# What is the greatest movie quote... EVER??? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 26, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-movie-quote-ever/241995 "2004-04-26T01:47:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chefIL11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chefIL11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chefIL11)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-movie-quote-ever/241995/1 "2004-04-26T01:47:30Z")
I’m talking inspirational… really gets you going quote! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-movie-quote-ever/241995/2 "2004-04-26T01:52:50Z")
In “The Happiness of the Katakuris” when Richard says to Masayuki: “By order of Queen Elizabeth, give me your phone number” Oh… wait… inspirational… In the same movie when Shizue’s brother says to her: “Sis, you’re quite a babe. So, keep trying.” ---
**Author:** ![Tobio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e68b1a/32.png) [@Tobio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tobio)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-movie-quote-ever/241995/3 "2004-04-26T01:56:12Z")
> [@ZebraShaSha](#): > > In “The Happiness of the Katakuris” when Richard says to Masayuki: > > “By order of Queen Elizabeth, give me your phone number” > > Oh… wait… inspirational… > > In the same movie when Shizue’s brother says to her: “Sis, you’re quite a babe. So, keep trying.” “My uvula!” My all time favorite quote is from the movie _Wild Zero_: “Love knows no borders, nationalities or gender.” And from _Cemetery Man_: “The living dead and the dying living are all the same, cut from the same cloth.” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-movie-quote-ever/241995/4 "2004-04-26T02:29:24Z")
See my sig. It’s from **Hearts of the West** ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-movie-quote-ever/241995/5 "2004-04-26T03:56:44Z")
From _Freejack_: “You keep lookin’ at me like that, and you’ll see me kill you.” OK, not very inspiring. How about James Earl Jones’s corny baseball speech on _Field of Dreams?_ > [@](#): > > The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It’s been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again. Oh people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come. ---
**Author:** ![TitoBenito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2acd7d/32.png) [@TitoBenito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TitoBenito)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-movie-quote-ever/241995/6 "2004-04-26T04:57:44Z")
from Conan the Barbarian… Mongol Warlord: “Conan! What is best?” Conan: “To crush your enemies! To see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the women!” cracks me up every time. ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-movie-quote-ever/241995/7 "2004-04-26T04:59:16Z")
“He fixes the cable?” ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-movie-quote-ever/241995/8 "2004-04-26T05:20:18Z")
from _The Mummy_, an enjoyably silly movie, by Rachel Weisz: “I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O’Connell, but I am proud of what I am. I…am a _librarian_!” (I am also a proud librarian.) ---
**Author:** ![Phnord\_Prephect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df705f/32.png) [@Phnord\_Prephect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phnord_Prephect)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-movie-quote-ever/241995/9 "2004-04-26T06:52:07Z")
Don’t be facetious, BabaBooey. Clearly the most inspiring quote of all time is simply this: > [@](#): > > The Dude abides. ---
**Author:** ![WCOT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e5b9ba/32.png) [@WCOT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WCOT)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-movie-quote-ever/241995/10 "2004-04-26T07:27:45Z")
While i agree with tito on that conan quote, 2 quotes from Mr Blonde that im partial to, “…If they hadn’t done what I told 'em not to do, they’d still be alive today.” “Either he’s alive or he’s dead, or the cops got him… or they don’t.” ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-movie-quote-ever/241995/11 "2004-04-26T10:55:00Z")
“This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time.” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-movie-quote-ever/241995/12 "2004-04-26T11:15:27Z")
> [@](#): > > I am also a proud librarian. Good to know! A depressed librarian is a sad thing indeed. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-movie-quote-ever/241995/13 "2004-04-26T11:30:05Z")
Lee Marvin says: “Lady, I ain’t got the time”, and shoots the sobbing woman. Too bad I can’t remember the movie title at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-movie-quote-ever/241995/14 "2004-04-26T12:24:02Z")
“Don’t interupt me! I’m having a rhetorical argument!” Zero Mostel in “The Producers.” Pretty much sums up all my arguments. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-movie-quote-ever/241995/15 "2004-04-26T12:25:26Z")
The Great Kate, in African Queen: “Human nature, Mr. Ornet, is what we were put on this earth to rise above!” ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-movie-quote-ever/241995/16 "2004-04-26T12:39:20Z")
Moving this to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-movie-quote-ever/241995/17 "2004-04-26T12:44:26Z")
Travis Bickle (played by Robert DiNiro) says, in _Taxi Driver_ : Someday a real rain is gonna come and wash the scum off the streets. ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-movie-quote-ever/241995/18 "2004-04-26T12:51:11Z")
"Who the _fuck_ are the Canutesons?! (head in hand, because it can’t get any worse until: ) “How long 'til it blows?” ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-movie-quote-ever/241995/19 "2004-04-26T12:54:56Z")
“Get busy living, or get busy dying” - **shawshank Redemption** That movie also has (and I can’t quite remember it) “Andy Duphresne, who crawled through half a mile of the foulest smelling…” ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-movie-quote-ever/241995/20 "2004-04-26T12:56:03Z")
**Orson Welles:** “Miss Tracy, prepare the standard rich and famous contract for Kermit the Frog and friends.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-greatest-movie-quote-ever/241995.md?page=2)