Favorite Movie Quotes

“Why so serious?” Joker- from Batman
Heath Ledger

“There’s no crying in baseball.” League of Their Own

Bluto - Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

Animal House

Nearly all of Jack Nicholson’s lines in “As Good As It Gets.” One of my favorite dialogue movies.

It ain’t cool being a jive turkey so close to Thanksgiving. - Trading Places

Another one, from a little satire on moviemaking called "The Big Picture" - an aspiring director's agent tells him that he has a pile of screenplays, potential projects, and says that he's "read almost all of them almost all the way through."

Mr. Rat, I have a writ here that says you are to stop eating Cheng Lee’s cornmeal forthwith. Now, It’s a rat writ, writ for a rat, and this is lawful service of same! [to Mattie] See? He doesn’t pay any attention to me. [BANG! he shoots the rat] You can’t serve papers on a rat, baby sister. You either kill him or let him be.

Rooster Cogburn.

two of them

“Rules?!? In a knife fight?!?” from Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid


jailer: “What are you in here for?”
prisoner; “Cutting heads off of parking meters.”
“We’ve never had one of those before, but I’m sure we’ll do just fine”

from Cool Hand Luke

Victor Ziegler: Bill, do you have any idea how much trouble you got yourself into last night just by going over there? Who do you think those people were? Those were not just some ordinary people. If I told you their names… no, I’m not going to tell you their names… but if I did, I don’t think you’d sleep so well at night.

EWS