ALL-TIME
BEST
MOVIE
QUOTES
Copyright © 1998 - 2023 by Jim Hull
(Please cite the author if you quote from this work)
(also see BEST
TV QUOTES)
A
while back,
the Guinness Book of Records declared that "Bond -- James
Bond" was the all-time most-famous movie phrase. Second was
"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she
walks into mine" from "Casablanca." Third was "It's not the
men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men," from
a Mae West flicker.
Aside from the impeccable choice of the Bond slogan, would the
person on the street think of the other two right away as
among the most memorable film words? I'm not so sure. Off the
top of my head I can think of crisper, better-known quotes
from "Casablanca" and the Mae West films:
-- "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'" -- Casablanca
-- "Round up the usual suspects." -- Casablanca
-- " . . . This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
-- Casablanca
-- "Come up and see me." -- Mae West
There
are lots of terrific, pithy quotes that could compete. What
with the "100 Greatest Films" and "100 Greatest Books" lists
that have surfaced recently to great controversy, maybe we
should do our own thinking on these topics. I don't know what
else was on the Guinness list, but here are some of my choices
for movie quotes that have struck chords in us over the years:
[If no contributor name follows the quote, it's from Jim Hull
-- he's a fan, too]
-- "You make me want to be a better man." -- As Good As It
Gets (from
SYRCUSEFAN@aol.com)
-- "Love means never having to say you're sorry." -- Love
Story
(from Ken Williamson, NBC engineer)
-- "I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." -- The
Wizard of Oz
(from Maureen Pinsonnault and Joan Williamson)
-- "The truth! You want the truth? You can't HANDLE the
truth!" -- A Few Good Men (from Ken Williamson, Mark
Nelson)
-- "Who ARE those guys?" -- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance
Kid
(from Alan Gray, scriptor)
-- "You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?
Then who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me?
Well I'm the only one here. Who do you think you're talking
to? Oh yeah? Huh? Ok." -- Taxi Driver (from Ken Williamson, Dave
Soyars, Maureen Pinsonnault, CCH, tekn0phile)
-- "Elaine!!!!!" -- The Graduate (from Ken Williamson)
-- "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." -- Apocalypse
Now
(from John MacAdams, art director and Celtic rogue; also from
Jim Dickey, Dave Slater)
-- "TODAY ... today ... I CONSIDER MYSELF ...sider-myself ...
THE LUCKIEST MAN ...kiest-man ... ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH
...the-earth-the-earth-the-earth..." -- The Pride of the
Yankees (from Ken Williamson)
-- "We're gonna need a bigger boat." -- Jaws (from Alan Gray, David
Angelo, Shipperson)
-- "He has a wife, you know!" -- Monty Python's Life of
Brian
(from Ken Williamson; this is getting embarrassing)
-- "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse." -- The
Godfather (from Ken Williamson, as if you couldn't guess)
-- "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!" -- The
Wizard
of Oz (from
Joan Williamson, Ken's wife -- this is starting to seem like a
conspiracy -- and from Libby Wilson)
-- "The object of war is not to die for your county. The
object of war is to make the other dumb bastard die for his."
-- Patton (from Rob Schwartz, AIA)
-- "Show me the money!" -- Jerry Maguire (from Maureen
Pinsonnault)
-- "Although she looked as fertile as a Tennessee valley, her
insides were a barren wasteland where my seed could find no
purchase." Raising Arizona (from Linda Sepulveda)
-- "If it's December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in
New York?" ... "What? My watch stopped!" ... "I bet they are
asleep in New York. I bet they are asleep all over America."
-- Casablanca (from Axel Voss)
-- "Did you abscond with the church funds? Run off with the
Senator's wife? I like to think you killed a man. It's the
romantic in me." ... "It was a combination of all three." -- Casablanca (from Axel Voss)
-- "I've been waiting for you, Obi-Wan." -- Star Wars,
Episode 4: A New Hope (from Kevin Mitchell)
-- "Once we get out of the eighties, the nineties are gonna
make the sixties look like the fifties." -- Flashback (from Kevin Mitchell)
-- "It's not how you stand by your car. It's how you race your
car." -- The Fast and the Furious (from
Gottawin14@aol.com)
-- "Just because you're a character doesn't mean you have character." -- Pulp
Fiction (How'd he get in here?)
-- "You are too twisted for color TV." -- Steel Magnolias
(from
Jennifer Hibner-Spencer)
-- "Soylent Green is PEOPLE!!" -- Soylent Green (from Christine Dickson
and Cindy Mills)
-- "All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in the
rain." -- Blade Runner (from Iain and Deb Fullerton)
-- "We three king be stealin' the gold." -- Three Kings (from Robert Davis)
-- "Uh...had a slight weapons malfunction. But, uh,
everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all
fine here, now, thank you. How are you?" -- Star Wars IV:
A New Hope (from Robert Davis)
-- "We deal lead, friend." -- The Magnificent Seven (from Jim Hogan)
-- "I live my life a quarter mile at a time." -- The Fast
and the Furious (from Gottawin, Leigh Beirley, Shannon P)
-- "What we've got here is failure to communicate." -- Cool
Hand Luke (from Brenda Graves and Gary Del Carlo)
-- "Looking good, Billy Ray!" "Feeling good, Louis!" -- Trading
Places
(from Bob
Lancaster, St Louis)
-- "God, Bud, y'all live like pigs!" -- Urban Cowboy (from Karen Ledesma)
-- "How many pennies do you think it takes to fill this room?"
... "With or without us in it?" -- Abandon (from
Fredadel79@aol.com)
-- "I'll have what she's having." -- When Harry Met Sally
(from
Linda Streetman)
-- "Vermont is lovely in the winter, what with all the snow."
-- White Christmas (from Collin Ruud)
-- "It's only in the mysterious equations of love that any
logic or reason can be found." -- A Beautiful Mind (from Collin Ruud)
-- "Resistance is futile!" -- Star Trek: First Contact (from Nancy Fox)
-- "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me." -- The
Graduate (from Bballcutie)
-- "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to
die." -- The Princess Bride (from Bballcutie, Keith Lehman,
Melinda Kammerer)
-- "We're gonna give you a fair trial, followed by a
first-class hanging." -- Silverado (from Yoseph Malkin)
-- "Houston, we have a problem." -- Apollo 13 (from Brian Camozzi,
Brett Moorman, Lydie)
-- "It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care." --
Office
Space (from
Derinda Rivetti)
-- "You know something? You read too many comic books." --
Rebel Without a Cause (from Mark Zajac)
-- "Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead,
only try to realize the truth." ... "What truth?" ... "There
is no spoon." -- The Matrix (from KatywithaY)
-- "You take the blue pill -- the story ends, you wake up in
your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take
the red pill -- you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep
the rabbit hole goes." The Matrix
-- "Why oh why didn't I take the BLUE pill?" -- The Matrix
(from
Matt Allred)
-- "Go on without me. I'm not going anywhere. They've tied my
shoelaces together." -- Hot Shots, Part Deux (from Joshua Clark)
-- "I can't listen to that much Wagner, ya know? I start to
get the urge to conquer Poland." -- Manhattan Murder
Mystery (from Christian Seglert)
-- "That's a nice little nothing you're almost wearing." --
Diamonds
Are Forever (from
Christian Seglert)
-- "Make it a slow one, Stella." -- Sweet Home Alabama (from Amby)
-- "I'm from Holland! Isn't that vierd?" -- Austin Powers
in Goldmember (from Joshua Clark)
-- "You... complete me." -- Jerry Maguire (from John Smith)
-- "When you love someone, you say it right then, out loud.
Otherwise the moment just passes you by." -- My Best
Friend's Wedding (from John Smith)
-- "You ask me if I have a God complex. Let me tell you
something: I am God." -- Malice (from Tammy Banks)
-- "This kind of love only comes around once in a lifetime." --
The
Bridges of Madison County (from Harriet, "Goddess
Aphrodite")
-- "I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray; you wore
blue." -- Casablanca (from Bea Bea)
-- "This was no boating accident." -- Jaws (from Gerry Janda, D.C.)
-- "I'll find 'im for three but I'll catch 'im and kill 'im
for ten . . . Ten thousand bucks. For that you get the head,
the tail, the whole damn thing." -- Jaws (from Gerry Janda, D.C.)
-- "Has anybody Seen Richie? I'm gonna keep coming back until
somebody sees Richie." -- Out For Justice (from Sam Lenard)
-- "I'm funny how?" -- Goodfellas (from Ronnie)
-- "Is it true how zey say zat you people are ... gifted? Oh,
it's twue, it's twue, it's twue!" -- Blazing Saddles (from Gerry Janda, D.C.)
-- "I'll be your huckleberry." -- Tombstone (from Chrissy Hudson)
-- "Greed . . . is good." -- Wall Street (from Debbie Hail)
-- "I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way." -- Who Framed
Roger Rabbit? (from Debbie Hail)
-- "WAKE UP! Time to die." -- Blade Runner (from Debbie Hail)
-- "The new phonebook's here! The new phonebook's here! I'm
somebody now!" -- The Jerk (from Kelly J.)
