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Cinematic Catch Phrases. By definition, the phrase(s) should to be repeated multiple times throughout the film or the film series in order to qualify.

This page is not a dumping ground for famous film quotes; those go on the Signature Line page.

Likewise, if the quote has become a Catch Phrase for the audience, those belong on the Memetic Mutation page.

Examples of Catch Phrase/Film include:

• |42nd Street:
  • "Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!" - Warner Baxter

• Abbott and Costello:
  • "Hey Abbott!" - Lou Costello

• Ace Ventura series:
  • "All righty then!" - Jim Carrey

• Airplane!:
  • "I am serious. And don't call me Shirley." - Leslie Nielsen

• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
  • "I'm Ron Burgundy.(?)"
  • "You stay classy, San Diego."
  • "Whammy!"

• "...And Justice For All"
  • "You're out of order! You're out of order! The whole trial is out of order! They're out of order!!"

• Aliens:
  • "Game over man, game over!"

• Animal House
  • "Toga! Toga!" - John Belushi

• Austin Powers series:
  • "Oh behave!"
  • "Yeah, baby, yeah!"
  • His nemesis Dr. Evil also had catch phrases such as "Why am I surrounded by frickin idiots?" and "One miiiillion dollars!"

• The Back to The Future trilogy
  • Doc Brown's "Great Scott!" and Marty McFly's "This is heavy!". In the first film, Brown takes Marty's catchphrase literally. Subverted in the third movie, where they once exchange lines.
  • In the second and third films Marty also develops the Catch Phrase "Nobody calls me chicken!" (or "yellow" in the Western setting) in response to his personal Berserk Button.
  • "Hey McFly!" - said by Biff/Griff Tannen to Marty and George

• Beyond The Forest:
  • "What a dump!" - Bette Davis

• The Big Lebowski:
  • "Man." - Jeff Bridges
  • "It really tied the room together"

• The Blues Brothers":
  • "We're on a mission from God." - Dan Aykroyd

• Bonnie and Clyde:
  • "We rob banks." - Warren Beatty

• The Cabin In The Cotton:
  • "Ah'd love t' kiss ya, but ah jes washed ma hayuh" - Bette Davis

• Cannibal Holocaust
  • "I wonder who the real cannibals are?" -Robert Kerman

• A Clockwork Orange:
  • "It was time for a little bit of the old ultra-violence." - Malcolm McDowell
  • "Viddy well, brothers, viddy well" - Malcolm McDowell

• Cool Hand Luke:
  • "What we've got here is failure to communicate."

• The Court Jester:
  • "King of jesters, and jester of kings!"
  • "Harm one hair on (her/that majestic) head, and I throw myself from the highest turret!"
  • "If he dies, you die."
  • "Get it?" "Got it." "Good."

• The Dark Knight:
  • "Wanna know how I got these scars?" - Heath Ledger
  • "Why so serious?" - Ibid.

• The Day the Earth Stood Still:
  • "Klaatu barada nikto."

• Die Hard:
  • "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker." - Bruce Willis

• Dog Day Afternoon
  • "Attica! Attica!!" - Al Pacino

• Duets:
  • Todd Woods: "I'm going out for a pack of cigarettes."
  • Reggie Kane: "I made an error in judgement."

• ET the Extraterrestrial
  • "E.T. phone home."

• Evil Dead
  • "Groovy" - Bruce Campbell as Ash

• Field of Dreams
  • "If you'll build it, he will come." - Ray Liotta

• Forrest Gump
  • "And that's all I have to say about that." - Tom Hanks
  • "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you gonna get." - Tom Hanks

• Any variation of Frankenstein is guaranteed to have: "It's alive! It's alive!".
  • Except for, of course, the actual book.

• Freaks
  • "One of us! One of us! We accept you! One of us!"

• From Dusk till Dawn
  • Protagonist Seth Gecko has a Catch Phrase template he adapts to the situation at hand: "Ok [noun], let's [verbed form of same noun]."
  • Prior to making the last dash to the Mexican border and freedom: "Ok ramblers, let's get ramblin'."
  • Having arrived at the rendezvous at which they are to meet their Mexican contact: "Ok hard drinkers, let's start drinking hard."
  • Immediately prior to the last confrontation with the vampires: "Ok vampire killers, let's kill some fucking vampires."

• Funny Girl
  • "Hello, gorgeous." - Barbra Streisand

• Galaxy Quest: "Never give up -- never surrender."
  • "By Grabthar's Hammer, by the sons of Warvan, you shall be avenged!"
    • "Pedal to the metal, commander."

