144 Fun Facts About Movie Quotes

In Casablanca, 'Here's looking at you, kid' is said to a character played by which actress?

Ingrid Bergman hears the toast four times, first over drinks in the Paris flashback and last at the airport, as Rick sends her away on the plane with her husband.

The AFI credits 'May the Force be with you' to which Star Wars character, a professed skeptic of the Force?

Han Solo, who scoffs at 'hokey religions', says it to Luke before the Death Star attack; Obi-Wan's line in the 1977 film is 'The Force will be with you, always'.

Which movie features the quote: 'I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse'?

The Godfather's Don Vito says it of a studio boss who won't cast his godson; the offer turns out to be the severed head of the man's prize racehorse, left in his bed.

Which movie features the quote: 'You talkin' to me?'?

Robert De Niro's Travis Bickle rehearses a confrontation in the mirror in Taxi Driver (1976). Screenwriter Paul Schrader says De Niro improvised the dialogue.

Which movie features the quote: 'Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn'?

Gone with the Wind's Rhett says it as he leaves Scarlett for good; censors objected to 'damn' shortly before the 1939 release, then relented, and the line stayed.

In which film did Arnold Schwarzenegger first deliver his catchphrase 'I'll be back'?

Arnold Schwarzenegger's deadpan delivery in The Terminator (1984) became his career-defining catchphrase. He had trouble pronouncing 'I'll' and asked James Cameron to change it to 'I will be back', but Cameron kept the contraction.

Which actor growls 'Go ahead, make my day' in 1983's Sudden Impact?

Clint Eastwood's Harry Callahan says it to the last gunman in a diner hold-up, who has grabbed a hostage; the waitress had tipped Harry off by pouring sugar into his black coffee.

Which movie features the quote: 'You can't handle the truth!'?

A Few Good Men's Colonel Jessep explodes under Lieutenant Kaffee's questioning, then admits he ordered the 'code red' that killed a marine and is arrested in the courtroom.

Which actor voices Toy Story's Buzz, who cries 'To infinity and beyond!'?

Tim Allen's Buzz shouts it believing he is a real space ranger; only after he sees a TV commercial for Buzz Lightyear toys, and breaks his arm trying to fly, does he accept the truth.

Which movie features the quote: 'Why so serious?'?

Heath Ledger's Joker asks it while telling contradictory stories about his scars in The Dark Knight (2008). Ledger won a posthumous Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

In Forrest Gump, where is Forrest sitting when he says life was 'like a box of chocolates'?

At a bus stop in Savannah, Forrest offers a nurse a chocolate and starts telling his life story; the bench was a film prop placed in Chippewa Square, and one copy is now kept in a city museum.

Which movie features the quote: 'I see dead people'?

The Sixth Sense's Cole whispers it to his psychologist Malcolm, adding that the dead don't know they are dead; in the final scene Malcolm realises he never survived being shot and is one of them.

Which movie features the quote: 'Say hello to my little friend!'?

Scarface's Tony Montana shouts it as he fires the grenade launcher fixed under his rifle at the gunmen a rival drug lord has sent to storm his mansion.

In E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the alien builds his 'phone home' transmitter around which toy?

Speak & Spell: E.T. gets the idea from a newspaper comic strip of spacemen calling home, then wires the talking spelling toy into a transmitter built from household odds and ends to signal his ship.

Which movie features the quote: 'Well, nobody's perfect'?

Joe E. Brown's millionaire Osgood shrugs it off when Jack Lemmon's Jerry admits he is a man at the end of Some Like It Hot (1959). Writers Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond meant the closing line as a placeholder and never bettered it.

Which movie features the quote: 'Just keep swimming'?

Finding Nemo's forgetful Dory sings it to keep Marlin going on the search for his son; thirteen years later Ellen DeGeneres's sidekick got a film of her own, Finding Dory.

Which movie features the quote: 'You're gonna need a bigger boat'?

Jaws's Chief Brody says it to Quint, stunned, moments after the shark breaks the surface right behind him while he shovels chum into the sea.

Which movie features the quote: 'I'll have what she's having'?

When Harry Met Sally...'s punchline was Billy Crystal's idea, and director Rob Reiner gave it to his own mother, Estelle, who plays the woman watching from a nearby table.

Which movie features the quote: 'Here's Johnny!'?

Jack Nicholson improvised the line while hacking through a bathroom door in The Shining (1980). It borrows Ed McMahon's nightly introduction of Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show.

Which movie features the quote: 'Wax on, wax off'?

The Karate Kid's Mr. Miyagi sets Daniel days of chores, starting with waxing his cars; when the boy rebels, Miyagi shows him the repeated motions have taught him to block punches.

Which movie features the quote: 'That'll do, pig, that'll do'?

Babe's Farmer Hoggett says it after his pig wins the sheepdog trials; James Cromwell almost turned the part down because the farmer has so few lines.

Which movie features the quote: 'I feel the need... the need for speed'?

Top Gun's Maverick and Goose split the line between them, and the AFI credits both actors; after Goose is killed ejecting from their jet, Maverick loses his nerve in the air.

Which movie features the quote: 'I'm the king of the world!'?

Titanic's Jack shouts it from the bow, having won his ticket in a poker game; James Cameron shouted the line again on the Oscar stage as he accepted his statuette.

Which movie features the quote: 'Nobody puts Baby in a corner'?

Dirty Dancing's Johnny says it as he interrupts the resort's end-of-season show and pulls Baby on stage for the last dance, where they land the lift they had fumbled before.

In which film does Arnold Schwarzenegger say 'Hasta la vista, baby'?

Arnold Schwarzenegger's T-800 says it before shooting the frozen T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). Edward Furlong's John Connor teaches him the slang earlier in the film.

Which movie features the quote: 'You had me at hello'?

Renée Zellweger as Dorothy Boyd cuts off Tom Cruise's impassioned speech with the line in Jerry Maguire (1996). The film also gave the world 'You complete me'.

Which movie features the quote: 'There's no crying in baseball!'?

A League of Their Own's manager Jimmy Dugan shouts it when right fielder Evelyn bursts into tears as he berates her for a bad throw; the umpire steps in, and Dugan gets himself ejected for insulting him.

Aibileen tells a toddler 'You is kind, you is smart, you is important' in which 2011 film?

The Help's Aibileen repeats the words to Mae Mobley, the child she is raising for a neglectful mother, hoping she will come to believe them.

Which movie features the quote: 'I'm walking here! I'm walking here!'?

Dustin Hoffman as Ratso Rizzo yells it at a cab in Midnight Cowboy (1969). Hoffman says a real cab ran the light and he stayed in character, though producer Jerome Hellman disputes that it was an ad-lib.

Which movie features the quote: 'Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore'?

The Wizard of Oz has Dorothy say it as she steps out of her sepia Kansas farmhouse into a Technicolor Munchkinland; the line is often misquoted as 'I don't think we're in Kansas anymore'.

In which 1999 film does Tyler Durden declare its 'first rule' is that you do not talk about it?

Fight Club's second rule simply repeats the first, yet word spreads anyway: new members pour in, and Tyler turns the club into the anti-capitalist Project Mayhem.

Andy Dufresne tells Red 'Get busy living, or get busy dying' in which 1994 prison film?

The Shawshank Redemption's Andy says it to Red in the prison yard while dreaming of Zihuatanejo; paroled the next year, Red repeats the words and sets off to join him in Mexico.

Which movie features the quote: 'Greed, for lack of a better word, is good'?

Michael Douglas's Gordon Gekko delivers the speech in Wall Street (1987) and won the Best Actor Oscar. Oliver Stone modeled it on Ivan Boesky's 1986 Berkeley commencement remark that 'greed is healthy'.

Which movie features the quote: 'Rosebud'?

Orson Welles's Charles Foster Kane whispers it as his dying word in Citizen Kane (1941). The mystery of its meaning drives the plot, and it turns out to be the name of his childhood sled.

Which movie features the quote: 'With great power comes great responsibility'?

Spider-Man (2002) has Uncle Ben say it as a warning that Peter shrugs off; that night Ben is shot dead by a carjacker Peter had let run past him.

Which movie features the quote: 'I am Groot'?

Vin Diesel voices the tree-like Groot, whose speech is limited to that one phrase, in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). Diesel also recorded the line for several foreign-language dubs.

Which movie has the line 'Surely you can't be serious.' 'I am serious... and don't call me Shirley'?

Airplane!'s Dr. Rumack says it deadpan because the directors insisted on serious actors such as Leslie Nielsen rather than comedians, and told them to play it as if they weren't in a comedy.

In The Fellowship of the Ring, Gandalf roars 'You shall not pass!' at which monster?

The Balrog, a demon of fire, is held off on the Bridge of Khazad-dûm so the others can escape; as it falls, its whip catches Gandalf's leg and drags him into the chasm after it.

