-Gene Kranz (Ed Harris) on being asked to provide for the press, the odds of the mission�s failure in Apollo 13
�Cause it�s what you do after high school!�
-Shaun Brumder (Colin Hanks) after being asked why he wants to go to college so badly in Orange County
�I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure.�
-Eric Lidell trying to explain to another member of the clergy why he feels he has to run in Chariots of Fire
�McFly!�
-Bully Biff Tannenbaum calling out his prized target in Back to the Future
�I think when a little horse doesn�t know how little he is, he can do great big things�
-Charles Howard (Jeff Bridges) in Seabiscuit
�Gentlemen, you�ll always remember this as the day you ALMOST caught Captain Jack Sparrow�
-Jack Sparrow (Jonny Depp) numerous times in Pirates of the Carribean
�And maybe one day, years from now, long after I'm dead and gone, reunited with your dear mother, you gather your whole family together and tell them the truth, who you are, where you come from. You tell them the whole story. And then you ask them if they know how lucky they are to be there.�
-James Brogan (Brian Cox) in 25th Hour
�Honestly, I think you�re the most selfish person on the planet�
�That�s just absurd, have you even met everyone on the whole planet�
-Lucy Nelson (Sandra Bullock) and George Wade (Hugh Grant) in Two Weeks Notice
�And Alfred�.give Knox a grand�
-Bruce Wayne, upon leaving his guests, one of whom jokingly asked him for a thousand dollars in Batman
�Can we do that again without the �oops�?�
-David Levison (Jeff Goldblum) in Independence Day: ID4
�Well, you always said you�d be the one to save the planet�
-Constance (Margaret Colin) to her recycling fanatic husband, as he�s throwing a soda can into the recycling bin, Independence Day: ID4
�Could someone ask Mr. Ryan if I can have my phone back?�
-President Fowler (James Cromwell) in Sum of All Fears
�I though of that old joke, y'know, the, this, this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, "Doc, uh, my brother's crazy. He thinks he's a chicken." And, uh, the doctor says, "Well, why don't you turn him in?" And the guy says, "I would, but I need the eggs." Well, I guess that's pretty much how I feel about relationships. Y'know, they're totally irrational and crazy and absurd and, but, uh, I guess we keep going through it because, uh, most of us need the eggs.�
-Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) in Annie Hall on relationships
�That isn�t flying, it�s falling with style�
-Woody (Tom Hanks) in Toy Story
�One great rock show can change the world�
-Dewey Finn (Jack Black) in School of Rock
�This is the life we chose, the life we lead. And there is only one guarantee: none of us will see heaven�
�Michael could�
�Then do everything you can to see that that doesn�t happen�
-John Rooney (Paul Newman) and Michael Sullivan (Tom Hanks) in Road to Perdition
�Every passing minute is a chance to turn it all around�
-Sofia Serrano (Penelope Cruz) in Vanilla Sky
�Do you have any idea what time it is??!�
-Military slacker Sgt. Bilko (Steve Martin) to a bugler playing revely at 6 AM in Sgt Bilko
�I�m mad as hell and I�m not gonna take it anymore�
-Howard Beale (Peter Finch) shouting to the camera on his final live news broadcast after being informed that after a long career as a successful newscaster, he�d just been fired in Network
�You're television incarnate, Diana: Indifferent to suffering; insensitive to joy. All of life is reduced to the common rubble of banality. War, murder, death are all the same to you as bottles of beer. And the daily business of life is a corrupt comedy. You even shatter the sensations of time and space into split seconds and instant replays. You're madness, Diana. Virulent madness. And everything you touch dies with you. But not me. Not as long as I can feel pleasure, and pain... and love. And it�s a happy ending: Wayward husband comes to his senses, returns to his wife, with whom he has established a long and sustaining love. Heartless young woman left alone in her arctic desolation. Music up with a swell; final commercial.�
-Max Schummaker (William Holden) in Network
�I am only here to serve you, my emporer, and if you felt I wasn�t doing so, I would gladly take my own life where I stand�
-Katsuomoto and later Capt. Algren in The Last Samurai
�Eliza, where the devil are my slippers�
-Professor Hill in the closing line of My Fair Lady
�Mistletoe can be deadly if you eat it.�
�A kiss can be even deadlier if you mean it.�
-Selina Kyle and Bruce Wayne (Michelle Pfieffer and Michael Keaton) discovering each other�s true identities in Batman Returns
�Well, Hanks was a great detective alright�
�And a lousy cop�
�Is that all you have to say for him?�
�He was some kind of a man�what does it matter what you say about people�
-The District Attorney (Mort Mills) and Tanya (Marlene Dietrich) in Touch of Evil
�Know why you couldn't figure this one, Keyes? I'll tell ya. The guy you were looking for was too close. Right across the desk from ya.�
�Closer than that, Walter.�
�I love you, too.�
-Walter Neff (Fred McMurray) confessing to murder after being driven insane with guilt to his fellow detective Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson) in Double Indemnity
�I should have known murder smelled like honeysuckle�
-Walter Neff (Fred McMurray) in Double Indemnity
�I could have got more out. I could have got more. I don't know. If I'd just... I could have got more.�
�Oskar, there are eleven hundred people who are alive because of you. Look at them.�
�If I'd made more money... I threw away so much money. You have no idea. If I'd just...�
�There will be generations because of what you did.�
�I didn't do enough!�
�You did so much.�
�Goeth would have bought this car. Why did I keep the car? Ten people right there. Ten people. Ten more people. This pin. Two people. This is gold. Two more people. He would have given me two for it, at least one. One more person. A person, Stern. For this.
