Favorite movie quotes

Lt. Cdr. Bob Raeburn: She's slowing.
The depth gage is shown and the numbers roll slower, 1200 feet to 1210, camera back to Gerald S. O'Loughlin.
L. Cdr. Bob Raeburn: She's slowing fast.

Love that line—Ice Station Zebra 1968 (watched with dad Thanksgiving night and the early hours of the following morning.
 
Rocket Raccoon: "Ain't no thing like me except me "

Emil Blonsky (Incredible Hulk): "This is a whole level of weird"

Larry (Closer): Because I’m a fucking caveman!"
 
Wilford Brimley's most perfect role as an assistant Attorney General for organized crime in "Absence of Malice." He only has a few minutes total of screentime but he owns it.

"We'll talk all day if you want to. But come sundown, there's gonna be two things true that ain't true now. One is that the United States Department of Justice is gonna know what in the good Christ - excuse me Angie - is goin' on around here. And the other's I'm gonna have somebody's ass in my briefcase."

Also, "Boy, the last time there was a leak like this, Noah built hisself a boat."
 
"Wake up and smell the coffee Mrs. Bueller.
Its a fool's paradise.
He's just leading you down the primrose path..."

Three idioms in one fast quote...phenomenal

from Ferris Bueller's Day Off for anyone who could not guess it
 
“You know, we just don’t recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they’re happening. Back then, I thought, well, there’ll be other days. I didn’t realize that was the only day.” – Dr. Archibald Graham Field of Dreams


Comshaw
 
A man's body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever - Garth (Michael Caine), Second Hand Lions
 
"Hasta la vista, baby." —The Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger), Terminator 2: Judgment Day
"Oh, and in case I don't see ya: Good Afternoon, Good Evening, and Good Night." —Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey), The Truman Show
"Bye, Mrs. Santa's sister." —The Kid (Brett Kelly), Bad Santa
"Silencio." —. (?), Mulholland Drive
 
Rorschach, The Watchmen. Probably the best character, and the best scene in a great movie of a fantastic graphic novel
I'd thought that that came from an ancient Greek or Roman tale of a cop-analogue in a corrupt city-state getting thrown into prison, but I can't find a reference. Might well be misremembering.
 
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