• GoldenEye
  • "I AM INVINCIBLE!" - Boris Grishenko, who obviously has not read the Evil Overlord List.

• Good Morning Vietnam
  • "GOOOOOOOOOD MOOOOOOOOO'NIN']] VIETNAAAAAM!" - Robin Williams

• The Graduate
  • "Plastics". - Walter Brooke

• Highlander
  • Specific to the movies was Connor MacLeod's "It's a kind of magic."

• The Indiana Jones film series
  • "I hate snakes!" - Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
    • "Don't call me "Junior"!" - Harrison Ford
    • "This is intolerable!" - Sean Connery

• The James Bond film series
  • "Bond. James Bond."
  • "Shaken, not stirred."
    • The martini one was subverted in the most recent version of Casino Royale: when asked how he wants his martini, Bond asks "Do I look like I give a damn?" Earlier in the film, though, he gives very specific instructions as to how he wants his martini prepared, which is word-for-word out of the original book. "Shaken, not stirred" is a summary of part of this particular order.

"A dry martini," he said. "One. In a deep champagne goblet." "Oui, monsieur." "Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon-peel. Got it?"

• Judge Dredd
  • "I knew you'd say that."
  • "I am the law!"

• Kill Bill
  • "You and I have unfinished business." - The Bride

• The Kung Fu Theater series
  • "I thought you were dead! (crops up in other genres as well)"
  • "I heard your kung fu is really good." (usually meant as a challenge to the hero)
  • "Teacher!"
  • "But still..."
  • "You (or he) killed teacher!"

• Laurel and Hardy film series
  • "D'ooooooooooh!" - James Finlayson
  • "Why don't you do something to help me?" - Oliver Hardy
  • "There's another nice mess you've gotten me into." - Oliver Hardy (often misquoted as "fine mess")

• The Little Shop of Horrors: Seymour's "I didn't mean it", Gravis Mushnick's "excellent", and Audrey Jr.'s "Feed Me".

• Lives Of A Bengal Lancer: "We have ways of making men talk" - Douglas Drimbille (which later became a stock phrase as: We Have Ways of Making You Talk)

• Logan's Run

Box: Fish and plankton! And sea greens and protein from the sea!

• Marathon Man
  • "Is it safe?" - Laurence Olivier

• The Marx Brothers film series
  • "Of course you know, this means war!" - Groucho Marx. He first mentioned it in Duck Soup (1933).
  • "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know." - Groucho Marx in Animal Crackers (1930)
  • "Why a duck?" -Chico Marx in The Cocoanuts (1929)
  • From A Night at the Opera (1935):

Groucho: "It’s alright, that’s in every contract. That’s what they call a sanity clause." Chico: "You can't fool me! There ain't no Sanity Claus."

• • Chico Marx often began conversations with a cheery "Hello, boss!" Groucho would sometimes end them with, "...And I do mean you." (suggestive eyebrow waggle)

• Midnight Cowboy
  • "I'm walking here! I'm walking here!" - Dustin Hoffman

• Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
  • "Bring out your dead!" - Eric Idle. (This phrase inspired Martin Scorsese's movie "Bringing Out The Dead" (1999)).
  • "Ni!" - Michael Palin as the Head Knight Who Says "Ni"

• Monty Python's Life of Brian.
  • "Always look on the bright side of life." - Eric Idle
  • "What have the Romans ever done for us?" - John Cleese
  • "What's so funnny about the name "Biggus Dickus"? - Michael Palin

• Mystery Team
  • "We're the Mystery Team"

• Network
  • "I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore!" - Peter Finch

• The Pirates of the Caribbean:
  • "I'm Captain Jack Sparrow." - Johnny Depp.
  • And, of course, "Captain Jack Sparrow," when someone omits his title.
    • To the point that when he isn't there, Will and Elizabeth do it for him.
  • Of course, "the rum is always gone". "But we need not forget about that one". Or any of his other multitudes of catchphrases, "savvy?"
  • "This will be the day you will always remember as the day you ALMOST defeated/captured/killed/cannibalized/etc. Captain Jack Sparrow!"
  • Davy Jones: "Do you fear death?"
  • Cutler Beckett: "It's just... good business."

• The Pride Of The Yankees
  • "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth." -Gary Cooper

• Prince of Space
  • "Your weapons are useless against me!" - Tatsuo Umemiya

• The Princess Bride:
  • Vizzini shouts, "Inconceivable!" whenever something goes happens that he didn't expect. His partner, Inigo Montoya, eventually says, "You Keep Using That Word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
  • Inigo's own catch phrase: "Hello. My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die."
  • Westley's own "As You Wish," which he even uses to identify himself.