I could have gotten one more person... and I didn't! And I... I didn't!�
-Oskar Schindler (Liam Neisson) as he breaks out into sobs in Schindler�s List
�Oh no, sir. He's white, as white as you folks, with empty eyes and a big hollow voice. He likes to travel around with a mean old hound.�
-Tommy Johnson (Chris Thomas King) describing what the devil looked like after his encounter with him the previous night in Oh Brother Where Art Thou
�I saw then that my father's only fear was that his son would follow the same road. And that was the last time I ever held a gun. People always thought I grew up on a farm. And I guess, in a way, I did. But I lived a lifetime before that, in those 6 weeks on the road in the winter of 1931. When people ask me if Michael Sullivan was a good man, or if there was just no good in him at all, I always give the same answer. I just tell them... he was my father.�
-Michael Sullivan Jr. in Road to Perdition
�I�ve really given this a lot of thought and I�ve come up with the solution that will fix everything�we all have to have sex together�
-A misguided Holden McNiel (Ben Affleck) to his once-lesbian girlfriend and his best friend in Chasing Amy
�No thanks, we already have one�
-French castleguard upon being asked if he wants to join King Arthur�s epic quest for the holy grail in Monty Python and the Holy Grail
�Well, ain't it a small world, spiritually speaking. Pete and Delmar just been baptized and saved. I guess I'm the only one that remains unaffiliated.�
-Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney) in Oh Brother, Where Art Thou
�I hate snakes, Jack, I really do�
-Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) after having just escaped his own death by the narrowest of margins in Raiders of the Lost Ark
�Are you a God-fearing man, Senator? That is such a strange phrase. I've always thought of God as a teacher; a bringer of light, wisdom, and understanding. You see, I think what you really fear is me. Me and my kind. The Brotherhood of Mutants. Oh, it's not so surprising really. Mankind has always feared what it doesn't understand. Well, don't fear God, Senator, and certainly don't fear me. Not any more.�
-Magneto (Ian McKellan) in X-Men upon turning Senator Kelly into a mutant
�Am I right sir�
-Mr. Memory, after having just lost his life revealing a vital secret in The 39 Steps
�No man is a failure who has friends�
-George Bailey�s (Jimmy Stewart�s) guardian angel in It�s a Wonderful Life
�Parting a soup is not a miracle, Bruce. It's a magic trick. Now, a single mom who works two full-time jobs, and still finds the time to pick up her kid at soccer practice, that's a miracle. A teenager that says "no" to drugs and "yes" to an education, that's a miracle. You want to see a miracle, son? Be the miracle.�
-God (Morgan Freeman) in Bruce Almighty
�Where's Elizabeth?�
�She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really... except for Elizabeth, who is in fact, a woman.�
-Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Jack Sparrow (Jonny Depp) in Pirates of the Carribean
�With great power comes great responsibility�
-Peter Parker reciting his uncle�s advice at the close of Spiderman
�You know, you�re not really supposed to give a speech, most people just take the tiara�
-Mr. Duvall (Tim Meadows) after Lindsay Lohan gave a melodramatic speech at the prom in Mean Girls
�Have you ever tried not being a mutant?�
-Iceman/Bobby Drake�s mom (Jill Lynd) to her son upon finding out he�s a mutant in X-Men 2
�Cause the house always wins. Play long enough, you never change the stakes. The house takes you. Unless, when that perfect hand comes along, you bet big, then you take the house.�
�Been practicing this speech, haven't you?�
�Little bit. Did I rush it? Felt I rushed it.�
-Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and Rusty (Brad Pitt) in Ocean�s 11
�Cause everyone�s too busy looking at their pinstripes�
-Frank Abergnale Sr (Christopher Walkern) answering the question why do the Yankees always win? in Catch Me If You Can
�Once I, once all of us, believed in serving something greater than ourselves. Aramis had his faith, Porthos his lust for life, D'Artagnan his devotion and I had Raoul. It is what we dreamt, what we bled for. But we all had a common dream. That one day we would serve a king worthy of the throne. I taught Raoul to believe in that dream, and now my son is dead. And now I want to know if my son's life was in vain, and the only person who can answer that is you.�
-Athos (John Malkovitch) in The Man with the Iron Mask
�I should slap you around a little bit�
�Actually that kind of sounds like fun�
-A very beautiful Laura Kensington (Charlize Theron) and a middle-aged C.W. Briggs (Woody Allen) in Curse of the Jaded Scorpion
�No, Mr Bond I expect you to die�
-Auric Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) who doesn�t seem to be giving into Bond�s smoothtalking in Goldfinger
