The Best And Worst Movie Lines Of All Time

how about...

"is it raining? i hadn't noticed."-- Four Weddings and a Funeral (the final scene)

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I beg to differ with them. "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum" is definitely one of the *best* lines of dialogue.

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"Smile, you Son of a b****" Roy Schnieder in Jaws.

"The only way to win the game is not to play" the computer in Wargames.

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Probably the most repeated movie quote of all times... from "Gone With the Wind", When Clark Gable as Rhett says, "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn".

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Any line from Miller's Crossing:

"I never met anyone who made being a son of a bitch such a point of pride."
"If I'd known we were going to cast our feelings into words I'd've memorised the song of Solomon."
"Take your flunkey and dangle."
"All in all not a bad guy, if looks brains and personality don't count" - "You better hope they don't."
"How'd you get the fat lip?" - "Old war wound - acts up around morons."

God I love that movie.

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I'm not sure if the best/worst lines are the ones which are best/worst in the context of the film, or the ones that can be plucked out and still work. My favourite (one that's also usually misquoted) does both, I think, from Clockwise, a film that gets better and better:

"It's not the despair, Laura. I can stand the despair. It's the hope."

And in context, a line that stands out like a turd floating on the surface of an otherwise clean pool, from LOTR: The Two Towers:

"Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys."

It makes me cringe every time I hear it. I have a hard time with the Comedy Orcs anyhow, but this line is spectacularly misconceived. What on earth would the orcs know of menus? And what would they know of words of French origin?

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Well, I have to first repeat a few from the article in my list of all-time best quotes:

"As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster" -Goodfellas
"I'll make him an offer he can't refuse" -The Godfather
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the War Room!" -Dr. Strangelove
"It wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast." -King Kong

Then I have to add a few of my own:

"Baby, you are gonna miss your plane"; "I know" -Before Sunset
"English, mother f----er, do you speak it?" -Pulp Fiction
"As you wish." -The Princess Bride
"I had to kill a lot of people!" -American Psycho
"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer" -The Godfather, Part II
"I am serious, and don't call me Shirley." -Airplane
"On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero" -Fight Club

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What, no Mamet? I wouldn't know where to begin with that catalogue, so instead I'll reveal a fondness for the response to that 'I understand you're very upset' line from the first Mission Impossible: 'you've never seen me very upset'.

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How about a few from A Bronx Tale?

Preist wants kid to confess to seeing a man murdered.

Priest: Don't be afraid, my son. No one is more powerful than God.
Kid: I don't know about that, father. Your guy may be bigger than my guy up there, but my guy is bigger than your guy down here.
Priest: Ya got a point.

Or when Sonny turns to the bikers and says

"Now you can't leave"

How about the worst line that you always seem to fit into conversation?

From ConAir

Why couldn't you put the bunny back in the box?

Another good one from Shawshank:

It took coming to prison to make me a crook.

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What...???...No TONY????

"Let me introduce you to my LITTLE friend!"

Amd the most memorable one word(might actually be 2, but said as one)

"Rooooaddtriiip!"

And finally.....


"It's only a flesh wound"

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I think most of these folks are pretty easily impressed – they're not looking for great dialogue, they want bumperstickers! Please, listen carefully to Paddy Chayefsky's Network or Dalton Trumbo's Spartacus scripts – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, All About Eve, The Third Man – all full of great dialogue and yes, a lot of good one-liners too.

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2 of my favorite lines thats printable:

1. Clint Eastwood in "Unforgiven"
-That's right. I've killed women and children. I've killed just about everything that walks or crawls at one time or another, and I'm here to kill you Little Bill for what you did to Ned.

2. Ronny Cox in "Total Recall"
-Who gives a shit what you believe? In thirty seconds you'll be dead, and I'll blow this place up and be home in time for Corn Flakes.

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The Princess Bride:

"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

or just go here: http://imdb.com/title/tt0093779/quotes

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To clarify, my earlier post was for a "worst" line.

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