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Cabaret (1972)
- I'm going to be a great film star! That is, if booze and sex don't get me first.
Liza Minelli as Sally Bowles
- Mayr tells Kost's fortune every morning, and it's always the same: "You will meet a strange man." Which under the circumstances is a pretty safe bet.
Liza Minelli as Sally Bowles
Caddyshack (1980)
- Oh, this your wife, huh? A lovely lady. Hey baby, you must've been something before electricity
Rodney Dangerfield as Al Czervik
- Hey, doll. Could you scare up another round for our table over here? And tell the cook this is low grade dog food. I've had better food at the ballgame, you know? This steak still has marks from where the jockey was hitting it.
Rodney Dangerfield as Al Czervik
- I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
Ted Knight as Judge Smails
- A flute without holes, is not a flute. A donut without a hole, is a Danish.
Chevy Chase as Ty Webb
- I'm going to give you a little advice. There's a force in the universe that makes things happen. And all you have to do is get in touch with it, stop thinking, let things happen, and be the ball.
Chevy Chase as Ty Webb
- Remember Danny - Two wrongs don't make a right but three rights make a left.
Chevy Chase as Ty Webb
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
- I don't want to upset you too much, but at the moment you have an excellent chance of being hanged.
Jose Ferrer as Lt. Barney Greenwald
- Mr. Maryk, you may tell the crew for me that there are four ways of doing things aboard my ship: The right way, the wrong way, the Navy way, and my way. They do things my way, and we'll get along.
Humphrey Bogart as Lt. Commander Queeg
- There is no escape from the Caine, save death. We're all doing penance, sentenced to an outcast ship, manned by outcasts, and named after the greatest outcast of them all.
Fred MacMurray as Lt. Tom Keefer
Calendar Girls (2003)
- Lawrence, we're going to need considerably bigger buns.
Helen Mirren as Chris Harper
- Annie, I am 55 years old. If I'm not gonna get them out now, when am I?
Linda Bassett as Cora
- I'd like to welcome Alan Rathbone from York. He's here to tell us about the history of the milk marketing board.
Geraldine James as Marie
Cannery Row (1982)
- The only thing we have in common is that we're both wrong for each other.
Nick Nolte as Doc
- I love Doc! He was a character witness for me, and I ain't got no character.
Frankie McRae as Hazel
Carrie (1976)
- Everyone isn’t bad, Mama! Everything isn’t a sin!
Sissy Spacek as Carrie
Casino Royale (1967)
- You can't shoot me! I have a very low threshold of death. My doctor says I can't have bullets enter my body at any time.
Woody Allen as Jimmy Bond
- It's depressing that the words "secret agent" have become synonymous with "sex maniac."
David Niven as Sir James
Cassablanca (1942)
- Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine.
Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine
- Oh, he's just like any other man, only more so.
Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine
- How extravagant you are, throwing away women like that. Some day they may be scarce.
as Captain Renault
- We'll always have Paris. We didn't have, we, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.
Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine
- Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine
- Here's looking at you kid.
Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine
- Play it again, Sam. [actually this line does not appear verbatim in the movie]
Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine
Cast Away (2000)
- Aha. Look what I've created. I have made FIRE
Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland
- The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland
- Gotta love crab. In the nick of time too. I couldn't take much more of those coconuts. Coconut milk is a natural laxative. That's something Gilligan never told us.
Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland
- Don't worry Wilson, I'll do all the paddling. You just hang on.
Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland
- We live and we die by the clock, that's all we have.
Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland
- 87 hours is an eternity. The cosmos was created in less time.
Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland
Catch-22 (1970)
- 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 as Capt. John Yossarian
- I am the most renowned killer of fish in the whole United States Army Air Force.
Alan Arkin as Capt. John Yossarian
- Well, he died. You don't get any older than that.
Alan Arkin as Capt. John Yossarian
Chariots of Fire (1981)
- I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure.
