Quote Me This

As most agree, film is a visual medium - one that uses its projected images to reach the audience via their eyes. Needless to say, the sense of sight is one of our strongest senses. Without the visual cortex humans possess, movies would never have come about. And, the term imagination is derived from the Latin (verb), imaginari - meaning to Picture to oneself. All well and good--I am male and I fit that visually oriented stereotype, after all. [wife rolls eyes] Although, if I was all about the visual, the eye spectacle, then something like Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen would be a summer movie favorite of mine--and we know by now that isn't the case. But for me, it doesn't stop there in my enjoyment of film. No, it still comes down to writing. No matter how good the characters look on the big or small screen, what they say (pause for effect), matters. And a film's dialogue is among the best things I enjoy when I take in either a new movie, or an old classic (that I've seen oh so many times). So here in this post, are some of my favorites movie quotes. What are yours?

The Schofield Kid: It don't seem real... how he ain't gonna never breathe again, ever... how he's dead. And the other one too. All on account of pulling a trigger.

William Munny: It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.

The Schofield Kid: Yeah, well, I guess they had it coming.

William Munny: We all got it coming, kid.

W.W. Beauchamp: Who, uh, who'd you kill first?

William Munny: Huh?

W.W. Beauchamp: When confronted by superior numbers, an experienced gunfighter will always fire on the best shot first.

William Munny: Is that so?

W.W. Beauchamp: Yeah, Little Bill told me that. And you probably killed him first, didn't you?

William Munny: I was lucky in the order, but I've always been lucky when it comes to killin' folks.

W.W. Beauchamp: And so, who was next? It was Clyde, right? You must have killed Clyde. Well, it could have been Deputy Andy. Wasn't it? Or, or...

William Munny: All I can tell you is who's gonna be last.

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Captain Renault: I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!

Croupier: Your winnings, sir.

Captain Renault: [sotto voce] Oh, thank you very much.

Senor Ferrari: Might as well be frank, monsieur. It would take a miracle to get you out of Casablanca, and the Germans have outlawed miracles.

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Bounty hunter: You're wanted, Wales.

Josey Wales: Reckon I'm right popular. You a bounty hunter?

Bounty hunter: A man's got to do something for a living these days.

Josey Wales: Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.

Josey Wales: When I get to likin' someone, they ain't around long.

Lone Watie: I notice when you get to DISlikin' someone they ain't around for long neither.

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Captain Cutshaw: And you know what that heartless butcher prescribed" He said, 'here, take this. It's a suicide pill, with a mild laxative side effect.' What kind of bedside manner is that?

Captain Cutshaw: I don't belong to the God is alive and hiding in Argentina club. But, I believe in the Devil, alright. You know why? Because the prick keeps doing commercials.

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Mortimer Brewster: Look I probably should have told you this before but you see... well... insanity runs in my family... It practically gallops.

Mortimer Brewster: Aunt Abby, how can I believe you? There are twelve men down in the cellar and you admit you poisoned them.

Aunt Abby Brewster: Yes, I did. But you don't think I'd stoop to telling a fib?

Vincent Hanna: I'm angry. I'm very angry, Ralph. You know, you can ball my wife if she wants you to. You can lounge around here on her sofa, in her ex-husband's dead-tech, post-modernistic bullshit house if you want to. But you do not get to watch my f*cking television set!

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Justine Hanna: You don't live with me, you live among the remains of dead people. You sift through the detritus, you read the terrain, you search for signs of passing, for the scent of your prey, and then you hunt them down. That's the only thing you're committed to. The rest is the mess you leave as you pass through.

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Leonard: She's gone and the present is trivia that I scribble on these f*cking notes.

Natalie: It must be hard living your life off a couple of scraps of paper. You mix your laundry list with your grocery list you'll end up eating your underwear for breakfast

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Nick Frescia: Generally I recommend my men stay away from vodka, and stick with scotch and bourbon.

Jo Ann: Why is that?

Nick Frescia: So the brass will know they're drunk and not stupid.

Hal Maguire: What do you mean, Frescia?

Nick Frescia: Let's see. You've lost half a million dollars, confiscated a ton of useless coke, and have been responsible for the murder of a federal informant. And that, that's just tonight.

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Noah Cross: 'Course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

Evelyn Mulwray: Hollis seems to think you're an innocent man.

Jake Gittes: Well, I've been accused of a lot of things before, Mrs. Mulwray, but never that.