One of the signs of a great movie, a movie that you come back to watch again and again, is how often you quote dialogue from it. Sometimes it's something funny to work into a given situation, sometimes it's something completely abstract to make you laugh, or sometimes you just want a conversation with someone consisting solely of movie quotes. Whatever the reason, it's awesome, and here are our ten most quoted movies of all time.
10. Monty Python & The Holy Grail
This 1975 film has King Arthur and his fearless knights head off in search of The Holy Grail, crossing paths will all sorts of "obstacles" along the way. If you have never seen it, check it out now, but chances are you've already heard all the best quotes and just weren't aware what movie they were from.
Classic Quote #1: "I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries."
Classic Quote #2: "Look, that rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide! It's a killer!"
Classic Quote #3: "It's just a flesh wound."
9. Ghostbusters
Three (and then four) friends team up to create a new business to find, trap and keep ghosts from doing their haunting thing in downtown New York.
Classic Quote #1: "You're right. No human being would stack books like this."
Classic Quote #2: "Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god you say, 'Yes!'"
Classic Quote #3: "I taped '20 Minute Workout' on my machine and played it back at high speed so it only took 10 minutes. I got a great workout."
8. Napoleon Dynamite
An odd teenager decides he wants to help his new friend to win class president. This one line does not do justice to just how hilariously weird this movie is.
Classic Quote #1: "You know... there's like a butt-load of gangs at this school. This one gang kept wanting me to join because I'm pretty good with a bo-staff."
Classic Quote #2: "Eat your food, Tina!"
Classic Quote #3: "I spent like three hours shading the upper lip."
7. Die Hard
You know what this film is about, I know what this film is about, everyone knows what this film is about. If you don't, get offline and watch one of the greatest movies ever made, then curse yourself for leaving it so long into your life before watching it.
Classic Quote #1: "Yippee-kay-yay, Motherf**ker!"
Classic Quote #2: "Now I have a machine gun. Ho. Ho. Ho."
Classic Quote #3: "Mr. Takagi, I could talk about industrialization and men's fashion all day, but I'm afraid work must intrude."
6. Easy A
A modern retelling of The Scarlett Letter, this is probably the moment when everyone on Earth universally fell in love with Emma Stone.
Classic Quote #1: "Relax. Jesus. What is with you gays? Are you really that repulsed by lady parts? What do you think I have down there? A gnome?"
Classic Quote #2: "He got a Coke Zero AGAIN. Ah, that Roman. Incorrigible."
Classic Quote #3: "I've gotta pocket, gotta pucket full of sunshine…"
5. Predator
Arnie is a one-man quote machine even when his movies are at their worst, so when they're at their best, only good things can happen.
Classic Quote #1: "These stuff will make you a god-damned sexual tyrannosaurus! Just like me!"
Classic Quote #2: "I ain't got time to bleed."
Classic Quote #3: "Get to da choppah!"
4. Dodgeball / Zoolander
Choosing between these two classic Ben Stiller comedies proved impossible, so they both get equal billing on this list. Whether you go with the odd sports team or the brainless modelling opus, either way you're going to have a good time.
Classic Quote #1: "If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball." (Dodgeball) / "There was a moment last night, when she was sandwiched between the two Finnish dwarves and the Maori tribesmen, where I thought, "Wow, I could really spend the rest of my life with this woman." (Zoolander)
Classic Quote #2: "Dodge, duck, dip, dive and….. dodge." (Dodgeball) / "It's that damn Hansel! He's so hot right now!" (Zoolander)
Classic Quote #3: "F**kin' Chuck Norris." (Dodgeball) / "What is this? A center for ants? How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read... if they can't even fit inside the building?" (Zoolander)
3. Mean Girls
Back when Lindsay Lohan was hot and a person to be admired, she starred in this teen comedy written by Tina Fey that put SMART teen comedies back on the map.
Classic Quote #1: "Four for you Glen Coco, you go Glen Coco."
Classic Quote #2: "I wish we could all get along like we used to in middle school... I wish I could bake a cake filled with rainbows and smiles and everyone would eat and be happy..."
"She doesn't even go here!"
Classic Quote #3: "Stop trying to make fetch happen!"
2. The Big Lebowski
A mixture of The Coen Brothers' pitch-perfect script and spot-on delivery from the likes of Jeff Bridges and John Goodman has made this one of the most quoted movies of all time. There is never a bad time to watch this Raymond Chandler-on-weed comedy mystery.
Classic Quote #1: "That rug really tied the room together."
Classic Quote #2: "I'm not Mr. Lebowski, YOU'RE Mr. Lebowski, I'm The Dude, so that's what you call me, you know, that or, uh, Duder or His Dudeness or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing."
Classic Quote #3: "The Dude abides."
1. Anchorman
There was no way this list was going to end with anything else really, was there?
Classic Quote #1: "I'm very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany."
Classic Quote #2: "Oh Audrey - I look like hell! I got bags under my eyes. What's that? Well if you were a man, I'd punch you. Punch you right in the mouth. That's bush. Bush league. YOU HEAR ME? AUDREY! LOOK AT ME! I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Alright?"
Classic Quote #3: "Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diego, which of course in German means a whale's vagina."
Classic Quote #4: Literally any line from this movie. They're all amazing.
