Fancy yourself a film (movie) buff? Think you know your stuff? Listed below are 40 memorable quotes… can you say which films (movies) they are from and who said them? Some quotes are a little more obscure than others, but all the films (movies) are very well known and, in most cases, classics.
Tip: if you’re offended by profanity, then best to stop reading right here.
Tip: Sometimes there is more than one quote from a movie! You can use any resources you feel you need to guess them. It can be hard dredging them up from memory 
I have seen every film in this list bar one, some many times – they are among my all time favourites.
Edit! Look out for the next post…
Edit!! All the ones that have gone are highlighted. Check the comments as well, so you’ll know which ones people have already guessed. Thank you for also sending in your favourite quotes… I am going to do a second compilation and include them, particularly since I won’t get them all! That way, others can guess them as well.
Have fun!
- “I meant to do that…”
- “Your husband ain’t dead lady, he’s hiding…”
- “That ain’t right…” (Tip: Mal said it. The same character said “Mister, you ever seen what a Henry rifle can do in the hands of someone who knows how to use it?”)
- “Yippee-ki-yay… motherfucker!!”
- “Awright, we’ll call it a draw…”
- “Where’s your Messiah now?”
- “We’re on a mission from God…”
- “I’ve got two words for you – “SHUT THE FUCK UP!!”
- “Surely you can’t be serious.” “I am serious… and don’t call me Shirley.”
- “You’ve got two modes of expression: Silence and rage…”
- “You do know how to whistle, don’t ya? You just put your lips together and…blow”
- “Here’s looking at you kid…”
- “God Damn Army!”
- “Round up the usual suspects…” (Add this first : “Major Strasser has been shot…”)
- “Play it Sam… You played it for her, you can play it for me…”
- “I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship…”
- “I don’t know nuthin’ about birthin’ no babies..”
- “You’re good. You’re very good.”
- “Birdie Num-Nums?”
- “Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges.”(Tip: I put in badges, which was what they were trying to say – it was pronounced in the movie as “baeches”)
- “Can you help a fellow down on his luck?”
- “The Horror!”
- “What is your nationality?” “I am a drunkard”
- “Oi’m black, and Oi’m proud!
- “They say the fucking reason the fucking sunsets here are so spectacular is because of the fucking smog…”
- “Harry. Look at me…” (Tip: “Look at me is” Chili’s recurring line in the movie… )
- “Frankly, my dear – I don’t give a damn.”
- “Fuck you, fuck-ball!”
- “Top of the world, Ma!
- “Have you seen this boy?”
- “That’s a nice purse… Is that you purse? (This, no.32 and 33 were directed by John Landis)
- “Mother always said you were greedy. She meant it as a compliment.”
- “Get. The fuck. Out!”
- “Get-the-fuck-out!” (Tip: Same actor, different movie)
- “Who you gonna call?”
- “Say hello to my little friend…”
- “Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. (Too tough? Or should I say: Too “horrorshow”)
- “Dude, Stiffler’s Mom is such a milf!”
- All right, Mr DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up now”
- “I am not a weapon!”
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Favorites:
5. Monty Python & the Holy Grail
9. Airport
12, 15, 16 Casablanca
17, 27 Gone With the Wind
Most Obscure:
19. The Party (hilarious movie)
Some of the favorites on my list:
“Igor, would you give me a hand with the bags?” “Certainly, you take the blonde and I’ll take the one in the turban.”
“Remember remember the 5th of November”
“Lack of pussy make you brave!”
“Oh but if I went ’round sayin’ I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away.”
“When one is in Egypt, one should delve deeply into its treasures.”
@Mike – Great start, see below
btw – I take it you meant Airplane not Airport.
@all – 5, 12, 15,16,17,19, and 27 are solved (and highlighted) – but there are plenty more to go…
@Mike
“Igor, would you give me a hand with the bags?” “Certainly, you take the blonde and I’ll take the one in the turban.”
Young Frankenstein.
“Lack of pussy make you brave!”
Eddy Murphy in 48 hrs.
“Oh, but if I went ’round sayin’ I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away.”
Monty Python & the Holy Grail.
“When one is in Egypt, one should delve deeply into its treasures.”
The Spy Who Loved Me.
