Hint: Move your mouse pointer over the yellow star next to each quote to identify the source of the film quote (some of the stars are linked to the film's identification and a detailed description of the film).

"It's money and adventure and fame. It's the thrill of a lifetime and a long sea voyage that starts at six o'clock tomorrow morning."

"...a pity I never had children. But you're wrong...I have...thousands of them...thousands of them...and all boys!"

"I never knew it could be like this."

"Pearl, you're curved in the flesh of temptation. Resistance is going to be a darn sight harder for you than for females protected by the shape of sows."

"Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening ... Come up. I'll tell your fortune ... Ah, you can be had."
AND
"Come up and see me sometime."
(Another of the same performer's best-known one-liners, often delivered with slight variations)

"And, Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!"
(NOT "You're going out a chorus girl, but you're coming back a star!")

"My father made him an offer he couldn't refuse."
AND
"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."
AND
"And the promise is that the deal is so good that we can't refuse."
AND
"I make an offer he don't refuse."

"I read you were shot five times in the tabloids." "It's not true. He didn't come anywhere near my tabloids."

"Now that you've got the mine, I'll bet you'll be a swell gold digger."

"Madness! Madness!"

"I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever."

"Why, everybody in Mandrake Falls is pixilated - except us."

"Whaddya hear? Whaddya say?"

"You may as well go to perdition in ermine. You're sure to come back in rags."

"It's alive! It's alive!"

"Ma'am, I sure like that name - Clementine."

"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain ... the ... Great ... er ... Oz has spoken."

"I haven't been afraid since I've known you."

"I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart."

"Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!"
(NOT "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges.")

"We want to be alone."

- "Fat Man, you shoot a great game of pool."
- "So do you, Fast Eddie."

"Well, I'll tell you the truth now. I ain't a real cowboy, but I am one helluva stud."

"Is that you, Martha?...I don't want to be disturbed."

"I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage, that's all."

"But first and foremost, I remember Mama."

- "How do you live?"
- "I steal."

"Your dream prince, reporting for duty!"

"Good morning...Oh, and in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!"

"You should've let him kill me, 'cause I'm gonna kill ya. I'll catch up with you! I don't know when, but I'll catch up. Every time you turn around, expect to see me. 'Cause one time you'll turn around and I'll be there. I'll kill ya, Matt."

"Play 'Misty' for me."

"I'll take my chance against the law. You'll take yours against the sea."

"Play it once, Sam, for old times' sake...Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'"
OR
"You know what I want to hear... You played it for her, you can play it for me!... If she can stand it, I can! Play it!"

(NOT "Play it again, Sam.")

"It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily."

"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."

"Yes, I killed him. I killed him for money and for a woman. I didn't get the money and I didn't get the woman. Pretty, isn't it?'"

"I wouldn't go on living with you if you were dipped in platinum."

"Ah, but the strawberries! That's, that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, and with, with geometric logic, that, that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox did exist."

"Anybody got a match?"

"They uh, was givin' me ten thousand watts a day, you know, and I'm hot to trot. The next woman takes me out is gonna light up like a pinball machine, and pay off in silver dollars."

"...Crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor."

"I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a - a little looking out for the other fella, too..."

"You'll have to forgive me, comrade."

- "But why are you wearing these clothes?"
- "Because I just went gay all of a sudden!"

"We rob banks."

"The calla lilies are in bloom again."

"I am...Drac-u-la...I bid you welcome."

"I think I'll have a large order of 'prognosis negative'."

"It's even better when you help."

"Take me to the window. Let me look at the moors with you once more, my darling. Once more."

"Ah'd like to kiss ya, but ah jest washed ma hair."

(NOT "Ah'd love to kiss ya, but ah jest washed ma hair.")

"The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain."

"Who are those guys?"

I'll think about it tomorrow. Tara! Home. I'll go home, and I'll think of some way to get him back! After all, tomorrow is another day!"

"Prove it..."

"What we've got here is (a) failure to communicate."

"The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of."

"And what is love? Love is the mornin' and the evenin' star."

"But I want to be alone."

"Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above."

"One morning, I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I don't know."

"Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again...We can never go back to Manderley again."

"We blew it."

- "I love you. You...complete me."
- "Shut up. Just shut up. You had me at 'hello'."

- "I was reading a book the other day...Yes. It's all about civilization or something, a nutty kind of a book. Do you know that the guy said that machinery is going to take the place of every profession?"
- "Oh, my dear, that's something you need never worry about."

"Listen to them. Children of the night. What mu-u-u-sic they make."

- "Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!"
- "Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie."

"Love means never having to say you're sorry."

"You give me powders, pills, baths, injections, enemas - when all I need is love."

"...I'll be all around in the dark. I'll be ever'-where - wherever you can look. Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad - an' I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an' they know supper's ready. An' when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise, and livin' in the houses they build - I'll be there, too."

