Famous lines from Argo (2012)

The lines

20 lines. Famous lines like these turn up in the daily game.

• Jesus Christ!Mendez

• Who else knows?Mendez

• Who's handling?Mendez

• What about the White House?Mendez

• State? They don't do exfils.Mendez

• What does he want me here for?Mendez

• State is coordinating in house.O'Donnell

• Why didn't we get them ten weeks ago?Tony Mendez

• So he can tell State he ran it by his best exfil guy.O'Donnell

• We've only been asked to sharpshoot this, State's handling the op.Engell

• We have intelligence they can ride bicycles or we’re prepared to send in somebody to teach them.Adam Engell

• We wait until the weather clears up then deliver the six bikes, provide them with maps to the Turkish border.Jon Bates

• Just the families. Meanwhile, some genius in our embassy was keeping a mug book on everybody who worked there.O'Donnell

• Too dangerous. You've got Revolutionary Guards going door to door like Jehovah's Witnesses. Half of them think Khomeini's been too lenient on the ones in the embassy.O'Donnell

• Or you could just send in training wheels and meet them at the border with Gatorade. It's 300 miles to the Turkish crossings. They'd need a support crew behind them with a tire pump.Tony Mendez

• They do now. They want to run it by us, strictly as consultants. Engell says its a lose-lose. These people die, they die badly. Publicly. State wants the blame, we'll give it to them.O'Donnell

• Based on a declassified true story.

• The movie was fake. The mission was real.

• They weren’t making a movie, they were making history.

• The most important movie of all time.. was never made.