John Chambers: Look, if you're gonna this, you gotta do it. The Kho-maniacs are Froot Loops, but they got cousins who sell prayer rugs and eight-tracks on La Brea. You can't build cover stories around a movie that doesn't exist. You need a script, yo...
John Chambers: If you're gonna do a $20 million "Star Wars" rip-off, you need somebody who's a somebody to put their name on it. Somebody respectable. With credits. Who you can trust with classified information. Who'll produce a fake movie. For free.
Tony Mendez: I need another week, Jack. Jack O'Donnell: You don't have it.
[watching the Iranian demonstrators on TV] John Chambers: You ever think, Lester, how this is all for the cameras? Lester Siegel: Well, they're getting the ratings, I'll say that for them.
Bob Anders: [as Mendez proposes his plan to get the houseguests out] We can't hold up under that. We don't know what the hell movie people do. Tony Mendez: That's why I'm here. I'm gonna help you. I'll be with you the whole way. This is what I do. Co...
Tony Mendez: I'm asking you to trust me. Joe Stafford: I don't trust you.
Tony Mendez: [quizzing the houseguests about their cover identities] You. Where was your passport issued? Bob Anders: Vancouver. Tony Mendez: Where were you born? Bob Anders: Toronto. Tony Mendez: [correcting him] "Torono". Canadians don't pronounce ...
Tony Mendez: The only way this works is if you believe that you're these people so much that you dream like them.
Mark Lijek: [getting ready to go to the bazaar] I haven't been this nervous since our wedding. Cora Lijek: Only this isn't a huge mistake, hopefully.
Tony Mendez: Mike, if I were to say you were looking through the wrong end of that viewfinder, would I be right? [Lee casually turns the viewfinder around] Lee Schatz: Yup.
Jack O'Donnell: It's a Spy Agency! Find them!
Lester Siegel: It's got horses in it, it's a Western.
Tony Mendez: We are responsible for these people. Jack O'Donnell: What we are is required to follow orders.
Jack O'Donnell: Carter's shitting enough bricks to build the pyramids.
Ticket Clerk: I'm sorry I can't find your ticket. Tony Mendez: [Very calm] Thank you. Could you check again?
Cyrus Vance: What's wrong with bikes, again? Jack O'Donnell: We tried to get the message upstairs, sir. C.I.A Director Stansfield Turner: You think this is more plausible than teachers? Jack O'Donnell: Yes, we do. One, there are no more foreign teach...
Tony Mendez: I need you to help me make a fake movie. John Chambers: [smiling] You came to the right place.
Joe Stafford: [skeptical of Tony's plan] That man out there has got bad cards, and he is going to lose. And if he loses, it's our lives. Kathy Stafford: And his life, too.
