Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) Best Quotes

Starring: Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, John Rhys-Davies, Shaunette Renee Wilson, Thomas Kretschmann, Toby Jones, Boyd Holbrook, Oliver Richters, Ethann Isidore, Mads Mikkelsen

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Action adventure sequel directed and co-written by James Mangold. Set in 1969, against the backdrop of the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) follows archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) as he starts to feel doubts when the US Government recruits former World War II enemies in their desperation to beat the Soviet Union out in the competition to make it to space.

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Colonel Weber: [1944] Spy, you were alone?
Indiana Jones: I like to be alone.
Colonel Weber: What did you come here for?
Indiana Jones: You got a lot of nice stuff. Other people’s stuff.
Colonel Weber: “To the victor belongs the spoils.”
Indiana Jones: “To the victor”? Berlin’s in rubble. The Fuhrer’s in hiding. You lost.

Young SS Officer: Tell us your story, or die.
Indiana Jones: Story. Okay. Okay. Well, it all started once upon a time, when this village of stupid blue-eyed boys decided to join hands together and follow this sweaty little pied piper named Adolf.

Dr. Voller: [in German] The Antikythera’s power is not supernatural. It is mathematics. Whoever harnesses it, will not be King, nor Emperor, or Führer. He will be God.

Indiana Jones: Too many Nazis.

Basil Shaw: You’re alive!
Indiana Jones: So far.

Indiana Jones: I thought I told you to stay in the woods, Baz.
Basil Shaw: What sort of a man hides in a hedge while his friend is facing death?

Basil Shaw: This lot are carting off half the world’s antiquities.
Indiana Jones: I was going to stop them, but now I’ve got to rescue you.

Indiana Jones: Get up, Baz. Follow me.
Basil Shaw: Towards the gun?
Indiana Jones: Away from the Nazis!
Basil Shaw: Those are Nazis!

Basil Shaw: Bit rum to go home empty-handed after all that.
Indiana Jones: “Empty-handed”? Not exactly.
Basil Shaw: Archimedes Dial.
Indiana Jones: Well, half of it.

'It's not so much what you believe. It's how hard you believe it.' - Indiana Jones Share on X

Helena: What would the ancients say? If they knew we walked on the moon?
Indiana Jones: Speaking as an ancient, going to the moon is like going to Reno. Middle of nowhere and no blackjack.

Helena: You don’t recognize me, do you?
Indiana Jones: Whatever I did, I apologize.
Helena: It’s Helena. Helena Shaw.
Indiana Jones: Wombat?
Helena: Wow, I haven’t heard that in a while.
Indiana Jones: You got tall.
Helena: I did. It’s fair to say.

Dr. Voller: You didn’t win the war. Hitler lost it.

Helena: [referring to the Dial] It’s down there. It’s got to be. And nobody knows except us.
Indiana Jones: “Us”?
Helena: Well, I mean, you. And me. So, yeah. Us.
Indiana Jones: Us.

'The only thing worth believing in, ever, is cash.' - Helena (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny) Share on X

Indiana Jones: And what were you thinking exactly?
Helena: Well, that maybe we could go there.
Indiana Jones: And?
Helena: And find it. And I’d become famous. Oh, well, not famous. Renowned. Feted. A feted archeologist. And you, a final triumph! Indiana Jones! Out with a bang! Back in the saddle! I’m not selling this, am I?

Indiana Jones: Wombat, why are you chasing the thing that drove your father crazy?
Helena: Wouldn’t you?

Indiana Jones: Who are you?
Mason: That’s my question.

Indiana Jones: [inside the subway station] Hey, mister. Hold my horse.

Dr. Voller: People tend to romanticize science, when it is, in fact, quite cold.

'Things move forward. And sometimes, they go backward.' - Dr. Voller (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny) Share on X

Gov. PR Man: You might want to get that suit pressed, Dr. Schmidt. We leave for the airport in an hour. He’s going to meet the President.
Dr. Voller: If the President objects to a few creases, perhaps he should find himself another physicist.

