Great Film Quotes
From Great Films
(Part 1)

Great Film Quotes and Movie Lines Sections
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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.

 

Great Film Quotes

Hint: Move your mouse pointer over the yellow star HERE is the film title! 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).

Animal House "Toga! Toga!"
Play clip (excerpt): Animal House

Moonstruck "Snap out of it!"

Caddyshack "Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!"

The Godfather "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse."
Play clip (excerpt): The Godfather

Sunset Boulevard "I am big. It's the pictures that got small."
Play clip (excerpt): Sunset Boulevard
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"We didn't need dialogue. We had faces."
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"All right, Mr. De Mille. I'm ready for my closeup."
Play clip (excerpt): Sunset Boulevard

Jaws "You're gonna need a bigger boat."
Play clip (excerpt): Jaws

Yankee Doodle Dandy "(Ladies and Gentlemen), My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you."
Play clip (excerpt): Yankee Doodle Dandy

Apollo 13 "Houston, we have a problem."
Play clip (excerpt): Apollo 13

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

Planet of the Apes "Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!"
Play clip (excerpt): Planet of the Apes

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

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial "E.T. phone home."
Play clip (excerpt): E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

Gone With The Wind "Fiddle-dee-dee."

Dracula "Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make."
Play clip (excerpt): Dracula

Bonnie and Clyde "We rob banks."

A Star is Born "Hello, everybody. This is Mrs. Norman Maine."

The Godfather, Part II "Michael...we're bigger than U.S. Steel."

Some Like It Hot - "Why would a guy wanna marry a guy?"
- "Security."

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre "Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!"
Play clip (excerpt): The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Wall Street "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."
Play clip (excerpt): Wall Street

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

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes "Elementary, my dear Watson."

Casablanca "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'"
Play clip (excerpt): Casablanca

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

Gone With The Wind "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."
Play clip (excerpt): Gone With the Wind

Network "...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!")
Play clip (excerpt): Network

Sudden Impact "Go ahead, make my day."
Play clip (excerpt): Sudden Impact

The Hustler "You owe me money!"

The Godfather Part II "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."
Play clip (excerpt): The Godfather: Part II

Frankenstein "It's alive! It's alive!"
Play clip (excerpt): Frankenstein

Midnight Cowboy "(Hey!) I'm walking here! I'm walking here!"
Play clip (excerpt): Midnight Cowboy

Forrest Gump "My mama always said, 'Life is (was) like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.'"
Play clip (excerpt): Forrest Gump

Dr. Strangelove, Or: "Gentlemen. You can't fight in here. This is the War Room!"
Play clip (excerpt): Dr. Strangelove
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"Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!"

2001: A Space Odyssey "Open the pod bay doors, (please) HAL."
Play clip (excerpt): 2001: A Space Odyssey

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

Airplane - "Surely you can't be serious."
- "I am serious. And don't call me Shirley."

Play clip (excerpt): Airplane

The Wild Bunch "If they move, kill 'em."

Dirty Harry "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?"
Play clip (excerpt): Dirty Harry

Some Like It Hot "Well, nobody's perfect."
Play clip (excerpt): Some Like It Hot

A Hard Day's Night - "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!"

On The Waterfront "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."
Play clip (excerpt): On the Waterfront

The Terminator "I'll be back."
Play clip (excerpt): The Terminator

To Have and Have Not "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow."
Play clip (excerpt): To Have and Have Not

Grand Hotel "I want to be alone."
Play clip (excerpt): Grand Hotel

The Pride of the Yankees "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."

Dr. Strangelove, Or: "Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous plot we have ever had to face."

When Harry Met Sally "I'll have what she's having."
Play clip (excerpt): When Harry Met Sally

The Wizard of Oz "Toto, I've (got) a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
Play clip (excerpt): The Wizard of Oz

Dr. Strangelove, Or: "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."

On Golden Pond "Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go!"

Dead Poets Society "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."
Play clip (excerpt): Dead Poets Society

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

Casablanca "I stick my neck out for nobody."

Top Gun -- "I feel the need..."
-- "...the need for speed!"

Play clip (excerpt): Top Gun

Field of Dreams "If you build it, he will come."
Play clip (excerpt): Field of Dreams

Sixteen Candles "Can I borrow your underpants for ten minutes?"

Soylent Green "Soylent Green is people!"
Play clip (excerpt): Soylent Green

Knute Rockne: All-American "Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper."

She Done Him Wrong "Why don't you come up sometime and see me?" (NOT: "Why don't you come up and see me sometime?")
Play clip (excerpt): She Done Him Wrong

All About Eve "All of a sudden, she's playing Hamlet's mother!"
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- "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."

