Great Movie Lines

Jeremy Ordan

Jeremy Ordan

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While not trying to directly rip off AFI's Top 100 movie line list, last night a few friends and I were playing a game to see who could last the longest in naming classic lines from a movie, with the stipulation being that this one line had to completely reveal the movie it was coming from. Just those classic lines that give away the movie it is from. I thought it could be fun to see what classics we could come up with... I have started my list below.

"It's the stuff that dreams are made of" - Maltese Falcon
"I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse" - The Godfather
"ET phone home" - ET: The Extra-Terestrial
"I'm going to hit the breaks and he'll fly right by" - Top Gun
"What we've got here is a failure to communicate" - Cool Hand Luke
"We all go a little crazy sometimes" - Psycho
"Unite the clans" - Braveheart
"Stella" - A Streetcard Named Desire
"Adrian" - Rocky
"Use the foce" - Star Wars
"I coulda been a contender" - On the Waterfront
"Pharoh, let my people go" - The Ten Commandments
"Are you trying to seduce me Mrs. Robinson?" - The Graduate
"They call me Mr. Tibbs" - In The Heat of the Night
"Rosebud" - Citizen Kane
"I'm still big, it's the movies that got small" - Sunset Blvd
"They're here" - Poltergeist
"Welcome to the real world" - The Matrix
"I'll make you famous" - Young Guns
"Say hello to my little friend" - Scarface
"If you build it he will come" - Field of Dreams
"Shirley you can't be serious" - Airplane
"Hello Mrs. Moneypenny" - 007
"You talkin' to me" - Taxi Driver
"You can't handle the truth" - A Few Good Men
"A.B.C. Always be closing" - Glengarry Glenn Ross
"Wilson!" - Cast Away
"I am a golden god" - Almost Famous
"Does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wadrobe" Breakfast Club
"Men and women can never really be friends" When Harry met Sally
"It's good to be the king" - History of the World Part: 1
"You got knock-a-da f*ck out" - Friday
"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn" - Gone with the Wind
"Houston, we have a problem" - Apollo 13
"Snap outta it" - Moonstruck
"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man alive" - Pride of the Yankees
"I'll be back" -
"Hasta la Vista baby" = Terminator 2
"What do ya wanna tell me now, tough guy" - Goodfellas
"You think I'm funny, like I'm a clown here to amuse you..." - Goodfellas
"I'm a mog, half man half dog, I'm my own best friend" - Spaceballs
"People are always asking me if I know Tyler Durden" - Fight Club
"F*ck me gently with a chainsaw" - Heathers
"It's alive!" - The original Frankenstein
"A boy's best friend is his mother" - Psycho
"No wire hangers!" - Mommy Dearest
"Nobody puts baby in a corner" - Dirty Dancing
"We're not in Kansas" - Wizard of Oz
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning" - Apocalypse Now
"Show me the money" - Jerry Maguire
"You had me at hello" - Jerry Maguire"
"I see dead people" - Sixth Sense
"‘Twas beauty killed the beast" - King Kong
"George Washington was in a cult and the cult was into aliens." - Dazed and Confused.
"All work and no play make Jack a very dull boy." - The Shining
"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get." - Forest Gump
"Rocky Road." Goonies
"They call me Mr. Glass" - Unbreakable






(If I have misspelled, misquoted, or just butchered anything, yeah... not much I can do about it now)
 
"Those aren't PILLOWS!!!" - Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
"This one goes to 11." - This is Spinal Tap
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning." Apocalypse Now
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around, once and a while, you could miss it." - Ferris Bueller's Day Off
"Have fun storming the castle." - The Princess Bride
"They called her the ship of dreams." - Titanic
"Freedom!" - Braveheart
 
shane! shane! shane! i'm spartacus, i'm spartacus, no i'm spartacus oh my.. oh myyyy oh oooh huhuhuh oooohhwee ahhhhahhhhohhooohh....i'll have what she had. (when harry met sally.) i'll nevah go hungry again...frankly my dear, i don't give a damn(guess) blondie hey blondie you son of a biayayayaayaaa ayayaiyaiayaaaa (the good...) ehh hombre what ees you name eh hombre!
 