Indiana Jones: Boy, am I glad to see you, Sallah.
Sallah: I wish I could say the same, old friend.

Sallah: If you run, the police will assume that you’re guilty.
Indiana Jones: Without Helena or the Dial, I’m going to get framed for murder.
Sallah: Have you thought about calling Marion?
Indiana Jones: She doesn’t want to talk to me.

Sallah: Indy, I miss the desert. I miss the sea. And I miss waking up every morning wondering what wonderful adventure the new day will bring to us.
Indiana Jones: This is not an adventure, Sallah. Those days have come and gone.
Sallah: Perhaps. Perhaps not.

'History is a long list of losses. It's just a question of whose.' - Dr. Voller (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny) Share on X

Sallah: Give them hell, Indiana Jones!

Indiana Jones: [flashback] Archimedes was a mathematician, Baz, not a magician.
Basil Shaw: He could predict fissures in time.
Indiana Jones: Fissures in time? Baz, you can’t prove that!
Basil Shaw: Well, not yet.
Indiana Jones: Proving it is what makes it science!

Basil Shaw: [referring to the Dial] Some things should stay buried.
Indiana Jones: I know, Baz.
Basil Shaw: It’s vital that you destroy it.
Indiana Jones: I will, Baz.
Basil Shaw: Do you understand?
Indiana Jones: I’ll destroy it. Yes.

Helena: This auction is private.
Indiana Jones: This auction’s over.
Helena: Au contraire, it’s hardly begun.

Helena: [to Indiana] I like the hat, by the way. Makes you look at least two years younger.

'History's greatest moment. Its end.' - Dr. Voller (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny) Share on X

Milanese Suit Man: Who is this man?
Indiana Jones: I’m her godfather.
Helena: He’s mildly related.
Indiana Jones: And she’s up past her bedtime.

Helena: You’re out of your depth, Jonesy.
Indiana Jones: “Jonesy”?
Helena: He thinks I’m a criminal. He’s the one wanted for murder.

Indiana Jones: What you’ve got here is Pandora’s Box.
Dr. Voller: No, actually. It’s my box.

Indiana Jones: You.
Dr. Voller: Have we met?
Helena: No.
Indiana Jones: My memory is a little fuzzy, but your face rings a bell. Are you still a Nazi?

Dr. Voller: You don’t seem to understand, Miss Shaw. This relic is my property.
Indiana Jones: It’s not yours. You stole it!
Dr. Voller: Then you stole it.
Helena: And then I stole it. It’s called capitalism.

Dr. Voller: You should’ve stayed in New York.
Indiana Jones: You should’ve stayed out of Poland.

Indiana Jones: [as he starts cracking his whip] Get back.

Dr. Voller: See you in the past, Dr. Jones.

Indiana Jones: [referring to the police] Tell them to back off.
Helena: I just told them to shoot you.

Rahim: My father woke me. He told me you’d returned to our hotel. Then he handed me this scimitar and told me to come home with your head.
Helena: Huh. Does it have to be that bit?

Rahim: I thought maybe you returned because you loved me.
Helena: Rahim, I had an item to sell.

Rahim: Is this your new man?
Indiana Jones: No.
Helena: It’s complicated.

Indiana Jones: [referring to Rahim] What exactly do you owe this guy?
Helena: Just some bail money and a lifetime of happiness.

Helena: You just got me killed!
Indiana Jones: Well, I’m not the one that’s engaged to a mobster!
Helena: I don’t need morality lessons from an aging grave robber!
Indiana Jones: I’m not a grave robber. Your father and I did important work together.

Helena: [to Jones] Don’t tell me all your escapades were noble, selfless quests. You did it for the buzz!

Teddy: Not this way!
Helena: You don’t know where you’re going, Indy! Listen to him. He knows this town!
Indiana Jones: I know Tangier!