-- "Nobody puts Baby in a corner." -- Dirty Dancing (from Michele, Susan
Harris, Amanda Archibald, Shipperson)
-- "If they hadn't done what I told 'em not to do, they'd
still be alive today." -- Reservoir Dogs (from Ronnie)
-- "Christian, you may see me only as a drunken, vice-ridden
gnome whose friends are just pimps and girls from the
brothels. But I know about art and love, if only because I
long for it with every fiber of my being." -- Moulin
Rouge! (from
Pretty in Pink)
-- "Dude, where's my car?" -- Dude, Where's My Car? (from Cheese Man)
-- "One hundred percent pure adrenaline. . . . All you gotta
do is jump." -- Point Break (from Adam Lehman)
-- "You make sure they remember, FOREVER, the night they
played the Titans!" -- Remember the Titans (from Tammy Banks)
-- "I'm not going to bury my son! My son is going to bury
me!!" -- John Q (from Sam Banks)
-- "I see dead people." -- The Sixth Sense (from Debbie Hail, and
from Tammy Banks)
-- "You're my touchstone. . . . " -- Terms of Endearment (from William Brian)
-- "He's not the messiah. He's a very naughty boy!" --
Monty Python's Life of Brian (from Daniel Moores)
-- "Is this heaven?" ... "No, it's Iowa." -- Field Of
Dreams (from
Pete Siekas)
-- "So you're from outer space?" ... "No, I'm from Iowa. I
only work in outer space." -- Star Trek IV: The Voyage
Home
-- "That's all I got to say about that." -- Forrest Gump (from Pete Siekas)
-- "Mama always said life was like a box a chocolates, never
know what you're gonna get." -- Forrest Gump
-- "What law is it that says a woman is a better parent simply
by virtue of her sex?" -- Kramer vs. Kramer (from Tammy Banks)
-- "Why should we believe you?" ... "Because, unlike other
Robin Hoods, I speak with an English accent." -- Robin
Hood: Men in Tights (from Collin Ruud)
-- "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing
the world he didn't exist." -- The Usual Suspects (from Jennifer Bispo,
Lydie)
-- "Not everyone believes what you do, Morpheus." ... "My
beliefs do not require them to." -- The Matrix Reloaded (from Sylvia Johnson)
-- "I'm a Llama again!" -- The Emperor's New Groove (from Juliette Cabrera)
-- "Freeeeedom!!" -- Braveheart (from Christopher T. Evans,
A1C, USAF)
-- "Stupid is as stupid does." -- Forrest Gump (from Christopher T.
Evans, A1C, USAF)
-- "I wanted it to be you. I wanted it to be you so bad!" --
You've
Got Mail (from
Michael
A. Cuthbertson and HR Betty Boop)
-- "You're so money and you don't even know it" --
Swingers (from Neysa Aiken)
-- "There's no crying in baseball!" -- A League of Their
Own (from
Peter C. Goswick and Tricia McGinity)
-- "I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain
myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the
very freedom that I provide and then questions the manner in
which I provide it." -- A Few Good Men (from Goh Cher Wee)
-- "Get busy living, or get busy dying." -- The Shawshank
Redemption (from
Bobert)
-- "Every evening I died, and every evening I was born again,
resurrected." -- Fight Club (from Whisky Drinkin' Clown)
-- "Don't ever tell me the odds!" -- The Empire Strikes
Back
(from Dink and Rudder)
-- "We're on a mission from God." -- The Blues Brothers (from Dink and Rudder,
Steve Joyal)
-- "Instant gratification takes too long." -- Postcards
from the Edge (from Dink and Rudder)
-- "I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, when he
said, 'I drank what?!'" -- Real Genius (from Dink and Rudder)
-- "I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only
five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement,
I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44
Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow
your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question:
Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?" -- Dirty Harry (from Matt Allred)
-- "All righty then!" -- Ace Ventura, Pet Detective (from Matt Allred, Bobby
Dennis)
-- "Well, isn't this place a geographic oddity. Two weeks from
everywhere." -- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (from Matt Allred)
--"Hasta la vista, baby!" -- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (from Richard)
--"Where is Hasta la Vista Baby?" -- Terminator 2:
Judgment Day (from Tim Foley)
--" . . . If I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a
really great man." --Citizen Kane (from Eric Michael)
--"Fredo, you're nothing to me now. You're not a brother,
you're not a friend." --The Godfather, Part II (from Joey Navas)
--"Some little filly break your heart?" ... "No, it was a
girl." -- Dumb and Dumber (from Joao Pereira)
--"To infinity, and beyond!" -- Toy Story (from Anna "Foolsfate")
--"You ever dance with the devil by the pale moonlight?" --
Batman (from
Anna "Foolsfate", Austin O'Bade, Jim Dickey)
--"Ooh, somebody stop me!" -- The Mask (from Anna "Foolsfate")
--" . . . Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And
no good thing ever dies." -- The Shawshank Redemption (from Erika Dedrich,
eternal optimist)
--"Would ya look at the size of that kid's head! It's the size
of a planetoid and it has its own weather system! Looks like
an orange on a toothpick! I'm not kidding, that boy's head is
like Sputnik, spherical but quite pointy at parts! Aye, now
that was offsides, now wasn't it? He'll be crying himself to
sleep tonight, on his huge pillow." -- So I Married an Axe
Murderer (from
anonymous)
--"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the
Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal
servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a
murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my
vengeance, in this life or the next." -- Gladiator (from Hatem Seoudi)
--"The general who became a slave. The slave who became a
gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. Striking
story! But now, the people want to know how the story ends.