I like slightly more obscure lines. The stuff that will never appear on the commercial.

"Seben Bushes." - My Cousin Vinny (close tie with "Same Make, Same Model")

"Gotta keep it HOT." - Brian Cox, X-2, talking about adamantium. GREAT delivery.

"Same old Same old. People need killin'." - Vince Vaugn, Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

"Dude, Chinamen is not the preferred term." John Goodman, The Big Lebowski.
 
"It's the one that says Bad Mother F*cker" - Pulp Fiction
"It's my boomstick" - Army of Darkness
"I'm getting too old for this sh*t" - Lethal Weapon
"My name is Lester Burnham, but something tells me you won't forget me this time" - American Beauty
"Regulators, mount up!" - Young Guns
"The price is wrong, b*tch" - Happy Gilmore
"I wnted to travel to far off places, meet new and exciting people, and kill them" - Full Metal Jacket
"I am your father" - Empire Strikes Back
"There is no dry land" - Waterworld
"Tutanka" - Dances with Wolves
"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us" - Malcom X
"I'm a natural born killer" - Natural Born Killers
"Baby steps to the elivator" - What about Bob?
"Humanity is a disease, a virus, and we are the cure" - The Matrix
"I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that" - 2001: A Space Odyssey
"Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make" - Dracula
"I'm king of the world" - Titanic
"God kills indescriminately, as shall we" - Interview with the Vampire
"88 miles an hour" - Back to the Future
"My name is Intego Montyo, you killed my father, prepare to die" - The Pricess Bride
 
Alot of military movie quote (who would have guessed from me)

"I want you stand there, in the faggoty white uniform and your Harvard mouth and extend me some f'n courtsey.." - A Few Good Men

"YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH!" - A Few Good Men

"I swear you are going to be the death of me.." -Obi Wan Kenobi, Episode 2

"That doesn't make you a sinner..just makes you hardheaded.." - We were soldiers

"We're on a mission from God" - Blues Brothers

"There is no racial bigotry here... (lists ethnic names)...To me you are all equally worthless" - Full Metal Jacket

"They must suffered as I have suffered,. They must see their lives..all they hold dear..ripped from them as it was ripped from me" - Edmond, Count of Monte Cristo

"This is my safety..(holds up finger)" -- Black Hawk Down

"You stood with the people who stand against everything the grail means, who gives a DAMN what you think.." - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Sergeant Major: "Tell me soldier, who came up with this notion? Reproducing without sex?..
SPC Willow: "Your Wife, Sergeant Major?" -- Gardens of Stone

"You're not the devil...you're practice" -- Batman Begins

"I'll take hell anyday, sure beats marraige to you.."- Roger Thorpe, Guiding Light, 1993 (to my everlasting shame..I watched that show)

"If you want someone to love you -- open your heart. If you want them to obsess about you -- close it." -- Jim Profit, Profit

"Get back down there son, you're the only son of b*tch around here who knows what he's trying to do.." -- Patton

"Well...they have their schedule, and I have mine" - Patton

Reporter:"General, I see you have a bible at you bedside, do you ever read it?"
Patton: "Sure do, every god d*mn day" -- Patton

"We are gonna murder those lousy hun b*stards by the bushel" -- Patton

"I know kung fu" - Neo, Matrix (ok...not a great line..but one we all make fun of)

"We will be perfect" - Coach Boone, Remember the Titans

"Who's your daddy?" - Remember the Titans

"Let's show this prehistoric b*tch how we do things downtown" - Ghostbusters

"Red, I do believe you are talking out of your *ss" - The Shawshank Redemption

"Get busy living, or get busy dying" - TSR

"That tall drink of water with the silver spoon shoved up his ass" -- TSR

"What say there, fuzzy britches" - TSR

I know I got more...will think of them later.
 
x-angel said:
Sergeant Major: "Tell me soldier, who came up with this notion? Reproducing without sex?..
SPC Willow: "Your Wife, Sergeant Major?" -- Gardens of Stone
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Ripped off from "WarGames."
 
