She was up for the part as well, but then they found her in a salt pon — BioShock

"Do you see it? When I am dust, this is what theyll point to! My Quadtych! My masterpiece. Go ahead. Dont be afraid. Touch it."

"What I was trying to do with BioShock was to say, ‘Okay, well, [in Atlas Shrugged] that’s a utopia where Ayn Rand, who made the philosophy, made all the rules, and all the characters were under her control. What if things weren’t under everybody’s control?’ And I think that’s the problem with utopias — we bring ourselves to it, you know? We think we’re leaving our problems behind but – I don’t mean this in a cynical way – we are the problem. Like whatever social problems that occur come out of us. It’s not like they fall out of the sky. I think people think they’re going to go to a utopian society, and I think it’s not really possible."

"[passing the Bot Shutdown Panel in the office] Ive got the security system in this joint hacked, so those turrets wont bite. Come on up to my office."

"Things were supposed to work out for me, down here...! RYAN! Whens my turn, you son of a bitch?!"

"Listen – Ive got a family. I need to get them out of here. But the Splicers have cut me off from them. If you can reach them in Neptunes Bounty, then maybe, just maybe... I know you must feel like the unluckiest man in the world right now, but youre the only hope Ill ever see my wife and child again. Go to Neptunes Bounty... Find my family... Please."

"Plasmids changed everything. They destroyed our bodies, our minds. We couldnt handle it. Best friends butchering one another, babies strangled in cribs. The whole city went to hell."