Memorable Movie Quotes

"It isn't always being fast or even accurate that counts. It's being willing. I found out early that most men, regardless of cause or need, aren't willing. They blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull the trigger. I won't."
John Wayne as J.B. Books in The Shootist.
 
"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 Lime (Orson Wells) in The Third Man
 
Josie Wales, I thought it was supposed to be hard to sneek up on an indian.
 
"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on.
I don't do these things to other people and I require the same from them."
John Wayne as J.B.Books in The Shootist.

Richard Boone to John Wayne in Big Jake; your fault my fault nobodys fault anything goes wrong we'll just send that boy's body back to you in a basket.

Sean Connery in "The Untouchables" Just like a WOP to bring a knife to a gun fight.

Same movie Sean Connery "If you're afraid of getting a bad apple from the barrel you go to the tree".

Same movie Sean Connery "I said you're a member of a no good lying race".

Kathryn Hepburn in Rooster Cogburn "Wise old owl sat in an oak the more he heard the less he spoke, the less he spoke the more he heard, now wasn"t that a wise old bird?"
 
Crocadile Dundee

To Sue: "Same thought crossed my mind once or twice." I guess you need to know what Sue said before
Dundee said that. But I'm afraid to quote Sue. I don't need another infraction. Google it.
 
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"That wasn't shootin, that was killin."
Rafe Covington to J.T. Langston, Crossfire Trail

"You shot me"
"Just when things were going so well for ya."
Beau Dorn, Rafe Covington, Crossfire Trail
 
"To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people" ( a fish called Wanda)
 
When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."

Kurt Russell as "Jack Burton" in "Big Trouble in Little China"
 
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