Straight from the horse's mouth...Movie Quotes




Here are some of my favorite quotes that I've gathered from various movies.




What kind of Mickey Mouse organization names their team The Ducks? --Bugs Bunny, Space Jam

Lies, distrust, mixed messages. This is turning into a real marriage. --John Travolta, Face/Off

Sam: He's tormented by demons...the likes of which no mere mortal can fathom.
Gonzo: He's got demons? Cool!
--Sam the Eagle and Gonzo, Muppet Treasure Island

Only fools are positive. --Batty Koda, Ferngully


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Christa: Are you a human? 
Zak: Last time I checked... --Ferngully

I'm all right. No worries! Thanks for asking! --Batty Koda, Ferngully

I'm blind....I can see! It's a miracle! --Batty Koda, Ferngully

Delicious and nutricious. Tastes just like chicken! --Batty Koda, Ferngully

Zak: Am I dead?
Batty: No, but we can fix that for you. --Ferngully

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Christa: Humans in the forest!
Batty: There goes the neighborhood. --Ferngully

It's been weird, but I'm outta here. --Zak, Ferngully

Take it easy there. You know sir, you really should watch your blood pressure. My nephew Izzy just peeled over mid-mango, and he's a fruit bat. No meat. Stress is a killer --Bartok, Anastasia

I love pressure. --Nick Cage, The Rock

Sean: He's OK. I read his eyes.
Nick: You read his eyes?! Well, I can't afford to take that chance!
Sean: So talk louder.
--Nick Cage and Sean Connery, The Rock

Sean: This'll be a good bedtime story for your kid.
Nick: The kid'll have nightmares. I'll spend all my money on shrinks.
--Sean Connery and Nick Cage, The Rock

Squeezing the ju-uice. --Brendan Fraser (Link), Encino Man

Ow-oooo, Bud-dy. --Pauly Shore (Stoney), Encino Man

No buts chill! --7-Eleven Owner, Encino Man

No squeezing the ju-uice! --7 Eleven Owner, Encino Man

Check out my cat. Owwwooo! --Brendan Fraser (Link), Encino Man

You don't bag your friends, man, no matter what. --Pauly Shore (Stoney), Encino Man

Dave (Sean Astin): Tomorrow we're gonna take you somewhere special.
Stoney: Taco Bell.
--Encino Man

Dave: He's thinking of becoming a hairdresser, actually.
Stoney: Designing crusty mops for the rich and famous, little one.
--Encino Man

Dave: We're finally part of the elite group.
Stoney: We're cool. Dude, I even showered. Buddy, check out...hey, I have the raddest deodorant on.
--Encino Man

Psychopaths kill for no reason. I kill for money. Wait, that didn't come out right. --John Cusack, Gross Pointe Blank

If I'm not back in 5 minutes, just wait longer. --Jim Carrey (Ace), Ace Ventura, Pet Detective

Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, and you must be the Monopoly guy. Hey, thanks for the Free Parking. --Jim (Ace), Ace Ventura, When Nature Calls

No matter what anybody tells you--words and ideas can change the world. --Robin Williams, Dead Poets Society

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The Defense Department regrets to inform you that your sons are dead because they were stupid. --Goose (Anthony Edwards), Top Gun

I feel the need…the need for speed! --Maverick and Goose, Top Gun

Maverick (Tom Cruise): Greetings.
Goose: Watch the birdie... (takes polaroid) Geez, I crack myself up. --Top Gun

Charlie (Kelly McGillis): Excuse me, Lieutenant. Is there something wrong?
Maverick: Yes, ma'am. The data on the MIG is innacurate.
Charlie: How's that, Lieutenant?
Maverick: Well I just happend to see a MIG 28 do...
Goose: We...
Maverick: Sorry, Goose. We happended to see a MIG 28 do a 4G negative dive.
Charlie: Where did you see this?
Maverick: That's classified.
Charlie: That's what?
Maverick: That's classified. I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you. --Top Gun

