MOVIE QUOTES

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Lt. Col. Kilgore's (Robert Duvall) beachside monologue during a raid: ("You smell that? Do you smell that? ... Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like ... victory. Someday this war's gonna end

Gunnery Sgt. Hartman's (R. Lee Ermy) degrading, intimidating introductory speech to new inducted recruits at Parris Island: ("If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training, you will be a weapon. You will be a minister of death praying for war. But until that day you are pukes. You are the lowest form of life on Earth. You are not even human, fucking beings. You are nothing but unorganized grabastic pieces of amphibian s--t. Because I am hard you will not like me. But the more you hate me the more you will learn. I am hard, but I am fair! There is no racial bigotry here. I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops or greasers. Here you are all equally worthless. And my orders are to weed out all non-hackers who do not pack the gear to serve in my beloved Corps. Do you maggots understand that?")

Gunnery Sgt. Hartman's (R. Lee Ermy) taunting of Private Pyle (Vincent D'Onofrio): ("...Do you think I'm cute Private Pyle?; do you think I'm funny?... Then wipe that disgusting grin off your face... Well, any f--king time, sweetheart!... Private Pyle, I'm gonna give you three seconds; exactly three-f--king seconds to wipe that stupid-looking grin off your face or I will gouge out your eyeballs and skull-f--k you!")

Gordon Gecko's (Michael Douglas) financial advice to the annual stockholder's meeting of Teldar Paper: ("The point is, ladies and gentleman, is that greed - for lack of a better word - is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms - greed for life, for money, for love, for knowledge - has marked the upward surge of mankind. And Greed - you mark my words - will not only save Teldar Paper but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA.")

The opening, philosophical lecture to a class by theoretical quantum physicist Prof. Howard Birack (Victor Wong) on the nature of reality: ("We believe nature is solid, and time a constant. Matter has substance and time a direction. There is truth in flesh and the solid ground. The wind may be invisible, but it's real. Smoke, fire, water, light -- they're different! Not as to stone or steel, but they're tangible. And we assume time is narrow because it is as a clock -- one second is one second for everyone! Cause precedes effect -- fruit rots, water flows downstream. We're born, we age, we die. The reverse NEVER happens... None of this is true! Say goodbye to classical reality!")

...")Austrian court composer Antonio Salieri's (F. Murray Abraham) blissful, amazed narration while examining Mozart's sheet music for Serenade for Thirteen Wind Instruments: ("Extraordinary! On the page it looked nothing. The beginning simple, almost comic. Just a pulse - bassoons and basset horns - like a rusty squeezebox. Then suddenly - high above it - an oboe, a single note, hanging there unwavering, till a clarinet took over and sweetened it into a phrase of such delight! This was no composition by a performing monkey! This was a music I'd never heard. Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing, it had me trembling. It seemed to me that I was hearing a voice of God.")

The infamous "insect politics" speech made by a decaying -- both physically and mentally -- Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) to girlfriend Veronica Quaife (Geena Davis): ("You have to leave now, and never come back here. Have you ever heard of insect politics? Neither have I. Insects... don't have politics. They're very... brutal. No compassion, no compromise. We can't trust the insect. I'd like to become the first... insect politician. Y'see, I'd like to, but... I'm afraid, uh... I'm saying... I'm saying I - I'm an insect who dreamt he was a man and loved it. But now the dream is over... and the insect is awake... I'm saying: 'I'll hurt you if you stay'")The famous "drug bust" sequence in which Henry narrates a paranoid, hyperactive monologue while heavily intoxicated with drugs as he has to sell guns and ammunition, plan a drug courier trip with his kids' babysitter Lois (Welker White), and prepare a large Italian dinner for his family while being surveyed overhead by an FBI helicopter in the space of a caption-timed 16 frantic hours: ("...I had to start braising the beef, pork butt and veal shanks for the tomato sauce. It was Michael's favorite. I was making ziti with the meat gravy and I'm planning to roast some peppers over the flames and I was gonna put on some string beans with some olive oil and garlic, and I had some beautiful cutlets that were cut just right, that I was going to fry up before dinner just as an appetizer. So I was home for about an hour. Now my plan was to start the dinner early so Karen and I could unload the guns that Jimmy didn't want, and then get the package for Lois to take to Atlanta for her trip later that night..."); the monologue ends when Henry is busted by the DEA, and he coolly says with relief: ("For a second, I thought I was dead, but when I heard all the noise I knew they were cops. Only cops talk that way. If they had been wiseguys, I wouldn't have heard a thing. I would've been dead.")

