Dave's Movie Quotes

Dave was my dad's name. We didn't see eye-to-eye on a lot of things, but we always found common ground at the movies. After he died, I found his packet of favorite movie quotes he used to keep on the old Apple IIe computer when I was growing up. So these are his favorite movie quotes, one per day. Do note that some of them will be potentially offensive to a modern audience, but I've tried to include everything, warts and all, as a complete portrait. Posting a quote does not necessarily imply I endorse it.

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“I’d rather be a pig than a fascist.”

- Shūichirō Moriyama in PORCO ROSSO (1992)

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“Now watch closely, everyone. I’m going to show you how to kill a god.”

- Minnie Driver in PRINCESS MONONOKE (1997)

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“There would be no eulogies for Bob, no photographs of his body would be sold in sundries stores, no people would crowd the streets in the rain to see his funeral cortege, no biographies would be written about him, no children named after him, no one would ever pay twenty-five cents to stand in the rooms he grew up in. The shotgun would ignite, and Ella Mae would scream, but Robert Ford would only lay on the floor and look at the ceiling, the light going out of his eyes before he could find the right words.”

- Hugh Ross narrating the last lines of THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD (2007)

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“I don’t know what it is about you, but the more you talk, the more you give me the willies.”

- Sam Shepard to Casey Affleck in THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD (2007)

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“He was ashamed of his boasting, his pretensions of courage and ruthlessness. He was sorry about his cold-bloodedness, his dispassion, his inability to express what he now believed was the case: That he truly regretted killing Jesse, that he missed the man as much as anybody, and wished his murder hadn’t been necessary.”

- Narrator Hugh Ross in THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD (2007)

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“I can’t hardly recognize myself sometimes when I’m greased. I go on journeys out of my body and look at my red hands and my mean face and I wonder about that man who’s gone so wrong. I’ve been becoming a problem to myself.”

- Brad Pitt in THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD (2007)

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“You read Tolkien?”

“What?”

“You know, the Hobbit books?”

“Yeah.”

“His descriptions of things are really good. He makes you wanna be there.”

- Lukas Haas attempts awkward small talk with Joseph Gordon-Levitt in BRICK (2005)

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“You’ve helped this office out before.”

“No, I gave you Jerr to see him eaten, not to see you fed.”

“Fine. And very well put.”

“Accelerated English. Mrs. Kasprzyk.”

“Tough teacher?”

“Tough but fair.”

- Richard Roundtree and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in BRICK (2005)

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“Throw one at me if you want, hash head. I’ve got all five senses and I slept last night, that puts me six up on the lot of you.”

- Joseph Gordon-Levitt in BRICK (2005)

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“You answered without saying anything. That’s politics.”

- Arthur Kennedy in LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)

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“Doc, you oughta be in bed. What the hell you doin’ this for, anyway?”

“Wyatt Earp is my friend.”

“Hell, I got lots of friends.”

“I don’t.”

- Buck Taylor and Val Kilmer in TOMBSTONE (1993)

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“That’s my jacket.”

“Oh...”

“No, no, no, no. Keep it. It suits you. You’re a good man, Finn.”

Oscar Isaac and John Boyega in the scene that launched a thousand fanfics in STAR WARS EPISODE VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS (2015)

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“We lost our son. Forever.”

“No. It was Snoke. He seduced our son to the dark side. But we can still save him. Me. You.”

“If Luke couldn’t reach him, how could I?”

“Luke is a Jedi. You’re his father.”

- Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher in STAR WARS EPISODE VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS (2015)

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“Watch the thrust. We’re going out of here at lightspeed.”

“From inside the hangar? Is that even possible?”

“I never ask that question ‘till after I’ve done it.”

- Harrison Ford and Daisy Ridley in STAR WARS EPISODE VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS (2015)

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“What are you gonna do?”

“Same thing I always do. Talk my way out of it.”

[Chewbacca growls]

“Yes, I do! Every time!”

- Daisy Ridley, Harrison Ford, and a skeptical Peter Mayhew in STAR WARS EPISODE VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS (2015)

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“The Jedi were real?”

“I used to wonder about that myself. Thought it was a bunch of mumbo-jumbo. A magical power holding together good and evil, the dark side and the light. Crazy thing is...it’s true. The Force. The Jedi. All of it. It’s all true.”

- Daisy Ridley and Harrison Ford in STAR WARS EPISODE VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS (2015)

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“Where’s my boyfriend?”

“Chewie’s working on the Falcon.”

“I like that Wookiee.”

- Lupita Nyong’o and Harrison Ford in STAR WARS EPISODE VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS (2015)