# Most memorable dying words in a movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 21, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372 "2004-09-21T20:35:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/41 "2004-09-22T01:24:43Z")
> [@bughunter](#): > > Oh, I’m supposed to offer a new quote… duh. > > How about… > > “Message for you, Sir.” That guy? In that movie? Lancelot’s assistant, that got shot with the arrow with the message tied to it, that the guy up in the tower shot, so he wouldn’t have to marry Princess Lucky and her vast…tracts of land. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/42 "2004-09-22T01:26:56Z")
Oooops, new quote: “Hahahaha! Hahahahaha! Hahahahahhahahaha…\” ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/43 "2004-09-22T01:30:10Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Oooops, new quote: > “Hahahaha! Hahahahaha! Hahahahahhahahaha…\” Vizzini, _The Princess Bride_. “You already did.” ---
**Author:** ![modro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@modro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/modro)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/44 "2004-09-22T01:33:12Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > _Miller’s Crossing_ > John Turturro to Gabriel Byrne. > “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 Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. Time to die.” Umm, the blonde haired replicant in **Bladerunner** … Not to be specific, or anything. ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/45 "2004-09-22T01:34:11Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > “Shit.” Gary Oldman in _The Professional_? “It’s beautiful!” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/46 "2004-09-22T01:34:51Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > “A…spear…” The swiftboat captain in _Apocalypse Now._ But much less memorable than, “The horror! The horror!” “Aren’t all those supposed to be empty?” ---
**Author:** ![Time\_Like\_Tears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@Time\_Like\_Tears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Time_Like_Tears)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/47 "2004-09-22T01:35:02Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > “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 Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. Time to die.” Blade Runner, Roy, Rutger Hauer. My email alias is TimeLikeTears. ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/48 "2004-09-22T01:39:11Z")
“C’mon Donnie, help me fillet this fat fuck.” ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/49 "2004-09-22T01:42:48Z")
> [@neofishboy](#): > > Gary Oldman in _The Professional_? > “It’s beautiful!” Belloq, _Raiders of the Lost Ark_ Always liked “Fly, you fools!” even though it wasn’t really a death… ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/50 "2004-09-22T01:51:54Z")
It’s the end. But the moment has been prepared for. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/51 "2004-09-22T01:51:54Z")
> [@neofishboy](#): > > Gary Oldman in _The Professional_? Possibly. I was thinking of _Day of the Dolphin._ (Evil conspirators are planning to use specially trained talking dolphins to assassinate president by planting magnetized bombs on the hull of his yacht. Dolphins outsmart them and swim to the conspirators’ yacht. “Click.” One of them looks out porthole . . . sees dolphins swimming away, apparently giggling . . .) > [@](#): > > “It’s beautiful!” Could be from _Raiders_ too, but I’m flashing on _Taps._ ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/52 "2004-09-22T01:52:42Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > "“I would have like to have seen…Montana…” Capt. Ramius’ XO from THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/53 "2004-09-22T01:57:16Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > “Mother of Mercy . . . Is this the end of Rico?” I’m surprised no one picked up on this one.\* Little Caesar.\* Mine: “How does it feel to hang on your own embalming rack, Hjalmar?” “What have I done?” “I’ve got to get more steps. I need more steps. I’ve got to get higher, higher!” “Is that you, Martha? I don’t want to be disturbed.” “Little bob-cat.” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/54 "2004-09-22T02:06:43Z")
Apparently I am invisible. 😃 See post #25, **_Deva_** and \*\*Enola Straight \*\* and **modro**. Man, **lissener**. Those are tough ones! ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/55 "2004-09-22T02:31:17Z")
> [@Peter Morris](#): > > It’s the end. But the moment has been prepared for. Not a movie—and not, technically, a death!—but that’s Tom Baker from “Logopolis.” ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/56 "2004-09-22T03:00:54Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Vizzini, _The Princess Bride_. > > “You already did.” I thought the “hahahahahaha” bit might have been Donnie Darko, in the movie of the same name, except that his ending is more like CRASH than “clunk.” ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/57 "2004-09-22T03:43:24Z")
> [@](#): > > How does it feel to hang on your own embalming rack, Hjalmar?" The Black Cat > [@](#): > > “I’ve got to get more steps. I need more steps. I’ve got to get higher, higher!” The Great Ziegfeld > [@](#): > > “Is that you, Martha? I don’t want to be disturbed.” Dark Victory ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/58 "2004-09-22T04:42:38Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > “Aren’t all those supposed to be empty?” The boy warlord from _Defcon 4_ ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/59 "2004-09-22T06:12:38Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > “What have I done?” Alec Guinness in **Bridge on the River Kwai**. A couple more: “Blue. No, yel…” “Big joke!” ---
**Author:** ![Antonius\_Block](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/60 "2004-09-22T06:33:15Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > “Blue. No, yel…” Sir Galahad (Michael Palin), [Monty Python and the Holy Grail](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/quotes). Here’s mine: **I’m smarter than you, Jack! I’m smarter! I’m smarter!** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372.md?page=4)