Ian Charleson as Eric Liddell
- I'm forever in pursuit and I don't even know what I am chasing.
Ben Cross as Harold M. Abrahams
Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936)- Mind like parachute - only function when open.
Warner Oland as Charlie Chan
Charlie Chan in Paris (1935)
- Optimist only sees doughnut. Pessimist sees hole.
Warner Oland as Charlie Chan
- Hasty conclusion like gunpowder. Easy to explode.
Warner Oland as Charlie Chan
- Grain of sand in eye may hide mountain.
Warner Oland as Charlie Chan
- Cannot see contents of nut until shell is cracked.
Warner Oland as Charlie Chan
- Joy in heart more desirable than bullet.
Warner Oland as Charlie Chan
Charlie Chan's Secret (1936)
- If strength were all, tiger would not fear scorpion.
Warner Oland as Charlie Chan
- Hasty deduction like ancient egg. Look good from outside.
Warner Oland as Charlie Chan
- Necessity mother of invention, but sometimes step-mother of deception.
Warner Oland as Charlie Chan
Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
- All those kids yours mister, or is this a picnic?
Repairman
- No person with inner dignity is ever embarrassed.
Clifton Webb as Frank Gilbreth
- Oh, these aren't so many. You ought to see the ones we left behind.
Clifton Webb as Frank Gilbreth
Chicken Run (2000)
- Pushy Americans, always showing up late for every war. Overpaid, oversexed, and over here.
Benjamin Whitrow as Fowler
- So laying eggs all your life and then getting plucked, stuffed and roasted is good enough for you, is it?
Julia Sawalha as Ginger
- Keep pedalling! We're not there yet! You can't see paradise if you don't pedal!
Benjamin Whitrow as Fowler
The China Syndrome (1979)
- He was not a loony. He was the sanest man I ever knew in my life.
Wuilford Brimley as Ted Spindler
- I may be wrong, but I'd say you're lucky to be alive. For that matter, I think we might say the same for the rest of Southern California.
Michael Alaimo as Greg Minor
Chinatown (1974)
- You're dumber than you think I think you are.
Jack Nicholson as Jake Gittes
- Let me explain something to you, Walsh. This business requires a certain amount of finesse.
Jack Nicholson as Jake Gittes
- You've got a nasty reputation, Mr. Gitts. I like that.
John Huston as Noah Cross
- Have you ever heard the expression "Let sleeping dogs lie"? Sometimes you're better off not knowing.
John Huston as Noah Cross
A Christmas Story (1983)
- My little brother had not eaten voluntarily in over three years.
Jean Shepherd as narrator (Ralphie as an adult)
- No! No! I want an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle!
Peter Billinsly as Ralphie
- You'll shoot your eye out kid.
Jeff Gillen as Santa
- They looked at me as if I had lobsters crawling out of my ears.
Jean Shepherd as narrator (Ralphie as an adult)
- Only I didn't say "Fudge." I said THE word, the big one, the queen-mother of dirty words, the "F-dash-dash-dash" word!
Jean Shepherd as narrator (Ralphie as an adult)
- We plunged into the cornucopia quivering with desire and the ecstasy of unbridled avarice.
Jean Shepherd as narrator (Ralphie as an adult)
- Aunt Clara had for years labored under the delusion that I was not only perpetually 4 years old, but also a girl.
Jean Shepherd as narrator (Ralphie as an adult)
- What is a lamp, you nincompoop? Tt's a Major Award. I won it!
Darren McGavin as The Old man
- In the heat of battle my father wove a tapestry of obscenities that as far as we know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.
Jean Shepherd as narrator (Ralphie as an adult)
- Fra-gee-lay. That must be Italian.
Darren McGavin as The Old man
- Over the years I got to be quite a connoisseur of soap. Though my personal preference was for Lux, I found that Palmolive had a nice, piquant after-dinner flavor - heavy, but with a touch of mellow smoothness. Life Buoy, on the other hand... YECCHH!
