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    1. Cobb: Well, dreams, they feel real while we're in them right? Its only when we wake up then we realize that something was actually strange.
    – Submitted by gage l (41 days ago)
    1. Cobb: That price on my head, was that dead or alive?
    2. Eames: Not sure. See if he starts shooting.
    – Submitted by Miguel V (2 months ago)
    1. Eames: If we are gonna perform Inception then we need imagination.
    – Submitted by Miguel V (2 months ago)
    1. Eames: [Shows up while Arthur is in a gunfight] You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling. [Pulls out a grenade launcher]
    – Submitted by Dutch E (4 months ago)
    1. Mal: No creeping doubts? Not feeling persecuted, Dom? Chased around the globe by anonymous corporations and police forces, the way the projections persecute the dreamer? Admit it: you don't believe in one reality anymore. So choose. Choose to be here. Choose me.
    – Submitted by Dutch E (4 months ago)
    1. Eames: Great. Thank you. So, now we're trapped in Fischer's mind battling his own private army, and if we get killed, we'll be lost in limbo till our brains turn to scrambled egg.
    – Submitted by Dutch E (4 months ago)
    1. Eames: Great. Thank you. So, now we're trapped in Fischer's mind battling his own private army, and if we get killed, we'll be lost in limbo till our brains turn to scrambled egg.
    – Submitted by Dutch E (4 months ago)
    1. Cobb: [about Mal] 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.
    2. Ariadne: What happened when you woke up?
    3. Cobb: To wake up from that after, after years, after decades... after we'd become old souls thrown back into youth like that... I knew something was wrong with her. She just wouldn't admit it. Eventually, she told me the truth. She was possessed by an idea, this one, very simple idea, that changed everything. That our world wasn't real. That she needed to wake up to come back to reality, that, in order to get back home, we had to kill ourselves.
    – Submitted by Dutch E (4 months ago)
    1. Arthur: So, a totem. It's a small object, potentially heavy, something you can have on you all the time...
    2. Ariadne: What, like a coin?
    3. Arthur: No, it has to be more unique than that, like - this is a loaded die. [Ariadne reaches out to take the die]
    4. Ariadne: Nah, I can't let you touch it, that would defeat the purpose. See only I know the balance and weight of this particular loaded die. That way when you look at your totem, you know beyond a doubt you're not in someone else's dream.
    – Submitted by Dutch E (4 months ago)
    1. Cobb: Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.
    – Submitted by Rex J (4 months ago)
    1. Yusuf: 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 twen...
    2. Eames: I'm sorry, uh, maths was never my strong subject. How much time is that?
    3. Cobb: It's a week the first level down. Six months the second level down, and... the third level...
    4. Ariadne: ...is ten years! Who would wanna be stuck in a dream for ten years?
    5. Yusuf: Depends on the dream.
    – Submitted by Amir C (5 months ago)
    1. Cobb: You're waiting for a train.
    – Submitted by James E (6 months ago)
    1. Saito: I bought the airline. It seemed neater!
    – Submitted by Ankit R (6 months ago)
    1. Cobb: A kick!
    2. Ariadne: What's a kick?
    – Submitted by Shin D (6 months ago)
    1. Eames: Listen, if you're going to perform inception you need imagination.
    – Submitted by Shin D (6 months ago)
    1. Browning: Well, good-looking fellow, I'm sure.
    – Submitted by joseph j (6 months ago)
    1. Cobb: Think about James. Think about Phillipa now.
    – Submitted by joseph j (6 months ago)
    1. Eames: Musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.
    – Submitted by Ben S (6 months ago)
    1. Cobb: If this is my dream then why can't this?
    2. Mal: Because you don't know your dreaming!
    – Submitted by Talon S (6 months ago)
    1. Eames: Listen, if your going to perform inception, you need imagination.
    – Submitted by Talon S (6 months ago)
    1. Arthur: Now how can I drop you without gravity?
    – Submitted by Augusta M (6 months ago)
    1. Eames: Arthur, your still working with that stick in the mud?
    – Submitted by Talon S (6 months ago)
    1. Mal: 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?
    – Submitted by Typhon Q (7 months ago)
    1. Arthur: Give him the kick.
    – Submitted by Tomer H (7 months ago)
    1. Cobb: Never recreate from your memory. Always imagine new places!
    – Submitted by Konstantin S (7 months ago)
    1. Eames: You musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.
    – Submitted by Facebook U (8 months ago)
    1. Cobb: I miss you more than I can bear, but we had our time together. I have to let you go.
    – Submitted by Mati M (8 months ago)
    1. Miles: Come back to reality, Dom.
    – Submitted by Mladen N (8 months ago)
    1. Cobb: What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea. Resilient... highly contagious. 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.
    – Submitted by Typhon Q (8 months ago)
    1. Robert Fischer Jr: I know, Dad. I know you were disappointed I couldn't be you.
    2. Maurice Fischer: No, no, no... I was disappointed... that you tried.
    – Submitted by Typhon Q (9 months ago)
    1. Cobb: [to Ariadne] You create the world of the dream. We bring the subject into that dream, and they fill it with their subconscious.
    – Submitted by Jacob H (9 months ago)
    1. Cobb: You create the world of the dream. You bring the subject into that dream and they fill it with their subconcious.
    2. Ariadne: Then you break in and steal it.
    3. Cobb: Well...
    – Submitted by Andrew D (9 months ago)
    1. 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?
    2. Mal: Because you'll be together!
    – Submitted by Dan L (9 months ago)
    1. Miles: Mr. Cobb has a job offer he'd like to discuss with you.
    2. Ariadne: What? Like work placement?
    3. Cobb: Not exactly.
    – Submitted by Ryan R (9 months ago)
    1. Eames: You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.
    – Submitted by Eugene B (9 months ago)
    1. Eames: You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.
    – Submitted by Eugene B (9 months ago)
    1. Arthur: Give me a kiss.
    2. Ariadne: [kisses him] They're still coming.
    3. Arthur: Worth a shot.
    – Submitted by Palmer R (10 months ago)
    1. Cobb: I miss you more than I can bear, but we had our time together, and I have to let you go. I have to let you go.
    – Submitted by Jenna L (10 months ago)
    1. Mal: You know how to find me. You know what you have to do.
    – Submitted by Jenna L (10 months ago)
    1. Cobb: She had locked something away, something deep inside. A truth that she had once known but chose to forget, and she couldn't break free.
    – Submitted by Jenna L (10 months ago)
    1. Mal: You infected my mind!
    2. Cobb: I was trying to save you.
    3. 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.
    – Submitted by Jenna L (10 months ago)
    1. Robert Fischer Jr: I know you were disappointed I couldn't be you.
    2. Maurice Fischer: No, no, no. I was disappointed that you tried.
    – Submitted by Jenna L (10 months ago)
    1. Eames: [shows up while Arthur is in a gunfight] You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling. [pulls out a grenade launcher]
    – Submitted by Justen N (10 months ago)
    1. Miles: Come back to reality, Dom. Please
    – Submitted by joseph j (11 months ago)
    1. Saito: Do you want to take a leap of faith or become an old man filled with regret waiting to die alone!
    – Submitted by Sach Parkash S (11 months ago)
    1. Miles: I got someone better!
    – Submitted by Jordan B (11 months ago)
    1. Eames: You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger darling.
    – Submitted by Jackson M (11 months ago)
    1. Eames: [Shows up while Arthur is in a gunfight] You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling. [Pulls out a grenade launcher]
    – Submitted by Tazio G (11 months ago)
    1. Cobb: Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.
    – Submitted by Jeriel C (11 months ago)
    1. Eames: If we are gonna perform Inception we need imagination.
    – Submitted by ethan t (12 months ago)
    1. Cobb: [from trailer] You're asking me for Inception. I hope you do understand the gravity of that request.
    – Submitted by ethan t (12 months ago)
    1. Arthur: You.What the hell was all that?
    2. Cobb: I have it under control.
    3. Arthur: I'd hate to see it out of control.
    – Submitted by ethan t (12 months ago)
    1. Saito: Are you here to kill me?
    – Submitted by ethan t (12 months ago)
    1. Eames: Great! Thank you! So now we're trap in Fischer's mind battling his own private army and if we get killed, we'll be lost in limbo till our brains turn into scrambled egg.
