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Matthew McConaughey in Interstellar (2014)

Matthew McConaughey: Cooper

Interstellar

Matthew McConaughey credited as playing...

Cooper

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  • Cooper: 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.
  • Cooper: Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here.
  • Cooper: Once you're a parent, you're the ghost of your children's future.
  • TARS: [as Cooper repairs him] Settings. General settings. Security settings.
  • 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: You're ruling my son out for college now? The kid's fifteen.
  • 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?
  • Cooper: 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, that our destiny lies above us.
  • Cooper: Hey TARS, what's your honesty parameter?
  • 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.
  • CASE: Endurance rotation is 67, 68 RPM.
  • Cooper: CASE, get ready to match our spin with the retro thrusters.
  • CASE: It's not possible.
  • Cooper: No. It's necessary.
  • Cooper: [whispering] Tell me something. Doctor Brand, and Edmonds...
  • TARS: Why are you whispering? They can't hear you.
  • Cooper: Doctor Brand and Edmonds, they close?
  • TARS: I wouldn't know.
  • Cooper: Is that a ninety percent wouldn't know, or ten percent wouldn't know?
  • TARS: I also have a discretion setting, Cooper.
  • Cooper: Ah. But not a poker face, huh?
  • Murph: [as Cooper holds his now elderly daughter's hands] Nobody believed me, but I knew you'd come back.
  • Cooper: How?
  • Murph: ...Because my dad promised me.
  • TARS: I have a cue light I can use to show you when I'm joking, if you like.
  • 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: You're a scientist, Brand.
  • Brand: So listen to me when I say that love isn't something that we invented. It's... observable, powerful. It has to mean something.
  • Cooper: Love has meaning, yes. Social utility, social bonding, child rearing...
  • Brand: We love people who have died. Where's the social utility in that?
  • Cooper: None.
  • Brand: 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. All right Cooper. Yes. The tiniest possibility of seeing Wolf again excites me. That doesn't mean I'm wrong.
  • Cooper: Honestly, Amelia... it might.
  • Cooper: [to young Murph] Tell him Murph. Make him stay. Make... Make him stay Murph. Make him stay Murph! Don't let me leave, Murph! Don't, don't let me leave Murph! NO, NO, NO, NO!
  • Murph: It was you. You were my ghost.
  • TARS: Cooper... Cooper... Come in, Cooper.
  • Cooper: TARS?
  • TARS: Roger that.
  • Cooper: You survived!
  • TARS: Somewhere, in their fifth dimension, they... saved us.
  • Cooper: Who the hell is they? Why would they want to help us, huh?
  • TARS: I don't know, but they constructed this three-dimensional space inside of their five-dimensional reality to allow you to understand it.
  • Cooper: Well, it ain't working.
  • TARS: Yes it is! You've seen that time is represented here as a *physical* dimension! You've worked out that you *can* exert a force across space-time!
  • Cooper: Gravity. To send a message.
  • TARS: Affirmative.
  • Cooper: Gravity can cross the dimensions, including time.
  • [after the explosion]
  • Cooper: What's your trust setting, TARS?
  • TARS: Lower than yours, apparently
  • Cooper: Dr. Mann there's a 50/50 chance your gonna kill yourself.
  • Dr. Mann: Those are the best odds I've had in years.
  • Cooper: I'm here now, Murph. I'm here.
  • Murph: No. No parent should have to watch their own child die. I have my kids here for me now. You go.
  • Cooper: Where?
  • Murph: Brand. She's... out there. Setting up camp. Alone, in a strange galaxy. Maybe right now, she's settling in for the long nap. By the light of our new sun. In our new home.
  • Cooper: This world's a treasure, Don; but it's been telling us to leave for a while now.
  • Cooper: You don't believe we went to the Moon?
  • Ms. Kelly: 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. Kelly: 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.
  • Young Murph: Why did you and mom name me after something that's bad?
  • Cooper: Well, we didn't.
  • Young Murph: Murphy's law?
  • Cooper: Murphy's law doesn't mean that something bad will happen. It means that whatever *can* happen, will happen. And that sounded just fine to us.
  • Doyle: We have a mission.
  • Cooper: Yeah, and our mission is to find a planet that can habitate the people living on Earth right now. Okay? Plan A does not work if the people on Earth are dead by the time we pull it off.

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