Only a famous death will do." -- Gladiator (from Hatem Seoudi)
--"Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back." --
Gladiator
(from Hatem
Seoudi)
--"Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most
insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your
rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything
that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this
room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no
points, and may God have mercy on your soul." -- Billy
Madison (from Joe "Cheeseman")
--"I am a machine." -- Terminator 3 (from Joe "Cheeseman")
--"Hey, would you, uh, love me the rest of my life?" ... "No.
I'm gonna love you for the rest of mine." -- Phenomenon (from Ryan Marras and HR
Betty Boop)
--"Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs
through it." -- A River Runs Through It (from Audrey)
--"It's like looking in a mirror. Only... not." --
Face/Off (from Nelle Edwards)
--"I'll never let go. I'll never let go, Jack." -- Titanic
(from
Rose)
--"If you're gonna send someone to save the world, make sure
they like it the way it is." -- XXX
--"Have fun stormin' the castle!" -- The Princess Bride (from Jim Hull, Keith
Lehman)
--"You don't throw a whole life away just 'cause it's banged
up a little." -- Seabiscuit
--"That is vere you're wrung! Wex is not just wex!" --
Return of the Pink Panther (from John Meyer)
--"Rule number one: no names. Rule number two: never change
the plan. Rule number three: don't look in the package." --
The Transporter
--"And Jeffrey Wigand, who's out on a limb, does he go on
television and tell the truth? Yes. Is it newsworthy? Yes. Are
we gonna air it? Of course not. Why? Because he's not telling
the truth? No. Because he is telling the truth. That's why
we're not going to air it. And the more truth he tells, the
worse it gets!" -- The Insider (from Goh Cher Wee)
--"Wax on, wax off." -- The Karate Kid (from Lindsey Welsh)
--"Heeeere's JOHNNY!!!" -- The Shining (from Sam J. Muscanere)
--"There's only two men I trust. One is me. The other is not
you." -- Con Air (from Joe "Cheeseman")
--"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this
anymore!" -- Network (from Gabe Garcia)
--"Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last?" ...
"That's right, Matrix. You did!" ... "I lied." -- Commando
[with Arnold Schwarzenegger as Matrix] (from Da Roach)
--"One Ring To Rule Them All, One Ring To Find Them, One Ring
To Bring Them All, And In The Darkness Bind Them." -- The
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (from Rachel Ford)
--"You rule this town like God rules the world. You give and
you take away." -- Road to Perdition (from Kris Ashton)
--"The fact that you're not answering leads me to believe that
(a) You're not home, (b) You're home but you don't want to
talk to me, or (c) You're home, desperately want to talk to
me, but you're trapped under something heavy. If it's either
(a) or (c), please give me a call." -- When Harry Met
Sally (from
Lora Kathleen Myers)
--"Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust
to be dishonest... Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to
watch out for, because you can never predict when they're
going to do something incredibly...stupid." -- Pirates of
the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (from Kelsey Omvig)
--"You are without a doubt the worst pirate I've ever heard
of." ... "But you have heard of me." -- Pirates of
the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (from Kelsey Omvig)
--""Me? I'm
scared of everything! I'm scared of what I saw, I'm scared of
what I did, of who I am, and most of all I'm scared of walking
out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life
the way I feel when I'm with you!" -- Dirty Dancing (from Sarah L)
--"What kind of a Mickey Mouse outfit would name their team
The Ducks?" -- Space Jam (from Marc "The Toolman" Vallee)
--"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in
my pajamas, I don't know." -- Animal Crackers
(from James
Harman, Steve Joyal)
--"Oh, this your
wife, huh? A lovely lady. Hey baby, you must've been something
before electricity." -- Caddyshack [Rodney Dangerfield] (from James Harman)
--"Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes." -- The Godfather (from Lance)
--"I've already wasted my whole life. I want to tell you with
my last breath that I have always loved you. I would rather be
a ghost, drifting by your side as a condemned soul, than enter
heaven without you." -- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (from Yvette Martin)
--"Do you expect me to talk?" ... "No, Mister Bond. I expect
you to die." -- Goldfinger (from Don Smythe)
--"Today is a good day to die." -- Little Big Man;
Flatliners (from Vic Fresnoza)
--"Every man dies. Not every man really lives." --
Braveheart (from Jrodg)
--"Are you stalking me? Because that would be super." --
Van Wilder (from
Jrodg)
--"You know, you could de-emphasize your nose if you wore
something larger, like Wyoming. . . . When you stop to smell
the flowers, are they afraid?" -- Roxanne (from Katie)
--"The great thing about M.J. is when you look in her eyes,
and she's looking back in yours, everything feels not quite
normal, because you feel stronger, and weaker at the same
time. You feel excited, and at the same time, terrified. The
truth is you don't know what you feel, except you know what
kind of man you want to be. It's as if you've reached the
unreachable, and you weren't ready for it." -- Spider-Man
(from
Laura Brewer)
--"Why should I agree to swap one tyrant three thousand miles
away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?" -- The
Patriot (from Katie)
--"If I die, then I will die well dressed." -- The Patriot
(from
Katie)
--" . . . There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and
it's worth fighting for." -- The Lord of the Rings: The
Two Towers (from Chilope)
--"I like to watch." -- Being There (from Carter Bays)
--"Your life will not go
unwitnessed because I will be your witness." -- Shall We
Dance (from Nicholas Gichu)
--"I know it was you Fredo.
