No cite but I recall an interview with Cameron Crowe where he said that he thought that ‘the Quan’ would be the big catchphrase instead of ‘Show me the money.’
Most of my favorite movie quotes are everybody else’s favorite movie quotes. So I ask which of your favorites don’t get enough love.
Tons of quotable stuff in Aliens but, in the scene when they’re discussing nuking the site from orbit (a quote which overshadows the entire scene and rightfully so), Burke objects to the plan saying “There’s a substantial dollar value attached to this project”. To which Ripley gives an exasperated “They can bill me!”
Always loved that exchange. Along the same lines, when Ripley is defending herself before the corporate hearing and says “I told you we set down there on company orders to get this thing that destroyed my entire crew… and your expensive ship.”
There’s a not very well known movie called Playing By Heart that I dearly love, and one line in particular that I enjoy is “I have an endless capacity for useless information.” Because it describes me pretty well!
Predator:
Blaine: “Buncha slack-jawed faggots around here.”
I feel ya Blaine. Sometimes I’m just too damn macho too. 
Anything from Predator is probably a bad example. The whole damn movie is one long string of quotable lines.
Clerks:
Dante: My girlfriend sucked 37 dicks!
Customer: In a row?
…and as she leaves the store Dante yells “Try not to suck any dicks walking across the parking lot!”
From Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Large Man with Dead Body: Who’s that then?
The Dead Collector: I dunno, must be a king.
Large Man with Dead Body: Why?
The Dead Collector: He hasn’t got shit all over him.
It’s the last line that wins it. There are so many good lines, so many that get repeated. But this one, well, no one repeats it.
I also love Sugar’s line from Some Like it Hot
Sugar: Story of my life. I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.
From Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid:
Mr. Garrett (Strother Martin) to Butch and Sundance, who are in the process of showing that they don’t really know much about planning a robbery: “Morons. I’ve got morons on my team.” Martin’s delivery just kills me. Some day, in a meeting, I want to pause, give a frustrated sigh, and say, “Morons. I’ve got morons on my team.”
I think I’m the only person I know who quotes that line.
In the underrated “Nobody’s Fool,” the hapless Sully (Paul Newman) finds out that his equally hapless lawyer is Jewish.
Sully: “You’re a Jew? Really? I didn’t know that. So… how come you ain’t SMART???”
“There IS no Bathroom!!!” - Schwarzenegger to kindergarten students in “Kindergarten Cop”
“He vas my BOYFRIEND!!”
-Herr Brucher in Young Frankenstein
Neiiiiigggghhhhhhh!
“Science ain’t an exact science” from 12 Monkeys.
From In Bruges:
Ray: I saw your midget today. Little prick didn’t even say hello.
Chlo: Well, he’s on a lot of ketamine.
Ray: What’s that?
Ray: Um, horse tranquilizer.
Ray: Horse tranquilizer? Where’d he get that?
Chlo: I sold it to him.
Ray:** You can’t sell horse tranquilizers to a midget! **
Lately, I’ve been putting together my favorites everytime I watch a movie I love.
Of those, I’d have to say I think the most underrated is McCoy’s line from Undiscovered Country, “I’d give real money if he’d shut up.”
“Some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb” - Batman in the 1966 movie
That is a great one. I also like McCoy’s “What is it with you?”
“Shut that cunt’s mouth or I’ll come over there and fuck-start her head.”
It’s the first thing either of the protagonists says in the movie, and in fact the only thing they say in the opening scene before getting the shit kicked out of them. And it pretty much sums them up.
**RickJay **- while I can certainly see its appeal as a signature line for a character, I don’t know that it would ever have the mass appeal that a *true *catchphrase would. Although it would be far more interesting to hear some kid try to get away with using it vs. “show me the money” at the dinner table
I can’t remember the name of the movie – this was 30 years ago, and it was some B-movie about a serial killer.
“Please mister, don’t hurt me! Someone must have loved you! Didn’t you ever have a puppy?”
“Yeah. I did. When I was a kid. I loved that puppy. But I had to strangle the little bastard because he took a shit all over my grandma’s oriental rug!”
Movies like Young Frankenstein, Pulp Fiction, Airplane!, Monty Python’s Holy Grail and Life of Brian, etc., really don’t count. They’re practically wall-to-wall quote books.
Predator, too. “You are one ugly motherfucker!”
But for me, favorite (relatively) obscure quotes from movies with better known lines would include:
“This could very well be the stupidest person on the face of the Earth. Perhaps we should shoot him.” (From Ruthless People)
(Two guys robbing a bank)
**Robber #1: **How many times do I have to tell you not to use my name? Can’t you even try to remember that?
**Robber #2: … Not even your code name?
** Robber #1: Oh yeah. My code name! Hear that everybody? We’s using code names.