The Imitation Game Classic Lines

The Imitation Game Classic Lines

1. But if you choose to stay, remember you chose to be here. What happens from this moment forwards is not my responsibility.

Remember, it's your choice. From this moment on, whatever happens is not my responsibility, but yours.

2. You need me a lot more than I need you.

You need me more than I need you.

3. Let me try, and we'll know for sure.

Let me try it and we'll see if they're right. Won't we?

4. Every single day.

Day after day.

5. There are only five divisions of military intelligence.

-There is no MI6.

-That's the spirit.

-Military Intelligence has only five branches.

-Nothing MI6.

-Exactly. That's the essence.

6. I hate to say it, but yes.

As much as I hate to admit it, yes.

7. Do you know why people like violence? It's because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.

You know why people like to use violence? Because it feels good. Humans find the use of violence satisfying. But take away that satisfaction and violence becomes hollow.

8. -They only beat me up because I'm smatter than they are.

-No, they beat you up because you're different.

-They only beat me up because I'm smarter than they are.

-No, they beat you up because you're unique.

9. Sometimes it's the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine.

Sometimes it is the people who are perceived as useless who accomplish what no one else does.

10. This isn't about crossword puzzles. It's about how one approaches solving an impossible problem. Do you take the whole thing at once or divide it into small.

It's not just as simple as a crossword puzzle. It also includes how one solves an impossible problem. Do you solve it in a holistic way? Or do you break it into smaller ones.

-All the work we're done today is useless.

-But don't worry, we've a few hours before tomorrow's messages start flooding in and we start all over again. From scratch.

-All the hard work today was for nothing again.

-But don't worry, we've got a couple of hours before tomorrow's wire swarms and we start over again. From scratch.

11. If this job wasn't already impossible before, it bloody well is now.

If this job wasn't impossible before, it's utterly impossible now.

12. It doesn't matter how smart you are, Enigma is always smarter. If you really want to solve your puzzle, then you're going to need all the help you can get, and they are not going to help you if they do not like you.

No matter how smart you are, Enigma is always smarter than you are. If you really want to unravel your puzzle, you have to get all the help you can get. And they won't help you if they don't like you.

13. You know why people like violence? It's because it feels good. Sometimes we can't do what feels good. We have to do what is logical.

Do you know why people like to resort to violence? Because it's cool to vent with violence, but sometimes we can't let our feelings overcome our reason. We have to do it three times.

14. Hardest time to lie to somebody is when they're expecting to be lied to. If someone's waiting for a lie, you can just give them one.

The most torturous time to lie is when you know people are waiting for you to lie. If people are waiting for you to lie. You can't just create a lie for them.

15. -You're not god, you don't get to decide who lives and who dies.

-Yes, we do.

-Why?

-Because no one else can.

-Allen, you're not God. You don't get to decide who dies and who lives.

-No, we have the full force of this.

-Why?

-because no one else has it.

16. Because if you tell him my secret, I'll tell him yours.

If you tell him my secret. I'll tell your secret too.

17. You've got more secrets than the best of them.

You have more secrets than any of them.

18. -I had suspicions; I always did. But we're not like other people. We love each other in our own way, and we can have the life together that we want. You won't be the perfect husband. I can promise you, I have no intention of being the perfect wife. I'll not be fixing your lamb all day while you come home from the office. We'll have each other's minds. That sounds like a better marriage than most. Because I care for you. And you care for me. And we understand one another more than anyone else ever has.

-I don't care for you.

-I've spent entirely too much of my life worried about what you think of me, or what my parents think of me, or the boys in Hut 8 or the girls in Hut 3. I've spent entirely too much of my life worrying about what you think of me, or what my parents think of me, or the boys in Hut 8 or the girls in Hut 3. Least of all, you.

-I've actually always suspected it, but we're not like other people. We love each other in our own way and we can be together on our own terms. You're not going to be the perfect husband, in fact I can tell you that I'm not trying to be a perfect wife either. I'm not going to wait around all day for you to come home from work. I'm going to work and you're going to work. We are there for each other and we talk to each other. That's much better than most marriages. Because I like you and you like me. We know each other better than anyone else.

-I'm not gonna like you.

-I'm not going anywhere. I've spent too much time worrying about what you think of me, or what my parents think of me, or what the boys in group eight and the girls in group three think of me. You know what? I'm sick of it. This is the most important job I've ever had, and no one can stop me, not even you.

19. Every day we decided who lived and who died. Every day we helped the allies to victories, and nobody knew.

Every day we decide whether others live or die. We help our allies achieve victory every day, yet no one knows.

20. Was I God? No. Because god didn't win the war. We did.

Am I God? No, because God didn't win the war so that we could win.

21. Tear it down. Light it up.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

22. None of you have ever met before.

None of you have ever been here.

23. But the war is over.

-But there'll be others. And we know how to break a code that everybody else believes is unbreakable.

-But the war is over.

-This one's over, there'll be others. And we know how to crack the code that no one else can.

Alan, you do not have to do this alone.

-Never have been.

-Allen, you don't want to suffer alone.

-I'm not alone, ever.

25. No one normal could have done that. Now, if you wish you could have been normal, I can promise you I do not. The world is an infinitely better place precisely because you weren't. I think that sometimes it's the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine. I think that sometimes it's the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

Ordinary people don't do that. Now, if you think you're ordinary, I assure you that's never the case. The world is a better place because you're not ordinary. I think sometimes it's the unexpected people who do the unexpected things.

26. Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

Sometimes it's the people who are left behind by the world that accomplish great things that others can't imagine.

27. Who will fall in love with ordinary?

Who falls in love with ordinary?