Edge of Tomorrow Best Quotes – ‘You have to die, every day.’

Starring: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Brendan Gleeson, Bill Paxton, Jonas Armstrong, Tony Way, Kick Gurry, Franz Drameh, Dragomir Mrsic, Charlotte Riley, Masayoshi Haneda, Terence Maynard, Noah Taylor, Lara Pulver, Madeleine Mantock

OUR RATING: ★★★½

Story:

Sci-fi action directed by Doug Liman adapted from the Japanese light novel “All You Need Is Kill” by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. Edge of Tomorrow (2014) centers on military officer, Bill Cage (Tom Cruise), who is demoted into serving a combat mission to take down a hive-like alien race invasion. When Cage is killed within minutes by one of the aliens he wakes up again to find himself in a time loop forcing him to relive the day over and over again. However, once he makes contact with legendary soldier, Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt), under her tutelage Cage becomes smarter and hopefully closer to defeating the aliens and changing his fate.

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Best Quotes

General Brigham: [being interviewed on CNN] If we do not defeat them in France, we’ll be fighting them in London, then New York, then Tokyo. All of humanity’s at stake.

Cage: [being interviewed on CNN] She was able to kill hundreds of mimics on only her first day in combat. Imagine an army of Rita Vrataskis.

Cage: Operation Downfall is going to be the largest mechanized invasion in the history of mankind. We will be victorious. We fight. That’s what we do.

General Brigham: Operation Downfall, the entire might of the UDF invading from France, the Mediterranean, Scandinavia, relieving pressure in the eastern front, allowing the Russians and Chinese to push the enemy back. We all meet in the middle, exterminating this mimic scourge along the way. A lot of good soldiers are going to die tomorrow, Major. and when the smoke clears, and the body bags start coming home, people tend to look for someone to blame, someone like me. Ideally, I’d prefer a different scenario.

Cage: A best-selling memoir perhaps. Maybe a career in politics? Off the top of my head, I would go with the sense of manifest destiny. Rags to riches. Rapid rise through the ranks. Born to deliver us. And the people, well, they love that sort of thing.
General Brigham: You misunderstand, Major. I didn’t ask you here to sell me. I want you to sell the invasion.

General Brigham: You ship out to the coast in one hour. Your camera crew is standing by. You’ll be on the beach with the first wave.
Cage: I’m sorry, the first wave? The beach? You mean, the front?
General Brigham: France. Satellites show minimal enemy movement down the coast. Little resistance. A little excitement, something to tell your grandchildren.
Cage: While I appreciate the confidence, General. I do this to avoid doing that.

Cage: I was an ROTC in college. The war broke out, I lost my advertising firm, and here I am. You know, I do what I do, and you do what you do, but I’m not a soldier really.
General Brigham: No, of course you’re not. That’s why I’m embedding you with several hundred thousand men and women who are.
Cage: Well it is an honor, General. I’m afraid I’m going to have to decline. I can’t stand the sight of blood. Not so much as a paper cut. But sitting here thinking about this, a couple of names come to mind that I feel like I could recommend to you.
General Brigham: It’s not an offer, Major. It’s an order.

Cage: General, I just inspired millions of people to join your army. And when the body bags come home, and they’re looking for someone to blame, how hard do you think it would be for me to convince people to blame you? I’d imagine a General would prefer to avoid that.
General Brigham: Are you blackmailing me, Major?
Cage: I would prefer not to be filming acts of heroism and valor on that beach tomorrow.
General Brigham: You won’t be.
Cage: I’m glad we could work this out. Now, if you’ll excuse me, General, I thank you.
General Brigham: [to one of his guards] Arrest this man.
Cage: What?

Cruel Sergeant: [Cage wakes to find himself on a pile of bags at the airport] On your feet, maggot!
Cage: Now that’s no way to address an officer, Sergeant.
Cruel Sergeant: That’s how I address a slack-jawed recruit right before I bust his hole with my boot heel, maggot!