    – Submitted by Krystoffer Dave L (12 months ago)
    1. Arthur: There's plenty of good thieves.
    2. Cobb: We don't need just a thief, we need a forger!
    – Submitted by Krystoffer Dave L (12 months ago)
    1. Cobb: 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, when she comes back you gonna have her building mazes.
    – Submitted by Krystoffer Dave L (12 months ago)
    1. Ariadne: I.. I don't know if.. if you can't see what's going on or if you just don't want to but Cobb have some serious problems that his tried to bury down there and I'm not about to just open my mind to someone like that.
    – Submitted by Krystoffer Dave L (12 months ago)
    1. Cobb: I need an architect who is as good as I was.
    2. Miles: I got somebody better!
    – Submitted by Krystoffer Dave L (12 months ago)
    1. Miles: You're here to corrupt one of my brightest and best.
    2. Cobb: You know what I'm offering. You have to let them decide for themselves.
    – Submitted by Krystoffer Dave L (12 months ago)
    1. Cobb: You don't seem to understand Mr. Saito, the corporation that hired us, we won't accept failure, we won't last two days.
    – Submitted by Krystoffer Dave L (12 months ago)
    1. Cobb: You are waiting for a train.. a train that will take you far, 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!
    2. Mal: Because we'll be together!
    – Submitted by William H (13 months ago)
    1. Cobb: Dreams feel real while your in them right? Its only when you wake up when you realize they were actually strange.
    2. Cobb: You know when your in a dream that your always in the middle of the action. Tell me... How did we get here?
    3. Ariadne: Well we just walked...
    4. Cobb: Think about it, how did we get here?
    5. Ariadne: We're dreaming?
    – Submitted by Cailum R (13 months ago)
    1. Arthur: Well, it was worth a try. [after stealing a kiss from Ariadne]
    – Submitted by Pattie B (13 months ago)
    1. Nash: He won't wake.
    2. Arthur: Give him the kick.
    3. Nash: What?
    4. Arthur: Drop him.
    – Submitted by Javis C (14 months ago)
    1. Cobb: What are you doing here?
    2. Mal: I thought you could miss me.
    – Submitted by Javis C (14 months ago)
    1. Arthur: A paradox.
    – Submitted by Javis C (14 months ago)
    1. Cobb: What is the most resileant parasite? An idea.
    – Submitted by Agasthya D (14 months ago)
    1. Cobb: Now you listen to me, if you jump you're not going to wake up, remember?'
    – Submitted by Daniel N (14 months ago)
    1. Cobb: Jesus Christ!
    – Submitted by Eddie K (14 months ago)
    1. Cobb: It is possible, you just need to add a sedative.
    2. Yusuf: A powerful sedative.
    – Submitted by J-Dawg E (15 months ago)
    1. Cobb: When we wound up on the beach of our own subconcious, we lost sight of what was real.
    – Submitted by August R (15 months ago)
    1. Arthur: If I say to you, don't think about elephants what do you think about?
    2. Saito: Elephants.
    – Submitted by Christopher S (15 months ago)
    1. Cobb: I specialize in a very specific type of security. Subconscious security.
    2. Robert Fischer Jr: You're talking about dreams?
    – Submitted by Jean-Philippe G (15 months ago)
    1. Cobb: Dreams feel real while we're in them... it's only when we wake up we realize that something was actually strange.
    – Submitted by Jean-Philippe G (15 months ago)
    1. Miles: Mr. Cobb has a job offering for you.
    2. Ariadne: What, some kind of work placement?
    3. Cobb: Not exactly.
    – Submitted by Michael C (15 months ago)
    1. Eames: You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.
    – Submitted by Ciaran M (16 months ago)
    1. Arthur: Give him the Kick!
    2. Nash: What?
    3. Arthur: Drop him.
    – Submitted by Miguel R (16 months ago)
    1. Cobb: I know how to search your mind and find your secrets. I know the tricks and I could teach them to you so that even when you're asleep your defence is never down. Look if you want my help, you're gonna have to be completely open with me. I need to know my way around your thoughts better than your wife, better than your therapist, better than anyone. This is a dream and you have a safe full of secrets and I need to know what's in that safe. In order for this all to work, you need to completely let me in.