Charlie: So Lieutenant, where exactly were you?
Maverick: Well, we...
Goose: Thank you.
Maverick: ...started up on his six when we pulled through the clouds and then I moved in above him.
Charlie: Well, if you were directly above him, how could you see him?
Maverick: Because I was inverted.
Iceman: (while coughing) Bulls***.
Goose: No, he was man. It was a really great move. He was inverted.
Charlie: You were in a 4G inverted dive with a MIG 28?
Maverick: Yes, ma'am.
Charlie: At what range?
Maverick: About two meters.
Goose: Well, it was actually about one and a half, I think it was one and a half... I've got a great polaroid of it, he's right there. It must be one and a half.
Maverick: It was a nice picture...
Charlie: Ah, Lieutenant. What...were you doing there?
Goose: Communicating.
Maverick: Communicating. Keeping up foreign relations. Giving him the bird.
Goose: You know, the finger? --Top Gun

It just be raining black people in New York. --Will Smith (J), Men In Black

To love is to burn, to be on fire. --Kate Winslet (Marianne), Sense and Sensibility

All men fit into 2 categories: 'put your hands on me' or 'you unimaginable bastard.' --James Cameron, talking about Titanic

Freud, who is he...is he a passenger? --Ismay, Titanic

Jack: I'm kinda hoping you'll come back over the rail and get me off the hook here.
Rose: You're crazy!
Jack: That's what everybody says, but with all due respect, Miss, I'm not the one hanging off the back of a ship here.
--Jack (Leo DiCaprio) and Rose (Kate Winslet), Titanic

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You keep messin' with me. I'm dangerous. I'm scared of myself. They call me snap and pop, 'cause I snap and I will pop y'all in the mouth. Don't mess with me. --Chris Tucker (Franklin), Money Talks

I'm like Rice Krispies. I snap and I'll pop your ass. --Chris Tucker (Franklin), Money Talks

I just be slapping people. I don't even know when. My reflexes just slap people. --Chris Tucker (Franklin), Money Talks

Marcus (Martin Lawrence): Everybody wanna be like Mike.
Captain: You're gonna be retired like him, too.
--Bad Boys

I heard what I said, 'cause I was standing there when I said it. --the Police Captain, Bad Boys

You be him, and you be you, just not around the girl. --the Captain, Bad Boys

Do you like apples? I got her number. How do you like them apples? --Will, Good Will Hunting

Nothing ever happens if you don't show up. --Gabriel Olds, Calendar Girl

Anyone not wearing 2 million sunblock is gonna have a really bad day, get it? --Sarah (Linda Hamilton), Terminator 2: Judgement Day

There is fate, but it only takes you so far, because once you're there it's up to you to make it happen. --Jenna Elfman, Can't Hardly Wait

A.J.: What's with you today?
Lucas: What's with today, today? --Empire Records

Joe: Lucas......?
Lucas: Joe.......?
Joe: Where's the money?
Lucas: Joe, the money is gone.
Joe: Yeah, I know it's gone. Where's it gone to?
Lucas: Atlantic City.
Joe: Atlantic City?
Lucas: Yeah.
Joe: Is it coming back from Atlantic City?
Lucas: I...I don't think so Joe.
Joe: What's it doing in Atlantic City?
Lucas: Recirculating.
Joe: Recirculating?
(Joe knocks done bucket of coins.)
Lucas: Are you pissed off Joe?
Joe: Lucas?
Lucas: Joe?
Joe: Lucas?
Lucas: Joe?
Joe: Lucas listen to me. I told Mitchell Beck that you forgot to deposit the money. I told Mitchell that the money was still here.
Lucas: Joe, that's not true. It's in Atlantic city. I swear.
Joe: Shutup...sit down and don't you move.
Lucas: It could be in other cities by now.
Joe: Oh, shutup. Under no circumstances are you to move from that couch. Unless it's to get me $9,000, and then you bring it here to me. OK?
Lucas: Joe, I think it's going to be OK.
Joe: What makes you think that?
Lucas: Who knows where thoughts come from, they just appear.
Joe: Moron. --Empire Records



A.J.: Hey Joe. I need to ask your advice. I know you know about love and women, and all that....
Joe: Oh, yeah.... My wife left me for another woman and my girlfriend forced me to leave at gunpoint. Does this qualify me?
A.J.: Ah, yeah, definitely. --Empire Records

Warren: Who glued these quarters down?
A.J.: I did.
Warren: What the hell for, man?
A.J.: I don't feel that I need to explain my art to you, Warren. --Empire Records

