Avatar (2009) Best Movie Quotes – ‘I see you.’

Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel Moore, CCH Pounder, Wes Studi, Laz Alonso, Dileep Rao, Matt Gerald, Sean Anthony Moran

OUR RATING: ★★★★☆

Story:

Sci-fi fantasy adventure directed, written, produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. Avatar (2009) centers on paraplegic Marine Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), who is dispatched to the alien world of Pandora on a unique mission to gather intel for the cooperating military unit spearheaded by Colonel Quaritch (Stephen Lang), while simultaneously attempting to infiltrate the Na’vi people with the use of an “avatar” identity. While Jake begins to bond with the native tribe, and falls in love with Neytiri (Zoe Saldana), Quaritch moves forward with his orders from corporate figurehead Parker Selfridge (Giovanni Ribisi), who intends to drive off the Na’vi in order to mine for the precious material scattered throughout their rich woodland.

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Best Quotes

Jake Sully: When I was lying there in the VA hospital, with a big hole blown through the middle of my life, I started having these dreams of flying. I was free. Sooner or later though, you always have to wake up.

Jake Sully: In cryo, you don’t dream at all. It doesn’t feel like six years, more like a fifth of Tequila and an a** kicking. Tommy was the scientist, not me. He was the one who wanted to get shot light years out in space to find the answers.

Jake Sully: So a week before Tommy’s going to ship out, a guy with a gun ends his journey, for the paper in his wallet.

Jake Sully: Yeah, Tommy was the scientist. Me? I’m just another dumb grunt going some place he’s going to regret.

Jake Sully: Up ahead was Pandora. You grew up hearing about it, but I never figured I’d be going there.

Jake Sully: [as he watches his brother’s coffin bun in the furnace] One life ends, another begins.

Jake Sully: There’s no such thing as an ex-marine. You may be out, but you never lose the attitude. I told myself I could pass any test a man can pass. They can fix a spinal, if you’ve got the money. But not on vet benefits, not in this economy.

Col. Quaritch: [to the new arrivals on Pandora] You are not in Kansas anymore. You are on Pandora, ladies and gentlemen. Respect that fact every second of every day. If there is a hell, you might want to go there for some R and R after a tour on Pandora. Out there beyond that fence every living thing that crawls, flies, or squats in the mud wants to kill you and eat your eyes for jujubees. We have an indigenous population of humanoids called the Na’vi. They’re fond of arrows dipped in a neurotoxin that will stop your heart in one minute. And they have bones reinforced with naturally occurring carbon fiber. They are very hard to kill. As head of security, it is my job to keep you alive. I will not succeed. Not with all of you. If you wish to survive, you need to cultivate a strong, mental attitude. You got to obey the rules, Pandora rules. Rule number one…
Jake Sully: [voice over] Nothing like an old-school safety brief to put your mind at ease.

Jake Sully: Me and Norm are here to drive these remotely controlled bodies called avatars. And they’re grown from human DNA mixed with the DNA of the natives.

Jake Sully: [referring to the large blue avatar body floating in the tank] Damn. They got big.
Norm Spellman: Yeah, they fully mature on the flight out. So the proprioceptive sims seemed to work really well.
Dr. Max Patel: Yeah, they’ve got great muscle tone. It’ll take us a few hours to get them decanted, but you guys can take them out tomorrow.

Dr. Max Patel: [to Jake, referring to his avatar] There’s yours.
Jake Sully: Looks like him.
Norm Spellman: No, looks like you. This is your avatar now, Jake.

Jake Sully: [on video log] Now the concept is that every driver is matched to his own avatar so that their nervous systems are in tune. Or something. Which is why they offered me this gig, because I can link with Tommy’s avatar, which is insanely expensive.

Jake Sully: Is this right? I just say whatever to the video log?
Norm Spellman: Yeah. We got to get in the habit of documenting everything, what we see, what we feel. It’s all part of the science.
Dr. Max Patel: Hey, good science is good observation.
Norm Spellman: Plus, it’ll help keep you sane, for the next six years.
Jake Sully: Right. Whatever.
Jake Sully: [return to his video log] So, here I am. Doing science.