Cage: Where the hell am I, Sergeant?
Master Sergeant Farell: Forward Operating Base, Heathrow. You just came in with the fresh recruits.
Cage: Do I strike you as a fresh recruit?
Master Sergeant Farell: No, sir, you do not.
Cage: My name is Major William Cage. I’m an American officer…
Master Sergeant Farell: Officer? This is Processing. There’s no officers down here.

Cage: Master Sergeant Farell, you’re an American.
Master Sergeant Farell: No, sir. I’m from Kentucky.

Cage: You’re not taking me to a phone, are you, Sergeant?
Master Sergeant Farell: No, I am not. Seems about the only honest thing you said to me so far is your name. It says here you’re a deserter. It says here you were caught impersonating an officer. It says here you’d likely try to make an outside call, even compromise security of this operation. Anything to get out of combat duty tomorrow. But that’s not going to happen. Ever. Private Cage.

Master Sergeant Farell: Rumor is a terrible thing. Come nightfall, these men will all reach the same conclusion. That you’re a coward and a liar, putting your life above theirs. Good news is there’s hope for you, Private. Hope in the form of glorious combat. Battle is the great redeemer. The fiery crucible in which the only true heroes are forged. The one place where all men truly share the same rank, regardless of what kind of parasitic scum they were going in.

Master Sergeant Farell: I see everyone is having a productive morning. You know, it gives me a swell of pride knowing soldiers of your caliber will be leading the charge tomorrow. Tip of the spear. Edge of the knife. Crack of my a**.
[pulls back the covers on one of the beds to reveal playing cards and some money]

'Through readiness and discipline, we are masters of our fate.' - Master Sergeant Farell (Edge of Tomorrow) Click To Tweet

Master Sergeant Farell: Private Kimmel, what is my view of gambling in the barracks?
Kimmel: Dislike it, Sergeant Farell.
Master Sergeant Farell: Nance, why do I dislike it?
Nance: Because it entertains the notion our fate is in hands other than our own.
Master Sergeant Farell: And what is my definitive position on the concept of fate, chorus?
All: Through readiness and discipline, we are masters of our fate.
Master Sergeant Farell: [to Cage] You might call that notion ironic. But trust me, you’ll come around.

Master Sergeant Farell: Private Cage is under the delusion that he does not belong here. We must dissuade him of this delusion. If he tries to run, feel free dissuade him until he can’t pi** standing up.
Cage: Sergeant, you have to listen to me. I will never be combat ready!
Master Sergeant Farell: I envy you, Cage. Tomorrow morning, you will be baptized. Born again.

Master Sergeant Farell: It’s a new day, people! Destiny calls. The world expects only one thing from us. That we will win!

Cage: [referring to his suit] Listen, man, I’ve never been in one of these.
Griff: Yeah, well, I’ve never been with two girls at the same time before. But you can bet when that day comes, I’ll make it work.

Master Sergeant Farell: Take care of Private Cage?
Griff: What, all day?
Master Sergeant Farell: Something tells me it won’t be nearly that long.

Master Sergeant Farell: We lost Germany. We lost France. If we lose today we won’t get to fight another. Now, I know the pressure on you is enormous. Two minutes to drop. It’s alright to be scared. Remember, there’s no courage without fear.

Skinner: [to Cage] Oi, mate! I think there’s something wrong with your suit! Yeah! There’s a dead guy in it.

Ford: [to Cage] Hey, watch your back out there, sir.
Nance: No one else will.

Master Sergeant Farell: [as the squad starts dropping out of the plane] Cage, drop or die!

Master Sergeant Farell: Private Cage! You’re going the wrong way! You’re going to miss your moment!

'Battle is the great redeemer. The fiery crucible in which the only true heroes are forged. The one place where all men truly share the same rank, regardless of what kind of parasitic scum they were going in.' (Edge of Tomorrow) Click To Tweet

Master Sergeant Farell: [referring to the mimics] Here they come. Mean as hell and thick as grass.

Cage: [as the day is repeating again] What day is it?
Master Sergeant Farell: For you? Judgment day.

