Amongst Movies

The Movie Buffs Essential List of Quotes

Persuasion - The Gentle Art!

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
Al Pacino in The Godfather (1972)

If you get s customer, or an employee, who thinks he's Charles Bronson, take the butt of your gun and smash their nose in.
Harvey Keitel in Reservoir Dogs (1992)

I know what you're thinking: 'Did he fire six shots or only five?' Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kind of lost track myself. But, this being a forty-four Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question; 'Do I fell lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?
Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry (1971)

When a man with a forty-five (gun) meets a man with a rifle, you said that a man with a pistol is a dead man. Let's see if that's true.
Clint Eastwood in A Fistful of Dollars (1964)

If you don't cooperate, you're gonna suffer from fistaphobia.
Robert De Niro in Midnight Run (1988)

Deep! Very Deep!

Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.
Morgan Freeman to Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.
Morgan Freeman subsequently reading a letter from Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Intelligence, Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.
Thelma Ritter in Rear Window (1954)

We accept the reality with which we're presented.
Ed Harris in The Truman Show (1998)

You make me sick with your heroics. You and Colonel Nicholson, you're two of a kind, crazy with courage. For what? How to die like a gentleman? How to die by the rules? When the only important thing is how to live like a human being.
William Holden in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Stanley, see this? This is this. This ain't something else, this is this!
Robert De Niro in The Deer Hunter (1978)

It's when you start to really fear death that you start to appreciate life.
Gary Oldman in Leon (1994)

Men prefer sorrow over joy …. Suffering over peace!
Ryu Daisuke in Ran (1985)

Real loss is only when you love something more than you love yourself.
Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting (1997)

Life is pain! Anyone who says differently is delling something.
Robin Wright in The Princess Bride (1987)

A world without string is chaos.
Nathan Lane in Mousehunt (1998)

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed. They produced Michelangelo, Leonarodo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
Orson Welles in The Third Man (1949)

Food and Drink!

Bring a pitcher of beer every seven minutes till somebody passes out, and then bring one every ten minutes.
Rodney Dangerfield in Back to School (1986)

We4 were young, gay, reckless! The night I drank champagne from your slipper - two quarts. It would have held more, but you were wearing innersoles.
Groucho Marx in At the Circus (1939)

A census taker once tried to test me … I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

The movie was shot is 3B … three beers and it looks good, eh?
Rick Moranis in Strange Brew (1983)

I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner.
Anthony Hopkind in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

I always start (drinking) around noon - in case it gets dard early.
Peggy Lee in Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)

Awww … this is one of those days that the pages of history teach us are best spent lying in bed.
Roland Yound (hung over) in The Philadelphia story (1940)

I was in love with a beautiful blonde once dear. She drove me to drink, that's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.
WC Fields in Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)

Making an Exit to be Remembered by!

I'll be back!
Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator (1984)

You tell him I'm coming! And hell's coming with me!
Kurt Russell in Tombstone (1994)

They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!
Mel Gibson in Braveheart (1995)

Don't push it. Don't push it, or I'll give you a war you won't believe.Let it go . Let it go
Sylvester Stallone is First Blood (1982)

Be excellent to each other. Party on, dudes.
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

Education!

'When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer.' The benefits of a classical education.
Alan Rickman in Die Hard (1988)

One Thing in Mind

Don't know if I'm going to be able to sleep. Hint hint.
Karen Black to Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces (1970)

Why don't you come up some time 'n' see me? I'm home every evening.
Mae West to Carry Grant in She Done Him Wrong (1933)

I always feel so selfish sleeping alone in a double bed when there are people in China sleeping on the ground.
Barbra Streisand to George Segal in The Owl and the Pussycat (1970)

Would you like a leg or breast?
Grace Kelly 'offering some chicken to Carry Grand, in To Catch a Thief (1955)

It's been an evening of ups and downs, hasn't it? Care to continue the motion?
Maggie Smith to Michael Caine in California Suite (1978)

You are not too smart, are you?I like that in a man.
Kathleen Turner to William Hurt in Body Heat (1981)

Honey, the only question I ever ask any women is, 'What time is your husband coming home?'
Paul Newman to Patricia Neal in Hrd (1963)

How about coming up to my place for a spot of heavy breathing?
Walter Matthu to Carol Burnett in Pete 'n' Tillie (1972)

Why don't you slip out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini?
Robert Benchley to Glnger Rogers in The Major and the Minor (1942)

Cigarette me, big boy.
Ginger Rogers in Young man of Manhattan (1930)

And (They Say) God Created Women!