Hannibal Lecter's (Anthony Hopkins) mocking assessment of Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster), after she gives him a questionnaire to answer: ("You're so-o ambitious, aren't you? You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well-scrubbed, hustling rube, with a little taste. Good nutrition's given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling? And that accent you've tried so desperately to shed - pure West Virginia. What does your father do? Is he a coal miner? Does he stink of the lamp? You know how quickly the boys found you. All those tedious, sticky fumblings in the back seats of cars, while you could only dream of getting out. Getting anywhere, getting all the way to the F...B...I"); and then after Clarice retorts, he adds his famous line of dialogue: ("A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chi-an-ti. You fly back to school now, little Starling. Fly, fly, fly. Fly, fly, fly.")Hitman Jules Winnfield's (Samuel L. Jackson) Bible quote: ("The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.")Larry Flynt's (Woody Harrelson) powerful speech in court (when sued by Jerry Falwell (Richard Paul) for a satirical mocking ad in his magazine Hustler), asking why photographing sex and nudity is criminally pornographic, but violence and murder is not, and illustrating his point with famous Pulitzer Prize-winning photos of extreme violence and gore, and offering his thoughts on the Bill of Rights: ("...If the First Amendment will protect a scumbag like me, then it'll protect all of you -- 'cause I'm the worst...")Sam "Ace" Rothstein's (Robert De Niro) wistful, disdainful eulogy for Las VegaOutlaw horde leader"

Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon after their three o'clock naps. And by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frosting from sweating and sweet talcum. The day was twenty-four hours long, but it seemed longer..

"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms."


.“That's what makes us tough. Rich fellas come up an' they die an' their kids ain't no good, an' they die out. But we keep a-comin'. We're the people that live. They can't wipe us out. They can't lick us. And we'll go on forever, Pa... 'cause... we're the people.”The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

”"There's an old joke: Two elderly women are at a Catskill Mountain resort. And one of 'em says: 'Boy, the food in this place is really terrible.' The other one says: 'Yeah, I know. And such small portions.' Well, that's essentially how I feel about life. Full of loneliness and misery and suffering and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly."Annie Hall (1977)

Greetings, my friends! We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friends; future events such as these will affect you in the future. You are interested in the unknown, the mysterious, the unexplainable; that is why you are here. And now for the first time we are bringing to you the full story of what happened on that faithful day. We are giving you all the evidence, based only on the secret testimonies of the miserable souls who survived this terrifying ordeal. The incidents, the places, my friends, we can not keep this a secret any longer; let us punish the guilty, let us reward the innocent. My friends, can your heart stand the shocking facts about the grave robbers from outer space?"

In a powerful speech spoken directly into the camera on his television show See It Now, legendary reporter Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) attacked Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's (Himself) methods: ("...We must not confuse dissent from disloyalty. We must remember always, that accusation is not proof, and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another, we will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason. If we dig deep into our history and our doctrine, we will remember we are not descended from fearful men. Not from men who dared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were for the moment unpopular...The actions of the Junior Senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and dismay amongst our allies abroad and given considerable comfort to our enemies. And who's fault is that? Not really his. He didn't create this situation of fear -- he merely exploited it, and rather successfully. Cassius was right: the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves. Good night, and good luck")

The closing monologue in which Amsterdam eulogizes the dead and fallen of New York: ("In the end, they put candles on the bodies, so's their friends -- if they had any -- could know them in the dark. The city did this free of charge. It was four days and nights before the worst of the mob was finally put down. We never knew how many New Yorkers died that week before the city was finally delivered. My father once told me we was all born of blood and tribulation; so then, too, was our great city. But for those of us who had lived and died in them furious days... it was like everything we knew was mightily swept away. And no matter what they did to build this city back up again -- for the rest of time -- it would be like nobody even knew we was ever here"), followed by the astonishing "time passage" sequence which shows the development of Lower Manhattan from 1863 through to pre-9/11 while U2's Hands That Built America plays.
The chilling scene in which Bill Cutting (Daniel Day-Lewis) shows young Amsterdam Vallon (Leonardo DiCaprio) how to knife-fight, using a butchered pig as a proxy for a man, before stabbing the pig repeatedly in demonstration: ("You get to know a lot butchering meat. We're made up of the same things - flesh and blood, tissue, organs. I love to work with pigs. The nearest thing in nature to the flesh of a man is the flesh of a pig...This is the liver. The kidneys. The heart. This is a wound -- the stomach will bleed and bleed. This is a kill. This is a kill. Main artery. This is a kill")


100 Great Movie Lines We Can't Live Without



Famous quotes and great lines of dialogue from 75 years of sound films come from speeches, one-liners, quips, punchlines, statements and insults. Here are some more examples of the most memorable movie quotes and lines of dialogue.