Griff: Hey, what the hell’s wrong with you, man? Haven’t you been in one of these before?
Cage: Maybe.
Griff: Do you know where the safety is?
Cage: I’m not sure.
Griff: Good.

Cage: [after he saves Rita] I’m hit! I’m hit! How bad is it? Is there a lot of blood?
Rita: You have a hole in your chest.
Cage: Really?
Rita: Yeah.

Master Sergeant Farell: [as Cage is repeating the day again] Can I help you, sir?
Cage: My name is Major Bill Cage. I’m US Army Media Relations. I was not at a bachelor party or a poker game. You have an order in your left pocket that says that I’m a deserter caught impersonating an officer. But what it doesn’t say is, your name is Master Sergeant Farell from Science Hill, Kentucky. And if you give me thirty seconds to explain how I know that, you may just save the lives of every soldier on this base.
Cage: [as he’s being dragged into the barracks by Farell’s guards] You have to listen to me! They know we’re coming! They’re waiting for us! I have been there! I’ve seen it! You’re all doomed! You’re doomed!

Cage: Have any of you met me before?
Nance: B**ch, I don’t know you.

Cage: [to the squad] Now, what I’m about to tell you sounds crazy. It’s true. And you have to listen to me. Your very lives depend on it.

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Cage: [to Rita] I’m sorry! I’m trying to save you. We’re getting slaughtered. You need to get us off this beach. We have to go. This drop ship is about to explode. We have to go now!

Cage: [as Rita drops her weapon to the ground] Come on! This ship is going to explode! What are you doing?
Rita: Find me when you wake up.
Cage: What?
Rita: Come find me when you wake up.
[suddenly the aircraft explodes killing them both]

Ford: This is going to be my twentieth battle tomorrow, man.
Griff: You haven’t been in twenty battles, mate.
Ford: I have too!
Griff: You’re going to dump your load the second we hit the beach tomorrow.
Nance: Why don’t you two get yourselves a nice hot cup of shut the hell up?

Ford: I bet you I set some kind of record tomorrow.
Skinner: Fastest time moving backwards, Ford, slipping in your own s**t.

Master Sergeant Farell: [after Cage is killed as he rolls under a truck] What the hell were you thinking?

Cage: Excuse me!
Rita: Yes? Who said you could talk to me? Have I got something on my face, soldier?
Cage: You did. You did. Tomorrow. At the beach. Tomorrow. At the beach. We meet. You said to find you when I wake up. You do know what’s happening to me.
Rita: Come with me. Now.

Rita: You don’t talk to anyone about this but me. Because the best case scenario is you’re going to end up in a psych ward. Worst case, you’ll get dissected for study. Are we clear? Yes?
Cage: Yes.

Rita: First time you died, what happened? You killed a mimic?
Cage: Yes.
Rita: Describe it.
Cage: It was different. It was bigger. Blueish.
Rita: And you got covered in its blood.
Cage: As a matter of fact, I did.
Rita: They know we’re coming on the beach tomorrow. It’s a slaughter, isn’t it?
Cage: How do you know this?

Cage: Would you please just explain to me what the hell is happening.
Rita: What happened to you happened to me. I had it. I lost it. Okay?
Cage: I mean, that’s great. There’s a cure. How do I get rid of this?
Rita: First, I need your help.
Cage: Help with what exactly?
Rita: Winning the war.

Dr. Carter: I’m Dr. Carter. Particle physics. Advanced microbiology.
Rita: He’s also the only other person who’ll believe what’s happening to you. No one understands mimic biology better than him. He’s a top analyst at Whitehall.
Dr. Carter: Well, I mean, I was until I met Rita. And now I’m just a “mechanic with psychiatric delusions”.

Dr. Carter: This is the Omega. And the Omega has the ability to control time.
Rita: Whenever an Alpha is killed, an automatic response is triggered. The Omega starts the day over again. But you see, this time it can remember what’s going to happen, just like you do.
Dr. Carter: It knows exactly what we’re going to do before we’re going to do it.
Rita: And an enemy that knows the future can’t lose.
Cage: But if that’s true, how did you win at Verdun?
Rita: We were allowed to win. This thing wants us to believe we can win. It wants us to throw everything we have into the invasion. Operation Downfall isn’t our end game, it’s the enemy’s.