Which 2008 Marvel film ends with Tony Stark revealing his secret identity at a press conference?

Iron Man ends with Stark telling reporters 'I am Iron Man'; in the post-credits scene Nick Fury quotes the line back at him and tells him he has become part of a bigger universe.

Which movie features the quote: 'Inconceivable!'?

Wallace Shawn's Vizzini keeps exclaiming it in The Princess Bride (1987), prompting Inigo Montoya's reply: 'You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.'

Which movie features the quote: 'Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night'?

Bette Davis as Margo Channing delivers the warning at her party in All About Eve (1950). It is often misquoted as 'bumpy ride', and the film went on to win Best Picture.

Which movie features the quote: 'I coulda been a contender'?

On the Waterfront's Terry Malloy, a former boxer, says it to his brother Charley, blaming him for sacrificing his career and the shot at the title he might have had.

Which movie features the quote: 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!'?

Peter Finch's unraveling anchorman Howard Beale urges viewers to shout it from their windows in Network (1976). Finch died before the ceremony and became the first performer to win a posthumous acting Oscar.

Which movie features the quote: 'Houston, we have a problem'?

Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell delivers the line in Apollo 13 (1995). The real 1970 transmission was 'Houston, we've had a problem', which screenwriter William Broyles Jr. felt was less dramatic.

Which 1968 film features the plea 'Open the pod bay doors, HAL'?

2001: A Space Odyssey's HAL refuses, 'I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that', so Bowman blasts himself through the emergency airlock without a helmet and shuts the computer down.

Which character's two-word line is the only 21st-century entry on the AFI's 100 greatest movie quotes?

Gollum's 'My precious', from The Two Towers (2002), stands alone because the ballot went out in 2004; Andy Serkis performed the computer-generated creature through motion capture.

Which former James Bond hosted the 2005 TV special counting down the AFI's 100 greatest movie quotes?

Pierce Brosnan hosted the three-hour CBS special, but none of his own lines as 007 made the cut: both Bond quotes on the list are credited to Sean Connery.

Which actor spoke the most quotes on the AFI's top-100 list, with five?

Humphrey Bogart speaks five of the hundred, and another, Lauren Bacall's lesson in whistling from To Have and Have Not, is spoken to him; the co-stars married the following year.

Barbra Streisand's first words on screen, 'Hello, gorgeous', open which 1968 musical?

Funny Girl won Barbra Streisand the Best Actress Oscar for her film debut; handed the statuette, she began her speech with the same two words.

Who actually says 'Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By' in Casablanca?

Ilsa Lund says it; the famous 'Play it again, Sam' is never spoken in the film, though Rick later says 'If she can stand it, I can. Play it.'

In Casablanca, who orders the police to 'round up the usual suspects'?

Captain Renault (Claude Rains) says it after Rick shoots Major Strasser; the line gave its name to the 1995 neo-noir The Usual Suspects.

The much-misquoted 'We don't need no stinkin' badges!' comes from which 1948 film?

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre's bandit Gold Hat never says the short version; that wording comes from later spoofs, among them a 1967 Monkees episode and Mel Brooks's Blazing Saddles.

In Field of Dreams, whose ghost appears after Ray hears 'If you build it, he will come'?

Shoeless Joe Jackson, banned after the 1919 Black Sox scandal, walks out of the corn; the whisper says 'he will come' and is routinely misquoted as 'they will come'.

Which 1953 Western ends with a boy shouting 'Come back!' after a departing gunfighter?

Shane ends with young Joey calling after Alan Ladd's gunfighter, who has just told him that 'there's no living with a killing' and that he doesn't belong in the valley, and rides away.

Which 1930s star purrs 'Why don't you come up sometime and see me?' in She Done Him Wrong?

Mae West says it to a young Cary Grant, playing the strait-laced mission captain next door, in a film adapted from Diamond Lil, the Broadway play she wrote for herself.

Who played Mrs. Robinson, asked 'you're trying to seduce me, aren't you?' in The Graduate?

Anne Bancroft, cast as the predatory older woman, was born in 1931 and Dustin Hoffman in 1937, so she was only about six years older than the graduate she seduces.

Which movie character tells a guest 'A boy's best friend is his mother'?

Norman Bates says it to Marion Crane in Psycho; his mother has in fact been dead for ten years, and the 'Mother' who kills Marion is Norman himself.

Who says 'All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up' in Sunset Boulevard?

