Great Movie Lines
My expanding collection of outstanding movie lines that made me laugh, wow, think, wonder, and so on. I checked and double-checked all lines, particularly after noticing how often lines are misquoted at sites like the IMDB. So it is fair to assume that the lines are correctly quoted. A movie containing one or more great lines is, however, not always necessarily a good or great movie.
"I like you better without your Beretta." (James Bond to a Bond girl in the shower)
Bond girl: "I feel naked without it."
Skyfall, UK | USA 2012
Juliette Binoche
"You are attracted to me?"
Clive Owen
"Very much"
Juliette Binoche
"Why?"
Clive Owen
"Same species different sex."
Words And Pictures, USA 2013
Ton thé t'a-t-il ôté ta toux?
Nicole Kidman in "Grace of Monaco" ( France | USA | Belgium | Italy | Switzerland 2014) .
"Let the de-assholing begin."
Inseparable (China 2011)
"Well, my name is Jim, and most people call me - Jim"
Gene Wilder in
Blazing Saddles, USA 1974
"Take this down.
I want rustlers, cutthroats, murderers, bounty hunters...
...desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, half-wits, dimwits...vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits...muggers, buggerers, bushwackers, hornswagglers...horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers...shit-kickers and Methodists!"
Harvey Korman as Hedley Lamarr in Blazing Saddles, USA 1974
"I'm not a psychopath, Anderson, I'm a high functioning sociopath, do your research."
Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock Homes, Episode 1, UK 2010
"Why did you not wait for me"
"Because rich girls don't marry poor boys"
The Great Gatsby, Australia | USA 2014
"Gimme a whiskey, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby."
Greta Garbo in Anna Christie, USA 1930
"On a daily basis I consume enough drugs to sedate Manhattan, Long Island, and Queens for a month. I take Quaaludes 10-15 times a day for my "back pain", Adderall to stay focused, Xanax to take the edge off, part to mellow me out, cocaine to wake me back up again, and morphine... well, because it's awesome. "
Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort, in The Wolf of Wall Street, USA 2013
"Why don't you take your potty mouth, go locate your pre-teen cock-sucking son and stuff him back up that old blown-out sweat sock of a vagina and scoot off back to whatever shit-kicking town you came from! "
Jason Bateman as Guy Trilby in
Bad Words (USA 2013)
"The earth is another form of hell, and men are its demons."
The devil in Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (Japan | USA | Singapore | South Korea 2010)
"The toilets are in the bathroom"
Welcome, 2009/1, France 2009
Woman: Mr. President. Amy V… Fox News.
President: Oh Fox, of course, that´s why you look so fair and balanced.
G.I Joe, Retaliation, USA 2013
Nick Carraway: You can't repeat the past.
Jay Gatsby: Can't repeat the past?
Nick Carraway: No...
Jay Gatsby: Why, of course you can... of course you can.
The Great Gatsby, Australia | USA 2014
David Sumner: After all, there's never been a kingdom given to so much bloodshed as that of Christ.
Reverend Barney Hood: [beat] That's Montesquieu, isn't it?
David Sumner: Oh, really?
Louise Hood: Who's he?
Reverend Barney Hood: Somebody well worth reading.
Straw Dogs ( USA | UK 1971)
Uncle Charlie: Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know, if you rip the fronts off houses, you'd find swine?
Joseph Cotten in Shadow of a Doubt, USA 1943
[Uncle Charlie visits the bank]
Uncle Charlie: Hello, Joe. Can you stop embezzling a minute and give me your attention?
Joseph Newton: Oh, uh, Charles, we don't joke about such things here.
Uncle Charlie: Aw, what's a little shortage in the books at the end of the month? Any good bank clerk can cover up a little shortage. Isn't that right, Charlie?
Young Charlie: Uncle Charlie, you're awful. Everyone can hear you.
Uncle Charlie: Good thing they can. We all know what banks are. Look all right to an outsider, but no one knows what goes on when the doors are locked. Can't fool me, though.
