1. “Building a dream from your memory is the easiest way of losing your grasp on what’s real and what is a dream.”
2. Miles: Come back to reality, Dom. Please Cobb: Now you listen to me if you jump you’re not going to wake up, remember?
3. “You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling. [hefts a huge grenade launcher]”
![Eames Quote: “You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling. [hefts a huge grenade launcher]”](https://bestquotesfrom.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/eames-you-mustn_t-be-afraid-to-dream-a-820x820.jpg "Eames Quote: “You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling. [hefts a huge grenade launcher]”")
4. Saito: If you can steal an idea, why can’t you plant one there instead? Arthur: Okay, this is me, planting an idea in your mind. I say, don’t think about elephants. What are you thinking about?
5. “An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious. And even the smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.”
6. Ariadne: Why is it so important to dream? Cobb: Because, in my dreams we are together.
7. “Don’t you want to take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone!”
8. “I specialize in a very specific type of security. Subconscious security.”
9. Ariadne:What’s happening? Arthur:Cobb’s drawing Fischer’s attention to the strangeness of the dream. Which is making his subconscious look for the dreamer. For me. [the projections begin staring at them] Quick, give me a kiss. [Arthur and Ariadne kiss] Ariadne:[confused] They’re still looking at us. Arthur:Yeah, it was worth a shot. We should probably get out of here.
10. “She had locked something away, something deep inside her. The truth that she had once known, but… she chose to forget. Limbo became her reality.”
11. “Look at you. You’re just a shade, a shade of my real wife. How could I capture all your beauty, your complexity, your perfection, your imperfection, in a dream? Yes, you’re the best that I can do. But, I’m sorry, you’re just not good enough.”
12. “You Are Just A Shade Of My Real Wife. You’re The Best I Can Do; But I’m Sorry, You Are Just Not Good Enough.”
13. Robert Fischer Jr: I know you were disappointed I couldn’t be you. Maurice Fischer: No, no, no. I was disappointed that you tried.
14. Arthur: There’s plenty of good thieves. Cobb: We don’t need just a thief, we need a forger!
15. “Couldn’t somebody have dreamt up a goddamned beach?”
16. “She’ll be back. I never seen anyone picked it up that quickly before. Reality is not gonna be enough for her now and when she comes back, you gonna have her building mazes.”
17. “That many dreams within dreams is too unstable.”
18. Arthur:You’re going to have to master a few tricks if you’re going to build three complete dream levels. Ariadne:What kind of tricks? Arthur:In a dream you can cheat architecture into impossible shapes. That lets you create closed loops. Like the Penrose Steps. An infinite staircase. [The camera reveals they are walking on an impossible, looping staircase] See? Paradox.
19. Cobb: You’re waiting for a train. A train that’ll take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you. But you can’t know for sure. Yet it doesn’t matter. Now, tell me why? Mal: Because you’ll be together!
20. Mal: You infected my mind! Cobb: I was trying to save you. Mal: You betrayed me, but you can make amends. You can still keep your promise. We can still be together, right here, in the world we built together.
21. “You create the world of the dream. We bring the subject into that dream, and they fill it with their subconscious.”
22. “Once an idea has taken hold of the brain, it’s almost impossible to eradicate. An idea that is fully formed—fully understood—that sticks; right in there somewhere.”
23. “They say we only use a fraction of our brain’s true potential. Now, that’s when we’re awake. When we’re asleep, we can do almost anything.”
24. Ariadne: What’s happening? Arthur: Your subconscious is looking for the dreamer; me. Quick, give me a kiss.
25. “If we are gonna perform Inception then we need imagination.”
26. “You don’t seem to understand Mr. Saito, the corporation that hired us, we won’t accept failure, we won’t last two days.”
27. Arthur:You couldn’t have peed before you went under? Yusuf:Sorry. Eames:A bit too much free champagne before takeoff, eh, Yusuf? Yusuf:[deadpan] Ha ha bloody-ha. Cobb:Well, we know he’s going to be looking for a taxi in this weather.
28. “Wait, whose subconscious are we going through, exactly?”
