Just for a change of pace, I thought it might be fun to present 50 well-known (hopefully) movie quotes in the form of a quiz, the answers to which will be listed at the end of the article. Each quote will be accompanied by the year of the movie it is from. The answers will state the movie title and the actor/actress speaking the line(s).
1 ‘Your eyes are full of hate, forty-one.’ (1959)
2 ‘Hi, my name’s Mae, and that’s more than a name, that’s an attitude.’ (1992)
3 ‘I’m not trying to tell you not to be afraid. Fear is normal. But stop worrying about it.’ (1949)
4 ‘Now I have a machine-gun. Ho, ho, ho.’ (1988)
5 ‘Off the record; on the QT, and very hush-hush.’ (1997)
6 ‘We didn’t need dialogue. We had faces!’ (1950)
7 ‘But you’re a lordly fool. She’s been plucked since I saw her last, and not by you.’ (1998)
8 ‘I’d hate to take a bite outta you. You’re a cookie full of arsenic.’ (1957)
9 ‘Alright, alright, Mickey’s a mouse, Donald’s a duck, Pluto’s a dog. What’s Goofy?’ (1986)
10 ‘Listen, whoever comes to you with this Barzini meeting, he’s the traitor. Don’t forget that.’ (1972)
11 ‘I couldn’t hear my own footsteps. It was the walk of a dead man.’ (1944)
12 ‘What you saw was a buck wearing Lucy’s dress. I found Lucy back in the canyon.’ (1956)
13 ‘Sydney, seldom does a day go by where I am not burned in effigy.’ (1995)
14 ‘I’d like to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.’ (1932)
15 ‘I’d like to go to Wandsworth; the dodgy end…’ (2003)
16 ‘The best of them won’t come for money; they’ll come for me.’ (1962)
17 ‘Randy, Randy…where’s the rest of me?’ (1942)
18 ‘Hey, I got a question. How are you planning to get back down that hill?’ (1967)
19 ‘I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too.’ (1939)
20 ‘Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night!’ (1950)
21 ‘Here’s to swimmin’ with bow-legged women.’ (1975)
22 ‘Got some letters here, personal things. Also, if I should fall, remember what you see here.’(1989)
23 ‘You can like the life you’re living, you can live the life you like.’ (2002)
24 ‘It’s going to be a long night. And I don’t particularly like the book I’ve started.’ (1959)
25 ‘She’s fair game, Joe. It’s always open season on princesses.’ (1953)
26 ‘Willoughby, will you not shake hands with me?’ (1995)
27 ‘She counted to three. Goddammit! She counted to three. Son of a bitch!’(2000)
28 ‘Well, insanity runs in my family…it practically gallops.’ (1944)
29 ‘Choose your next witticism carefully, Mr. Bond. It may be your last. (1964)
30 ‘I can’t go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.’ (1939)
31 ‘I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.’ (1960)
32 ‘I’m drowning here, and you’re describing the water!’ (1997)
33 ‘That’s what I like about you, Sgt: you have confidence. It’s also what I dislike about you.’ (1953)
34 ‘Oh, Jerry, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We have the stars.’ (1942)
35 ‘Rommel, you magnificent bastard. I read your book!’ (1970)
36 ‘My minimum price for taking a stranded lady to a telephone is 400 dollars.’ (1984)
37 ‘Damn funny. Like a train…in the distance.’ (1964)
38 ‘There’s no way, no way that you came from my loins.’ (1977)
39 ‘Hey, Goose, you big stud! Take me to bed or lose me forever.’ (1986)
40 ‘Look at them. They come when I want them, and they go when I don’t need them anymore.’ (1939)
41 ‘That’s no moon. It’s a space station.’ (1977)
42 ‘We just lost the moon.’ (1995)
43 ‘I don’t use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.’ (1944)
44 ‘I put it all on Lucky Dan; half a million dollars to win!’ (1973)
45 ‘Don’t talk to me of God. We killed God at Magdeburg!’ (1971)
46 ‘Come on, Dover! Move your bloomin’ arse!’(1964)
47 ‘I think it’s lovely having flowers named after you.’ (1942)
48 ‘And don’t forget…I’m also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.’ (1999)
49 ‘McBaine, you try walking out on me now, see how far you get, deal or no deal!’ (1961)
50 ‘I wouldn’t bring up Paris if I were you, it’s poor salesmanship.’ (1942)
ANSWERS
1 BEN-HUR (Jack Hawkins)
2 A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (Madonna)
3 TWELVE O’CLOCK HIGH (Gregory Peck)
4 DIE HARD (Alan Rickman)
5 L. A. CONFIDENTIAL (Danny De Vito)
6 SUNSET BOULEVARD (Gloria Swanson)
7 SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (Judi Dench)
8 SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (Burt Lancaster)
9 STAND BY ME (Wil Wheaton)
10 THE GODFATHER (Marlon Brando)
11 DOUBLE INDEMNITY (Fred MacMurray)
12 THE SEARCHERS (John Wayne)
13 THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT (Michael Douglas)
14 THE CABIN IN THE COTTON (Bette Davis)
15 LOVE ACTUALLY (Hugh Grant)
16 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (Peter O’Toole)
17 KING’S ROW (Ronald Reagan)
18 HOMBRE (Paul Newman)
19 THE WIZARD OF OZ (Margaret Hamilton)
20 ALL ABOUT EVE (Bette Davis)
21 JAWS (Robert Shaw)
22 GLORY (Matthew Broderick)
23 CHICAGO (Renee Zellweger)
24 NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Eva Marie Saint)
25 ROMAN HOLIDAY (Eddie Albert)
26 SENSE AND SENSIBILITY Kate Winslet)
27 O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? (George Clooney)
28 ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (Cary Grant)
29 GOLDFINGER (Gert Frobe)
30 GONE WITH THE WIND (Clark Gable)
31 THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (Yul Brynner)
32 AS GOOD AS IT GETS (Jack Nicholson)
33 FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (Deborah Kerr)
34 NOW, VOYAGER (Bette Davis)
35 PATTON (George C. Scott)
36 ROMANCING THE STONE (Michael Douglas)
37 ZULU (Michael Cane)
38 SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT (Jackie Gleason)
39 TOP GUN (Meg Ryan)
40 BEAU GESTE (Brian Donlevy)
41 STAR WARS EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE (Alec Guinness)
42 APOLLO 13 (Tom Hanks)
43 LAURA (Clifton Webb)
44 THE STING Robert Shaw)
45 THE LAST VALLEY (Michael Caine)
46 MY FAIR LADY (Audrey Hepburn)
47 MRS MINIVER (Greer Garson)
48 NOTTING HILL (Julia Roberts)
49 THE COMANCHEROS (Lee Marvin)
50 CASABLANCA (Humphrey Bogart)
Well I had my movie ignorance confirmed! Great fun, though!
Glad you enjoyed it, Cat. I have scheduled another (screen exchanges) for Jan 25.