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Movie Quote of the Day – Mrs. Soffel, 1984 (dir. Gillian Armstrong)

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Kate: Soffel: Don’t you let them take me alive, Ed. Promise me. Promise me, Ed.
Ed Biddle: I won’t, I promise. I won’t let them take you.

Movie Quote of the Day – What Women Want, 2000 (dir. Nancy Meyers)

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Darcy McGuire: What kind of knight in shining armor would I be if the man I love needs rescuing and I just let him walk out my door?
Nick Marshall: My hero.

Movie Quote of the Day – Signs, 2002 (dir. M. Night Shyamalan)

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Rev. Graham Hess: What’s the matter?
Bo: There’s a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?

Movie Quote of the Day – Lethal Weapon 4, 1998 (dir. Richard Donner)

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Detective Lee Butters: [Phone rings] Hello? Hello? [No one’s there] Shit! Fucking phones, man! You get a call, they cut you off. You make a call, they cut you off! What’s the point?
Leo Getz: Don’t you know what they’re doing, kid? They fuck you with cell phones. That’s what it is. They love when you get cut off. You know why? Huh? You know why? Because when you call back – which they know you’re gonna do – they charge you for that fucking first minute again at that high rate.
Detective Lee Butters: If you’re lucky enough to be able to call back because the 3-hour battery you got only lasts 20 fucking minutes.
Leo Getz: Or what if you’re behind a fucking hill and it’s going  [makes crackle sounds].
Detective Lee Butters: Or you’re going through a damn tunnel or some shit, man. And they keep making it smaller! You know why they make them this small? So you can lose it. Why? So you buy more phones. I never lost my mother’s phone! Take you two hours to make a long-distance call. Duh-duh-duh four, duh-duh-duh five. Duh-duh-duh-oh! I messed up! Hang up. Gotta do it again! Duh-duh-duh four, duh-duh-duh five. I never lost my Sports Illustrated swimsuit phone.
Leo Getz: And scanners! These idiots, they get your number and call all over the world!
Detective Lee Butters: Somebody took my number and called Afghanistan! Afghanistan! I’ve never been to Afghanistan! I don’t know nobody in Afghanistan! I don’t know what fucking Afghanistan look like. And even if I did, I would not talk to their Afghan ass for 3 hours! I won’t talk to my daddy for 3 hours!
Leo Getz: They fuck you, they fuck you, they fuck you with the cell phones! Hey, you know when you go to a drive-through? [phone rings] Hold on.
Detective Lee Butters: Why am I talking. . .?

Movie Quote of the Day – The Year of Living Dangerously, 1982 (dir. Peter Weir)

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Guy Hamilton: Billy, you’re a professional. Is that pornography or art?
Billy Kwan: If it’s in focus, it’s pornography, if it’s out of focus, it’s art.

Movie Quote of the Day – The Patriot, 2000 (dir. Roland Emmerich)

John Billings: I say we drink the wine, eat the dogs, and use the paper for musket wading.
Reverend Oliver: [alarmed] Eat the dogs?
Benjamin Martin: [joking] A dog is a fine meal.

Movie Quote of the Day – Braveheart, 1995 (dir. Mel Gibson)

Magistrate: It can all end. Right now! Bliss. Peace. Just say it. Cry out. “Mercy!”
Crowd: Mer-cy! Mer-cy! Mer-cy!
Magistrate: The prisoner wishes to say a word!
[beat]
Hamish and Stephen: Mercy, William. . .Say Mercy. . .
[beat]
William Wallace: FREEEEEDOMMMMMM!