Joseph Cotten, Henry Travers, and Teresa Wright in Shadow of a Doubt, USA 1943
Uncle Charlie: The cities are full of women, middle-aged widows, husbands, dead, husbands who've spent their lives making fortunes, working and working. And then they die and leave their money to their wives, their silly wives. And what do the wives do, these useless women? You see them in the hotels, the best hotels, every day by the thousands, drinking the money, eating the money, losing the money at bridge, playing all day and all night, smelling of money, proud of their jewelry but of nothing else, horrible, faded, fat, greedy women... Are they human or are they fat, wheezing animals, hmm? And what happens to animals when they get too fat and too old?
Joseph Cotten in Shadow of a Doubt, USA 1943
To dream ... the impossible dream ...
To fight ... the unbeatable foe ...
To bear ... with unbearable sorrow ...
To run ... where the brave dare not go ...
To right ... the unrightable wrong ...
To love ... pure and chaste from afar ...
To try ... when your arms are too weary ...
To reach ... the unreachable star ...
This is my quest, to follow that star ...
No matter how hopeless, no matter how far ...
To fight for the right, without question or pause ...
To be willing to march into Hell, for a Heavenly cause ...
And I know if I'll only be true, to this glorious quest,
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm,
when I'm laid to my rest ...
And the world will be better for this:
That one man, scorned and covered with scars,
Still strove, with his last ounce of courage,
To reach ... the unreachable star ...
This is my quest, to follow that star ...
No matter how hopeless, no matter how far ...
To fight for the right, without question or pause ...
To be willing to march into Hell, for a Heavenly cause ...
And I know if I'll only be true, to this glorious quest,
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm,
when I'm laid to my rest ...
And the world will be better for this:
That one man, scorned and covered with scars,
Still strove, with his last ounce of courage,
To reach ... the unreachable star ...
Peter O Toole in Man of La Mancha. Italy, USA, 1972.
[O Toole's singing was dubbed.]
The director of the original Broadway production of “Man of La Mancha” was Albert Marre.
Guy in prison cell bangs at the door...
"Hey, you forgot to leave a chocolate on the pillow"
Bangs again at the door...
"You forgot to leave the pillow"
Outside Bet, UK 2012, ca. min 53
"Did you wash your ass with my juice? ... I can never drink orange juice again."
Guy in Dehli Belly, India 2011
Girl: ...do you always talk to yourself?
Guy at computer: uh... yeah, I'm very good company.
Freerunner, USA 2011
I go slip into something a little less comfortable.
Brendan Gleeson as Sergeant Gerry Boyle at home in his underpants in: The Guard, Ireland 2011
Lawrence Jamieson: Don't you ever have an emotion that originates above the waist?
Freddy Benson: No!
Michael Caine, Steve Martin, in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (USA 1988)
Freddy, as a younger man, I was a sculptor, a painter, and a musician. There was just one problem: I wasn't very good. As a matter of fact, I was dreadful. I finally came to the frustrating conclusion that I had taste and style, but not talent. I knew my limitations. We all have our limitations, Freddy. Fortunately, I discovered that taste and style were commodities that people desired. Freddy, what I am saying is: know your limitations. You are a moron.
Lawrence Jamieson (Michael Caine) in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (USA 1988)
My right hand hasn't seen my left and in thirty years.
Burt Lancaster in Sweet Smell Of Success, USA 1957
"Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves. Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here?
Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?"
Donald Sutherland (Sgt. Oddball) in Kelly's Heroes, Yugoslavia, USA 1970
http://youtu.be/Xyh-JpWdGmQ
Sokurah the Magician: From the land beyond beyond... from the world past hope and fear... I bid you, Genie, now appear.
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, USA 1958
Sailor 1: If there was land it would be such as no man would dare set foot upon.
Sailor 2: Sinbad would, he dares anything.
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, USA 1958
Hey, look at me, Vic. l'm a businessman.
My gut is swelling. My ass is dropping.
l got a wife and three kids. l belong to four clubs.
l worry about the crabgrass in the lawn and worms in the goddamn poodle.
Mobster in The Anderson Tapes, USA 1971
You are goddamn right. What's advertising but a legalized con game? And what the hell's marriage? Extortion, prostitution, soliciting with a government stamp on it.
And what the hell's your stock market?
A fixed horse race.
Some business guy steals a bank, he's a big success story, face in all the magazines.
Some other guy steals a magazine, and he's busted.