Gloria Swanson's Norma Desmond says it as she comes down her staircase to be arrested for murder, believing the newsreel cameras waiting below are shooting her comeback film.

In Dirty Harry's 'Do I feel lucky?' speech, which gun is 'the most powerful' in the world?

Harry calls his Smith & Wesson Model 29 a '.44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world'; he pulls the trigger on the surrendering robber anyway, and the gun clicks empty.

Which actor won an Oscar playing the wide receiver who shouts 'Show me the money!'?

Cuba Gooding Jr. won Best Supporting Actor as Rod Tidwell, the one client who stays with a fired sports agent, after making him yell the line down the phone.

Marlon Brando's anguished cry of 'Hey, Stella!' made the AFI list from which film?

A Streetcar Named Desire's Stanley bellows it from the courtyard after striking his pregnant wife in a drunken rage at a poker night; she comes down from the neighbour's flat and goes back to him.

'What we've got here is failure to communicate' is from which 1967 prison film?

The Captain (Strother Martin) delivers it in Cool Hand Luke after bludgeoning Paul Newman's recaptured Luke, who has just been fitted with leg irons.

In Apocalypse Now, which surf-mad officer says 'I love the smell of napalm in the morning'?

Lt. Col. Kilgore (Robert Duvall) says it on a beach he has just taken by helicopter assault, keen to watch a champion surfer from the patrol boat's crew ride its waves.

'...means never having to say you're sorry' is the famous line of which 1970 tearjerker?

In Love Story (1970) Jenny says it to Oliver earlier in the film, and Oliver repeats 'Love means never having to say you're sorry' to his father after her death.

Sam Spade calls a statuette 'the stuff that dreams are made of' at the end of which film?

The Maltese Falcon ends with Sam Spade handing the bird, by then exposed as a fake, to the police as evidence, moments after giving up the woman he loves for murder.

Anthony Hopkins's Hannibal Lecter says he ate a census taker's liver with fava beans and which wine?

Chianti: having named the wine, Lecter makes a slurping sound at the glass, tells Clarice to fly back to school and turns his back on her.

Which actor shouts the closing line 'Soylent Green is people!'?

Charlton Heston's detective howls it as he is carried away at the end; Harry Harrison's novel Make Room! Make Room!, on which the film is based, has no such twist: the screenplay added the cannibalism.

In Dead Poets Society, the boys salute their teacher with 'O Captain! my Captain!', by which poet?

Walt Whitman wrote the poem as an elegy for the murdered Abraham Lincoln; Keating invites the class to call him by it, and Todd is first onto his desk to say it when the teacher is forced out.

Which 1982 film has a little girl announce 'They're here' to a static-filled TV?

In Poltergeist, five-year-old Carol Anne had been chatting with the set after the broadcast day ended; the next morning the silverware bends and the kitchen chairs stack themselves.

'Is it safe?' is asked over and over during a dental torture scene in which 1976 thriller?

Marathon Man's Nazi dentist Szell (Laurence Olivier) keeps asking it as he drills the teeth of Dustin Hoffman's student, who has no idea that 'it' is Szell's trip to collect diamonds from a New York bank.

In which 1975 film does Al Pacino's bank robber lead a street crowd in chanting 'Attica!'?

Dog Day Afternoon's Sonny wins over the crowd outside the bank by invoking the 1971 Attica prison uprising, which had ended with dozens of inmates and hostages dead when the state retook the prison.

Adrian, of Rocky's 'Yo, Adrian!', works part-time in what kind of shop?

A pet store: Adrian works part-time at J&M Tropical Fish, where Rocky keeps dropping by to win over the painfully shy clerk, until her brother Paulie sets up their first date.

In which film does James Bond himself first say 'shaken, not stirred' on screen?

Bond first says 'shaken, not stirred' himself in Goldfinger (1964); in Dr. No the words come from the villain offering him a drink, not from 007.

In Cast Away, Wilson, the companion Tom Hanks talks to, is what kind of ball?

Wilson is a Wilson-brand volleyball that washed ashore in a FedEx package; Chuck draws its face in his own blood after cutting his hand trying to make fire.

Who spoke 'Wait a minute... you ain't heard nothin' yet' in 1927's The Jazz Singer?

Al Jolson's 'You ain't heard nothin' yet' was already his well-worn stage patter, so audiences heard a long-running in-joke become the first famous line of the talkies.

'Snap out of it!' earned a spot on the AFI list for which 1987 romantic comedy?

