108 Memorable Movie Quotes

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The great thing about the movies ... is-you're giving people little ... tiny pieces of time ... that they never forget. — James Stewart

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. — Alfred Hitchcock

I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out. — Christopher Eccleston

Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing. — Jane Birkin

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about. — Steven Spielberg

Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life. — Kevin Costner

Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable. — Brassai

I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten. — Spike Lee

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on. — Alfred Hitchcock

I'm proud of Lord of the Rings. I think it's a once in a lifetime role, and a once in a lifetime film. It was made with so much care and passion and meticulous detail and everybody was so behind it. — Sean Bean

This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it. — John C. Reilly

I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun. — Rob Zombie

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way. — Robert Redford

The Sound of Music was just such an honour to be in, because it was a movie that appeals to so many people, and they just loved it so much and they still love it to this day. — Angela Cartwright

Every great film should seem new every time you see it. - Roger Ebert

Every great film should seem new every time you see it. — Roger Ebert

Short Memorable Movie Quotes

  • Movies are a big part of our Indian culture. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Pain is temporary, film is forever. — Michael J. Fox
  • I just saw Memento. It's very, very good. I watch a lot of French films. — Colleen Haskell
  • A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake. — Alfred Hitchcock
  • Memory is more indelible than ink. — Anita Loos
  • If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture. — Eddie Adams
  • A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. — Orson Welles
  • Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me. — Tim Burton

Memorable Movie Image Quotes

Dobby has no master. Dobby is a free elf! - J. K. Rowling quote

Dobby has no master. Dobby is a free elf! — J. K. Rowling

Memorable movie quote You will never have this day again, so make it count.
You will never have this day again, so make it count.

Memorable Quotes

Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core. — Maria Montessori

Never memorize something that you can look up. - Albert Einstein

Never memorize something that you can look up. — Albert Einstein

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves. — Federico Garcia Lorca

The best education comes from action; the most memorable lesson is a mistake. - Tim Fargo

The best education comes from action; the most memorable lesson is a mistake. — Tim Fargo

No more tears now; I will think about revenge. - Mary, Queen of Scots

No more tears now; I will think about revenge. — Mary, Queen of Scots

The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are. — Lynn Culbreath Noel

Memorable movie quote Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about.

No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts. — Bob Proctor

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble! - William Shakespeare

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble! — William Shakespeare

It takes a village to raise a child. — Hillary Clinton

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears. — Mark Antony

Memorable Moments Quotes

I knew Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy. — Lloyd Bentsen

Although knowledge of structure is helpful, real creativity comes from leaps of faith in which you jump to something illogical. But those leaps form the memorable moments in movies and plays. — Francis Ford Coppola

Remember this although timing in life is everything, memorable moments in history don't just happen! Do something...stay positive! — Amy Dumas

Memorable movie quote The best education comes from action; the most memorable lesson is a mistake.
The best education comes from action; the most memorable lesson is a mistake.

If everything is happy go-lucky all the time, you don't know when you're experiencing joy and feeling life at its finest moments. You have to suffer a little. — Corey Taylor

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. — Charles Dickens

You can make a thousand promises to yourself that you'll take that same fantastic love and give it to someone else, but the moment you see that person with someone else, it's like a gut full of razorblades. It never gets easier. And it shouldn't, really. — Corey Taylor

Memorable movie quote Don't count the days, make the days count.
Don't count the days, make the days count.

One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full of crystals of barium xenate. A stable compound, looking like common salt, but much heavier. This was the magic of chemistry, to see xenon trapped into a crystal. — Freeman Dyson

I'm very fortunate with all the jobs that I've done that I've wanted to do them. So, I feel very grateful for that. With each and every one, I could pick memorable moments. — Elaine Cassidy

The most memorable moment was playing drums with Bob Dylan. — Jenna Elfman

I've done about four deaths in films now, and I think it's quite good because then it's sort of a memorable moment in the film. — Gemma Arterton

Notebook Memorable Quotes

You are, and always have been, my dream. — Nicholas Sparks

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love. — Nicholas Sparks

I'm gonna ask you one more time, will you or will you not go out with me? I think my hand's slipping. — Noah

Memorable movie quote No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.
No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it. — Nicholas Sparks

We fell in love despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. — Nicholas Sparks

Sometimes we need to be apart to understand just how much we truly love each other . — Nicholas Sparks

Memorable movie quote I'm not interested in a realistic look - not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel
I'm not interested in a realistic look - not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have. — Nicholas Sparks

“A living poem” had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others. — Nicholas Sparks

Every great love starts with a great story. — Nicholas Sparks

In one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I've loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough. — Noah

Memorable Characters Quotes

We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy. - J. K. Rowling

We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy. — J. K. Rowling

The Glittering World is a stunning phantasmagoria drawn from the world just beneath the surface, aswarm with great and memorable characters and a plot that twists and turns as it hurtles forward. A grand debut. One taste, and you'll be addicted. — Keith Donohue

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character. — Albert Einstein

Memorable movie quote Great moments are born from great opportunities.
Great moments are born from great opportunities.

Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music. — Steven Morrissey

I'm an actor and I've created a lasting and memorable character named Frasier, who is not me, but who most people think is. So when I have a chance to play something that's different, I embrace it because it's fun; also in this case, he's a memorable character. — Kelsey Grammer

I would much rather read a book about Ty Cobb, who was quite possibly a sociopath. It makes for more interesting copy. Some of the most memorable characters in literature were villains. — Jonathan Weeks

Memorable movie quote I think movies are getting dumber, actually. Where it used to be 50/50 and it's 3% good and 97% stup
I think movies are getting dumber, actually. Where it used to be 50/50 and it's 3% good and 97% stupid.

The first day was memorable for me. I walked into this studio with these giant eyes, slowly met everybody and got to see the story boards and sketches of our characters. I got the see the sets and was just amazed that all this was to be something we all were going to be part of for almost a year. — Kyle Schmid

You really have to work hard to create a three-dimensional character. You have to rehearse and explore and take your time. You can't just memorize your lines and do it on the fly. — Dolph Lundgren

I realize how much I rely on the actors to really know the lines because I tend to forget what they are exactly, even though I've written them. I don't have them memorized. But when it's going well, there is that point where the actor starts to know more about the character than I do. — Noah Baumbach

When the writing is good and it suits your character, you don't have to memorize anything, because it just makes sense. You read it and you go, "Oh, that makes sense." And it's easy. — Amy Hill

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More Memorable Movie Quotes

Memorable movie quote All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun.
All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun.

Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself. — Robin Williams

Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it. — J. K. Rowling

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love. — J. K. Rowling

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be. — J. K. Rowling

Vasectomy means never having to say you're sorry. — Larry Adler

... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. — J. K. Rowling

My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." — Winston Groom

Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry. — Marc Ribot

For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry. — William J. Bernstein

Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more, believing in yourself. — Daniel Radcliffe

Being an American means never having to say you're sorry. — Kurt Vonnegut

Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies. — J. K. Rowling

You can't handle the truth! — Jack Nicholson

Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have. — J. K. Rowling

Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings. — Karolyn Grimes

Ron: Why spiders? Why couldn't it be "follow the butterflies? — J. K. Rowling

The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. — J. K. Rowling

The ones that love us never really leave us. — J. K. Rowling

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. — J. K. Rowling

I lost you once, I think I can do it again. — Nicholas Sparks

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on. — J. K. Rowling

The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club. — Chuck Palahniuk

Yes... it wasn't over, it still isn't over. — Nicholas Sparks

There is always pressure in any movie set. If you think about it, there is something that you memorize and it is almost like public speaking every day, all day. There is a crew of people, there are monitors and if you mess up, you have to do it until you get it right and then sometimes, you would go blank. — Michael Pena

The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable. — Barry Levinson

Youre only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! — Michael Caine

I stick to the script, I memorize the lines, cause life is movie that I've seen too many times. — Lil Wayne

The truth is I'm a dork. I collected comics. I still love cartoons. I'd rather be at home on a Friday night than out at some club… My sense of humor is that of a geek. My likes and dislikes are that of a geek. I've memorized every crappy sci-fi movie there is, but still haven't seen Schindler's List. — Nathan Fillion

Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four. — J. K. Rowling

Open the pod bay doors, Hal. — Arthur C. Clarke

It goes all the way back to 'Psycho.' Movies with twists like that are memorable because they're so simple. — Steve Zahn

It is a very classic Western [Valley of Violence], and if you like Westerns, you'll like this movie, but there's a tone to it that's all its own that I think is unique and memorable. — Ti West

I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have gone on - I burn out every once in a while. — Jodie Foster

For me, it's very important if I do action movies and I have a stunt person, to work with them. Not only by memorizing the choreography but also it's important to study that individual and it's imperative for that individual to study you because you're not playing two different people, you're playing the same person. — Zoe Saldana

To make a great movie is such a combination of different things that need to come into play to actually make a memorable film and not have a film to fall by the wayside, to have something live on during the years, and one of those elements is the commitment the actors have to their performance. — Edward Zwick

I think the most takes I've ever done would probably be maybe 10, on like a big studio movie where you can do those. But after a while it's like, "It's not gonna get any better, this is what it is," the light's just gonna dull from your eyes. I think the more you do it, the less the actors listen to each other because then you start memorizing the other person's lines and you start getting bored. — Jennifer Lawrence

I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums. — Hank Azaria

Once we start seeing video games that have more memorable characters, you'll see better movie adaptations. — David S. Goyer

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