# Most quotable movies of all time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 25, 2011, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-quotable-movies-of-all-time/575931 "2011-03-25T04:30:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-quotable-movies-of-all-time/575931/62 "2011-03-25T20:36:47Z")
> [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#): > > …New Jack City… All of your choices were great, but pulling from memory, a few from this movie (which features the worst acting performance in the history of acting by Ice T) SIT yo’ five dolla ass down before I make change! AM I! MY BROTHERS! KEEPER?! RockaBYE, baby! I never liked your pretty ass, anyway. I wanna kill you so bad…my dick is hard. You soul is required in hell. That’s how you kill a nigga! In broad daylight! As for my quotable films, I really like to quote Glengary Glen Ross and Kill Bill. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-quotable-movies-of-all-time/575931/63 "2011-03-25T21:35:55Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > …but pulling from memory, a few from this movie … It was also the source of: “See ya. Wouldn’t want to be ya!” I think I watched NJC more than any other movie besides Goodfellas and Jungle Fever. Jungle Fever is one I left off that is very quotable. ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-quotable-movies-of-all-time/575931/64 "2011-03-25T22:03:01Z")
Not quite what the OP is asking for, but in terms of quotable cult movies, gotta at least mention **Buckaroo Bonzai** … “Don’t be mean; we don’t have to be mean, cuz, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.” “Where are we going? Planet Ten! When? Real soon!” "It’s not my goddamn planet. Understand, monkey boy? " "Sealed with a curse as sharp as a knife. Doomed is your soul and damned is your life. " “I’ve been ionized, but I’m okay now.” "Why is there a watermelon there? " “Declaration of War… the short form.” "Home… home is where you wear your hat… I feel so breakup, I wanna go home. " "We are not in the Eighth dimension, we are over New Jersey. Hope is not lost. " "Lithium is no longer available on credit. " “What is truck?” ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-quotable-movies-of-all-time/575931/65 "2011-03-25T22:19:43Z")
> [@Wilson](#): > > Not quite what the OP is asking for, but in terms of quotable cult movies, gotta at least mention **Buckaroo Bonzai** … > > "Home… home is where you wear your hat… I feel so breakup, I wanna go home. " I use this a lot when arriving home, alternated with, “Home again, home again, jiggidy-jig”. ---
**Author:** ![yoyodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a9a28c/32.png) [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-quotable-movies-of-all-time/575931/66 "2011-03-26T00:19:04Z")
\*Apocalypse Now \*has a few. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-quotable-movies-of-all-time/575931/67 "2011-03-26T01:48:41Z")
Casablanca Godfather all of them Blazing Saddles Airplane! The Empire Strikes Back ---
**Author:** ![Ring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Ring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ring)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-quotable-movies-of-all-time/575931/68 "2011-03-26T02:03:07Z")
Jeez, I’m astounded nobody said _The Terminator_ ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-quotable-movies-of-all-time/575931/69 "2011-03-26T04:18:56Z")
Uh, **The Blues Brothers** , anybody? “Don’t you blaspheme in here!” “I hate Illinois Nazis.” “How often does the train go by?” “So often that you won’t even notice it.” “It wasn’t lies. It was just… bullshit.” “One unused prophylactic… One soiled.” “Our lady of blessed acceleration, don’t fail me now.” And of course: “We’re on a mission from God.” Among many dozens more. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-quotable-movies-of-all-time/575931/70 "2011-03-26T05:29:31Z")
By “most quotable” does the OP mean most recognizable, or the movie with the most quotes that are currently being used? If it’s “most quotable” meaning the movie that is the best for harvesting great quotes, well…this is pretty subjective given people’s very different tastes in movies. Anyway, I agree with several of the movies here especially … Aliens Princess Bride Airplane Wizard of Oz It it’s the movie that lends itself best to great quotes then my vote is for “Night of the Comet”. Definitely a cult movie though, so it wouldn’t fall into the most recognizable for sure. Some of my favorite quotes from that movie are: Sam: “see, that’s why I hate these things, they always jam, DADDY would have gotten us Uzis”. Reg: “Sam? They said you were dead!” Sam: “They were exaggerating, like TOTally”. 😃 Sam: "… the burden of society is upon us :. DMK: “oh…yeah!! bitchin isn’t it”? Also, I haven’t seen Gone with the Wind mentioned. “I won’t think about that right now, I’ll think about it tomorrow, After all… Tomorrow IS another day”. “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn”. “I don’t know NUthIN ‘bout birthin’ no babies” (useful in all circumstances where you don’t want to do something with which you’re unfamiliar :D). ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-quotable-movies-of-all-time/575931/71 "2011-03-26T05:32:38Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Airplane! I just wanted to tell you all good luck. We’re all counting on you. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-quotable-movies-of-all-time/575931/72 "2011-03-26T10:00:42Z")
