Film Quotes

Citizen Kane's last word		Rosebud
Last line in Some Like it Hot		Well nobody's perfect
Word conspicuous by its absence in the Godfather films		Mafia

Quote	Said by (actor)	Film
Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we're put on this world to rise above	Katharine Hepburn	The African Queen
I am serious – and don't call me Shirley	Leslie Nielsen	Airplane!
Fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy night	Bette Davis	All About Eve
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know	Groucho Marx	Animal Crackers
Give me a whiskey with ginger ale on the side, and don't be stingy, baby	Greta Garbo (her first line in films)	Anna Christie
Don't worry – we can walk to the curb from here	Woody Allen	Annie Hall
Hey, don't knock masturbation – it's sex with someone I love	Woody Allen
La–de–da, la–de–da!	Diane Keaton
Saigon. Shit! I'm still only in Saigon (opening line)	Martin Sheen	Apocalypse Now
Charlie don't surf!	Robert Duvall
I love the smell of napalm in the morning (to Martin Sheen)	Robert Duvall
The horror ... the horror ... (whispered – final words)	Marlon Brando
Houston, we have a problem	Tom Hanks	Apollo 13
That'll do, pig. That'll do. (Last line)	James Cromwell	Babe
It's your kids, Marty! Something's gotta be done about your kids!	Christopher Lloyd	Back to the Future
Hey Doc, you better back up … we don't have enough road to get up to 88. Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads. Last lines of	Christopher Lloyd	Back to the Future
Decrucify the angel or I'll melt your face	Jane Fonda	Barbarella
It's 106 miles to Chicago. We have a full tank of gas, half a packet of cigarettes. It's dark and we're wearing sunglasses ... HIT IT.	Dan Ackroyd	The Blues Brothers
We rob banks	Warren Beatty	Bonnie and Clyde
Infamy … infamy … they've all got it in for me!	Kenneth Williams	Carry on Cleo
Play it Sam. Play As Time Goes By (whispered)	Ingrid Bergman	Casablanca
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine	Humphrey Bogart
You played it for her. You can play it for me	Humphrey Bogart
If she can stand it, I can. Play it!	Humphrey Bogart
If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life	Bogart to Bergman
We'll always have Paris	Bogart to Bergman
Here's lookin' at you, kid	Bogart to Bergman
Major Strasser's been shot ... Round up the usual suspects	Claude Rains
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship (final line)	Humphrey Bogart
Rosebud. Last line of	Orson Welles	Citizen Kane
What we've got here is failure to communicate	Strother Martin	Cool Hand Luke
Either this guy's dead or my watch has stopped	Groucho Marx	A Day at the Races
Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary	Robin Williams	Dead Poets Society
That was the summer of 1963, when everybody called me Baby and it didn't occur to me to mind (opening line, spoken on voiceover)	Jennifer Grey	Dirty Dancing
Nobody puts Baby in the (sic) corner	Patrick Swayze	Dirty Dancing
You've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?	Clint Eastwood	Dirty Harry
What's the bleeding time? (to Dirk Bogarde)	James Robertson Justice	Doctor in the House
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here; this is the War Room!	Peter Sellers	Dr. Strangelove
Mein Fuhrer, I can walk! (final line)	Peter Sellers	Dr. Strangelove
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.	Bela Lugosi	Dracula
Did you know that Macbeth was a maggoty apple? Not many people know that.	Michael Caine	Educating Rita
You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!	Jack Nicholson	A Few Good Men
If you build it, he will come	(Uncredited)	Field of Dreams
People are always asking me if I know Tyler Durden (introductory voiceover)	Edward Norton	Fight Club
Ha–Ha–Ha–Ha! It's K–K–K–Ken — C–C–C–Coming to K–K–K–Kill me!	Kevin Kline	A Fish Called Wanda
Anti–wrinkle cream there may be, but anti–fat–bastard cream there is not.	Mark Addy	The Full Monty
Momma always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get	Tom Hanks	Forrest Gump
On my command, unleash Hell	Russell Crowe	Gladiator
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.	Marlon Brando	The Godfather
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.	Al Pacino	The Godfather Part II
Fiddle–de–dee; war, war, war. First line of	Vivien Leigh	Gone with the Wind
Death, taxes and childbirth. There's never a convenient time for any of 'em	Vivien Leigh
As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again	Vivien Leigh
