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Top 100 Greatest Film Quotes
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 "Waaaarrrrrriiiorsss,
come out to play-i-ay." LUTHER (David Patrick Kelly) to group of WARRIORS, while clicking beer bottles together The Warriors (1979) |
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"Can you fly this plane and land it?" - "Surely you can't be serious." - "I am serious. And don't call me Shirley." DR. RUMACK (Leslie Nielsen) to TED STRIKER (Robert Hays) Airplane! (1980) |
 
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| "No, I am
your father." DARTH VADER (James Earl Jones) to LUKE SKYWALKER (Mark Hamill) The Empire Strikes Back (1980) |
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| "He-e-e-e-re's
Johnnie!" JACK TORRANCE (Jack Nicholson) to WENDY TORRANCE (Shelley Duvall) The Shining (1980) |
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| "No
- wire - hangers. What's wire hangers doing in this closet when I told
you - no wire hangers EVER! I work and work 'til I'm half-dead,
and I hear people saying 'She's getting old.' And what do
I get? A daughter who cares as much about the beautiful dresses
I give her as she cares about me. What's wire hangers doing in this
closet? ANSWER ME! I buy you beautiful dresses, and you treat them
like they were some dish-rag. You do! $300 dollar dress on
a wire hanger! We'll see how many you've got hidden in here.
We'll see. Get out of that bed. All of this is coming out.
Out! Out! Out. Out. Out. You've got any more? We're gonna see how many
wire hangers you've got in your closet. Wire hangers! Why? Why? Christina,
get out of that bed. Get out of that bed. You live in the most beautiful
house in Brentwood [picks up hanger and begins
to beat Christina] and you don't
care if your clothes are stretched back from wire
hangers. And your room looks like a two-dollar-a-week priced room in
some two-bit backstreet town in Oklahoma. Get up. Get up. Clean up
this mess." (short) (extended) JOAN CRAWFORD (Faye Dunaway) to young CHRISTINA CRAWFORD (Mara Hobel) Mommie Dearest (1981) |
 
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| "Snakes.
Why'd it have to be snakes?" INDIANA JONES (Harrison Ford) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) |
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| "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." ROY BATTY (Rutger Hauer) Blade Runner (1982) |
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| "E.T.
phone home." E.T. (Voice of Pat Welsh) Pointing Toward Window E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) |
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| "They're
here!" CAROL ANNE FREELING (Heather O'Rourke) to PARENTS Poltergeist (1982) |
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| "Say
'hello' to my little friend!" TONY MONTANA (Al Pacino) Scarface (1983) |
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| "Go
ahead, make my day." LT. "DIRTY" HARRY CALLAHAN (Clint Eastwood) to CROOK Sudden Impact (1983) |
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| "He
slimed me." DR. PETER VENKMAN (Bill Murray) Ghostbusters (1984) |
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| "I'll
be back." THE TERMINATOR (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to DESK SERGEANT (Bruce M. Kerner) The Terminator (1984) |
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| - "Why
don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make
that a little louder?" - "These go to eleven." (short) (long) NIGEL TUFNEL (Christopher Guest) to MARTY DIBERGI (Rob Reiner) This Is Spinal Tap (1984) |
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| - "Hey,
Doc. We better back up. We don't have enough road to get up to 88." - "Roads? Where we're going we don't need - roads." DR. EMMETT BROWN (Christopher Lloyd) with MARTY McFLY (Michael J. Fox) Back to the Future (1985) |
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| "Get
away from her, you BITCH!" ELLEN RIPLEY (Sigourney Weaver) to ALIEN Aliens (1986) |
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| "Life
moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while,
you could miss it." FERRIS BUELLER (Matthew Broderick) Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) |
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| "Be
afraid. Be very afraid." The Fly (1986) VERONICA QUAIFE (Geena Davis) to SETH BRUNDLE (Jeff Goldblum) Play clip (excerpt): |
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| "I
never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve.
Jesus, does anyone?" THE WRITER (Richard Dreyfuss) Typing on Computer Screen Stand By Me (1986) |
 
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| - "I
feel the need..." - "...the need for speed!" (in unison) MAVERICK (Tom Cruise) to GOOSE (Anthony Edwards) Top Gun (1986) |
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| "Nobody
puts Baby in a corner." JOHNNY CASTLE (Patrick Swayze) about BABY HOUSEMAN (Jennifer Grey) Dirty Dancing (1987) |
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| "Goooood
morning, Vietnam!" ADRIAN CRONAUER (Robin Williams) on the radio Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) |
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| "Hello.
My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!" INIGO MONTOYA (Mandy Patinkin) to COUNT TYRONE RUGEN (Christopher Guest) The Princess Bride (1987) |
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| "The
point is, ladies and gentlemen, 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, 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. Thank you very much." (short) (extended) GORDON GEKKO (Michael Douglas) to ATTENDEES at Teldar Paper Stockholder's Meeting Wall Street (1987) |
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"Was always kinda partial to Roy Rogers actually. I really like those
sequined shirts." - "Do you really think you have a chance against us, Mr. Cowboy?" - "Yippie ki-yay, motherf--ker." JOHN MCCLANE (Bruce Willis) to HANS GRUBER (Alan Rickman) Die Hard (1988) |
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