Greatest Quotes List
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Last Updated: 2/8/25
"You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it. It was you, Charley."
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
"I'm gonna make him an offer that he can't refuse."
"I'm walkin' here! I'm walkin' here!"
"Go ahead. Make my day."
"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
"Stella! Hey, Stella!"
"The stuff that dreams are made of."
"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."
"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
"Made it, Ma! Top of the world!"
"You can't handle the truth!"
"They call me MISTER TIBBS!"
"We'll always have Paris."
"Shane. Shane. Come back!"
"Here's looking at you, kid."
"You talkin' to me?"
"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
"If you build it, he will come."
"You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
"Look, Daddy. The teacher says, 'Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.'"
"I'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I'm with you."
"It's Hebrew, it's from the Talmud. It says, 'Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.'"
"I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!"
"I'll be back."
"Bond. James Bond."
"All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."
"NO.......WIRE.......HANGERS, EVER!"
"What an excellent day for an exorcism."
"Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world...she walks into mine."
"There's nothing fair about me, Eddie. I start the game owning Boardwalk and Park Place, and everybody pays."
"I am Spartacus."
"The dingo took my baby!"
"They're called boobs, Ed."
"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads."
"The list...is an absolute good. The list is life."
"A boy's best friend is his mother."
"Play it, Sam."
"You're tearing me apart!"
"Now, I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
"Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against?"
"Whaddya got?"
"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in."
"Why don't you just make ten louder, make ten be the top number, and make that a little louder?"
*pause*..........................................
"These go to 11."
"I am big. It's the pictures that got small."
"The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms–greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge–has marked the upward surge of mankind, and greed–you mark my words–will not only save Teldar paper, but that other manufacturing corporation called the U.S.A."
"It's a Silician message. It means that Luci Brasi sleeps with the fishes."
"I know what you're thinking. 'Did he fire six shots or only five?' Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I kind of lost track myself. 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 a question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?"
"Madness. Madness!"
"Nothing is written."
"You smoke crack, don't you?"
"I was born a poor black child."
"You want me to hold the chicken, huh?"
"I want you to hold it between your knees."
"Get to da choppa!!!"
"Ever wonder why fund managers can't beat the S&P 500? 'Cause they're sheep, and sheep get slaughtered."
"We rob banks."
"You're next! You're next!"
"The most unstoppable son of a bitch I ever knew."
"I'm talking about liquid. Rich enough to have your own jet. Rich enough not to waste time. Fifty, a hundred million dollars, buddy. A player. Or nothing."
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever."
"You are so money, and you don't even know it."
"Round up the usual suspects."
"There's still enough of a man here for you to hate!"
"If it bleeds, we can kill it."
"I stick my neck out for nobody."
"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."
"Come on, squeal. Squeal! Eeee! Eeee!"
"I'm your worst fuckin' nightmare, man. I'm a nigger with a badge which means I got permission to kick your fuckin' ass whenever I feel like it!"
"That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age."
"Yowsah, yowsah, yowsah! Here they are again! These wonderful, wonderful kids, still struggling, still hoping. As the clock of fate ticks away, the dance of density continues! The marathon goes on, and on, and on. How long can they last?"
"It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is: 'None. None more black.'"
"Oh, you're a bad pony. And I'm not going to bet on you."
"There's no crying in baseball!"
"Let's do it for Johnny, man. We'll do it for Johnny!"
"Two men enter, one man leaves."
"Why don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?"
"Then I submit, Inspector Ballon, that you arrived home, found Miguel with Maria Gambrelli, and killed him in a rit of fealous jage!"
"What I'm out for is a good time. All the rest is propaganda."
"Money won is twice as sweet as money earned."
"Dying ain't much of a living, boy."
"You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill."
"There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them."
"That's power, Amon. That...is power."
"Bueller? Bueller?"
"It's alive! It's alive!"
"There's a speed limit in this state, Mr. Neff. 45 miles an hour."
