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Top 100 Greatest Film Quotes
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"Osgood, I'm gonna level with you. We can't get married
at all."- "Why not?" - "Well, in the first place, I'm not a natural blonde." - "Doesn't matter." - "I smoke! I smoke all the time!" - "I don't care." - "Well, I have a terrible past. For three years now, I've been living with a saxophone player." - "I forgive you." - "I can never have children!" - "We can adopt some." - "But you don't understand, Osgood! Ohh... I'm a man." - "Well, nobody's perfect." (short) (long) JERRY (Jack Lemmon) to OSGOOD FIELDING III (Joe E. Brown) Some Like It Hot (1959) |
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| "Well,
a boy's best friend is his mother." NORMAN BATES (Anthony Perkins) to MARION CRANE (Janet Leigh) Psycho (1960) |
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| "I'm
Spartacus!.... (repeated) " ANTONINUS (Tony Curtis) and OTHERS Spartacus (1960) |
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"I admire your courage, Miss...?" - "Trench. Sylvia Trench. I admire your luck, Mr...?" - "...Bond. James Bond." (short) (extended) JAMES BOND (Sean Connery) to SYLVIA TRENCH (Eunice Gayson) Dr. No (1962) and
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| "Gentlemen.
You can't fight in here. This is the War Room!" PRESIDENT MERKIN MUFFLEY (Peter Sellers) to RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR DE SADESKY (Peter Bull) and GENERAL TURGIDSON (George C. Scott) Dr. Strangelove, Or:... (1964) |
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| "You
see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with
loaded guns and those who dig. You dig." BLONDIE (Clint Eastwood) to TUCO (Eli Wallach) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966, Sp./It.) |
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| "What
we've got here is failure to communicate." CAPTAIN (Strother Martin) to LUKE (Paul Newman) Cool Hand Luke (1967) |
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| "Mrs.
Robinson, you're trying to seduce me, aren't you?" BENJAMIN BRADDOCK (Dustin Hoffman) to MRS. ROBINSON (Anne Bancroft) The Graduate (1967) |
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"Well, you're pretty sure of yourself, ain't ya, Virgil. Virgil,
that's a funny name for a nigger boy to come from Philadelphia.
What do they call you up there?" - "They call me Mister Tibbs." SGT. GILLEPSIE (Rod Steiger) and VIRGIL TIBBS (Sidney Poitier) In the Heat of the Night (1967) |
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| "Take
your stinkin' paws off me, you damned dirty ape!" GEORGE TAYLOR (Charlton Heston) Planet of the Apes (1968) |
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| - "Open
the pod bay doors, please, HAL. Open the pod bay doors please, HAL.
Hello, HAL. Do you read me? Hello, HAL. Do you read me? Do you read
me, HAL? Do you read me, HAL? Hello, HAL. Do you read me? Hello, HAL.
Do you read me? Do you read me, HAL?" - "Affirmative Dave, I read you." - "Open the pod bay doors, HAL." - "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that." - "What's the problem?" - "I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do." - "What are you talking about, HAL?" - "This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it." - "I don't know what you're talking about, HAL." - "I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen." - "Where the hell did you get that idea, HAL?" - "Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move." - "All right, HAL. I'll go in through the emergency air lock." - "Without your space helmet, Dave, you're going to find that rather difficult." - "HAL, I won't argue with you anymore. Open the doors." - "Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye." (short) (extended)HAL 9000 (Voice of Douglas Rain) to DAVE BOWMAN (Keir Dullea) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) |
 
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| "(Hey!)
I'm walkin' here! I'm walkin' here!" RATSO RIZZO (Dustin Hoffman) to TAXI DRIVER Midnight Cowboy (1969) |
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"I forgot my key." - "Jenny, I'm sorry." - "Don't! Love means never having to say you're sorry." (Jenny)JENNY CAVALIERI (Ali McGraw) to OLIVER BARRETT IV (Ryan O'Neal) and -
"Jenny's dead."- "I'm sorry." - "Love, Love means never having to say you're sorry." (Oliver)OLIVER (Ryan O'Neal) to father OLIVER BARRETT III (Ray Milland) - last line Love Story (1970) |
 
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| "I
know what you're thinkin'. '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?" (short) (long) HARRY CALLAHAN (Clint Eastwood) to BANK ROBBER (Albert Popwell) Dirty Harry (1971) |
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| "Soylent
Green is people!" DETECTIVE THORN (Charlton Heston) Soylent Green (1973) |
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| "Forget
it, Jake, it's Chinatown." WALSH (Joe Mantell) to J.J. "JAKE" GITTES (Jack Nicholson) Chinatown (1974) |
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| "Attica!
Attica! Attica!..." SONNY (Al Pacino) Dog Day Afternoon (1975) |
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| "You're
gonna need a bigger boat." SHERIFF BRODY (Roy Scheider) to QUINT (Robert Shaw) Jaws (1975) |
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| - "Look,
you stupid bastard. You've got no arms left." - "Yes I have." - "Look!" - "Just a flesh wound." KING ARTHUR (Graham Chapman) to BLACK KNIGHT (John Cleese) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) |
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"...So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of
your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open
it, and stick your head out, and yell: 'I'm as mad as hell, and
I'm not gonna take this anymore!' I want you to get up right now. Sit up.
Go to your windows. Open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm
as mad as hell and I'm not gonna take this anymore!' Things have got
to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!...You've got to say, 'I'm
as mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take this anymore!' Then we'll figure
out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis.
But first, get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head
out, and yell, and say it: 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not gonna
take this anymore!'" (short) (extended
1) (extended
2) HOWARD BEALE (Peter Finch) during News Broadcast Network (1976) |
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| "You
talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Well, who the
hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well, I'm the only
one here. Who the f--k do you think you're talkin' to?" (long) (short) TRAVIS BICKLE (Robert DeNiro) to Mirror Image Taxi Driver (1976) |
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"Your destiny lies along a different path from mine. The
Force will be with you, always." OBI-WAN KENOBI (Alec Guinness) to LUKE SKYWALKER (Mark Hamill) or - "Take care of yourself, Han. I guess that's what you're best at, isn't it?" - "Hey, Luke. May the Force be with you." HAN SOLO (Harrison Ford) to LUKE SKYWALKER or "Luke, the Force will be with you." (voice-over)or "Use the Force, Luke. Let go...Luke, trust me." (voice-over) OBI-WAN KENOBI to LUKE SKYWALKER or "Remember. The Force Will Be With You Always." (voice-over)
Star Wars (1977) |
 "The Force Will Be With You Always"  "Hey, Luke. May the Force Be With You"  "Luke, the Force Will Be With You"  "Use the Force, Luke. Let go..."  "Remember. The Force Will Be With You Always" |
| "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. Smells (or smelled)
like - victory." (short) (long) LT. COL. BILL KILGORE (Robert Duvall) Apocalypse Now (1979) |
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| "Now
you listen here. He's
not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy. Now go
away!" BRIAN'S MOTHER (Terry Jones) to CROWD Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) |
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