50 Best Cooper Quotes

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: We're still pioneers, we barely begun. Our greatest accomplishments cannot be behind us, cause our destiny lies above us.

Young: Dad?
Cooper: Sorry, Murph. Go back to bed.
Young: I thought you were the ghost.
Cooper: There are no such things as ghosts, babe.
Young: Grandpa says you can get ghosts.
Cooper: Maybe that's because Grandpa is a little too close to being one himself. Go back to bed.

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: It's hard leaving everything... my kids, your father...
Brand: [cutting him off] We're gonna be spending a lot of time together...
Cooper: We should learn to talk.
Brand: And when not to. Just being honest.
Cooper: I don't think you need to be *that* honest.

[comforting his daughter]
Cooper: I love you, forever. You hear me? I love you forever. And I'm coming back. I'm coming back.

Brand: Maybe we've spent too long trying to figure all this out with theory.
Cooper: You're a scientist, Brand.
Brand: So listen to me, when I say that love is not something 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've died. Where's the "social utility" in that?
Cooper: None.

Cooper: Everybody ready to say goodbye to our solar system?
Romilly: To our galaxy.

Cooper: After you kids came along, your mom, she said something to me I never quite understood. She said, "Now, we're just here to be memories for our kids." I think now I understand what she meant. Once you're a parent, you're the ghost of your children's future.

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: Okay. Now you need to tell me what your plan is to save the world.
Dr. Brand: We're not meant to save the world. We're meant to leave it.
Cooper: [looks up, sees space ships] Rangers.
Dr. Brand: The last components of our one versatile ship in orbit, the Endurance. Our final expedition.
Cooper: You sent people out there looking for a new home?
Dr. Brand: The Lazarus missions.
Cooper: That sounds cheerful.
Dr. Brand: Lazarus came back from the dead.
Cooper: Sure, but he had to die in the first place. There's not a planet in our solar system that can sustain life and the nearest star is over a thousand years away, I mean, that doesn't even qualify as futile. Where'd you send them?
Dr. Brand: Cooper, I can't tell you any more, unless you agree to pilot this craft. You're the best pilot we ever had.
Cooper: And I barely left the stratosphere.
Dr. Brand: This team never left the simulator. We need a pilot, and this is the mission that you were trained for.
Cooper: What, without even knowing it? An hour ago, you didn't even know I was alive and you were going anyway.
Dr. Brand: We had no choice. But something sent you here. They chose you.
Cooper: Well who's "they"?
[Dr. Brand does not answer]
Cooper: How long would I be gone?
Dr. Brand: Hard to know. Years.
Cooper: I've got kids, professor.
Dr. Brand: Get out there, and save them.

Young: What are you gonna do with it?
Cooper: I'm going to give it something socially responsible to do. Like drive a combine.
Young: Can't we just let it go? It wasn't hurting anybody.
Cooper: This thing needs to learn how to adapt, Murph. Like the rest of us.

Mann: Check.
- Taking control.
TARS: This is handover to you.
Mann: A.D.F. check.
Cooper: Over.
- Pull thrusters back.
- Fuel cells one, two, three.
Mann: One hundred percent.
Cooper: Ex-mites.

Cooper: This world's a treasure, Don; but it's been telling us to leave for a while now.

- But who put it there?
- Who do we have to thank?
- I'm not thanking anybody until we get out of here in one piece, Rom.
Cooper: Any trick to this, Doyle?
- No one knows.
- The others made it, right?
- At least some of them.

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.

Cooper: Give it to me.
TARS: There's good news, there's bad news.
- Yeah, I've heard that one, TARS.
- Give it to me straight.

- Get to the hatch!
- Go, go! Go!
- Shit.
- Manually overriding inside hatch!
- Cooper! Wait!
Cooper: The engines are flooded!
- I'm gonna have to shut her down.

- Let's get out of here.
Cooper: All right, it's a doozy.
- All right, gang, let's mask up.
- Tom? Murph? Check?
Tom: Yeah.

- Towards the mountains!
- Those aren't mountains.
- They're waves.
- Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit.
Cooper: That one's moving away from us.
- AMELIA: We need the recorder.

Cooper: Oh we are not prepared for this. We have the survival skills of a Boy Scout troop!
Brand: Well we got this far on our brains, further than any human in history.
Cooper: Well not far enough! And now we're stuck *here*, until there won't be anyone on Earth left to save!
Brand: I'm counting every minute, same as you, Cooper.

CASE: There's no point using fuel to chase...
- Analyze the Endurance's spin.
- Cooper, what are you doing?
- Docking.
CASE: Endurance rotation is 67, 68 RPM.
- Okay, get ready to match our spin with the retro thrusters.
CASE: it's not possible.
Cooper: No... it's necessary.

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]

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.

- Lois?
Cooper: What happened to caution, CASE?
- Safety first, Cooper.
- Romilly? Romilly, do you read me?
- This is Brand.
- AMELIA: Romilly?
CASE: Dr. Brand. Cooper.
- There's been an explosion.
- Dr. Mann's compound.

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.