Cher's Loretta delivers it in Moonstruck with a slap to Nicolas Cage; the role won her the Best Actress Oscar, and the AFI placed the line 96th.

'We rob banks' is the matter-of-fact introduction in which 1967 film?

Bonnie and Clyde has Clyde introduce the pair this way to a ruined farmer, who just stares; they had met when he tried to steal her mother's car and Bonnie, a bored waitress, chose to join him.

Who improvised Caddyshack's 'Cinderella story' monologue from two lines of direction?

Bill Murray, as groundskeeper Carl Spackler, was simply told by director Harold Ramis to act like a kid narrating his own game; he beheaded flowers with a grass whip while 'winning' the Masters.

'It was Beauty killed the Beast' is the closing line of which 1933 film?

King Kong's showman Carl Denham says it over the ape's body, correcting a policeman who credits the pilots; Kong had carried Ann up the Empire State Building before their planes shot him down.

Which film's president scolds two brawling men with 'This is the War Room!'?

Dr. Strangelove's President Muffley says it as General Turgidson wrestles the Soviet ambassador, caught photographing the Big Board with a hidden camera; Peter Sellers plays the president and two other roles.

'Win just one for the Gipper' comes from a 1940 biopic of which Notre Dame football coach?

Knute Rockne made the plea himself: at half-time of the 1928 Army game he told his players of the wish George Gipp is said to have made on his deathbed eight years earlier.

Which president quoted Back to the Future's 'Where we're going, we don't need roads' in a State of the Union?

Ronald Reagan used Doc Brown's line in his 1986 State of the Union; Back to the Future itself had joked in 1985 about an actor named Reagan being president.

Which screen legend sighs 'I want to be alone' as a ballerina in 1932's Grand Hotel?

Greta Garbo became so identified with the line that she later protested she had only ever said she wanted 'to be let alone'.

Who delivered 'They call me Mister Tibbs!' in In the Heat of the Night?

Sidney Poitier's Virgil Tibbs snaps it at Rod Steiger's police chief; the line ranks 16th on the AFI list and became the title of the 1970 sequel.

Which Ghostbuster warns the team that crossing the streams could be catastrophic?

Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) warns 'Don't cross the streams', then reverses himself at the climax, ordering the team to cross them to close Gozer's gateway.

Which actor shouts 'Made it, Ma, top of the world!' atop a storage tank at the end of White Heat?

James Cagney's Cody Jarrett, a gangster devoted to his mother, climbs the tank with the police closing in and fires into it himself, so that it explodes beneath him.

Jules and Vincent's 'Royale with Cheese' conversation is in which 1994 film?

Pulp Fiction's Vincent explains that the French, having the metric system, wouldn't know what a Quarter Pounder is; French McDonald's really do rename it, as the Royal Cheese.

Who says 'Leave the gun, take the cannoli' in The Godfather?

Clemenza (Richard Castellano) says it after having the traitor Paulie killed on Sonny's orders; the script is said to have stopped at 'Leave the gun', with 'take the cannoli' the actor's ad-lib.

In Die Hard, before his 'Yippee-ki-yay', John McClane says he was always partial to which singing cowboy?

Roy Rogers: mocked by Hans Gruber as a would-be John Wayne or Rambo, McClane says he always liked Roy Rogers and his sequined shirts, then signs off with his cowboy whoop.

Which actor plays the leader shielded by cries of 'I'm Spartacus!'?

Kirk Douglas played the rebel leader in the 1960 epic; Tony Curtis's Antoninus is first to shout the line, the others take it up, and Crassus orders them all crucified along the Appian Way.

In It's a Wonderful Life, which Bailey child says a ringing bell means an angel got wings?

Zuzu Bailey, in George's arms, says it when a bell on the Christmas tree rings; a copy of Tom Sawyer inscribed by Clarence arrives at the same moment.

In Forrest Gump, who first shouts 'Run, Forrest, run!' as bullies chase him?

Young Jenny Curran shouts it as bullies chase Forrest on bikes, and his leg braces fall apart as he discovers he can run.

Diane Keaton's 'La-dee-da, la-dee-da' comes from which Woody Allen film?

Annie Hall says it, flustered, the day she meets Alvy on a tennis date; Woody Allen wrote the role specifically for Diane Keaton, whose real surname is Hall.

'Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?' is the dying line of which 1931 gangster film?

Little Caesar's Rico is goaded out of hiding when a police sergeant brands him a coward in the newspapers, and is gunned down behind a billboard advertising his old partner's dance act.

