Famous Movie Quotes

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I recently came across an article that talked about movie quotes that have become famous through the years. Quotes that we, as viewers of those movies, sometimes even use ourselves. Such as “Hasta la vista, baby!” (Terminator 2) or “Here’s looking at you, kid.” (Casablanca). As I was reading through the list, I thought it would be fun to post some of them here to see how many you all can guess! I’ll post the quotes first and the movie they came from below. Have fun!

1. “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”

2. “Go ahead; make my day.”

3. “Hello, Gorgeous.”

4. “Here’s Johnny!”

5. “Houston, we have a problem.”

6. “I feel the need . . . the need for speed!”

7. “I see dead people.”

8. “I’ll have what she’s having.”

9. “Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.”

10. “Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”

11. “My precious.”

12. “No wire hangers, ever!”

13. “Nobody puts baby in a corner.”

14. “Play it again, Sam.”

15. “Show me the money!”

16. “Snap out of it!”

17. “There’s no place like home.”

18. “They’re Here.”

19. “We’re gonna need a bigger boat.”

20. “You can’t handle the truth!”

21. “Yo, Adrian!”

22. “You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?”

23. “What do you mean he don’t eat no meat? That’s okay — I make lamb.”

24. “I’m not bad. I’m just drawn that way.”

25. “Luke, I am your father.” (This one was for Julie! )

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1. Gone with the Wind
2. Sudden Impact (Dirty Harry)
3. Funny Girl
4. The Shining
5. Apollo 13
6. Top Gun
7. The Sixth Sense
8. When Harry Met Sally
9. The Godfather II
10. Forrest Gump
11. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers
12. Mommie Dearest
13. Dirty Dancing
14. Casablanca
15. Jerry Maguire
16. Moonstruck
17. Wizard of Oz
18. Poltergeist
19. Jaws
20. A Few Good Men
21. Rocky
22. Dirty Harry
23. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
24. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
25. Star Wars

So, how many did you guess right? What is your all time favorite movie quote?

37 Comments »

  1. How funj! I counted 19 that I got right. I can never think of the good quotes, so I’ll have to see what other people say - that will jog my memory.

    Comment by Stacy ~ — February 28, 2008 @ 7:22 am

  2. I got 22 our of 25! I missed #3, #9 (I said Godfather, but not Godfather II) and #11, since I’ve never seen the Lord of the Rings films. But the rest I got! I love great films. Although…I don’t believe that Humphrey Bogard actually said, “Play it again, Sam” in the movie…I think it was just “Play it, Sam.” But I could be wrong.

    Comment by Julie Leto — February 28, 2008 @ 8:25 am

  3. I got all but #11.

    Julie- You are correct. He never said “again”. It’s one of the most misquoted quotes in movies I think.

    We’ll always have Paris!!

    Comment by ev — February 28, 2008 @ 9:34 am

  4. I got’em all. The line I love from My Big Fat Greek Wedding (which could’ve been My Big Fat Italian Wedding and looked like every wedding I ever went to as a kid, except there was no actual fighting in the movie) is when the mother is talking about her husband who has just put his foot down with the daughter. She says “The man, he is the head yes, but the woman…she is the neck. And she can turn the head any way she wants.”

    Julie, Bogart actually says, “You played it for her, you can play it for me”, then Sam starts to protest and Bogart says “If she can stand it, I can! Play it!”

    Janelle you left out my favorite, “Leave the gun, take the cannoli.” Sorry, couldn’t resist.

    Comment by Bruce — February 28, 2008 @ 9:43 am

  5. I did pretty good. I only missed 3(#2,#9, and #22). I knew 2 and 22 were from Dirty Harry movies, just wasn’t sure which ones. You listed so many of my favorite quotes, I’ll have to think a bit to list another one. Thanks for including a Star Wars quote.

    Comment by Liza — February 28, 2008 @ 9:44 am

  6. I enjoyed that! I love trivia! I got 4 wrong and they were all ones I’ve never seen. And the Dirty Harry ones, I knew what they were from, but didn’t have the right movies.

