Best Movie Line Of All-Time?

[THUNDER HANDS]

Choose. But choose...wisely.

[villager]

1. "Round up the Usual Suspects"

[NoodleBoy]

3. damn right.

I was going to say that seen in Empire Strikes Back, before Han gets lowered into the freezing thing, when Leia says "I love you," and he just says "I know." that's cool.

[TexasBushwhacker]

6. Yup, I like that one, and this one from Body Heat

"You're not too smart. I like that in a man."

[Left Is Write]

2. Those are all great lines, but

my vote went to Quint.

[TexasBushwhacker]

4. It wasn't Quint that said it!

It was the sheriff (Roy Scheider).

[Left Is Write]

11. True enough.

My memory was clouded by my affection for Robert Shaw in that role.

Sheriff Brody's best line was "Smile, you son of a bitch."

[rbnyc]

5. I know you gentlemen have been through a lot...

...but when you find the time, I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!

:)

[imenja]

7. "I love the smell of napalm in the morning"

Robert Duvall, "Apocalypse Now."

[CaptainCorc]

8. Good man? He's the Prince of fucking Darkness....

Jack Warden to Paul Newman in "The Verdict"

or Clark Gable's great line from "Gone with the Wind": Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

[THUNDER HANDS]

9. from Goodfellas, too long to fit in the box

"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!..."

[Carla in Ca]

10. Other...

Casablanca lines

"We'll always have Paris" and "Here's looking at you, kid".

PS-Thanks for including the great line from Sunset Blvd. a great movie.

[McKenzie]

12. Renton in Trainspotting

"Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stuffing junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself.
Choose a future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that?"
 

[Atlas Mugged]

13. "What a dump"

[WoodrowFan]

14. Badges!

Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges.

[mitchum]

15. "If anybody moves, kill them" Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch"

[villager]

22. "Wild Bunch" is just great, period. Best use of "Let's go," ever.

Plus:


Pike Bishop: He gave his word.
Dutch Engstrom: He gave his word to a railroad.
Pike Bishop: It's his word.
Dutch Engstrom: That ain't what counts. It's who you give it to.

and:


Sykes: It ain't like it used to be, but it'll do.

[mitchum]

28. Absolutely!

[pinkpops]

16. There's always an Alien Battle Cruiser...

There's always an Alien Battle Cruiser...or
a Korlian Death Ray, or...an intergalactic
plague about to wipe out life on this
planet, and the only thing that lets people
get on with their hopeful little lives is
that they don't know about it.
MIB

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. "Eleven. It's one louder."

from "This Is Spinal Tap."

[Amaya]

18. "Son, you've got a pantie on your head"

-Raising Arizona

:)

[Misunderestimator]

19. "Soylent Green is People"

[DODI]

33. It is onTCM this week. I can't wait!

[Thurston Howell IV]

20. Dr Strangelove

General Turgidson to President Muffley:
"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. Uh... depended on the breaks."

[villager]

37. shouldn't PurityofEssence be checking in on this thread?

[Thurston Howell IV]

40. A mutiny of preverts

Cut to: Burpleson AFB, Ripper's office. Mandrake examines a notepad on Ripper's desk. It is covered with doodles and an interlocking pattern of the words Peace On Earth, and Purity Of Essence.

Mandrake:

Peace on Earth. Peace on Earth. Peace on Earth: P O E. Purity of essence. O P O E. whispers O P E.

shots ring out as the doorlock is destroyed, and the door to the office opens. Enter Bat Guano, brandishing an M-1 carbine.

Guano:

Put your hands over your head.

Mandrake:

What the devil do you think you're doing, shooting your way in here? Who are you?

Guano:

I said, put your hands over your head. What kind of suit you call that, fellah?

Mandrake:

What do you mean, suit? This happens to be an R. A. F. uniform, sir. And I am Group Captain Lionel Mandrake. I am General Ripper's Executive Officer.

Guano:

Where's General Ripper?

Mandrake:

He's dead, in the bathroom.

Guano:

Where's the bathroom?

Mandrake:

Next to you.

Guano:

Peers around bathroom door and whistles in exclamation.

Mandrake:

Look, I don't know what sort of stupid game this is you're playing, but I've got a very good idea what the recall code is and I have to get in touch with SAC headquarters immediately.

Guano:

I said put your hands over your head and keep 'em there. Got any witnesses?

Mandrake:

Witnesses? What are you talking about, witnesses? He shot himself!

Guano:

While he was shaving, huh?

Mandrake:

Now look, Colonel... Bat Guano, if that really is your name, may I tell you that I have a very, very good idea, I think, I hope, I pray, what the recall code is. It's some sort of recurrent theme he kept repeating. It's a variation on Peace on Earth or Purity of Essence. E O P. O P E. It's one of those!

Guano:

Put your hands up on top of your head. Start walking.

Mandrake:

Don't you know that General Ripper went as mad as a bloody march hare and sent the while wing to attack the Soviets? Don't you know that?

Guano:

What are you talking about?

Mandrake:

I'll tell you what I'm talking about. I'm going to pick up this red telephone which is connected to SAC. And I hope... blast. Blast! Shot away, I expect by one of your men during this ridiculous fighting! picks up another phone Right. glances down to discover this phone has no cord at all.