• Porco Rosso, the eponymous character (who is half man, half pig) bitterly reiterates "I'm a pig."

• Psycho
  • "My mother isn't quite herself today." - Anthony Perkins

• In Rain Man, Raymond has "I'm an excellent driver."
  • "Definitely, definitely."
    • "Uh-oh."

• The Rocky series
  • "Yo Adrian!" - Sylvester Stallone in "Rocky I" (1976)
  • "I pity the fool." - Mr. T. in "Rocky III".
  • "I must break you." - Dolph Lundgren in "Rocky IV"

• The Room
  • "Oh hi, (name)!" - Tommy Wiseau
  • "You're tearing me apart, Lisa!" - Tommy Wiseau
  • "Hi doggie!" - Tommy Wiseau
  • "How's your sex life?" -Tommy Wiseau
  • As well as his distinctive, inappropriate laughter.

• Scarface (the 1983 version)
  • "Say hello to my little friend!" - Al Pacino

• The Searchers
  • "That'll be the day." - John Wayne.
    • This was also the inspiration for the Buddy Holly song.

• In Shakespeare in Love, Geoffrey Rush's character answers every question to which he doesn't know the answer with "I don't know. It's a mystery." By the end of the movie, he's got Gwyneth Paltrow using it, too. This is arguably a reference to Rush's portrayal of David Helfgott in the 1996 film Shine, where he frequently said the line, too.

• Shane
  • "Shane! Shane! Come back!" - Brandon De Wilde

• The Shining
  • "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
  • "Heeeeeere's Johnny!" - Jack Nicholson
  • "Red Rum!"

• The Silence of the Lambs
  • "Hello, Clarice". - Anthony Hopkins

• Silent Night Deadly Night
  • "Punish!" - Billy Caldwell

• Silent Night Deadly Night Part 2
  • "Naughty." - Eric Freeman

• Smoke Signals
  • "HEY VICTOR!". - Thomas Builds-A-Fire
  • "Thomas, you're so full of shit...". Victor Joseph

• Star Wars features a number of repeated lines, though none are character specific:
  • "I have a bad feeling about this," which is apparently a favorite of Lucas and even uttered in the Star Tours Disney ride and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
  • "Nooooooooo!"
  • "May the Force be with you."
  • "You Have Failed Me... for the last time!" - James Earl Jones as Darth Vader
  • "It's a trap!" -Admiral Ackbar in "The Return of the Jedi"

• A Streetcar Named Desire
  • "STELLA! HEY STELLA!" - Marlon Brando
  • "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." - Vivien Leigh

• Street Fighter (the 1994 movie)
  • "OF COURSE!" - Raul Julia as Mr. Bison

• Taxi! (1932 film)
  • "You dirty rat! I'm going to get rid of you, just like you gave it to my brother!" - James Cagney

• The Terminator film series
  • "Hasta la vista, baby!" - Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2
  • "Come with me if you want to live" - Kyle Reese in the first film, also used in later films and twice in the TV series.
    • "Get Out!" also appears Once Per Episode.
  • "I'll be Back" - Arnie's T-800.
    • Lampshaded in Last Action Hero.
    • Parodied in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, where he says "She'll be back" (after fighting off the T-X) and "I'm back".

• They Live!
  • "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum."

• This Is Spinal Tap
  • "These go up to eleven." - Christopher Guest

• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  • "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!" - Alfonso Bedaya
    • This quote was also spoofed in Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles (1974).

• The Truman Show
  • "Good morning! And in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening and good night!"

• Tron
  • "I fight for the users"
  • End of line.

• Wayne'sWorld
  • "Party on, [Character]!"
  • "WE'RE NOT WORTHY! WE'RE NOT WORTHY!"

• White Heat
  • "Made it ma, top of the world!" - James Cagney

• The Wild One
  • - "What are you rebelling against, Johnny?"
  • Marlon Brando: "-What do you got to offer?"

• The Wizard of Oz
  • "There's no place like home." -Judy Garland

• Woody Allen film series
  • "La dee da. La dee da." - Diane Keaton in Annie Hall

• The Wolf Man series
  • "Even a man who is pure at heart/and says his prayers at night/may become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms/and the autumn moon is bright"
  • It's worth noting that the movie Van Helsing has both this and the prior phrase.

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