Which 1996 slasher, drafted as Scary Movie, opens with a phone caller quizzing Casey Becker on horror films?

Scream began as Kevin Williamson's script Scary Movie, written in three days. Its masked caller opens by asking Casey to name her favorite scary film, then turns the chat into deadly trivia.

In Mean Girls, Karen Smith tells new girl Cady that Regina George's clique wears which color on Wednesdays?

Pink is the dress code, and fans now mark Mean Girls Day every October 3 by wearing it. The date itself comes from a throwaway line of Cady's.

Which 1990 comedy invented the gangster film Angels with Filthy Souls so a boy could scare visitors with its dialogue?

Home Alone shot its fake gangster film in a single day, parodying the 1938 crime film Angels with Dirty Faces. Kevin replays its snarled send-off about keeping the change to terrify a pizza delivery boy.

Which Star Wars character did George Lucas give a backward speech pattern, judging it more dramatic than an accent?

Yoda speaks in an inverted phrase order because Lucas wanted something more distinctive than a foreign accent. Frank Oz, who voiced and puppeteered the Jedi Master, delivered the lines.

Which 2006 Samuel L. Jackson thriller added five days of reshoots for a profane line from fans' online parodies?

Snakes on a Plane became an internet joke before release, so New Line raised its rating from PG-13 to R and shot new scenes. The best-known addition was Jackson's sweary demand to be rid of the reptiles.

Which 1993 film gave Matthew McConaughey his thrice-repeated catchphrase, coined in the first scene he shot for it?

Dazed and Confused began filming McConaughey with the Top Notch drive-in scene, where his character Wooderson invites younger kids to a keg party. He made up the greeting moments before the cameras rolled.

Which computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey calmly refuses to let astronaut Dave Bowman back aboard the ship Discovery One?

HAL 9000 apologizes politely and locks Bowman out, because the crew's plan to disconnect him threatens the mission. Bowman gets back in by blowing his pod's door off, which hurls him helmetless into an emergency airlock.

Which actor ad-libbed the last line of Good Will Hunting, as therapist Sean Maguire reads the note Will leaves behind?

Robin Williams improvised constantly on set, and his grumble that Will had stolen his line became the film's closing words. The performance won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

Which rebel leader in The Matrix offers Neo a choice of two pills, one revealing the truth and one restoring illusion?

Morpheus, played by Laurence Fishburne, holds out a red pill for the unsettling truth and a blue one for comfortable ignorance. The scene turned both pills into everyday metaphors.

Which game show host, Adam Sandler's pro-am partner in Happy Gilmore, brawls with him amid a taunt about prices?

Bob Barker, then host of The Price Is Right, plays himself and wins the fistfight. The scene earned him and Sandler the MTV Movie Award for Best Fight.

Which Monty Python and the Holy Grail foe loses every limb to King Arthur, then declares the fight a draw?

The Black Knight, played by John Cleese, waves away each severed arm as a scratch or a flesh wound. Reduced to a torso, he is still shouting threats as Arthur rides off.

In A Christmas Story, which gift do Ralphie's mother, his teacher and a store Santa all warn will cost him an eye?

A BB gun, a Red Ryder air rifle, is all Ralphie wants for Christmas. He gets it, and a pellet soon ricochets off his metal target and knocks his glasses off.

In Legally Blonde, which law school does Elle Woods shrug off getting into when her stunned ex spots her on campus?

Harvard Law School admits Elle on a 4.0 GPA, and she follows her ex Warner there to win him back. When he gapes that she got in, she asks, in effect, whether it was meant to be hard.

Which actor's King Leonidas roars his city's name before kicking a Persian herald into a pit in the film 300?

Gerard Butler's bellow became an internet meme in the late 2000s, and the film was spoofed on Saturday Night Live and Robot Chicken. He leads 300 Spartans against the army of Xerxes.

Which Back to the Future character's pet exclamation about a great Scott dates back at least to the Civil War?

Doc Brown's catchphrase turns up in a Union soldier's diary from May 1864, long before Christopher Lloyd shouted it. Superman is fond of the same exclamation.

Which 1931 Universal horror film had a line of triumphant dialogue cut by state censors as blasphemous?

Frankenstein has Colin Clive's scientist cry that his creature lives and then liken himself to God. Censors in several states objected, and the comparison stayed missing from prints for decades.

Which 1995 thriller ends with Brad Pitt's detective frantically demanding to know what a courier's box contains?