Life is a bitch, now so am I.
Michelle Pfeiffer in Batman Returns (1992)

There's name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society - outside of a kennel.
Joan Crawford in The Women (1939)

Little boy: Cream?
Little girl: No thank you. I take it black like my men.
Airplane! (1980)

Peal me a grape.
Mae West in I'm No Angel (1933)

That's OK, we can walk to the curb from here.
Woody Allen, getting out of Diane Keaton's car in Annie Hall (1977)

I was gonna go to UCLA, but I couldn't find a place to park.
Goldie Hawn in Butterflies Are Free (1972)
I have a head for business and a bod for sin. Is there anything wrong with that?
Melanie Griffith in "Working Girl (1988)

In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.
Angelo Infanti in The Godfather (1972)

When I'm good I'm very very good but when I'm bad I'm better.
Mae West in I'm No Angel (1933)

Dressed to Kill!

I remember every detail. The Germans wore grey. You wore blue.
Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca (1942)

That's quite a dress you almost have on.
Gene Kelly to Nine Foch in An American in Paris (1951)

I'll meet you tonight under the moon. Oh. I can see you now - you and the moon. You wear a necktie so I'll know you.
Groucho Marx to Margaret Dumont in The Cocoanuts (1929)

Look, Heather left behind one of her Swatches. She'd want you to have it, Veronica. She always said you coundn't accessorize for shit.
Lisanne Falk in Heathers (2989)
If I kept my hair 'natural' the way you do I'd be bald.
Rosalind Russell to Coral Browne in Auntie Mame (1958)

Do you prefer 'fashion victim' or 'ensemble challenged'?
Alicia Silverstone, Clueless (1995)

Smokin'!

If she were a President, she'd be Babe-raham Lincoln.
Dana Carvey in Wayne's World (1992)

She came at me in sections. More curves than the scenic railway.
Fred Astaire talking about Cyd Charisse in The Band Wagon (1953)

With a binding like you've got, people are going to want to know what's in the book.
Gene Kelly to Leslie Caron in An American in Paris (1951)

Here's looking at you, kid.
Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca (1942)

It was nice to meet you. Surreal, but nice.
Hugh Grant to Julia Roberts in Notting Hill (1999)

I have this theory that you should be with another person who's just good-looking enough to turn you on. Any excess brings problems. She was much prettier than I needed.
Albert Brooks in Defending your Life (1991)

You were cute, White, but cute.
Whoopi Goldberg to Patrick Swayze in Ghost (1990)

Shandra Beri: He's got a great ass.
Daryl Hannag: Too bad it's on his shoulders. Roxanne (1987)

I've gone out with some bums in my day, but they were beautiful. That is the only reason to go out with a bum.
Mercedes Ruehl in The Fisher King (1991)

Michael was not a guy other guys would've made fun of in the locker room, OK?
Bette Midler in Outrageous Fortune (1987)

What God has not given to Antoinette Green, Antoinette Green has had done.
Liza Minnelli in The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)

Love Story a.k.a Sex, Lies & Videotape!

Was that canon fire, or is it my -heart pounding?
Ingrid Bergman to Mumphrey Bogart in Casablance (1942)

I'd love to kiss yuh, but I just washed my hair.
Bette Davis in Cabin in the Cotton (1932)

Jack Nicholson: I like the lights on.
Shirley Maclaine: Then go home and turn them on.
Terms of Endearment (1983)

I can feel the hot blood pounding through your varicose veins.
Jimmy Durante to Mary Wickes in The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)

Just remember that every relationship starts with a one-night stand.
Anthony Edwards in The Sure Thing ( 1985)

Oh, you men are all alike! Seven or eight quick ones and you're off with the boys, to boast and brag.
Madeline Kahn in young Frankenstein (1974)

I never could understand why it has to be just even - male and female. They're invited for dinner, not for mating.
Louise Closser Hale in Dinner at Eight (1933)

