# Most memorable movie quotes

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 8, 2000, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-movie-quotes/28565 "2000-08-08T14:37:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![jesuslynch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e99b99/32.png) [@jesuslynch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesuslynch)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-movie-quotes/28565/21 "2000-08-08T16:11:07Z")

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Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

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**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-movie-quotes/28565/22 "2000-08-08T16:23:12Z")

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“We can laugh about it now we’re alright”

or

“I’ve been wearing the same underwear since _Tuesday_”

or then entire scene from the Marathon car agency, all of course from Planes, Trains and Automobiles

from The Life of Brian  
“You are all different” Brian  
“Yes different” Group  
“I’m not” one guy that just kills me

and from Raiders of the Lost Ark  
“Trust me”

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**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-movie-quotes/28565/23 "2000-08-08T16:43:57Z")

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Let’s see, what are some good ones…

“What are you doing, Dave?”

“I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!”

“E.T. phone home.”

“I’ve got a bad feeling about this.”

“How does it feel to be frozen? Ice is nice!”

“As … you … wish …”

“Smell bad.”

“Some people are so touchy.”

“Meow.”

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**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-movie-quotes/28565/24 "2000-08-08T16:56:11Z")

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“Is it safe?”

“Ogg Oggelby, eh? It sounds like a bubble in the bathtub.”

“Sorry, wrong number.”

“Rosebud.”

“The children of the night. What beautiful music they make.”

“Round up the usual suspects.”

“So let it be written, so let it be done.”

“Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me. Aren’t you?”

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**Author:** ![Bubble\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c0e974/32.png) [@Bubble\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bubble_Girl)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-movie-quotes/28565/25 "2000-08-08T17:03:26Z")

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“Don’t fuck with me fellas. This ain’t my first time at the rodeo.”

“But, I’m funny how? Funny like a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh? I’m here to fuckin’ amuse you?”

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**Author:** ![Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Goose)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-movie-quotes/28565/26 "2000-08-08T17:07:04Z")

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“Is this a test to determine if I am a replicent or a lesbian?”

“‘Like A Virgin’ is a metaphor for big dicks…”

“As long as I can remember I’ve always wanted to be a gangster…”

“I feel the need, the need for speed!”

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**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-movie-quotes/28565/27 "2000-08-08T17:08:35Z")

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“There are no atheists in a combat situation.”

What was the SGM’s name in that movie? I need it to put on my qoutes page.

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**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-movie-quotes/28565/28 "2000-08-08T17:21:53Z")

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“Hey, uh, who’s that little old man?”

“I see dead people.”

“It’s my way, or the highway”

“I’m a loner Dotty, a rebel.”

“We’re nerds?”

“Doe…Rae…Egon!”

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**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-movie-quotes/28565/29 "2000-08-08T17:22:25Z")

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A coupla more (and I apologize for any paraphrasing)

“Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges!”  
-Treasure of SM

“Let’s go do some crimes.”  
-Repo man

“Let’s show them what a bunch of construction engineers can do!”  
-The Fighting Seabees

“Fill your hands you son of a bitch!”  
-True Grit

(Wow, 2 from the Duke!)

Any of numerous candidates from The Grail (see previous thread).

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**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-movie-quotes/28565/30 "2000-08-08T17:24:52Z")

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Ooh ooh! Two more:

A man’s got to know his limitations.

Say hello to my little friend.

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**Author:** ![TecknoHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@TecknoHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TecknoHead)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-movie-quotes/28565/31 "2000-08-08T17:25:11Z")

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“I only drive as fast as I can see, the rest is in the reflexes.”

“Mass genocide is the most strenuous activity a human can partake, other than soccer of course”

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**Author:** ![barton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@barton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barton)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-movie-quotes/28565/32 "2000-08-08T17:38:44Z")

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“I know you were the one who betrayed me…”

“It’s a 106 miles to Chicago, we’ve got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes…”

“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 rain. Time to die.”

“I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. That’s the only way to be sure.”

“Sir, the truth is, I talk to God all the time, and, no offense, but he never mentioned you.”

“If I were creating a world, I wouldn’t mess about with butterflies and daffodils! I would’ve started with lasers, eight o’clock, day one!”

“Ray, when someone asks you if you’re a god, you say YES!”

Add pretty much anything from the Holy Grail.

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**Author:** ![Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-movie-quotes/28565/33 "2000-08-08T17:47:22Z")

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“Is there something you’d like to share with the rest of us, Amazing Larry?!!”

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**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-movie-quotes/28565/34 "2000-08-08T17:57:20Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by barton \*  
> \*\*  
> “It’s a 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.”  
“Hit it.”

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**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-movie-quotes/28565/35 "2000-08-08T18:00:35Z")

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Um, he’s sick. My best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it’s pretty serious.

– Simone Adamlee, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

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**Author:** ![SuZQRyche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@SuZQRyche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuZQRyche)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-movie-quotes/28565/36 "2000-08-08T18:14:30Z")

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I gotta admit…most of the 2nd Ace Ventura movie stands out:  
“Nonsense Poopy-pants!” \<–I live by this motto.  
“Daaaaaaaaaaahhh…nobody wants to play with me!”  
“There’s…someone on the wing! Some…THING! I’m sorry, were you saying something?”  
“It’s probably lying in a BIG…PILE…OF… Guano! They have GUANO!!!”  
“One must forgo the self to achieve spiritual creaminess and avoid the chewy chunks of degradation…” \<–this too.

Ghostbusters 2:  
“Viggie, Viggie, Viggie…you have been a bad monkey!”  
“You comin’ to shake my monkey tree…? Why don’t you let me work? I let you work!” \<–I say this a lot to my boss.  
“I got a major gas leak here… Where do you think this is coming from, the sky!!!”  
“I know what he’s suffering from… Carpathian Kitten Loss.”

Goonies:  
“HEY YOU GUUU-UUYS!!!”

Interview with the Vampire:  
‘Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires.’  
‘How avant garde.’

Animal House (I think):  
“I advise you to start drinking heavily.”

SuZQRyche

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**Author:** ![Philbuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9a140/32.png) [@Philbuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philbuck)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-movie-quotes/28565/37 "2000-08-08T18:15:48Z")

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“Truck? What truck?”

“I’ll just walk the earth.”  
“What d’you mean, walk the earth?”  
“You know, like Cain, in _Kung-Fu_.”

“Check out the big brain on Brett!”

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**Author:** ![Outrider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9d8465/32.png) [@Outrider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Outrider)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-movie-quotes/28565/38 "2000-08-08T18:18:23Z")

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Some recent ones:  
Get busy living or get busy dying.

So you were having sex with the little guy?

You don’t get to tell me what to do EVER again.

My job requires mostly masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the men’s room so I can jerk off while I fantasize about a life that less closely resemble Hell.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is a spiritual war. Our depression is our lives.

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**Author:** ![SuZQRyche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@SuZQRyche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuZQRyche)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-movie-quotes/28565/39 "2000-08-08T18:20:43Z")

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let’s not forget

“Hail to the king, baby…”

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**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-movie-quotes/28565/40 "2000-08-08T18:25:08Z")

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Lotsa Princess Bride quotes! Rock on!

MR

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