You broke my heart. You broke my heart! . . . You're nothing
to me now. You're not a brother, you're not a friend." --
The Godfather: Part II (from Nicholas Gichu)
--"God bless America. And
no place else." -- Head of State (from Nicholas Gichu)
--"Madness! Madness!" --
The Bridge on the River Kwai (from Carter Bays)
--"Captain
Barbossa, I am here to negotiate the cessation of hostilities
against Port Royal." ... "There be a lot of long words in
there, miss. We're naught but humble pirates. What is it that
you want?" ... "I want you to leave and never come back." ...
"I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request. Means 'No.'" --
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (from Lisa Moncrieff)
--"There
are only two things I can't stand in this world. People who
are intolerant of other people's cultures... and the Dutch." --
Austin Powers in Goldmember (from Lisa Moncrieff)
--"When
I want your opinion, I'll give it to you." -- G.I. Jane (from Nicholas Gichu)
--"Are
we negotiating?" ... "Always." -- The Devi's Advocate (from Neeraja Shiknis)
--"Just
keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming,
swimming, swimming. What do we do? We swim, swim." --
Finding Nemo (from Carl D. Everhart)
--"You've
got me? Who's got you?" -- Superman (from Carl D. Everhart)
--"You
need people of intelligence on this sort of... mission...
quest... thing." -- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship
of the Ring (from Miz Kiddy)
--"Nine
companions. So be it. You shall be the fellowship of the
ring." ... "Great! Where are we going?" -- The Lord of the
Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (from Miz Kiddy)
--"They
call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather
and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!'"
-- Cold Mountain
--"I
trust
everyone. It's the devil inside them I don't trust." --
The Italian Job (from Omair
Alavi)
--"You're
the disease, and I'm the cure. " --
Cobra (from Omair Alavi)
--"To
boldly
go where no one has gone before." -- Star Trek: The Search
for Spock (from Omair Alavi)
--"Live
long and prosper." -- Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn (from
Omair Alavi)
--"Back off, man. I'm a scientist." --
Ghostbusters (from Lydie)
--"I'm
making this up as I go." -- Raiders of the Lost Ark (from Lydie)
--"I
always tell the truth. Even when I lie." -- Scarface
(from Darryl
Brownoff)
--"Sometimes you just gotta say 'What the heck.'" -- Risky Business (from Ron Birtch)
--"Whatcha go to college? To get
stupid? You're really stupid!" --
The Godfather: Part II (from Anna)
--"You
are everything I never knew I always wanted." -- Fools Rush In
(from Sharon
Lamb)
--"I just think a man, working
outdoors, feels more like a man if he can have a bottle of
suds." -- The
Shawshank Redemption (from Thomas J. Krause)
--"Roads? Where we're going we
don't need roads." -- Back to
the Future (from
Jeremy Pitcock)
--"What do you mean he don't eat
no meat? Oh, that's okay. I make lamb." -- My Big Fat Greek Wedding (from Alex)
--"Real
diamonds!
They must be worth their weight in gold!" -- Some Like It Hot (from Shannon Leigh)
--"You're the only boy who makes
my heart beat faster and slower at the same time." -- The Hot Chick (from Rainie eLLe)
--"I'm so insignificant, I can't
even kill myself." ... "Miles, what the hell's that supposed
to mean?" ... "C'mon, man, you know, Hemingway, Sexton,
Plath, Wolfe! You can't kill yourself before you've even
been published!"
