I’m fond of ‘think you used enough dynamite, there, Butch’? But I’d hardly call it common
I would think “That’ll be the day” from The Searchers gets more use.
Who’s On First?
“If you can’t say anything [or something] nice, [then] don’t say anything at all” is a more grammatical form of what Thumper said in Bambi: “If you can’t say somethin’ nice, don’t say nothin’ at all.” No form of the quotation is found in the novel by Felix Salten and as far as I can tell, it was not a common phrase before the movie came out in 1942.
I can’t believe I didn’t think of this until today. Apparently I’m in a lull in using it.
“Do or do not. There is no try.”
Definitely from a movie.
I have some sticker giveaways of this. Unfortunately it has “not” instead of “no”. Unhappy, Yoda is.
How do we feel about “This house is clean.” from Poltergeist? (Yes, I said it a half hour ago.)
Surely people said it from time before the movie but say it in a certain tone in certain settings and …
but do people use it in everyday conversation?
Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.
I hate that cliche.
That comes from the 19,th century song Home Sweet Home
“You talkin’ to me?”
Fun factoid: when BBC i introduced their iPlayer, the scale on the volume indicator did indeed go up to 11.
Has anyone mentioned “We’ll never find them unless we split up!” yet? I’m too lazy to try to figure out when this phrase was first used in a movie, but it seems likely that it appeared fairly early.
“T’was Beauty killed the Beast!”. People say it all the time, right?
while all of these phrases are easily remembered, only a few actually represent what OP asked, that being “commonly used”, i.e normal conversation
I do hear people saying “That’s on my bucket list” at least once a week or so, on average. Usually in reference to a place to travel to, not an activity.
It’s genuinely a common phrase now. But it wasn’t any sort of blockbuster film.
That’s probably the most common variation, and the one I usually use myself. But it’s a misquote. The actual line was “Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges. I don’t have to show you any stinking badges.”
I started a thread about that a year or so ago. I found precisely one old Western movie that used it. Almost every other use assumes that it’s a common cliche (like Blazing Saddles, or On Her Majesty’s Secret Service) and uses it in a mocking sense.
But it doesn’t actually appear to have been used as a common phrase to become a cliche.
Not only don’t people say it, but the “ancient Arabian Phrase” quoted at the beginning of the 1933 movie King Kong was made up by the scriptwriters