And, I talked to God, and she says, "Yo, whassup?" --Deb, Empire Records

Jane: So, what are you doing later?
Joe: Either going to jail or to hell. I can't decide which. --Empire Records

Don't let "The Man" get you down. --Lucas, Empire Records

Damn The Man! --Lucas, Empire Records

Always play with their minds. --Lucas, Empire Records

FBI Agent: How did you happen to be at Ruby's(?) today?
Robert (Will Smith): I was shopping for some lingerie. That's still legal, isn't it?
FBI Agent: For your wife?
Robert: No, I was picking up something for myself...I do a little crossdressin' on the weekends. --Enemy of the State

Brill (Gene Hackman): I had to blow up the building.
Robert: Why?
Brill: Because you made a phone call! --Enemy of the State

Salesman: How much money are we talking about? Profane or really offensive?
Edward (Richard Gere): Really offensive.
Salesman: I like you. --Pretty Woman (In reference to spending an "obscene amount of money" in the clothing store.)

Edward: What makes you think I'm a lawyer?
Vivian (Julia Roberts): You have that sharp, useless look about you. --Pretty Woman

I feel just like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman...except for the whole hooker thing. --Lainey (Rachel Leigh Cook), She's All That

I will have poetry in my life, and adventure...and love. Above all else, love. --Viola (Gwyneth Paltrow), Shakespeare in Love



Good morning, my lord. I see you are...open for business, so let's to church. --Viola (of her upcoming marriage), Shakespeare in Love

Henslowe: Strangely enough it all turns out right in the end.
Fennyman: How?
Henslowe: I don't know. It's a mystery. --Shakespeare in Love

Lord Wessex: I have spoken with your father.
Viola: So, my lord. I speak with him every day. --Shakespeare in Love

Thomas Kent: I'm very sorry, sir. I have not seen Act 2.
Will Shakespeare (Joseph Finnes): Of course not. I have not written it. --Shakespeare in Love

Henslowe: The show must...
Will: Go on! --Shakespeare in Love

Now I know what a TV dinner feels like. --Bruce Willis, Die Hard

A little weight on a woman's no harm. --Sister Husband, Where the Heart Is

Dude, you're action-packed with issues. --40 Days and 40 Nights

When are you going to understand that being normal isn't necessarily a virtue, and rather denotes a lack of courage! --Stockard Channing, Practical Magic

Brantley (Michael J. Fox): What's up? You seem upset.
Christie: I hate men.
Brantley: Boy, I'm glad I'm not one of those. --Secret of My Success

Brantley: Wait, I need your help.
Melrose: Is this something I can get fired for?
Brantley: Absolutely.
Melrose: I like it. --Secret of My Success

[at the board meeting] Excuse me. (Kisses Christie) Feel free to do that among yourselves. --Brantley, Secret of My Success

Vera: Where have you been?
Melrose: Baby, you ain't been hangin' around in the mail room.
Vera: Ooh, the "male" room. I like the sound of that. --Secret of My Success

Treebeard: I am not a tree! I am an Ent.
Merry: Ents!? Tree-herders! Sheperds of the Forest!
Pippin: Don't talk to it Merry! Don't encourage it!! --Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Venkman: I'm a little hazy on this good/bad stuff. What exactly is bad?
Igon: Imagine life as you know it stopping instantaneously and all the molecules in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Venkman: That would be bad. --Ghostbusters

You're acting like a thing from another tax bracket! --Buffy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (movie)

You guys, I think reality stepped out of here about 5 minutes ago. --Buffy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (movie)

Without lamps, there would be no light. --The Breakfast Club

Friends don't quit! --Shaggy, Scooby-Doo (movie)

It's called ice, and it gets a little slick! --Tom Arnold, True Lies

I'd rather have a moment of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special. --Shelby, Steel Magnolias

I'm not crazy, M'Lynn! I've just been in a very bad mood for 40 years! --Ouiser, Steel Magnolias

Honey, time marches on, and eventually you notice it's marching across your face. --Truvy, Steel Magnolias

Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father, prepare to die! --Inigo, The Princess Bride

It's always dark in the beginning. --The Neverending Story

Ah, here it is: So-crates. "The only true wisdom is in knowing that you know nothing." That's us, dude. --Ted to Bill, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

