Christopher Nolan’s space movie “Interstellar” is more than just a sci-fi epic; it’s a profound exploration of love, sacrifice, and the human spirit. Through its intricate plot and breathtaking visuals, the movie offers moments of deep reflection and wisdom.
Here are some of the most memorable Interstellar quotes:
OTHER INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES:
INTERSTELLAR MOVIE QUOTES
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY INTERSTELLAR QUOTES
“We’ve always defined ourselves by the ability to overcome the impossible. And we count these moments. These moments when we dare to aim higher, to break barriers, to reach for the stars, to make the unknown known. We count these moments as our proudest achievements. But we lost all that. Or perhaps we’ve just forgotten that we are still pioneers. And we’ve barely begun. And that our greatest accomplishments cannot be behind us, because our destiny lies above us.”
– Joseph Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), Insterstellar
“We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars, now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.”
– Joseph Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), Insterstellar
“Murphy’s law doesn’t mean that something bad will happen. It means that whatever can happen, will happen.”
– Joseph Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), Insterstellar
“This world’s a treasure, but it’s been telling us to leave for a while now.”
– Joseph Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), Insterstellar
“Once you’re a parent, you’re the ghost of your children’s future.”
– Joseph Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), Insterstellar
“Mankind was born on earth. It was never meant to die here.”
– Joseph Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), Insterstellar
“We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now, we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.”
– Joseph Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), Insterstellar
“We’ve always defined ourselves by the ability to overcome the impossible.”
– Joseph Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), Insterstellar
“This thing needs to learn how to adapt, Murph. Like the rest of us.”
– Joseph Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), Insterstellar
“Newton’s third law. You’ve got to leave something behind.”
– Joseph Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), Insterstellar
“We’re still pioneers, we barely begun. Our greatest accomplishments cannot be behind us, cause our destiny lies above us.”
– Joseph Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), Insterstellar
“We’ll find a way, Professor, we always have.”
– Joseph Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), Insterstellar
CASE: “Endurance rotation is 67, 68 RPM.”
– CASE (voice of Josh Stewart) and Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), Interstellar
Cooper: “CASE, get ready to match our spin with the retro thrusters.”
CASE: “It’s not possible.”
Cooper: “No. It’s necessary.”
Cooper: “You’re ruling my son out for college now? The kid’s fifteen.”
– Joseph Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) and School Principal (David Oyelowo), Interstellar
Principal: “Tom’s score simply isn’t high enough.”
Cooper: “What’s your waistline? 32? With, what, a 33 inseam?”
Principal: “I’m not sure I see what you’re getting at.”
Cooper: “You’re telling me it takes two numbers to measure your own ass but only one to measure my son’s future?”
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ANNE HATHAWAY INTERSTELLAR MOVIE QUOTES
“Time is relative, okay? It can stretch and it can squeeze, but… it can’t run backwards. Just can’t. The only thing that can move across dimensions, like time, is gravity.”
– Amelia Brand (Anne Hathaway), Interstellar
“Accident is the first building block of evolution.”
– Amelia Brand (Anne Hathaway), Interstellar
“You might have to decide between seeing your children again and the future of the human race.”
– Amelia Brand (Anne Hathaway), Interstellar
“Well we got this far on our brains, further than any human in history.”
– Amelia Brand (Anne Hathaway), Interstellar
INTERSTELLAR LOVE QUOTES
“Maybe we’ve spent too long trying to figure all this out with theory. Love is the one thing that transcends time and space.”
– Amelia Brand (Anne Hathaway), Interstellar
“Love is the one thing we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.”
– Amelia Brand (Anne Hathaway), Interstellar
“Love isn’t something that we invented. It’s… observable, powerful. It has to mean something.”
– Amelia Brand (Anne Hathaway), Interstellar
“Maybe it means something more – something we can’t yet understand. Maybe it’s some evidence, some artefact of a higher dimension that we can’t consciously perceive. I’m drawn across the universe to someone I haven’t seen in a decade, who I know is probably dead. Love is the one thing we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space. Maybe we should trust that, even if we can’t understand it.”
– Amelia Brand (Anne Hathaway), Interstellar
MICHAEL CANE QUOTES FROM INTERSTELLAR
“We must reach far beyond our own lifespans. We must think not as individuals but as a species. We must confront the reality of interstellar travel.”
– Professor Brand (Michael Caine), Interstellar
“Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
– Professor Brand (Michael Caine), Interstellar
“We’re not meant to save the world. We’re meant to leave it.”
– Professor Brand (Michael Caine), Interstellar
“I’m not afraid of death. I’m an old physicist. I’m afraid of time.”
