The best Quotes from Bridge of Spies

Donovan: "You don't seem alarmed."
Abel: "Would it help?"

We have to have the conversations our governments can't.

The boss isn't always right, but he's still the boss.

Donovan: "You have been charged with three 3 counts and 19 overt acts: Conspiracy to transmit United States defense and atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, conspiracy to gather secrets and failing to register as a foreign agent."
Abel: "Do many foreign agents register?"

Every accident, properly viewed, is an opportunity.

But sometimes people think wrong. People are people.

Donovan: "I think they have snipers."
Hoffman: "Well, I'm sure they do."
Donovan: "How are you sure they do?"
Hoffman: "Because we have snipers."

Is there any outcome here where I'm not either detained or shot?

We are engaged in a war. This war does not for the moment involve men at arms; it involves information. You will be collecting information.

What's the move when you don’t know what the game is?

Everyone deserves a defense. Every person matters.

In a world on the brink the difference between war and peace was one honest man.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait for too long, you'll miss them.

Good strategists sieze opprotunities.
Great strategists make their own.

The best defense is to bite first.

The only way you can get a hit is if you take a swing.

Overtaking is one thing. That is an art. But defending as well. You should be able to defend your position.

Your cells age at half the rate of a normal human. When you're 40, you'll still have the leucocytes of a teenager.

I will escape for every innocent woman whose life was stolen.