See also, "Greatest Last Film Lines and Quotes" with some of the greatest curtain-call lines ever.





100 GREAT MOVIE LINES WE CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT
Selected by Premiere Magazine (in their August 2000 issue)

Hint: Move your mouse pointer over the yellow star next to each quote to identify the source of the film quote (some of the stars are linked to the film's identification and a detailed description of the film).

"I'll make him an offer he can't refuse."

"I am big. It's the pictures that got small."
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"We didn't need dialogue. We had faces."
AND
"All right, Mr. De Mille. I'm ready for my closeup."

"You're gonna need a bigger boat."

"I'd hate to take a bite out of you. You're a cookie full of arsenic."

"I just want to say one word to you - just one word.... 'plastics.'"

"E.T. phone home."

"Fiddle-dee-dee."

"Hello, everybody. This is Mrs. Norman Maine."

"Michael...we're bigger than U.S. Steel."

- "Why would a guy wanna marry a guy?"
- "Security."

"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms."

"Miss Casswell is an actress, a graduate of the Copacabana School of Dramatic Art."

"Remember, you're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did."

"As God is my witness, as God is my witness, they're not going to lick me! I'm going to live through this, and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again - no, nor any of my folks! If I have to lie, steal, cheat, or kill! As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."

"...I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

(NOT "...I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!")
"Go ahead, make my day."

Gort. Klaatu Barada Nikto. It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
It's his ship now, his command. He's in charge, the boss, the head man,
top dog, big cheese, head honcho, number..
I lost it at the movies. ( title of book by New Yorker critic Pauline Kael)

Don't forget the cannoli.

How's Paully?
Oh Paully... won't see him no more. .
Someday, and that day may never come,
I'll call upon you to do a service for me.

"You owe me money!"Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country

Arthur I'm so rich, I wish I had a dime for every dime I had.

Don Corleone, I am honored and grateful that you have invited me to
your daughter... 's wedding... on the day of your daughter's wedding. And I hope their first child
be a masculine child.

But, I'm funny how? Funny like a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh? I'm here to fuckin' amuse you?

Badges? We ain't got no badges.We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges.
My father made him an offer he couldn't refuse.. .
Luca Brasi held a gun to his head, and my father assured him,
that either his brains or his signature would be on the contract.

Now I know we're not in Kansas anymore.



"Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!"

"Gentlemen. You can't fight in here. This is the War Room!"

"You know, you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle."

"If they move, kill 'em."

"Well, nobody's perfect."

- "Tell me, how did you find America?"
- "Turn left at Greenland."
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"The older generation are leading this country to galloping ruin!"

"You don't understand! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am. Let's face it......It was you, Charley."

"I'll be back."

"Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous plot we have ever had to face."

" I'll have what she's having."

"If you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, do you know what's gonna happen to you?...You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola Company."

"Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!"

"Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night."

"I stick my neck out for nobody."

"Can I borrow your underpants for ten minutes?"

"All of a sudden, she's playing Hamlet's mother!"
AND
- "I'm afraid Mr. De Witt would find me boring before too long."
- "You won't bore him, honey. You won't even get a chance to talk."

"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."

"Mother of Mercy! Is this the end of Rico?"

"Use the Force, Luke."

"They call me Mister Tibbs."

"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."

"R-o-s-e-b-u-d."
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"I've got his trunk all packed. I've had it packed for a week now."
AND
"Old age, it's the only disease...that you don't look forward to being cured of."
AND
"Everything was his idea...except my leaving him."
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"Five years ago, he wrote from that place down there in the South, uh, what's it called? Shangri-La? El Dorado? Sloppy Joe's?"

"Mmmm-hmmm! This is a tasty burger!"

"Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars."

"So I got that going for me, which is nice."

"Show me the money!"

- "Did you hear what I said, Miss Kubelik? I absolutely adore you."
- "Shut up and deal!"

"You're tearing me apart!"

"Then close your eyes and tap your heels together three times. And think to yourself, 'There's no place like home'."

