Cobb: Never recreate from your memory. Always imagine new places!
Arthur: You. What the hell was all that? Cobb: I have it under control. Arthur: I'd hate to see it out of control.
Cobb: I think positive emotion trumps negative emotion every time.
Cobb: [about Mal] She had locked something away, something deep inside her. The truth that she had once known, but... she chose to forget. Limbo became her reality. Ariadne: What happened when you woke up? Cobb: To wake up from that after, after year...
Arthur: Where were you? What happened to you? Cobb: Got blocked by a freight train. Arthur: [to Ariadne] Why would you put a train course in the middle of a downtown intersection? Ariadne: Why, I didn't. Arthur: Where did it come from? Cobb: Let me a...
Saito: [thinking it's Eames shape shifted into Browning] Hey, I see you've changed. Peter Browning: [confused] Sorry? Eames: [appears in the background and silently warns Saito it's not him] Saito: Ahh... I'm sorry. I mistook you for a friend. Peter ...
[creates a whole new location out of two mirrors] Cobb: Very impressive. [notices Mal; flashback of himself and Mal on the same bridge] Cobb: I know this bridge. This place is real, isn't it? Ariadne: Yeah, I cross it everyday on the way to the colle...
Ariadne: You might have the rest of the team convinced to carry on with this job, but they don't know the truth. Cobb: Truth? What truth? Ariadne: The truth that at any minute, you might bring a freight train through the wall. The truth that Mal is b...
Ariadne: These aren't just dreams. These are memories. And you said never to use memories. Cobb: I know I did. Ariadne: You're trying to keep her alive. You can't let her go. Cobb: You don't understand. These are moments I regret, the memories that I...
Ariadne: You mind telling your subconscious to take it easy?
Cobb: I knew Inception was possible because I'd done it to my wife.
Ariadne: That's some subconscious you've got on you, Cobb! She's a real charmer! Arthur: Oh, I see you've met Mrs Cobb.
Eames: Fischer's OK, unless he gets car-sick.
Arthur: [Getting out of the water after the kicks] What happened? Ariadne: Cobb stayed. Arthur: With Mal? Ariadne: No, to find Saito. Arthur: He'll be lost. Ariadne: No he'll be all right.
Mal: You keep telling yourself what you know. But what do you believe? What do you feel? Cobb: Guilt.
Mal: Do you know what it is to be a lover? Half of a whole?
Arthur: You couldn't have peed before you went under? Yusuf: Sorry. Eames: A bit too much free champagne before take off, Yusuf? Yusuf: Ha ha, bloody ha.
Ariadne: Won't you tell me anything about this first? Cobb: Before I describe the job I have to know you can do it. Ariadne: Why? Cobb: It's not, strictly speaking, legal.