Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day
Movie Quote of the Day – The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, 1994 (dir. Stephan Elliott)
Tick: Is it true when you were born the doctor turned around and slapped your mother?
Movie Quote of the Day – The Mask, 1994 (dir. Chuck Russell)
The Mask: Smokin’! [beat] It’s party time. P. A. R. T. Y? Because I gotta!
Movie Quote of the Day – Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1956 (dir. Don Siegel)
Dr. Miles J. Bennell: They’re here already! You’re next! You’re next, You’re next…!
Movie Quote of the Day – The Letter, 1940 (dir. William Wyler)
Leslie Crosbie: With all my heart, I still love the man I killed!
Movie Quote of the Day – White Zombie, 1932 (dir. Victor Halperin)
Coach Driver: They are not men, monsieur. They are dead bodies!
Charles Beaumont: Dead?!
Coach Driver: Zombies! The living dead!
Movie Quote of the Day – Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1977 (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Claude Lacombe: Mr. Neary, what do you want?
Roy Neary: I just want to know that it’s really happening.
Movie Quote of the Day – Happy Gilmore, 1996 (dir. Dennis Dugan)
Potter: Happy, the ball has its own energy or life force, if you will. Its natural environment is in the hole. Why don’t you send him home? His bags are packed. He has his plane ticket. Bring him to the airport. Send him home. [beat] Send him home.
Happy Gilmore: I’ll send him home. It’s time to go home, ball. [putts; ball doesn’t go in hole] Son of a bitch ball! Why didn’t you go home?! That’s your home! Are you too good for your home?! Answer me!
Movie Quote of the Day – The Exorcist, 1973 (dir. William Friedkin)
Father Merrin, Father Damien Karras: The Power of Christ compels you! The Power of Christ compels you!
Movie Quote of the Day – Billy Madison, 1995 (dir. Tamra Davis)
Principal: Mr. Madison, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Billy Madison: Okay, a simple “wrong” would’ve done just fine, but thanks.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Public Enemy, 1931 (dir. William A. Wellman)
Tom Powers: Ain’t you got a drink in the house?
Kitty: Well, not before breakfast, dear.
Tom Powers: I didn’t ask you for any lip. I asked you if you had a drink.
Kitty: I know Tom, but I, I wish that. . .
Tom Powers: . . .there you go with that wishin’ stuff again. I wish you was a wishing well, so that I could tie a bucket to ya and sink ya.
Kitty: Well, maybe you’ve found someone you like better.
Tom Powers: [smashes a grapefruit in her face]
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