An ever-growing list of my favourite movie quotes, kicking off with a line by a South London hoodie that blow all other movie lines out of the water – even Jaws.

Attack the Block

‘It’s too much madness to explain in one text!’ Leeon Jones

Blade: Trinity (2004)

‘Motherfucker… I like that’ Drake (aka Dracula)

‘You’re tasting a little bland, lover. Are you getting enough fatty acids in your diet?’ Danica Talos

‘Scream if this hurts, chica’ Abigail Whistler

‘Coochie coo’ Blade

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)

‘I’m like cat here, a no-name slob. We belong to nobody, and nobody belongs to us. We don’t even belong to each other’ Holly Golightly

‘I don’t want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I’m not sure where that is but I know what it is like. It’s like Tiffany’s' Holly Golightly

‘There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion’ Holly Golightly

Harvey (1950)

‘Here, let me give you one of my cards. Now if you should ever want to call me, call me at this number. Don’t call me at that one, that’s the old one’ Elwood P Dowd

‘Miss Kelly, you know, when you wear my flower you make it look beautiful’ Elwood P Dowd

‘Myrtle Mae, you have a lot to learn, and I hope you never learn it’ Veta Louise Simmons

‘”P O O K A – Pooka – from old Celtic mythology – a fairy spirit in animal form – always very large. The pooka appears here and there – now and then – to this one and that one – a benign but mischievous creature – very fond of rumpots, crackpots, and how are you, Mr. Wilson?” “How are you, Mr. Wilson?” Who in the encyclopedia wants to know?’ Wilson

‘Harvey and I sit in the bars… have a drink or two… play the juke box. And soon the faces of all the other people they turn toward mine and they smile. And they’re saying, “We don’t know your name, mister, but you’re a very nice fella”. Harvey and I warm ourselves in all these golden moments. We’ve entered as strangers – soon we have friends. And they come over… and they sit with us… and they drink with us… and they talk to us. They tell about the big terrible things they’ve done and the big wonderful things they’ll do. Their hopes, and their regrets, and their loves, and their hates. All very large, because nobody ever brings anything small into a bar. And then I introduce them to Harvey… and he’s bigger and grander than anything they offer me. And when they leave, they leave impressed. The same people seldom come back; but that’s envy, my dear. There’s a little bit of envy in the best of us’ Elwood P Dowd

Pitch Black (2000)

‘How the hell can I get eyes like that?’ Jack

‘Did Not Know who he was fuckin’ with’ Riddick

‘Yes, Riddick. I would. I would die for them’ Carolyn Fry

‘Not for me! Not for me!’ Riddick

Serenity (2005)

‘I swallowed a bug’ River Tam

‘You can’t stop the signal Mal’ Mr Universe

‘She is startin’ to damage my calm’ Jayne Cobb

‘Shiny. Let’s be bad guys’ Jayne Cobb

‘I am a leaf on the wind – watch how I soar’ Hoban ‘Wash’ Washburn

The Princess Bride (1987)

‘As you wish’ Westley

‘Is this a kissing book?’ Grandson

 

‘Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don’t think they exist’ Westley

 

‘Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die’ Inigo Montoya

 

‘Bow to the Queen of Slime, the Queen of Filth, the Queen of Putrescence. Boo. Boo. Rubbish. Filth. Slime. Muck. Boo. Boo. Boo’ The Ancient Booer

 

It’s possible, Pig, I might be bluffing. It’s conceivable, you miserable, vomitous mass, that I’m only lying here because I lack the strength to stand. But, then again… perhaps I have the strength after all. Drop… Your… Sword!’ Westley

 

‘Since the invention of the kiss there have been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind. The End’ Grandpa

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

‘We sat and drank with the sun on our shoulders and felt like free men. Hell, we could have been tarring the roof of one of our own houses. We were the lords of all creation. As for Andy – he spent that break hunkered in the shade, a strange little smile on his face, watching us drink his beer’ Red

WALL.E (2008)

‘Oh, Eva’ WALL.E

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