All About Eve "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night."
Play clip (excerpt): All About Eve

The Silence of the Lambs "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."
Play clip (excerpt): The Silence of the Lambs

Little Caesar "Mother of Mercy! Is this the end of Rico?"
Play clip (excerpt): Little Caesar

Gone With the Wind "After all, tomorrow is another day!"
Play clip (excerpt): Gone With the Wind

Star Wars "Use the Force, Luke" or "May the Force Be With You," or "The Force Will Be With You Always"
Play clip (excerpt): Star Wars

In the Heat of the Night "They call me Mister Tibbs."
Play clip (excerpt): In the Heat of the Night

Casablanca "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."
Play clip (excerpt): Casablanca

Citizen Kane "R-o-s-e-b-u-d."
Play clip (excerpt): Citizen Kane
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"I've got his trunk all packed. I've had it packed for a week now."
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"Old age, it's the only disease...that you don't look forward to being cured of."
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"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?"

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

Goldfinger "A martini. Shaken, not stirred."

Marathon Man "Is it safe?"

Now, Voyager "Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars."
Play clip (excerpt): Now, Voyager

42nd Street "Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!"
Play clip (excerpt): 42nd Street

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

Jerry Maguire "Show me the money!"
Play clip (excerpt): Jerry Maguire

Rocky "Yo, Adrian!"
Play clip (excerpt): Rocky

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

Rebel Without a Cause "You're tearing me apart!"

Terminator 2: Judgment Day "Hasta la vista, baby."
Play clip (excerpt): Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Dirty Dancing "Nobody puts Baby in a corner."

The Wizard of Oz "Then close your eyes and tap your heels together three times. And think to yourself, 'There's no place like home'." (Also, Dorothy's "There's no place like home")
Play clip (excerpt): The Wizard of Oz

Casablanca "Here's looking at you, kid."
Play clip (excerpt): Casablanca
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"We'll always have Paris."
Play clip (excerpt): Casablanca

Tootsie "That is one nutty hospital."

Funny Girl "Hello, gorgeous."

Dr. No "...Bond. James Bond."
Play clip (excerpt): Dr. No

To Have and Have Not "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together - and blow." (NOT "If you want me, just whistle.")

The Shining "He-e-e-e-re's Johnnie!"
Play clip (excerpt): The Shining

The Sixth Sense "I see dead people."
Play clip (excerpt): The Sixth Sense

Poltergeist "They're here!"
Play clip (excerpt): Poltergeist

Ghostbusters "Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!"

The Wizard of Oz "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!"
Play clip (excerpt): The Wizard of Oz

The Producers "We find the defendants incredibly guilty."

Jerry Maguire "You had me at 'hello.'"
Play clip (excerpt): Jerry Maguire

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

A Few Good Men - "You want answers?"
- "I want the truth!"
- "You can't handle the truth!"
Play clip (excerpt): A Few Good Men

White Heat "Made it Ma! Top of the world!"
Play clip (excerpt): White Heat

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

The Naughty Nineties "Who's on first."

Taxi Driver "You talkin' to me?"
Play clip (excerpt): Taxi Driver

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

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

Psycho "(Well), A boy's best friend is his mother."
Play clip (excerpt): Psycho

Spartacus "I am Spartacus."

Cool Hand Luke "What we've got here is failure to communicate."
Play clip (excerpt): Cool Hand Luke

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

A Streetcar Named Desire "Stella! Hey, Stella!"
Play clip (excerpt): A Streetcar Named Desire

GoodFellas "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!..."

Dr. Strangelove, Or: "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."

Who Framed Roger Rabbit "I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way."

A Streetcar Named Desire "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."

Animal Crackers "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know."
Play clip (excerpt): Animal Crackers

The Maltese Falcon "(What is it?)" "The stuff that dreams are made of."
Play clip (excerpt): The Maltese Falcon

Apocalypse Now "The horror...the horror."

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers "My precious."
Play clip (excerpt): The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Bride of Frankenstein "We belong dead."

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

Annie Hall "Hey, don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love."
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"La-dee-da, la-dee-da."

Aliens "Get away from her, you bitch!"

Dog Day Afternoon "Attica! Attica!"

Plan 9 From Outer Space "We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives."
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"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!"

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

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

Mommie Dearest "No wire hangers, ever!"
Play clip (excerpt): Mommie Dearest

A League of Their Own "There's no crying in baseball!"
Play clip (excerpt): A League of Their Own

King Kong "Oh, no. It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast."
Play clip (excerpt): King Kong

Apocalypse Now "I love the smell of napalm in the morning...smells like...victory."
Play clip (excerpt): Apocalypse Now

2001: A Space Odyssey "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."

Gone With The Wind "I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies."

Love Story "Love means never having to say you're sorry."
Play clip (excerpt): Love Story

Titanic "I'm the king of the world!"
Play clip (excerpt): Titanic

Beyond the Forest "What a dump."
Play clip (excerpt): Beyond the Forest

Frenzy "Lovely...lovely."

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

Five Easy Pieces - "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."

Gone With The Wind "Frankly, my dear. I don't give a damn."
Play clip (excerpt): Gone With the Wind

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

Sons of the Desert "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!"
Play clip (excerpt): Sons of the Desert

The Jazz Singer "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!'?"

Casablanca "Round up the usual suspects."
Play clip (excerpt): Casablanca
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"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
Play clip (excerpt): Casablanca

Last Tango in Paris "Go, get the butter."

Scarface "Say 'hello' to my little friend!"



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