Checking she's awake doesn't constitute foreplay.
Rhys Ifans to Christopher Ecclestone in Heart (1999)

It's the so-called normal guys who always let you down. Sickos never scare me. At least they're committed
Michelle Pfiffer in Batman Returns (1992)

Martha Plimpton: He told me he loved me.
Dianne Wiest: Aw, sweetie. They say that - then they come. Parenthood (1989)
I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member. That's the key joke of my adult life. In terms of relationships with women.
Woody Allen in Annie Hall (1977)

My relationship with Hal's is totally honest. He doesn't tell me he loves me, I don't tell him he's fascinating. It's pure sex.
Kelly Bishop in An Unmarried Woman (1978)

Humphrey Bogart: If that plane leaves the ground and you're not the him, you'll regret it - may be not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life.
Ingrid Bergman: But what about us?
Humphrey Bogart: We'll always have Paris.
Casablanca (1942)

Would you like me to seduce you?
Is that what you want?
Anne Bancroft in The Graduate (1967)

Hey, don't knock masturbation!
It's sex with someone I love.
Woody Allen in Annie Hall (1977)

I couldn't believe that she knew my name.
Some of my best friends didn't know my name.
Ben Stiller in There's Something About Mary (1998)

Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Alli MacGraw to Ryan O'Neal in Love Story (1970)

It's as if I've taken love heroin - and I can never have it again.
Hugh Grant describing his feelings for Julia Roberts in Notting Hill (1999)

Married to the Mob!

Marry me, and I'll never look at any other horse.
Groucho Marx to Margaret Dumont in A Day at the Races (1937)

Will you marry me? Did he leave you any money? Answer the second question first.
Groucho Marx to Margaret Dumont in Duck Soup (1933)

If you waited for a man to propose to you from natural causes, you'd die of old maidenhood.
Barbara Stanwyck in The Lady Eve (1941)

I want us to put our teeth in the same glass at night.
Burt Raynolds to Jill Clayburgh in Starting Over (1979)

Her father was very, very rich. And very, very sick. The doctors assured me he'd be dead any minute. There wasn't a second to lose. I rushed out and married the boss's daughter.
Danny Devito in Ruthless People (1986)

I wanted to marry her when I saw the moonlight shining on the barrel of her father's shotgun.
Eddie Albert in Oklahoma! (1955)

Garth, marriage is punishment for shoplifting, in some countries.
Mike Myers in Wayne's World (1992)

Marriage is like the Middle East. There's no solution.
Pauline Collins in Shirley Valentine (1989)

Jerry should never have died. I'd be better off. I could've divorced him.
Lily Tomlin in Nine to Five (1980)

The new Medusa - my good wife.
Peter O'Toole talking about Katharine Mephurn in The Lion in Winter (1968)

Why don't you get a divorce and settle down?
Oscar Levant to Joan Crawford in Humoresque (1946)

It's getting late. I was beginning to worry.
I was afraid you weren't in an accident. Jill Dclayburgh to Burt Reynolds in Starting Over (1979)

Some people will pay a lot of money for that information, but then your daughter would lose a father, instead of gaining a husband.
Al Pacino, in hiding from fellow gangsters, ensures that the bride's father gives his consent to the intended marriage in The Godfather (1972)

Judah: If you were not a bride I would kiss you good-bye.
Estger: If I were not a bride you would not have to kiss me good-buy.
Charlton Heston to Haya Harareet in Ben-Hur (1959)

By the authority vested in me by Kaiser William II, I pronounce you husband and wife, Proceed with the execution.
Peter Bull in The African Queen (1951)

Mommie Dearest!

A boy's best friend is his mother.
Anthony Perkins in Psycho (1960)

Well, there won't never be patter of little feet in my house - unless I was to rent some mice..
Peggy Lee in Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)

Sure, mom, I settle down with a nice girl every night, then I'm free the next morning.
Joe Pesci in GoodFellas (1990)

He's not the Mess8iah. He's a very naughty boy!
Terry Jones in The Life of Brian (1979)

As for you , Mother, I love you very much - but my address is Paris.
Audrey Dalton in Tatanic (1953)

Hmmm...!

