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Great Film Lines

Looking for great lines from films. Which are your favorite or most memorable lines?

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susandanziger

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  • "screws fall out all the time... the world is an uncertain place." The Breakfast Club, 1985

    cybele0Feb 21, 2011 11:05 am
    by cybele0

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

    dreamdustFeb 22, 2011 6:05 am
    by dreamdust

  • "Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books..."
    - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

    sonata58Feb 22, 2011 10:05 am
    by sonata58

  • whoops forgot to put-Casablanca-1942

    dreamdustFeb 22, 2011 4:48 pm
    by dreamdust

  • "Snap out of it!" -- Cher, in Moonstruck

    moengeyFeb 25, 2011 3:35 pm
    by moengey

  • I'd love to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair - Bette Davis, Cabin in the Cotton (1932)

    Nonno1955Mar 2, 2011 5:43 pm
    by Nonno1955

  • Bette Davis deserves a quote section to herself: Fashen your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night, from All About Eve-1950; What a dump from Beyond the Forest-1949.

    dreamdustMar 4, 2011 11:31 am
    by dreamdust

  • When an unstoppable force hits an immovable object from "The Dark Knight"!!..

    alexsmth114Mar 5, 2011 12:26 am
    by alexsmth114

  • Love the Bette Davis quotes! Thanks everyone for sharing.

    susandanzigerMar 5, 2011 12:00 pm
    by susandanziger (admin)

  • "The stuff that dreams are made of." Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon.

    "It's the things that people know about themselves inside that makes them afraid." The Stranger (Clint Eastwood) in High Plains Drifter.

    "I say that's bold talk for a one-eyed fat man." Lucky Ned Pepper (Robert Duvall) in True Grit.

    "Khaaaaaan!" Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) in Star Trek II, The Wrath of Khan.

    Golem100Mar 8, 2011 8:59 am
    by Golem100

  • "One meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it" Master Oogway in Kung Fu Panda

    browneeMar 9, 2011 8:00 pm
    by brownee

  • There is no law in the arena. Many are killed. Ben Hur, 1959

    dreamdustMar 13, 2011 9:42 am
    by dreamdust

  • “…from that day they decided to look for a cemetery they really loved instead of eating tofu.”
    The Birdcage

    lisbieMar 15, 2011 4:06 pm
    by lisbie

  • Shut-up and deal! The Apartment 1960

    dreamdustMar 20, 2011 3:59 pm
    by dreamdust

  • from Bollywood film lines over here like
    rishte mein to hum tumhare baap lagte hai - Amitabh Bachachan

    garywarnerMar 22, 2011 2:19 am
    by garywarner

  • Do-Re-Mi The Sound of Music, 1965 (only you sing it, instead of saying it)

    dreamdustMar 25, 2011 1:28 pm
    by dreamdust

  • I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse. Leave the gun. Take the cannolis. From The Godfather-1972

    dreamdustApr 13, 2011 5:39 pm
    by dreamdust

  • Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. From Fight Club (1999).

    nimishsdllApr 24, 2011 3:34 pm
    by nimishsdll

  • Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love. Annie Hall-1977

    dreamdustApr 26, 2011 7:34 am
    by dreamdust

  • "How does your dog do everything you tell it to? Do you give it a bone, pat it...?"
    "I don't know, just out of love I s'pose."
    "He can't. Men don't, even dogs can't."
    "You're forgetting, he's a Japanese, not an American." -Hachiko

    sidmaryApr 26, 2011 12:32 pm
    by sidmary

  • The first casuality of war is innocence...Platoon-1986-technically a tag line, but still a good quote.

    dreamdustMay 13, 2011 12:29 pm
    by dreamdust

  • "Smokey and the Bandit"
    Sheriff Buford T. Justice: [to his son] "There's no way, NO way that you came from MY loins. Soon as I get home, first thing I'm gonna do is punch yo mamma in da mouth!"

    a very stupid movie, but this line simply kills me.

    litterMay 17, 2011 10:31 am
    by litter

  • I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner. The Silence of the Lambs-1991

    dreamdustMay 27, 2011 7:12 am
    by dreamdust

  • Why don't we paint the town? And all that jazz (with music) Chicago-2002

    dreamdustJun 13, 2011 6:27 am
    by dreamdust

  • "Is this heaven?"
    "It's Iowa."
    Field of Dreams - 1989

    maryhadaJun 17, 2011 9:10 pm
    by maryhada

  • "Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what..."
    Atticus Finch to Jem and Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird

    remmett11Aug 19, 2011 1:00 am
    by remmett11

  • 'Your ego's writing checks that your body can't cash
    -Top Gun

    delilahAug 19, 2011 9:41 am
    by delilah

  • "Stephen King stopped by our gas station one time... but everyone was too scared
    to talk to him. Jake, the gas station attendant, made eye contact with him. That night he lost 200 pounds."

    ~Adam Sandler in Mr. Deeds

    DayLilyAug 19, 2011 4:57 pm
    by DayLily

  • what if this is as good as it gets?
    after all tomorrow is another day.

    DayLilyAug 21, 2011 2:20 pm
    by DayLily

  • I find him and i never forgive him. "The Fugitive"

    roxywatson001Aug 24, 2011 8:04 am
    by roxywatson001

  • "EXCUSE ME, PARDON ME, COMIN' THROUGH, HOT STUFF!" -- Timon, in The Lion King

    ISAAudreyAug 24, 2011 3:54 pm
    by ISAAudrey

  • "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 Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die."
    Blade Runner (1982)

    ToecutterAug 25, 2011 1:23 am
    by Toecutter

  • "You're gonna need a bigger boat."
    Jaws (1975)

    ToecutterAug 25, 2011 1:24 am
    by Toecutter

  • "Snap out of it!" -- Cher, in Moonstruck

    The best Movie Lines I have ever heard till now.

    bensonsSep 28, 2011 2:39 am
    by bensons

  • Well, Rick is the kind of man that... well, if I were a woman, and I were not around, I should be in love with Rick. But what a fool I am talking to a beautiful woman about another man.
    -Captain Renault
    Casablanca 1942

    EmmiebirdOct 5, 2011 8:54 am
    by Emmiebird

  • "even god's envy us because we are mortals"
    Troy

    anisha_astrologerOct 8, 2011 1:29 am
    by anisha_astrologer

  • I will go with "i live only for you otherwise i die".

    roxywatson001Oct 29, 2011 2:41 am
    by roxywatson001

  • 'I can't tell you, nobody can tell you ! You have to show me that you have what it takes'
    -Cher from Burlesque

    haydensbazaarNov 11, 2011 4:05 am
    by haydensbazaar

  • "If you build it, he will come." (as close as I recall) from Field of Dreams

    PM27Nov 14, 2011 12:45 pm
    by PM27

  • "I have a bad feeling about this." - Star Wars

    dkaufman1Nov 15, 2011 9:18 am
    by dkaufman1

  • Is he a good egg or not? (About Humpty Dumpty) Puss n Boots-2011

    dreamdustNov 17, 2011 6:38 am
    by dreamdust

  • "Was that over the top? I can never tell." -- The Riddler (Jim Carrey), "Batman Forever"

    robyn221Nov 21, 2011 3:01 pm
    by robyn221

  • "The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible, but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise." -- Lady Jane Grey (Helena Bonham Carter), quoting from Plato, in "Lady Jane."

    NeferuNov 27, 2011 12:54 am
    by Neferu

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