Jean Shepherd as narrator (Ralphie as an adult)
- Randy lay there like a slug! It was his only defense!
Jean Shepherd as narrator (Ralphie as an adult)
- My father worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium, a master.
Jean Shepherd as narrator (Ralphie as an adult)
Citizen Kane (1941)
- I can see you. I know who you are. I watch you... I KNOW. I am what you see. I am what you watch. I am it. I am the hands. I am the feet. I am the eyes. I am the body. I. AM. ROSEBUD. ROOOOSEBUUUD... THE WATCHER. THE FEAR. THE ETERNAL. THE SAINT! You are nothing.
Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane
- Mr. Kane was a man who got everything he wanted and then lost it. Maybe Rosebud was something he couldn't get, or something he lost. Anyway, it wouldn't have explained anything... I don't think any word can explain a man's life. No, I guess Rosebud is just a... piece in a jigsaw puzzle... a missing piece.
William Alland as Jerry Thompson
- I always gagged on the silver spoon.
Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane
- You're right, I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars *next* year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in... 60 years.
Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane
- Don't believe everything you hear on the radio.
Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane
- Old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don't look forward to being cured of.
Everett Sloane as Mr. Bernstein
- It isn't enough to tell us what a man did. You've got to tell us who he was.
Philip Van Zandt as Mr. Rawlston
City of Angels (1998)
- I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it. One.
Nicholas Cage as Seth
- What good would wings be if you couldn't feel the wind on your face?
Sarah Dampf as Susan
- Some things are true whether you believe in them or not.
Nicholas Cage as Seth
City Slickers (1991)
- Value this time in your life kids, because this is the time in your life when you still have your choices, and it goes by so quickly.
Billy Crystal as Mitch Robbins
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.
Malcolm McDowell as Alex de Large
- Goodness is something to be chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.
Godfrey Quigley as Prison Chaplain
- It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.
Malcolm McDowell as Alex de Large
- There are subtleties! We are not concerned with motives, with the higher ethics. We are concerned only with cutting down crime and with relieving the ghastly congestion in our prisons. He will be your true Christian, ready to turn the other cheek, ready to be crucified rather than crucify, sick to the heart at the thought of killing a fly. Reclamation! Joy before the angels of God! The point is that it works.
Anthony Sharp as the Minister (MP)
- I was cured all right.
Malcolm McDowell as Alex de Large
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
- I know this sounds crazy, but ever since yesterday on the road, I've been seeing this shape. Shaving cream, pillows. Dammit! I know this. I know what this is! This means something. This is important.
Richard Dreyfuss as Roy Neary
- I guess you've noticed something a little strange with Dad. It's okay, though. I'm still Dad.
Richard Dreyfuss as Roy Neary
- Is that it? Is that all you're gonna ask me? Well I got a couple of thousand goddamn questions, you know. I want to speak to someone in charge. I want to lodge a complaint. You have no right to make people crazy! You think I investigate every Walter Cronkite story there is? Huh? If this is just nerve gas, how come I know everything in such detail? I've never been here before. How come I know so much? What the hell is going on around here? Who the hell are you people?
Richard Dreyfuss as Roy Neary
Coccoon (1985)
- I wouldn't accuse you of dishonesty! I accuse you of being from another planet, but an honest planet!
Steve Guttenberg as Jack Bonner
- Men should be explorers, no matter how old they are. I don't know about anybody else, but I'm going.
Don Ameche as Art Selwyn
- Well I'll tell ya, with the way nature's been cheating us, I don't mind cheating her a little.
Wilford Brimley as Ben Luckett
The Color Purple (1985)
- I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.
Margaret Avery as Shug Avery
- Yeah, Celie. Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved. Look at them trees. Notice how the trees do everything people do to get attention... except walk?
Margaret Avery as Shug Avery
- Till you do right by me, everything you even think about gonna' fail.
