The Top 80 Movie Quotes of the Past 40 Years

Written by Ben Pogany

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After much deliberation, here are Definitive Dose's picks for the 80 most memorable, iconic, and quotable movie quotes of the past forty years....

1. "Make him an offer he can't refuse."--The Godfather
2. "Life is like a box of chocolate; you never know what you're gonna get." --Forest Gump
3. "May the force be with you"--Star Wars
4. "I do wish we could chat longer, but... I'm having an old friend for dinner."--Silence of the Lambs
5. "The truth? You can't handle the truth!"--A Few Good Men
6. "Bond. James Bond"--James Bond
7. "Heeeere's Johnny!"--The Shining
8. "Say hello to my little friend!"--Scarface
9. "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
10. "If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake. I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!"--There Will Be Blood
11. "I love the smell of napalm in the morning."--Apocalypse Now
12. "Yippee kay-ay motherfucker"--Die Hard
13. "And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."--Pulp Fiction
14. "E.T.  Phone home" --E.T the Extra-Terrrestrial
15. "Let me tell you this, the older you do get the more rules they're gonna try to get you to follow. You just gotta keep livin' man, L-I-V-I-N."--Dazed and Confused
16. "You lookin' at me?"--Taxi Driver
17. "Freeedooooom!!"--Braveheart
18. "I see dead people." --The Sixth Sense
19. "I'll be back." --Terminator
20. "What's in the box?!!"--Se7en
21. "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. And like that, poof. He's gone."--The Usual Suspects
22. "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good." --Wall Street
23. "When I was your age they would say we can become cops, or criminals. Today, what I'm saying to you is this: when you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference?"--The Departed
24. "Yes they deserve to die and I hope they burn in hell!!"--A Time to Kill
25. "Show me the money!"--Jerry Maguire
26. "What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?"--No Country For Old Men
27. "King Kong ain't got shit on me!"--Training Day
28. "These go to eleven"--Spinal Tap
29. "I have had it with these motherfuckin' snakes on this motherfuckin' plane!"--Snakes on a Plane
30. "Houston, we have problem"--Apollo 13
31. "If you build it, they will come"--Field of Dreams
32. "Yo. Adrian"--Rocky
33. "My precious"--Lord of the Rings
34. "I'm the king of the world"--Titanic
35. "Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'"--The Shawhank Redemption
36. "You're going to need a bigger boat" --Jaws
37. "Heineken?!! Fuck that shit.  Pabst Blue Ribbon!!--Blue Velvet
38. "Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads."--Back to the Future
39. "I wanted to see exotic Vietnam... the crown jewel of Southeast Asia. I wanted to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture... and kill them."--Full Metal Jacket
40. "This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time."--Fight Club
41. "We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can."--Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
42. "I like them French fried potaters."--Sling Blade
43. "You drop a pass, you run a mile. You miss a blocking assignment, you run a mile. You fumble the football, and i will break my foot off in your John Brown hind parts and then you will run a mile. Perfection. Let's go to work."--Remember the Titans
44. "Warriooors. Come out and plaaaay"--Warriors
45. "I feel the need--the need for speed."--Top Gun
46. "Aaaallllrighty then"--Ace Ventura
47. "Now. Where was I?"--Memento
48. "Never underestimate the power of denial."--American Beauty
49. "I know it's pretty baby, but I didn't take it out for air."--Requiem For A Dream
50. "Why So Serious?"--Dark Knight
51. "It's not your fault." --Good Will Hunting
52. "There's no crying in baseball" --A League of Their Own
53. "Shomer fucking Shabbas!"--The Big Lebowski
54. "Your mother sucks cocks in Hell."--The Exorcist
55. "Whoo-ah!"--Scent of a Woman
56. "Pop quiz, hotshot. There's a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50, it blows up. What do you do? What do you do?"--Speed
57. "Free your mind, your ass will follow."--Platoon
58. "Do you like scary movies?"--Scream
59. "Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."--Ferris Bueller
60. "We have an old saying in Delta House: don't get mad, get even."--Animal House
61. "I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?"--Trainspotting
62. "You have smoked yourself retarded"--Half Baked
63. "I wish I knew how to quit you."  --Brokeback Mountain
64. "I am serious.  And don't call me surely."  --Airplane!
65. "I have no legs. I have no legs. I have no legs. I have no legs. May God bless you. I have no legs..."--Kids
66. "Is that my daughter in there?!!"--Mystic River
67. "That's right. I've killed women and children. I've killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned."--Unforgiven
68. "I'm a golden god!"--Almost Famous
69. "If you're gonna spew, spew into this."--Wayne's World
70. "One time at band camp..."--American Pie
71. "America. Fuck yea!"--Team America: World Police
72. "Look what ya did ya little jerk!"--Home Alone
73. "Funny like how?"--Goodfellas
74. "Hello.  My name is Inigo Montoya.  You killed my father.  Prepare to die! --The Princess Bride
75. "Your royal penis is clean, your Highness"  --Coming to America
76. "Attica! Attica! --Dog Day Afternoon
77. "Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time."--American History X
78. "Are we to believe that boiling water soaks into a grit faster in your kitchen than anywhere else on the face of the earth?"--My Cousin Vinny
79. "I am not an animal!  I am a human being.  --The Elephant Man
80. "It's in the hole.  It's in the hole!" --Caddyshack