Sean Connery in
The Anderson Tapes, USA 1971
-- Look at yourself. Why would anyone ever want to be with you?
-- Uhmm, I' m not sure really, oh yeah perhaps because I am rich, I live in a castle and I can do magic.
Your Highness, USA 2011
Prince Edward: Mad, like all the Habsburgs, stark raving mad
Mayerling, France, UK 1968
I guess ... guess you better take a swing at my chin.
Nikki (Margaret Sheridan) in The Thing from Another World. USA 1951
The night has fallen, and there is nothing we can do about it.
Jon Voight in Deliverance, USA 1972
Ned Cruz: When do you get off?
Fay Neman: About fourteen minutes after I start fucking.
Big Bang, USA 2010
Captain Rumpelstoss: But... how will I learn to fly, Herr Colonel?
Colonel Manfred von Holstein: The way we do everything in the German army: from the book of instructions.
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes. UK 1965
Gus: No dice, I don't want no operation ...if I lose my leg I lose Rosie ... she loves to dance, its her hobby its her whole life. Put yourself in her place, do you like to dance? ... well then, what good's a hepcat with one gam missing? If my leg goes, Rosie goes.
Lifeboat, USA 1944
"Elvis wouldn't do what you are doing, and I knew him."
"You didn't know him, you fucked him maybe, but you didn't know him."
Michelle Pfeiffer, Bruce McGill in Into The Night, USA 1985
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e91UjTiv4Mw#t=01m17s
Never, never, interrupt me, okay? Not if there's a fire, not even if you hear the sound of a thud from my home and one week later there's a smell coming from there that can only be a decaying human body and you have to hold a hanky to your face because the stench is so thick that you think you're going to faint. Even then, don't come knocking. Or, if it's election night, and you're excited and you wanna celebrate because some fudgepacker that you date has been elected the first queer president of the United States and he's going to have you down to Camp David, and you want someone to share the moment with. Even then, don't knock. Not on this door. Not for ANY reason. Do you ge t me, sweetheart?
Jack Nicholson as Melvin Udall in: As Good as It Gets, USA 1997.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7sCxS6N3-4
Woman on Airplane: Don't you just hate flying?
Annie Reed (Meg Ryan): Yes, I do, and I just told the most terrible one to the man I'm about to marry. Do you feel that any lie is a betrayal?
Woman on Airplane: I said flying.
Sleepless In Seattle, USA 1993
"He left me for another woman. A deceased one."
Gemma Jones as Helena Shebritch in
You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, USA 2010
I don't got time for a common nuisance.
Gunless, Canada 2010
Hey Lisa!
Her name is not Lisa.
I know, I know but if everytime I say hey Lisa then eventually she'll come up to me and she'll be like, you know, my name is not Lisa it's Jennifer whatever, and I´ll do a big apology, and I say I thought you were the Lisa who is mad at me for not calling, and from then on Jennifer or whatever her name is will think that I dated a girl who looked just like her who I rejected, she´ll develop this unconscious need to win my approval, and from then on it's a cake.
Damn!
Love And Other Drugs, USA 2010
I would be remiss in my duty, if I did not tell you, that the idea of intercourse as a fact of your firm young body comingling with the withered flesh, sagging breasts, and flabby buttocks makes me want to vomit.
Priest in Harold and Maude, USA 1971
"The dining hall was serving chicken for dinner, so I, and I had to feed my chicken, so I, well I took little pieces of chicken, and I gave it to the chicken, someone must have seen me, because the next thing I knew I was being accused of forced cannibalism"
The Social Network, USA 2010
"Now you will excuse me, I have a beam of light to catch."
Prot in K-Pax, USA, Germany 2001
"When you brake the law you are a punk, when you break the law with a badge you are a punk with a badge."
Defendor in Defendor, Canada, USA, UK 2009
"The faggot undertaker couldn't get his nails clean. They had to bury him with gloves on"
Midnight Cowboy, USA 1969
"I've got goose pimples, even my goose pimples have goose pimples"
Bob Hope in The Cat and the Canary (1939)
"Old man my ass!"
John Malkovich in RED (USA 2010)
"You just had your ass handed to you by a god damn retiree."
