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"You met me at a very strange time in my life."
– The Narrator (Edward Norton)
"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
– Rick (Humphrey Bogart)
"Let me sleep."
– Will Dormer (Al Pacino)
"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads!"
– Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd)
"Now, where was I?"
– Leonard (Guy Pearce)
"Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you."
– Neo (Keanu Reeves)
"Ernest Hemingway once wrote, 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part."
– William Somerset (Morgan Freeman)
"This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off."
– Ripley (Sigourney Weaver)
"We will hunt him down because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A dark knight..."
– Lt. James Gordon (Gary Oldman)
"Hang on, lads; I've got a great idea."
– Charlie Croker (Michael Caine)
"You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!"
– George Taylor (Charlton Heston)
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist. And like that... he is gone."
– Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey)
"So long... partner."
– Woody (Tom Hanks)
"Two more months."
– Marge (Frances McDormand)
"I was cured all right!"
– Alex (Malcolm McDowell)
"Some men get the world. Others get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona."
– Lynn Bracken (Kim Basinger)
'I'll go home and I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day."
– Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh)
"Oh, no! It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast."
– Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong)
"This place makes me wonder... Which would be worse, to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?"
– Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio)
"Right after I got here, I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce and I got egg noodles and ketchup. I'm an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook."
– Henry Hill (Ray Liotta)
"What about the person we show it to? What happens to them?"
– Aiden Keller (David Dorfman)
"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12. Jesus, does anyone?"
– The Writer/Gordon "Gordie" Lachance (Richard Dreyfuss)
"Alright Mr DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."
– Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson)
"The horror, the horror..."
– Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Marlon Brando)
"A man’s got to know his limitations."
– Inspector Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood)
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"I’m too old for this."
– Sgt. Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson)
"Just keeping the British end up."
– James Bond (Roger Moore)
"It's too bad she won't live—but then again, who does?"
– Gaff (Edward James Olmos)
The closing lines of a movie are just as important as its opening dialogue. Indeed, leaving the audience something to remember using the spoken word can be just as effective as a lingering final frame image. And very often it's a simple one-liner that captures the imagination and remains ingrained in the moviegoer's memory.
Run with the script and take a look at some of cinema’s most memorable parting words in this gallery. Click on!
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The closing lines of a movie are just as important as its opening dialogue. Indeed, leaving the audience something to remember using the spoken word can be just as effective as a lingering final frame image. And very often it's a simple one-liner that captures the imagination and remains ingrained in the moviegoer's memory.
Run with the script and take a look at some of cinema’s most memorable parting words in this gallery. Click on!