After much deliberation, here are Definitive Dose’s picks for the 100 most memorable, iconic, and downright quotable movie quotes of the past fifty years….
- “Make him an offer he can’t refuse.”–The Godfather
- “May the force be with you”–Star Wars
- “Go ahead, make my day.”–Sudden Impact
- “I do wish we could chat longer, but… I’m having an old friend for dinner.”–Silence of the Lambs
- “The truth? You can’t handle the truth!”–A Few Good Men
- “Bond. James Bond.”–James Bond
- “Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” —Forrest Gump
- “Heeeere’s Johnny!”–The Shining
- “Say hello to my little friend!”–Scarface
- “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
- “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”–Apocalypse Now
- “My precious.”–Lord of the Rings
- “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
- “You talkin’ to me?”–Taxi Driver
- “I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!”–Network
- “Yippee kay-ay motherfucker”–Die Hard
- “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
- “E.T. Phone home” –E.T the Extra-Terrrestrial
- “Freeedooooom!!”–Braveheart
- “I see dead people.” —The Sixth Sense
- “I’ll be back.” —Terminator
- “Houston, we have problem”–Apollo 13
- “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
- What’s in the box?!!”–Se7en
- “Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.”–The Godfather II
- “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
- “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.” –Wall Street
- “Show me the money!”–Jerry Maguire
- “Yes they deserve to die and I hope they burn in hell!!”–A Time to Kill
- “What’s the most you ever lost on a coin toss?”–No Country For Old Men
- “Juuuuust a bit outside.”–Major League
- “You’re going to need a bigger boat” –Jaws
- “These go to eleven”–Spinal Tap
- “I have had it with these motherfuckin’ snakes on this motherfuckin’ plane!”–Snakes on a Plane
- “If you build it, he will come”–Field of Dreams
- “Yo, Adrian!”–Rocky
- “I guess it comes down to one choice really. Get busy livin’ or get busy dyin'”–The Shawshank Redemption
- “Are you not entertained?!!!!!” –Gladiator
- “Heineken?!! Fuck that shit. Pabst Blue Ribbon!!–Blue Velvet
- “It’s not your fault.” —Good Will Hunting
- “Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need roads.”–Back to the Future
- “Wax on. Wax off.”–The Karate Kid
- “I’m funny how, I mean funny like I’m a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I’m here to fuckin’ amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?” —Goodfellas
- “Attica! Attica! –Dog Day Afternoon
- “I’m the king of the world!”–Titanic
- “King Kong ain’t got shit on me!”–Training Day
- “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
- “This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time.”–Fight Club
- “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
- “He’s not the Messiah. He’s a very naughty boy!”–Life of Brian
- “Warriooors. Come out and plaaaay”–Warriors
- “I feel the need–the need for speed.”–Top Gun
- “Aaaallllrighty then”–Ace Ventura
- “Now. Where was I?”–Memento
- “I like them French fried potaters.”–Sling Blade
- “Why so serious?”–The Dark Knight
- “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.”–The Godfather III
- “I told that Kraut a fuckin thousand times, I don’t roll on shabbos!!”–The Big Lebowski
- “There’s no crying in baseball!” –A League of Their Own
- “Whoo-ah!”–Scent of a Woman
- “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
- “I don’t know how to put this, but I’m kind of a big deal…people know me…I’m very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.”–Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
- “Do you like scary movies?”–Scream
- “Life moves pretty fast. You don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”–Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
- “We have an old saying in Delta House: don’t get mad, get even.”–Animal House
- “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
- “You have smoked yourself retarded”–Half Baked
- “I wish I knew how to quit you.” –Brokeback Mountain
- “I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley.” –Airplane!
- “It’s good to be the king.”–History of the World: Part 1
- “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die! –The Princess Bride
- “Get in my belly.”–Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
- “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
- “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
- “You’re killin me smalls”–The Sandlot
- “I am a golden god!”–Almost Famous
- “One time at band camp…”–American Pie
- “Bring out your dead.”–Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- “America. Fuck yea!”–Team America: World Police
- “Look what ya did ya little jerk!”–Home Alone
- “Excuse me while I whip this out.”–Blazing Saddles
- “RU-DY! RU-DY! RU-DY!”–Rudy
- “Just when I thought you couldn’t possibly be any dumber, you go and do something like this…and completely redeem yourself!”–Dumb and Dumber
- “I have nipples, Greg, could you milk me?”–Meet the Parents
- “Nobody puts baby in a corner.”–Dirty Dancing
- “Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A groundskeeper, now about to become the Master’s champion. It looks like a mirac…It’s in the hole! It’s in the hole! It’s in the hole!”–Caddyshack
- “We’re on a mission from God.”–The Blues Brothers
- “Beatlejuice! Beatlejuice! Beatlejuice!”–Beatlejuice
- “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
- “We came, we saw, we kicked it’s ass.”–Ghostbusters
- “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
- “Free your mind, your ass will follow.”–Platoon
- “Mr. Madison, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”–Billy Madison
- “Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler.”–Office Space
- “To infinity, and beyond.”–Toy Story
- “Come out, come out, wherever you are!”–Cape Fear
- “If you’re gonna spew, spew into this.”–Wayne’s World
- “He may have advanced dilusionary schizophrenia with involuntary narcissistic rage. But he is a very gentle person!”--Me, Myself, and Irene
- “Feel the rhythm! Feel the rhyme! Get on up, it’s bobsled time! COOL RUNNINGS!”–Cool Runnings
- “Never underestimate the power of denial.”–American Beauty