[DaleC]

Just curious what other people think of this topic. I think that the best line in a movie that I've heard is from "Unforgiven," when the Kid and Will have just shot the outlaws in the outhouse. They're waiting for the women to show up, and the Kid is drinking his whiskey under a tree.

WILL: It's a funny thing, killin' a man. You take away everything he has, and everything he's gonna have.

KID: Yeah... well I guess he had it comin'.

WILL: We ALL got it comin', kid.

That line is delivered to perfection, and it makes the hair stand up on my neck every time. Especially since Eastwood looks so much like Death himself. This is the best line to me, because I only had to hear it once and it stuck out so much that I always remembered it.

What are some of your other favourite lines?

[Kenneth]

One of my recent favorites was the line the Alien in Contact has when Ellie meets him:

Quote:

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.

I am also fond of the line from Shawshank Redemption:

"It comes down to a basic choice, really, get busy living or get busy dying"

and also:

Quote:

I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.

That is one of the best lines to end a movie with, in my opinion.

Kenneth

[Dave Gilbert]

"Luke...I am your father."

[Francois Caron]

"Good. Bad. I'm the one with the gun."

[Mike Hutman]

"Money won is twice as sweet as money earned"
Fast Eddie Felson from The Color of Money.

[Dom]

"Well, I don't want FOP goddamit I'm a Dapper Dan Man!"

[Lew Crippen]

The ultimalte cynical line:

Round up the usual suspects

[SteveGon]

My favorite line from my favorite movie:

Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. What 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. So long Holly.

- The Third Man

[Jeff Brickhouse]

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[Jeff Brickhouse]

ROTLA "I hate snakes!" & "Why did it have to be snakes."

a Bug's Life "I'm lost!"

SPACEBALLS "Im surrounded by A..."

And OH So Many More...

Halloween "It was the Boogey-Man. As a matter of fact, it was."

[Andrew_Sch]

If it was REALLY your favorite line, you'd know that it's "It's a helluva thing killin' a man," not, "it's a funny thing."

[Jeff Brickhouse]

Dangit, almost forgot...

Super Troopers "Chicken F******!"