Greatest Movie Quotes:

I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.

- Quentin Tarantino

topic: Stars, Greatest Movie, Hollywood

Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'.

- Morgan Freeman

topic: Greatest Movie, Redemption, Busy, Inspiring Movie, All Time Greatest

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

- J. G. Ballard

topic: Time, Greatest Movie, Events

Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.

- Bette Davis

topic: Inspiring, Stars, Moon, Moon And Stars, Institute

A boy's best friend is his mother.

- Joseph Stefano

source: "Fictional character: Norman Bates". "Psycho", www.imdb.com. 1960.

topic: Mom, Mother, Boys, Mother Son, Best Film

I wish I knew how to quit you, Tumblr.

- John Green

topic: Movie, Romantic, Real Love, Memorable Movie, All Time Favorite

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

- John Hughes

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Best Film, Memorable Movie

May the Force be with you.

- George Lucas

source: Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

topic: Movie, Film History, Psychics, Chosen One, Best Film

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

- Mario Puzo

topic: Refuse, Offers, Best Film, Memorable Movie, Damn You

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

- Marlon Brando

topic: Classic, Refuse, Offers, Best Film, Memorable Movie

My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!

- William Goldman

source: William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.351, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Movie, Revenge, Father, War Movie, Memorable Movie

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

- Mario Puzo

topic: Inspirational, Enemy, Classic, Memorable Movie, Institute

Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: Sorry, Mean, Need Love, Sorry For Him, Vasectomy

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

- Rosalind Russell

source: "Fictional character: Mame Dennis". "Auntie Mame", www.imdb.com. 1958.

topic: Funny, Life, Movie, Institute, Over The Top

I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.

- Margaret Mitchell

source: Gone with theWind pt. 5, ch. 63 (1936) See Proverbs 302

topic: Thinking, Way, Another Day, Get Him Back, Memorable Movie

I wish I knew how to quit you.

- Annie Proulx

source: Annie Proulx (2005). “Brokeback Mountain”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

topic: Romantic Love, Romance, Wish, Memorable Movie, All Time Favorite

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

- Lou Gehrig

source: Farewell to Baseball Address, delivered 4 July 1939, Yankee Stadium, New York

topic: Baseball, Reading, Men, World Series, Institute

I've found out that money is the most important thing in the world and, as God is my witness, I don't ever intend to be without it again. I'll never be hungry again.

- Margaret Mitchell

source: "Gone with the Wind".

topic: Movie, Great Year, Wind, Institute, Scarlett O Hara

Welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club! Third rule of Fight Club: if someone yells “stop!”, goes limp, or taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight. Fifth rule: one fight at a time, fellas. Sixth rule: the fights are bare knuckle. No shirt, no shoes, no weapons. Seventh rule: fights will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule: if this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Fighting, Shoes, Two, 80s And 90s, Something Beautiful

My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

- Winston Groom

source: "Fictional character: Forrest Gump". "Forrest Gump", www.imdb.com. 1994.

topic: Life, Motivational, Movie, Favorite Book, 80s And 90s

Open the pod bay doors, Hal.

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Doors, Space Odyssey, Memorable Movie, Quoting Movies, Science Fiction Movie

Vasectomy means never having to say you're sorry.

- Larry Adler

source: Larry Adler, Philip Judge (1994). “Me and My Big Mouth”, Blake Pub

topic: Sorry, Mean, Vasectomy, Need Love, Sorry For Him

I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.

- Kathleen Turner

topic: Way, Films And Movies, All Time Best Movie, Greatest Movie, Hollywood Movies

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.

- Peter Sellers

source: "Fictional character: President Merkin Muffley". "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", www.imdb.com. 1964.

topic: War, Fighting, Gentleman, Film Music, Best Film

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

- Oliver Stone

source: "Wall Street". www.imdb.com. 1987.

topic: Movie, Great Year, Greed, Memorable Movie, Institute

Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!

- George M. Cohan

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Thank You, Mother, Father, Institute, Dandy

I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

- Billy Wilder

topic: Bigs, Memorable Movie, Institute, All Time Favorite, One Line Movie

Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.

- Marc Ribot

topic: Sorry, Mean, Avant Garde, Need Love, Sorry For Him

Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.

- Karolyn Grimes

source: "Fire In Belltown, USA Destroys Last Bell Factory". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. May 31, 2012.

topic: Angel, Wings, Bells, Meaningful Christmas, Memorable Christmas

For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.

- William J. Bernstein

topic: Sorry, Mean, Investing, Need Love, Sorry For Him

Don't let's ask for the moon.We have the stars.

- Casey Robinson

source: 1942 Line delivered by Bette Davis to Paul Henreid in Now, Voyager.

topic: Stars, Moon, Moon And Stars, Institute, Movie Lines

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

- Michael Douglas

topic: Greed, Memorable Movie, Institute, Misquoting, Street Life

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

- Anthony Hopkins

topic: Nice, Tests, Chianti, Best Film, Census

A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.

- Thomas Harris

source: The Silence of the Lambs ch. 3 (1991)

topic: School, Littles, Beans, Best Film, 80s And 90s

Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!

- Bram Stoker

source: Dracula ch. 2 (1897)

topic: Children, Halloween, Night, Movie Actors, Movies And Music

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

- Horace

source: Horace, Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz (2008). “The Odes of Horace”, p.27, JHU Press

topic: Movie, Wise, Latin, Best Film, Seize The Moment

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

- Clark Gable

source: "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

topic: Movie, Badass, Wind, Best Film, War Movie

You're gonna need a bigger boat.

- Peter Benchley

source: "Fictional character: Chief Martin Brody". "Jaws", www.imdb.com. June 20, 1975.

topic: Inspirational, Movie, Needs, Best Film, Improvising

You can't handle the truth!

- Jack Nicholson

topic: Movie, Memorable, Great Year, Memorable Movie, Lexicon

Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?

- Dustin Hoffman

topic: Trying, Seducing, Memorable Movie, Institute, Misquoting

I feel the need... the need for speed.

- Tom Cruise

source: FaceBook post by Tom Cruise from Jan 24, 2013

topic: Needs, Speed, Feels, Memorable Movie, Pop Culture

Youre only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!

- Michael Caine

topic: Blow, Doors, Radio News, Memorable Movie, All Time Best Movie

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

- Stephen King

topic: Inspirational, Life, Business, Favorite Book, Source Of Life

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

- Ray Liotta

topic: Remember, Gangsters, Wanted, Mobster, Quotable Movie

You make me want to be a better man.

- Jack Nicholson

topic: Love, Romantic, Men, Good As It Gets, Memorable Movie

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 my name is the Lord when I lay my fingers upon thee!

- Quentin Tarantino

topic: Brother, Anger, Names, Ak 47, Quoting Movies

Don't forget I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.

- Julia Roberts

topic: Love, Girl, Boys, Memorable Movie, All Time Favorite

Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.

- Woody Allen

topic: Sex, Humorous, Masturbation, Great Sex, Dirty Movie

What we got here is a failure to communicate.

- Paul Newman

topic: Movie, Top 100, Communicate, Luke, Quotable Movie

Consciousness is the greatest movie-maker in the whole world.

- Mooji

topic: World, Consciousness, Awareness, Greatest Movie