Favorite Movie Quotes

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GaryCooper
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Perfect freedom has no existence. A grown man knows the world he lives in, and for the present, the world is Rome. Young Arrius, I am sure, will choose it.

Pontius Pilate Ben Hur
Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
D. W. Griffith
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Harry Callahan: Uh uh. I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've gotta ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?

Dirty Harry -- Clint Eastwood
Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
D. W. Griffith
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Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?

Beckett -- King Henry II -- Peter O'Toole
Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
D. W. Griffith
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I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

Sunset Boulevard -- Norma Desmond -- Gloria Swanson
Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
D. W. Griffith
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"You thief! It's men like you that make women afraid to wear underwear."
Speedy (1928)
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“Between a jest and a joke, many a truth is told.”

-the cook after Chaucer (Pasolini) mocked his nose, Racconti do Canterbury (1972)
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A man has to be what he is, Joey. Can't break the mold. I tried it and it didn't work for me.

Shane -- Shane -- Alan Ladd
Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
D. W. Griffith
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“Honesty is the best politics” - Stan Laurel, Sons of the Desert

Unintentionally very relevant nowadays.
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“There is no sincerity like a woman telling a lie." Cecil Parker in Indiscreet
When in doubt, have another one.
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Arsan444 wrote: December 8th, 2022, 9:59 pm “There is no sincerity like a woman telling a lie." Cecil Parker in Indiscreet
You reminded me of one from Rex Harrison in the Yellow Rolls Royce:

“Oh, how I am going to hate living from now on.”

The completely broken and despondent way he says this after learning his wife has been unfaithful has stuck with me since I saw it.
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Nothing in the world is so bad as something that is not so bad. From Scarlett Pimpernel (at one minute).

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"I've got vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals" - Butch Cassidy
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What’s another word for engorged?

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Round up the usual suspects.

A likeable but morally dubious character is redeemed in 5 words.
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"Playing strip poker with an exhibitionist somehow takes the challenge away." -- Metropolitan (1990)

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