Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011) quotes

Director
Brad Bird.

Cast
Tom Cruise.
Jeremy Renner.
Simon Pegg.

The IMF is shut down when it’s implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin, causing Ethan Hunt and his new team to go rogue to clear their organization’s name.

Easy way to remember: blue is glue.
– Benji Dunn
And when it’s red?
– Ethan Hunt
Dead.
– Benji Dunn

Mission accomplished!
– Ethan Hunt

Your line’s not long enough!
– William Brandt
No shit!
– Ethan Hunt

I was on a protection detail in Croatia. Shadowing the assets, husband and wife. They were never supposed to know we were there. Whole thing’s routine; it was a milk run. Three days in, we caught wind that a Serbian hit squad was after our couple. But my team had it under control. We knew they were coming. But I couldn’t shake this feeling that I should warn the couple somehow. I wanted to find a way to let them know. But, you know, orders are orders, so I didn’t. One day, the husband decides to leave the hotel and go for a run, so I follow him and I leave two men with the wife. When I get back, my guys are unconscious and the wife is gone. Local police found her body three days later. What was left of her, anyway. That was my last day in the field. I couldn’t face another life or death situation after that.
– William Brandt
So what happened to the husband?
– Jane Carter
I never saw him again. Until two days ago in Moscow, when the Secretary introduced me to Ethan Hunt.
– William Brandt

You mind telling me what you were doing in a Russian prison?
– Jane Carter
You mind telling me why you broke me out?
– Ethan Hunt
This wasn’t a rescue mission?
– Jane Carter
Let me put it this way. If the Secretary wanted me out of there, it must be pretty bad out here.
– Ethan Hunt

Thank God.
– Leonid Lisenker
You can thank him in person.
– Wistrom

Light the fuse.
– Ethan Hunt

May there be peace on Earth.
– Kurt Hendricks

Failure to a terrorist is just a rehearsal for success!
– Ethan Hunt

European male. Fifties. About six-foot, 180 pounds.
– Ethan Hunt
Blue eyes. Who is he?
– Ethan Hunt
A crude drawing, but by your description, that could be Kurt Hendricks. 190 IQ. Served in Swedish Special Forces. Professor of physics, Stockholm University. Specialist in nuclear endgame theory. Asked to resign… well, because he’s crazy.
– William Brandt

It was my op. I put him in the field. And she left him just alive enough for me to see him die.
– Jane Carter

I have arrived at the party!
– Benji Dunn

The Secretary is dead. The President has invoked Ghost Protocol. We’re shut down. No satellite, safe house, support, or extraction. The four of us and the contents of this car are all that remains of the IMF.
– Ethan Hunt

How good is your backup?
– Sabine Moreau
The best.
– William Brandt
I’ve killed the best.
– Sabine Moreau

Love the jet.
– Benji Dunn
Wait till you see the car.
– Ethan Hunt

Next time, I get to seduce the rich guy.
– William Brandt

22 minutes to door knock.
– William Brandt
The countdown is not helping.
– Ethan Hunt
I’m just saying.
– William Brandt

Ethan? Jesus, I thought you were dead.
– Benji Dunn
We are.
– William Brandt

It’s not like any mission is gonna be rougher than the last one, is it?
– Benji Dunn

Did you jump?
– Ethan Hunt
Should I not have jumped? Cause I jumped!
– William Brandt

I’d be more worried about the heat.
– Benji Dunn
And then there’s that. What heat?
– William Brandt
Well it’s just like any other computer. If you switch the fan off it’s gonna get pretty hot in there.
– Benji Dunn
Heh. Of course.
– William Brandt
Relatively.
– Benji Dunn
So I’m jumping into a… an oven, essentially.
– William Brandt
Yeah, essentially. But, uh, I catch you.
– Benji Dunn
Great.
– William Brandt

How will the world finally end? It is my job to predict the unthinkable. To treat the deaths of billions as a game. After 20 years of this, I was numb. Until a new question crossed my mind. What happens after the end of the world? Every two or three million years, some natural catastrophe devastates all life on Earth. But life goes on. And what little remains is made stronger. Put simply, world destruction is an unpleasant but necessary part of evolution. What happens then, I wondered, when mankind faces the next end of the world. I looked to Hiroshima, Nagasaki… thriving cities rebuilt from the ashes, monuments to the unimaginable, dedicated to the concept of peace. It occured to me here that nuclear war might have a place in the natural order. But only if it could be controlled. Only if it touched every living soul equally.
– Kurt Hendricks

Why am I Pluto? It’s not even a planet anymore!
– Benji Dunn
Well, Uranus is still available.
– William Brandt
Ha, it’s funny ‘cuz you said anus.
– Benji Dunn

We all have our secrets. Don’t we, Ethan?
– William Brandt