'All energy is only borrowed and one day you have to give it back.' - Jake Sully (Avatar) Click To Tweet

Dr. Grace Augustine: [as she emerges from her avatar link unit] Who’s got my god damn cigarette? Guys, what’s wrong with this picture!

Norm Spellman: Grace Augustine is a legend. She’s the head of the Avatar Program. She wrote the book; I mean literally wrote the book on Pandoran botany.
Dr. Max Patel: That’s because she likes plants better than people.

Dr. Max Patel: Here she is, Cinderella back from the ball. Grace, I’d like you to meet Norm Spellman and Jake Sully.
Dr. Grace Augustine: Norm. I hear good things about you. How’s your Na’vi?
Norm Spellman: [in Na’vi] May the All Mother smile upon our first meeting.
Dr. Grace Augustine: [in Na’vi] Not bad. You sound a little formal.
Norm Spellman: [in Na’vi] I studied for five years, but there is much to learn.

Dr. Max Patel: Grace, this is Jake Sully.
Jake Sully: Ma’am.
Dr. Grace Augustine: Yeah. Yeah. I know who you are, and I don’t need you. I need your brother. You know, the PhD who trained for three years for this mission.
Jake Sully: He’s dead. I know it’s a big inconvenience for everyone.

Dr. Grace Augustine: How much lab training have you had?
Jake Sully: I dissected a frog once.
Dr. Grace Augustine: You see? You see? I mean they’re just pi**ing on us without even the courtesy of calling it rain. I’m going to Selfridge.
Dr. Max Patel: No, Grace. No, I don’t think that’s a good idea.
Dr. Grace Augustine: No, man, this is such bulls**t! I’m going to kick his corporate butt. He has no business sticking his nose in my department.
Dr. Max Patel: [to Jake, as Grace leaves] Here, tomorrow, o-eight-hundred. Try to use big words.

Dr. Grace Augustine: Parker. You know, I used to think it was benign neglect, but now I see that you are intentionally screwing me.
Parker Selfridge: Grace, you know, I enjoy our little talks.
Dr. Grace Augustine: [sarcastically, as Selfridge is about to putt his ball, Grace kicks the mug away] Oops.

Dr. Grace Augustine: [referring to Jake] I need a researcher, not some jarhead dropout.
Parker Selfridge: Well, actually, I thought we got lucky with him.
Dr. Grace Augustine: Lucky?
Parker Selfridge: Yeah.
Dr. Grace Augustine: How is this in any way lucky?
Parker Selfridge: Well, lucky your guy had a twin brother, and lucky that brother wasn’t some oral hygienist or something. A Marine we can use. I’m assigning him to your team as security escort.
Dr. Grace Augustine: The last thing I need is another trigger happy moron out there!

Parker Selfridge: Look, you’re supposed to be winning the hearts and the minds of the natives. Isn’t that the whole point of your little puppet show? If you walk like them, and you talk like them, and they’ll start trusting us. We build them a school, we teach them English. But after what, how many years? Relations with the indigenous are only getting worse.
Dr. Grace Augustine: Yeah, that tends to happen when you use machine guns on them.

Dr. Grace Augustine: [referring to linking to the avatar] You’re here. How much have you logged?
Jake Sully: Zip. But I read the manual.
Dr. Grace Augustine: Tell me you’re joking.

Dr. Grace Augustine: So you just figured you’d come out here, to the most hostile environment known to man, with no training of any kind, and see how it went? What was going through your head?
Jake Sully: Maybe I was sick of doctors telling me what I couldn’t do.

'Every person is born twice. The second time is when you earn your place among the people, forever.' - Jake Sully (Avatar) Click To Tweet

Dr. Grace Augustine: [as Jake settles in his link unit] Just relax and let your mind go blank. That shouldn’t be hard for you.
Jake Sully: Kiss the darkest part of my lily white…

Dr. Max Patel: [after Jake enters his avatar body for the first time] Jake! Listen to me! You’re not used to your avatar body. This is dangerous!
Jake Sully: This is great!

Jake Sully: [as he sees Grace’s avatar] Damn. Grace?
Dr. Grace Augustine: Well who did you expect, numbnuts?