Aw, all the really easy ones have gone. Okay, I have:
7. Blues Brothers
29. White Heat
35. Ghostbusters
39. Sunset Boulevard
One for you: “Get away from her you bitch!”
4. Die Hard 1 (when it comes to one lines, there is James Bond, then there is John McClean)
6. Ben Hur
7. Blues Brothers (the one and only)
9. Airport (makes me laugh everytime)
13. M*A*S*H (if not then I’m still right because those words must have been spoken in MASH at some point
15. Cassablanca
23. Arthur
30. Terminator 2 (trivia: Photoshop probably wouldn’t exist if not for this movie)
35. Ghostbusters 1 (if I recall, the words were not used in GB2)
37. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
38. American Pie 1 (and for the record I didn’t think she was that hot a MILF
40. The Iron Giant
My picks:
girl – “I love you.”
boy – “I know.”
“We’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
“Hello boys! I’mmmm baaaack!”
” My god. It’s full of stars.”
“No. I Superman!”
“He’s doing the Superman thing again”
Darn, all i knew was
4. Die hard
26. When Harry Met Sally .. well thats a wild guess.
Thats it im out..My god! im so ignorant when it comes to movie quotes.
The only one that has actually stuck with me is :
“men and women can’t be friends because the sex part always gets in the way.”
Thank you ALL!
. 6 – you were very close- same genre, but a different film. 37 – different film and I’ve put in a clue…
@shuffling – Correct… especially impressed you got White Heat. I had to think hard about yours, but it’s Sigourney Weaver in Aliens, right?
@ Mosh… Cool. Very impressed you got M*A*S*H (I agree with your comment) and Terminator 2. (Did you mean Airplane rather than Airport though?
Of yours, I think I got:
girl – “I love you.”
boy – “I know.”
The Empire Strikes Back.
“We’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
Jaws.
“Hello boys! I’mmmm baaaack!”
Independence Day (Randy Quaid)
” My god. It’s full of stars.”
2001- A Space Odessy
@ALL – I am going to use any favourite movie quotes people send me and that I don’t get in another compilation, that way others can join in and fill in the gaps!
@wildgrey – Die Hard – yes. 26 isn’t from When Harry Met Sally… but you do know you can look it up, right?
hmmm…
is 11. from Grease?
14. The Usual Suspects
18. Liar Liar?
28. Get Shorty
30. Home Alone?
36. Scarface
My fave quote: “Those who can’t do, teach and those that can’t teach, teach gym.”
“Fucking Cock-er-roach!”
“When I meet Eisenhower, should I give the Nazi salute, or shake his hand?”
“You must be on stage when the curtain falls.”
“You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it’s me, I’m a little fucked up maybe, but 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?” (I love that whole scene)
@themiget
“is 11. from Grease?”
No, but the film is a top rated classic and some other quotes from another film with this character have been spotted in this post…
28. Get Shorty – yes! I had thought this one would go first actually…
30. “Home Alone?”
No, but it has been guessed…see Mosh’s comment.
36. “Scarface”
Very good!
14. The Usual Suspects
No, but I am including an additional clue to this one… my answer re 11 counts for this one too.
18. Liar Liar?
No…Grittier film. Older too.
Of yours… I got three, but I am only going to put up one of them in this response, and keep the rest for my next compilation. I have to be good and share
“You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it’s me, I’m a little fucked up maybe, but 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?” (I love that whole scene)
Great scene… from Goodfellas! And that was Joe Pesci.
11. Arrrgh… it’s Lauren Becall, but I can’t remember the movie!
Yes… it’s Lauren Bacall. Keep trying. You are very close. Oh, and by the way I’ve corrected my comment above… the movie hasn’t already been mentioned, and I’ve made a slight change to one word.
Okay, I’ll wade in … #1 is from one of my favourite movies of all time, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure … PW is riding his bike along and showing off in front of some kids when he hits the curb, does and double summersault over the handlebars, onto the grass and luckily pops up right in front of the kids; thinking quickly he brushes himself off and utters the line.
Here’s a few off the top of my head
1. “Face it, Flounder, you fucked up – you trusted us!”
2. “That’s MY hair pie!”
3. “Never go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line.”
4. “Does your dog bite?”
… grrrrr – chomp!
“I thought you said your dog doesn’t bite!”
“That is not my dog.”
5. “That’s a big chicken!” (maybe a little tough, but it always cracks me up, but a clue would be it’s the same actor as #6 … )
6. “Wheat. Great. I’m dead and all she can talk about is grain.”
7. [blind character with cockney accent:] “You don’t ‘ave to shout, I have acute ‘earing.” “I’m not interested in your jewelry, cloth-eyes!”
8. “Mister President, we cannot afford to have a mine-shaft gap!”
9. “I say you ARE the Messiah, and I should know, I’ve followed a few!”
10. “Gee, I think we’re gonna need some more FBI guys …”
Fire away
(oh – #11 is Bacall and Bogie in To Have And Have Not)
@britgirl – hints, “No. I Spuerman” is in your original list too. And “He’s doing the Superman Thing” is from a modern trilogy.
A similar movie trivia with tweaked stills here http://mosh.daria.be/files/2006/10/identifythesemovies.pdf
Enjoy.
This is addictive. (these are all as best I remember them – I have a good memory, but the odd word might be a little off)
1. [demonstrates faux karate moves] “they call that the quart-a-blood technique; you do that, a quart of blood drop out a man’s body.”
2. “Lewis, we’ve had presidents who were beloved, who couldn’t find a coherent sentence with two hands and a flashlight. People don’t drink the sand because they’re thirsty. They drink the sand because they don’t know the difference. ”
3. “You’re the duke! You’re the duke! … but you ain’t number one.” (at least that’s how I always heard the line)
4. “Come with me if you want to live!”
5. “Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up huffing glue…”
6. “And in walked the biggest Mexican I ever seen”
7. “Mongo LIKE sheriff Bart!”
8. “C’mon home Roger, and I’ll bake you a carrot cake” (you probably don’t need a clue, but I’ll give one – its animated, and sneaky-dirty to boot!)
9. “I don’t roll on Shabbas!”
10. “You know what the problem with real life is? No danger music …”
#14 “Round up the usual suspects…” was Casablanca too.
#21 – Treasure of the Sierra Madre
#32 – Trading Places
#37 – A Clockwork Orange
here’s a few more:
“Had my dream again where I’m making love, and the Olympic judges are watching. I’d nailed the compulsories, so this is it, the finals. I got a 9.8 from the Canadians, a perfect 10 from the Americans, and my mother, disguised as an East German judge, gave me a 5.6. Must have been the dismount.”
“Clint Eastwood… I fucked ‘im.”
“I couldn’t eat another bite.”
“Wake up! Time to die!”
“Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!” (Has to be another old fart that gets this one)
@MIke – It’s a sci-fi classic loved by young and old farts
God thing you included “Gort!” at the front otherwise the rest of the line is also used in Army of Darkness.
@HogTownHarry in your first set, #4 is A Shot In the Dark and #10 is the ubnoxious reporter guy in Die Hard 1.
1. “You lookin’a at me?”
2. “If there’s one thing I know son and that is you are here for a reason.”
3. – “Sometimes I amaze even myself”
@britgirl “but it’s Sigourney Weaver in Aliens, right?” – Correctamundo! Ooh, and just like magic, there’s the start of another.
@Mosh – this is truly addictive!
“No.I Superman” had me got me for a while but it is from the Iron Giant – which of course is one my list
“He’s doing his Superman thing again” is from the Matrix! Thanks for the clue…
6: The Ten Commandments (as said by Edward G. Robinson as Dathan)
My contribution:
“Lost my job, my girl, and now my apartment. Now, depression sets in.”
@ Mosh …
You’re close, very very close – #4 isn’t A Shot in the Dark, but it is Peter Sellers as Clouseau – much later. And #10 is Die Hard, but the character who said it was Deputy Police Chief Dwayne T. Robinson (I love that line, nearly fell out of my seat laughing at it when I first saw Die Hard in the theatre).
The original list … c’mon folks how can you not have guessed them all yet? Pretty sure I’ve got the unanswered ones, for instance #2 is Dennis Leary from The Ref (many other great lines in that one: “Great – I just beat up Santa Claus” “Grandma’s chewing through her gag” )
Okay. Some easy ones:
1. “Rosebud!”
2. “If you build it, they will come”
3. “Lesson number one – don’t think, you can only hurt the ballclub”
4. “Go ahead, make my day!”
5. “Don’t get cocky, kid!”
6. “He’s just a boy! Mmmmm-hmmmmm” (extra help, same character “really likes taters” and no, it’s not LOTR)
7. “A boy’s best friend is his mother”
8. “I want to be big!”
9. “What are you people? On Dope?!!”
10. “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain”
@ shuffling – I’m tempted to answer Correctamundo now, but as you say it’s the start of another and it’s going in the next compilation of everyone’s fave quotes. So I will contain myself until then… I hope.
So get those thinking caps on.
@ Tim – Correctamundo. Phew! I thought that one would go as one of the first…
@ Mike – Yep.. did you spot the others in the list from Trading Places?!
@Mosh/Mike – That one’s easy
The Day The Earth Stood Still. And enjoyed by young and old alike.
@HTH – Yes!! At last, someone gets the Ref!! A hilarious movie, classic Denis Leary. Thanks for the contributions, they are going on the next list.
@ All – come on people you’re doing well, but there are still some easy-peasy ones left! And you have started something, as the upcoming list is going to be your own contributed movie faves and some of mine of course
@ BritGirl – look what you’ve started, i’ll little else done tonight for sure.
@HTH – Doh, yes of course it’s the cop not the reporter. And the first Pink Panther ?
1. Citizen Kane
2. Field of Dreams
4. One of the Dirty Harrys, slips my mind which though. The other line(s) cooler though “Now I now what you’re thinking, did he fire six shots or five? In all the commotion I lost track myself. You got to ask yourself one question, do I feel lucky? Well punk, do ya?”
5. Star Wars (man, did Solo have all the best lines or what?)
7. Norman Bates, Pshycho
8. Big
10. Wizard of Oz
Sheesh, we could start a whole blog dedicated to this!
1. “Okay. So, she’s a dog.”
2. “You’ve got me! Who’s got you?!”
3. “Take her out? You mean like?” (hand gestures gun to head)
4. “You’re slipping red. I used to be afraid of that look.”
5. “You know, for kids.”
@BritGirl 3. Serenity!
I’ll pick up the slops here …
#3 “That Ain’t Right” – Silverado, delivered by Danny Glover (at least 3 times) – character was Malachi
#8 “I’ve got two words for you – shut the fuck up!” – massively underrated film – Midnight Run, Robert DeNiro as Jack Walsh
#10 “You’ve got two modes of expression: Silence and rage…” – also Midnight Run, this line is directed at DeNiro’s character by “The Duke” played by Charles Grodin
#18 – “You’re good. You’re very good.” – it’s been used many times but for pity’s sake, it’s Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon – one of the best movies of all time. Sheesh.
#20 “Badges? We don’ need no stinkin’ badges!” – how soon they forget – this has been spoofed for three generations – from Treasure of the Sierra Madre, delivered by one of the mexican banditos to Bogie & Huston & crew.
#22 – “The horror!” – classic; Brando in Apocalypse Now!
#25 and 26 are from Get Shorty – the line about the sunsets is Dennis Farina (as Ray “Bones” Balbone), “Look at me” is the catchphrase of John Travolta (as Chili Palmer)
#33 and #34 – got to be Eddie Murphy; in Trading Places he spaces it out … get. thefuck. out. And in Beverley Hills Cop he tells Serge (Bronson Pinchot) getthefuckout! in disbelief at how much an objet d’art sold for.
#31 – oh, please – Trading Places – Dan Ackroyd’s debutante girlfriend is sitting in the scuzzy waiting room of the jailhouse and this huge, hairy, (probably) smelly, mouth-breather sits down and utters the line (she tries to ignore him, like all good WASPs would) – “Izzat you poice?”
#23 – oh, my, you get all the other Casablanca refs but not this one?
Major Strasse [to Rick]: “What is your nationality?”
Rick: “I’m a drunkard.”
Louis “That makes Rick a citizen of the world”
Bring ‘em on! GAhh! I can’t stop!!!!!
I’m impressed HTH! I have most of these movies on DVD, clearly ’tis time I watched ‘em all again.
@HTH – Very impressive! Thanks – you certainly know your movies! I’ve watched Midnight Run so many times and just love it… I was willing someone to get this one… And just to top it off since no one’s got it yet and it’s the last one in this list… #24 is from “The Commitments.”
@All – Watch for Part II.