Gattaca Quotes

Gattaca is a TV program that first aired in 1970 . Gattaca completed its run in 1970.

It features Danny DeVito; Michael Shamberg; Stacey Sher; Gail Lyon as producer, Michael Nyman in charge of musical score, and Sławomir Idziak as head of cinematography.

Gattaca is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Gattaca is 106 minutes long. Gattaca is distributed by Columbia Pictures.

The cast includes: Ethan Hawke as Vincent, Xander Berkeley as Dr. Lamar, Jude Law as Jerome, Loren Dean as Anton Freeman, Uma Thurman as Irene, Tony Shalhoub as German, Elias Koteas as Antonio, Blair Underwood as Geneticist, Gore Vidal as Director Josef, and Ernest Borgnine as Caesar.

Gattaca Quotes

Jude Law as Jerome

• (Jude Law) "Wanna go dancing?"

• (Jude Law) "If at first you don't succeed -- try, try again."

• (Jude Law) "What's your number? That's harassment. What's your number?"

• (Jude Law) "Jerome Morrow was never meant to be one step down on the podium."

• (Jude Law) "We have to get drunk immediately."

• (Jude Law) "Do you want some of this? I could keep it for you in case you ever need it -- I'm sorry. Sorry."

• (Jude Law) "What's your number, you f***ing flat foot."

Gore Vidal as Director Josef

• (Gore Vidal) "You keep your work station so clean, Jerome."
• (Ethan Hawke) "It's next to godliness. Isn't that what they say?"
• (Gore Vidal) "Godliness. I reviewed your flight plan. Not one error in a million keystrokes. Phenomenal. It's right that someone like you is taking us to Titan."
• (Ethan Hawke) "Has the committee approved the mission? There's been talk of delay."
• (Gore Vidal) "You shouldn't listen to talk. You leave in a week. You've got a substance test."

Ernest Borgnine as Caesar

(We don't have any quotes for this character)

Ethan Hawke as Vincent

• (Ethan Hawke) "What about the interview?"
• (Xander Berkeley) "That was it."

• (Ethan Hawke) "I'm sorry, the wind caught it --"

• (Ethan Hawke) "It's funny, you work so hard, you do everything you can to get away from a place, and when you finally get your chance to leave, you find a reason to stay."

• (Ethan Hawke) "I was never more certain of how far away I was from my goal than when I was standing right beside it."

• (Ethan Hawke) "No, there's truly nothing remarkable about the progress of Jerome Morrow --"
• (Ethan Hawke) "Except that I am not Jerome Morrow."

• (Ethan Hawke) "How the hell did you get up here?"
• (Jude Law) "Oh, I could always walk -- I've been faking it."

• (Ethan Hawke) "I was conceived in the Riviera."
• (Ethan Hawke) "Not the French Riviera, the Detroit variety."

• (Ethan Hawke) "I don't know how to thank you."
• (Jude Law) "No, no. I got the better end of the deal. I only lent you my body. You lent me your dream."

• (Ethan Hawke) "They used to say that a child conceived in love has a greater chance of happiness. They don't say that anymore."

• (Ethan Hawke) "Is the only way you can succeed is to see me fail?"

• (Ethan Hawke) "I can't go anywhere without seeing my own face. They'll recognize me."
• (Jude Law) "They won't recognize you."
• (Ethan Hawke) "They'll recognize me."
• (Jude Law) "I don't recognize you."

• (Ethan Hawke) "He had everything except desire."

• (Ethan Hawke) "They think I killed the mission director."
• (Jude Law) "What makes you think that?"
• (Ethan Hawke) "They found my eye lash."
• (Jude Law) "Where?"
• (Ethan Hawke) "In the corridor."
• (Jude Law) "Ah well it could be worse. They could have found it in your eye."

• (Ethan Hawke) "A year is a long time."
• (Uma Thurman) "Not so long. Just once around the sun."

• (Ethan Hawke) "We shed 500 million cells a day."

• (Ethan Hawke) "There's no gene for fate."

• (Ethan Hawke) "I'll never understand what possessed my mother to put her faith in God's hands, rather than her local geneticist."

• (Ethan Hawke) "There's more vodka in this piss than there is piss."

Xander Berkeley as Dr. Lamar

• (Xander Berkeley) "Jerome, Jerome, the metronome."

• (Xander Berkeley) "You go up next week. Please tell me you're the least bit excited."
• (Ethan Hawke) "I'll tell you at the end of the week"

• (Xander Berkeley) "Congratulations."
• (Ethan Hawke) "Well, what about the interview?"
• (Xander Berkeley) "That was it."

• (Xander Berkeley) "Jerome, never shy, pisses on command. Beautiful piece of equipment you've got there, Jerome. I ever told you that?"
• (Ethan Hawke) "Only every time I'm in here."
• (Xander Berkeley) "Occupational hazard. I see a great many on the course of any given day. Yours just happens to be an exceptional example. Don't know why my folks didn't order one like that for me."

Uma Thurman as Irene

• (Uma Thurman) "How many launches are there each day, Vincent? A dozen?"
• (Ethan Hawke) "Sometimes more."
• (Uma Thurman) "You're the only one that watches all of them. If you're going to pretend like you don't care, don't look up."

• (Uma Thurman) "I don't even know who you are."
• (Ethan Hawke) "I'm the same person I was yesterday."
• (Uma Thurman) "I can't hear any more of your lies Jerome --"
• (Ethan Hawke) "My name is Vincent, all right? Vincent Anton Freeman, and I'm a "faith birth" or a "de-gene-erate", whatever you want to call it; but I am NOT a murderer."
• (Ethan Hawke) "You're a "God-child"?"
• (Ethan Hawke) "But we do have one thing in common, only I don't have twenty or thirty years left in mine. Mine is already ten thousand beats overdue."
• (Uma Thurman) "It's not possible."
• (Ethan Hawke) "You are the authority on what is not possible, aren't you Irene? They've got you looking for any flaw, that after a while that's all you see. For what it's worth, I'm here to tell you that it is possible. It is possible."

• (Uma Thurman) ""Unacceptable risk of heart failure." I think that's what the manual says. The only trip I'll take in space is around the sun on this satellite right here."

• (Uma Thurman) "I have this crazy idea you're more interested in the murder case than me."
• (Ethan Hawke) "You're right. That's crazy."

Elias Koteas as Antonio

• (Elias Koteas) "We were just wondering if, if it is good to just leave a few things to, to chance?"
• (Blair Underwood) "We want to give your child the best possible start. Believe me, we have enough imperfection built in already. Your child doesn't need any more additional burdens. Keep in mind, this child is still you. Simply, the best, of you. You could conceive naturally a thousand times and never get such a result."

• (Elias Koteas) "The only way you're going to see the inside of a spaceship is if you were cleaning it."

Tony Shalhoub as German

• (Tony Shalhoub) "You serious about this? I hope you're not wasting my time."
• (Ethan Hawke) "No, I -- I'd give 100 percent."
• (Tony Shalhoub) "That'll get you half way there."

Loren Dean as Anton Freeman

• (Loren Dean) "Vincent. How are you doing this Vincent? How have you done any of this? We have to go back."
• (Ethan Hawke) "It's too late for that. We're closer to the other side."
• (Loren Dean) "What other side? You wanna drown us both?"
• (Ethan Hawke) "You wanna know how I did it? This is how I did it Anton. I never saved anything for the swim back."

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