"Here's looking at you, kid."

"That is one nutty hospital."

"...Bond. James Bond."

"You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together - and blow."

(NOT "If you want me, just whistle.")
"He-e-e-e-re's Johnnie!"

"Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!"

"We find the defendants incredibly guilty."

"I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen."

- "You want answers?"
- "I want the truth!"
- "You can't handle the truth!"

"Made it Ma! Top of the world!"

"Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown."

"You talkin' to me?"

"Licorice, mmmm. If there's anything I'm a sucker for, it's licorice."

"Pa's got things for you to do, and Mother wants you. I know she does. Shane. Shane. Come back. 'Bye, Shane."

"I am Spartacus."

"Yeah, I was in the s--t."

"What do you mean, I'm funny?...You mean the way I talk? What?...Funny how? I mean, what's funny about it?...But I'm funny how? I mean, funny like I'm a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh? I'm here to f--kin' amuse you? What do you mean, funny? Funny how? How'm I funny??...How the f--k am I funny? What the f--k is so funny about me? Tell me? Tell me what's funny!..."

"Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, but I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops, that is, depending on the breaks."

"I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way."

"The horror...the horror."

"We belong dead."

"You shouldn't ask me for advice...When it comes to relationships with women, I'm the winner of the August Strindberg award."

"Hey, don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love."

"Get away from her, you bitch!"

"We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives."
AND
"Last night I saw a flying object that couldn't have possibly been from this planet...But I can't say a word! I'm muzzled by army brass!"
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"All you of Earth - are idiots!"

- "He was from my village. He was the village idiot!"
- "Yeah, what'd you do, place?"

"Don't you f--kin' look at me!"

"No wire hangers!"

"Oh, no. It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast."

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning...smells like...victory."

"Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it."

"I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies."

"I'm the king of the world!"

"Lovely...lovely."

"Yippie kay-yay, mother@#!%er."

- "Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules."
- "You want me to hold the chicken, huh?"
- "I want you to hold it between your knees."

"Frankly, my dear. I don't give a damn."

"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?"

"Wait a minute! Wait a minute! You ain't heard nothin' yet. Wait a minute, I tell ya, you ain't heard nothin'! Do you wanna hear 'Toot, Toot, Tootsie!'?"

"Round up the usual suspects."
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"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

"Go, get the butter."

Lo's (Chen Chang) mystical legend about a cliff to lover Jen Yu (Ziyi Zhang), before she reluctantly returns to her family: ("You must decide. You might get tired of this life. You might begin to miss your family. If it were our daughter, we'd look for her too. She would miss us. Jen... I want you to be mine forever. I will make my mark on the world. I will earn your parents' respect. We have a legend. Anyone who dares to jump from the mountain, God will grant his wish. Long ago, a young man's parents were ill, so he jumped. He didn't die. He wasn't even hurt. He floated away, far away, never to return. He knew his wish had come true. If you believe, it will happen. The elders say, 'A faithful heart makes wishes come true.'")

s casino life during a closing montage: ("The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today, it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some twenty-five-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids? Junk bonds. But in the end, I wound up right back where I started. I could still pick winners, and I could still make money for all kinds of people back home. And why mess up a good thing?")

Col. Nathan R. Jessup's (Jack Nicholson) courtroom tirade: ("You can't handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, lieutenant Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know - that Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives; and my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall -- you need me on that wall. We use words like "honor," "code," "loyalty." We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punch line. 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. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand the post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to!")



Greatest Last Lines and Final Film Quotes



These are many of the best-known curtain call lines, fade-outs, and final words of dialogue in cinematic history - the last lingering words heard before the title “The End.” In quite a few cases, the memorable final lines are also some of the greatest lines in film history. They often reveal a vital truth about the film, cap off a comedy with a punchline, or help to define what the film was all about in just a few words. The last phrases or words often help to set a mood or tone as the film concludes, or they can be great one-liners.

