Magic Lantern Video & Book StoreGreat Movie Quotes
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quotations in chronological order |
Classic or obscure quotations from a hundred-plus years of cinema,
added to as I remember or come upon them ....
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
— Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in "Gone With The Wind" [1939]
"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas any more."
— Judy Garland as Dorothy Gage in "The Wizard of Oz" [1939]
"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain."
— Frank Morgan as The Wizard of Oz in "The Wizard of Oz" [1939]
"Feets, don't fail me now."
— Willie Best as Alex in Bob Hope's "The Ghost Busters" [1940]
catch-phrase also used by other Afro-American actors, such as Stepin Fetchit & Mantan Moreland
"A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do."
Actually a quote from John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" 1939 novel, which is often mis-attributed to
John Wayne (who did say several similar lines on-screen). By the 1960s, the phrase had become rather a cliche,
and was used as such on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and on "The Jetsons" TV programs.
"Rosebud."
— Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane in "Citizen Kane" [1941]
"Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine."
— Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine in "Casablanca" [1942]
"Of all the websites, in all the world, you wandered into this one."
— webmaster G.E. Nordell
"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
— Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine at end of "Casablanca" [1942]
"All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."
— Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder's "Sunset Blvd." [1950]
"I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what
I am, let's face it." — Oscar-winner Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy in "On the Waterfront" [1954]
  | An aspiring prizefighter who runs errands for the local underworld witnesses the murder of a fellow dockworker who was going to testify to the Waterfront Crime Commission. When he meets the sister of the dead man, his conscience begins to assert itself.
Directed by Elia Kazan; script by Budd Schulberg; starring Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning, Leif Erickson, James Westerfield, Tony Galento, Tami Mauriello, John Hamilton, John Heldabrand, Eva Marie Saint, Martin Balsam & Nehemiah Persoff; won 8 Oscars: for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor (Brando), Best Supporting Actress (EMS), Best B&W Cinematography, Best Set Decoration, Best Editing; Oscar noms for Best Supporting Actor x 3 (Cobb & Malden & Steiger), Best Music Score; won DGA & WGA Awards; listed on National Film Registry (1989); listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Movies (10/2005)
Sony b&w DVD [10/2001] for $18.99 Sony b&w VHS [2/98] out of prodn/many used full credits from IMDb "On The Waterfront" posters at AllPosters [dot] com |
"I dunno, Angie. What do you wanna do?"
— Ernest Borgnine as "Marty" [1955]
"Nobody's perfect!"
— Joe E. Brown as Osgood Fielding III in Billy Wilder's "Some Like It Hot" [1959]
"Until that time, Eustice, until that time."
— Jackie Gleason as MSgt. Maxwell Slaughter in "Soldier In The Rain" [Allied Artists Nov 1963]
 | A sentimental comedy of the peacetime U.S. Army; a goofy supply sergeant idolizes a corrupt Master Sergeant and hopes that they will go into business together when they retire. Produced & co-written by Blake Edwards; directed by Ralph Nelson; co-written by Maurice Richlin, based on the William Goldman novel; music by Henry Mancini; starring Jackie Gleason, Steve McQueen, Tuesday Weld, Tony Bill, Tom Poston, Ed Nelson, Lew Gallo, Rockne Tarkington, Paul Hartman, John Hubbard & Adam West
Allied Artists widescreen b&w DVD [8/2009] for $16.49 Key Video b&w VHS [undated] out of prodn/used 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $9.99 27"x40" poster from Amazon for $29.00 full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
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based on the 1960 novel by William Goldman Dell movie tie-in mass pb [1/63] out of print/used Atheneum hardcover [1/60] out of print/used |
"Live long and prosper."
— various episodes & movies of "Star Trek" from 1966 forward
"Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?"
— Clint Eastwood as "Dirty Harry" [1971]
"The way to make money is in real estate, not movies!"
— character Bertrand in François Truffaut's "La Nuit Américaine" [1973]
"It's just a flesh wound."
This phrase is such a cliché that it was extended into absurdity
in "Monty Python and The Holy Grail" [1975]
"I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
— Peter Finch as Howard Beale in "Network" [1976]
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
— Robert Duvall as LtCol Bill Kilgore in "Apocalypse Now" [1979]
"The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works."
— Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's "Wall Street" [1987]
"If you build it, they will come."
— Kevin Costner as Ray Kinsella in "Field of Dreams" [1989]
[after Sally loudly fakes an orgasm in a busy delicatessen]
"I'll have what she's having."
— Estelle Reiner as Older Woman Customer in "When Harry Met Sally" [1989]
"Are you crying? Are you crying? ARE YOU CRYING? There's no crying!
THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL!"
— Tom Hanks as Jimmy Dugan in "A League of Their Own" [1992]
"My momma always said, Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get."
— Tom Hanks as "Forrest Gump" [1994]
"Show me the money. Oh-ho-ho! SHOW! ME! THE! MONEY! A-ha-ha! Jerry, doesn't it make
you feel good just to say that! Say it with me one time, Jerry."
— Cuba Gooding, Jr. as Rod Tidwell in "Jerry Maguire" [1996]
"Shut up, just shut up. You had me at 'hello'."
— Renée Zellweger as Dorothy Boyd in "Jerry Maguire" [1996]
"In the end all you have is your story and all you can do is to try to live a good one."
— opening narration of "Australia" [2008]
"Release the kraken!"
— Liam Neeson as the god Zeus in "Clash of The Titans" [2010]
Research Required
So many quotes, so little time ...
"I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse." ~~ The Godfather
"I'll be back." ~~ The Terminator 1984
"It's going to be a bumpy night!" ~~ Barbara Stanwyck?
