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Top 100 Greatest Film Quotes
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"Wait a minute! Wait a minute! You ain't heard nothin' yet. Wait a minute, I tell ya, you ain't heard nothin'! Do you wanna hear 'Toot, Toot, Tootsie!'? All right, hold on, hold on...Lou, listen. Play "Toot, Toot, Tootsie", three chorus, you understand. In the third chorus, I whistle. Now give it to 'em hard and heavy, go right ahead..." (short) (extended) |
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"Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?" |
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"Look! It's moving. It's alive. It's alive... It's alive. It's moving, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, IT'S ALIVE!"
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"Sawyer, you listen to me and you listen hard. 200 people, 200 jobs, $200,000 dollars, five weeks of grind and blood and sweat depend upon you. It's the lives of all these people who have worked with you. You've got to go on, and you have to give and give and give. They've got to like you, they've got to. Do you understand? You can't fall down. You can't, because your future's in it, my future and everything all of us have is staked on you. All right now, I'm through. But you keep your feet on the ground and your head on those shoulders of yours and go out ... and Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!" (short) (extended) |
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"Well, Denham. The airplanes got him."
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- "I
always did like a man in a uniform. That one fits you grand. Why
don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evenin'." (short) (long) |
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"Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!"
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"...Hey, wait, wait. What does this say here? This thing here." (short) (extended) |
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"Elementary, my dear Watson. Purely elementary." SHERLOCK HOLMES
(Basil Rathbone) to DR. WATSON (Nigel Bruce) AND -
"And how did you know about them?"
AND -
"Very effective, my dear Watson!" (last
two lines of film) | "Elementary, my dear Watson. Purely elementary." "Elementary, my dear Watson." "Elementary, my dear Holmes, elementary." |
- "...Rhett,
if you go, where shall I go? What shall I do?" |
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- "Yes,
I'm ready now." (short) (extended) |
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"R-o-s-e-b-u-d."
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- "Heavy.
What is it?" (short) (extended) |
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"Here's looking at you, kid." |
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"Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars." |
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"Ladies and gentlemen. My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you." |
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"You know you don't have to act with me, Steve. You don't have to say anything, and you don't have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together - and blow."
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- "Now
on the St. Louis team, we have Who's on first, What's on second, I
Don't Know's on third." (extended) |
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- "If you are the police, where are your badges?" (short) (long) |
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"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love. And in 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long, Holly."
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"Made it, Ma! Top of the world!" |
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"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night." |
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"(So they were turning after all. Those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful had taken pity on Norma Desmond. The dream she had clung to so desperately had enfolded her.) I can't go on with the scene. I'm too happy! Mr. De Mille, do you mind if I say a few words? Thank you. I just want to tell you all how happy I am to be back in the studio making a picture again! You don't know how much I've missed all of you. And I promise you, I'll never desert you again because after Salome we'll make another picture, and another picture! You see, this is my life. It always will be! (In a whisper) There's nothing else - just us - and the cameras - and those wonderful people out there in the dark. All right, Mr. De Mille. I'm ready for my closeup." (short) (extended) |
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"Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." |
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- "Charley,
it was you. You remember that night in the Garden you came down to
my dressing room and said, 'Kid, this ain't your night. We're goin'
for the price on Wilson.' You remember that? 'This ain't your night!'
My night, I could've taken Wilson apart. So what happens? He gets the
title shot outdoors in a ballpark, and what do I get? A one way ticket
to Palookaville. You was my brother, Charley, you should've looked out
for me a little bit. You should've taken care of me just a little bit
so I wouldn't have to take them dives for the short end money..." (short) (long) |