All Time Favorite Film Line

Who told you that goddamn lie? Never mind, I know who said it and I'm going to stick a knife in his heart and send him back to Ireland in a bodybag.

"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."

"Shut up and deal"

"You see, Mr. Gittes, most people never face the fact, that in the right place, at the right time, they're capable of anything."

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I don't have an all-time favorite but I've always particularly enjoyed 'Obviously you're not a golfer'.

Love that too. Both The Apartment and Sunset Boulevard have excellent dialogue.

I don't think I really have that. I love some of the classics like:


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But I also really like this line from Rohmer's Conte d'hiver:


Or this one from Dreyer's Ordet:


And then some longer ones you could probably not define as lines anymore (rather monolouges) like this one from The Leopard:


or this one from Persona:


And then of course there's the memes, this one I'm particularly fond of:

"If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes."

"Sorry! My Prada's at the cleaner's. Along with my hoodie and 'fuck you' flip-flops, you pretentious douchebag."

"To tell you truth, I lied a little."

"Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make; you can destroy your life every time you choose. But maybe you won't know for twenty years. And you may never ever trace it to its source. And you only get one chance to play it out. Just try and figure out your own divorce. And they say there is no fate, but there is: it's what you create. And even though the world goes on for eons and eons, you are only here for a fraction of a fraction of a second. Most of your time is spent being dead, or not yet born. But while alive, you wait in vain, wasting years, for a phone call, or a letter, or a look from someone or something to make it all right. And it never comes. Or it seems to, but it doesn't really. And so you spend your time in vague regret, or vaguer hope, that something good will come along. Something to make you feel connected, something to make you feel whole, something to make you feel loved. And the truth is, I feel so angry. And the truth is, I feel so fucking sad. And the truth is, I've felt so fucking hurt for so fucking long, and for just as long I've been pretending I'm okay, just to get along, just for, I don't know why, maybe because no one wants to hear about my misery, because they have their own. Well, fuck everybody. Amen."

"There would be no eulogies for Bob, no photographs of his body would be sold in sundries stores, no people would crowd the streets in the rain to see his funeral cortege, no biographies would be written about him, no children named after him, no one would ever pay twenty-five cents to stand in the rooms he grew up in."

"I have a competition in me. I want no else to succeed. I hate most people. ... I see the worst in people, Henry. I don't need to look past seeing them to get all I need. I've built up my hatreds over the years, little by little. ... I can't keep doing this on my own with these ... people."

Here's some:

"His mamma call him Clay, imma call him Clay."

"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."

"You make me want to be a better man."

"Oh man, I shot Marvin in the face."

"You'll have bad times, but it'll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to."

"I wish I had stayed too. Now I wish I had stayed. I wish I had done a lot of things. I wish I had--I wish I had stayed. I do."

"You are what you choose to be."

"There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking."

"I was cured, all right!"

"If I, Aguirre, want the birds to drop dead from the trees... then the birds will drop dead from the trees. I am the wrath of God. The earth I pass will see me and tremble."

"I met him, 15 years ago; I was told there was nothing left; no reason, no conscience, no understanding in even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, of good or evil, right or wrong. I met this... six-year-old child with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and... the blackest eyes - the Devil's eyes."

"We Fascists are the only true anarchists, naturally, once we're masters of the state. In fact, the one true anarchy is that of power."

"Oh my God Almighty! Someone has sent me a bowel movement!"

"Kill everyone now! Condone first degree murder! Advocate cannibalism! Eat shit! Filth is my politics! Filth is my life!"


Also half the lines in The Room.

For TV, my all-time favorite is: "There was a fish, in the percolator."

"One night, I'm gonna come to you, inside of your house, wherever you're sleeping, and I'm going to cut your throat."

"You see in this world there's two kinds of people my friend - those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig."

"For if you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world."


"As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster"