You're known as the movie expert among your friends, who rely on you for recommendations and opinions on the latest releases. You have an encyclopedic knowledge of classic movie scenes and talented actors and actresses and can tell which movie was made by which director based on just a couple of movie lines. And you know what? It's those unforgettable movie dialogues, those perfectly delivered moments of cinematic brilliance, that make all those hours spent watching movies so worthwhile!
You know that feeling when a movie line hits you like a ton of bricks? Yeah, that's what we're talking about. Maybe it made you laugh so hard that you snorted soda out of your nose, or perhaps it had you sobbing into your popcorn like a baby. Whatever the reaction, these memorable film lines have a sneaky way of worming themselves into our hearts and minds, only to be blurted out in random moments and, very often, at the most inopportune times (see your cousin's wedding speech for reference).
In the spirit of celebrating these brilliantly timed quotes from movies, we're taking a walk down memory lane and inviting you to stroll along with us. Side by side, we'll rediscover those laugh-out-loud moments, the tearjerkers that left us reaching for tissues, the legendary catchphrases, and even the occasional facepalm-worthy lines that we just can't help but love. It's impossible to say which movie quotes take the podium; there are so many good ones! But we've compiled a list of the most iconic movie quotes of all time and let the Bored Panda community cast their votes, so you can be confident that these selections are truly remarkable. Enjoy reminiscing about these memorable lines, and share your personal favorites with us! You know, just in case we forgot some authentic gems.
“Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” — The Princess Bride (1987)
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“May the Force be with you.” — Star Wars (1977)
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“You’re gonna need a bigger boat.” — Jaws (1975)
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“I’ll be back.” — The Terminator (1984)
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“Houston, we have a problem.” — Apollo 13 (1995)
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“Yippie-ki-yay, motherf—er!” — Die Hard (1988)
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“Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” — The Wizard of Oz (1939)
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“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” — Gone with the Wind (1939)
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“Just keep swimming.” — Finding Nemo (2003)
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“Inconceivable!” — The Princess Bride (1987)
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“Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need roads.” — Back to the Future (1985)
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“My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” — Forrest Gump (1994)
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“To infinity and beyond!” — Toy Story (1995)
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“Bond. James Bond.” — Dr. No (1963)
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“Here’s Johnny!” — The Shining (1980)
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“My precious.” — The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
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“I see dead people.” — The Sixth Sense (1999)
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“Hasta la vista, baby.” — Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
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“Good morning, Vietnam!” — Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
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“There’s no place like home.” — The Wizard of Oz (1939)
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“That’ll do, pig. That’ll do.” — Babe (1995)
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“I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley.” — Airplane (1980)
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“You can’t handle the truth!” — A Few Good Men (1992)
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“The first rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club.” — Fight Club (1999)
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“I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.” — The Godfather (1972)
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“I’m not bad. I’m just drawn that way.” — Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
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“It’s alive! It’s alive!” — Frankenstein (1931)
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“Wax on, wax off.” — The Karate Kid (1984)
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“Mama says, ‘Stupid is as stupid does.’” — Forrest Gump (1994)
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“I am your father.” — Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
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“Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope.” — Star Wars (1977)
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“Elementary, my dear Watson.” — The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
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“Nobody puts Baby in a corner.” — Dirty Dancing (1987)
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“Say ‘hello’ to my little friend!” — Scarface (1983)
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“E.T. phone home.” — E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
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“Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.” — It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
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“A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.” — The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
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“If you let my daughter go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.” — Taken (2008)
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“My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.” — Gladiator (2000)
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“You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya punk?” — Dirty Harry (1971)
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"I'm having an old friend for dinner." - The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)
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"I'll have what she's having." - When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
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"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!" - The Wizard of Oz (1939)
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"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine." - Casablanca (1942)
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"Go ahead, make my day." - Sudden Impact (1983)
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"Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary." - Dead Poets Society (1989)
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"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." - The Usual Suspects (1995)
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"I love the smell of napalm in the morning." - Apocalypse Now (1979)
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"Here's looking at you, kid." - Casablanca (1942)
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"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!" - The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
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"These go to eleven." - This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
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"I'm also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her." - Notting Hill (1999)
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"Leave the gun. Take the cannoli." - The Godfather (1972)
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"I'm the king of the world!" - Titanic (1997)
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"They call it a Royale with cheese." - Pulp Fiction (1994)
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"You talking to me?" - Taxi Driver (1976)
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"Well, nobody's perfect." - Some Like It Hot (1959)
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"There's no crying in baseball!" - A League of Their Own (1992)
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"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!" - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
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"Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape." - Planet of the Apes (1968)
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"I feel the need - the need for speed!" - Top Gun (1986)
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"You’re killin’ me, Smalls." - The Sandlot (1993)
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"Why so serious?" - The Dark Knight (2008)
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"What we've got here is failure to communicate." - Cool Hand Luke (1967)
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"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." - The Godfather Part II (1974)
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"They're here!" - Poltergeist (1982)
