We all know movies are nowhere near anything like real life but that doesn’t mean you can’t learn a thing or two from a great film. We at MMD have compiled a list of some of the manliest, smartest, most kickass movie quotes of all time. This is part 1 so enjoy.
Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn’t have fucked with? That’s me.
-Walt Kowalski played by Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino
Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now if you know what you’re worth then go out and get what you’re worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain’t you! You’re better than that!
-Rocky Balboa played by Sylvester Stallone in Rocky Balboa
I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse.
-Don Vito Corleone played by Marlon Brando in The Godfather
I’m not mad, I’m proud of you. You took your first pinch like a man and you learn two great things in your life. Look at me, never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut.
-Jimmy Conway played by Robert Deniro in Goodfellas
When you decide to be something, you can be it. That’s what they don’t tell you in the church. When I was your age they would say we can become cops, or criminals. Today, what I’m saying to you is this: when you’re facing a loaded gun, what’s the difference?
-Frank Costello played by Jack Nicholson in The Departed
Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen.
-John Patrick Mason played by Sean Connery in The Rock
What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to piss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn’t you consider that to be insane?
-Garland Greene played by Steve Buscemi in Con Air
You know, there’s a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don’t all bring you lasagna at work. Most of ’em just cheat on you.
-Silent Bob played by Kevin Smith in Clerks
When you love someone, you’ve gotta trust them. There’s no other way. You’ve got to give them the key to everything that’s yours. Otherwise, what’s the point? And for a while, I believed, that’s the kind of love I had.
-Ace Rothstein played by Robert Deniro in Casino
There’s nothing wrong with letting the girls know that you’re money and that you want to party.
-Trent Walker played by Vince Vaughn in Swingers
The inches we need are everywhere around us. In any fight, it’s the guy who’s willing to die that’s gonna win that inch. Because that’s what living is! The six inches in front of your face!
-Tony D’Amato played by Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday
I knew a man once who said, “Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back.”
-Maximus Decimus Meridius played by Russell Crowe in Gladiator
I wake up in the morning and I piss excellence.
-Ricky Bobby played by Will Ferrell in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Well make more fuckin’ money. This is America. You don’t make money, then you’re a fuckin’ douchebag.
-Arnold “Mr. French” French played by Ray Winstone in The Departed
I’m just an ordinary guy with nothing to lose.
-Lester Burnham played by Kevin Spacey in American Beauty
You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin’ to? You talkin’ to me? Well I’m the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you’re talkin’ to?
-Travis Bickle played by Robert Deniro in Taxi Driver
They may take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom!
-William Wallace played by Mel Gibson in Braveheart
Yippie Ki-Yay, motherfucker!
-John McClane played by Bruce Willis in Die Hard
Dead or alive, you’re coming with me.
-Alex Murphy played by Peter Weller in Robocop
No, maybe I can’t win. Maybe the only thing I can do is just take everything he’s got. But to beat me, he’s going to have to kill me. And to kill me, he’s gonna have to have the heart to stand in front of me. And to do that, he’s got to be willing to die himself. I don’t know if he’s ready to do that. I don’t know.
-Rocky played by Sylvester Stallone in Rocky IV
Get busy livin’ or get busy dyin’, damn right.
-Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding played by Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption
Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.
-Rhett Butler played by Clarke Gable in Gone with the Wind
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.
-Roger “Verbal” Kint played by Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects
I spent my life trying not to be careless. Women and children can be careless, but not men.
-Don Vito Corleone played by Marlon Brando in The Godfather
From now on, nothing goes down unless I’m involved. No blackjack, no dope deals, no nothing. A nickel bag gets sold in the park, I want in. You guys got fat while everybody starved on the street. Now it’s my turn.
-Frank White played by Christopher Walken in The King of New York
Article By: Jon DaBove