Whoopi Goldberg as Celie
- Who you think you is? You can't curse nobody. Look at you. You're black, you're poor, you're ugly, you're a woman, you're nothing at all!
Danny Glover as Albert
- You sho is ugly.
Margaret Avery as Shug Avery
Conan the Barbarian (1982)
- There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is a father's love for his child.
Max Von Sydow as King Osrikc
- My child, you have come to me my son. For who now is your father if it is not me? I am the well spring, from which you flow. When I am gone, you will have never been. What would your world be, without me?
James Earl Jones as Thulsa Doom
- Do you want to live forever?
Sandahl Bergman as Valeria
- Now they will know why they are afraid of the dark. Now they learn why they fear the night.
James Earl Jones as Thulsa Doom
- Contemplate your fate upon the Tree of Woe.
James Earl Jones as Thulsa Doom
Contact (1997)
- First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?
Michael Chaban as S.R. Hadden
- This isn't a person-to-person call.
Jodie Foster as Dr. Ellie Arroway
- For as long as I can remember, I've been searching for something, some reason why we're here. What are we doing here? Who are we? If this is a chance to find out even just a little part of that answer... I don't know, I think it's worth a human life. Don't you?
Jodie Foster as Dr. Ellie Arroway
- Is the world fundamentally a better place because of science and technology? We shop at home, we surf the Web -- at the same time, we feel emptier, lonelier and more cut off from each other than at any other time in human history.
Matthew McConaughey as Palmer Joss
- They should've sent a poet.
Jodie Foster as Dr. Ellie Arroway
- You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
David Morse as Ted Arroway as the Alien Contact
- So what's more likely? That an all-powerful, mysterious God created the Universe, and decided not to give any proof of his existence? Or, that He simply doesn't exist at all, and that we created Him, so that we wouldn't have to feel so small and alone?
Jodie Foster as Dr. Ellie Arroway
- I... had an experience... I can't prove it, I can't even explain it, but everything that I know as a human being, everything that I am tells me that it was real! I was given something wonderful, something that changed me forever... A vision of the universe, that tells us, undeniably, how tiny, and insignificant and how... rare, and precious we all are! A vision that tells us that we belong to something that is greater then ourselves, that we are *not*, that none of us are alone! I wish... I... could share that... I wish, that everybody, if only for one... moment, could feel... that awe, and humility, and hope.
Jodie Foster as Dr. Ellie Arroway
The Conversation (1974)
- I'm not following you, I'm looking for you. There's a big difference.
Harrison Ford as Martin Stett
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
- My Lord, whatever I done, don't strike me blind for another couple of minutes.
George Kennedy as Dragline
- What we got here is... failure to communicate.
Captain, Road Prison # 36
- Are you still believin' in that big bearded Boss up there? You think he's watchin' us?
Paul Newman as Luke
Crash (2004)
- It's just black people demeaning other black people, using that word over and over. You ever hear white people callin' each other "honky" all the time? "Hey, honky, how's work?" "Not bad, cracker, we're diversifying!"
Ludacris as Anthony
- I am angry all the time... and I don't know why.
Sandra Bullok as Jean Cabot
- I'll protect you, Daddy.
Ashlyn Sanchez as Lara
- How far can bullets go?
Ashlyn Sanchez as Lara
- You see any white people in there waiting an hour and thirty two minutes for a plate of spaghetti?
Ludacris as Anthony
Crocodile Dundee (1986)
- Afraid of dying? Nah. I read The Bible once. You know God and Jesus and all them apostles? They were all fishermen, just like me. Yeah, straight to heaven for Mick Dundee. Yep, me and God, we'd be mates.
Paul Hogan as Mick Dundee
- That's not a knife...now THAT's a knife.
Paul Hogan as Mick Dundee
- That's incredible. Imagine seven million people all wanting to live together. Yeah, New York must be the friendliest place on earth.
Paul Hogan as Mick Dundee
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