Rita: There’ll be nothing to stop the mimics from conquering the rest of the world. Unless you change the outcome.
Cage: Me?
Dr. Carter: When you killed that Alpha, you inadvertently entered the enemy’s nervous system.
Rita: Cage, you’ve seized control of the Omega’s ability to reset the day.
Cage: How is that even possible?
Dr. Carter: Perhaps this organism’s only vulnerability, its only vulnerability, is humanity.
Rita: Regardless of that, you control the power now. Just as I did in Verdun.
Cage: So I’m resetting the day?

Cage: How do I control it?
Rita: You have to die.
Dr. Carter: Every day.
Rita: Until the Omega is destroyed.

Cage: Fist of all, that was a terrific presentation. Terrific. I know the General. We should take this to him. You just tell him everything you told me, he would know…
Rita: I went to see the General, Cage. Any number of times. Psyche ward. Dissection. Remember?

Cage: [to Rita] What are you expecting from me?
Dr. Carter: Have you seen anything strange?
Cage: Is he s**tting me?

Cage: So all I have to do is wait to have these visions, and then tell you where this Omega thing is?
Rita: No. Cage. You’re going to get me there. And I’m going to kill it.
Cage: Get you there? I mean, I’m not even trained for combat.

Cage: [as he’s being combat trained by Rita] I think I broke something.
Rita: What?
Cage: My back. The only thing I can feel are my lips.

Rita: Now listen carefully. This is a very important rule. This is the only rule. You get injured on the field, you better make sure you die.
Cage: Why?
Rita: Last time I was in combat, I was hit. I was bleeding out. Just not fast enough. I woke up in a field hospital with three pints of someone else’s blood and I was out. I lost the power. Do you understand? Think we better start over. Don’t you?
Cage: What?
[Rita shoots him]

Rita: [to Cage] You don’t have time to think. Remember. It’s not enough knowing where they’re going to be. You have to know how to kill them.

Cage: Wait a second. You know, I’ve been thinking. I mean, this thing’s in my blood. So maybe there’s some way I can transfer it to you.
Rita: I’ve tried everything. It doesn’t work.
Cage: I mean, have you, you know? Tried all the options?
Rita: Oh, you mean sex? Yep. Tried it.
Cage: How many times?

Cage: I’m Bill Cage. You’re Dr. Carter. We’ve had this conversation before. You have two fingers behind your back. I’ve had the visions. I’ve seen the Omega. It’s pretty much game over tomorrow. So can we move this along?

Rita: [to Cage] You’re not being specific. You understand? You need to be specific. Otherwise, I’m dead.

Rita: [notices Cage watching her as she trains him] Have I got something on my face?
Cage: No.

Cage: [referring to what the mimics want] What difference does it make? They’re here. They’re winning. And whatever it is, they’re going to get it.
Old Man: Shouldn’t you be over there?
Cage: I’ve been over there. More times than anybody. As a matter of fact, I’m usually long dead by now.
Old Man 2: Coward.

Dr. Carter: I found the Omega. I found it. It has to be here. Curnera Dam, Germany. This has got to be it. It fits the description perfectly.
Cage: Yes, you found it. Again. What difference does it make? Because we’re never going to get there. No matter what we do, no matter how carefully we plan, we can’t get off that beach.

Rita: You can do this. You can. You keep coming here every day and I’ll train you.
Cage: You already have.

Cage: You don’t talk much.
Rita: I’m not a fan.
Cage: Of talking?
Rita: Not a fan of talking. No.

Cage: You know, you eventually do talk to me. It’s usually around Lyons. You tell me about the time you went there with your family. Your brother got lost.
Rita: I’ve never been to Lyons.
Cage: You tell me your middle name. Peyton.
Rita: That’s not my middle name.
Cage: You found your brother in the arcade, by the way.
Rita: Well, maybe I made it all up just to keep you quiet.
Cage: But you do talk to me.
Rita: Cage, I do not need to get to know you. And if you knew what was good for you, you wouldn’t want to get to know me either. It’s the only way you make it through this thing.