Dr. Grace Augustine: [referring to the tendrils protruding from the end of their long braid] Don’t play with that. You’ll go blind.

Jake Sully: You wanted to see me, Colonel?
Col. Quaritch: This low gravity will make you soft. You get soft, Pandora will s**t you out dead with zero warning. I pulled your record, Corporal. Venezuela, that was some mean bush. Nothing like this here though. You got some heart kid, showing up in this neighborhood.
Jake Sully: Figured it’s just another hellhole.
Col. Quaritch: I was in First Recon myself, few years ahead of you. Well, maybe more than a few. Three tours Nigeria, not a scratch. I come out here…
Col. Quaritch: [he points to his scarred face] Day one. Think I felt like a shave tail Louie. But they could fix me up if I rotated back, and make me pretty again. But you know what? I kind of like it. Reminds me every day what’s waiting out there.

Col. Quaritch: The avatar program is a bad joke, bunch of limpd**k science majors. However, it does present an opportunity, both timely and unique. A recon gyrene in an Avatar body, that’s a potent mix! Give me the goosebumps! Such a Marine could provide the intel I need, right on the ground, right in the hostiles camp. Look, Sully, I want you to learn these savages from the inside, I want you to gain their trust. I need to know how to force their cooperation, or hammer them hard if they won’t.
Jake Sully: Am I still with Augustine?
Col. Quaritch: On paper. You can walk like one of her science pukes, you quack like one, but you report to me. Can you do that for me, son?
Jake Sully: Hell, yeah, sir.
Col. Quaritch: Well, alright then.

'Good science is good observation.' - Dr. Max Patel (Avatar) Click To Tweet

Col. Quaritch: Son, I take care of my own. You get me what I need, I’ll see to it you get your legs back when you rotate home. Your real legs.
Jake Sully: That sounds real good, sir.

Dr. Grace Augustine: Stay with the ship. One idiot with a gun is enough.
Corporal Lyle Wainfleet: You’re the man, Doc.

Dr. Grace Augustine: [referring to the Hammerhead Titanothere] Don’t shoot. Don’t shoot. You’ll pi** him off.
Jake Sully: It’s already pi**ed off.
Dr. Grace Augustine: Jake, that armor’s too thick. Trust me. It’s a territorial threat display. Do not run or he’ll charge.
Jake Sully: So what do I do? Dance with it?
Dr. Grace Augustine: Just hold your ground.

Jake Sully: [as the Titanothere runs off upon seeing the Thanator behind Jake] That’s right. Get your punk a** back to mommy. Yeah? Yeah, you got nothing. You keep running. Yeah, why don’t you bring back some of your friends, huh?
Jake Sully: [to Grace, as he turns and sees an angry Thanator] What about this one? Run? Don’t run? What?
Dr. Grace Augustine: Run! Definitely run!

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Jake Sully: [after Neytiri saves him from being killed by the viperwolves] Look, I know you probably don’t understand this, but, thank you. Thank you. That was pretty impressive. I would have been screwed if you hadn’t come along. Hey, wait a second! Hey, where are you going? Wait up! Just, hey, slow down! I just wanted to say thanks for killing those things…
Jake Sully: [as Neytiri hits him with her bow] Aaah! Damn!
Neytiri: Don’t thank. You don’t thank for this! This is sad. Very sad only.
Jake Sully: Okay. Okay. I’m sorry. Whatever I did, I’m sorry.
Neytiri: All this is your fault. They did not need to die.
Jake Sully: My fault? They attacked me! How am I the bad guy?
Neytiri: Your fault! Your fault.
Jake Sully: Easy. Easy.

Neytiri: You are like a baby. Making noise, don’t know what to do.
Jake Sully: Fine. Fine. If you loved your little forest friends, why not just let them kill my a**? What’s the thinking?
Neytiri: Why save you?
Jake Sully: Yeah, why save me?
Neytiri: You have a strong heart. No fear. But stupid! Ignorant like a child!
Jake Sully: Well, if I’m like a child, then maybe you should teach me.
Neytiri: Sky People can not learn. You do not see.
Jake Sully: Then teach me how to see.
Neytiri: No one can teach you to see.

