34 of the Most Memorable Lines From Your Favorite Movies

Hilarious, heartfelt or horrifying, these all made us feel a little something
34 of the Most Memorable Lines From Your Favorite Movies

that one line from that one movie? We know we aren’t being specific, but we bet the line you did think of is on this list. We’re just trying to prove that some lines are so awesome that they can’t help but pop in your head from time to time.

And when they do, they remind you to rewatch the classic movie it came from. So clear your schedule, because we’re about to spark a whole bunch of rewatches!

Cast Away

WILSON! TOM HANKS CRACKED COM NGO Tom told Kelly Clarkson, I get a little bit of everything. Fans yell, 'Houston we have a problem, or 'Life is like a box of chocolates,' but 'Wilson!' I get a lot of that. Clarkson jokingly revealed that she calls the sports balls in her home Wilson too. We're like, grab Wilson, put it in the car.

Home Alone

KEEP THE CHANGE, YA FILTHY ANIMAL RALPH FOODY GRACKED.COM Actor Ralph Foody's Keep the change, ya filthy animal, from film within a film, 'Angels With Filthy Souls' is quoted constantly since 1991. His 2nd appearance as Johnny in Home Alone 2 was his last, as he ed in 1999, but if Home Alone keeps getting plays at Christmas, he'll be known for generations to come.

A Christmas Story

YOU'LL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT, KID JEFF GILLEN CRACKED.COM His mom and teacher both said it, but we all really felt it when Santa shattered Ralphie's dreams. Jeff Gillen, best known as that mall Santa who said, You'll shoot your eye out, kid ed away in 1995, but Peter Billingsley (Ralphie) has strangers quote that line to him to this day.

Taken

A VERY PARTICULAR SET OF SKILLS LIAM NEESON CRACKED.COM One of the best monologues in action movie history, Taken is the rare case of a movie franchise that has grown out of a single speech. Liam Neeson has played Oskar Shindler and Qui-Gon Jinn, but whether it's A very particular set of skills, or I will find you and I will kill you, fans constantly quote whole blocks of the 40 second speech.

When Harry Met Sally

I'LL HAVE WHAT SHE'S HAVING ESTELLE REINER CRACKED.COM 'When Harry Met Sally' director Rob Reiner cast his mother Estelle for that one legendary line. After Meg Ryan fakes an orgasm in the deli, Mrs. Reiner button's the scene with, I'll have what she's having forever landing on countless Best Lines In Cinema lists.

Apocalypse Now

I LOVE THE SMELL OF NAPALM IN THE MORNING ROBERT DUVALL CRACKED COM One of the most quoted lines in movie history, it's referenced in countless other movies and TV shows. Duvall's speech in 1979's Apocalypse Now influenced the action movies to come by Needing that one badass line, and he said in an interview that a day rarely goes by when someone doesn't yell, I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

Airplane!

AND DON'T CALL ME SHIRLEY LESLIE NIELSEN CRACKED.COM When he ed in 2010, Roger Ebert's obit was titled, And don't call me Shirley. Nielsen was a dramatic actor for 30 years before we saw his comedic genius in 'Airplane!' After, Surely you can't be serious, he perfectly delivers, I am serious, and don't call me Shirley, which spawned a string of Naked Gun movies and Police Squad.

The Sixth Sense

I SEE DEAD PEOPLE HALEY JOEL OSMENT CRACKED.COM It still shocks me, like the cultural life of that line, quoted Osment. His performance as a 10 year old in 1999's The Sixth Sense earned him an Oscar nomination, and the classic line made him world famous. Still steadily working 23 years later, he said, I grew a beard to try to hide in public.