Cage: [referring to Hendricks] Is he why you won’t talk to me?
Rita: Don’t ever mention his name again.
Cage: Why? Are you in love with him?
Rita: He’s dead. And I watched him die three hundred times, and I remember every detail, I remember everything. So I don’t need to talk about it.
Cage: I’m sorry.
Rita: It’s just war.

Rita: Why drive when we can fly?
Cage: In that thing?
Rita: Let me guess. You’re afraid of heights.
Cage: I’m afraid of crashing. And not at all ashamed to admit it.

Rita: We’re flying, Cage.
Cage: Let’s just say we find the keys. You know? Get that helicopter started. We don’t have our jackets or ammunition. And It’s going to be dark in a few hours. Might be better off just going back to the farmhouse. Seeing what we could salvage. Spend the night there. Come back here in the morning.
Rita: And curl up by the fire and open a bottle of wine?
[Cage looks at her as if to say “why not”]

Rita: It’s a dead end. If it’s all the same to you, I’m tired. I’m in pain. I’d rather just start fresh.
Cage: I tell you what. Take a few minutes. Coffee’s ready. I’ll look around for the keys. That’s productive.
Rita: Ten minutes.
Cage: Okay.
Rita: And then I’m killing you.
Cage: Fine.

Rita: You can fly it, can’t you?
Cage: No. Well, yes. I mean, I can take off. I’m still working on my landing.
Rita: What are we still doing here? You’re wasting time!
Cage: Rita, if you start that engine, you die! This is as far as you go. No matter what I do, this is as far as you ever make it.

Rita: [after Cage reveals she gets killed by a mimic] Get your weapon and get in the helicopter, Cage.
Cage: There’s more in the field back there. Only one of us ever makes it.
Rita: Get in.
Cage: The only thing we haven’t tried is a version where you walk away. Just go back to the farmhouse. There’s a cellar and there’s food. Wait there, till I get back. You’ll be safe.
Rita: I’m a soldier. I volunteered. I’m not walking away.
Cage: You die here! Right here! I can’t save you. And if I go on and kill the Omega, you’re dead. Forever.

Rita: Why does it matter what happens to me?
Cage: I wish I didn’t know you. But I do.

Rita: [to Cage, as she’s about to die] My middle name is Rose.

Griff: [after Cage decides not to involve Rita any further] Alright, man. Let’s get this show on the road. I got to suit up. Where’s your helmet?
Cage: Never wear one. It’s a distraction.
Griff: Have you been drinking?
Cage: I need three more clips of 5.56, eight grenades, and an extra battery. Get it.

Rita: They knew we were coming. They ambushed us. The visions were a trap.
Cage: Just like Rita’s visions were a trap at Verdun. It could have killed me, but it didn’t. It’s after my blood.
Dr. Carter: So they know who you are. They want their power back.
Rita: And they’re going to get it one way or another. Unless we find the Omega.
Dr. Carter: There isn’t any other way. We’re finished!

General Brigham: I’ve asked not to be disturbed. This had better be critical.
Cage: Fate of mankind. Critical enough?
General Brigham: I don’t believe what I’m seeing?
Cage: I’ve had more than my share of that.

General Brigham: I have to hand it to you, Major. When you left this office today, I never imagined you’d be back, let alone with my most decorated soldier.
Cage: I’m going to tell you a story, General. And at first, it’s going to sound ridiculous, but the longer I talk, the more rational it’s going to appear.

Cage: [to Brigham] Tomorrow’s invasion is a slaughter. I’m dead within five minutes of landing on that beach, along with every other soldier you are sending. And that’s because the enemy knows we’re coming. Now, how do I know this? Before I died, I killed a mimic, only this one was different. It passed something on to me. In my blood. Now I live the same day over and over again. Just like they do. Just like Sergeant Vrataski at Verdun.