Indiana Jones: You think he’d be proud of this?
Helena: Who?
Indiana Jones: Your father! His only daughter selling her soul for bail money!
Helena: Sounds quite cool when you put it like that.

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Indiana Jones: How did you end up like this?
Helena: Well, you mean resourceful? Daring? Beautiful? Self-sufficient?

Indiana Jones: I didn’t come here to rescue you from your fiancé!
Helena: Rescue me?
Indiana Jones: I just want the Dial back.

Helena: Not the smoothest break-up I ever had.
Indiana Jones: If your father was still alive…
Helena: Well, he’s not, Indy.

Helena: If only there’d been someone there for me, some father figure, someone specifically anointed for the job.
Indiana Jones: You have no idea about the kind…
Helena: Don’t beat yourself up about it. I mean, what even is a godfather? Anyway, family never was your strong suit.

Teddy: The Wright Brothers. Orville and Wilbur. They invented the airplane, and they lived in Indiana. Wilbur was born in Indiana.
Indiana Jones: I’m not from Indiana, Teddy. And the Wright Brothers were born during the Civil War.
Teddy: Oh, I thought maybe you went to school with them.
Helena: Oh, come on, Indy. That was funny.
Indiana Jones: “Funny”? I’m stuck in Tangier with a broken tuk-tuk and two thieves. I’m wanted for murder. Nazis have half of Archimedes Dial, and your father’s notebooks.

Teddy: [referring to Renaldo] So, that’s the expert diver?
Indiana Jones: Spain’s greatest frogman.
Teddy: So, Spain’s greatest frogman has a s**t boat and only one good frog leg?

Helena: [to Jones] I force the card. I offer the mark, you, the feeling of a choice, but ultimately, I make you pick the card I want.

Indiana Jones: I don’t believe in magic, Wombat. But a few times in my life, I’ve seen things. Things I can’t explain. And I’ve come to believe it’s not so much what you believe. It’s how hard you believe it.
Helena: I’ve seen things too, Indy. The only thing worth believing in, ever, is cash.

Helena: What if you could go back in time? What would you do? Witness the Trojan War? Check in on Cleopatra?
Indiana Jones: I’d stop my son from enlisting.
Helena: Did he sign up to please you?
Indiana Jones: No, he signed up to pi** me off.

Helena: [referring to Mutt] How would you have stopped him?
Indiana Jones: I’d tell him he was going to die. I’d tell him that his mother would find no end to her grief. And that his father would be helpless to console her. And that the loss would put an end to their marriage.
Helena: You’re still wearing the ring.

Teddy: [referring to the eels] They look like snakes.
Indiana Jones: No, they don’t.

Popeye – Lead Scuba Diver: You’re not coming, Teddy?
Teddy: I can’t swim.
Indiana Jones: Lucky him.

Dr. Voller: First, you return my Dial, Dr. Jones, and now, you bring me the Grafikos. I’m very happy you’re not wasting in retirement.
Indiana Jones: I should have retired you when I had the chance.

Helena: Sorry, Indy. I don’t do noble death. Just cold, hard maths.

Helena: I have said it before, and I will say it again! When you’re in a tight spot, dynamite.

Teddy: [referring to Jones] Okay, so he’s like running the show now?
Helena: He’s not running the show, Teddy.
Teddy: I just thought we were in this for all the wrong reasons.
Helena: We are. Most assuredly.

Helena: You’re not moving.
Indiana Jones: I’m thinking.
Helena: About?
Indiana Jones: About what the hell I’m doing up here, forty feet in the air, with crap shoulders, crumbling vertebrae, a plate in one leg, screws in the other.

Helena: I get it.
Indiana Jones: No, you don’t get it. You’re half my age. You haven’t been forced to drink the blood of Kali.
Helena: No. Fair enough.
Indiana Jones: Or been tortured with voodoo. And I’m just guessing, but I don’t think you’ve been shot nine times, including once by your father.
Helena: Dad shot you?

