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Famous Movie Quotes and Lines – View the Greatness Here…

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Here is our handpicked collection of famous quotes and lines from new and old movies for you to compare to your own personal lists. This is by no means a definitive list and will be updated regularly with more great lines. The quotes are not in any particular order (other than alpha order by movie name!) but simply here to be viewed for your pleasure.

 

A – Z Famous Quotes


12 Years a Slave (2013)

Bass: Universal truths are constant. It is a fact, a plain and simple fact, that what is true and right is true and right for all.

 


Aliens (1986)

Ripley: Get away from her, you b**ch!

 


American Beauty (1999)

Lester Burnham: Remember those posters that said, “Today is the first day of the rest of your life”? Well, that’s true of every day but one, the day you die.

 


Apocalypse Now (1979)

Kurtz: It’s judgment that defeats us.

 


Apollo 13 (1995)

Jim Lovell: Houston, we have a problem

 


Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Tony Stark: No amount of money ever bought a second of time.

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Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

Thanos: The hardest choices require the strongest wills.

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Back to the Future (1985)

Marty McFly: Woh. This is heavy!
Dr. Emmett Brown: There’s that word again. “Heavy”. Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the earth’s gravitational pull?

 


Batman Begins (2005)

Bruce Wayne: I wanted to save Gotham. I failed.
Alfred Pennyworth: Why do we fall, sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.
Bruce Wayne: You still haven’t given up on me?
Alfred Pennyworth: Never.

 


Black Panther (2018)

T’Challa: In times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another, as if we were one single tribe.

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Blade Runner (1982)

Batty: All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

 


Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

Freddie Mercury: Good thoughts, good words, good deeds.

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Braveheart (1995)

William Wallace: Every man dies, not every man really lives.

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William Wallace: It’s all for nothing if you don’t have freedom.


 

William Wallace: We all end up dead, it’s just a question of how and why.


 

William Wallace: I am William Wallace! And I see a whole army of my country men here in defiance of tyranny. You’ve come to fight as free men, and free men you are. What will you do with that freedom? Will you fight?
Veteran: Fight? Against that? No, we will run. And we will live.
William Wallace: Aye. Fight and you may die. Run, and you’ll live, at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom!
William Wallace: [the soldiers cheer] Alba gu brath!

 


Call Me by Your Name (2017)

Mr. Perlman: We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything, what a waste!

 


Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

Dr. Abraham Erskine: A weak man knows the value of strength, and knows compassion.

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Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

Natasha Romanoff: The truth is a matter of circumstances, it’s not all things to all people all the time.

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Captain Phillips (2013)

Captain Richard Phillips: Well, your problem isn’t me talking, your problem is you not listening.

 


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Creed (2015)

Rocky Balboa: One step at a time. One punch at a time. One round at a time.

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Darkest Hour (2017)

Winston Churchill: Those who never change their mind never change anything.

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The Dark Knight (2008)

The Joker: I believe whatever doesn’t kill you, simply makes you stranger.

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The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Blind Prisoner: Fear is why you fail.
Bruce Wayne: No, I’m not afraid. I’m angry.

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Deliverance (1972)

Lewis: Sometimes you have to lose yourself before you can find anything.

 


The Departed (2006)

Frank Costello: When you decide to be something, you can be it.

 


Downton Abbey (2019)

Robert Crawley: Please, there is no need to argue.
Violet Crawley: I never argue. I explain.

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Dunkirk (2017)

Commander Bolton: Christ. I mean, you can practically see it from here.
Colonel Winnant: What?
Commander Bolton: Home.

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The Fabelmans (2022)

John Ford: Remember this. When the horizon’s at the bottom, it’s interesting. When the horizon’s at the top, it’s interesting. When the horizon’s in the middle, it’s boring as s**t.

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The Fifth Estate (2013)

Julian Assange: Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. But if you give him a mask, he will tell you the truth.

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Julian Assange: Amazing how someone could talk for ten minutes without actually saying anything.

 


Fight Club (1999)

Tyler Durden: It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.

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Forrest Gump (1994)

Forrest Gump: Stupid is as stupid does.

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Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Private Joker: The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive.

 


Fury (2014)

Don Collier: Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.

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Gandhi (1982)

Gandhi: When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it, always.

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Gandhi: An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.


 

Gandhi: I am a Muslim, and a Hindu, and a Christian, and a Jew, and so are all of you.

 


Gladiator (2000)

Maximus: Are you not entertained?! Are you not entertained?! Is this not why you are here?

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The Godfather (1972)

Don Corleone: A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.