    – Submitted by Amore N (16 months ago)
    1. Ariadne: So who's subconscious are we going into exactly?
    – Submitted by Isaac J (17 months ago)
    1. Eames: Musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger darling.
    – Submitted by Fiifi D (18 months ago)
    1. Robert Fischer Jr: I know dad, I know you were disappointed I couldn't be you.
    2. Maurice Fischer: No no no... I was disappointed... that you tried.
    – Submitted by Lydia A (18 months ago)
    1. Cobb: Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.
    – Submitted by Tony E (18 months ago)
    1. Saito: I'm gonna buy the airlines, it's neater.
    – Submitted by Hanna K (19 months ago)
    1. Saito: No room for a tourist on this job.
    – Submitted by Hanna K (19 months ago)
    1. Cobb: 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 can't know for sure. But it doesn't matter. Now tell me why!
    2. Mal: Because you'll be together!
    – Submitted by Logan R (20 months ago)
    1. Cobb: There's one thing you should know about me. I specialize in a very specific type of security. Subconscious security.
    2. Robert Fischer Jr: You talkin' about dreams?
    – Submitted by Jason H (20 months ago)
    1. Miles: It'll take more than the occasional stuffed animal to convince those children they still have a father.
    – Submitted by Thomas B (20 months ago)
    1. Arthur: If I say to you don't think about elephants, what's the first thing you think about?
    2. Saito: Elephants.
    – Submitted by Christopher S (20 months ago)
    1. Ariadne: That's some subconscious you've got on you, Cobb! She's a real charmer!
    2. Arthur: Oh, I see you've met Mrs Cobb.
    – Submitted by Lucas M (21 months ago)
    1. Ariadne: My subconscious seems polite enough.
    2. Arthur: Well wait, it'll turn ugly. No one wants to feel someone else messing around their mind.
    – Submitted by Lucas M (21 months ago)
    1. Ariadne: 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?
    – Submitted by Lucas M (21 months ago)
    1. Cobb: Never recreate from your memory. Always imagine new places!
    – Submitted by Lucas M (21 months ago)
    1. Arthur: I know. The dream is collapsing.
    – Submitted by Javis C (21 months ago)
    1. Arthur: You couldn't have peed before you went under?
    2. Yusuf: Sorry.
    3. Eames: A bit too much free champagne before takeoff, eh, Yusuf?
    4. Yusuf: Ha ha bloody-ha.
    – Submitted by Andrew M (21 months ago)
    1. Ariadne: Like a work placement?
    2. Cobb: Not exactly.
    – Submitted by Emma B (21 months ago)
    1. Eames: You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.
    – Submitted by Andrew A (22 months ago)
    1. Arthur: You mean, a dream within a dream.
    – Submitted by Diego U (22 months ago)
    1. Robert Fischer Jr: Couldn't somebody have dreamt up a goddamned beach?
    – Submitted by Austin P (22 months ago)
    1. Cobb: Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.
    – Submitted by Justin K (22 months ago)
    1. Cobb: What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm?
    2. Arthur: What Mr. Cobb is trying to say-
    3. Cobb: An idea. Resilient, highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it's almost impossible to eradicate.
    – Submitted by Randy Y (22 months ago)
    1. Ariadne: Wait, whose subconscious are we going through, exactly?
    – Submitted by Noa T (22 months ago)
    1. Cobb: Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.
    – Submitted by Leto X (22 months ago)
    1. Eames: You musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.
    – Submitted by Tony E (22 months ago)
    1. Saito: Don't you want to take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone!
    – Submitted by Jay M (23 months ago)
    1. Cobb: I have it under control.
    2. Arthur: I'd hate to see out of control.
    – Submitted by Jacob R (23 months ago)
    1. Cobb: Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.
    – Submitted by Jake N (23 months ago)
    1. Cobb: The seed that we planted in this man's mind may change everything.
    – Submitted by Marcus H (23 months ago)
    1. Cobb: You have two minutes to make a maze that takes me one minute to solve.
    – Submitted by Broccoli D (23 months ago)
    1. Ariadne: Wait a minute, whose subconscious are we going into, exactly?
    – Submitted by Sunil K (24 months ago)
    1. Cobb: 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.
    – Submitted by Robert R (24 months ago)
    1. Cobb: You ask me for Inception. I want to make sure you understand the gravity of that request.
    – Submitted by Jason R (2 years ago)
    1. Saito: I'm asking you to take a leap of faith. Or do you want to become an old man, filled with regret, destined to die alone?