-- Sideways
--"It's such a fine line between stupid and
clever." -- This
Is Spinal Tap (from "Bozo the Clown")
--"You know what, you're a lousy
kindergarten teacher. I've seen those finger-paintings you
bring home and they SUCK." -- Happy Gilmore (from Ron Birtch)
--"Got
lost in his own museum, eh?" -- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (from
John Meyer)
--"What's
the craziest thing you've done lately?" -- The Girl Next Door (from John Meyer)
--"It
ain't
about how hard you can hit, but how hard you can get hit, and
keep moving forward." -- Rocky
Balboa (from John Meyer)
--"I
heard
champagne chilling in the background." -- Mr. Mom (from Sharon
Lamb)
--"I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really good looking." -- Zoolander (from Nicholas Gichu)
--"I
am
not steak. You can't just order me." -- Working Girl (from Karen
Ledesma)
--"This
woman has to be gotten to a hospital." . . . "A hospital? What
is it?" . . . "It's a big building with patients, but that's
not important right now." -- Airplane (from Steve Joyal)
--"You just killed a helicopter
with a car!" ... "I was out of bullets." -- Live Free or Die Hard
(from Nicholas Gichu)
--"Frightened? Child, you're
talking to a man who's laughed in the face of death, sneered
at doom, and chuckled at catastrophe. I was petrified." -- The Wizard of Oz
--"I am standing here beside myself." -- Short Circuit (from Ron Birtch)
--"Never send adults to do a
kid's job." -- Spy Kids
--"I have a competition in me. I
want no one else to succeed. I hate most people." -- There Will Be Blood
--"If you have a milkshake, and
I have a milkshake, and I have a straw. . . . And my straw
reaches acroooooooss the room, and starts to drink your
milkshake. I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!" -- There Will Be Blood
--"We've got Armadillos in our
trousers. It's really quite frightening." -- This Is Spinal Tap (from
Kathleen)
--"You do not really know
someone until you fight them." -- The Matrix Reloaded
--"Once we clued into the fact
that life is finite, the thought of losing it didn't scare us
anymore. The end comes no matter what, the only thing that
matters is how do you wanna go out, on your feet or on your
knees?" -- The Kingdom
(from Thom Pantazi)
--"He sorta loves me. He hates
me. It's fun!" -- Waitress
--"Second prize is a set of
steak knives. Third prize is you're fired." -- Glengarry Glen Ross
--"The first rule of Fight Club is - you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is ... you DO NOT talk about Fight Club." -- Fight Club (from Riia Carnegie-Brown)
--"I'm not locked in here with
you! You're locked in here with ME!" -- Watchmen
--"Don't go in the pimped out
fridge, Jack." -- Race to
Witch Mountain
--"If you don't mind, I'm gonna
pass out." -- Ronin
--"I think that the chances of
finding out what's actually going on are so absurdly remote
that the only thing to do is to say, 'Hang the sense of it,'
and keep yourself busy. I'd much rather be happy than right
any day." ... "And are you?" ... "Ah, no." -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy
--"So, what are they like?" ...
"Malcontents, complainers. Stubborn as mules in the morning."
... "Oh. So you like them, then." -- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
--"You want to be a good
archaeologist, you've got to get out of the library!" -- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of
the Crystal Skull
--"Love isn't a feeling . . .
it's an ability." -- Dan in
Real Life
--"Instead of telling our young
people to plan ahead, we should tell them to plan to be
surprised." -- Dan in Real
Life
--"White Russian, no ice, no
vodka... hold the Kahlua." -- Catwoman
--"My wounds are deeper than
your desires." -- Sex and
Death 101
--"Some dreams are too true to
be good." -- Sex and Death
101
--"I think I'd miss you even if
we never met." -- The
Wedding Date
--"Second time I saved your
life!" ... "Yeah, run a tab!" -- Ghosts of Mars
--"Thus far, you have been
adrift in the sheltered harbor of my patience, but I cannot
tolerate you being jobless. Do I make myself clear?" -- Lilo & Stitch
--"How many wishes do I get?"
... "As many as you want." -- The NeverEnding Story
--"We must have boat. Even now
may be too late. This is your island, I make your
responsibility you help us get boat quickly, otherwise there
is World War Three, and everybody is blaming YOU!" -- The Russians Are Coming The
Russians Are Coming
--"I meant what I said and I
said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one hundred
percent!" -- Horton Hears a Who
--"In my world everyone is a
pony, and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies." -- Horton Hears a Who
--"No regrets, that's my motto.
Well, that and everyone Wang Chung tonight." -- Out Cold (2001) (from
Hector Gonzalez)
--"I don't want no Commies in my
car. No Christians either." -- Repo Man (from Thomas Nelson)
--"I require seventy percent."
... "And yet you'll only get fifty." ... "Done." -- The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
--"Life is a storm, my young friend. You
will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the
rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that
storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout . . . 'Do
your worst, for I will do mine!'" -- The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
--"Hey, Boo." -- To Kill a Mockingbird
(from Deanie Nyman)
--"The successful criminal brain
is always superior. It has to be!" -- Dr. No
--''You work hard, try to
provide for the family, and then, for one minute, everything's
good. Everyone's well, everyone's happy. And that one minute,
you have peace." -- While
You Were Sleeping
--"Will you marry me? Because
I'd like to date you." -- The
Proposal
--"Paris is always a good idea."
-- Sabrina (1995)
--"Everybody loves you. You just
think they're all wrong." -- Forces of Nature
--"Let me let you go." -- The Lake House
--"To create is to forgive
yourself in public." -- Nine
--"Just relax and let your mind
go blank. That shouldn't be too hard for you." -- Avatar
--"Have you ever been in love?"
... "A doll in Washington Heights once got a fox fur outta
me." -- Laura
--"I don't use a pen. I write
with a goose quill dipped in venom." -- Laura
--"I'm not kind, I'm vicious.
It's the secret of my charm." -- Laura
--"I don't know a lot about
anything, but I know a little about practically everything."
-- Laura
--"I also read palms, I swallow
swords, I mend my own socks, I never eat garlic or onions,
what more could you want of a man?" -- Laura
--"I must say, for a charming,
intelligent girl, you certainly surrounded yourself with a
remarkable collection of dopes." -- Laura
--"I can afford a blemish on my
character, but not on my clothes." -- Laura
--"In my case, self-absorption
is completely justified. I have never discovered any other
subject quite so worthy of my attention." -- Laura
--"Dean? He's brilliant." ...
