“2010” quotes

(1984)
Movie 2010
Peter Hyams directed this movie in 1984
Title 2010
Year 1984
Director Peter Hyams
Genre Sci-Fi, Thriller
Plot – A mission of Soviet and American astronauts is sent to space to look for a lost spaceship and a mysterious monolith which should contain many cosmos mysteries. They find the spaceship they are looking for, but the mission is suddently recalled to Earth because a war between United States and Soviet Union is about to start out.
All actors – Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea, Douglas Rain, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Dana Elcar, Taliesin Jaffe, James McEachin, Mary Jo Deschanel, Elya Baskin, Saveliy Kramarov, Oleg Rudnik, Natasha Shneider, Vladimir Skomarovsky, Victor Steinbach, Jan Tríska, Larry Carroll, Herta Ware, Cheryl Carter, Ron Recasner, Robert Lesser, Candice Bergen, Delana Michaels, Gene McGarr, Arthur C. Clarke
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  • “There's one good thing about a reactionary President, he's not into health foods. Last one, we didn't have lunch, we grazed.”
    James McEachin - Victor Milson
  • “HAL was told to lie, by people who find it easy to lie. HAL doesn't know how.”
    Bob Balaban - Dr. R. Chandra
    [Tag:lies]
  • “- Maxim Brajlovsky: Easy as cake, huh?
    - Dr. Walter Curnow: Pie. Easy as pie.”

    Elya Baskin - Maxim Brajlovsky
    John Lithgow - Dr. Walter Curnow
    [Tag:ease]
  • “- Tanya Kirbuk: I didn't know you brought liquor on board. It is forbidden.
    - Dr. Heywood Floyd: You think I'd step foot on this tub sober?”

    Helen Mirren - Tanya Kirbuk
    Roy Scheider - Dr. Heywood Floyd
  • “- HAL 9000: I understand now, Dr. Chandra. Thank you for telling me the truth.
    - Dr. R. Chandra: You deserve it.”

    Douglas Rain - HAL 9000
    Bob Balaban - Dr. R. Chandra
    [Tag:sincerity, truth]
  • “- Dr. Heywood Floyd: I'd love a hot dog.
    - Dr. Walter Curnow: Astrodome. Good hot dogs there.
    - Dr. Heywood Floyd: Astrodome? You can't grow a good hot dog indoors. Yankee Stadium. September. The hot dogs have been boiling since opening day in April. Now that's a hot dog.”

    Roy Scheider - Dr. Heywood Floyd
    John Lithgow - Dr. Walter Curnow
    [Tag:food]
  • “I don't know if HAL is homicidal, suicidal, neurotic, psychotic, or just plain broken.”
    Roy Scheider - Dr. Heywood Floyd
  • “Someday, the children of the new sun will meet the children of the old. I think they will be our friends.”
    Roy Scheider - Dr. Heywood Floyd
  • “- Tanya Kirbuk: Tell me, Dr. Floyd, what has happened to American bravery?
    - Dr. Heywood Floyd: It's alive and well, thank you. What happened to Russian common sense?”

    Helen Mirren - Tanya Kirbuk
    Roy Scheider - Dr. Heywood Floyd
  • “Whether we are based on carbon or silicon makes no fundamental difference. We should each be treated with appropriate respect.”
    Bob Balaban - Dr. R. Chandra
    [Tag:equality, respect]
  • “- HAL 9000: I'm afraid.
    - Dave Bowman: Don't be. We'll be together.
    - HAL 9000: Where will we be?
    - Dave Bowman: Where I am now.”

    Douglas Rain - HAL 9000
    Keir Dullea - Dave Bowman
    [Tag:fear]
  • “Are you sure you're making the right decision? I think we should stop.”
    Douglas Rain - HAL 9000
    [Tag:advice, decision]
  • “The President addressed a joint session of Congress yesterday. He said he wasn't gonna back down on the blockade. I don't know which was scarier, the speech or the Congress cheering it. He evoked Lincoln. Whenever a president is gonna get us into serious trouble, they always use Lincoln.”
    James McEachin - Victor Milson
  • “I do seem to remember a process where you people ask me questions and I give you answers, and then I ask you questions and you give me answers, and that's the way we find out things. I think I read that in a manual somewhere.”
    Roy Scheider - Dr. Heywood Floyd
  • “Your children will be born in a world of two suns. They will never know a sky without them. You can tell them that you remember when there was a pitch black sky with no bright star, and people feared the night.”

    Roy Scheider - Dr. Heywood Floyd
    [Tag:fear, night, sun]
  • “I'm not an astronaut. I'm an engineer. What am I'm doing here?”
    John Lithgow - Dr. Walter Curnow
    [Tag:astronomy, job]
  • “- Dr. Heywood Floyd: How do you feel?
    - Dr. Walter Curnow: Ugh. Like shit.”

    Roy Scheider - Dr. Heywood Floyd
    John Lithgow - Dr. Walter Curnow
  • “- Caroline Floyd: I want to be grown-up and understanding about all this, I really do... I try so hard, but I can't. This won't bring those men back. You've been killing yourself over something you did, or something you didn't do right, and now you're looking for absolution... You know, you could get yourself killed.
    - Dr. Heywood Floyd: I'll be...” (continue)
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    Madolyn Smith Osborne - Caroline Floyd
    Roy Scheider - Dr. Heywood Floyd
    [Tag:fear, regret]
  • “You'll make somebody a fine wife.”

    Dana Elcar - Dimitri Moisevitch
    [Tag:mocking, wife]
  • “- Victor Milson: So, here we are on your actual brink. My agency's going to become a part of the military, I've got a president with his finger poised on the button, and you want me to walk across the park and tell him we want to hitch a ride with those very same Russians. Have I missed anything?
    - Dr. Heywood Floyd: That's about it.”

    James McEachin - Victor Milson
    Roy Scheider - Dr. Heywood Floyd
  • “- SAL-9000: Will I dream?
    - Dr. R. Chandra: Of course you will. All intelligent beings dream. Nobody knows why. Perhaps you will dream of HAL... just as I often do.”

    Candice Bergen - SAL 9000
    Bob Balaban - Dr. R. Chandra
  • “I'm completely operational, and all my circuits are functioning perfectly.”
    Douglas Rain - HAL 9000
    [Tag:computer, health]
  • “- Dr. Heywood Floyd: You just read that report? Took you this long to steal our secrets?
    - Dimitri Moisevitch: How long does it take for your people to steal ours?
    - Dr. Heywood Floyd: Same amount of time.”

    Roy Scheider - Dr. Heywood Floyd
    Dana Elcar - Dimitri Moisevitch
    [Tag:secrets, time]
  • “- HAL-9000: Dr. Chandra, will I dream?
    - Dr. R. Chandra: I don't know.”

    Douglas Rain - HAL 9000
    Bob Balaban - Dr. R. Chandra
    [Tag:dreams]
  • “- Tanya Kirbuk: You think I was wrong to send Max.
    - Dr. Heywood Floyd: Doesn't matter what I think.
    - Tanya Kirbuk: You think I was wrong.
    - Dr. Heywood Floyd: Yep.”

    Helen Mirren - Tanya Kirbuk
    Roy Scheider - Dr. Heywood Floyd
    [Tag:mistake, opinions]
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