    – Submitted by Jason R (2 years ago)
    1. Miles: Mr. Cobb has a job offer he would like to discuss with you.
    2. Ariadne: Like a work placement?
    3. Cobb: Not exactly.
    – Submitted by Henrique T (2 years ago)
    1. Eames: [Shows up while Arthur is in a gunfight] You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling. [Pulls out a grenade launcher]
    – Submitted by Henrique T (2 years ago)
    1. Cobb: I specialize in a very specific type of security. Subconscious security.
    2. Robert Fischer Jr: Are you talking about dreams? Are you talking about extraction?
    – Submitted by Benny B (2 years ago)
    1. Miles: Come back to reality Tom. Please.
    2. Cobb: Those kids, your grandchildren, they're waiting for their father to come back home. That's their reality. And this job, this last job, that's how I get there. I would not be standing here if I knew any other way.
    – Submitted by Benny B (2 years ago)
    1. Cobb: We were not prepared for this! We were not prepared this!
    – Submitted by Jondede 0 (2 years ago)
    1. Cobb: I have it under control.
    2. Arthur: I'd hate to see it out of control.
    – Submitted by Steven P (2 years ago)
    1. Cobb: What is the most resiliant parasite? A bacteria, a virus, an intestinal worm?
    2. Arthur: Uhhhh what Mr. Cobb is trying to say-
    3. Cobb: An idea.......
    – Submitted by zain h (2 years ago)
    1. Cobb: Let me ask you a question, you never really remember the beginning of a dream, do you?
    2. Ariadne: I guess..
    3. Cobb: So, how did you get here?
    4. Ariadne: Well we just came back from the uh...
    5. Cobb: Think about it, Ariadne, how did you get here?
    6. Ariadne: We're dreaming?
    – Submitted by zain h (2 years ago)
    1. Robert Fischer Jr: Couldn't somebody have dreamt up a goddamn beach?
    – Submitted by Benny B (2 years ago)
    1. Arthur: Don't think about Elephants. What are you thinking about?
    2. Saito: Elephants.
    – Submitted by Michael A (2 years ago)
    1. Arthur: It would have to be a 747.
    2. Cobb: Why is that?
    3. Arthur: Because in a 747, the pilot?s up top, and the first class cabin?s in the nose, so no one would walk through. But you?d have to buy out the entire cabin. And the first class flight attendant?
    4. Saito: I bought the airline. It seemed neater.
    – Submitted by Kuldeep S (2 years ago)
    1. Cobb: Reality? Those kids, your grandchildren, they're waiting for their father to come back home. That's their reality. And this job, this last job, that's how I get there. I would not be standing here if I knew any other way. I need an architect who is as good as I was.
    2. Miles: I've got somebody better.
    – Submitted by Tinashe C (2 years ago)
    1. Cobb: Because building a dream from your memory is the easiest way to lose your grasp on what's real and what isn't real.
    2. Ariadne: Is that what happend to you?
    – Submitted by Tinashe C (2 years ago)
    1. Saito: Don't you want to take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone!
    – Submitted by Tinashe C (2 years ago)
    1. Mal: 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 can't be sure. but it doesn't matter - because we'll be together
    – Submitted by Tinashe C (2 years ago)
    1. Eames: You musn't be afraid to dream bigger, Darling.
    – Submitted by Mac B (2 years ago)
    1. Arthur: Eames, I am impressed.
    2. Eames: Your condescension, as always, is much appreciated, Arthur, thank you.
    – Submitted by Bryce I (2 years ago)
    1. Arthur: What the hell was all that?
    2. Cobb: I have it under control.
    3. Arthur: I'd hate to see out of control.
    – Submitted by Bryce I (2 years ago)
    1. Cobb: Dreams feel real when we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.
    – Submitted by Bryce I (2 years ago)
    1. Yusuf: That many dreams within dreams is too unstable!
    – Submitted by rob g (2 years ago)
    1. Cobb: The seed that we planted in this man's mind may change everything.
    – Submitted by rob g (2 years ago)
    1. Eames: You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.
    – Submitted by Morgan G (2 years ago)

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