29. Eames:Saito, I need you to take care of Fischer while I go set some charges, okay? Saito:[smiling, quoting what Eames said earlier] “No room for tourists on these jobs.” Eames:Don’t be silly.
30. Mal: You keep telling yourself what you know. But what do you believe? What do you feel? Cobb: Guilt.
31. “When we wound up on the beach of our own subconscious, we lost sight of what was real.”
32. Saito:He sold you out. Thought to come to me and bargain for his life. So I offer you the satisfaction. [a gun is offered to Cobb] Cobb:That’s not the way I deal with things. [Nash is dragged from the helicopter] What will you do with him? Saito:Nothing. But I can’t speak for Cobol engineering.
![Saito Quote: “Saito:He sold you out. Thought to come to me and bargain for his life. So I offer you the satisfaction. [a gun is offered to Cobb]”](https://bestquotesfrom.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/saito-saito_he-sold-you-out-thought-to-come-820x820.jpg "Saito Quote: “Saito:He sold you out. Thought to come to me and bargain for his life. So I offer you the satisfaction. [a gun is offered to Cobb]”")
33. “No idea is simple when you have to plant it in someone else’s mind.”
34. Miles: You’re here to corrupt one of my brightest and best. Cobb: You know what I’m offering. You have to let them decide for themselves.
35. Saito: Have you come to kill me? I’ve been waiting for someone… Cobb: Someone from a half remembered dream. Saito: Cobb? Impossible. We were young men together. I’m an old man.
36. “It’ll take more than the occasional stuffed animal to convince those children they still have a father.”
37. “Do you think you can just build a prison of memories to lock her in? Do you really think that that’s gonna contain her?”
38. “If You Can Steal An Idea, Why Can’t You Plant One There Instead?”
39. Ariadne: My subconscious seems polite enough. Arthur: Well wait, it’ll turn ugly. No one wants to feel someone else messing around their mind.
40. “You mind telling your subconscious to take it easy?”
41. “She Locked Away A Secret, Deep Inside Herself, Something She Once Knew To Be True… But Chose To Forget.”
42. “[after narrowly escaping an avalanche] Couldn’t someone have dreamt up a goddamn beach?!”
![Robert Fischer Jr Quote: “[after narrowly escaping an avalanche] Couldn't someone have dreamt up a goddamn beach?!”](https://bestquotesfrom.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/robert-fischer-jr-_after-narrowly-escaping-an-820x820.jpg "Robert Fischer Jr Quote: “[after narrowly escaping an avalanche] Couldn’t someone have dreamt up a goddamn beach?!”")
43. “Now, how can I drop you without gravity?”
44. “The seed that we planted in this man’s mind may change everything.”
45. “In the dream state, your conscious defenses are lowered, and it makes your thoughts vulnerable to theft.”
46. Brain function in the dream will be about twenty times to normal. When you enter a dream within that dream, the effect is compounded: it’s three dreams, that’s ten hours times ten.
47. Cobb: That price on my head, was that dead or alive? Eames: Not sure. See if he starts shooting.
48. Admit It: You Don’t Believe In One Reality Anymore.
49. “Downward is the only way forward.”
50. Cobb: Inception. Now, before you bother telling me it’s impossible… Eames: No, it’s perfectly possible. It’s just bloody difficult.
51. “I’ll tell you a riddle. You’re waiting for a train, a train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you don’t know for sure. But it doesn’t matter. How can it not matter to you where that train will take you?”
52. “You’re asking me for Inception. I hope you do understand the gravity of that request.”
53. “Dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.”
54. Cobb: I have it under control. Arthur: I’d hate to see it out of control.
55. “The dreamer can always remember the genesis of the idea.”
56. “The dreamer can always remember the genesis of the idea. True inspiration is impossible to fake.”
57. “My subconscious feels that someone else is creating the world. The more you change things, the quicker the projections converge on you.”
58. “I think positive emotion trumps negative emotion every time. We all yearn for reconciliation, for catharsis.”
59. Ariadne: Who would wanna be stuck in a dream for ten years? Yusuf: Depends on the dream.
60. Arthur:What the hell was all that? Cobb:I have it under control. Arthur:I’d hate to see you out of control.
