Assorted Movie Character Quotes
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"A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face."Source: Pinocchio | Speaker: The Blue Fairy

"Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard. Now, what's all this crud about no movie tonight?"Source: Mister Roberts | Speaker: Frank Pulver

"Carpe… Hear it? Carpe… carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."Source: Dead Poets Society | Speaker: John Keating

"Chivalry is not only dead, it's decomposed."Source: The Palm Beach Story | Speaker: John D. Hackensacker III

"Does your dog bite?"Source: The Pink Panther Strikes Again | Speaker: Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau

"Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings."Source: It's a Wonderful Life | Speaker: Zuzu Bailey

"Fasten your seatbelts; it's going to be a bumpy night."Source: All About Eve | Speaker: Margo Channing

"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son."Source: National Lampoon's Animal House | Speaker: Dean Vernon Wormer

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here!"Source: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Speaker: President Merkin Muffley

"Get busy living or get busy dying."Source: The Shawshank Redemption | Speaker: Andy Dufresne and "Red" Redding

"Good night, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England."Source: The Cider House Rules | Speaker: Dr. Wilbur Larch

"I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever."Source: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Speaker: Lorelei Lee

"I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."Source: The Silence of the Lambs | Speaker: Dr. Hannibal Lecter

"I could dance with you 'til the cows come home. On second thought, I'd rather dance with the cows 'til you came home."Source: Duck Soup | Speaker: Rufus T. Firefly

"I don't think that there's anything worse than being ordinary."Source: American Beauty | Speaker: Angela Hayes

"I don't think we're in Kansas anymore."Source: The Wizard of Oz | Speaker: Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland)

"I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light."Source: Annie Hall | Speaker: Alvy Singer

"I guess maybe I've even loved you before I saw you."Source: A Place in the Sun | Speaker: George Eastman

"I had a great evening; it was like the Nuremberg Trials."Source: Hannah and Her Sisters | Speaker: Mickey

"I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb."Source: It Happened One Night | Speaker: Ellie Andrews

"I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics."Source: Manhattan | Speaker: Isaac Davis

"I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."Source: Casablanca | Speaker: Rick Blaine

"I was thrown out of NYU my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final […] I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me."Source: Annie Hall | Speaker: Alvy Singer

"I would rather be with the people of this town than with the finest people in the world."Source: Roxanne | Speaker: Mayor Deebs

"I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules."Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith

"I'll be taking these Huggies and whatever cash you got."Source: Raising Arizona | Speaker: H.I. McDunnough

"I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time."Source: Broadcast News | Speaker: Aaron Altman

"I'm also just a girl standing in front of a boy asking him to love her."Source: Notting Hill | Speaker: Anna Scott

"I'm here to fight for truth and justice and the American Way."Source: Superman | Speaker: Superman

"I'm in a glass case of emotion!"Source: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy | Speaker: Ron Burgundy

"If I'm not back in five minutes… just wait longer."Source: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective | Speaker: Ace Ventura

"If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics."Source: The Great McGinty | Speaker: Skeeters

"If you're a prince, there's hope for every ape in Africa."Source: The Lion in Winter | Speaker: Prince Geoffrey

"Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world."Source: Casablanca | Speaker: Rick Blaine

"In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."Source: The Third Man | Speaker: Harry Lime

"Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops."Source: Arsenic and Old Lace | Speaker: Mortimer Brewster

"It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily."Source: Shanghai Express | Speaker: Shanghai Lily

"It's amazing. You look like a normal person, but actually you are the angel of death."Source: When Harry Met Sally | Speaker: Sally Albright

"It's just a jump to the left... and a step to the right."Source: The Timewarp | Speaker: Narrator, The Rocky Horror Picture Show

"It's not the men in your life that counts. It's the life in your men."Source: I'm No Angel | Speaker: Tira

"It's not the years, honey. It's the mileage."Source: Raiders of the Lost Ark | Speaker: Indiana Jones

"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me."Source: Batman Begins | Speaker: Batman

"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!"Source: The Godfather: Part III | Speaker: Michael Corleone

"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."Source: The Godfather: Part II | Speaker: Michael Corleone

"Kid, the next time I say, "Let's go someplace like Bolivia," let's go someplace like Bolivia."Source: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Speaker: Butch Cassidy