�Principles only mean something when you stick to them when its inconvenient.�
-Lainie Hanson (Joan Allen) in The Contender
�Now hold it, hold it. We're about to accuse Haldeman, who only happens to be the second most important man in this country, of conducting a criminal conspiracy from inside the White House. It would be nice if we were right.�
-Ben Bradlee in All the President�s Men
�I know what you think it means, sonny. To me it's just a made up word; a politician's word. So young fellas like yourself can wear a suit, and tie, and have a job. What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did? There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, or because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then then, a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try and talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone and this old man is all that's left. I got to live with that. ehabilitated? It's just a bullshit word. So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time. Because to tell you the truth, I don't give a shit.�
-Red (Morgan Freeman) upon being asked by a parole officer if he�s been rehabilitated in Shawshneck Redemption
�Remember two things I�ve always tried to teach you James: Never let them see you bleed�
�And what�s the other one�
�Always have an escape plan� (as he�s being lowered through a trap door)
-Q�s final words to Bond in World is Not Enough
�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.�
-Mediator of a jeapordy-like contest, Billy Madison
�I apologize... for not being entirely honest with you. I apologize for not revealing my true feelings. I apologize, sir, for not telling you sooner that you're a degenerate, sadistic old man. And you can go to hell before I apologize to you now or ever again!�
-Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas) in Paths to Glory
�He�s not my hero, you are�
-Homer Hickam (Jake Gyllenhall) to his dad in October Sky
�Someone once said, don�t try to be a man of history, just a man�
�What kind of idiot said that�
�You did 10 years from now�
-Time-travelling Lt. Riker (Johnathan Frakes) to his idol (James Cromwell) in Star Trek: First Contact
�Oh Captain, my captain!�
-Ethan Hawke in Dead Poets� Society
�He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he needs. Brody's got friends in every town and village from here to the Sudan, he speaks a dozen languages, knows every local custom, he'll blend in, disappear, you'll never see him again. With any luck, he's got the grail already.�
(cut to Broady wandering through the middle east)
�Uhhh, does anyone here speak English?�
-Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford), Marcus Brody (Denholm Elliot) in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
�Then how come you�re the one sweating�
-NBC President to Dick Goodwin in Quiz Show
�You can�t run away from who you�re from�
Professor Petrovsky (Martin Landau) in Rounders
�What, are you serious? Have you ever seen my mother?�
-Paul Vitti (Robert DeNiro) in Analyze This, after being explained a psychological theory that he has a complex based on a Greek figure who killed his father in order to marry his mother
�Don�t swing at the high ones�
-Dottie (Geena Davis) to her younger sister in A League of their Own
�You lost today kid, but that doesn�t mean you have to like it�
-Some random guy to Indiana Jones when he�s 12 years old in the opening of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
�Convenient, the door being open when you didn't have a key, eh?�
�Yeah, wasn't it. By the way, how'd you happen to have one?�
�Is that any of your business?�
�I could make it my business.�
�I could make your business mine.�
�Oh, you wouldn't like it. The pay's too small.�
-Eddie Mars and Phillip Marlowe in the Big Sleep
"Help me help you"
-Jerry MaGuire (Tom Cruise) trying to get through to Cuba Gooding Jr in Jerry MaGuire
"Just get up off the ground, that's all I ask. Get up there with that lady that's up on top of this Capitol dome, that lady that stands for liberty. Take a look at this country through her eyes if you really want to see something. And you won't just see scenery; you'll see the whole parade of what Man's carved out for himself, after centuries of fighting. Fighting for something better than just jungle law, fighting so's he can stand on his own two feet, free and decent, like he was created, no matter what his race, color, or creed. That's what you'd see. There's no place out there for graft, or greed, or lies, or compromise with human liberties. And, uh, if that's what the grownups have done with this world that was given to them, then we'd better get those boys' camps started fast and see what the kids can do. And it's not too late, because this country is bigger than the Taylors, or you, or me, or anything else."
-Jefferson Smith (Jimmy Stewart) in a hoarse voice before he collapses from exhaustin in Mr Smith Goes to Washington