Index to Greatest Last Film Lines
(chronological)
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

Part 1

Famous Last Line Film Title
“Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever!” (title card) The Birth of a Nation (1915)
“At last I recognize his mania. He believes me to be the mystical Caligari. Astonishing! But I think I know how to cure him now.” (title card) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919, Ger.)
“And at that moment, as if by a miracle, the sick no longer died, and the stifling shadow of the vampire vanished with the morning sun.” (end title card) Nosferatu, the Vampire (1922, Ger.)
“Brothers!” (title card) Battleship Potemkin (1925, USSR)
“THE MEDIATOR BETWEEN HEAD AND HANDS MUST BE THE HEART!” (title card) Metropolis (1927)
“Fog, fog all time. You can't tell where you was going. Only that old devil sea, she knows.” Anna Christie (1930)
“Mother of Mercy! Is this the end of Rico?” Little Caesar (1930)
“Yes, I can see now.” (title card) City Lights (1931)
“The son of a #*@ stole my watch.” The Front Page (1931)

“The Grand Hotel. Always the same. People come. People go...nothing ever happens.”
“Grand Hotel.”

Grand Hotel (1932)
“We do!” Horse Feathers (1932)
“I steal.” I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)
“I'm sorry for everybody in the world, I guess.” Rain (1932)
“I was reading a book the other day.”
“Reading a book!”
“Yes. It's all about civilization or something, a nutty kind of a book. Do you know that the guy said that machinery is going to take the place of every profession?”
“Oh, my dear, that's something you need never worry about.” Dinner at Eight (1933)
“Victory is ours!” Duck Soup (1933)
“And Marsh will probably say he discovered her. Some guys get all the breaks.” 42nd Street (1933)
“Oh, no! It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.” King Kong (1933)
“…And they've got to tell me that I'm much more wonderful than anyone else because, Nellie - Nellie, I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid of being just a morning glory. I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid. Why should I be afraid? I'm not afraid.” Morning Glory (1933)
“Betty said that 'Honesty was the best politics.' (He holds up a cigarette) Look!” Sons of the Desert (1933)
“Scusi! Scusi! I'm also very good at parties!” The Gay Divorcee (1934)
“But what in the world do they want a trumpet for?”
“Dunno.” It Happened One Night (1934)
“There is no emperor. There is only an empress.” The Scarlet Empress (1934)
“Look, Marguerite, England.” The Scarlet Pimpernel (1935)
“It’s a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done. It’s a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known.” A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
“Thank you, sir. Thank you. I’m glad it’s off my mind. Glad.” The Thirty-Nine Steps (1935)
“Well, well, well, Mr. Beddini, what are you doing in this young lady's room?” Top Hat (1935)
“She was beautiful when she died...a hundred years ago.” Dracula's Daughter (1936)
“I’ve got to get more steps. I need more steps. I’ve got to get higher, higher!” The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
“Stand still, Godfrey, it'll all be over in a minute.” My Man Godfrey (1936)
“Never give a sucker an even break.” Poppy (1936)
“It is this or that - all the universe or nothing. Which shall it be, Passworthy? Which shall it be?” Things to Come (1936)
"Emily, I have a little confession to make. I really am a horse doctor, but marry me and I'll never look at any other horse."