Neytiri: You’re like a baby.
Jake Sully: I need your help.
Neytiri: You should not be here.
Jake Sully: Okay, take me with you.
Neytiri: No! Go back!

Eytukan: [in Na’vi, referring to Jake] This creature, why do you bring him here?
Neytiri: [in Na’vi] I was going to kill him, but there was a sign from Eywa.
Eytukan: [in Na’vi] I have said no dreamwalker will come here!
Jake Sully: [to Neytiri] What’s he saying?
Eytukan: [in Na’vi] His alien smell fills my nose.
Jake Sully: What’s he saying?
Neytiri: My father is deciding whether to kill you.
Jake Sully: Your father!? It’s nice to meet you, sir.

Mo’at: What are you called?
Jake Sully: Jake Sully.
Mo’at: Why did you come to us?
Jake Sully: I came to learn.
Mo’at: We have tried to teach other Sky People. It is hard to fill a cup which is already full.
Jake Sully: My cup is empty, trust me. Just ask Doctor Augustine. I’m no scientist.

Mo’at: What are you?
Jake Sully: I was a Marine. A warrior. Of the Jarhead clan.
Tsu’tey: [in Na’vi] A warrior! I could kill him easily!
Eytukan: [in Na’vi] No! This is the first warrior dreamwalker we have seen. We need to learn more about him.
Mo’at: [in Na’vi] My Daughter. You will teach him our way, to speak and walk as we do.
Neytiri: [in Na’vi] Why me? That’s not fair!
Mo’at: It is decided! My daughter will teach you our ways. Learn well, Jakesully. Then we will see if your insanity can be cured.

Dr. Grace Augustine: [after Jake wakes up from his link] Is the avatar safe?
Jake Sully: Yeah, Doc, it’s safe, and you are not going to believe where I am!

Dr. Grace Augustine: The last thing we see is this Marine’s a** disappearing into the bush with this angry thanator coming after him.
Jake Sully: Well, it’s not something you can teach.
Dr. Max Patel: That is awesome.
Dr. Grace Augustine: You know, for reasons I cannot fathom, the Omaticaya have chosen you. God help us all.

Col. Quaritch: Jarhead clan? And it worked?
Jake Sully: Yeah, I’m practically family. They’re going to study me. I have to learn to be one of them.
Col. Quaritch: That’s called taking the initiative, son. I wish I had ten more like you.
Parker Selfridge: Look, Sully, Sully, just find out what the blue monkeys want. You know, I mean we try to give them medicine, education, roads! But, no, no, no! They like mud.

Parker Selfridge: Their damn village happens to be resting on the richest unobtanium deposit within two hundred klicks in any direction. I mean, look at all that cheddar!
Jake Sully: Well, who gets them to move?
Col. Quaritch: Guess.
Jake Sully: What if they won’t go?
Col. Quaritch: I’m betting that they will.

Parker Selfridge: Killing the indigenous looks bad, but there’s one thing that shareholders hate more than bad press, and that’s a bad quarterly statement. I don’t make up the rules. So just find me a carrot that’ll get them to move, otherwise it’s going to have to be all stick. Okay.
Col. Quaritch: You got three months. That’s when the dozers get there.
Jake Sully: Then we’re wasting time.
Parker Selfridge: I like this guy.

Jake Sully: So who’s this Eywa?
Norm Spellman: Who’s Eywa? Only their deity! Their goddess, made up of all living things. Everything they know! You’d know this if you had any training whatsoever.
Jake Sully: Who’s got a date with the chief’s daughter?
Norm Spellman: [as Jake holds up the picture of Neytiri’s] Oh, come on! That’s not a…
Dr. Grace Augustine: Knock it off you two. Village life starts early.
Dr. Grace Augustine: [to Jake] Don’t do anything unusually stupid.

Tsu’tey: [after watching Jake fall off his horse] You should go away.
Jake Sully: No. You’d miss me. I knew you could speak English.
Tsu’tey: [in Na’vi] This alien will learn nothing. A rock sees more. Look at him.