Heathers

CRACKED.COM If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a gameshow host. Veronica Sawyer Heather

Dr. Strangelove

CRACKED.COM Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War Room! -President Merkin Muffley Dr Strangelove

The NeverEnding Story

CRACKED.COM Confronted with their true selves, most men run away screaming! - Engywook, The NeverEnding Story

Batman Begins

CRACKED.COM Create enough hunger, and everyone becomes a criminal. - Ducard, from Batman Begins

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

CRACKED.COM Pete, it's a fool who looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart. Nut -Ulysses Everett McGill O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Superman

Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe. Lex Luthor CRACKED.COM SUPERMAN THE MOVIE

Saving Private Ryan

GRACKED.COM Just know that every man I kill, the farther away from home I feel. -Captain Miller Saving Private Ryan

Spider-Man

CRACKED.COM But the one thing they love more than a hero is to see a hero fail, fall, die trying. -Green Goblin, Spider-Man (2002).

The Breakfast Club

We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all. -ANDREW CLARK, THE BREAKFAST CLUB 0 GRACKED.COM

Silence of the Lambs

| do wish we could chat longer but... I'M HAVING AN OLD FRIEND FOR DINNER. -Hannibal Lecter Silence of the Lambs CRACKED.COM

Se7en

Realize, detective, the only reason that I'm here right now is that I wanted to be. -John Doe seven CRACKED.COM

Hellraiser

No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering. -Pinhead Hellraiser CRACKED.COM

The Strangers

WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO US? Because ycu were home - THE STRANGERS (2008) CRACKED.COM

House of 1000 Corpses

It's all true. The boogeyman is real. And you found him. -Otis House of 1,000 Corpses BURN CRACKED.COM

Silverado

Now we're gonna give you a fair trial... followed by a first-class hangin'. -Sheriff Cobb, to a man he knows is innocent, in Silverado CRACKED.COM

Se7en

SE7EN What's in the box?! The studio desperately wanted a boring Hollywood ending, with Mills saving his wife in the nick of time. But they sent the wrong version of the script to David Fincher, who insisted they keep the box scene. CRACKED.COM

Midnight Cowboy

MIDNIGHT COWBOY I'm walking here! The film was SO low-budget that they shot this scene with a hidden camera. Everyone you see is an authentic pissed-off New Yorker, and the line is a genuine reaction to almost getting hit by a cab. CRACKED.COM

Casablanca

CASABLANCA Here's looking at you, kid. Humphrey Bogart would teach poker to Ingrid Bergman between takes, and this was just a common line he'd tease her with. CRACKED.COM

The Shining

THE SHINING Here's Johnny! You may know it's a reference to The Johnny Carson Show, but Stanley Kubrick didn't. He'd lived in England for 20 years, so the reference went over his head, and he almost didn't use the shot. CRACKED.COM

Jaws

JAWS You're gonna need a bigger boat. This line was a big inside joke on set. The producers were too cheap to build a bigger boat, so boat size was brought up any time something went wrong. Roy Scheider delivered the line as a joke in a few other scenes, but accidentally nailed it here. CRACKED.COM

The Warriors

THE WARRIORS Warriors! Come out to play! The director alley-ooped the line to David Patrick Kelly on the spot, and Kelly delivered it like a weirdo neighbor of his used to call his name. CRACKED.COM

Dumb and Dumber

DUMB AND DUMBER Don't worry, we'll catch our break, too. Producers wanted Harry and Lloyd to get on the bus with the bikini babes at the end, but Jim Carrey refused to film the take. CRACKED.COM

Titanic

TITANIC I'm the king of the world! Leo shouted this when he first boarded the ship, and James Cameron chucked it in the script. CRACKED.COM

Chinatown

CHINATOWN Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown Roman Polanski wanted a grittier rewrite of the script, and berated the screenwriter until he rage-quit. Polanski had to crap out a new ending himself, two days before they filmed the scene. CRACKED.COM

Zoolander

ZOOLANDER But why male models? After David Duchovny delivers his monologue about male models making the best assassins, Ben Stiller actually forgot his next line, and just repeated his last one. CRACKED COM

Taxi Driver

De Niro improvised Travis Bickle's entire You talkin' to me? speech in Taxi Driver. Apparently there was no original dialogue and Scorsese just asked him to say something to himself in the mirror.

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