Husbands are like Kleenex: soft, strong and disposable. --Mrs. White, Clue

What...you're crying? There's no crying! There's no crying in BASEBALL! --Jimmy (Tom Hanks), A League of Their Own

What if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today! --Bill Murray, Groundhog Day

One day at a time. I mean, what is that? Like two, three days at a time is an option? --Gwen, 28 Days

I'm really not a bitch, just shy. --Vanilla Sky

I'm not lost. Somebody just moved my street. --Violet, Coyote Ugly

People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with the soul and the soul can't rest. And sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right. --The Crow

Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever. --The Crow





What, did you go to a special bitch academy or something? --Eva, Center Stage

Being nice when you say something pricky is even prickier. --Eva, Center Stage

I am the best goddamn dancer in the American Ballet Academy! Who the hell are you? Nobody! --Maureen, Center Stage

I screwed up any chance I had back in September. But I started dancing long before this stupid workshop, and I'm gonna keep on dancing long after it. So tomorrow is one more day I get to dance. --Eva, Center Stage

Did you see how *on* I was tonight? --Anna, Center Stage

A girl's got a right to know what kind of hound she's saving herself for. --Eva, Center Stage

Cooper, you're an amazing dancer, and you're a great choreographer, but as a boyfriend... you kinda suck. --Jody, Center Stage

You're not here by mistake. Someone at your audition watched you dance and saw something special. All you've gotta do is figure out how to find that again. --Eva, Center Stage

Jody: She's so good!
Eva: Yeah, just ask her! --Center Stage

[In pas de deux class] Sergei: I am your slave!
Eva: I'd believe it even more if you didn't stare at your own f*****g reflection when you said it.
Instructor: If someone wants to hear profanity, Miss Rodriguez, they can take a subway. They don't need to spend sixty dollars on a ballet ticket. [To Sergei] Though she has a point. --Center Stage

Maureen: Erik got injured today. And do you know the first thing I thought when I saw him go down?
Jim: What?
Maureen: "I wish that was me." So that made me think, you know, 'cause that's not a normal reaction. How much of what you liked about me was because I was a ballet dancer, and how much because I was me? --Center Stage

Jody: How come you're not seeing someone?
Charlie: I see someone. She doesn't know I see her, but... I see her. --Center Stage

Jody: Mom! Oh, I'm so happy you guys are here!
Mr. Sawyer: We wanted to see what you've been up to this past year. And I've gotta tell you, that was the most fantastic thing I've ever seen.
Mrs. Sawyer: It was great, honey. And just...just wonderful!
Jody: You wanna know something stupid? I'd actually started to believe I didn't need to hear that anymore. --Center Stage

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and take a look around once in a while, you might miss it. --Ferris, Ferris Bueller's Day Off

That's why they call it a crush. If it didn't hurt, they'd call it something else. --Samantha's father, Sixteen Candles

We tell a tale in Siam. About the love between the sun and the moon. Though the moon, the Sun's beloved, must surrender to the night, she is always with him even if he cannot see her. --The King, Anna and the King

Ellen: You are a disturbed person.
Mickey: You have no idea. --Forget Paris

Rhett Butler to Scarlett O'Hara: You need to be kissed, and often, by someone who knows how.
Scarlett: You think you are the man to do it?
Rhett: No, because that is what you want! --Gone With the Wind

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the judgement that something else is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all. From now on you will be traveling the road between who you think you are and who you can be. The key is to allow yourself to make the journey. --Mia's father, The Princess Diaries

You give up your dream, you die. --Nick, Flashdance

Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends? --Satine, Moulin Rouge

I never knew I could feel like this. --Christian, Moulin Rouge

I believe in truth, freedom, and above all things, love. --Christian, Moulin Rouge

No matter what happens, no matter how bad things get, we love one another. --Christian, Moulin Rouge

The greatest thing you will ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. --Christian, Moulin Rouge





The Ferngully images came from the official site at www.foxhome.com.  The Top Gun image came from Top Gun Central. (No longer there.)   The Titanic image came from the Official Site. The Shakespeare in Love image came from the Official Site (not working). The Empire Records image came from StarPulse.com. The Center Stage photo came from HARO's Movie Page. The Moulin Rouge photo came from the Official Site.



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