# What are your favorite action movie one liners? **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-action-movie-one-liners/543127/61 "2010-06-17T12:47:30Z")
“Wooo…I sure hope that’s not a hostage…” "Yeah, um… that’s really interesting and all and maybe when this is all over we can visit the gift shop. But right now…um…I’d REALLY like to find some ROCKETS! “Lady THIS is a GUN!!” “Yo! This ain’t a ham on rye! …Sorry. I’d have been here sooner but I was thinking up the ‘ham on rye’ line.” “What’s the matter, Danny? Never taken a shortcut before?” “Is it true that there’s a point on a man’s head where if you shoot it, it will blow up?” ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-action-movie-one-liners/543127/62 "2010-06-17T14:40:31Z")
In Cobra the drug addled bad guy who’s taken hostages in a grocery store says something along the lines of “One step closer and I’ll blow this whole place up” Stallone (as Lt. Marion Cobretti) says, “Go ahead,” (closeup reveals Cobretti’s unmistakable indifference)“I don’t shop here.” ---
**Author:** ![pope\_hentai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@pope\_hentai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pope_hentai)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-action-movie-one-liners/543127/63 "2010-06-18T00:57:31Z")
black belt jones: Batman muthafu\*\*a! man, we aint got no blue cross! ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-action-movie-one-liners/543127/64 "2010-06-18T02:40:06Z")
Come with me if you want to live ---
**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 18, 2010, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-action-movie-one-liners/543127/65 "2010-06-18T02:41:24Z")
Chang ‘well, does anybody have a lighter?’ Desert Jack ‘Burt does.’ Burt ‘Wait, how do you know?’ Desert Jack ‘Well, cause you’re Burt.’ ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-action-movie-one-liners/543127/66 "2010-06-18T03:40:59Z")
Since somebody else already posted a _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_ quote: **Buffy:** Hey Ken, want to see my impression of Gandhi? _bashes in “Ken”'s head with an axe_ **Bystander:** (hesitantly) …Gandhi? **Buffy:** Well, you know, if he was really pissed off. ---
**Author:** ![A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Dodgy_Dude)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-action-movie-one-liners/543127/67 "2010-06-18T04:00:53Z")
John Carpenter’s The Thing: Dead guy lying on a table … his head detaches, drops to the floor, grows giant spider legs and walks out the door. One of the guys who sees this says with equal parts amazement and heartbreak in his voice… “You gotta be fuckin’ kidding!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-action-movie-one-liners/543127.md?page=3)