"You called him a slick git not five hours ago!" ... "Yeah,
well, he was running his hands all over my sister, wasn't he?
Something snaps. You've got to hate him, you know. On
principle." -- Harry Potter
and the Half-Blood Prince
--"She's only interested in you
because she thinks you're the Chosen One." ... "But I am the Chosen One." -- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood
Prince
--"There's only two kinds of
people in the world. There's women. And there's men." -- (500) Days of Summer
--"Henry Miller said the best
way to get over a woman is to turn her into literature." -- (500) Days of Summer
--"C'mon, Steve. We've got diem to carpe." -- Cloudy with a Chance of
Meatballs
--"We can kill each other
later." --The Forbidden
Kingdom
--"What was I before I was
born?" -- Sunshine Cleaning
--"If you already live in
Heaven, where do you go when you die?" -- Sunshine Cleaning
--"These are our golden years.
We gotta prove our mothers wrong! Don't waste 'em." -- Maid in Manhattan
--"Can you keep a secret?" ...
"Of course!" ... "Good. So can I." -- Maid in Manhattan
--"What defines us is how well
we rise after falling." -- Maid
in Manhattan
--"Nothing is over until we
decide it is!" -- Animal
House
--"Damn reporters." ... "Like
the first ant at a picnic." -- Sweet Home Alabama
--"There is nothing wrong with
poor people. I get elected by poor people." -- Sweet Home Alabama
--"This is one of those
disasters waiting to happen. You know, one of the big ones
that only cockroaches survive?" -- Sweet Home Alabama
--"I can't control her any more
than I can control the weather." -- Sweet Home Alabama
--"Why do you want to dance?"
... "Why do you want to live?" -- The Red Shoes
--"Not a word! I will do the
talking. You will do the dancing." -- The Red Shoes
--"Well, I'll be damned!" ...
"Most of us are." -- The
Professionals
--"Maybe there's only one
revolution. Since the beginning. The good guys against the bad
guys. Question is, who are the good guys?" -- The Professionals
--"Go to hell!" ... "Yes, ma'am.
I'm on my way."
-- The Professionals
--"You and he were good
friends." ... "That's right." ... "And yet you would have
killed him." ... "That's right." ... "For money." ... "That's
right." -- The Professionals
--"So what else is on your mind
besides hundred-proof women, ninety-proof whiskey, and
fourteen-carat gold?" ... "Amigo, you just wrote my epitaph." -- The Professionals
--"You bastard!" ... "Yessir. In
my case, an accident of birth. But you sir, you're a self-made
man." -- The Professionals
--"You're not the same as you
were before. You were much more -- muchier. You've lost your
muchness." -- Alice in
Wonderland [2010]
--"Have I gone mad?" ... "Afraid
so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All
the best people are." -- Alice in
Wonderland [2010]
--"Don't you care what people
think of you?" ... "I'm not responsible for what people think,
only for what I am." -- The
Big Country (from Barb Novak)
--"You are a better husband to
me - without being married - than any of those real husbands
will ever be. And that's enough for me." -- He's Just Not That Into You (from Barb Novak)
--"Remember, before you can do
good, General Pang, you must look after yourself." -- The Warlords
--"My wife deserves vengeance.
Doesn't make any difference whether I know about it." -- Memento
--"Sometimes the magic works. Sometimes it doesn't."
-- Little Big Man
--"Gentlemen! May our journey be
long and filled with agony and torment, and may we all
complain about it bitterly as old men." -- Clash of the Titans
[2010]
--"What, don't you ever smile?"
... "When I spit in the eyes of the gods, then I'll smile." -- Clash of the Titans [2010]
--"Release the Kraken!" -- Clash of the Titans [2010]
--"The thing about this music is
the same thing about this whiskey." ... "Which is?" ... "I
forget." -- Nights in Rodanthe
--"When you're pushed, killing's as easy as
breathing." -- John Rambo
--"Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a
dry martini?" -- The Major
and the Minor
--“You stop telling lies about me, I’ll stop telling
the truth about you.” -- Wall
Street: Money Never Sleeps
--"Fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy
night!" -- All About Eve
(from Terri Prizant)
--"Applause ... like waves of love pouring over the
footlights." -- All About Eve
--"Bill's thirty-two. He looks thirty-two. He looked
it five years ago, he'll look it twenty years from now. I hate
men." -- All About Eve
--"Funny business, a woman's career - the things you
drop on your way up the ladder so you can move faster. You
forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a
woman." -- All About Eve
--"You're maudlin and full of self-pity. You're
magnificent!" -- All About
Eve
--"The cynicism you refer to, I acquired the day I
discovered I was different from little boys." -- All About Eve
--"You're an improbable person, Eve, and so am I. We
have that in common. Also our contempt for humanity and
inability to love and be loved, insatiable ambition, and talent.