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn	Clark Gable
Tomorrow I'll think of a way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day. Last line of	Vivien Leigh
As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. Opening lines (spoken in voiceover) of	Ray Liotta	Goodfellas
Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?	Dustin Hoffman	The Graduate
I want to be alone. (She claimed the line was "I want to be left alone")	Greta Garbo	Grand Hotel
Kevin, what did you do to my room? (final line – spoken off–screen)	Devin Ratray	Home Alone
Worth waiting for. (After being served a glass of lager)	John Mills	Ice Cold in Alex
Come up and see me sometime (but see also She Done Him Wrong, which came first)	Mae West	I'm No Angel (1933)
Beulah, peel me a grape
When I'm good I'm very good. When I'm bad, I'm better
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted
It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men
Suppose I offer you $1 million for a night with your wife?	Robert Redford	Indecent Proposal
They call me Mister Tibbs!	Sidney Poitier	In the Heat of the Night
You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!	Michael Caine	The Italian Job
Hang on lads – I've got a great idea. Err ... " Last line of	Michael Caine	The Italian Job
Zuzu (George Bailey's daughter): Look Daddy. Teacher says, every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings. George Bailey: That's right, that's right. Attaboy Clarence! ... last lines of	Karolyn Grimes, James Stewart	It's a Wonderful Life
You're gonna need a bigger boat.	Roy Scheider	Jaws
Wait a minute – wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet! (first words spoken in)	Al Jolson	The Jazz Singer
Show me the money!	Cuba Gooding Jr.	Jerry Maguire (1996)
You had me at "Hello".	Renee Zellwegger	Jerry Maguire (1996)
There is no bathroom!	Arnold Schwarzenegger	Kindergarten Cop
Oh no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the beast. Last line of	Robert Armstrong	King Kong (1933)
Between two evils, I generally like to pick the one I never tried before	Mae West	Klondike Annie (1936)
There's no crying in baseball	Tom Hanks	A League of their Own
I'm gettin' too old for this sh*t	Danny Glover	Lethal Weapon (series)
What have the Romans ever done for us?	John Cleese	(Monty Python's) Life of Brian
'e's not the Messiah – 'e's a very naughty boy!	Terry Jones
Blessed are the cheesemakers	?
Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico? Last words of	Edward G. Robinson	Little Caesar
Names is for tombstones, baby!	Yaphet Kotto as Mr. Big	Live and Let Die
Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the Arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport (opening line, spoken on voiceover)	Hugh Grant	Love Actually
Love means never having to say you're sorry	Ryan O'Neal	Love Story
The old man was right; only the farmers won. We lost. We always lose. Last lines of	Yul Brynner	The Magnificent Seven
When you're slapped you'll take it and like it.	Humphrey Bogart	The Maltese Falcon
(It is) the stuff that dreams are made of. (Paraphrasing Shakespeare in The Tempest) – last words of	Humphrey Bogart	The Maltese Falcon
I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.	Woody Allen	Manhattan Murder Mystery
No Sir, this is the West. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. (Last line)	Carleton Young	The Man who Shot Liberty Valance
Is it safe? (repeated by)	Laurence Olivier	Marathon Man
Hello ... hello, Clara? (last line)	Ernest Borgnine	Marty
As I expected … practically perfect in every way!	Julie Andrews	Mary Poppins
I shall stay until the wind changes	Julie Andrews	Mary Poppins
I'm walking here! I'm walking here! (Ad lib)	Dustin Hoffman	Midnight Cowboy
Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!	Michael Palin	Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!	John Cleese	Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Eliza! Where the devil are my slippers?	Rex Harrison	My Fair Lady
It reminds me of my journey to the wilds of Afghanistan. We lost our corkscrew and had to survive on nothing but food and water for several days.	W. C. Fields	My Little Chickadee
How tall are you without your horse? (Six feet, seven inches.) Never mind about the six feet, let's talk about the seven inches	Mae West	Myra Breckinridge (1970)
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!	Peter Finch	Network
