Sunday, 3 April 2016

Some of my favourite movie quotes

Every time I do one of these kind of lists, I always list ten or twenty and sometimes five but today I was stumped at seventeen. I have had a lot of fun compiling this list and I am sure I have a few more washing around in my head but these are the crème de la crème.

A few of these quotes contain a bit of vulgar language and some are adult in nature using the word sex so the easily shocked look away. I haven’t picked one over the other so no top quote it was too hard to decide.


  • "All those moments will be lost in time… like tears in rain… time to die." Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner (1982)
  • “Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!” President Merkin Muffley/Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove (1964)
  • "Hey, don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love." Alvy Singer/Woody Allen in Annie Hall (1977)
  • "If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you." Bryan Mills/Liam Neeson in Taken (2008)
  • "Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me!" Julius Caesar/Kenneth Williams in Carry On Cleo (1964)
  • "My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and 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." Maximus Decimus Meridius/Russell Crowe Gladiator (2000)
  • "To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people!" Wanda/Jamie Lee Curtis in A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
  • “You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!” Charlie Croker/Michael Caine in The Italian Job (1969)
  • “Do you know what "nemesis" means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by an 'orrible cunt... me.” Brick Top/Alan Ford in Snatch (2000)
  • "You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig." Blondie/Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
  • "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me, aren't you?" Ben Braddock/Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate (1967)
  • “Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?” Oddball/Donald Sutherland in Kelly's Heroes (1970)
  • “Stand up wherever you are, go to the nearest window and yell as loud as you can, 'I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore.” Howard Beale/Peter Finch in Network (1976)
  • “You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.” Terry Malloy/Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront (1954)
  • “They call me Mister Tibbs!” Virgil Tibbs/Sidney Poitier in the film In the heat of the Night (1967)
  • “You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?” Harry Callahan/Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry (1971)



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