We deserve each other." -- All
About Eve
--"I shall never understand the weird process by which
a body with a voice suddenly fancies itself as a mind." -- All About Eve
--"So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish
someone would tell me about me." -- All About Eve
--"Infants behave the way I do, you know. They carry
on and misbehave - they'd get drunk if they knew how - when they
can't have what they want, when they feel unwanted or insecure
or unloved." -- All
About Eve
--"He asks if you want a drink. You smile and say,
'Vodka soda.' If you already have a drink, you down it. Then
there's some flirting, some interoffice sex, an accidental
pregnancy, a shotgun wedding, and a life of bliss. How many
times do we have to go over this?" -- 27 Dresses
--"Who was that? And where can I get one? Is he coming
back?" -- 27 Dresses
--"I'm on this new diet. Well, I don't eat anything.
And when I feel like I'm about to faint, I eat a cube of cheese.
I'm just one stomach flu away from my goal weight." -- The Devil Wears Prada (from
Terri Prizant)
--"Trust me, there's no upside to cutting the undead
any slack." -- Hellboy: Sword
of Storms
--"I'm twelve. But I've been twelve for a long time."
-- Let the Right One In
--"Am I not a man? And is a man not stupid? I'm a man,
so I married. Wife, children, house, everything. The full
catastrophe." -- Zorba the
Greek
--"If your clients want to sit on my shoulders and
call themselves tall, they have the right to give it a try." --
The Social Network
--"Every Creation myth needs a Devil." -- The Social Network
--"You're embarrassing me beyond therapy." -- All-Star Superman
--"I'm working to be a meteorologist because that's
the only job I can be wrong every day and not get fired." -- Monsters
--"Mongo only pawn in game of life." -- Blazing Saddles (from Terri
Prizant)
--"I'm the lost princess!" -- Tangled
--"I just told ya, I dunno where Mister Hoppy went.
And I ain't supposed to tell!" -- Hopalong Cassidy: Fool's Gold
--"You're messin' with my Zen thing, man!" -- Tron: Legacy
--"My city screams. She needs me." -- The Spirit
--"It astonishes me that Mr. LaBoeuf has been shot,
trampled, and nearly bitten his tongue off, and yet not only
does he continue to talk but he spills the banks of English." --
True Grit [2010]
--"I do not entertain hypotheticals. The world itself
is vexing enough." -- True
Grit [2010]
--"[BLAM!]
Anybody else want to
negotiate?" -- The Fifth
Element
--"Retreat, hell! We just got here!" -- Battle: Los Angeles
--"Is this Heaven?" ... "If it were, we'd be eating strawberry Pop-Tarts with Kim Novak." -- Rango
--"No man can walk out of his own story." -- Rango
--"Don't ever write a check with your mouth you can't
cash with your ass." -- Sucker
Punch
--"For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the
sheltered will never know." -- Sucker Punch
--"I met her in a mall. Shoulda known our relationship
was doomed." -- Say Anything
--"If you start out depressed, everything's kind of a
pleasant surprise." -- Say
Anything
--"
I don't think you're being fair to me, Mr. Kidd . . . You're
treating me like you treat all your other writers." -- The Philadelphia Story
--
"Do you s'pose, sir, speaking of eye-openers...?" ... "That's
the first sane remark I've heard today. Come along, Dexter, I
know a formula that's said to pop the pennies off the eyelids of
dead Irishmen." -- The
Philadelphia Story
--"I'm going crazy. I'm standing here solidly on my
own two hands and going crazy." -- The Philadelphia Story
--"No one goes through the Valley of the Dead! That's
why they call it the Valley of the Dead." -- The Scorpion King
--"After a long day of looting and pillaging, there is
no greater city than Gomorrah... except maybe Sodom." -- The Scorpion King
--"Sometimes ya just gotta roll the dice." -- Paul
--"I just missed your heart." -- Hanna
--"Why can't you be happy for me and then go home and talk behind my back like a normal person?!" -- Bridesmaids
--"I'm life and I'm gonna bite you in the ass!" -- Bridesmaids
--"I have the highest possible security clearance.
Don't repeat that." -- Bridesmaids
--"For twenty-three years, I've been dying to tell you
what I thought of you! And now... well, being a Christian woman,
I can't say it!" -- The
Wizard of Oz
--[Igor at the new lab] "I don't know, a little paint,
some flowers, a few throw pillows..." -- Young Frankenstein (from
Lauren Kearns)
--"I'm trying to be your girlfriend, Gerry! I'm trying to win you back! I'm standing on the platform at Limbo Central with my heart and soul packed in my suitcase waiting for the Gerry F--king Express to roll in and tell me that my ticket is still valid and that I may reboard the train. Only the station announcer keeps coming on and telling me that my train has been delayed as the driver has suffered a major panic attack in Indecision City. 'We suggest you take the bus!'" -- Sliding Doors (from B.W. Lane)
--"Vengeance is the mission." -- The Mechanic
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