We all have our favorite lines of dialogue memorized.
Great dialogue is the heart of film, tv and theatre.
How many films can you quote?
Do you have a film quote for your tombstone?
Mine is from the movie ‘Clue.’ I’m gonna make you guess…
So Redditor No_Housing_4819 wanted to hear what lines no one has forgotten from their favorite films…
They asked:
“What’s your favorite movie quote?”
Let’s talk cinema…
Unforgiven
“Sir, you are a cowardly son of a *itch! You just shot an unarmed man!”
“He should’ve armed himself if he’s gonna decorate his saloon with my friend!” ~ Axenroth187
“You’d be William Munny, outta Missouri. Killer of women and children.”
“That’s right. I’ve killed women and children. Killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another.”
“And I’m here to kill you li’l Bill. For what you did to Ned.” ~ jrf_1973
“I like:”
“ t’s a hell of a thing, killin’ a man. You take all he’s got… and all he’s ever gonna have.”
“Well, I guess they had it comin’”
“We all have it comin’, Kid.” ~ bolerobell
Doctor Strangelove
“Gentlemen you can’t fight in here, this is the war room!” ~ AlternativeRip4728
“When I did speech and debate in college those of us who qualified for the national championship took a retreat to a cabin in the mountains for a weekend to work on our craft.”
“My head coach brought this movie along and oh man, what a great film. I highly encourage people to watch this film. Peter Sellers is brilliant.” ~ Pawn_captures_Queen
“I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.” ~ _stuntnuts_
LEGO FOREVER
“I think I got it. But just in case… tell me the whole thing again I wasn’t listening.” ~ WTFrickFrackCadillac
“And Octan, they make great stuff! […] Surveillance systems, all history books, voting machines… wait a second.” ~ StarKnight697
“The fact that I’m seeing so many memorized quotes from the lego movie is making me so happy right now.”
“I was 12 when it was released and I’m gonna be 20 in two months. I miss those days. I’m getting so nostalgic now.” ~ WTFrickFrackCadillac
INCREDIBLE!!
“He starts monologuing! He starts this prepared speech about how feeble I am to him, how my defeat is inevitable, and the world will soon be his, yada yada yada, he’s yammering!”
“I mean the guy has me on a platter, and he won’t shut up!” ~ Dazzling_Realties
“You sly dog! You got me monologuing!!” ~ burningfirelily
Villains
“A hero would sacrifice you for the world but a villain would sacrifice the world for you.” ~ I_Love_Small_Breasts
“If I remember correctly, Weathering with You.” ~ protein_bars
“His selfish desire to be with an ACTUAL GODDESS.”
“I love how complex and big but also intimate and sad the romance in this movie was.”
“He was a villain for sure, but also my heart was breaking for them the whole movie.”
“I wouldn’t have been any happier if he was a hero; everyone would have lost.” ~ WinsomeWombat
“They say the villain is selfish, but have anyone thought about this?”
“And what about the hero? What if they sacrifice you just for glory? What if they were the true villain to begin with?” ~ BasicallyBlu123
Arnold Speaks
“I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle.” ~ 11B-1P-CIB
“Me and my brothers watched T2 almost every night for a month (we couldn’t sleep without tv on and each month was a new movie).”
“We’ve always said ‘ need your clothes, your boots, and your underwear.’”
“And you reminded me of what he actually says lol.” ~ stoicambience
“My friend quotes this all the time, but he remembers it wrong and just says ‘GIMME YA CLOTHES’ in a terrible Arnold accent lol!!” ~ NutSockMushroom
NETWORK
“I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!” ~ UpperUnderstanding77
“One of the criticisms of Chayefsky’s screenplay was that it was too cynical and unrealistic. In hindsight it almost seems quaint.” ~ DaBake
“YOU HAVE MEDDLED WITH THE PRIMAL FORCES OF NATURE MR. BEALE, AND I WON’T HAVE IT!!!!” ~ Wagglebagga
When Comedy Mattered
“Who are you? And how’d you get in here?” “I’m the locksmith, and I’m a locksmith.” ~ parallel_jay
“We’re so sorry about your loss, Wilma. We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn’t dead then. -Police Squad”
“Also in the same vein…”
“Trust me, whatever scum did this to your husband, no man on the force will rest until he’s behind bars! Now let’s grab a bite to eat.”
“I wish they could make parodies like they did back then.”
“There seemed to be a legitimate love for the source material they were spoofing, maybe that’s the key ingredient to make them work?” ~ redfoot62
“My all-time favourite joke. I love it so much.”
“The wording, the delivery, the very existence of this joke are just utterly delicious to me.”
“It’s so clever in its language. I had to think twice when I first heard it, cracked up laughing, and still laugh at it.”
“I read a quote somewhere, I don’t remember where, that ‘the essence of humour is the unexpected’.”
“This joke just hits so perfectly.” ~ cmdrqfortescue
No Country for Old Men
“All the time you spend tryin’ to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin’ out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.” ~ Cells_Interlinked_77
Blade Runner
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.”
“Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.”
“All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.” ~f**kitillbeanunicorn
Guardians
“When you’re ugly and someone loves you, you know they love you for who you are. Beautiful people never know who to trust.” ~ Future_Rooster_3909
“I guess it might seem weird for a comic book movie to dole out some big life lessons, but GotG 2 is chock full of that stuff.”
“Hell, the whole storyline with Peter, Yondu, and Ego is genuinely one of the most touching things I can remember seeing in a movie in a pretty long time.”
“‘He may have been your father, boy, but he wasn’t your daddy.’”
“As someone who grew up without a father, that line bored a hole straight through my soul.” ~ DextrosKnight
Movies are an essential part of life.
We often get lost in the political Hollywood nonsense of it all, but when we look deeper, we realize, film saves us.
Because when film is at its best, it reflects us.
Keep speaking those lines.