Quotes from Tom Cruise movies and TV shows - page 5 of 9

Senator Jasper Irving: Through precise military action, we will take the essential first step.
Janine Roth: First step? But what have we been doing for the past six years, Senator? World War II took less than five.

Ethan Hunt: Can I ask you something, Kittridge? If you're dealing with a man who has crushed, shot, stabbed, and detonated five members of his own IMF team, how devastated do you think you're gonna make him by hauling Mom and Uncle Donald down to the county courthouse?

Jim Phelps: Of course he knew. Just when he knew is something of a mystery. You mind telling me, Ethan? Was it before or after I showed up in London?
Ethan Hunt: Before London. But after you took the Bible from the Drake Hotel in Chicago.
Jim Phelps: They stamped it, didn't they? Those damn Gideons.

Ethan Hunt: I thought I was going to see Max.
Matthias: You misunderstood. No one sees Max.
Ethan Hunt: Then what am I doing here?
Matthias: Allowing Max to see you and hear what you've got to say.
Ethan Hunt: I don't communicate very well through a shroud.
Matthias: If Max doesn't like what you have to say, you will be wearing that shroud indefinitely.

Jim Phelps: We're being ambushed Ethan. Abort! That's an order.
Ethan Hunt: Negative. Golitsyn is on the move.
Jim Phelps: No, dammit, I said abort.
Ethan Hunt: Eye on the package. Jim, I'm Coming.

Ethan Hunt: We live and die in the shadows, for those we hold close, and for those we never meet.

Luther Stickell: Ethan, what's your objective? What's your ultimate objective?
Ethan Hunt: Your life will always matter more to me than my own.
Luther Stickell: None of our lives can matter more than this mission.
Ethan Hunt: I don't accept that.

Ethan Hunt: Which way? Left or right?
The Entity: It doesn't matter.
Ethan Hunt: What do you mean it doesn't matter? Where is she?
The Entity: She's on her way to the Minich Bridge, where Gabriel is waiting. You will never get there in time. But you can, Ilsa. I know what matters most to you, Ethan.
Ethan Hunt: This isn't Benji.
The Entity: No, it's not. But you are done.

Delivery Man: Fate whispers to the warrior.
Ethan Hunt: There's a storm coming.
Delivery Man: And the warrior whispers back.
Ethan Hunt: I am the storm.

Benji Dunn: How close were we?
Ethan Hunt: The usual.
Ilsa Faust: Usual?!
Ethan Hunt: Please, don't make me laugh.

Ethan Hunt: What's done is done when we say it's done.

Luther Stickell: Ethan, that's not who we are!
Ethan Hunt: Maybe we need to reconsider that.

Benji Dunn: [showing a glove.] Now remember: blue is glue.
Ethan Hunt: And red?
Benji Dunn: Dead.

Ethan Hunt: Mission accomplished!

Ethan Hunt: The countdown isn't helping.
Brandt: I'm just saying.

Brandt: The rope isn't long enough!
Ethan Hunt: No shit!

Benji Dunn: Let me guess. Presumed dead?
Ethan Hunt: Well tonight, I just made it official.

Ethan Hunt: The Syndicate is real. A rogue nation, trained to do what we do.
Benji Dunn: An anti-IMF.

Ethan Hunt: You turned around.
Nyah Nordoff-Hall: What are you going to do? Spank me?

Ethan Hunt: I can't get to the roof!
Declan: Where are you?
Ethan Hunt: Look up! Look up!