Jay Leno: So it turns out there's life on other planets. Boy, this is really going to change the Miss Universe contest, you know what I mean?
Dr. Kent Clark: [Kent is blind] Nice to smell you again, Mr. Kitz.
Michael Kitz: You too.
Dr. Kent Clark: [aside] Wouldn't have pegged him as a Polo man.
Palmer Joss: I'm not against technology, doctor. I'm against the men who deify it at the expense of human truth.
Palmer Joss: The reason I didn't vote for you to go Ellie, was a good reason but it wasn't the real one. I didn't vote for you to go, because I don't want to lose you. Now you find your way home, all right?
Willie: Who are we going to call now?
Ellie Arroway: Everybody.
S.R. Hadden: [to Arroway in the tone of Hannibal Lecter] Clever girl.
Young Ellie: [after the funeral] CQ, this is W9GFO, do you copy?
[sniff]
Young Ellie: Dad, this is Ellie, come back?... This is Eleanor Arroway, transmitting on 14.2 megahertz.
[pleading]
Young Ellie: Dad, are you there? Come back? Dad, are you there? Dad, this is Ellie...
Ellie Arroway: Occam's razor. You ever heard of it?
Palmer Joss: Hack-em's Razor. Sounds like some slasher movie.
Ellie Arroway: [listening to the message] Those are primes! 2,3,5,7, those are all prime numbers and there's no way that's a natural phenomenon!
Ellie Arroway: I work for a project called SETI.
Palmer Joss: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence? Wow, that's out there.
Ellie Arroway: I'm okay to go! I'm okay to go! I'm okay to go...
[first lines]
Young Ellie: CQ, this is W9GFO. CQ, this is W9GFO here. Come back?
Young Ellie: I'm going to need a bigger antenna.
Dr. Kent Clark: Dr. Arroway will be spending her precious telescope time listening for... uh... listening for...
Ellie Arroway: Little green men.
Ellie Arroway: Mrs. Constantine? May I have a word with you?
Rachel Constantine: Certainly.
Ellie Arroway: Um, I have a big problem.
Rachel Constantine: Yes?
Ellie Arroway: Uh, do you know where I can find like a really great dress?
Ellie Arroway: I've been to Sunday school a few times.
Palmer Joss: And?
Ellie Arroway: I kept asking all these really annoying questions like "Where did Mrs. Cain come from?" And pretty soon they asked my dad if he wouldn't mind keeping me home from now on.
Ellie Arroway: You're not real. None of this is real.
Alien: [disguised as her father] That's my scientist.
Ellie Arroway: [looking the beach around you] When I was unconscious, you downloaded my thoughts, my memories, even Pensacola.
Alien: We thought this might make things easier for you.
