Cult Cinema

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You're standing right now with nine delegates from 100 gangs. And there's over a hundred more. That's 20,000 hardcore members. Forty-thousand, counting affiliates, and twenty-thousand more, not organized, but ready to fight: 60,000 soldiers! Now, there ain't but 20,000 police in the whole town. Can you dig it?

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By: Roger Hill
Characters: Cyrus
From: The Warriors
Genres: Cult Cinema

Context:
Gang overlord Cyrus says this to a sea of gang members meeting for a sort of "peace summit" in The Bronx, at the beginning of the Walter Hill film The Warriors. He called the conference in an attempt to unite all the gangs in the area.

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I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.

We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.'

Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, Goddamnit! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"

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By: Peter Finch
Characters: Howard Beale
From: Network
Genres: Cult Cinema

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Is it safe?

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By: Laurence Olivier
Characters: Dr. Christian Szell
From: Marathon Man
Genres: Action | Cult Cinema

Context:
Laurence Olivier (who played Dr. Christian Szell) repeats the phrase to Dustin Hoffman's character, Thomas 'Babe' Levy, in the John Schlesinger thriller. Szell - a trained dentist - proceeds to pull Levy's teach out of his head, without anesthetic, in order to find the answer he seeks.

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You're gonna need a bigger boat.

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By: Richard Dreyfuss
From: Jaws
Genres: Cult Cinema | Horror

Context:
Richard Dreyfuss (who played Matt Hooper) says this to Roy Scheider (Chief Martin Brody) and Robert Shaw (Sam Quint), after seeing the size of the shark in Steven Spielberg's classic thriller Jaws (1975)

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I know what you're thinkin. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk?

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By: Clint Eastwood
Characters: 'Dirty' Harry Callahan
From: Dirty Harry
Genres: Action | Cult Cinema

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Those two bitches that left, they betta' learn to sell pussy in Iceland, because if I ever see them again, I'm gonna' cut their fuckin' throats... We are family, and that's how we're gonna' stay!

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By: Nichelle Nichols
Characters: Dorinda
From: Truck Turner
Genres: Action | Blaxploitation | Cult Cinema

Context:
Nichelle Nichols (famous for her role as Lt. Uhura in Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek) played Dorinda, a female pimp in the Jonathan Kaplan classic blaxploitation film Truck Turner, which starred musician-turned-actor Isaac Hayes. She said this statement to her stable of working girls as a warning to those looking to leave.