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The Godfather: Part II (1974)

Michael Corleone: There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me, “Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.”

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Gone Girl (2014)

Amy Dunne: When two people love each other, and can’t make that work, that’s the real tragedy.

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Goodfellas (1990)

Jimmy Conway: Never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut.

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Good Will Hunting (1997)

Sean: You don’t know about real loss, because that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself.

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Gravity (2013)

Matt Kowalski: Ryan, you’re going to have to learn to let go.

 


The Greatest Showman (2017)

P.T. Barnum: No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.

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Green Book (2018)

Tony Lip: You know, the world’s full of lonely people afraid to make the first move.

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The Green Knight (2021)

The Lady: Whilst we’re off looking for red, in comes green. Red is the color of lust. But green is what lust leaves behind, in heart, in womb. Green is what is left when ardor fades, when passion dies, when we die too.

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The Green Mile (1999)

John Coffey: I’m tired, boss. Tired of being on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. Tired of not ever having me a buddy to be with, or tell me where we’s coming from, or going to, or why. Mostly I’m tired of people being ugly to each other. I’m tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world everyday. There’s too much of it. It’s like pieces of glass in my head all the time.

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The Grey (2012)

Ottway: Once more into the fray. Into the last good fight I’ll ever know. Live and die on this day. Live and die on this day.

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Groundhog Day (1993)

Phil: What would you do if you were stuck in one place, and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?
Ralph: That about sums it up for me.

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Heat (1995)

Vincent Hanna: I say what I mean, and I do what I say.

 


Her (2013)

Samantha: The past is just a story we tell ourselves.

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The Hunger Games (2012)

President Snow: Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear.

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Inception (2010)

Eames: You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.

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Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Col. Hans Landa: I love rumors! Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing.

 


Interstellar (2014)

Donald: Don’t trust the right thing done for the wrong reason. The why of the thing, that’s the foundation.

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Into the Wild (2007)

Christopher McCandless: [writing into his book] Happiness is only real when shared.

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Ron Franz: When you forgive, you love, and when you love, God’s light shines on you.


 

Christopher McCandless: You don’t need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us.


 

Christopher McCandless: When you want something in life, you just got to reach out and grab it.


 

Christopher McCandless: If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.


 

Christopher McCandless: Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.


 

Christopher McCandless: I’m going to paraphrase Thoreau here. Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness, give me truth.

 


The Iron Lady (2011)

Margaret Thatcher: It used to be about trying to do something. Now it’s about trying to be someone.

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Margaret Thatcher: Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become your character. And watch your character, for it becomes your destiny! What we think, we become.

 


Joker (2019)

Arthur Fleck: I used to think that my life was a tragedy. But now I realize, it’s a f***ing comedy.

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King Richard (2021)

Richard Williams: The most strongest, the most powerful, the most dangerous creature on this whole Earth is a woman who knows how to think. Ain’t nothing she can’t do.

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Lawless (2012)

Forrest Bondurant: It is not the violence that sets men apart, it is the distance that he is prepared to go.

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Leon (1994)

Mathilda: Is life always this hard, or is it just when you’re a kid?
Leon: Always like this.

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Stansfield: I like these calm little moments before the storm. It reminds me of Beethoven. Can you hear it? It’s like when you put your head to the grass and you can hear the growing and you can hear the insects.

 


Life of Pi (2012)

Adult Pi Patel: I suppose in the end the whole of life becomes an act of letting go. But what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.

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Adult Pi Patel: Faith is a house with many rooms.
Writer: But no room for doubt?
Adult Pi Patel: Oh, plenty. On every floor. Doubt is useful. It keeps faith a living thing. After all, you cannot know the strength of your faith until it has been tested.


 

Pi Patel: Hunger can change everything you ever thought you knew about yourself.


 

Pi Patel: Above all, don’t lose hope.


 

Adult Pi Patel: I’ve told you two stories about what happened out on the ocean. Neither explains what caused the sinking of the ship, and no one can prove which story is true and which is not. In both stories, the ship sinks, my family dies, and I suffer.
Writer: True.
Adult Pi Patel: So which story do you prefer?
Writer: [pauses for a moment] The one with the tiger. That’s the better story.
Adult Pi Patel: Thank you. And so it goes with God.

 


Logan (2017)

Logan: Don’t be what they made you.

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Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Max Rockatansky: You know, hope is a mistake. If you can’t fix what’s broken, you’ll go insane.

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Man of Steel (2013)

Jonathan Kent: People are afraid what they don’t understand.

 


The Matrix (1999)

Morpheus: This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.