"Let's go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this all to blow over."Source: Shaun of the Dead | Speaker: Shaun

"Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!"Source: Auntie Mame | Speaker: Mame Dennis

"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."Source: Forrest Gump | Speaker: Forrest Gump

"Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!"Source: The Wizard of Oz | Speaker: Dorothy, the Tin Man, and the Scarecrow

"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue."Source: Airplane! | Speaker: Steven McCroskey

"Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day."Source: Napoleon Dynamite | Speaker: Kip Dynamite

"Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half."Source: Ninotchka | Speaker: Count Leon d'Algout

"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"Source: Monty Python's Flying Circus | Speaker: Cardinal Ximénez

"Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway."Source: Stalag 17 | Speaker: Oberst Von Scherbach

"Of course he has a knife. He always has a knife."Source: The Lion in Winter | Speaker: Eleanor of Aquitaine

"Oh my God, Karen, you can't just ask people why they're white."Source: Mean Girls | Speaker: Gretchen Wieners

"Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars."Source: Now, Voyager | Speaker: Charlotte Vale

"Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool."Source: The Ten Commandments | Speaker: Nefretiri

"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know."Source: Animal Crackers | Speaker: Captain Spaulding

"Personally, Veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young."Source: Mildred Pierce | Speaker: Ida Corwin

"Real diamonds! They must be worth their weight in gold!"Source: Some Like it Hot | Speaker: Sugar Kane Kowalczyk

"Remember, you're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did."Source: Duck Soup | Speaker: Rufus T. Firefly

"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads."Source: Back to the Future | Speaker: Dr. Emmett Brown

"Sherif Ali, so long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe…"Source: Lawrence of Arabia | Speaker: T.E. Lawrence

"Someday, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me."Source: The Godfather | Speaker: Don Vito Corleone

"Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it."Source: American Beauty | Speaker: Ricky Fitts

"Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!"Source: Planet of the Apes | Speaker: George Taylor

"That ain't no Etch-a-Sketch. This is one doodle that can't be undid, Homeskillet."Source: Juno | Speaker: Rollo

"That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age."Source: Dazed and Confused | Speaker: David Wooderson

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."Source: The Usual Suspects | Speaker: Roger "Verbal" Kint

"The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea."Source: Oh, God! | Speaker: God

"The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle."Source: The Court Jester | Speaker: Hubert Hawkins

"The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake."Source: The Little Mermaid | Speaker: Sebastian

"There are some men who don't end every sentence with a proposition."Source: Pillow Talk | Speaker: Jan Morrow

"They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!"Source: Braveheart | Speaker: William Wallace

"Watch the skies. Everywhere. Keep looking. Keep watching the skies."Source: The Thing from Another World | Speaker: Ned "Scotty" Scott

"Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!"Source: Sons of the Desert | Speaker: Oliver Hardy

"Well, I've wrestled with reality for thirty-five years, doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it."Source: Harvey | Speaker: Elwood P. Dowd

"What do they think I am, dumb or something? Why, I make more money than Calvin Coolidge! Put together!"Source: Singin' in the Rain | Speaker: Lina Lamont

"What family doesn't have its ups and downs?"Source: The Lion in Winter | Speaker: Katharine Hepburn

"What he did to Shakespeare we are doing now to Poland."Source: To Be or Not to Be | Speaker: Colonel Ehrhardt

"When the dawn comes, tonight will be a memory, too."Source: Cats (1981 Musical) | Speaker: Grizabella

"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."Source: When Harry Met Sally | Speaker: Harry Burns

"When you're reaching for a star, there's a long way to fall."Source: Roxanne | Speaker: C.D. Bales

"With my brains and your looks, we could go places."Source: The Postman Always Rings Twice | Speaker: Frank Chambers

"Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?"Source: Hell's Angels | Speaker: Helen

"You ask me if I have a God complex. Let me tell you something. I am God."Source: Malice | Speaker: Dr. Jed Hill

"You don't have to live forever. You just have to live."Source: Tuck Everlasting | Speaker: The Narrator

"You know the difference between you and me? I make this look good."Source: Men in Black | Speaker: J

"You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked."Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith

"You want the moon? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down."Source: It's a Wonderful Life | Speaker: George Bailey

"You're the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom."Source: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Speaker: Judge May