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My favourite movie quotes

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6109

8.6

9.3

The Shawshank Redemption

"The funny thing is, on the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook."

Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins)

"There is something inside that the can't get to, that they can't touch. It is yours.Hope"

Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins)

5250

8.4

Memento (2000)

"We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are. I'm no different … now … where was I?"

Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce)

7834

8.3

The Dark Knight (2008)

"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."

Harvey Dent/Two-Face (Aaron Eckhart)

5277

8.5

The Departed

"I don't want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me."

Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson)

2805

8.1

8.2

There Will Be Blood

"One night I'm gonna come to you, inside of your house, wherever you're sleeping, and I'm gonna cut your throat"

Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis)

"There are times when I look at people and I see nothing worth liking"

Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis)

"I hate most people"

Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis)

5476

8.4

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

"You probably heard we ain't in the prisoner-takin' business; we in the killin' Nazi business. And cousin, business is a-boomin'."

Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt)

5373

8.1

8.3

Amélie (2001)

"It's better to help people than garden gnomes."

Amélie Poulain (Audrey Tautou)

6496

8.1

8.6

Seven (1995)

"It is easier to lose yourself in drugs than is to cope with life."

Somerset (Morgan Freeman)

6382

8.7

9.2

The Godfather (1972)

"I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse."

Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando)

5311

7.2

7.6

300 (2007)

"Spartans! Ready your breakfast and eat hearty, for tonight, we dine in hell!"

King Leonidas (Gerard Butler)

2937

7.7

7.9

Mystic River (2003)

"Is that my daughter in there?!"

Jimmy Markum (Sean Penn)

1341

7.2

Dr. No (1962)

"Bond. James Bond."

James Bond (Sean Connery)

4030

7.5

Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

"I wake up every morning wishing I didn't know the answer to that question."

Jamal Malik (Dev Patel)

5455

7.4

8.1

The Terminator

"I'll be back."

The Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger)

2076

6.7

7.4

Contact (1997)

"You're an interesting species, an interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other."

Alien (David Morse)

9305

8.3

8.8

Fight Club (1999)

"Fight club wasn't about winning or losing. It wasn't about words. The hysterical shouting was in tongues, like at a Pentecostal Church."

Narrator (Edward Norton)

2976

7.6

Apollo 13 (1995)

"Houston, we have a problem."

Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks)

7651

7.9

8.5

The Lion King (1994)

"Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it."

Rafiki

6238

8.2

8.8

Inception (2010)

"An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious. And even the smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you."

Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio)

3653

8.1

8.5

The Usual Suspects (1995)

"One cannot be betrayed if one has no people."

Kobayashi (Pete Postlethwaite)

1672

7.9

8.2

Downfall (2004)

"In a war as such there are no civilians"

Hitler (Bruno Ganz)

3304

8.5

8.8

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

"Two hundred thousand dollars is a lot of money. We're gonna have to earn it."

Blondie (Clint Eastwood)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

9975

8.8

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring... (2001)

"One does not simply walk into Mordor."

Boromir (Sean Bean)

9114

8.7

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

"My precious."

Gollum (Andy Serkis)

4888

8.2

Taxi Driver (1976)

"You talkin' to me?"

Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro)

6602

8.2

8.6

The Silence of the Lambs

"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."

Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins)

3216

8.3

8.6

City of God

"You need more than guts to be a good gangster, you need ideas."

Rocket (Alexandre Rodrigues)

9478

7.9

8.8

Forrest Gump

"Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks)

7244

7.5

8.1

The Sixth Sense (1999)

"I see dead people."

Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment)

"How can you help me if you don't believe me"

Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment)

1568

7.6

7.7

Dirty Harry

"You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?"

Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood)

4208

8.3

8.5

Psycho (1960)

"A boy's best friend is his mother."

Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins)

"We all go a little mad sometimes."

Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins)

4513

8.6

The Godfather: Part II (1974)

"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."

Michael Corleone (Al Pacino)

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

9655

7.6

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl...

"A wedding? I love weddings! Drinks all around!"

Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp)

4409

8.1

8.3

2001: A Space Odyssey

"Open the pod bay doors please, HAL."

Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea)

3258

8.6

Life Is Beautiful

"What kind of place is this? It's beautiful: Pigeons fly, women fall from the sky! I'm moving here!"

Guido (Roberto Benigni)

4144

7.9

8.2

No Country for Old Men

"If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?"

Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem)

"Do you have any idea how crazy you are?"

Carson Wells (Woody Harrelson)

7775

7.6

8.3

Toy Story

"You're a sad, strange little man, and you have my pity."

Buzz Lightyear

4177

7.9

8.3

Scarface (1983)

"Say 'hello' to my little friend!"

Tony Montana (Al Pacino)

5542

7.1

7.9

Avatar

"I'm a scientist, remember, and I don't believe in fairy tales."

Dr. Grace (Sigourney Weaver)

2191

8.1

8.2

Chinatown

"Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown."

Lawrence Walsh (Joe Mantell)

2520

8.7

12 Angry Men

"This man has been standing alone against us. It's not easy to stand alone against the ridicule of others. So he gambled for support - and I gave it to him."

Juror #9 (Joseph Sweeney)

4632

8.1

8.5

American History X

"I think the street would kill you. Your rhetoric and your propaganda aren't gonna save you out there."

Bob Sweeney (Avery Brooks)

4386

6.8

7.2

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

"The greatest single human gift - the ability to chase down our dreams."

Professor Hobby (William Hurt)

"Blue fairy, please make me into a real boy"

David (Haley Joel Osment)

1526

8.3

8.4

The Great Dictator (1940)

"Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed."

Charles Chaplin

2053

7.2

7.7

Training Day (2001)

"You can shoot me but you can't kill me"

Det. Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington)

1547

7.4

7.6

25th Hour (2002)

"It's Murphy's law, whatever can go wrong will, go wrong."

Monty Brogan (Edward Norton)

403

7.2

The Believer (2001)

"Do you think people ever commit suicide out of happiness?"

Danny Balint (Ryan Gosling)

4356

8.4

8.7

GoodFellas

"As far back as i can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster."

Henry Hill (Ray Liotta)

3980

7.6

8.3

Good Will Hunting (1997)

"You don't know about real loss because that only occurs when you love something more than yourself."

Bob Sweeney (Avery Brooks)

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“Movies touch our hearts and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places, they open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our life time, we need to keep them alive.”
― Martin Scorsese

“If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.”
― Stanley Kubrick

“The goddamn movies. They can ruin you. I'm not kidding -Holden Caulfield”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye