The Top 80 Movie Quotes of the Past 40 Years
Written by Ben Pogany
After much deliberation, here are Definitive Dose's picks for the 80 most memorable, iconic, and quotable movie quotes of the past forty years....
- "Make him an offer he can't refuse."--The Godfather
- "Life is like a box of chocolate; you never know what you're gonna get." --Forest Gump
- "May the force be with you"--Star Wars
- "I do wish we could chat longer, but... I'm having an old friend for dinner."--Silence of the Lambs
- "The truth? You can't handle the truth!"--A Few Good Men
- "Bond. James Bond"--James Bond

- "Heeeere's Johnny!"--The Shining
- "Say hello to my little friend!"--Scarface
- "But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?"--Dirty Harry
- "If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake. I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!"--There Will Be Blood
- "I love the smell of napalm in the morning."--Apocalypse Now
- "Yippee kay-ay motherfucker"--Die Hard
- "And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."--Pulp Fiction
- "Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'"--Shawshank Redemption
- "Let me tell you this, the older you do get the more rules they're gonna try to get you to follow. You just gotta keep livin' man, L-I-V-I-N."--Dazed and Confused
- "You lookin' at me?"--Taxi Driver
- "Freeedooooom!!"--Braveheart
- "I see dead people." --The Sixth Sense
- "I'll be back." --Terminator
- "What in the box?!!"--Se7en
- "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. And like that, poof. He's gone."--The Usual Suspects
- "When I was your age they would say we can become cops, or criminals. Today, what I'm saying to you is this: when you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference?"--The Departed
- "Yes they deserve to die and I hope they burn in hell!!"--A Time to Kill
- "Show me the money!"--Jerry Maguire
- "What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?"--No Country For Old Men
- "King Kong ain't got shit on me!"--Training Day
- "But this one goes to 11"--Spinal Tap
- "I have had it with these motherfuckin' snakes on this motherfuckin' plane!"--Snakes on a Plane

- "Houston, we have problem"--Apollo 13
- "If you build it, they will come"--Field of Dreams
- "Adriaaaaan!!"--Rocky
- "My precious"--Lord of the Rings
- "I'm the king of the world"--Titanic
- "The price is wrong bitch"--Happy Gilmore
- "This. Is. Spartaaaaa!!"--300
- "A little guilt goes a long way."--The Machinist
- "I wanted to see exotic Vietnam... the crown jewel of Southeast Asia. I wanted to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture... and kill them."--Full Metal Jacket
- "This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time."--Fight Club
- "We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can."--Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- "I like them French fried potaters."--Sling Blade
- "You drop a pass, you run a mile. You miss a blocking assignment, you run a mile. You fumble the football, and i will break my foot off in your John Brown hind parts and then you will run a mile. Perfection. Let's go to work."--Remember the Titans

- "Warriooors. Come out and plaaaay"--Warriors
- "I feel the need for speed."--Top Gun
- "Aaaallllrighty then"--Ace Ventura
- "What do you mean 'you people'"--Tropic Thunder
- "Now. Where was I?"--Memento
- "Never underestimate the power of denial."--American Beauty
- "I know it's pretty baby, but I didn't take it out for air."--Requiem For A Dream
- "Why So Serious?"--Dark Knight
- "It's not your fault." --Good Will Hunting
- "Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again, but life goes on."--Blow
- "Shomer fucking Shabbas!"--The Big Lebowski
- "Your mother sucks cocks in Hell."--The Exorcist
- "Whoo-ah!"--Scent of a Woman
- "Pop quiz, hotshot. There's a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50, it blows up. What do you do? What do you do?"--Speed
- "Free your mind, your ass will follow."--Platoon
- "Do you like scary movies?"--Scream
- "Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."--Ferris Bueller
- "We have an old saying in Delta House: don't get mad, get even."--Animal House
- "Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads."--Back to the Future
- "I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?"--Trainspotting
- "You have smoked yourself retarded"--Half Baked
- "I have nipples, Greg, could you milk me?"--Meet the Parents
- "Never shall innocent blood be shed, yet the blood of the wicked shall flow like a river. The Three shall spread their blackened wings and be the vengeful striking hammer of God."--The Boondock Saints
- "I have no legs. I have no legs. I have no legs. I have no legs. May God bless you. I
have no legs..."--Kids - "Is that my daughter in there?!!"--Mystic River
- "That's right. I've killed women and children. I've killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned."--Unforgiven
- "I'm a golden god!"--Almost Famous
- "If you're gonna spew, spew into this."--Wayne's World
- "One time at band camp..."--American Pie
- "America. Fuck yea!"--Team America: World Police
- "Look what ya did ya little jerk!"--Home Alone
- "Funny like how?"--Goodfellas
- "I promise, that one day, everything's going to be better for you."--Donnie Darko
- "There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply am not there."--American Psycho
- "Walk down the right back alley in Sin City, and you can find anything."--Sin City
- "Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time."--American History X
- "Are we to believe that boiling water soaks into a grit faster in your kitchen than anywhere else on the face of the earth?"--My Cousin Vinny
- "Just remember, the sweet is never as sweet without the sour, and I know the sour."--Vanilla Sky
- " I am finished doing what I swore an oath to God 28 years ago to never do again. I've created, "something that kills people." And in that purpose, I was a success. I've done this because, philosophically, I am sympathetic to your aim. I can tell you with no ego, this is my finest sword. If on your journey, you should encounter God, God will be cut. "-Kill Bill



Comments
Good Will Hunting: Anything but the current one. "How do you like them apples?" - "So this is a Harvard bar, huh? I thought there'd be equations and shit on the wall." - "You're legally allowed to drink now, so we figured the best thing for you was a car."
The Tropic Thunder quote ("What do you mean 'you people'") is more commonly known from Dave Chappelle's The Mad Real World.
Overall, nice selection.
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