– Professor Brand (Michael Caine), Interstellar
“Mankind’s next step will be our greatest.”
– Professor Brand (Michael Caine), Interstellar
Dr. Brand: “Not sure of what I’m more afraid of: them never coming back, or coming back to find we’ve failed.”
– Professor Brand (Michael Caine) and Murph (Jessica Chastain), Interstellar
Murph: “Then let’s succeed.”
MATT DAMON INTERSTELLAR BEST QUOTES
“Our survival instinct is our single greatest source of inspiration.”
– Dr. Mann (Matt Damon), Interstellar
“We must confront the reality that nothing in our solar system can help us.”
– Dr. Mann (Matt Damon), Interstellar
“A machine doesn’t improvise well because you cannot program a fear of death.”
– Dr. Mann (Matt Damon), Interstellar
“Your father had to find another way to save the human race from extinction. Plan B. A colony.”
– Dr. Mann (Matt Damon), Interstellar
“He knew how hard it would be to get people to work together to save the species instead of themselves.”
– Dr. Mann (Matt Damon), Interstellar
“You never would have come here unless you believed you were going to save them. Evolution has yet to transcend that simple barrier. We can care deeply – selflessly – about those we know, but that empathy rarely extends beyond our line of sight.”
– Dr. Mann (Matt Damon), Interstellar
“He was prepared to destroy his own humanity in order to save the species. He made an incredible sacrifice.”
– Dr. Mann (Matt Damon), Interstellar
“We are the future.”
– Dr. Mann (Matt Damon), Interstellar
“This is not about my life; this is about all mankind!”
– Dr. Mann (Matt Damon), Interstellar
Cooper: “Dr. Mann there’s a 50/50 chance your gonna kill yourself.”
– Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) and Dr. Mann (Matt Damon), Interstellar
Dr. Mann: “Those are the best odds I’ve had in years.”
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MORE INTERSTELLAR QUOTES ABOUT LIFE
“You said science was about admitting what we don’t know.”
– Younger Murph (Mackenzie Foy), Interstellar
“We didn’t run out of television screens and planes, we ran out of food.”
– School Principal (David Oyelowo), Interstellar
“Don’t trust the right thing done for the wrong reason. The why of the thing, that’s the foundation.”
– Donald (John Lithgow), Interstellar
Cooper: “You don’t believe we went to the Moon?”
– Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) and Ms. Hanley (Collette Wolfe), Interstellar
Ms. Hanley: “I believe it was a brilliant piece of propaganda, that the Soviets bankrupted themselves, pouring resources into rockets and other useless machines…”
Cooper: “Useless machines?”
Ms. Hanley: “And if we don’t want to repeat of the excess and wastefulness of the 20th Century then we need to teach our kids about this planet, not tales of leaving it.”
Cooper: “You know, one of those useless machines they used to make was called an MRI, and if we had any of those left the doctors would have been able to find the cyst in my wife’s brain, before she died instead of after, and then she would’ve been the one sitting here, listening to this instead of me, which would’ve been a good thing because she was always the… calmer one.”
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TARS INTERSTELLAR QUOTES
TARS: [as Cooper repairs him] “Settings. General settings. Security settings.”
– TARS (voice of Bill Irwin) and Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), Interstellar
TARS: “Honesty, new setting: ninety-five percent.”
TARS: “Confirmed. Additional settings.”
Cooper: “Humor, seventy-five percent.”
TARS: “Confirmed. Self destruct sequence in T minus 10, 9…”
Cooper: “Let’s make that sixty percent.”
TARS: “Sixty percent, confirmed. Knock knock.”
Cooper: “You want fifty-five?”
Cooper: “Hey TARS, what’s your honesty parameter?”
– TARS (voice of Bill Irwin) and Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), Interstellar
TARS: “90 percent.”
Cooper: “90 percent?”
TARS: “Absolute honesty isn’t always the most diplomatic nor the safest form of communication with emotional beings.”
Cooper: “Okay, 90 percent it is.”
“Everybody good? Plenty of slaves for my robot colony?”
– TARS (voice of Bill Irwin), Interstellar
TARS: “I have a cue light I can use to show you when I’m joking, if you like.”
– TARS (voice of Bill Irwin) and Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), Interstellar
Cooper: “That might help.”
TARS: “Yeah, you can use it to find your way back to the ship after I blow you out the airlock.”
(cue light flashes)
Cooper: “What’s your trust setting, TARS?”
– TARS (voice of Bill Irwin) and Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), Interstellar
TARS: “Lower than yours, apparently”
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