20 Best After Earth Quotes

Kitai: My suit's turned black! I like it, but I think it's something bad!

Cypher: [repeated line to center his son] Take a knee.

Kitai: The Ursa?
Cypher: There're three possibilities. The first and most likely is that it died in the crash. The second and less likely is that it is injured very badly and still contained. The third and least likely is that it is out. We will proceed, however, in anticipation of the worst-case scenario. Every movement will be under protocol Escape and Evade. If he's out there... I will see him long before he gets anywhere near you. Do you understand?
Kitai: Yes, sir.
Cypher: Do exactly as I tell you and we will survive.

Senshi: [Whispering in Katai's ear] You're still in the box.

Cypher: I detected graviton vibrations in the hull.
Hesper: But you detected how?
Cypher: Graviton buildup could be a precursor to mass expansion. That storm could be on us in minutes.
Hesper: But, sir, mass expansion is one in million.
Cypher: If we try to navigate out... the pull of our own graviton weight could set the thing off. Let's just hold course and hope I'm wrong.
Hesper: Just out of interest, sir, how often are you wrong?
Cypher: My wife would give a very interesting answer to that question.

Kitai: I'm going to my room.
Cypher: Are you asking? Or are you telling me?
Kitai: [beat] Permission to go to my room, sir?
Cypher: Denied! Sit down!

Kitai: [waking up from an antidote-induced coma] Hey Dad...
Cypher: Hey...
Kitai: That sucked.
Cypher: That is correct.

[last lines]
Kitai: Dad...
Cypher: Yeah?
Kitai: I wanna work with Mom.
Cypher: Me too.

Commander: Your test scores are very impressive. In the classroom, you are an outstanding Ranger... but in the field, you collapse. I'm not advancing you. You may try again next year.
Kitai: Sir, I am dedicated, have studied and display conduct becoming of a Ranger, sir. I request that the commander reconsider his assessment, sir.
Commander: Cadet...
Kitai: Sir, my father's returning home tonight. I haven't seen him in... It's a very special day for our family. And I have got to be able to tell him that I am a Ranger, sir.
Commander: You tell your father that I said, "Welcome home." Dismissed.

Cypher: Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity Kitai. Do not misunderstand me, danger is very real, but fear is a choice. We are all telling ourselves a story and that day mine changed.

Cypher: Every single decision you make will be life or death. This is a class 1 quarantined planet. Everything on this planet has evolved to kill humans.

Kitai: No, Dad. I can do it. I don't need many. I can get across with just two.
Cypher: You need a minimum of three inhalers to make it to the tail. You have exhausted your resources.
Kitai: I can get across. I can do it with just two, Dad.
Cypher: This mission has reached abort criteria. I take full responsibility. You did your best. You have nothing more to prove. Now return to the ship.
Kitai: What was your mistake? Trusting me? Depending on me, thinking that I could do this?
Cypher: I am giving you an order... to turn around and return to this ship.
Kitai: You wouldn't give any other Ranger that order?
Cypher: You are not a Ranger. And I am giving you that order.
Kitai: [pause] What was I supposed to do? What did you want me to do? She gave me an order. She said, no matter what, don't come out of that box! Was I supposed to just come out and die?

[first lines]
Kitai: I've heard stories of Earth. A paradise. Until we destroyed it.

Cypher: Inventory up.
Kitai: Roger. Food rations, half available. Flares, full. Med kit, half available. Breathing fluid... Breathing fluid, four vials available.
Cypher: [looks Kitai's heart rate increases] Why are you not showing me the case?
Kitai: What?
Cypher: Show it to me now.
Kitai: I thought that I could make it, sir.
Cypher: [after seeing the analysis report] Abort mission. Return to the ship. That is an order.

Senshi: You're still in that box. It's time to come out.

Cypher: I have a last visit to Iphitos. I'm flying tomorrow, supervising training. And after it's completed, I'm announcing my retirement.
Faia: Retirement?
Cypher: Maybe I'll work with you... in Turbine Division. Together.
Faia: Please, no.
Cypher: I want my family back. I want you back.

Hesper: Warning. This planet has been declared unfit for human habitation, placed under class-one quarantine by the interplanetary Authority. Under penalty law, do not attempt to land. Repeat, do not attempt to land.
Cypher: It's not possible.
Hesper: The computer might have defaulted back to a known demarcation point.
Cypher: No, not here. Travel us again.
Hesper: Negative, sir. This ship is going to tear apart at any moment.
Cypher: [pause] Set her down.

Cypher: [to Kitai] If you want to die today that is fine, but you are not going to kill me.

Kitai: YOU'RE WRONG! I'M NOT A COWARD! YOU'RE THE COWARD! I'M NOT A COWARD!

Cypher: Everything on this planet has evolved to kill humans. Do you know where we are?
Kitai: No, sir.
Cypher: This is Earth.