Professor Quotes in Inception (2010)

Professor: Mr. Cobb has a job offer he would like to discuss with you.

Ariadne: Like a work placement?

Cobb: Not exactly.

Professor: Come back to reality, Dom.

Cobb: I'm just doing what you taught me.

Professor: I never taught you to be a thief.

Professor: [to Cobb about his grandchildren] It'll take more tha the occasional stuffed animal to convince them they still have a father.

[first lines]

Journalist: Historically, when we look at evolution, it's not surprising that uh... Chappie's left turn... uh... happened.

Professor: It's too early to tell how this is all going to play out. I didn't believe that this would happen in my lifetime, but... but it is happening.

Jonathan: I don't know Manolo, I think it's hopeless. I'm never going to get laid!

Professor: Although that thought may be of great comfort to the women of the world Mr. Moore, as a future veterinarian, you should know that every dog eventually has his day.

[students laugh]

Professor: Go ahead. Make my day.

Professor: There are other weapons I haven't given you as yet. For success it's essential you have thunderball fists.

Rayma: I can have such a thing?

Professor: That's right, thunderball fists!

Professor: No matter how potent your weapons are, you'll be defeated because Infra-Man is invincible against them!

Professor: ...It would be foolish to fight Princess Dragon Mom with military power; that would lead to defeat. Therefore, another way must be found, and it's up to us to find that way.

Professor: Rayma, now you are filled with power and energy! For you, nothing will be an impossibility! Your senses are intensified, so you can even see and hear through walls!

Professor: Would someone please like to tell us of a characteristic which separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom?

Lampwick: [aside, to another student] Cages.

[Pinocchio's nose is stretching really long because he is lying about punching Lampwick]

Professor: There are two kinds of lies: lies that have short legs and lies that have a long nose. And yours are clearly the kind that have the long nose.

Narrator: [noticing the professor eying a native woman] Remember, professor, you're supposed to be interested in insects.

Professor: But you find them in the strangest places.

Professor: Now, is there anyone here that can tell me why... most alligators are abnormally aggressive? Anybody? Anyone? Yes, sir. You, sir.

Bobby Boucher: Mama says that alligators are ornery... 'cause they got all them teeth but no toothbrush.

Professor: [Chuckling] Yo mama said, alligators are ornery 'cause they got all them teeth... and no toothbrush. Wow! Anybody else? Yes, sir. You, sir.

Student: Alligators are aggressive because of an enlarged medulla oblongata. It's the sector of the brain which controls aggressive behavior.

Professor: That is correct! The medulla oblongata...

Bobby Boucher: But Mama said...

Professor: The medulla oblongata... is where anger, jealousy and aggression come from. Now, is there anybody here can tell me where happiness comes from? Anyone? All right, let's hear what Mama has to say on the subject.

Bobby Boucher: Mama say that happiness is from magic rays of sunshine that come down when you feelin' blue.

Professor: [Chuckling] Well, folks, Mama's wrong again.

Bobby Boucher: No, Colonel Sanders, you're wrong. Mama's right. You're all wrong. Mama's right. Mama's right!

Professor: Somethin' wrong with his medulla oblongata.

Professor: Whoa whoa whoa WHOA Dwight.

Professor: [upon being injured] Why me, God? Why not one of the students?

Professor: The trustees have a few suggestions they would like to submit to you.

Professor Wagstaff: I think you know what the trustees can do with their suggestions.

Professor: And are you also proud of this fine American citizen in your family, Master Wong?

Wang Chi-Yang: To become an American citizen it took her five years. She was Chinese in nine months.

Madame 'Auntie' Liang: I am happy to be both Chinese and American.

Wang Chi-Yang: You are like the Chinese dish the Americans invented. What do they call it?

Wang Ta: Chop Suey.

Wang Chi-Yang: That is it. Everything is in it. All mixed up.

Madame 'Auntie' Liang: I like that.

[singing]

Madame 'Auntie' Liang: Chop Suey. Chop Suey. / Living here is very much like Chop Suey. / Hula-hoops and nucelar war, Doctor Salk and Zsa Zsa Gabor, / Bobby Darin, Sandra Dee and Dewey, Chop Suey.

Chorus: Chop Suey!

Professor: The Ku Klux Klan. Does anyone know what that name means? The Ku Klux Klan? No one knows?

Valerie Davis: It's Greek. Kuklos. It means the circle.

Professor: Yes, that's one version of the story. Another etymology proposes an onomatopoeia. Ku Klux Klan. It's the sound of a cocking rifle. You see racism is rooted in violence. And violence is rooted in racism.

Professor: Inevitably, pressure creates its own counter pressure. Its very existence fertilizes the seeds of its eventual annihilation.

Professor: My lecture today is on the phenominom of pressure as conceived by the philosophers of the seventeenth century.

Reinhardt Heydrich: Very interesting, please proceed.

Professor: One might argue, that sufficient pressure would be able to destroy its own counter pressure. But, this is not necessarily true. Force and violence destroy only bodies, never the essence of the opposing force.

Reinhardt Heydrich: I presume you refer to metaphysical matters not to political events?

Professor: Philosophy covers the entire field of life.

Reinhardt Heydrich: Advise, Professor of Philosophy, to confine himself to the realms of the abstract.

Professor: [Discussing the upcoming Moon trip] Well, if all goes according to plan, we'll be back in Miami in four days.

Dr. Jeff Huntley: Then you can get to see that movie you were talking about.

[They pass the Variety Theater, showing "Hideout In The Sun" in "Nudarama"]

Professor: Oh, I saw that last night.

Dr. Jeff Huntley: But you promised me you were going to get some rest.

Professor: The picture was well worth it.

Professor: [reciting Hippocratic oath] If I uphold this oath may I be blessed. If I violate this oath, so help me God.

Victor Frankenstein: [in laboratory] If I violate this oath... so help me.

Professor: Nope. Nothing wrong here.

Professor Bromley: In the name of world science I beg you...I implore you to think again.

Tuck: Later, professor, we've got a show to put on.

Professor Bromley: A show! A show! But it's disgraceful to think of putting this fabulous creature on display in a cheap circus.

T.J.: We can do what we like with Gwangi. He's our property.

Professor Bromley: He belongs to us all, to mankind, to scientific research.

Tuck: Easy, professor.

T.J.: You can do your research in the time we give you. You can follow us on our world tour.

Professor: You must be mad...raving mad. World tour? We'll see what The Royal Society has to say about this.

Professor: The curse of human consciousness is that it longs to know only that which is unknowable.