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Morpheus: Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?

 


Memento (2000)

Teddy: So you lie to yourself to be happy. There’s nothing wrong with that. We all do it.

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Paddington 2 (2017)

Paddington: If we’re kind and polite the world will be right.

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The Prestige (2006)

Alfred Borden: They’ll beg you and flatter you for the secret, but as soon as you give it up, you’ll be nothing to them.

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Prisoners (2013)

Keller Dover: Pray for the best, prepare for the worst.

 


Pulp Fiction (1994)

Jules: Well there’s this passage I got memorized. 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 good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the 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 I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.”

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The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

Chris Gardner: You got a dream, you got to protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they want to tell you you can’t do it. If you want something, go get it. Period.

 


Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Marion Ravenwood: You’re not the man I knew ten years ago.
Indiana Jones: It’s not the years, honey, it’s the mileage.

 


Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Mr. Brown: Mr. Brown. That’s a little too close to Mr. S**t.

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Mr. White: You shoot me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize.

 


Rocky (1976)

Mickey: You’re going to eat lightning and you’re going to crap thunder!

 


Rush (2013)

Niki Lauda: A wise man gets more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

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Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Captain Miller: I just know that every man I kill, the farther away from home I feel.

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Scarface (1983)

Tony Montana: The eyes, Chico. They never lie.

 


Schindler’s List (1993)

Oskar Schindler: Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don’t.

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Itzhak Stern: It’s Hebrew, it’s from the Talmud. It says, “Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”

 


The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)

Sean O’Connell: Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.

 


Se7en (1995)

William Somerset: Ernest Hemingway once wrote, “The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.” I agree with the second part.

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The Shape of Water (2017)

Giles: “Unable to perceive the shape of You, I find You all around me. Your presence fills my eyes with Your love. It humbles my heart, for You are everywhere.”

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The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Andy Dufresne: [as Red reads Andy’s letter] Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

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The Shining (1980)

Jack Torrance: Heeere’s Johnny!

 


The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Clarice Starling: If you didn’t kill him, then who did, sir?
Hannibal Lecter: Who can say. Best thing for him, really. His therapy was going nowhere.

 


The Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

Dr. Cliff Patel: One incident can change a lifetime.

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Skyfall (2012)

Q: Age is no guarantee of efficiency.
James Bond: And youth is no guarantee of innovation.

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Snatch. (2000)

Bullet Tooth Tony: You should never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.

 


Star Trek (2009)

Spock Prime: Live long and prosper.

 


Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)

Darth Vader: The Force is strong with this one.

 


Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Yoda:  Do or do not. There is no try.

 


Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015)

Han Solo: Chewie, we’re home.

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

Vice Admiral Holdo: Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you’ll never make it through the night.

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Taken (2008)

Bryan: 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.

 


Taxi Driver (1976)

Travis Bickle: You talking to me? You talking to me? You talking to me? Well, then who the hell else are you talking to? You talking to me? Well, I’m the only one here.

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Travis Bickle: Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There’s no escape. I’m God’s lonely man.


 

Travis Bickle: The days move along with regularity, over and over, one day indistinguishable from the next. A long continuous chain.

 


Tenet (2020)

Fay: We all believe we’d run into the burning building. But until we feel that heat, we can never know.

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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

The Terminator: Come with me if you want to live!

 


Thor (2011)

Thor: You’re ancestors called it magic, and you call it science. Well, I come form a place where they’re one and the same thing.

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The Town (2010)

Doug MacRay: People get up every day, tell themselves something’s going to change their lives. They never do.

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Tree of Life (2011)

Mrs. O’Brien: There are two ways through life. The way of nature, and the way of Grace. You have to choose which one you’ll follow.

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Mrs. O’Brien: The only way to be happy is to love. Unless you love, your life will flash by.

 


True Grit (2010)

Mattie Ross: You must pay for everything in this world, one way and another. There is nothing free except the grace of God.

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The Truman Show (1998)

Truman: Good morning. And in case I don’t see you, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!

 


The Usual Suspects (1995)

Verbal: The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist. And like that, poof. He’s gone.

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V for Vendetta (2005)

V: Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.

 


We Bought a Zoo (2011)

Benjamin Mee: Sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery, and I promise you something great will come of it.

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The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

Jordan Belfort: Let me tell you something. There is no nobility in poverty. I’ve been a poor man, and I’ve been a rich man. And I choose rich every f***ing time.

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X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

Professor X: Just because someone stumbles, loses their way, it doesn’t mean they’re lost forever. Sometimes we all need a little help.

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