Indiana Jones: [referring to Teddy] Where did you find him?
Helena: He tried to steal my purse outside a casino in Marrakesh when he was ten. I hit him repeatedly with my car door, but he didn’t let go, and neither did I. So, been together ever since.
Indiana Jones: Thought you were all about the money.
Helena: I am.
Indiana Jones: Nobody memorizes every page of their dead father’s notebooks for the money.

Dr. Voller: Mathematics works. As it conquered space, it will conquer time.

Dr. Voller: You’ve already lost your son, Dr. Jones. Your wife is gone. Do you really want to lose your godchild? For what? A world that no longer caresabout men like us.

Indiana Jones: What kind of Nazi kills the Führer?
Dr. Voller: The kind that believes in victory, Dr. Jones. Hitler lit a fire that could have burned a thousand years. I saw every mistake. Every blunder. And I will correct them all. History is a long list of losses, Dr. Jones. It’s just a question of whose.

Helena: You think you can fly one of those?
Teddy: A Nord? Sure.
Helena: It’s not a ringing response.
Teddy: Well, I haven’t flown a Nord.
Helena: You’ve never flown any plane!

Dr. Voller: Fasten your seat belt, Dr. Jones. There might be some turbulence.
Indiana Jones: You’re German, Voller. Don’t try and be funny.

Indiana Jones: Archimedes didn’t know about continental drift.

Indiana Jones: I don’t know where we’re going, Jürgen. But it sure as hell ain’t 1939!

Dr. Voller: Yesterday belongs to us, Dr. Jones.

Indiana Jones: What are you doing here?!
Helena: Rescuing you!

Helena: [after they end up at the Siege of Syracuse in 212 BC] Indy, you’ve been shot. You’re bleeding. You can’t stay here.
Indiana Jones: Yes, I can.
Helena: But for what? For a long, painful death with poultice and leeches?
Indiana Jones: I’ve imagined this, Wombat. Studied it. All my life.
Helena: Yeah. And if you stay here, you will muck it all up. And die. Please, get up.

Indiana Jones: [in Greek] We’ve come two thousand years. But we didn’t expect to meet the great Archimedes.
Archimedes: You were always going to meet me.

Helena: That dial is a forced deck. It doesn’t take us anywhere but here.
Indiana Jones: He built it to get help.
Helena: Well, we just scared off the entire Roman Navy, so I think we’ve helped enough.

Helena: [to Archimedes, referring to Jones, in Greek and English] You are a brilliant man, a wise man, a genius, a hero to your people. But he can’t help you. This is your time. This is your time. He must be in his own time. He needs to be in his. His work is not done. He needs to go home. There is medicine at home. He cannot die here. He can’t.

Indiana Jones: Helena, get on the plane. I’ll be alright.
Helena: No, you won’t.
Indiana Jones: I need to do this.
Helena: Me too.
[she punches him and knocks him out]

Helena: How’s the shoulder?
Indiana Jones: Better than my jaw.

Indiana Jones: You should’ve let me stay.
Helena: I couldn’t do that.
Indiana Jones: Why not?
Helena: Well, for starters, you’d have changed the course of history.
Indiana Jones: That’s supposed to be a bad thing?
Helena: You’re meant to be here, Indy. Here.
Indiana Jones: For who?
[Marion then walks in through the front door]

Indiana Jones: What are you doing?
Marion: Putting groceries away. There wasn’t a scrap of food in this place.
Indiana Jones: No. Really.
Marion: Someone told me you were back. Are you back, Indy?

Marion: [referring to his shoulder wound] That looks bad. Does it hurt?
Indiana Jones: Everything hurts.
Marion: I know how that feels.
Indiana Jones: Well, where doesn’t it hurt?
Marion: [points to her elbow and shoulder] Here. It doesn’t hurt here. And here.
[he kisses her elbow and shoulder, they then embrace and share a kiss]