“Don’t be so gloomy. After all it’s not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
-Harry Line (Orson Welles), The Third Man (1949)
“He’s wrong. It don’t take much strength to pull a trigger but try getting up every morning day after day and work for a living, let’s see him try that, then we’ll see who’s the real tough guy, the working man is the tough guy, your father’s the tough guy!”
-Lorenzo (Robert De Niro), A Bronx Tale (1993)
” The reason I’m in town, in case you’re wondering, is because of a Kansas City Shuffle… A Kansas City Shuffle is when everybody looks right, you go left.”
-Mr. Goodkat (Bruce Willis), Lucky Number Slevin (2006)
“Don’t let them bury me! I’m not dead!”
-Dennis Alan (Bill Pullman), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
“Anybody hear that? It’s a, um… It’s an impact tremor, that’s what it is… I’m fairly alarmed here.”
-Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), Jurassic Park (1993)
“I lost. I lost? Wait a second, I’m not supposed to lose. Let me see the script.”
-Robin Hood (Cary Elwes), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1986)
“If I could only have one food for the rest of my life? That’s easy — Pez. Cherry-flavored Pez. No question about it.”
-Vern Tessio (Jerry O’Connell), Stand by Me (1985)