Seven never shows what is in the box, and the studio pushed for a gentler ending. Brad Pitt has said executives wanted his detective to spare the killer, with a dog's head inside instead.

Which Jurassic Park mathematician, played by Jeff Goldblum, insists nature will always find a way past the fences?

Ian Malcolm's warning that life cannot be fenced in became the signature line of the franchise and of Goldblum himself. The character returns as the lead of the sequel, The Lost World.

Which swordsman, played by Mandy Patinkin, introduces himself to his father's killer and then warns him to expect death?

Inigo Montoya devoted his life to the sword to avenge his father Domingo, a great swordsmith murdered by a nobleman. Patinkin played him in Rob Reiner's 1987 film adaptation.

Which city does anchorman Ron Burgundy urge to keep things classy at the end of every news broadcast?

San Diego hears the sign-off nightly until a rival rewrites the teleprompter and Ron reads out an insult instead. BBC presenter Andrew Marr borrowed the farewell for his final broadcast in 2021.

Which serial killer in The Silence of the Lambs orders a captive in a dry well to rub lotion on her skin?

Buffalo Bill, whose real name is Jame Gumb, addresses his prisoner only as an object, never by name. She fights back by luring his dog Precious into the well as a hostage.

Which 1998 war film has a dying Captain Miller urge a young paratrooper to earn the sacrifice made for him?

Saving Private Ryan closes its final battle with Tom Hanks's captain whispering two words to the man his squad was sent to bring home. Steven Spielberg's film became the second-highest-grossing release of 1998.

Which Rocky III challenger, played by Mr. T, first growled the actor's trademark line about pitying a fool?

Clubber Lang says it about Rocky before their title fight, in a line Sylvester Stallone wrote for him. Mr. T later turned the phrase into a trademark, down to a 2006 reality show named after it.

In Pretty Woman, Vivian returns to gloat about a big mistake to snobbish saleswomen on which Los Angeles-area street?

Rodeo Drive saleswomen turn Vivian away because of how she looks, so she comes back laden with shopping bags to remind them that they work on commission.

In The Devil Wears Prada, Miranda Priestly's monologue traces an assistant's lumpy sweater to which exact shade of blue?

Cerulean, Miranda explains, reached Andy's bargain-bin sweater only after designers and fashion editors had chosen it for her. The speech skewers Andy's belief that she stands outside fashion.

Which ballplayer's real farewell speech at Yankee Stadium does Gary Cooper re-enact to close The Pride of the Yankees?

Lou Gehrig called himself the luckiest man alive in 1939, after illness ended his career. Producer Samuel Goldwyn agreed to make the film only after weeping at newsreel footage of the speech.

Which 1968 film has a wounded astronaut regain his voice and order a captor to take its paws off him?

Planet of the Apes keeps its hero Taylor silent for much of the film after a bullet wounds his throat. His first words to his captors, a snarled insult, shock a society that believes humans cannot speak.

Which duo's routine about oddly named infielders, filmed for The Naughty Nineties, plays on a loop at Cooperstown?

Abbott and Costello first put the routine on film in 1940, but the longer 1945 version is considered their best. A gold record of it has sat in the Baseball Hall of Fame since 1956.

In The Big Lebowski, which ruined household item does the Dude keep saying held his whole living room together?

A rug is ruined when a thug mistakes the Dude for a millionaire of the same name, and his demand for compensation sets the whole plot rolling. He leaves the mansion with a replacement anyway.

Which former White House speechwriter improvised the droning economics lecture in Ferris Bueller's Day Off?

Ben Stein wrote speeches for Presidents Nixon and Ford before acting. John Hughes meant his voice to be heard off camera, but the student extras laughed so hard that Stein was put on screen and told to improvise.

Which Goodfellas actor drew on his days waiting tables for the tense scene where Tommy asks how he is funny?

Joe Pesci once told a mobster he was funny while waiting tables, and the compliment went down badly. Martin Scorsese let him and Ray Liotta work the memory into the film during rehearsals.

Which 1984 mockumentary has guitarist Nigel Tufnel show off an amplifier whose dials go one notch higher than ten?

This Is Spinal Tap gave English an idiom: in 2002 the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary added the phrase for turning something up to maximum volume. Christopher Guest played Tufnel.

Which actor's pre-battle speech to fighter pilots was meant to win Fox over to the title Independence Day?

Bill Pullman and producer Dean Devlin added the speech's closing line, which names the film, just before the cameras rolled. Fox had been leaning toward calling the picture Doomsday.

Which Star Wars rebel commander's cry that his fleet has flown into an ambush became a much-shared internet meme?

Admiral Ackbar realizes the danger when Imperial fighters and Star Destroyers counterattack on Palpatine's order. The Mon Calamari commander leads the rebel fleet in Return of the Jedi.

Which actor's Charlie Croker, in 1969's The Italian Job, scolds his gang for wrecking a van instead of its doors?

Michael Caine's exasperated line was voted the favorite film one-liner in a 2003 poll of 1,000 fans. The botched test explosion that prompts it was shot at Crystal Palace Sports Centre in London.

Which Hungarian-born star of 1931's Dracula delivers the Count's sly refusal of wine, a line the script invented?

Bela Lugosi had already played the Count on Broadway, but the pointed remark about what he does not drink was written for the screen. It appears nowhere in Bram Stoker's novel.

Which actor titled his 2020 memoir after the line his Doc Holliday drawls to challenge gunmen in Tombstone?

Val Kilmer's memoir takes its title from Holliday's cool acceptance of a duel. A documentary about his career and health struggles, Val, followed a year later.

Which 1976 Watergate film gave Deep Throat a three-word tip about tracing cash that the real records never mention?

All the President's Men screenwriter William Goldman put the advice in the informant's mouth. It appears in neither Woodward and Bernstein's book nor any record of the scandal.

Which actress plays Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest, flying into a midnight rage over wire coat hangers?

Faye Dunaway's tirade made the film a camp favorite so fast that Paramount rewrote its ads around the scene within a month. The performance also won her a Razzie for Worst Actress.

Which actor opens the 1970 film Patton by delivering the general's speech in front of an enormous American flag?

George C. Scott won the Best Actor Oscar for the role and declined it. The writers toned down the real general's profanity so the film could avoid an R rating.

Which 1995 Ice Cube comedy coined a two-word brush-off, aimed at a neighborhood mooch, that became an internet meme?

Friday star and co-writer Ice Cube has called the line the way to get anyone talking nonsense out of your face. In the film it dismisses Felisha, a local mooch.

Which John Wayne Western, with its hero's repeated scoffing catchphrase, inspired Buddy Holly's hit That'll Be the Day?

The Searchers has Wayne's Ethan Edwards growl the phrase again and again. Holly saw the film in June 1956 with his drummer Jerry Allison, and the song followed.

Which former Marine drill instructor wrote about half of Sergeant Hartman's abusive lines in Full Metal Jacket?

R. Lee Ermey proved he could play the part by improvising insults at Royal Marines who were auditioning as extras. Stanley Kubrick estimated that Ermey wrote half of his character's dialogue.

Which Dutch actor reworked his dying replicant's monologue about tears lost in rain for the film Blade Runner?

Rutger Hauer altered the speech David Peoples had scripted for Roy Batty's death in a thunderstorm. The 42-word result is widely seen as the defining moment of his career.

Which actor delivers the brutal sales pep talk in Glengarry Glen Ross as Blake, a role David Mamet added for the screen?

Alec Baldwin's Blake appears in a single scene, sent by head office to frighten the salesmen with a contest whose losers are fired. The part was written specifically for him and is not in the stage version.

Which actor wrote his own speech in The Third Man crediting peaceful Switzerland with nothing but the cuckoo clock?

Orson Welles added the lines himself, as screenwriter Graham Greene later confirmed; in the published script they sit in a footnote. He delivers them as Harry Lime just after a ride on Vienna's giant Ferris wheel.

Which 1951 film has Helen Benson halt the robot Gort by reciting three alien words Klaatu taught her?

The Day the Earth Stood Still never translates the phrase, and neither its writer nor the studio ever issued an official meaning. It keeps Gort from retaliating after Klaatu is shot.

Which script doctor, hired a week before filming, came up with the mad bomber's pop-quiz taunt in Speed?

Joss Whedon reworked the dialogue, removing forced one-liners and coining the villain's best-known taunt. The writer behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer also made Keanu Reeves's cop more polite.

Which comedian's lament about another nice mess is usually misquoted, thanks to his 1930 film Another Fine Mess?

Oliver Hardy never said the fine version on screen; the mix-up comes from that film title. In Chickens Come Home, Laurel finished the complaint for him, turning it on himself.

Which actress in 1944's To Have and Have Not teasingly reminds a man that whistling only takes pursed lips?

Lauren Bacall won the part with a screen test of that very scene. Years later she had an inscribed gold whistle buried with her co-star and husband.