    Comment by Michelle J. in NJ — February 28, 2008 @ 10:03 am

  7. I missed five. I never remember quotes from movies, until someone else says them. LOL

    Comment by Patty L. — February 28, 2008 @ 10:09 am

  8. I didn’t count them, but I got most of them…. Have a terrific Thursday, everyone!

    Comment by katie — February 28, 2008 @ 10:10 am

  9. I missed 9, 11, & 16. That was fun.

    Comment by Vicki — February 28, 2008 @ 10:16 am

  10. that was fun to read through..of course when i read the title i automaticallly had number one pop into my head because that is my all time favorite book and movie. Our favorite saying at work has been from Forrest Gump.. my momma always says.. stupid is as stupid does… lol

    Comment by Jolene — February 28, 2008 @ 10:35 am

  11. I got a lot, not nearly all of them but enough that I could feel semi-respectable!

    In our family, the best quote is from Independence Day when he has the dog fight with the alien ship and then it crashes. There’s actually 2 lines. When he gets out of his plane and walks to the ship and says, “Your ship all baaanged up.” And then when he’s dragging the alien across the desert and he says something about, “Your dreadlocks hanging out of my chute.” Then he kicks it and says, “And what they hell is that smell?”

    My family will find some occassion - regularly - to use those 2 lines. Even watching the race, when a car wrecks, someone will throw out the “ship all banged up” line.

    Did you see the top 10 worst movie lines of all time a couple of weeks ago? I need to go back and find it because I didn’t get a chance to read it the day it was on Yahoo.

    Hope it’s a great day for everyone!!

    Comment by Jodie — February 28, 2008 @ 10:39 am

  12. I got all but # 2. I knew it was Dirty Harry, just wasn’t sure which movie!

    Janelle, how could you forget one of my favorite movie lines:

    “Yippie ki-yay mother f’er!”

    Comment by Leslie Kelly — February 28, 2008 @ 10:59 am

  13. I got them all but 3 & 9. Makes me think I’ve watched waaaay too many movies

    Comment by wendy roberts — February 28, 2008 @ 11:06 am

  14. Good morning Plotmonkeys and Jungle Jabbers,

    I missed 9,12, 13 and 19. I’m not as movie savvy as I thought.

    Hope everyone is having a good day. At least the swelling as begun to subside in my ankle. I’ve graduated to a cane now and can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

    Cher

    Comment by Cher — February 28, 2008 @ 11:17 am

  15. I missed #11 and #24. I love the line “Snap out of it!”.

    Comment by Susan — February 28, 2008 @ 12:23 pm

  16. I got them all right except for 12,16 and 24 and I have never seen those movies.
    This was fun.

    Comment by Gigi — February 28, 2008 @ 1:09 pm

  17. Love Indenpendence Day. I think one of my favorite lines is when Will Smith opens up the spaceship after it crashes and the alien pops up and he punches the alien in the face and says “Welcome to Earth”.

    Comment by Liza — February 28, 2008 @ 1:11 pm

  18. Jodie, my favorite line in INDEPENDENCE DAY, which is one of my top ten favorite movies of all time, is when Will Smith punches the alien after the air fight and says, “Welcome to Earth.” Actually, that movie has some of the best dialogue ever…my other favorite is when Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum pop out of the alien mother ship at the end and Smith says, “Elvis has left the building!” and Goldblum, appears just to be blathering, but he replies with a very Elvis-like, “Thankyouverymuch.” I crack up every time. I bet a lot of it was improvised.

    Comment by Julie Leto — February 28, 2008 @ 1:19 pm

  19. Liza, JINX!

    We posted at the same time, LOLOL!

    Comment by Julie Leto — February 28, 2008 @ 1:20 pm

  20. I missed five and can’t believe it, since I am not much of a movie viewer! My family loves watching
    movies, so I guess it must be osmosis or something! Favorite line: Houston, we have a problem!
    ( I’m a native of Houston, Texas.)

    Pat Cochran

    Comment by Patricia Cochran — February 28, 2008 @ 1:40 pm

  21. Julie, I almost quoted the Elvis quote from Independence Day too as one of my favorites. Independence Day has so many great quotes it is really hard to limit to just one or two.

    Comment by Liza — February 28, 2008 @ 1:43 pm

  22. I forgot to keep count because I was having so much fun! It was a nice morning exercise for my brain.

    It got me thinking…Why don’t we quote books more often? Do we need to hear a quote to make it ‘quotable’? If we all read the same book, would we all quote the same lines?

    Comment by ThatBrunette — February 28, 2008 @ 2:24 pm

  23. Got 20 right, my favorite is from “My precious” from LOTR.

    Comment by Jane — February 28, 2008 @ 2:28 pm

  24. Liza and Julie - another great line from them in the spaceship, getting ready to leave earth, is when the “directions” are upside and in this very serious moment Will Smith says, “oopsie.” My kids like the “Welcome To Earth” part too.

    That is one movie, that no matter how many times we’ve seen, we’ll stop and watch it again. I think kidlet finally recorded it on the DVR so we can just watch it whenever we want.