"How fast was I going, officer?"
"I'd say around 90."
"Suppose you get down off your motorcycle and give me a ticket."
"Suppose I let you off with a warning this time."
"Suppose it doesn't take."
"Suppose I have to whack you over the knuckles."
"Suppose I bust out crying and put my head on your shoulder."
"Suppose you try putting it on my husband's shoulder."
"That tears it..."
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
"Listen, man, I've raced with my legs broke, heart bruised, eyes popping out of my head like they're on springs. This is going to go away just like anything else."
"And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer. Benefits of a classical education."
"Yippee-kai-yay, motherfucker."
"Hello, Cleveland! Hello, Cleveland! "
"A team is not a team if you don't give a damn about each other."
"It's like someone invites you to a party and you don't show up. It doesn't really matter."
"Because that shot was a defining moment. When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment...or the moment defines you."
"I ain't got time to bleed."
"I fear all we have done is to awaken the sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
"Show me the money!"
"Smile, you son of a bitch!"
"It's just you and me now, sport. And I'm going to find you, God damn it."
"Fuck him. He was trash."
"How dare you think such cheap tactics would work with me!"
"That ain't tactics, honey. It's just the beast in me."
"Grand Hotel... always the same. People come, people go. Nothing ever happens."
"Funny how? What's funny about it?"
"The most valuable commodity I know of is information."
"It's beyond my control."
"I'm workin' on my first million, and you're still workin' on eight seconds."
"Next time, we'll bring them both down."
"You're gonna need a bigger boat."
"Oh, Frank, my lips are hot. Kiss my hot lips."
"Well, there's this passage I got memorized. Sort of fits this occasion. Ezekiel 25:17. 'The path of the righteous man...is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish...and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is He who, in the name of charity and goodwill, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for He is truly his brother's keeper...and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance...and furious anger...those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers! And you will know my name is the Lord...when I lay my vengeance upon thee!'"
"They shoot horses, don't they?"
"Call me Snake."
"We blew it."
"We all go a little mad sometimes."
"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."
"Don't push it or I'll give you a war you won't believe!"
"It's K-K-K-Ken! C-c-c-coming to k-k-k-kill me! How you gonna c-c-c-catch me, K-K-K-Ken?"
"Mr. Hunt, this isn't mission difficult. It's mission impossible. 'Difficult' should be a walk in the park for you."
"Brian Piccolo died of cancer at the age of 26. He left a wife and three daughters. He also left a great many loving friends who'll miss him and think of him often. But when they think of him, it's not how he died that they remember, but rather how he lived. How did he live."
"Mr. Clark don't play!"
"Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good an' they die out. But we keep a'comin'. We're the people that live. They can't wipe us out; they can't lick us. We'll go on forever, Pa, 'cause we're the people."
"What happened to the old bank? It was beautiful."
"People kept robbing it."
"Small price to pay for beauty."
"I'm talking about passion, Hesther. Do you know what that word meant originally? Suffering. The way you get your own spirit through your own suffering. Self-chosen. Self-made. This boy's done that. He's created his own desperate ceremony just, just to...just to ignite one flame of original ecstasy in...in the spiritless waste around him. All right. He's destroyed for it, horribly. He's virtually been destroyed by it. But one thing I know for sure, that boy has known a passion more ferocious than I have known in any second of my life. Well, let me tell you something. I envy it."
"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."
"Friendship and money...oil and water."
"I am not an animal! I am a human being. I am a man."
"To survive a war, you gotta become war."
"My fee is $450 an hour. When a man who makes $450 an hour wants to tell you something for free, you should listen."
"You're one ugly motherfucker."
"Baby got more cakes than Duncan Hines."
"That I cannot do."
"Nice suit. John Phillips, London. I have two myself. Rumor has it Arafat buys his there."
"I feel the need...the need for speed!"
"We ain't great. We're just some guys from Jersey."
"Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life."
"You're out of order! You're out of order! The whole trial is out of order! They're out of order!"
"The son of a bitch stole my watch."
"Welcome to Prime Time, bitch!"
"She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket."
"Wolfman's got nards!"
"Oh, I'll never leave Montana, brother."
"You may sit down, Mr. O'Malley."
"Well, I'm sure I'd feel much worse if I weren't under heavy sedation."
"Goddamn army."
"It's not a question of enough, pal. It's a zero sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another."
"Because you are failing to educate them, this is the posture that many of our students will wind up in. Only they'll be staring down the barrel of a gun!"
"The Germans wore gray, you wore blue."
"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?"
"Baby, I don't care."
"That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped. When did you?'"
"When the Grey Hair is dead, Magua will eat his heart. Before he dies, Magua will put his children under the knife, so the Grey Hair will know his seed is wiped out forever."
"Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard."
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
"Money never sleeps, pal. Just made 800,000 in Hong Kong gold. It's been wired to you. Play with it. You've done good, but you gotta keep doing good. I've showed you how the game works. Now, school's out."
"Oliver, there's no winning in this. There's only degrees of losing."
"I'm pleased and happy to repeat the news that we have, in fact, caught and killed a large predator that supposedly injured some bathers. But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the beaches are open, and people are having a wonderful time. Amity, as you know, means 'friendship.'"
*whistles* "Gosh Almighty! That is good!"
"Play it faster. Faster! Faster!"
"Anything to declare?"
"Yeah. Don't go to England."
"Let me tell you what Melba Toast is packin' right here, alright. We got 411 Positrac outback, 750 double pumper Edelbrock intakes, bored over 30, 11 to 1 pop-up pistons, turbo-jet 390 horsepower. We're talkin' some fuckin' muscle."
"My mouth is so dry they can shoot Lawrence of Arabia in it."
"Taking you into South Carolina is like taking a torch into a powder magazine."
"Hill country liquor, tidewater cooking, and North Carolina women."
"I want what they want and every other guy, who came over here and spilled his guts and gave everything he had, wants. For our country to love us as much as we love it. That's what I want."
"You treat them like animals, that's exactly how they'll behave."
"That Terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear. And it absolutely will not stop. Ever! Until you are dead."
"He's like an animal. He has an animal's habits. There's even something subhuman about him. Thousands of years have passed him right by, and there he is, Stanley Kowalski, survivor of the Stone Age."
"Kid, the next time I say, 'Let's go some place like Bolivia,' let's go someplace like Bolivia."
"Well, nobody's perfect."
"Boooooyyyyy!"
"Anybody seen Richie?"
"I love the Power Glove. It's so bad."
"My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect."
"You see that building? I bought that building ten years ago. My first real estate deal. Sold it two years later, made an $800,000 profit. It was better than sex. At the time, I thought that was all the money in the world. Now it's a day's pay."
"We didn't need dialogue. We had faces."
"What you choose to call hell, he calls home."
"I'll be all around in the dark—I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look—wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build—I'll be there, too."
"Paul Sutton...you're the most honorable man I have ever known."
"I must break you."
"I saw the lightning flash. I heard the thunder roll! I felt breakers crashing, swamping my soul. I fell down on my knees...and I cried, 'My God...why has thou forsaken me?'"
"Forget about it, kid. They are ghosts."
"You're a big man, but you're in bad shape. With me, it's a full time job. Now, behave youself."
"Paulie may have moved slow, but it was only because Paulie didn't have to move for anybody."
"You know, Bill, there's one thing I learned in all my years. Sometimes you just gotta say, 'What the fuck, make your move.'"
"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. 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. 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."
"Great Scott!"
"El secreto es hacerlos con mucho amor."
Translation: "The secret is to make them with lots of love."
"It's the way the whole thing works. People like Elias get wasted. People like Barnes just go on making up the rules any way they want. So what do we do? Sit in the middle and suck on it. We just don't add up to dry shit, King."
