Kenneth Branagh credited as playing...
Viktor Cherevin
- Viktor Cherevin: You Americans like to think of yourselves as direct, but I wonder if perhaps you are just rude.
- Jack Ryan: You Russians think of yourselves as poets but perhaps you're just touchy.
- Viktor Cherevin: [In Russian] It was always for Russia.
- The Minister Sorokin: So is this.
- [He shoots Viktor]
- Viktor Cherevin: Aging isn't the problem. Dying the proper way, that is the problem.
- Cathy Muller: Not if you've lived a life without regret.
- Viktor Cherevin: How on earth does one do that? Regret. It piles up around us like books we never read.
- Cathy Muller: Well, that's the past. Can you live the rest of your life without regret?
- Viktor Cherevin: Yes, perhaps. If I feel I have done something truly great for my country. Something my children would have found important.
- Cathy Muller: If we're going to be married, I'd like to know that I can trust him.
- Viktor Cherevin: Trust. Truth. I think it's like most opinions, best unexpressed.
- Viktor Cherevin: You flew all the way to Moscow to surprise him or to catch him, which was it?
- Cathy Muller: That's a rather personal question.
- Viktor Cherevin: Would you prefer impersonal? I'd rather talk than make chit-chat, wouldn't you?
- Viktor Cherevin: I'm sorry you had to come all this way for nothing, Mr. Ryan.
- Jack Ryan: I hear the finest restaurant in Moscow is across the street. In honor of our partnership and to, quite frankly, apologize for my mistake, perhaps I could take you to dinner.
- Viktor Cherevin: No. But I'll take you. And I insist my driver pick you up from your hotel. Moscow can be very dangerous.
- Cathy Muller: I love Lermontov. That Russian romanticism is so achingly desperate.
- Viktor Cherevin: Desperate, yes. And insatiable.
- Cathy Muller: Jack has a back injury. From Afghanistan.
- Viktor Cherevin: Me, too. Different time, different empire, same graveyard.
- Viktor Cherevin: You missed a fascinating conversation I had with Dr. Muller.
- Jack Ryan: I did? What was that?
- Viktor Cherevin: Things we regret. Let's you and I have that same talk soon.
- Viktor Cherevin: I put bulb in her mouth, Jack! Now, I have my hand beneath your bitch chin! And now in moment, I will crush her jaw so she bites down on it and begins slow and painful death! So, I will say it once more, I want what you stole from me and I want it now!
- Viktor Cherevin: You think this is game, Jack? You think my country bled for so many years before your feet for game?