What Is the Most Famous Movie Line?

[Steadmund Brand]

Wow, another great thread... and there are so many classic lines.. some great ones listed so far... I'll add a few more, but there are just so so many to choose from.

"To a new world of gods and monsters"- Bride of Franenstein 1935

"old age, it's the only disease that you don't look foward to being cured of" Citizen Kane-1941

"Made it Ma... top of the world" White Heat 1949

"Gentlemen. Young can't fight in here, this is the war room" Dr Strangelove-1964

"I'm not an actor I'm a movie star!" My Favorite Year- 1982

"They tell about the big terrible things they've done and the big wonderful things they'll do, their hopes,and their regrets, their loves and their hates....all very large, because nobody ever brings anything small into a bar" Harvey 1950 ( I know, was from the play first... but the movie just made it last forever)

there are so so many more, but thats just a few for now... look foward to seeing more from others.

[Sally]

Clint Eastwood (Harry Callahan): 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 kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 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 feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?

Dirty Harry (1972). More a monologue than a line, maybe - but pretty cool!

[Stephen Thomas]

Brando in the original Godfather

'We'll make him an offer he can't refuse'

And though not famous but one of my favourite movie lines is in the same film where Mafia bosses are discussing whether or not to flood Harlem with heroin and one says 'They're animals anyway, let them lose their souls'. That's clever.

[Abby Normal]

Some others:

I love the smell of napalm in the morning
I'm mad as hell and i'm not going to take it any more
I think we're going to need a bigger boat
I don't think we're in Kansas anymore
They're baaaack
Fat drunk and stupid is no way to go through life
Get your paws off me you damn dirty ape
May the force be with you
I'm still big-its the pictures that got small
I see dead people
You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!

[Stephen Thomas]

Heeeeeeeer's Johnny (The Shining)

[sleekviper]

1.What is your major malfunction, numbnuts? Didn't Mommy and Daddy show you enough attention when you were a child? - Full Metal Jacket
2.Well, baby, me so horny. Me so HORNY. Me love you long time. You party? -Full Metal Jacket
3.Say hello to my little friend- Scarface
4.Only two things come out of Oklahoma. Steers and queers. Which one are you, boy? I don't see no horns. You must be a queer.-An Officer and a Gentleman.
5.Boon, we're the only white people here.-Animal House
6.Grab a brew. Don't cost nothin'.-Animal House
7.What do you want me to do? Dress in drag and do the hula?-Lion King
8. A man's got to know his limitations.-Magnum Force.

[mariab]

Sleekviper wrote:
Only two things come out of Oklahoma. Steers and queers. Which one are you, boy? I don't see no horns. You must be a queer.
Now that's a nice greeting line for Tom Wescott – or Tom Cullen. (Apparently Oklahoma has a tendency to produce Ripperologists named Tom.)
Sleek, I'm sure you at least can identify the Tennessee Williams quote "The Texas longhorn is a dignified beast.“? It's also a movie quote, as the play from which the quote comes from has been made into a movie. It's one of his late plays.

[sleekviper]

A Period of Adjustment.

[mariab]

Sleekviper wrote:
A Period of Adjustment.
Wow, you're good!
(Many apologies for not having answered your PM about Pipeman lighting up and the wind's direction, I got some technical internet problems and some deadline things to take care of, but I'll come back to you in the Stride thread eventually.)

[mariab]

Some others:
I love the smell of napalm in the morning
I'm mad as hell and i'm not going to take it any more
I think we're going to need a bigger boat
I don't think we're in Kansas anymore
They're baaaack
Fat drunk and stupid is no way to go through life
Get your paws off me you damn dirty ape
May the force be with you
I'm still big-its the pictures that got small
I see dead people
You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!

I love the highlighted quotes, Abby. (Got a Tshirt spotting “I love the smell of Napalm in the morning“ over a surfboard.)

[sleekviper]

Hello Maria, No problem. The thought occurred while investigating the
barometric pressure on titanium implants.

[mariab]

The thought occurred while investigating the barometric pressure on titanium implants.

Wow, does this pertain to the repaired fracture of the eye socket and headaches?
As a surfer I've had a few thoughts about the direction of the wind and barometric pressure all around the planet, plus I've noticed (as my landlady keeps mentioning) that in Paris even the strongest rain hits only the west part of my apartment windows. (As my landlady keeps saying like a broken record "Don't ever let this part of the windows open!“)
Maybe we should continue this discussion in one of the Stride threads, and I apologize profusely for the short paranthesis/highjacking, C.D..

[kensei]

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

"You complete me."
"You had me at hello."
(Tom Cruise and Renae Zelwegger, "Jerry McGuire.")

"E.T. phone home."
(Whoever did E.T.'s voice, "E.T. The Extraterrestrial.")

Those are famous. Here are just some of my favorites:

"I never said thank you."
"And you'll never have to."
(Gary Oldman and Christian Bale, "Batman Begins.")

"Why do you want to kill me?"
(Hysterical laughter). "I don't wanna kill you! What would I do without you?"
(Christian Bale and Heath Ledger, "The Dark Knight.")

"Do you want the killer or will anybody do?"
(Michael Caine, "Jack the Ripper.")

And my absolute favorite movie line of all time:
"I can assure you gentlemen, there is nothing quite so grotesque as the meeting of a child with a bullet."
(Anthony Hopkins, "Legends of the Fall."

[mariab]

I have another one. It's not famous, but it pertains to Ripperology.
From Hell:
- “You don't fu*k with the Special Branch.“

[kensei]

I was trying to think of the best lines from the "Rocky" movies- which of course started to go downhill with part 3 and went pretty low until they were redeemed with 60-something Stallone's recent "Rocky Balboa" which was actually pretty good. (And I put down "Rocky 3" only grudgingly, because Burgess Meredith's death scene is equal to Stallone's Vietnam speech at the end of "First Blood" as the best acting he's ever done, and I have fond teenage memories of the whole "Eye of the Tiger" thing being pretty darn cool.) But the best "Rocky" lines are probably from the first movie, Stallone reacting to his realization that he can't win the fight (and this is done from memory):

"It really doesn't matter if I lose this fight. And it don't matter if this guy opens my head neither. 'Cause all I wanna do is go the distance. Nobody's ever gone the distance with Creed. If I can go that distance- if that bell rings and I'm still standing there- then I'm gonna know for the first time in my life... that I weren't just another bum from the neighborhood."