"Hey Stell - Lahhhhh!" "Hey, Stell - Lahhhh!"

- "Easy Miss, I've got you."
- "You've got ME? Who's got YOU?"

"Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops."

"What a dump!"

- "What do you feel like doing tonight?"
- "I don't know, Ange. What do you feel like doing?"

"...she's my sister and my daughter."

- "When I want to know anything from you, I'll tell you, you long-legged son of a - "
- "If you want to call me that, smile."
NOT "Smile when you say that."

(By the way, the quote first appeared in Buster Keaton's silent film Go West (1925) as an unspoken title card)

"Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera and so forth."

"Hasta la vista, baby."

"And the last thing he said to me, 'Rock,' he said, 'sometime when the team is up against it and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go out there with all they've got and win just one for the Gipper.'"

"Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."

- "Yes, Jane. (She points at him.) You? (She points at herself.) Jane."
- (He points at her.) "Jane."
- "And you? (She points at him.) You?"
- (Pointing to himself with jabs.) "Tarzan, Tarzan."
- "Tarzan."

(NOT "(Me) Tarzan...(You) Jane.")

"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long, Holly."

"You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man."

"By gad, sir, you are a character, that you are. There's never any telling what you'll say or do next, except that it's bound to be something astonishing."

"Oh Beulah...Peel me a grape."

"You want a leg or a breast?"

"People here are funny. They work so hard at living they forget how to live."

"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."

"Tell Mama, tell Mama all."

"...Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets."

"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them long winter evenings."

- "Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against?"
- "What've you got?"

"Say, was you ever bit by a dead bee?"

"If we bring a little joy into your humdrum lives, it makes us feel as though our hard work ain't been in vain for nothin'."

"I am more interested in the 'Rock of Ages' than I am in the age of rocks."

"Your eyes are full of hate, Forty-One. That's good. Hate keeps a man alive."

"It's no good. I've got to go back, Amy...They're making me run. I've never run from anybody before."

"Oh, Moses! Moses! You stubborn, splendid, adorable fool!"

"The Grand Hotel. Always the same. People come. People go. Nothing ever happens."

"Now that we're through with Humiliate the Host...and we don't want to play Hump the Hostess yet...how about a little round of Get the Guests?"

"You see, George, you really had a wonderful life. Don't you see what a mistake it would be to throw it away?"

"Now go out there and be so swell that you'll make me hate you."

"When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it."

"Mother, my mother, uh, what is the phrase? - she isn't qu-quite herself today."

"I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom."

"Where's the rest of me?"

"It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chain saws out. This is the mighty W-O-O-D. At the sound of the falling tree, it's 9:30. There's a whole lot of wood out there, so let's get goin'."

- "How do you find your way back in the dark?"
- "Just head for that big star straight on. The highway's under it, and it'll take us right home."

"He slimed me."

"I am married to an American agent."

"Now you've done it! Now you have done it!...You tore off one of my chests."

"I think it would be fun to run a newspaper."

"The Mouth of Truth. Legend is that if you're given to lying, you put your hand in there, it'll be bitten off."

"My mother - a waitress!"

"Mama, that's the first time I stopped hugging first. I like that."

"Gentlemen, I give you a toast. Here's my hope that Robert Conway will find his Shangri-La. Here's my hope that we all find our Shangri-La."

"Behold the walls of Jericho! Uh, maybe not as thick as the ones that Joshua blew down with his trumpet, but a lot safer. You see, uh, I have no trumpet."
AND
"A good night's rest'll do you a lot of good. Besides, you got nothing to worry about: the walls of Jericho will protect you from the big bad wolf."

"Outside, Countess. As long as they've got sidewalks, you've got a job."

"My eyes! I think I'm blind."

"That'll do, pig, that'll do."

"I have a head for business and a bod for sin. Is there anything wrong with that?"

"You see, every once in a while, I...I suddenly find myself dancing."

"Oh, Money, money, money! The Frankenstein Monster that destroys souls."

"Modern methods! Intensive training! Poppycock! Give a boy a sense of humor and a sense of proportion and he'll stand up to anything!"

"...Marry me and I'll never look at any other horse."

"Living, I'm worth nothing to her. But dead, I can buy her the tallest cathedrals, golden vineyards, and dancing in the streets. One well-directed bullet will accomplish all that."

- "Fozzie, where did you learn to drive?
- "I took a correspondence course."

"I'm your number one fan."

"You better stop eyeballin' me, boy!"

- "Oh, I'll only be here twenty-four hours."
- "In a place like this, it could be a lifetime."

"Boy, I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals."

"Well now, what's it to be, Lord? Another widow? How many has it been? Six? Twelve? I disremember. You say the word, Lord, I'm on my way."

"How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it? Wake up, Charlie! Use your wits. Learn something."

"And the necklace, Carlotta's necklace, there was where you made your mistake, Judy. You shouldn't keep souvenirs of a killing. You shouldn't have been, you shouldn't have been that sentimental."