# The greatest lines in film history? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 9, 2003, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-lines-in-film-history/160098 "2003-03-09T16:38:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Philosophocles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Philosophocles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philosophocles)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-lines-in-film-history/160098/121 "2003-03-13T06:50:09Z")
“You break my record, now I break YOU…like I break your friend.” ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-lines-in-film-history/160098/122 "2003-03-13T07:14:47Z")
“He slimed me.” - Ghostbusters “I firmly believe in the philosophy of a ruling class. Especially since I rule.” - Clerks “Charlie, here comes the deuce. And when you speak of me, speak well.” - Bull Durham “They’re escaping under cover of afternoon in the biggest car in the county.” - MST3K: The Movie ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-lines-in-film-history/160098/123 "2003-03-13T07:30:08Z")
“A man of vision, you say…yeah, a hell of a vision”. A pretty good line from Lonesome Dove, by Tommy Lee Jones as Cap’n. Woodrow F. Call ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-lines-in-film-history/160098/124 "2003-03-13T08:41:13Z")
Don’t forget about these two from the same scene “Someday this could all be yours” “The Curtains?” And “She’s got huge…tracts of land!” ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-lines-in-film-history/160098/125 "2003-03-13T09:03:15Z")
“Snootch to the nootch!” ---
**Author:** ![hathor29](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7feea3/32.png) [@hathor29](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hathor29)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-lines-in-film-history/160098/126 "2003-03-13T17:30:36Z")
A couple from Better off Dead. It’s a damn shame when people start throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that. Sorry your mom blew up Ricky. ---
**Author:** ![Bedrosian\_Bixby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecae2f/32.png) [@Bedrosian\_Bixby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bedrosian_Bixby)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-lines-in-film-history/160098/127 "2003-03-13T18:49:20Z")
Clamenza had some classic lines in The Godfather. “Leave the gun. Take the cannolis” and my personal favorite (more for his nonchalant attitude while cooking pasta sauce) Sonny: “How’s Paulie?” Clamenza: “Who, Paulie? Won’t see him no more” R. Lee Ermy had a wellspring of memorable lines in Full Metal Jacket. “Texas? Only steers and queers come from Texas…I don’t see no horns on you boy!” “What is your major malfunction numbnuts!!” A few others of note. “That’s what I like about those highschool girls…I get older, they stay the same age.” “We’re in highschool now, where all the girls put out” “You know what that song was about? That song was about aliens, man. George Washington was in a cult…and the cult was into aliens , man.” Dazed and Confused “I feel like a little, bitty fish on a big fuckin hook” The Crow Alladin! Should I call you Al…or maybe Din…or how bout Laddy…sounds like “here boy, good Laddy” Alladdin “PFLAG, I like the sound of that.” Reality Bites Loyd’s “buy, sell or make” speech in Say Anything is a classic as well. But for the life of me I can’t commit that to memory. and my all time favorite…“Jeffery Dahmer…I love that guy…thaw him out next” Demolition Man (don’t know why I love that quote so much…maybe because it was so damn surprising coming from such a vanilla movie) ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-lines-in-film-history/160098/128 "2003-03-13T21:03:22Z")
…“I’m shocked, shocked to learn that gambling is going on in here”-Capt. Louis Renault in CASABLANCA “Major Strassers been shot…round up the usual suspects” -Ibid “How did an egg from 40 million years ago survive?” -some Japanese expert in GODZILLA ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_of_Sandwhich)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-lines-in-film-history/160098/129 "2003-03-14T02:51:20Z")
“Were you, or were you not, motioning to Claire?” The Breakfast Club ---
**Author:** ![Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dread_pirate_jimbo/32/3897_2.png) [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Jimbo)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-lines-in-film-history/160098/130 "2003-03-14T06:16:57Z")
Here’s one from _El Diablo_, an HBO western I enjoyed so much, I bought the video: Billy Ray (played by Anthony Edwards): You shot that man in the back! Van Leek (Louis Gossett, Jr.): (shrugs) His back was to me. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-lines-in-film-history/160098/131 "2003-03-14T07:29:31Z")
“I’ve got a bad feeling about this.” - Every Star Wars character ---
**Author:** ![Rucksinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@Rucksinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rucksinator)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-lines-in-film-history/160098/132 "2003-03-20T20:50:59Z")
The greatest line ever, for longevity, subtlety, and number of times quoted and paraphrased: “Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?” I don’t know who said it or in what movie, and may have misquoted. ---
**Author:** ![sirtonyh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@sirtonyh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirtonyh)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-lines-in-film-history/160098/133 "2003-03-21T11:18:20Z")
Unless I’ve missed something I can’t believe no-one has mentioned; “I love the smell of napalm in the morning” - Apocolypse Now I also like; “Stop thinking Czech police and start thinking playstation. Blow shit up” - XXX “Groovy” - Evil Dead II Oh yeah, also the Blues Brothers one about gas, sunglasses and miles to Chicago but I can’t remember it right now. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-lines-in-film-history/160098/134 "2003-03-21T15:42:39Z")
Another vote for the “Dirty Harry” quote… It is **the** best movie quote ever. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-lines-in-film-history/160098.md?page=6)