# What are your favorite action movie one liners?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 14, 2010, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-action-movie-one-liners/543127 "2010-06-14T13:06:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-action-movie-one-liners/543127/21 "2010-06-15T02:43:13Z")

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Frank D’Amico: Playtime’s over kid.

Hit Girl: I _never_ “play”!

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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-action-movie-one-liners/543127/22 "2010-06-15T03:23:32Z")

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“GET TO DA CHOPPA!!”

“Considah dat a divorce…”

“Yeah but dey were all bad.”  
“Bunch of slack-jawed faggots around here! This stuff will make you a god damned sexual Tyrannosaurus, just like me!”  
“Yeah, well… I also cook…”  
“Your best? Losers always wine about doing their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen!”  
“Let’s pick up the scene from where we left off…lost in the woods with Captain Simple Jack!”

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**Author:** ![toofs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@toofs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toofs)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-action-movie-one-liners/543127/23 "2010-06-15T03:40:48Z")

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The Good Shephard is not an action movie, yet this dialog is cold:

“We Italians, we got our families and we got the church. The Irish, they have the homeland. The Jews, their traditions. Even the Niggers, they got their music. What about you people Mr. Carlson, what do you have?”

“The United States of America, the rest of you are just visiting.”

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**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-action-movie-one-liners/543127/24 "2010-06-15T06:38:24Z")

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‘You always were an asshole, Gorman’

‘I notice when you get to _not_ likeing someone, they ain’t around long either.’

‘Times up, what’s it gonna be, Merv?’

‘I’m your huckleberry’

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**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-action-movie-one-liners/543127/25 "2010-06-15T06:55:42Z")

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“I want my father back, you son of a bitch.”

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**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-action-movie-one-liners/543127/26 "2010-06-15T07:04:49Z")

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If it bleeds, we can kill it!

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**Author:** ![GSV\_Consolation\_of\_Dreams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f1d935/32.png) [@GSV\_Consolation\_of\_Dreams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GSV_Consolation_of_Dreams)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-action-movie-one-liners/543127/27 "2010-06-15T07:08:20Z")

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> [@Hypno-Toad](#):
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> “I ain’t got time to bleed.”–From the other Action-Governor.

And the response is just as good:

[Poncho launches grenades] “You got time to duck?”

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-action-movie-one-liners/543127/28 "2010-06-15T07:11:29Z")

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“ONE. I always try to control my temper.  
TWO. I do not always succeed.  
THREE. I have seven more points.”

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**Author:** ![TPWombat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TPWombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TPWombat)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-action-movie-one-liners/543127/29 "2010-06-15T07:59:09Z")

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“Do you want to live forever?”

“It’s 106 miles to Chicago”

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**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Call\_Me\_Shirley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Don\_t\_Call\_Me\_Shirley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Call_Me_Shirley)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-action-movie-one-liners/543127/30 "2010-06-15T14:04:47Z")

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“Wykowski, you would need three promotions to get to be an asshole.”

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-action-movie-one-liners/543127/31 "2010-06-15T14:27:32Z")

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> [@toofs](#):
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> The Good Shephard is not an action movie, yet this dialog is cold:
> 
> “We Italians, we got our families and we got the church. The Irish, they have the homeland. The Jews, their traditions. Even the Niggers, they got their music. What about you people Mr. Carlson, what do you have?”
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> “The United States of America, the rest of you are just visiting.”

I recall from that movie, when Philip Allen yells at his wife that he only married her because she was pregnant, I was thinking, "The **first time in your life** you raise your voice, and you have to say **that?"**

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**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-action-movie-one-liners/543127/32 "2010-06-15T14:31:23Z")

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[QUOTE=outlierrn]  
‘You always were an asshole, Gorman’  
[/QUOTE]

How’d I get outta this chickenshit outfit?

This gonna be a standup fight sir, or a _bug hunt?_

Yeah, but it’s a dry heat.

Eat this!

Game over man, game over!

Maybe we got 'em demoralised…

They can bill me.

It’s the only way to be sure (someone had to put this in)

I may be artificial, but I’m not stupid.

Get away from her you _bitch!_

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**Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-action-movie-one-liners/543127/33 "2010-06-15T16:54:37Z")

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HUDSON  
Hey, Ripley, don’t  
worry. Me and my squad of  
ultimate badasses will protect you.  
Check-it-out…

He slaps the SERVO-CANNON controls in the GUN BAY  
above them.

```
                       HUDSON
        Independently targeting
        particle-beam phalanx. VWAP!
        Fry half a city with this puppy.
        We got tactical smart-missiles,
        phased-plasma pulse-rifles,
        RPG's. We got sonic electronic
        ballbreakers, we got nukes, we
        got knives...sharp sticks --
```

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**Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-action-movie-one-liners/543127/34 "2010-06-15T17:23:48Z")

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> [@Krokodil](#):
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> Can we bring in TV?
> 
> Spike: Say goodnight, bitch!  
> Buffy: Goodnight. Bitch.

As I recall, this exchange was actually between Warren Mears and Buffy.

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**Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-action-movie-one-liners/543127/35 "2010-06-15T17:43:15Z")

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“Who _are_ those guys?”

“Rules? In a knife fight? NO RULES!”

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**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-action-movie-one-liners/543127/36 "2010-06-15T17:50:12Z")

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Jennifer Lopez in _Out of Sight_

Karen Sisco: You wanted to tussle. We tussled.

And of course, although it is in a quieter part of the movie, _Roadhouse_

“Pain don’t hurt.”

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**Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-action-movie-one-liners/543127/37 "2010-06-15T20:24:11Z")

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“You a bounty hunter?”  
“Man’s gotta do somethin’ to earn a living these days.”  
“Dyin’ ain’t much of a living, boy.”  
-from **The Outlaw Josey Wales**  
“Fill your hands, you son of a bitch!”  
-John Wayne in **True Grit**

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**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-action-movie-one-liners/543127/38 "2010-06-15T21:18:10Z")

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“Lady, I’m afraid I’m going to have to ask you to leave the store.”

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**Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-action-movie-one-liners/543127/39 "2010-06-15T21:48:37Z")

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"Hi. How are you? My name’s Elliot, and I’m with the Cub Scouts of America. We’re… we’re selling uncut cocaine to get to the jamboree. "  
“I may be a bastard, but i’m not a fucking bastard.”  
“You’re ghostin’ us, motherfucker. I don’t care who you are back in the world, you give away our position one more time, I’ll bleed ya, real quiet. Leave ya here. Got that?”

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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-action-movie-one-liners/543127/40 "2010-06-15T22:24:35Z")

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“Crush your enemies! See them driven before you! And hear the lamentation of the women!”  
“What’s wrong? CIA got you pushing too many pencils?”  
“Are all men from the future loud-mouthed braggarts?”  
“Nope. Just me baby… Just me.”  
“I came here to do two things - Kick ass and chew bubblegum. And I’m all out of bubblegum.”  
“Is this gonna get ugly, now? Huh? I hope not. Because I thought what we were here, racial differences notwithstanding, was just a couple of old friends.”  
“How much time before the collision?”  
"If its speed remains constant… in an hour and 57 minutes. "  
"I’ll call you back in two hours. "

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