"Are you talkin' to me?" ~~ "Taxi Driver"
"What we have here is a failure to communicate." ~~ "Cool Hand Luke"
"It's good to be the king." ~~ Mel Brooks
B o o k s
 | "The Movie Quote Book" [1980] by Harry Haun
Harper & Row 9¼x7¼ pb [1983] out of print/used Lippincott & Crowell 9¼x7½ pb [1980] out of print/used Random House Value Publng 9¼x7¼ hardcover [3/86] out of print/used Lippincott 9x6 hardcover [1980] out of print/used |
 | "The Alfred Hitchcock Quote Book: What He Said, Memorable Lines From His Films, What Others Said About Him" [1993] by Laurent Bouzereau Citadel/Carol Publng 8x5¼ pb [6/93] out of print/used |
 | "Great Movie Lines: They're Everybody's Favorite Film Quotes, How Many Can You Identify?" [1993] by Dale Thomajan Kindle Edition from Ballantine Books [2/2011] for $11.99 Ballantine Books 8¾x5 pb [6/93] for $15.00 |
 | "The Little Black & White Book of Film Noir: Quotations From Films of The 40s & 50s" [1993] Edited by Peg Thompson & Saeko Usukawa Arsenal Pulp Press 4¼x3 mini-book [8/93] for $4.95 |
 | "Comedy Quotes From The Movies: Over 4,000 Bits of Humorous Dialogue From All Film Genres, Topically Arranged and Indexed" [1993] by Larry Langman & Paul Gold Over 4,000 of the funniest, wittiest, and most outrageous snatches of film dialogue, culled from sixty years of film comedy. McFarland & Co. 9x6 pb [12/94] for $35.00 McFarland Classics library 9x6¼ hardcover [12/93] for $45.00 |
 | "Famous Movie Quotes" [1995] by Alan Lane Santa Monica Press mass pb [1995] out of print/used Santa Monica Press mass pb [1995] out of print/used |
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"The Women's Book of Movie Quotes" [1995] Compiled & edited by Jeff Bloch Citadel Press 6¼x6¼ pb [3/95] out of print/used |
 | "The Dictionary of Film Quotations: 6,000 Provocative Movie Quotes From 1,000 Movies" [1995] Compiled by Melinda Corey & George Ochoa Three Rivers Press 9x7¼ pb [6/95] out of print/used |
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"We'll Always Have Paris: The Definitive Guide To Great Lines From The Movies" [1995] by Robert A. Nowlan & Gwendolyn Wright Nowlan Compilation of more than 11,000 of the most memorable lines ever uttered on the silver screen. Categorized under 900 subjects; includes title of the film, speaker of the line, production company, year of release – and, when appropriate, a brief comment putting the quotation into context. Perennial pb [10/95] out of print/used |
 | "What's That From?: The Ultimate Quiz Book of Contemporary Movie Lines" [1996] by Jai Nanda More than 1,000 quotes and questions from more than 250 contemporary films St. Martin's Griffin 8¼x5½ pb [2/96] for $14.99 |
 | "Hard-Boiled: Great Lines From Classic Noir Films" [1996] by Peggy Thompson & Saeko Usukawa Chronicle Books 8¾x8 pb [3/96] out of print/used |
 | "Western Movie Quotations" [1999] by Jim Kane McFarland & Co. hardcover [10/99] for $75.00 Western Movies Film Festival at 'Readers of the Purple Sage' Western Bookstore |
 | "Cassell's Movie Quotations" [2000] by Nigel Rees Cassell 7¾x5 pb [5/2002] out of print/used Cassell 10x7¾ hardcover [10/2000] out of print/used |
 | "The Quotable Walt Disney" [2001] Compiled by Dave Smith Disney Editions 6½x5½ pb [4/2001] for $7.88 Walt Disney [1901-66] Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store |
 | "I Know What You Quoted Last Summer: Quotes and Trivia From The Most Memorable Contemporary Movies" [2003] by Jai Nanda St. Martin's Griffin 8x5½ pb [5/2003] for $14.99 |
 | "Charlie Chan's Words of Wisdom: 600 Proverbs" [2003] by Howard M. Berlin Wildside Press 9x7 pb [8/2003] for $14.24 Wildside Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [8/2003] for $24.95 Magic Lantern Video & Book Store's Charlie Chan Movie Series Pages |
 | "The Best Things Ever Said In The Dark: The Wisest, Wittiest, Most Provocative Quotations From The Movies" [2004] by Bruce Adamson Allworth Press 7½x7½ hardcover [5/2004] out of print/used |
 | "Frankly, My Dear: Quips and Quotes From Hollywood" [2005] by Shelley Klein Barron's Educational Series 7¾x5¼ hardcover [1/2006] for $14.99 Michael Omara hardcover [8/2005; status unclear] for $13.43 |
 | "Its A Bitter Little World: The Smartest Toughest Nastiest Quotes From Film Noir" [2005] Edited by Charles Pappas
F&W Publns 6¼x5½ pb [10/2005] for $10.39 |
 | "Movie Quotes To Get You Through Life" [2007] Compiled by Jim Silverstein Lulu.com 2nd Edition 9x6 pb [11/2008] for $19.95 |
 | "The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit & Wisdom of An American Icon" [2007] Compiled by Carol Lea Mueller Taylor Trade Publng 8x5 hardcover [10/2007] for $10.17 John Wayne [1907-79] Page at 'Readers of the Purple Sage' Western Bookstore |
 | "You Can Quote Me On That, Volume III: Movie Quotes - Over 1,000 Quotes From More Than 400 Movies" [2010] by J.R. McManus Outskirts Press 8½c5½ pb [8/2010] for $12.95 |
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