    Comment by Jodie — February 28, 2008 @ 3:35 pm

  25. I didn’t keep track of right or wrong but I did recognize most of them! My fave is #1. It is amazing how many of these have crept into our everyday speech! Since I live in California & we all know who the Governor is here, Hasta la vista baby is heard a lot!! One of my favorite things at the Oscars was at the very beginning when they showed the animated bit with Arnold driving the truck/van whatever it was! Made me laugh!
    Thanks Janelle for the fun exercise! Now I think I will go take a walk for some physical exercise! Can’t let all this sun go to waste!

    Comment by Donna M — February 28, 2008 @ 3:43 pm

  26. LOVE Independence Day. It’s easy to miss but I love when Goldblum, as they’re speeding to get out of the mothership, mumbles “must go faster, must go faster”. Exactly like he did in Jurassic Park when they’re outrunning the T-rex in the jeep.

    The mention of the Elvis line made me wonder, am I the only one that said the lines as the character said them in the movie while I was going through the list?

    Julie, you’ve never seen LOTRs? Really? The whole trilogy was screened at our house twice in the last month. You up for 12 hours of movie watching?

    Comment by Bruce — February 28, 2008 @ 3:49 pm

  27. I like Lord of The Rings (is it the second movie) when Sam is cooking the potatoes and gollum ask him “what?what is taters?” and same goes “u know PO TA TOES” I always cracked up. Julie if you haven’t seen those movies you should there are some pretty good hotties in it.

    Comment by nancy — February 28, 2008 @ 5:28 pm

  28. Hmm…wasn’t “Luke, I am your father” from Empire Strikes Back, not Star Wars?

    Comment by Leslie — February 28, 2008 @ 7:11 pm

  29. Absolutely, it’s Empire Strikes Back. I didn’t catch that, though of course, that was my answer, LOL!

    Comment by Julie Leto — February 28, 2008 @ 7:23 pm

  30. Hey everybody…I didn’t do too badly on figuring out the movies…I guessed maybe 8 or 9…

    Some of my favorite quotes of

    “Say hello to my little friend!” Can you guess what movie that one is from?
    “Where God closes a door, he opens a window.”
    “I think there is a young lady out there that will never be a nun.”
    “The rain in Spain, stays mainly on the plane.”
    “Move your bloomin’ arse.”

    That’s all I can think of for now…

    Peace and love,
    Paula R.

    Comment by Paula R. — February 28, 2008 @ 8:19 pm

  31. Just thought of another one…

    “here’s lookin’ at you kid.”

    Peace and love,
    Paula R.

    Comment by Paula R. — February 28, 2008 @ 8:20 pm

  32. Aww, come on, Paula, challenge me!

    Say hello to my little friend!” SCARFACE
    “Where God closes a door, he opens a window.” SOUND OF MUSIC
    “I think there is a young lady out there that will never be a nun.” SOUND OF MUSIC
    “The rain in Spain, stays mainly on the plane.” MY FAIR LADY
    “Move your bloomin’ arse.” MY FAIR LADY

    You’re talking to the Broadway nut here. Uh, interesting juxtoposition between the first and the others, though…lolol!

    Comment by Leslie — February 28, 2008 @ 8:40 pm

  33. “here’s lookin’ at you kid.”

    CASABLANCA

    Comment by Leslie — February 28, 2008 @ 8:40 pm

  34. Leslie, do you know what it took out of me to come up with those? Just kidding…I thought it would be fun to put those in there, since I didn’t see any…You are good…

    Peace and love,
    Paula R.

    Comment by Paula R. — February 28, 2008 @ 8:50 pm

  35. Bruce, I absolutely love LOTRs…I read the books first and they were excellent…if you think 12 hours of watching the movies is a lot, read them all to include The Hobbit…I loved the books more, but I felt that the movies definitely did them justice…

    Peace and love,
    Paula R.

    Comment by Paula R. — February 28, 2008 @ 8:52 pm

  36. Hey thought of a couple more that I liked…

    “I’m the king of the world.” might be too easy though…
    “That’s not a knife, this is a knife.”
    “My name is Tally Atwater.”
    “Ditto”
    “Do you understand the words coming out of my mouth?”
    “Who you gonna call?”

    I think that I am going to stop now…I am going to bed…Janelle, great topic, see you all tomorrow…

    Peace and love,
    Paula R.

    Comment by Paula R. — February 28, 2008 @ 10:42 pm

  37. Well, I got 19, so I don’t feel as out of touch as I thought I might be. I did want to share my favorite moving quote of all time, though:

    “I have come here to chew bubble gum and to kick a**, and I am all out of bubble gum.”

    Thanks!

    Comment by Alisa — July 11, 2008 @ 5:40 pm

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