Film and TV Quotes

Rip Torn from Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story | PopCultureQuotes.com

If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.

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By: Rip Torn
Characters: Patches O'Houlihan
From: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
Genres: Comedy | Sports

Context:
Rip Torn says to Justin Long just before throwing a wrench and hitting Justin in the face. It was Torn's way of training the inexperienced group from Average Joe's Gym for the National Dodgeball Championships in Las Vegas.

Patrick Macnee from Battlestar Galactica | PopCultureQuotes.com

There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe... with tribes of humans... who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians... or the Toltecs... or the Mayans. Some believe there may yet be brothers of man... who even now fight to survive - somewhere beyond the heavens!

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By: Patrick Macnee
From: Battlestar Galactica
Genres: Action | Adventure | Cult Television | Science Fiction

Context:
Said by the voice of Patrick Macnee (best known for the original The Avengers TV series), who was the Opening Credit Announcer for 13 episodes of the show. Images of the Cosmos animated across the screen as Macnee's words were spoken. The series' protagonist fighter pilots wore helmets that resembled Egyptian Pharoah headpieces, when they went into battle with humanity's greatest enemy, "Cylons."

On June 3, 2017, Chicago-based MeTV aired the Pilot episode of Battlestar Galactica as part of their summer programming launch.

Steve McQueen from The Getaway | PopCultureQuotes.com

Punch the son of a bitch. . . Punch it! Punch it baby!

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By: Steve McQueen
Characters: Carter 'Doc' McCoy
From: The Getaway
Genres: Action | Crime | Cult Cinema | Thrillers

Context:
Steve McQueen, as Doc McCoy, says this to his wife Carol McCoy (Ali MacGraw), as she drives their car during an escape from Texas police. They are heading for the Mexican border after robbing a bank in Sam Peckinpah's action cult classic The Getaway.

Richard Burton from Where Eagles Dare | PopCultureQuotes.com

It's your name Col. [Turner], don't looked so shocked. Surely, you suspected it!

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By: Richard Burton

From: Where Eagles Dare
Genres: Action | Adventure | Spy and Espionage | Thrillers | War

Context:
Major Smith (Richard Burton) shows Col. Turner (Patrick Wymark) a notebook with Turner's name written in it, indicating that Smith knows Turner is a Double Agent for Nazi Germany in Where Eagles Dare. Major Smith adds a bit of sarcastic humor by suggesting surely Turner suspected himself.

Richard Burton from Where Eagles Dare | PopCultureQuotes.com

Broadsword calling Danny Boy. . . Broadsword calling Danny Boy!

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By: Richard Burton
Characters: Major John Smith
From: Where Eagles Dare

Context:
Richard Burton says while contacting British MI-6 headquarters by radio, during an operation to penetrate the German army's Schloss Adler (Castle of Eagles), in order to rescue captured American General Carnaby (Robert Beatty), an Allied planner for Operation Overlord (D-Day).

Denzel Washington from The Equalizer | PopCultureQuotes.com

When you pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud, too!

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By: Denzel Washington
Characters: Robert McCall
From: The Equalizer

Context:
Denzel Washington as Robert McCall says this to Marton Csokas' character Teddy, in Antoine Fuqua's film The Equalizer, based on the 1980's television series of the same name. McCall had just dispatched yet another group of Russian gangsters that Teddy had sent to kill him. The gangsters were sitting at a restaurant table eating with Teddy, describing how sure they were that they could "take care of him." The thugs get up to leave and moments later McCall enters the restaurant, sits at Teddy's table and gives him these words of wisdom... along with the bloodied sun glasses of one of the assassins.

Bill Paxton from Aliens | PopCultureQuotes.com

Stop your grinnin’ and drop your linen!

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By: Bill Paxton
Characters: Private Hudson
From: Aliens

Context:
Bill Paxton as Private Hudson in James Cameron's 1986 sci-fi epic Aliens. Hudson - while doing a satellite sweep - thinks he's found a group of missing colonists on a mining colony set on a distant moon. What he actually found were incubated and/or dead colonists, along with a pack of not so friendly alien creatures.

Barry Corbin from WarGames | PopCultureQuotes.com

God dammit, I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it'd do any good. Let the boy in there major!

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By: Barry Corbin
Characters: General Beringer
From: WarGames

Context:
Barry Corbin as General Beringer said this to skeptical colleagues who were preventing computer hacker Matthew Broderick from trying to shut down an A.I.-enhanced computer system in John Badham's 1983 film WarGames. The system - called "WOPR," short for War Operation Plan Response - was based at a NORAD command center in Washington State and was attempting to start Global Thermonuclear War as part of a computer simulation gone wrong.

James Coburn from Harry in Your Pocket | PopCultureQuotes.com

  • Casey - As soon as credit cards disappear, everything will start to pick up again.
  • Harry - No way. If anything money will go away. Soon, we'll all be a number in a big computer.
  • Casey - Money go away! Are you crazy, it'll never happen!
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By: James Coburn
Characters: Harry
From: Harry in Your Pocket

Context:
A conversation between professional pickpockets Harry (James Coburn) and Casey (Walter Pidgeon) from the 1973 film Harry in Your Pocket. They were on a ferry from Seattle to Victoria, British Columbia discussing the economy and lowered expectations of how much they were finding in their marks' wallets.

Michael Cudlitz from The Walking Dead | PopCultureQuotes.com

You'd have better luck picking up a turd from its clean end.

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By: Michael Cudlitz
Characters: Sgt. Abraham Ford
From: The Walking Dead

Context:
Sgt. Abraham Ford (Michael Cudlitz) says this to Dr. Eugene Porter (Josh McDermitt) during The Walking Dead Season 6, Episode 14, titled "Twice as Far," which originally aired March 20, 2016. Ford says in response to Eugene calling dibs to eliminating the threat from an approaching walker.

Michael Cudlitz from The Walking Dead | PopCultureQuotes.com

Let me ask you a question. When you were pouring the bisquick, were you tryin’ to make pancakes?

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By: Michael Cudlitz
Characters: Sgt. Abraham Ford
From: The Walking Dead

Context:
Sgt. Abraham Ford (Michael Cudlitz) asks the question to Glenn Rhee (Steven Yeun) during The Walking Dead Season 6, Episode 11, titled "Knots Untie," which originally aired February 28, 2016. Ford, who's reevaluating his own relationships with women, seems shocked that Rhee and his wife Maggie Greene (Lauren Cohan) are purposing looking to have a child in the world as it exists, in its post-apocalyptic, zombie-filled state.

Barry Corbin from No Country for Old Men | PopCultureQuotes.com

Well all the time ya spend tryin' to get back what's been took from ya, more is goin' out the door.

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By: Barry Corbin
Characters: Ellis
From: No Country for Old Men

Context:
Ellis, played by actor Barry Corbin in No Country for Old Men (2007). Ellis was speaking to Sherrif Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), who asked what Ellis would have done if the man who had shot him and put him a wheelchair, had been released from prison. The jailed man had just died in prison.