Leonidas: The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant, that few stood against many, and before this battle was over, that even a god-king can bleed.
Spartan King Leonidas: This is where we fight! This is where they die!
Captain: Earn these shields, boys!
[Spartans cheer]
Spartan King Leonidas: Remember this day, men, for it will [...]

Ben Wade: [while lying down in a hotel room bed] So this is the bridal suite? Now, I wonder how many brides have taken in this view?
Dan Evans: What did Doc Potter give his life for, William? McElroy…
Ben Wade: Little red ants on a hill.
Butterfield: I’ll pay you the 200, Dan. Right now. [...]

Nash: Adam Smith… was wrong.
Nash: My quest has taken me through the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional and back…
Bender: Hey, look, you made the cover of Fortune… again…
Helinger: Mathematicians won the war. Mathematicians broke the Japanese codes… and built the A-bomb. Mathematicians… like you. The stated goal of the Soviets is global Communism. [...]

Alex: Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?
Alex: Initiative comes to thems that wait.
Alex: We were all feeling a bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it being a night of no small expenditure.
Alex: There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, [...]

John Laroche: Who’s gonna play me? I think I should play me.
Donald Kaufman: McKee says we all have to realize we write in a genre, so we must find originality within that genre. Did you know that there hasn’t been a new genre since Fellini invented the mockumentary…? My genre’s thriller, what’s yours?
Donald Kaufman: You [...]

Lester Burnham: Remember those posters that said, “Today is the first day of the rest of your life?” Well, that’s true with every day except one: the day that you die.
Lester Burnham: My name is Lester Burnham. This is my neighborhood. This is my street. This … is my life. I am 42 years old. [...]

Danny: We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained we must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.
Danny: Venice Beach didn’t always look like this. It [...]

Octavio: Come away with me.
El Chivo: [to Aunt Luisa] You’re hostile, sister-in-law.
Octavio: [to his brother Ramiro after being threatened] Being tough won’t make you smart.
Susana: [to Octavio] You and your plans. You know what my grandmother used to say? If you want to make God laugh… tell Him your plans.
Luis Miranda Solares: Is this kidnapping [...]

Richard: [to other tourists] You leave, I’ll kill you. I’ll kill you!
Chieko: [signing to ref] I’m deaf, not blind!
Richard: What about you? How many wives do you have?
Anwar: I can only afford one.
[first lines]
Hassan: It’s almost new. Three hundred cartridges. The guy who gave it to me said you can hit as far as [...]

Journalist #1: Do you consider the book to be autobiographical?
Jesse: Uh, well, I mean… isn’t everything autobiographical?
Jesse: I’m designed to feel slightly dissatisfied!
Celine: One night I heard some noise on my fire excape, so I called 911. And the cops came eventually…
Jesse: Yeah like three hours later.
Celine: [laughing] Yeah, after I had been raped and [...]

Senior Ed Bloom: Truth is, I’ve always been thirsty.
Edward: Now, you may well ask, since this lady fish wasn’t the ghost of a thief, why did it strike so quick on gold when nothing else would attract it? That was the lesson I learned that day, the day my son was born. He focuses his [...]

[denying an official of the German National Bank entrance to the casino]
Rick: Your cash is good at the bar.
Banker: What? Do you know who I am?
Rick: I do. You’re lucky the bar’s open to you.
Ugarte: Heh, you know, watching you just now with the Deutsche Bank, one would think you’ve been doing this all [...]

Charlie Wilson: You mean to tell me that the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan is to have the Afghans keep walking into machine gun fire ’til the Russians run out of bullets?
Gust Avrakotos: That’s Harold Holt’s strategy, not U.S. strategy.
Charlie Wilson: What is U.S. strategy?
Gust Avrakotos: Most strictly speaking, we don’t have one. But we’re working [...]

Julian Taylor: You’re smoking?
Theodore Faron: Yeah; it’s not working.
Jasper: Your baby is the miracle the whole world has been waiting for.
Theodore Faron: You’re a fascist pig!
Theodore Faron: I can’t really remember when I last had any hope, and I certainly can’t remember when anyone else did either. Because really, since women stopped being able to [...]

Zé Pequeno: Where do you want to take the shot? In the hand or in the foot?
Rocket: What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out war. The City of God was divided. You couldn’t go from one section the other, not even to visit a relative. The cops considered anyone living in [...]

Jim Braddock: I have to believe that when things are bad I can change them.
Jim Braddock: For two hundred and fifty dollars I would fight your wife!
Joe Gould: Now you’re dreaming
Jim Braddock: …and your grandmother, at the same time.
Joe Gould: Teeth in or teeth out?
Jim Braddock: Take ‘em out!
Joe Gould: Then you’re dead, you’re down, [...]

