Top 50 Popular Lines
From the Movies


Part 2

Introduction: In the July 30, 2004 article entitled "Now Hear This" in Entertainment Weekly, the magazine provided various lists of the greatest cinema quotes ever. Almost all of the article's selected or honored quotes have already been listed on this site (found within the Greatest Film Quotes page), but not in this particular configuration or grouping. 50 Great Movie Quotes were provided by the editors of EW. Another 50 quotes (see below) were provided by readers who wrote into the magazine.


Most Popular Movie Quotes Submitted
(in chronological order by film)

"You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together...and blow."
- MARIE BROWNING (Lauren Bacall) in To Have and Have Not (1944)
Play clip (excerpt): To Have and Have Not

"Veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea: They eat their young."
- IDA CORWIN (Eve Arden) in Mildred Pierce (1945)

"If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothin'."
- GILDA (Rita Hayworth) in Gilda (1946)

"Fasten your seat belts - it's going to be a bumpy night."
- MARGO CHANNING (Bette Davis) in All About Eve (1950)
Play clip (excerpt): All About Eve

"Stand up. Your father's passing."
- REVEREND SYKES (William Walker) in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War Room!"
- PRESIDENT MUFFLEY (Peter Sellers) in Dr. Strangelove or:... (1964)
Play clip (excerpt): Dr. Strangelove

"What we've got here...is failure to communicate."
- CAPTAIN (Strother Martin) in Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Play clip (excerpt): Cool Hand Luke

"They call me Mister Tibbs!"
- VIRGIL TIBBS (Sidney Poitier) in In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Play clip (excerpt): In the Heat of the Night

"Do you enjoy...knives?"
- HAROLD (Bud Cort) in Harold and Maude (1971)

"I bet you can squeal like a pig."
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"Get them panties down."
- MOUNTAIN MAN in Deliverance (1972)

"Look how they massacred my boy."
- VITO CORLEONE (Marlon Brando) in The Godfather (1972)

"Is it safe?"
- DR. SZELL (Laurence Olivier) in Marathon Man (1976)

"You talkin' to me? Well, I'm the only one here."
- TRAVIS BICKLE (Robert DeNiro) in Taxi Driver (1976)
Play clip (excerpt): Taxi Driver

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
- KILGORE (Robert Duvall) in Apocalypse Now (1979)
Play clip (excerpt): Apocalypse Now

"You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man."
- MATTY WALKER (Kathleen Turner) in Body Heat (1981)

"It's not the years, honey. It's the mileage."
- INDIANA JONES (Harrison Ford) in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

"These go to 11."
- NIGEL TUFNEL (Christopher Guest) in This is Spinal Tap (1984)

"Game over, man! Game over!"
- HUDSON (Bill Paxton) in Aliens (1986)

"Nobody puts Baby in a corner."
- JOHNNY CASTLE (Patrick Swayze) in Dirty Dancing (1987)

"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
- INIGO MONTOYA (Mandy Patinkin) in The Princess Bride (1987)

"Inconceivable!"
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
- INIGO MONTOYA (Mandy Patinkin) in The Princess Bride (1987)

"Have fun storming the castle!"
- MIRACLE MAX (Billy Crystal) in The Princess Bride (1987)

"As you wish."
- WESTLEY (Cary Elwes) in The Princess Bride (1987)

"Son, you got a panty on your head."
- GUY IN A TRUCK (John O'Donnal) to Nicolas Cage in Raising Arizona (1987)

"I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum."
- NADA ("Rowdy" Roddy Piper) in They Live (1988)

"Is this heaven?"
"No, it's Iowa."
- RAY KINSELLA (Kevin Costner) in Field of Dreams (1989)

"This is Ohio. I mean, if you don't have a brewski in your hand, you might as well be wearing a dress."
- JASON DEAN (Christian Slater) in Heathers (1989)

"I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen."
- LLOYD DOBLER (John Cusack) in Say Anything... (1989)

"I'll have what she's having."
- FEMALE DINER (Estelle Reiner) in When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Play clip (excerpt): When Harry Met Sally

"Funny like I'm a clown? I amuse you?"
- TOMMY DeVITO (Joe Pesci) in GoodFellas (1990)

"It's not a tumah!"
- JOHN KIMBLE (Arnold Schwarzenegger) in Kindergarten Cop (1990)

"He didn't get out of the cockadoodle car!"
- ANNIE WILKES (Kathy Bates) in Misery (1990)

"Get outta here! And don't come back for five to seven days!"
- VADA SULTENFUSS (Anna Chlumsky) in My Girl (1991)

"Love your suit."
- HANNIBAL LECTER (Anthony Hopkins) in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

"There are two types of people in this world: those who like Neil Diamond, and those who don't."
- BOB WILEY (Bill Murray) in What About Bob? (1991)

"You can't handle the truth!"
- COLONEL JESSUP (Jack Nicholson) in A Few Good Men (1992)
Play clip (excerpt): A Few Good Men

"There's no crying in baseball!"
- JIMMY DUGAN (Tom Hanks) in A League of Their Own (1992)
Play clip (excerpt): A League of Their Own

"Oh, for goodness' sakes, get down off that crucifix. Someone needs the wood."
- ADAM/FELICIA (Guy Pearce) in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)

"Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold on to."
- DOLORES CLAIBORNE (Kathy Bates) in Dolores Claiborne (1995)

"You had me at hello."
- DOROTHY BOYD (Renee Zellweger) in Jerry Maguire (1996)
Play clip (excerpt): Jerry Maguire

"Show me the money."
- ROD TIDWELL (Cuba Gooding Jr.) in Jerry Maguire (1996) (also voiced by Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise))
Play clip (excerpt): Jerry Maguire

"And in the morning, I'm making waffles!"
- DONKEY (Eddie Murphy) in Shrek (2001)

"Why does it cry, Sméagol?"
- GOLLUM (Andy Serkis) in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)




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