Cage: General, this isn’t the first time we’ve had this conversation. That’s because you’re stubborn. You won’t believe me when I tell you that Dr. Carter was right, that the enemy can manipulate time. The invasion will fail. No matter how many bodies you throw at it. And the only way to win this war is by finding this power source of the mimic horde and killing it. And the only means of finding it is in that safe right there. No matter how many times that we have this conversation, you refuse to accept that the enemy breaks through to London tomorrow, and we lose. We lose everything.

Cage: Well, what would you do if you believed everything I just told you?
General Brigham: I would locate this…
Cage: Omega.
General Brigham: And bomb it out of existence.
Cage: You’re not mentally equipped to fight this thing. And you never will be.
Rita: What do we do now?
Cage: I don’t know. We’ve never gotten this far.

Cage: I thought you were dead.
Rita: Not yet.

Cage: I’m out! They gave me blood! I lost the power. I feel it. I can’t reset the day anymore.

Cage: We have to kill the Omega before the invasion starts. That gives us less than three hours.
Rita: We need a drop ship to get to Paris in time.
Cage: We need more soldiers too.
Rita: Now, who’s crazy enough to follow us to Paris?

Skinner: Cage says the enemy knows us too. They’re waiting for us on the beach. And we all die. The whole invasion is a slaughter.
Griff: Well, this is great. Really good confidence boost for tomorrow. Thanks, Cage.
Nance: But we can change it, right? I mean, there has to be something that we can do. There has to be a way that we can win.
Cage: There is a chance. It’s a slim one. But it means coming with me, right now.
Griff: Listen, pal. I don’t really care what you think you know about us. We just met you. Come on, why would we follow him into combat?
Cage: I don’t expect you to follow me. I expect you to follow her.
Griff: [as Rita enters the room] That’s the Full Metal B**ch.

Master Sergeant Farell: It’s a new day, people! Destiny calls. The world expects only one thing from us, that we will win! Rest assured they enemy will thank you for not giving a hundred percent today. Squad! Where’s J Squad?

Kuntz: Just kill it. Okay?
Griff: No! You heard what Cage said. Do not kill an Alpha. If we kill an Alpha, the Omega will reset this whole day. We’ll never even remember we had this conversation. They’re going to know we’re coming.
Ford: So what am I supposed to do if one of those Alpha is about to kill me?
Cage: Take a hit for the team.

Skinner: I thought you could see the future.
Cage: I haven’t lived this day. I don’t know what’s going to happen.
Rita: It doesn’t matter. What matters is we finish this.

Skinner: There must be a thousand mimics between us and the pyramid. So what are we going to do? Just walk up to the front door? Is that it?
Rita: If we stay here, we die.
Skinner: Yeah? We’ll never get through.
Cage: [referring to the crashed airship] We could. In that.
Skinner: That ship will never fly.
Cage: It doesn’t need to fly. It just needs to get us across there with speed. If the engines are still running, we could steer with the power levers.

Cage: [to Rita, as they crash into the Louvre] We’ve been through worse.

Cage: I’m going to draw that thing away. You kill the Omega.
Rita: No. You won’t make it ten feet before that thing kills you, Cage.
Cage: I can do it.
Rita: Take the grenades.
Cage: I can do it.
Rita: Listen to me. Listen to me. Neither one of us is getting out of here. Thank you, for getting me this far. You’re a good man, Cage. I wish I had the chance to know you better.
[she kisses him then turns and rushes off to distract the Alpha]

General Brigham: [after the Omega is destroyed and Cage is resent to they day of his initial meeting with Brigham] Just before sunrise this morning, a large surge of energy was detected in Paris. We do not know exactly what this signifies. But the result appears to be a total collapse of the enemy’s capacity to fight. Russian and Chinese troops are now moving across Europe without resistance. Tomorrow, we advance on the western front. We believe we are marching to claim victory for ourselves, for our loved ones, for our countrymen, for the entire human race.

Rita: [as Cage finds her and she doesn’t recognize him] Yes? What do you want?
[Cage smiles and then breaks into a laugh]

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