Guano:

Alright, Charlie, I been wasting too much time on you. I got a lot of wounded men outside. Start walking.

Guano:

marching Mandrake out of Ripper's office at gunpoint The other way.

Mandrake:

Where are you taking me?

Guano:

The main gate.

Mandrake:

Colonel! Colonel, I must know what you think has been going on here!

Guano:

You wanna know what I think?

Mandrake:

Yes.

Guano:

I think you're some kind of deviated prevert. And I think General Ripper found out about your preversion, and that you were organizing some kind of mutiny of preverts. Now, move!


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Complete transcript:
http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0055.html

[Kire]

48. "You can't fight in here, this is the war room."

[glarius]

21. "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn"...Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) in

Gone With The Wind....

[phaseolus]

23. "I mean, I had mine removed surgically under general anesthesia..."

or maybe "It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses."

[ProfessorGAC]

24. "He Chose Poorly"

The Professor

[kranich]

25. Let me explain something to you

Let me explain something to you. Um, I am not Mr. Lebowski. You're Mr. Lebowski. I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. You know, that or uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.

[Mr. Blonde]

29. The Big Lebowski is one long great quote

There are practically no lines that aren't worthy of being quoted.

But Wayne's World also deserves mention with several good lines.

"A gun rack... a gun rack. I don't even own *a* gun, let alone many guns that would necessitate an entire rack. What am I gonna do... with a gun rack?"

[Abelman]

34. Agreed

Wayne's World - if you take out the plot-driving lines, generally Rob Lowe's, is just a big long quote. As is Lebowski. That's what good dialogue gets you.

I love movies that are one long quote. Much of the Star Wars Trilogy is like that.

I'm also a big fan of The Sandlot.

[democracyindanger]

26. I'M MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE!

[cavanaghjam]

27. I don't remember exactly

but in the airport scene Rick says to Ilsa, "The problems of two people don't amount to much in this cockamamie world... We'll always have Paris." Great scene. Great movie. I tear up every time they play "Le Marseille" in the cafe, and I'm a tough guy.

[SarahB]

30. "Get your paws off me you, damned, dirty ape."

[sendero]

31. I don't want no commies in my car. No Christians either!

Need I say it :)

[mac56]

32. "Plastics."

nm

[hunter]

35. "No matter where you go , there you are."

From the adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai.

Also, "Why is there a watermelon there?"

[sundog]

36. "thethethethe shaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrk!!!" from Jaws 2

[THUNDER HANDS]

38. what movie is this from?

"Gentleman, there is no fighting in here. This is the war room."

[cruadin]

39. "Yipee Ki-yay, Motherf**ker." ---from Die Hard

[malmapus]

41. "Shop smart...shop S-Mart" - Army of Darkness

..

[sariku]

42. The only line from Cabin Boy that stayed with me

Woman points to space above her head and says "Do you see the question mark over my head?"

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

43. Tom Joad in Grtapes of Wrath. Hands down.

[warrens]

44. "I had known Betty for a week"

[TahitiNut]

45. "Here's looking at you, kid."

While there've been some great tag lines since Casablanca, no movie has had the impact on everyday speech to the degree that Casabalanca did.

This particular line has probably resulted in more baby births than any other. Now that's impact.

[Dastard Stepchild]

46. Your current event, Napoleon...

"Last week, Japanese scientists explaced... placed explosive detonators at the bottom of Lake Lochness to blow Nessy out of the water. Sir Godfrey of the Nessy Alliance summoned the help of Scotland's local wizards to cast a protective spell over the lake and its local residents and all those who seek for the peaceful existence of our underwater ally."

[Seabiscuit]

47. What day of the week? Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday,

fuggheddaboudit!

[thebaghwan]

49. What we have here is a failure to communicate - Cool Hand Luke

n/t

[orleans]

50. favorite lines from the godfather

take the cannoli; leave the gun

they shot sonny on the causeway

that's your husband! that's your husband!

you're my brother, and i love you. but never take sides with anyone against the family again.

[orleans]

51. favorites from hocus pocus

another glorious morning. makes me sick!

chicks???!!

i smell children

SISTERS!!!!!!!!!!

he's a good zombie

[Saffy]

52. "You sure have a way with people."

"Well, they're my species."

"Vice, Virtue. It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much *life*. Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then you're bound to live life fully."

From:

The Absolute Best Movie of ALL Time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Gryffindor_Bookworm]

53. "Hi! I'm Chucky! Wanna play?"

:evilgrin:

[Lone_Wolf_Moderate]

54. That's a tough one.

Here are some of my favorites:


From the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Gandalf: I will draw you out Saruman, as poison is drawn from a wound.

From Superman II:

General Zod: Bow, son of Jor-El! Bow before Zod!

From the Empire Strikes Back:

Vader: The Force is with you, young Skywalker, but you are not a Jedi yet."

From Clerks:

Silent Bob: There are a lot of good looking girls out there man, but they don't all bring you lasagna at work.

[Hatalles]

55. Luke, I am your father!

An emphasis on the "I."

[LastKnight]

56. What were ya gonna do, funnyman? laugh the last 3 to death? nt