Dr. Grace Augustine: [as they’re flying towards Hallelujah Mountains] Yep. We’re in the flux vortex.
Trudy Chacon: We’re VFR from here on.
Norm Spellman: What’s VFR?
Trudy Chacon: It means you got to see where you’re going.
Norm Spellman: You can’t see anything!
Trudy Chacon: Exactly. Ain’t that a b**ch.

Norm Spellman: [when they see the Hallelujah Mountains] Oh, my God!
Trudy Chacon: You should see your faces.

Jake Sully: Grace didn’t miss a thing. She knew I was talking to the Colonel. But I had what she needed, a way back in with the clan. So she’s playing nice.

Neytiri: [referring to the banshee] Do not look in her eye. Ikran is not horse. Once shahaylu is made, ikran will fly with only one hunter in the whole life. To become “taronyu”, hunter, you must choose your own ikran. And he must choose you.
Jake Sully: When?
Neytiri: When you are ready.
[flies off on her ikran]

Jake Sully: The language is a pain. But, you know, I figure it’s like field-stripping a weapon. Just repetition. Repetition.

Jake Sully: Neytiri calls me sk’awn. It means moron.

Jake Sully: Norm’s attitude has improved lately. It’s good he’s back on board, but he thinks I’m a sk’awn too.

Jake Sully: My feet are getting tougher. I can run farther every day. I could trust my body to know what to do.

Jake Sully: Everyday its reading the trails, the tracks at the water-hole, tiniest scents and sounds. She’s always going on about the flow of energy, the spirits of animals. I really hope this treehugger crap isn’t on the final.

Dr. Grace Augustine: This isn’t just about eye-hand coordination out, you know. You need to listen to what she says. Try to see the forest through her eyes.
Jake Sully: Excuse me, this is my video log here.

Jake Sully: With Neytiri it’s learn fast or die.

Jake Sully: I talked Mo’at into letting Grace into the village. It’s the first time since the school was closed down.

Jake Sully: [referring to Neytiri] I try and understand this deep connection the people have with the forest. She talks about a network of energy that flows through all living things. She says all energy is only borrowed and one day you have to give it back.

Jake Sully: [in Na’vi, as he’s about to kill a hexapede] I see you Brother, and thank you. Your spirit goes with Eywa. Your body stays behind to become part of The People.
Neytiri: A clean kill. You are ready.

Jake Sully: Learning to ride an ikran, we call them banshees, is a test every young hunter has to pass. But to do that, you got to go where the banshees are.

Neytiri: Now you choose your ikran. This you must feel inside. If he also chooses you, move quick, like I showed. You will have one chance, Jake.
Jake Sully: How will I know if he chooses me?
Neytiri: He will try to kill you.
Jake Sully: Outstanding.

Jake Sully: [as he’s bonded with his ikran] That’s right! You’re mine.
Neytiri: First flight seals the bond. You cannot wait. Think fly!
[Jake and his ikran suddenly plummets off the cliff]

Jake Sully: [to his ikran] Shut up and fly straight!

Jake Sully: [as he’s flying on his ikran] I may not be much of a horse guy. But I was born to do this.

Jake Sully: [as he and Neytiri are flying together] I was a stone cold aerial hunter, death from above. Only problem is, you’re not the only one.

Neytiri: My grandfather’s grandfather was Toruk Macto, Rider of Last Shadow.
Jake Sully: He rode this?
Neytiri: Toruk chose him, it has only happened five times since the time of the First Songs.
Jake Sully: That’s a long time.
Neytiri: Yes. Toruk Macto was mighty, he brought the clans together in a time of great sorrow. All Na’vi people know this story.

Jake Sully: Everything is backwards now. Like out there is the true world, and in here is the dream.

Jake Sully: It’s hard to believe it’s only been three months. I can barely remember my old life. I don’t know who I am anymore.