Your idea of fidelity is not .having more than one man in the bed at the same time. You're a whore, baby.
Dirk Bogarde to Julie Christie in Darling (1965)

It's so great to wake up in the morning with your rent paid.
Julie Christie in Shampoo (1975)

Coat check girl: Goodness, what a beautiful diamond.
Mae West: Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.

Night After Night (1932) Emma Walton (anti-fur protester): Do you know how many poor animals they had to kill to make that coat?
Jobeth Williams: Do you know how may rich animals I had to fuck to get this coat?
Switch (1991)

As long as they've got sidewalks, you've got a job.
Joan Blondell to Claire Dodd in Footlight Parade (1933)

Men!

Bill's thirty-two. He looks thirty-two. He looked it five years ago, he'll look it twenty years from now. I hate them.
Bette Davis in All About Eve (1950)

David Huddleston: Isn't that what makes a man?
Jeff Bridges: That and a pair of testicles.
The Big Lebowski (1998)

Your eyes are full of hate, forty-one. That's good. Hate keeps a man alive.
Jack Hawkins to Chariton Heston, Ben-Hur (1959)

War….What is it Good For?

Somebody once wrote, 'Hell is the impossibility of reason.' That's what this place feels like Hell.
Chaflie Sheen referring to Vietnam in Platoon (1986)

I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, swiftly, along the edge of a straight….razor….and surviving.
Marion Brando in Apocalypse Now (1979)

I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now (1979)

Let me see if I've got this straight: in order to be grounded, I've got to be crazy and I must be crazy to keep flying. But if I ask to be grounded, that means I'm not crazy any more and I have to keep flying.
Alan Arkin Catch-22 (1970)

The dead only know one thing: it's better to be alive.
Matthew Modine in Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Matthew Modine: Are those…live rounds?
Vincent D'Onotrio: Seven-six-two millimeter.
Full Metal Jacket(1987)

O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.
Barry Pepper in Saving Private Ryan (1998)

What's the use in risking the lives of the eight of us to save one guy?
Edward Burns in Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Of God Above!
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
Samuel L Jackson in Pulp Fiction (1994)

Classic Quotes!

I want to be alone.
Greta Garbo in Grand Hotel (1932)

Vivien Leigh: Rhett, if you go, where shall I go? What shall I do?
Clark Gable: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
Gone With the Wind (1939)

Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas any more.
Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca (1942)

Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes by'
Ingrid Bergman to Dooley Wilson in Casablanca (1942)

William Holden: You're Norma Desmond! You used to be in silent pictures. Used to be big
Gloria Swanson: I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
Sunset Boulevard (1950)

No one ever leaves a star. That's what makes one a star.
Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard (1950)

You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it. It was you, Charlie.
Marlon Brando in On The Waterfront (1954)

You're tearing me apart!
James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

Paul Newman: Wait a minute - you didn't see La Force out there did you?
Robert Redford: La Force? No, why?
Paul Newman: Thank God for that. For a moment there I thought we were in trouble.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
Jow Mantell to Jack Nicholson Chinatown (1974)

You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who do you think you're talking to? Oh yeah? Huh? OK.
Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver (1976)

……, Ash and Captain Dallas are dead. Cargo and ship destroyed. I should reach the frontier in about 6 weeks. With a little luck, the network will pick me up. This is Ripley - last survivor of the Nostromo - signing off.
Sigourney Weaver in Alien (1979)

Here's Johnny…?
Jack Nicholson in The Shining (1980)

Robert Hays: Surely you can't be serious?
Jack Nielsen: I am serious, and don't call me Shirley.
Airplane (1980)

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain, Time to die.
Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner (1982)

Tom Cruise: I fell the need…
Tom Cruise and Anthony Edwards….. the need for speed!
Top Gun (1986)

Ha ha ha. That's not a knife. That's a knife.
Paul Hogan in Crocodile Dundee (1986)

The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works.
Michael Douglas in Wall Street (1987)

Show me the money!
Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire (1996)

Geoffrey Rush: The show must….
Joseph Fiennes (Prompting him): Go on!
Shakespeare in Love (1988)

Wait a minute; wait a minute.
You ain't heard nothing yet.
Al Joison in The Jazz Singer (1927)