I was in love with a beautiful blonde once, dear. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.	W. C. Fields	Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie (her first film – she had only a small part)	Mae West	Night After Night (1932)
I'm also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.	Julia Roberts	Notting Hill
Oh Jerry, don't let's ask for the Moon. We have the stars.	Bette Davis	Now, Voyager
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!	Katharine Hepburn	On Golden Pond
You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.	Marlon Brando	On the Waterfront
I guess we all died a little in that damned war (final line)	Clint Eastwood	The Outlaw Josey Wales
You finally really did it. You maniacs! You blew it up! God damn you, God damn you all to hell! Last lines of	Charlton Heston	Planet of the Apes
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth	Gary Cooper	The Pride of the Yankees
A boy's best friend is his mother	Anthony Perkins	Psycho
Daddy! My Daddy!	Jenny Agutter	The Railway Children
Say hello to my little friend	Al Pacino	Scarface
I now pronounce you men and wives. Last line of	Ian Wolfe (as the Reverend Elcott)	Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope ... Last lines (spoken in voiceover) of	Morgan Freeman	The Shawshank Redemption
Why don't you come up sometime and see me? (said to Cary Grant; see also I'm No Angel)	Mae West	She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
When women go wrong, men go right after them
Heeeeere's Johnny!	Jack Nicholson	The Shining
A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.	Anthony Hopkins	The Silence of the Lambs
I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner. Last line of	Anthony Hopkins	The Silence of the Lambs
I see dead people (said by 9–year–old Cole Sear)	Haley Joel Osment	The Sixth Sense
Real diamonds? They must be worth their weight in gold!	Marilyn Monroe	Some Like it Hot
Well nobody's perfect. Last line of	Joe E. Brown	Some Like it Hot
Well, there's some things a man just can't run away from	John Wayne	Stagecoach
A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away ... first line of		Star Wars (etc.)
Into the garbage chute, flyboy	Carrie Fisher	Star Wars (etc.)
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers	Vivien Leigh	A Streetcar Named Desire
Stella! Hey, Stella!	Marlon Brando	A Streetcar Named Desire
Go ahead, make my day	Clint Eastwood	Sudden Impact
I am big! It's the pictures that got small	Gloria Swanson	Sunset Boulevard
Alright Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close–up. Last line of	Gloria Swanson	Sunset Boulevard
You talkin' to me?	Robert de Niro	Taxi Driver
I'll be back (voted in 2010 as the most memorable film one–liner of all time)	Arnold Schwarzenegger	The Terminator
Hasta la vista, baby	Arnold Schwarzenegger	Terminator II: Judgement Day
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.	Orson Welles	The Third Man
You know how to whistle don't you Steve? You just put your lips together and blow	Lauren Bacall	To Have and Have Not
I feel the need … the need for speed!	Tom Cruise, Anthony Edwards	Top Gun
Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Opening lines (spoken in voiceover) of	Ewan McGregor	Trainspotting
Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges! (Mexican bandit leader)	Alfonso Bedoya	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Open the pod bay doors, Hal	Keir Dullea	2001: a Space Odyssey
I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that	Douglas Rain
Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose any more. Goodbye.	Douglas Rain
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good	Michael Douglas	Wall Street
I'll have what she's having	Estelle Reiner	When Harry Met Sally
Made it Ma – Top of the World! Last line of	James Cagney	White Heat
That's not the attitude I'd been given to expect from the H. E. Bates novels I've read (after receiving a frosty reception from some villagers)	Paul McGann	Withnail & I
I'm not bad; I'm just drawn that way	Roger Rabbit	Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore (sic – no "got"!)	Judy Garland	The Wizard of Oz
There's no place like home	Judy Garland	The Wizard of Oz
Some contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch (or,) Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch	W. C. Fields	You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

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