Col. Quaritch: Haven’t got lost in the woods, have you? Your last report was more than two weeks ago. I’m starting to doubt your resolve! The way I see it, it’s time to terminate the mission.
Jake Sully: No. I can do this.
Col. Quaritch: You already have. You gave me good, usable intel on this Tree of Souls place. Yeah, I got them by the balls with that when this turns into a s**t fight. Which it will. Now it’s time to come in. By the way, you going to get your legs back. Yeah, I got you corporate approval. It’s a done deal. going to have you on a shuttle tonight. I’m a man of my word.
Jake Sully: I got to finish this. There’s one more thing. A ceremony. It’s the final stage of becoming a man. If I do it, I’m one of them. They’ll trust me. And I can negotiate the terms of their relocation.
Col. Quaritch: Well, then you better get it done, Corporal.

Jake Sully: [as Neytiri prepares him for the ceremony]The Na’vi say that every person is born twice. The second time is when you earn your place among the people, forever.

Eytukan: [in Na’vi, to Jake during the ceremony] You are now a son of the Omaticaya. You are part of the People.

Neytiri: You are Omaticaya now. You may make your bow from the wood of Hometree. And you may choose a woman. We have many fine women. Ninat is the best singer.
Jake Sully: Well, I don’t want Ninat.
Neytiri: Beyral is a good hunter.
Jake Sully: Yeah, she is a good hunter. I’ve already chosen. But this woman must also choose me.
Neytiri: She already has.
[Jake kisses her and they make love]

Neytiri: I am with you now, Jake. We are mated for life.

Jake Sully: [to himself, after he’s made love to Neytiri] What the hell are you doing, Jake.

Tractor Operator: [as Jake in his avatar tries to stop of the bulldozer] I got a native doing a funky chicken here. He’s blocking my blade.
Parker Selfridge: Well, keep going. He’ll move. These people have to learn that we don’t stop.

Jake Sully: Tsu’tey, don’t do this!
Tsu’tey: You!
Jake Sully: Listen, brother…
Tsu’tey: [referring to Neytiri] You mated with this woman?!
Dr. Grace Augustine: Oh, s**t!
Mo’at: Is this true?
Neytiri: We are mated before Eywa. It is done.

Jake Sully: Brother, please. Do not attack the sky people. Many Omaticaya will die…
Tsu’tey: [draws his knife] You are not my brother!
Jake Sully: [draws his knife then throws it down] I am not your enemy! The enemy is out there. And they are very powerful.

Jake Sully: [in English and Na’vi] I am Omaticaya. I am one of you, and I have the right to speak. I have something to say to all of you. The words are like stones in my heart.

Jake Sully: [as he’s been taken out of the link] Are you out of your goddamn mind?!
Col. Quaritch: [punches Jake] You crossed a line. Wheel this meat out of here.

Col. Quaritch: You let me down, son. So, what you, you find yourself some local tail, and you just completely forget what team you’re playing for?
Dr. Grace Augustine: Parker, there is time to salvage this situation. Parker diplomatic…
Col. Quaritch: Shut your pie hole!
Dr. Grace Augustine: Or what, Ranger Rick? You going to shoot me?
Col. Quaritch: I could do that.
Dr. Grace Augustine: [to Selfridge] You need to muzzle your dog.
Parker Selfridge: Yeah. Can we just take this down a couple of notches, please.

Dr. Grace Augustine: Those trees were sacred to the Omaticaya in a way you can’t imagine.
Parker Selfridge: Oh, you know what? You throw a stick in the air around here it’s going to land on some sacred fern, for Christ Sake!
Dr. Grace Augustine: I’m not talking about some kind of pagan voodoo here. I’m talking about something real, something measurable in the biology of the forest.

Dr. Grace Augustine: What we think we know, is that there’s some kind of electrochemical communication between the roots of the trees. Like the synapses between neurons. And each tree has ten to the fourth connections to the trees around it, and there are ten to the twelfth trees on Pandora.
Parker Selfridge: Which is a lot, I’m guessing.
Dr. Grace Augustine: It’s more connections than the human brain. Get it? It’s a network, it’s a global network. And the Na’vi can access it, they can upload and download data, memories, at sites like the one you just destroyed. Yes!
Parker Selfridge: What the hell have you people been smoking out there? They’re just goddamn trees.
Dr. Grace Augustine: You need to wake up, Parker.
Parker Selfridge: No, you need to wake up.