"It's better to be dead and cool... then alive and uncool."

My all time fav, from the classic Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man.
 
"Boy You just bought The whole can of whoop ass" = Uncommon Valor
"I love money. Especially other people's money" = Other Peoples Money
"You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk?" = Dirty Harry
 
There are so many great ones here, plus this topic has kept me from really having to do a lot of work today here in the office. I came up with a couple of other ones:

"Go ahead, make my day" - Magnum Force
"Inconceivable" - The Princess Bride
"Supercalafragilisticexpealidocious" - Mary Poppins
"Wild thing you make my heart sing, you walk everything" - Major League
"At the drop of a hat these guys will rock n roll" - Heat
"It can't rain all the time" - The Crow
"I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability" - As Good As It Gets
"Where does he get those wonderful toys" - Batman
"Would you like to play a game" - Wargames (might be stretching it a bit)
"To hits, me hitting you and you hitting the floor" - The Breakfast Club
"I love high school girls, I get older but they stay the same age" - Dazed and Confused
"My girlfriend sucked 37 dicks" - Clerks
"Snootchy Bootchies" - Mallrats
"I think you're going to need a bigger boat" - Jaws
"I was running" - Forest Gump
"He better go home and cure cancer or invent a long lasting light bulb or something" - Saving Private Ryan
"You have chosen wisely" - Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade
"Sometimes I feel like I'm a gerbil swimming in Richard Gere's butthole" - The Doom Generation
"Welcome to Oblivion" - Hellraiser
"I am pain" - Hellraiser
"I have nipples Greg, can you milk me" - Meet the Parents
 
"Why are you wearing that stupid man suit? - Donnie Darko
" How do you like them apples?" - Good Will Hunting
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist" - The Usual Suspects
 
Best line from any movie ever:

"What's the difference?"
-Sterling Hayden at the end of Kubrick's The Killing
 
"You tell 'em I'm comin'! And hell's comin' with me, you hear?" Tombstone
"Go ahead, skin it! Skin that smoke wagon and see what happens." Tombstone
"You gonna do somethin' , or just stand there and bleed?" Tombstone
"You're out of order! You're out of order! The whole trial is out of order" ...And Justice For All
"You're not too smart are you? I like that in a man." Body Heat
"Sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand." Cool Hand Luke
"Forget it Jake. It's Chinatown." Chinatown
"They call us civilized because we're easy to sneak up on." The Outlaw Josie Wales
"Dying ain't much of a living, boy." The Outlaw Josie Wales
 
"Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By'." -Casablanca

"It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage." -Raiders

"Tell me, who was it you left me for? Was it Laszlo, or were there others in between? Or - aren't you the kind that tells?" -Casablanca

"You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it. It was you, Charley." -On The Waterfront

"I've often speculated why you don't return to America. Did you abscond with the church funds? Run off with a senator's wife? I like to think you killed a man. It's the Romantic in me." -Casablanca

"You know you don't have to act with me, Steve. You don't have to say anything, and you don't have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and... blow." -To Have And Have Not

"Andy Dufresne - who crawled through a river of sh*t and came out clean on the other side." -The Shawshank Redemption

"Well, nobody's perfect." -Some Like It Hot
 
"Whaddya Hear? Whaddya Say?" -Angels With Dirty Faces

"I'll... be... right... here." -E.T.

"Well, I did. Every one of them. Mostly, I remember the last one, the wild finish. A guy standing on a station platform in the rain, with a comical look on his face, because his insides have been kicked out." -Casablanca

"You are part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor! Take her away!" -Star Wars

"What's wrong with the way I talk? What's the big idea? Am I dumb or something?" -Singin' In The Rain

"...Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now... Here's looking at you kid." -Casablanca

"FREEEEE-DOMMMMMM" -Braveheart
 
Callaghan do you remember in Home alone 1 or 2 when he was playing that old movie to try and scare the bandits away? Do you know what movie that was?
 
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