RED, USA 2010
They, uh, was giving me 10,000 watts a day, you know, and I'm hot to trot, next woman takes me on is gonna light up like a pinball machine, and pay off in silver dollars.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, USA 1975
Good hunting, good show, jolly good fun, jolly, jolly good.
The Bridge on the River Kwai, UK/USA 1957, ca. min 24.
Blast off: one-eight-oh. Two hundred: Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. Two ten: U.S. Government certified. Two twenty: lunar trajectory, junk of the month club, sirloin steak. Two thirty: Grade A poison. Absolute dynamite. Eighty-nine percent pure junk. Best I've ever seen. If the rest is like this, you'll be dealing on this load for two years.
The guy checking the purity of a drug in The French Connection, USA 1971
Listen, punk, to me you're nothing but dogshit, ya understand?
And a lot of things can happen to dogshit. It can be scraped up with a shovel off the ground, it can dry up and blow away in the wind, or it can be stepped on and squashed. So take my advice- be careful where the dog shit ya!
Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) in Dirty Harry 4, USA 1983
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UznxI3Z4NU8&NR=1
I know what you're thinking, punk. You are thinking did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, I forgot myself in all this excitement.
But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, I would blow your head clean off.
You could ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do you, punk?
Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) in Dirty Harry, USA 1971
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daFb3J-cwLg
Nemo age 9: [narrating] On that day, I would make a lot of silly decisions.
Nemo age 16: One; I will never leave anything to chance again. Two; I will marry the girl on my motorcycle. Three; I'll be rich. Four; we'll have a house. A big house, painted yellow, with a garden. And two children, Paul and Michael. Five; I'll have a convertible. A red convertible! And a swimming pool, I'll learn to swim. Six; I will not stop until I succeed!
Mr. Nobody, Canada | Belgium | France | Germany, 2009
"You are eying up the bone."
"Yeah, he fancies me."
Wild Target, UK/France 2010
"Sometimes you are the windshield, sometimes you are the bug."
The Chosen One, USA 2010
If I could buy you for what your are worth, and sell you for what you think you are worth, I'd retire.
The Evening Sun, USA 2009
Hey, what's the holdup. We got a lot of Abu Dhabi to do. Abu Dhabi doo.
Sex in the City 2, USA 2010
The earth is another form of hell, and men are its demons.
The devil in Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic, Japan | USA | Singapore | South Korea, 2010
The toilets are in the bathroom.
Welcome, France 2009/1
Young man: Oh God
Freddy Krueger: No, just me.
A Nightmare on Elmstreet, USA 2010
Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms, and the autumn moon is bright.
The Wolfman, USA / UK 2010
Fletch: Two flacons of ale please, Sir.
Lesbian Vampire Killers, UK 2009
And he could finally be himself, Ethan, just Ethan, and that was enough.
Tracing Cowboys, USA 2008
I am so fucking smart, that I make smart people feel like they are retarded.
the female federal agent in Boondock Saints 2, USA 2009
If you want to be a secret agent man, you gotta roll like a secret agent man.
Travolta in From Paris With Love, France 2010
You failed to maintain your weapon, son.
Michael Caine in Harry Brown, UK 2009
"...whole company of armed terrorists, that’s what’s wrong."
"I just set out the good china."
"Fuck the china."
The Book Of Eli, USA 2010
Student „Where are you going?“
Sarah: „Haven't you heard? I am going crazy.“
The Boogeyman 3, USA 2008
“Look, Jimmy is in trouble ”
“What kind of trouble, money trouble, drug trouble, sex change trouble? ”
Bounty Hunter, USA 2010
Mr. Bumble: Cry your hardest now, it opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes and softens down the temper. So cry away.
Oliver Twist, USA 1948
Go ahead, make my day.
Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry4, USA 1983
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6-Snl4a1RI&NR=1.
Badges? We ain’t got no badges! We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!
Alfonso Bedoya as Gold Hat in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, USA 1948
"You are not making any sense now."
"I know, I am the United Nations."
The Hunting Party, USA | Croatia | Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2007
Flash: Don't confuse activity with achievement.
I have seen those pieces of shit, those celluloid abortions that you call movies.
Man In The Chair, USA 2007
Photo: Chantal Marré