Dr. Grace Augustine: The wealth of this world isn’t in the ground, it’s all around us. The Na’vi know that, and they’re fighting to defend it. If you want to share this world with them, you need to understand them.
Col. Quaritch: I’d say we understand them just fine. Thanks to Jake here.

Jake Sully: [on video log] They’re not going to give up their home. They’re not going to make a deal. For a light beer and blue jeans? There’s nothing that we have that they want. Everything they sent me out here to do is a waste of time. They’re never going to leave Hometree.
Col. Quaritch: So since a deal can’t be made, I guess things get real simple. Jake, thanks. I’m getting all emotional. Might just give you a big wet kiss. I’ll do it with minimal casualties to the indigenous. I’ll drive them out with gas first. It’ll be humane. More or less.
Parker Selfridge: Alright, let’s pull the trigger.

Jake Sully: This is how it’s done! When people are sitting on s**t that you want, you make them your enemy. Then you’re justified in taking it.

Parker Selfridge: They’re fly-bitten savages that live in a tree! Alright. Look around, I don’t know about you but I see a lot of trees. They can move! Can you guys just, please?
Dr. Grace Augustine: They have families in there. Their children! Babies! Are you going to kill children?
Jake Sully: You don’t want that kind of blood on your hands. Believe me. Just let me try to talk them out. They trust me.

Parker Selfridge: [to Jake as he’s about to close his link unit] Listen to me, you’ve got one hour. Unless you want your girlfriend in there when the axe comes down, you get them to evacuate. One hour.

Jake Sully: You have to leave, or you’re going to die.
Mo’at: Are you certain of this?
Jake Sully: Look, they sent me here to learn your ways. So one day I could bring this message, and that you would believe it.
Neytiri: What are you saying, Jake? You knew this would happen?
Jake Sully: Yes. Look, at first, it was just orders, and then, everything changed. Okay? I fell in love. I fell in love with the forest, with the Omaticaya people, with you.
Neytiri: I trusted you. I trust you!
Jake Sully: Trust me, now. Please.
Neytiri: You will never be one of The People!

Col. Quaritch: [referring to the Hometree] That is one big damn tree!

Col. Quaritch: [as the gunships have opened fire on the Hometree] And that’s how you scatter the roaches.

Trudy Chacon: [decides not to obey Quaritch’s orders] Screw this.
Corporal Lyle Wainfleet: What the hell are you doing?
Trudy Chacon: I didn’t sign up for this s**t!

Jake Sully: [as he finds Neytiri beside her dead father] I’m sorry. I’m sorry.
Neytiri: Get away. Get away! Get away from here. Never come back!

Jake Sully: I was a warrior who dreamed he could bring peace. Sooner or later though, you always have to wake up.

Dr. Grace Augustine: [after getting shot by Quaritch] This is going to ruin my whole day!

Dr. Grace Augustine: [as Jake injects her with morphine] Ouch!
Jake Sully: You big baby.
Dr. Grace Augustine: We’re moving?
Jake Sully: I’m got to get you some help, Grace.
Dr. Grace Augustine: I’m a scientist, remember? I don’t believe in fairy tales.
Jake Sully: The People can help you. I know it.
Dr. Grace Augustine: Why would they help us?

Jake Sully: The People say, Eywa will provide. With no home there was only one place they could go.

Jake Sully: [as he wakes in his avatar body] Outcast. Betrayer. Alien. I was in a place the eye does not see. I needed their help and they needed mine. But to ever face them again, I was going to have to take it to a whole new level.

Jake Sully: Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move.
Jake Sully: [to his Banshee] There’s something we got to do. You’re not going to like it.

Jake Sully: The way I had it figured, Toruk is the baddest cat in the sky. Nothing attacks him. So why would he ever look up? That was just a theory.

Neytiri: [as she sees Jake at the Tree of Souls] I see you.
Jake Sully: I see you.
Neytiri: I was afraid Jake, for my people. I’m not any more.

Jake Sully: [in Na’vi and English] Tsu’tey, son of Ateyo. I stand before you, ready to serve the Omaticya people. You are Olo’eyctan, and you are a great warrior. I can’t do this without you.
Tsu’tey: Toruk Macto. I will fly with you.
Jake Sully: My friend is dying. Grace is dying. I beg the help of Eywa.

