Movie Lines that Shaped our Lives

By: Dahlia Rideout


"Im gonna make him an offer he can't refuse"
Don Vito Corleone, Godfather 1972


"Gentleman. You can't fight here. This is the war room"
President Merkin Muffley, Dr. Strangelove 1964


"E.T. phone home"
E.T., E.T. 1982


"You talkin' to me?"
Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver 1976


"That is quite a dress you have on"
Jerry Mulligan, An American in Paris 1951


"I love the smell of napalm in the morning"
Lt. Col. Kilgore, Apocalypse Now 1979

"Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops."
Mortimer Brewster, Arsenic and Old Lace 1944


"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"
Rhett Butler, Gone with the Wind 1939


"I wasn't always rich. No, there was a time when I didn't know where my next husband was coming from."
Lady Lou, She done him Wrong 1933


"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti"
Dr. Hannibal, The Silence of the Lambs 1991


"What an excellent day for an exorcism"
Demon, The Exorcist 1973

"Bond. James Bond"
Agent 007, Dr. No 1962


"May the force be with you"
Han Solo, Star Wars 1977


"If the good lord had intended us to walk, he wouldn't have invented roller skates."
Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 1971