A Day at the Races (1937)
“O-lan, you are the earth.” The Good Earth (1937)
“Don't shoot—they're in Switzerland.”
“All the better for them.” Grand Illusion (1937, Fr.)
“Yes. Yes, I believe it. I believe it because I want to believe it. Gentlemen, I give you a toast. Here's my hope that Robert Conway will find his Shangri-La. Here's my hope that we all find our Shangri-La.” Lost Horizon (1937)
“This is good for cracking nuts. Isn't it?” The Prince and the Pauper (1937)
“...so beautiful, even in death, that the dwarfs could not find it in their hearts to bury her...they fashioned a coffin of glass and gold, and kept eternal vigil at her side...The Prince, who had searched far and wide, heard of the maiden who slept in the glass coffin.” Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
“I think you'll like it here. We're one big family...” Stage Door (1937)
“Hello, everybody. This is Mrs. Norman Maine.” A Star is Born (1937)
“All right, folks, you’ve seen enough. Move along, please. Come on, clear the sidewalk.” Stella Dallas (1937)
“May I obey all your commands with equal pleasure, Sire!” The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
“I'm sorry, Pepe. He thought you were going to escape.”
“And so I have, my friend.” Algiers (1938)
“It's true, boys. Every word of it. He died like they said. All right, fellas. Let's go and say a prayer for a boy who couldn't run as fast as I could.” Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
”Sometimes I think it's harder to raise a husband than a baby.” Blondie (1938)
“There is no bad boy.” Boys Town (1938)
“Oh, dear. Oh, my. Hmmm.” Bringing Up Baby (1938)
“Merry Christmas, and may God bless us, every one.” A Christmas Carol (1938)
“Where the devil are my slippers, Eliza?” Pygmalion (1938)
“And when the day comes, I want to stand beside you and see the ships go through the canal and know you built it for all the people in the world.” Suez (1938)
“We’ve all got our health, and as far as anything else is concerned, we still leave that up to you. Thank you.” You Can’t Take it With You (1938)
“Blondie!” Blondie Brings Up Baby (1939)
“Is that you, Martha? I don't want to be disturbed.” Dark Victory (1939)
“Papa, I've come home.” Golden Boy (1939)
“...Tara!...Home. I'll go home, and I'll think of some way to get him back! After all, tomorrow is another day!” Gone With the Wind (1939)
“Goodbye, Mr. Chips. Goodbye.” Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
“Why was I not made of stone like thee?” The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
“Every word that boy said is the truth! Every word about Taylor and me and graft and the rotten political corruption of our state. Every word of it is true. I'm not fit for office! I'm not fit for any place of honor or trust. Expel me!”
“Yippee!” Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
"Hey! Hey, Geoff!" Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
“He used to be a big shot.” The Roaring Twenties (1939)
“Well, they’re saved from the blessings of civilization.”
“Yeah.”
“Doc? I’ll buy ya a drink.”
“Just one.” Stagecoach (1939)
“Oh, but anyway, Toto, we're home! Home! And this is my room - and you're all here! And I'm not gonna leave here ever, ever again because I love you all! - And oh, Auntie Em, there's no place like home.” The Wizard of Oz (1939)
“No pride at all. That’s a luxury a woman in love can’t afford.” The Women (1939)
“No, not dead, Dr. Kenneth. Not alone. He's with her. They've only just begun to live. Goodbye Heathcliff. Goodbye my wild sweet Cathy.” Wuthering Heights (1939)
“No, I think I might go on a piece. Maybe to the top of that hill.” Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
“What man's mind can conceive, man's character can control. Man must learn that, and then we needn't be afraid of tomorrow. And man will go forward toward more light.” Edison, The Man (1940)
“That's what makes us tough. Rich fellas come up an' they die an' their kids ain't no good, an' they die out. But we keep a-comin'. We're the people that live. They can't wipe us out. They can't lick us. And we'll go on forever, Pa... 'cause... we're the people.” The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
“...Hannah, can you hear me? Wherever you are, look up! Look up, Hannah! The clouds are lifting! The sun is breaking through! We are coming out of the darkness into the light! We are coming into a new world; a kindlier world, where men will rise above their greed, their hate and their brutality. Look up, Hannah! The soul of man has been given wings and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow! Into the light of hope! Look up, Hannah! Listen!” The Great Dictator (1940)
“Well, isn't that a coincidence? We're going to Albany. I wonder if Bruce can put us up?...Say, why don’t you carry that in your hand?” His Girl Friday (1940)
“Well, we’re going to marry and raise fat children and watch our vineyards grow.” Mark of Zorro (1940)
“Oh, yeah, yeah. I'll do that, my little chickadee.” My Little Chickadee (1940)
“I did it. I did it all.”
“I feel as though I'd lived through all of this before in another life.” The Philadelphia Story (1940)
“It's Mrs. Danvers. She's gone mad. She said she'd rather destroy Manderley than see us happy here.” Rebecca (1940)
“Some fun – and adventure at last!” The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
”No pride at all. That's a luxury a woman in love can't afford.” The Women (1940)
“Throw that junk.” Citizen Kane (1941)
“You can't hurt me. I always wear a bullet-proof vest around the studio.” Hellzapoppin' (1941)
“Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still, real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.” How Green Was My Valley (1941)
“Aw, just another hood, I guess. Well, whoever he is, he don't mean a thing to anybody now, much less to me. Say, call Mae and tell her I'll be late, will ya?” Johnny Eager (1941)
“Positively the same dame.” The Lady Eve (1941)
“The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of.”
“Huh?”
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
“There you are, Norton. The people! Try and lick that!” Meet John Doe (1941)
“When I want to kiss my wife, I'll kiss her anytime, anyplace, anywhere. That's the kind of hairpin I am.” The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
“There's a lot to be said for making people laugh! Did you know that's all some people have? It isn't much, but it's better than nothing in this cockeyed caravan! Boy!” Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
“And then?”
“And then what?”
“What happened after?”
“There is no then. There is no after.” That Hamilton Woman (1941)
“Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” Casablanca (1942)
“Now for Australia and a crack at those Japs!” Desperate Journey (1942)
“God bless our ships and all who sail in them.” In Which We Serve (1942, UK)
“This is the people’s war. It is our war. We are the fighters. Fight it, then. Fight it with all that is in us, and may God defend the right.” Mrs. Miniver (1942)
“Oh, Jerry, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We have the stars.” Now, Voyager (1942)
“Play ball!” The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
“I've just launched Gerald.” Woman of the Year (1942)
“Well, the Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming....” Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
“To the gallant officers and men of the silent service, to our submarines now on war patrol in hostile waters, good luck and good hunting.” Destination Tokyo (1943)
“That’s my girl, and that’s my boy.” A Guy Named Joe (1943)
“You see, Marcus. The ending is only the beginning.” The Human Comedy (1943)
“He said he wanted his wife to get this letter, didn't he? He said there was nobody to look after the kids, didn't he?” The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
“Everybody dance!” Stormy Weather (1943)
“I’m not a cabdriver. I’m a coffeepot.” Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
“You know why you couldn’t figure this one, Keyes? I’ll tell you. The guy you were looking for was too close. He was right across the desk from you.”
“Closer than that, Walter.”
“I love you, too.” Double Indemnity (1944)
“I knew the Marines could do almost anything, but I never knew they could do anything like this.”
“You've got no idea.” Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
“And then one day when our first-born son was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes as they once were - large, brilliant, and black.” Jane Eyre (1944)
“This is the end! The absolute end!” The Lady in the Dark (1944)
“Good-bye, Laura. Good-bye, my love.” Laura (1944)
“I can’t believe it. Right here where we live. Right here in St. Louis.” Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
“Hey, Slim. Are you still happy?”
“What do you think?” To Have and Have Not (1944)