Mo’at: [referring to Grace and her avatar body] The Great Mother may choose to save all that she is in this body.
Jake Sully: Is that possible?
Mo’at: She must pass through the Eye of Eywa and return. But, Jakesully, she is very weak.
Jake Sully: Hang on, Grace. They’re going to fix you up.

Dr. Grace Augustine: I’m with her, Jake. She’s real.
Jake Sully: [as Grace dies] Grace! Grace! Grace! What’s happening? Grace! Grace! What’s happening? Did it work?
Mo’at: Her wounds were too great, it was not enough time. She is with Eywa now.

Jake Sully: [to the clan] The Sky People have sent us a message that they can take whatever they want, and no one can stop them. But we will send them a message. You ride out, as fast as the wind can carry you. You tell the other clans to come. You tell them Toruk Macto calls to them. That you fly now with me. My brothers, sisters! And we will show the Sky People that they cannot take whatever they want. And that this is our land!

Jake Sully: We rode out to the four winds. To the horse clans of the plain, to the ikran people of the easter sea. When Toruk Macto called them, they came.

Col. Quaritch: [to his marines] Everyone on this base, every one of you, is fighting for survival. That’s a fact. There’s an aboriginal horde out there massing for an attack. Now, these orbital images tell me that the hostiles numbers have gone from a few hundred, to well over two thousand in one day. And more are pouring in. In a week’s time there could be twenty thousand of them. At that point they will overrun our perimeter. Well, that’s not going to happen. Our only security lies in preemptive attack. We will fight terror with terror. Now the hostiles believe that this mountain stronghold of theirs is protected by their deity. And when we destroy it, we will blast a crater in their racial memory so deep, that they won’t come within a thousand klicks of this place ever again. And that, too, is a fact.

Norm Spellman: We’re screwed.
Trudy Chacon: And I was hoping for some sort of tactical plan that didn’t involve martyrdom. We’re going up against gunships with bows and arrows.
Jake Sully: I got fifteen clans out there, that’s over two thousand warriors. And we know these mountains. We fly them, you fly them. They don’t. They’re instruments won’t work up here. Missile tracking, won’t work. They’ll have to fire line of site. They bring the fight to us and we have the home field advantage.
Trudy Chacon: You know he’s going to commit that bomber straight to the Tree of Souls.
Jake Sully: Yeah, I know.
Norm Spellman: They get to the Tree of Souls, it’s over. That’s their direct line to Eywa, their ancestors. It’ll destroy them.
Jake Sully: Well, then I guess we better stop them.

Jake Sully: [at the Tree of Souls] I’m probably just talking to a tree right now. But if you’re there, I need to give you a heads up. If Grace is with you, look into her memories, see the world we come from. There’s no green there. They killed their Mother, and they’re going to do the same here. More Sky People are going to come. They’re going to come like a rain that never ends. Unless we stop them. Look, you chose me for something. I will stand and fight, you know I will. But I need a little help here.
Neytiri: Our Great Mother does not take sides, Jake. She protects only the balance of life.
Jake Sully: It was worth a try.

Col. Quaritch: [to his pilots] This is papa dragon, I want this mission high and tight. I want to be home for dinner.

Trudy Chacon: [as she opens fire on Quaritch’s gunship] You’re not the only one with a gun, b**ch.

Neytiri: [to Jake as the creatures of the rainforest attack Quaritch’s men] Eywa has heard you. Eywa has heard you!

Jake Sully: Give it up, Quaritch! It’s all over.
Col. Quaritch: Nothing’s over while I’m breathing.
Jake Sully: I kind of hoped you’d say that.

Col. Quaritch: Hey Sully, how does it feel to betray your own race? You think you’re one of them? Time to wake up!

Jake Sully: The aliens went back to their dying world. Only a few were chosen to stay. The time of great sorrow was ending. Toruk Macto was no longer needed.

Jake Sully: Well, I guess this is my last video log. Because whatever happens tonight, either way, I’m not going to be coming back to this place. Well, I guess I better go. I don’t want to be late for my own party. It’s my birthday, after all. This is Jake Sully signing off.

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