_Withnail & I_. It’s so brilliantly written, practically every line is quotable. “I demand to have some booze!” “All right, this is the plan. We get in there and get wrecked. Then we’ll eat a pork pie, then we’ll drop a couple of Surmontil-50s each. It means we’ll miss out Monday and come up smiling Tuesday morning.” “You’re lookin’ very beautiful man. St Peter preached the epistles to the apostles dressed like that.” “We’ve gone on holiday by mistake.” “Monty you terrible cunt!” “Want cake. Cake and fine wines. We want the finest wines known to humanity, we want them here and we want them now.” “I can never touch meat until it’s cooked. As a youth I used to weep in butcher’s shops.” “Oh my boys, my boys. We’re at the end of an age. We live in a land of weather forecasts, and breakfasts that _set in_. Shat on by Tories, shovelled up by Labour, and here we are, we three. Perhaps the last island of beauty in the world.” “The sky begins to bruise, and soon we shall be forced to camp.” “Trade: phenodihydrochloride benzedrex. Street: The Embalmer.” “London is a country comin’ down from its trip.” ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-quotable-movies-of-all-time/575931/73 "2011-03-26T12:29:30Z")
I’d say _Casablanca_, but **Young Frankenstein** would be second. “Put zee candle back!” “My name is Frau Blucher.” …and many, many others. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-quotable-movies-of-all-time/575931/74 "2011-03-26T12:35:02Z")
So many great quotes in this thread … But I had a friend in college who pretty much had _The Wrath of Khan_ memorized. So I’d be listing the entire shooting script here, with all the quotes we threw back and forth. “Khan, you bloodsucker …” _The Princess Bride_ and _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_ are two other favorites of mine, but I like to use quotes from a lot of movies in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![davidw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@davidw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidw)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-quotable-movies-of-all-time/575931/75 "2011-03-26T12:49:16Z")
King of New York “I don’t leave witnesses!” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-quotable-movies-of-all-time/575931/76 "2011-03-26T13:46:38Z")
[Raising Arizona](http://www.moviesoundscentral.com/raisingarizona.htm) ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-quotable-movies-of-all-time/575931/77 "2011-03-26T14:10:09Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > The Wizard of Oz The winner, easily. People use a lot of those turns of phrase without even thinking of the movie. And the fact that it’s the most frequently quoted demonstrates its quotability. I mean I liked “Withnail and I” too, but most people have never heard of the movie, and even having seen and enjoyed it I’d never think to quote it. ---
**Author:** ![brocks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@brocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brocks)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-quotable-movies-of-all-time/575931/78 "2011-03-26T17:04:48Z")
Actually, the very first post had the winner, although it was dismissed — Hamlet. Not a sentient being alive who doesn’t know “to be or not to be,” or “my mind’s eye.” ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-quotable-movies-of-all-time/575931/79 "2011-03-26T17:25:13Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > I mean I liked “Withnail and I” too, but most people have never heard of the movie, and even having seen and enjoyed it I’d never think to quote it. Yeah, sorry I ignored the second sentence of the OP. ---
**Author:** ![brocks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@brocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brocks)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-quotable-movies-of-all-time/575931/80 "2011-03-26T17:25:15Z")
Wow, I was editing my post, and it disappeared. Anyway, besides “to be or not to be,” some (just a sampling) quotes you may not have realized were from Hamlet (not all are literal quotes): “my mind’s eye” “foul play” “to the manner born” “something rotten in Denmark” “more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy” “brevity is the soul of wit” “method in his madness” “what a piece of work” “the lady doth protest too much” “it smells to heaven” “I must be cruel to be kind” “dead and gone” “alas, poor Yorick” “sweets to the sweet” “the dog will have its day” “did me yeoman’s service” “a very palpable hit” “goodnight sweet prince” ---
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