- Vincent: You want to know how I did it? This is how I did it, Anton: I never saved anything for the swim back.
- Vincent: What's this?
- Dr. Lamar: New policy, what's the matter? Flight got you nervous?
- Vincent: Nope, there's a problem, Lamar...
- Dr. Lamar: ... I still haven't told you about my son, have I? He's a big fan of yours...
- Vincent: Just remember. I was as good as any, and better than most...
- Dr. Lamar: ... He wants to apply here...
- Vincent: ... I could've gone up and back and nobody would've been the wiser...
- Dr. Lamar: ... unfortunately my son's not all that they promised. But then again, who knows what he could do?
- [test reveals Vincent as invalid]
- Dr. Lamar: For future reference, right-handed men don't hold it with their left. Just one of those things.
- [Lamar hits button revealing Jerome's valid ID, and then Vincent stares into Lamar's eyes, hesitating]
- Dr. Lamar: You're gonna miss your flight, Vincent.
- [last lines]
- Vincent: [voiceover] For someone who was never meant for this world, I must confess I'm suddenly having a hard time leaving it. Of course, they say every atom in our bodies was once part of a star. Maybe I'm not leaving... maybe I'm going home.
- Anton Freeman: Vincent! How are you doing this Vincent? How have you done any of this? We have to go back.
- Vincent: It's too late for that. We're closer to the other side.
- Anton Freeman: What other side? You wanna drown us both?
- Vincent: You wanna know how I did it? This is how I did it Anton. I never saved anything for the swim back.
- [Irene has discovered Vincent's secret]
- Irene: I don't even know who you are.
- Vincent: I'm the same person I was yesterday.
- Irene: I can't hear any more of your lies Jerome...
- Vincent: My name is Vincent, all right? Vincent Anton Freeman, and I'm a "faith birth" or a "de-gene-erate", whatever you want to call it; but I am NOT a murderer!
- Irene: You're a "God-child"?
- Vincent: [takes Irene's hand and places over his heart] But we do have one thing in common, only I don't have twenty or thirty years left in mine. Mine is already ten thousand beats overdue.
- Irene: It's not possible.
- Vincent: You are the authority on what is not possible, aren't you Irene? They've got you looking for any flaw, that after a while that's all you see. For what it's worth, I'm here to tell you that it is possible. It is possible.
- Vincent: They used to say that a child conceived in love has a greater chance of happiness. They don't say that anymore.
- Vincent: I was never more certain of how far away I was from my goal than when I was standing right beside it.
- Vincent: It's funny, you work so hard, you do everything you can to get away from a place, and when you finally get your chance to leave, you find a reason to stay.
- [first title card]
- Title Card: "Consider God's handiwork; who can straighten what He hath made crooked?" - Ecclesiastes 7:13
- [first lines]
- Director Josef: You keep your work station so clean, Jerome.
- Vincent: It's next to godliness. Isn't that what they say?
- Director Josef: Godliness. I reviewed your flight plan. Not one error in a million keystrokes. Phenomenal. It's right that someone like you is taking us to Titan.
- Vincent: Has the committee approved the mission? There's been talk of delay.
- Director Josef: You shouldn't listen to talk. You leave in a week. You've got a substance test.
- [Vincent is applying for employment at Gattaca. He has supplied a urine sample for analysis. When Dr. Lamar puts the sample into a genetic analyzer, the machine identifies it as "VALID", "MORROW, JEROME", "011010100-09564"]
- Dr. Lamar: Congratulations.
- Vincent: Well, what about the interview?
- Dr. Lamar: That was it.
- Antonio: We were just wondering if, if it is good to just leave a few things to, to chance?
- Geneticist: We want to give your child the best possible start. Believe me, we have enough imperfection built in already. Your child doesn't need any more additional burdens. Keep in mind, this child is still you. Simply, the best, of you. You could conceive naturally a thousand times and never get such a result.
- Irene: "Unacceptable risk of heart failure." I think that's what the manual says. The only trip I'll take in space is around the sun on this satellite right here.
- Vincent: [narrating] I belonged to a new underclass, no longer determined by social status or the color of your skin. No, we now have discrimination down to a science.
- [after vomiting]
- Jerome: Do you want some of this? I could keep it for you in case you ever need it... I'm sorry. Sorry.
- [Anton confronts Vincent at Gattaca Aerospace]
- Vincent: What are you doing here, Anton?
- Anton Freeman: I should ask *you* that question. I have a right to be here. You don't.
- Vincent: Heh! You almost sound as if you believe that. I committed no murder. You must be disappointed.
- Anton Freeman: You've committed *fraud*. Listen, you're in a lot of trouble, Vincent. I can get you out of here...
- Vincent: Do you have any idea what it took to get IN here?
- Dr. Lamar: Jerome, never shy, pisses on command. Beautiful piece of equipment you've got there, Jerome. I ever told you that?
- Vincent: Only every time I'm in here.
- Dr. Lamar: Occupational hazard. I see a great many on the course of any given day. Yours just happens to be an exceptional example. Don't know why my folks didn't order one like that for me.
- [second title card]
- Title Card: "I not only think that we will tamper with Mother Nature, I think Mother wants us to." - Willard Gaylin
- Vincent: I'll never understand what possessed my mother to put her faith in God's hands, rather than her local geneticist.
- [after examining the murder of a man bludgeoned to death with a keyboard]
- Det. Hugo: Well... I guess we can rule out suicide.
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