- Nice and easy, Doyle. Nice and easy.
- I feel good.
- Take us home.
- Lock.
- Target locked.
Cooper: Well done.
- Okay, helmets on.
- Good job.

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.

- Blew a tire is all.
- Murphy's Law.
- Shut up!
- Grab the spare, Tom.
- That is the spare.
Cooper: Get the patch kit!
- TOM: How am I supposed to patch it out here? COOPER: You got to figure it out.
- I'm not always gonna be here to help you.

Cooper: Mom lets me play in here.
- I don't touch your stuff.

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.

- Newton's third law.
- You got to leave something behind.
- You told me we had enough resources for both of us.
Cooper: We agreed, Amelia...
- 90 percent.
- Don't.
- Detach.

Cooper: You'd do this for us?
TARS: Before you get all teary, try to remember that as a robot, I have to do anything you say.
Cooper: Your cue light's broken.
TARS: I'm not joking. *Flashes cue light*

- Cooper, people couldn't build this.
- No. No, not yet.
- But one day.
- Not you and me. But people.
- A civilization that's evolved past the four dimensions we know.
Cooper: What happens now?

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, you should have control.
- Control here.
- Communication with ring module active.
- WOMAN: Oh, wow.
TARS: That's initiate.
Cooper: Are we ready to spin?
- Just a sec.

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.

Doyle: Where's the rest?
Brand: Towards the mountains!
Cooper: Those aren't mountains... they're waves.
Brand: Oh shit. Oh shit!
Cooper: That one's moving away from us...
Brand: [struggling through the water] We need the recorder!
Cooper: [he looks in the other direction and sees a mounting wave towering thousands of feet over them] Brand, Doyle, back to the Ranger, now!

Cooper: Well, this little maneuver's gonna cost us 51 years!
Brand: You don't sound so bad for a man pushing 120!

Cooper: Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here.

CASE: Ranger 2, prepare to detach.
Brand: What! NO, NO! Cooper! Cooper, what are you doing?
Cooper: Newton's third law. You've got to leave something behind.
Brand: You said there were enough resources for both of us!
Cooper: We agreed, Dr. Brand... ninety percent.

Brand: Cooper, you can't ask TARS to do this for us.
Cooper: He's a robot. So you don't have to *ask* him to do anything.
Brand: Cooper, you asshole!
Cooper: Sorry, you broke up a little bit there.
TARS: It's what we intended, Dr. Brand. It's our only chance to save the people on Earth. If I can find a way to transmit the quantum data I'll find in there, they might still make it.

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?

- Killing main engines!
- Okay, we're out of orbit.
- Okay. And for our next trick!
CASE: it'll have to be good.
- We're heading into Gargantua's pull.
Cooper: Oh, shit.
- CASE, take the stick.
- Roger that.

Young: Why did you and mom name me after something that's bad?
Cooper: Well, we didn't.
Young: 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.

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.

CASE: He doesn't know the Endurance docking procedure.
- The autopilot does.
CASE: Not since TARS disabled it.
- Nice.
- What's your trust setting, TARS?
- Lower than yours apparently.
Cooper: Do not attempt docking.
- I repeat, do not attempt docking.
- Please res...

Brand: Couldn't you've told her you were going to save the world?
Cooper: No. When you become a parent, one thing becomes really clear. And that's that you want to make sure your children feel safe. And that rules out telling a 10-year old that the world's ending.

TARS: Cooper, they didn't bring us here to change the past.
Cooper: Say that again.
TARS: They didn't bring us here to change the past.
Cooper: [realizing] But they didn't bring us here at all. We brought ourselves. TARS, give me the coordinates for NASA, in binary.
TARS: In binary, roger, feeding data.
[Cooper creates the binary lines in the dust on Murphy's bedroom floor]
Murph: It's not a ghost... it's gravity.
Cooper: Don't you get it yet, TARS? I brought myself here! We're here to communicate with the three-dimensional world! We're the bridge! I thought they chose me. But they didn't choose me, they chose her!
TARS: For what, Cooper?
Cooper: To save the world! All of this, is one little girl's bedroom, every moment! It's infinitely complex! They have access, to infinite time and space, but they're not *bound* by anything! They can't find a specific place *in* time, they can't communicate. That's why I'm here. I'm gonna find a way to tell Murph, just like I found this moment.
TARS: How, Cooper?
Cooper: Love, TARS, love. It's just like Brand said. My connection with Murph, it is quantifiable. It's the key!
TARS: What are we here to do?
Cooper: Find how to tell her... The watch... The watch. That's it. We code the data into the movement of the second hand. TARS, translate the data into Morse and feed it to me.
TARS: Translating data to Morse. Cooper, what if she never came back for it?
Cooper: She will. She will.
Getty: [watching for Tom] Murph I can see his car! He's coming, Murph!
Murph: Okay. I'm coming down!
TARS: How do you know?
Cooper: Because I gave it to her.
Murph: [rushing downstairs with the watch] He came back! It was him! All this time, I didn't, I didn't know it was him! Dad's gonna save us!

Cooper: It's not a ghost.
- It's gravity.
Donald: I'm dropping Tom, then heading to town.
- You want to clean that up when you've finished praying to it?