Movie

The Imitation Game

by Graham Moore, Joan Clarke, Keira Knightley, Alan Turing, Benedict Cumberbatch and 123 others

Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during t

(15 total)

Characters

Graham Moore (15)Benedict Cumberbatch (12)Alan Turing (12)Christopher Morcom (1)Keira Knightley (1)Joan Clarke (1)Jack Bannon (1)Stewart Menzies (1)Mark Strong (1)

“Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes... hollow.”

— Graham Moore, Alan Turing, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com

Tagged: Violence, Satisfying, Hollow, Satisfaction, humans

“Even a broken clock is right twice a day.”

— Graham Moore, Alan Turing, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com

Tagged: broken clock

“Sometimes it's the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”

— Graham Moore, Christopher Morcom, Jack Bannon, imdb.com

Tagged: unexpected

“Think of it. A digital computer. Electrical brain.”

— Graham Moore, Alan Turing, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com

Tagged: digital computer, electrical brain

“Was I God? No. Because God didn't win the war. We did.”

— Graham Moore, Alan Turing, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com

Tagged: God, War

“Advice about keeping secrets: it's a lot easier if you don't know them in the first place.”

— Graham Moore, Alan Turing, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com

Tagged: Secrets

“Hardest time to lie to somebody is when they're expecting to be lied to.”

— Graham Moore, Alan Turing, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com

Tagged: lying

“Oh, Alan... we're gonna have such a wonderful war together.”

— Graham Moore, Stewart Menzies, Mark Strong, imdb.com

Tagged: War

“Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes... hollow.”

— Graham Moore, Alan Turing, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com

Tagged: Violence, Satisfaction, Hollow

“Of course machines can't think as people do. A machine is different from a person. Hence, they think differently. The interesting question is, just because something, uh... thinks differently from you, does that mean it's not thinking? Well, we allow for humans to have such divergences from one anot…”

— Graham Moore, Alan Turing, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com

Tagged: Machines, Thinking, pollen, allergy, ice-skating

“Are you paying attention? Good. If you are not listening carefully, you will miss things. Important things. I will not pause, I will not repeat myself, and you will not interrupt me. You think that because you're sitting where you are, and I am sitting where I am, that you are in control of what is…”

— Graham Moore, Alan Turing, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com

Tagged: Paying Attention, Listening

“Joan Clarke: Alan, what's happened? Alan Turing: [pause] We can't be engaged anymore. Your parents need to take you back. Find you a husband elsewhere. Joan Clarke: What's wrong with you? Alan Turing: I have something to tell you. I'm... I'm a homosexual. Joan Clarke: All right. Alan Turing: No, no,…”

— Graham Moore, Alan Turing, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com

Tagged: Homosexual, Coming out, Homophobia, True Love

“Alan Turing: I like solving problems, Commander. And Enigma is the most difficult problem in the world. Commander Denniston: Enigma isn't difficult, it's impossible. The Americans, the Russians, the French, the Germans, everyone thinks Enigma is unbreakable. Alan Turing: Good. Let me try and we'll k…”

— Graham Moore, Alan Turing, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com

Tagged: Enigma, Americans, russians, french, Germans

“When people talk to each other, they never say what they mean. [pause] They say something else and you're expected to just know what they mean.”

— Graham Moore, Alan Turing, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com

Tagged: say what you mean

“I know it's not ordinary. But who ever loved ordinary?”

— Graham Moore, Joan Clarke, Keira Knightley, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Exciting Love, sweet, Romantic