw up. You're judging me on things I haven't even done yet. How were we supposed to know?
Yeah. Right. How were you supposed to know? **** men like you built the hydrogen bomb. Men like you thought it up. You think you're so creative. You don't know what it's like to really create something, to create a life, feel it growing inside you. All you know how to create is death and destruction–!
Mom! We need to be a little more constructive here, okay? We still have to stop this from happening, don't we?
Tarissa Dyson
But I thought... Aren't we changing things, I mean right now, changing the way it goes?
That's right. There's no way I'm gonna finish the new processor, not now. Forget it. I'm out of it. I'll quit Cyberdyne tomorrow.
That's not good enough.
Terminator No one must follow your work.
We have to destroy all the stuff at the lab; the files, the disk drives, everything, everything here. Everything. I don't care. [Realizes something] The chip. Do you know about the chip?
What chip?
They keep it in the vault at Cyberdyne. It must be from the other one, like you.
Terminator The CPU from the first Terminator?
Son of a bitch, I knew it!
They told us not to ask where they got it.
Those lying mother****ers!...
It was scary stuff, but radically advanced. I mean, it was smashed, it didn't work, but...it gave us ideas, took us in new directions. I mean, things we would have never...All my work was based on it.
Terminator It must be destroyed.
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