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Larry the Liquidator's response to Andrew's attack: ("This company is dead. I didn't kill it. Don't blame me. It was dead when I got here. It's too late for prayers... You know, at one time, there must've been dozens of companies making buggy whips. And I'll bet the last company around was the one that made the best g--damn buggy whip you ever saw. Now how would you have liked to have been a stockholder in that company? You invested in a business and this business is dead. Let's have the intelligence, let's have the decency to sign the death certificate, collect the insurance, and invest in something with a future.")

During a secret rendezvous, "X"'s (Donald Sutherland) spellbinding, 15-minute long paranoic monologue about a conspiracy encourages New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) to investigate Kennedy's assassination, intercut with photographs, footage, reconstructed behind closed doors meetings, etc. as he talks: ("Now I can give you the background, but you have to find the foreground, the little things. Keep digging. Remember, you're the only person to bring a trial in the murder of John Kennedy. That's important, it's historic...You don't have a choice anymore. You've become a significant threat to the national security structure. They would have killed you already but you got a lot of light on you. Instead, they're trying to destroy your credibility. They already have in many circles in this town. Be honest, your only chance is to come up with a case. Something, anything. Make arrests, stir the s--t storm, hope to reach a point of critical mass that'll start a chain reaction of people coming forward, then the government will crack.")

Gangster Henry Hill's (Ray Liotta) "As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster" monologue in the opening: ("As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. To me, being a gangster was better than being President of the United States...Even before I first wandered into the cabstand for an after-school job, I knew I wanted to be a part of them. It was there that I knew that I belonged. To me, it meant being somebody in a neighborhood that was full of nobodies. They weren't like anybody else. I mean, they did whatever they wanted. They double-parked in front of a hydrant and nobody ever gave them a ticket. In the summer when they played cards all night, nobody ever called the cops")

Col. Kurtz' (Marlon Brando) 'horror' speech about hacked-off arms of inoculated children: ("I've seen the horror. Horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that, but you have no right to judge me... It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face, and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies...")




Jack Torrance's (Jack Nicholson) foul-mouthed, annoyed reaction to wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) invading his personal space while writing on his typewriter: ("Wendy, let me explain something to you. Whenever you come in here and interrupt me, you're breaking my concentration. You're distracting me. And it will then take me time to get back to where I was. Understand?...I'm gonna make a new rule. Whenever I'm in here, and you hear me typing, whether you don't hear me typing, whatever the f--k you hear me doing in here, when I'm in here, that means that I am working. That means don't come in. Now do you think you can handle that?...Why don't you start right now and get the f--k out of here?")
Roy Batty's (Rutger Hauer) closing thoughts before dying: ("I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die")