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"You is kind. You is smart. You is important." - The Help (2011)
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"They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!" - Braveheart (1995)
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"Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?" - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
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"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible." - When Harry Met Sally (1989)
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"You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow." - To Have and Have Not (1945)
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"A martini. Shaken, not stirred." - Goldfinger (1964)
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"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know." - Animal Crackers (1930)
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"I wish I knew how to quit you." - Brokeback Mountain 2005
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"Soylent Green is people!" - Soylent Green (1973)
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"You make me want to be a better man." - As Good As It Gets (1997)
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"Chewie, we're home." - Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
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"After all, tomorrow is another day!" - Gone with the Wind (1939)
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"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?" - The Graduate (1967)
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"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." - A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
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"Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make." - Dracula (1931)
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"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." - Casablanca (1942)
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"I'm walking here! I'm walking here!" - Midnight Cowboy (1969)
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"I'm just one stomach flu away from my goal weight." - The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
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"I don't want to survive. I want to live." - 12 Years A Slave (2013)
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"We'll always have Paris." - Casablanca (1942)
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"I mean, funny like I'm a clown? I amuse you?" - Goodfellas (1990)
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"The Dude abides." - The Big Lebowski (1998)
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"All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up." - Sunset Blvd. (1950)
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"A boy's best friend is his mother." - Psycho (1960)
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"Yo, Adrian!" - Rocky (1976)
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"Snap out of it!" - Moonstruck (1987)
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"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night." - All About Eve (1950)
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"Rosebud." - Citizen Kane (1941)
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"If you build it, he will come." - Field of Dreams (1989)
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"As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again." - Gone with the Wind (1939)
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"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take this anymore!" - Network (1976)
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"You had me at "Hello."" - Jerry Maguire (1996)
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"Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast." - King Kong (1933)
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"Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!" - Auntie Mame (1958)
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"Show me the money!" - Jerry Maguire (1996)
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"Striker: Surely you can't be serious." - Airplane! (1980)
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"You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda have been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am." - On the Waterfront (1954)
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"Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!" - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
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"Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac...It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!" - Caddyshack (1980)
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"Love means never having to say you're sorry." - Love Story (1970)
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"Why don't you come up sometime and see me?" - She Done Him Wrong (1933)
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"Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars." - Now, Voyager (1942)
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"Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!" - Sons of the Desert (1933)
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"Hello, gorgeous." - Funny Girl (1968)
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"As if!" - Clueless (1995)
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"They call me Mister Tibbs!" - In the Heat of the Night (1967)
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"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good." - Wall Street (1987)
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"Toga! Toga!" - National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
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"Who's on first." - The Naughty Nineties (1945)
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"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in." - The Godfather: Part III (1990)
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"Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL." - 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" - Network (1976)
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"The stuff that dreams are made of." - The Maltese Falcon (1941)
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"Made it, Ma! Top of the world!" - White Heat (1949)
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"Round up the usual suspects." - Casablanca (1942)
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"Stella! Hey, Stella!" - A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
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"No wire hangers, ever!" - Mommie Dearest (1981)
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"I am big! It's the pictures that got small." - Sunset Blvd. (1950)
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"Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time goes By.'" - Casablanca (1942)
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"I want to be alone." - Grand Hotel (1932)
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"Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown." - Chinatown (1974)
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"Attica! Attica!" - Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
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"You complete me." - Jerry Maguire (1996)
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"Is it safe?" - Marathon Man (1976)
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"Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it? You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna, go, go!" - On Golden Pond (1981)
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"Argo f— yourself." - Argo (2012)
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"Shane. Shane. Come back!" - Shane (1953)
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"What a dump." - Beyond the Forest (1949)
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"Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!" - The Jazz Singer (1928)
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"Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?" - Little Caesar (1931)
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"Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've t to come back a star!" - 42nd Street (1933)
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"Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper." - All American (1940)
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"My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you." - Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
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"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth." -The Pride of the Yankees (1943)
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"La-dee-da, la-dee-da." - Annie Hall (1977)
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"I drink your milkshake!" - There Will Be Blood (2007)
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"We rob banks." - Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
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"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth." - The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
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"Plastics." - The Graduate (1967)
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