Vincent: Of all the cabbies in L.A. I get Max, Sigmund Freud meets Dr. Ruth.
Max: [In the dark] Let her go.
Vincent: Max? Why? What are you gonna do about it?
[He gets shot]
Annie: Well, how many cabbies do you know get you into an argument to save you money?
Max: If there were two of [...]

John Dunbar: [to his army captors who are interrogating him, in Lakota] My name is Dances with Wolves. I will not talk to you anymore. You are not worth talking to.
[talking about the white men coming]
Kicking Bird: How many?
John Dunbar: Like the stars.
John Dunbar: As I heard my Sioux name called out over [...]

Clementine: This is it, Joel. It’s going to be gone soon.
Joel: I know.
Clementine: What do we do?
Joel: Enjoy it.
Joel: Sand is overrated.
Mary: How happy is the blameless Vestal’s lot! / The world forgetting, by the world forgot / Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! / Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d.
Carrie: God, Rob! Give [...]

The Sacré-Coeur Boy: The fool looks at a finger that points at the sky.
[Mme. Wallace is reading an old letter from her long-deceased husband.]
Mme. Wallace: “When my sweet little weasel appears at the station…” Did anyone ever write you like that?
Amélie: No. I’m nobody’s little weasel.
Eva: Times are hard for dreamers.
Amélie Poulain: At least you’ll [...]

Sharks: [reciting] I am a nice shark, not a mindless eating machine. If I am to change this image, I must first change myself. Fish are friends, not food.
Marlin: Good feeling’s gone.
Dory: [Reading a door] Hey, look. “Esc-a-pay”. Hey, it’s spelled just like escape.
Marlin: It’s because I like you, I don’t want to be with [...]

Michael Llewelyn Davies: Excuse me, sir, you’re standing on my sleeve.
J.M. Barrie: [moves his foot and looks down to face Michael] Am I? So sorry. I might point out you’re lying under my bench.
J.M. Barrie: In punishment for lack of an interesting pirate name, Peter shall walk the plank.
Charles Frohman: [talking about plans for Peter [...]

Forrest Gump: Hello… my name’s Forrest. Forrest Gump.
Lt. Dan: Gump, Have you found Jesus?
Forrest Gump: I didn’t know I was suppose to be looking for him, sir.
Forrest Gump: Stupid is as stupid does.
Forrest Gump: She got the cancer and died on a Tuesday.

Forrest: We was always taking long walks, and we was always looking for [...]

Lucilla: Today I saw a slave become more powerful than the Emperor of Rome.
Lucilla: My brother hates all the world and you most of all.
Maximus: Because your father chose me.
Lucilla: No. Because my father loved you. And because I loved you.
Proximo:I know that you are a man of your word, General. I know that you [...]

Pete the Killer: [points] By the way, I took care of that thing for ya
Man In Trunk: “No, Tommy, no, no.”
Tommy Devito: Bleeping piece of bleep! (Starts stabbing him) Die, die! Look at me, look at my bleeping eyes, die! (Jimmy shoots him three times)
Tommy: She’s prejudiced against Italians. Can you believe that? [...]

Dr. Meredith Grey: Did you let me scrub in for this operation because I slept with you?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Yes.
[pause]
Dr. Derek Shepherd: Just kidding.
Katie Bryce: You are so lost.
Dr. Meredith Grey: I am not lost. Okay?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: It’s not the chase.
Dr. Meredith Grey: What?
Dr. Derek Shepherd: You and me. It is not the thrill [...]

Paul: [of the Tutsi] You cannot seriously think that you can kill them all.
George: And why not? We are halfway there already.
Colonel Oliver: We’re here as peace keepers, not peace makers
Tatiana Rusesabagina: [while watching a neighbor get beaten] Do something.
Paul Rusesabagina: Do what?
Tatiana Rusesabagina: Call someone.
Paul Rusesabagina: [after shutting the gate] There is nothing we [...]

Woman Evacuee: [repeated] I’m not infected!
TV Personality: The world of medicine has seen it’s share of miracle cures, from the polio vaccine to heart transplants. But all past achievements may pale in comparison to the work of Dr. Alice Krippin. Thank you so much for joining us this morning.
Dr. Alice Krippin: Not at all.
TV [...]

Christopher McCandless: Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness… give me truth.
Christopher McCandless: I’m supertramp.
[looks at apple]
Christopher McCandless: and you’re super apple!
Christopher McCandless: The core of mans’ spirit comes from new experiences.
Rainey: That poor girl’s just about ready to vault herself onto a fencepost.
Ron Franz: When you forgive, you love. And [...]

Sarah Whittle: Alan, you wrestled an alligator for me.
Alan Parrish: It was a crocodile. Alligators don’t have that little fringe on their hind leg.
Sarah Whittle: My mistake.
Alan Parrish: [in terror] “A hunter from the darkest wild… makes you feel just like a child.”
Sarah Whittle: What is it?
Alan Parrish: Van Pelt.
Alan Parrish: Are you [...]