By Mary Whitfill
Staff Writer
We are all guilty of one of the most cliché uses of speech: quoting our favorite movies. I just happens, and there isn’t much we can do about it. Movies from the 30s to now have all had a quotable line that we found something special in, and now repeat out loud or just in our heads every time the occasion arises. My top 20 movie quotes are listed below, and feel free to add to the list as you go, and be careful, you might find your speech influenced like many before you.
1. “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” – Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) Gone With the Wind, 1939
2. ” Go ahead, make my day” – Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) Sudden Impact, 1983
3. “I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” – Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) The Godfather 1972
4.”Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” – Jennifer Cavilleri Barrett (Ali MacGraw) Love Story 1970
5. “Bond. James Bond.” – James Bond (Sean Connery) Dr. No 1962
6. “May the Force be with you.” – Han Solo (Harrison Ford) Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope 1997
7. “Here’s to looking at you, kid.” – Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) – Casablanca 1942
8. “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.” – Captain (Strother Martin) Cool Hand Luke 1967
9. “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” – Howard Beale (Peter Finch) Network 1976
10. “There’s no place like home.” – Dorothy Gale (Jusy Garland) The Wizard of Oz 1939
11. “You can’t handle the truth!” – Nathan Jessup (Jack Nicholson) A Few Good Men (1992)
12. “You had me at hello.” – Dorothy Boyd (Renee Zellweger) Jerry Maguire 1996
13. “I was raised on a farm in Mooresville, Indiana. My mama ran out on us when I was three and my daddy beat the hell out of me bacuse the didn’t know no better way to raise me. I like baseball, movies, good clothes, fast cars, whiskey and you… What else do you need to know? – John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) Public Enemies 2009
14. “Elementary, my dear Watson.” – Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1939
15. “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.” – Blanche Dubois (Vivien Leigh) A Streetcar Named Desire 1951
16. “Nobody puts ‘Baby’ in a corner.” – Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze) Dirty Dancing 1987
17. “Tigers love pepper. They hate cinnamon.” – Alan Garner (Zach Galigianakis) The Hangover 2009
18. “Its not what you do, but how you do it.” – Jude (Jim Sturgess) Across the Universe 2007
19. “Look, Daddy. Teacher says everytime a bell rings, an angel gets its wings.” – Zu Zu Bailey (Carolyn Grimes) Its a Wonderful Life 1946
20. “Rosebud.” – Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) Citizin Kane 1941
