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Bennion's Most Memorable Movie Quotes

No list-by-committee like the AFI's Top 100 Whatevers is going to completely reflect any one person's individual tastes. Given that this here blog-thingie lets me write about any damn thing I want to, I thought I'd supplement the previous entry with some of my own personal favorite movie quotes that didn't make the "official" list. I present them in no particular order...

From Star Wars (this whole movie is a memorable quote for me, but, for the sake of my three loyal readers, I'll restrain myself to just a few):

• "I find your lack of faith disturbing."
• "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope..."
• "You don't need to see his identification."
• "Sorry about the mess."
• "No reward is worth this."
• "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought."
• "Sometimes I amaze even myself."
• "Almost there..."
• "The Force is strong in this one."

From The Empire Strikes Back:

• "Laugh it up, fuzzball."
• "Do. Or do not. There is no try."
• "My hands are dirty, too. What are you afraid of?"

  (Actually, this entire scene between Han and Leia is really great and memorable, but this particular line makes me smile.)
  

• Leia: "I love you!"
  Han: "I know."

  (Hey, if the AFI is going to allow two-character exchanges, then I figure I can, too...)
  

• "I am your father."

  (That one's pretty obvious and overexposed, but this is a list of memorable lines, after all, and I don't think there's more memorable one in the last twenty-five years of film history. Certainly not anywhere in the entire six-part Star Wars saga.)
  

From Return of the Jedi:

• Han: "Luke! How we doing?"
  Luke: "Same as always."
  Han: "That bad, huh?"

From Raiders of the Lost Ark:

• "I don't know, I'm making this up as I go."

From Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (another great "quote movie"):

• "You lost today, kid. That doesn't mean you gotta like it."
• "Ah, Venice."
• "It tells me that goose-stepping morons like you should try reading books instead of burning them!"
• "Dad, I was the next man."

From Batman (1989 version):

• "Where does he get those wonderful toys?"

From Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid:

• "Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?"
  
• Sundance: "What are you doing?"
  Butch: "Stealing your woman."
  Sundance: "Take her."

From Ocean's 11 (2000 version):

• "You're in or you're out, right now."
• "Ten oughta do it, you think? You think we need one more? You think we need one more. Alright, we'll get one more."

From Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn:

• "I have been and always shall be your friend."
• "I shall leave you as you left me... as you left her... in the heart of a dead planet... buried alive. Buried alive."
• "Kaaaaaaahhhhhhhnnnnn!"
• "From hell's heart, I stab at thee. For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee..."

  (Yeah, I know it's actually from Moby Dick, but I love Ricardo Montalban's reading of it.)

From Star Trek III: The Search for Spock:

• Sulu: "The word, Admiral?"
  Kirk: "The word is no. I am therefore going anyway."
  
• "Don't call me 'Tiny.'"
  
• Kirk: "The Kobayashi Maru has set sail for the promised land."
  McCoy: "You're taking me to the promised land?"
  Kirk: "What are friends for?"

• Kirk: "My God, Bones... what have I done?"
  McCoy: "What you had to do. What you always do. Turn death into a fighting chance for life."
  

From Casablanca (another highly quotable film, this one is already heavily represented on the AFI's list, but here are my favorite bits):

• "I have often speculated why you don't return to America. Did you abscond with the church fuinds? Did you run off with a senator's wife? I like to think you killed a man. It's the romantic in me."
  
• Renault: "What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?"
  Rick: "My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters."
  Reneault: "Waters? What waters? We're in the desert."
  Rick: "I was misinformed."

From The Untouchables:

• "You want to get Capone? Here's how you get Capone: when one of his pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of to the morgue. That's the Chicago way."

From Bull Durham:

• "The rose goes in the front, Big Guy."

From Conan the Barbarian:

• Some guy: "Conan, what is best in life?"
  Conan: "To drive your enemies before you, to crush them, and to hear the lamentations of their women."

From The Sword and the Sorcerer:

• "Well, then, let's be off. We've a battle in the offing... kingdoms to save, and women to love!"

I could go on doing this all afternoon, but I don't want to wear out my welcome, so I'll wrap this up for now with a few lines from perhaps the most quotable movie of all time, Army of Darkness:

• "Hail to the king, baby!"
• "Gimme some sugar, baby!"
• "Lady, you got real ugly..."
• "Groovy."

  And who could forget this amazing little gem of the screenwriter's craft:

• "Alright, listen up, you primitive screwheads: this is my boomstick!"

Posted by jason at June 30, 2005 06:26 PM