"Maybe I'll start my own Dead Pool and put you on it."
"He may be stupid, but he is in charge."
"Why don't we begin with a question. What is a sex crime?"
"Not getting any."
"You aren't too bright. I like that in a man."
"Let me ask you this: When the doctors start acting like businessmen, who can the people turn to for doctors?"
"As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster."
"The horror...the horror..."
"Someday, I think you and I are going to have a serious disagreement."
"I create nothing. I own."
"Sorry, wrong number."
"No, no. Thank you, Mr. Acavano!"
"Some folks call it a sling blade, I call it a Kaiser blade."
"You like baseball? We need lights for the parks, so kids can play at night. So they can play baseball. So they don't become burros para los malones. Everybody likes baseball. Everybody likes parks."
"Now go home and get your fuckin' shinebox."
"This car sticks out like spats at an Iowa picnic."
"Before you leave I want to tell you something. Not about the others, but about myself. I used to go to pieces. I'd see an accident like that and be so weak inside that I wanted to quit—stop the car and walk away. I could hardly make myself go past it. But I'm older now. When I see something really horrible, I put my foot down. Hard! Because I know that everyone else is lifting his."
"Well, you know, for me, the action is the juice."
"The size of this is...beyond me."
"Trick or treat...Motherfucker."
"I look at a hundred deals a day. I pick one."
"Love is a dung hill, Betty, and I am but a cock that climbs upon it to crow."
"This is an institution of learning. If you can't control it, how can you teach?"
"I'm askin' ya, where's that squealin' son of yours?" *maniacal laugh* "You think a squealer can get away from me? Huh?" *maniacal laugh* "You know what I do to squealers? I let 'em have it in the belly, so they can roll around for a long time thinkin' it over."
"Don't call me stupid."
"There's only one boss in this place, and that's me: the H-N-I-C."
"Coffee's for closers only."
"Son of a bitch is dug in like an Alabama tick."
"Why, you crazy? The fall will probably kill you."
"How dare you come into this office and bark at me like some little junkyard dog? I am the President of the United States!"
"You're a disease, and I'm the cure."
"After all, crime is only...a left-handed form of human endeavor."
"Well, there it is."
"Mixed emotions, buddy. Like Larry Wildman going off a cliff in my new Maserati."
"It's like having a red-hot buzz-saw inside my head."
"But it's so exciting. The people are so interesting."
"Are you gonna bark all day, little doggie, or are you going to bite?"
"Murdock...I'm comin' to get you."
"Nice college boy. Didn't want to get mixed up in the family business."
"Do you know? I'd almost forgotten what your eyes look like. They're still the same. Piss-holes in the snow."
"Close is a lingerie shop without a front window."
"Yeah, not bad for a City College boy. I bought my way in, now all these Ivy league schmucks are sucking my kneecaps."
"Sir, do we get to win this time?"
"Look, I've got Africa all over my hand now."
"Gentlemen, gentlemen. I'll never understand. All these books...a world of knowledge at your fingertips. What do you do? Play poker all night."
"It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation."
"I won't take poisoned food."
"I can't hear you, Ray."
"I can't swim!"
"Always bet on black."
"If he dies, he dies."
"I've never seen a painting that captures the beauty of the ocean at a moment like this."
"Hey Kid! How good are ya?"
"Negative waves."
"Do you want to be dead, Albert?"
"Listen, punk. To me, you're nothing but dogshit, you understand? A lot of things can happen to dogshit. It can be scraped up with a shovel off the ground. It can dry up and blow away in the wind, or it can be stepped on and squashed. So, take my advice: Be careful where the dog shits you."
"Boy, I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals."
"Get away from her, you bitch!"
"Inconceivable!"
"What hump?"
"You just keep thinkin', Butch. That's what you're good at."
"This is nothing!"
"Zee Germans."
"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!"