Only A Real Movie Geek Can Match The Classic Quote To The Movie

What is it exactly that makes a line from a movie quotable? It could be any number of factors, really. It might be that it's really hilarious and never fails to raise a smile. It could be that it encapsulates a character perfectly. Isn't that really something? When a single line of dialogue can tell you everything you need to know about a character. "I love the smell of napalm in the morning," tells you all you need to know about the erratic and sociopathic Col. Kilgore. But that's not all that makes a classic movie quote. It could be that the line marks one of the most important moments in the whole movie – "I am your father," for example. Maybe it's just applicable to real life situations and that's why people like it. For whatever reason, quotes from a movie stick more than anything else. You'll remember an iconic quote over a character or a costume or a richly detailed frame. Some quotes could be accused of being sound bites, inorganically wedged into the middle of a conversation for the purposes of quotability. But that's not the agenda with the very best quotes, the ones they become iconic classics. How many of these can you match to the classic movie they're from? Take the quiz to find out!

Question 1

"I see dead people."

The quote sums up the entire premise of the movie in four words. Haley Joel Osment plays a kid who can see dead people clear as day, as if they were alive and well. The plot twist at the end is what really floored the audiences and made its director, M. Night Shyamalan a star. Now, you can't escape him or his twists. This was his feature directorial debut. Bruce Willis also stars as the psychologist and center of the twist. What movie is it?

Question 2

"The path of the righteous man..."

The full text of this fictional Quentin Tarantino Bible passage ends with, "And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you." Any time the subject of great movie monologues comes up, this speech is bound to get mentioned within the first thirty seconds – it's simply that iconic. The monologue is delivered to perfection by Samuel L. Jackson. What movie is it from?

Question 3

"Here's looking at you, kid."

This movie is considered by many to be the greatest movie of all time. It's a love story set and made during the time of World War II. It's set in Morocco and stars Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman as two former lovers who fall for each other once more when she wanders into his bar on the edge of the world with her new fling. This line is spoken no less than four times throughout the movie, making it some sort of a catchphrase. It's one of the most quoted lines from cinema history. What classic movie is it from?

Question 4

"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."

A great deal of Hollywood's masterpieces are about the mafia. That could be for a number of reasons: flawed characters, visually interesting murders and kidnappings and beating, a rich and inviting lifestyle, strong themes of the American dream. The most likely explanation is that the best ones combine all of these into a movie cocktail, and this one is the very best. It stars Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Talia Shire, Diane Keaton, and of course, Marlon Brando in Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece. What movie is it?

Question 5

"Say hello to my little friend!"

Al Pacino sure has spoken a lot of our favorite quotes from the history of film. One of them was this, which he yells as he comes out of his office from on top of a pile of cocaine, wielding an automatic weapon. He screams out, "Say hello to my little friend!" and then opens fire on his enemies down below. It's a classic gangster movie about a Cuban drug lord in Miami, directed by Brian De Palma and written by Oliver Stone. What movie is it?

Question 6

"No, I am your father."

"That's not true! That's impossible!" What a twist this was back in the day! Ain't no one saw this coming. Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father?! Writers ever since this movie came out have been trying to match its amazing plot twist, but none have ever come close. It comes toward the end of what is arguably the best Star Wars movie (unless you're in the "The Last Jedi is the best one!" camp). This twist was kept a secret from even Mark Hamilton before they shot the groundbreaking and iconic scene. Which Star Wars movie is this often misquoted line taken from?

Question 7

"I'll be back."

This science fiction action movie changed the game. It was inspired by a fever dream that director James Cameron had one night where he saw the burning exoskeleton of a cybernetic organism. He developed that into a screenplay about the end of the world and time travel and protecting your family and robot hunters and people killing robots and sex and love and romance and death. It's phenomenal. Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks this line. What movie is the quote taken from?

Question 8

"There's no crying in baseball!"

Tom Hanks was recently snubbed for an Oscar after portraying the Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee in Steven Spielberg's great docudrama The Post, although his co-star Meryl Streep got a nomination (of course) and the movie itself was nominated for Best Picture. He once played a burnout alcoholic in a female-centric baseball comedy movie and spoke this iconic line. The movie also stars Geena Davis, Rosie O'Donnell, and Madonna, and it was a huge hit back in the 1990s. What movie was it?

Question 9

"Where we're going, we don't need roads."

This line is uttered by Dr. Emmett Brown at the end of a timeless (no pun intended) science fiction comedy movie directed by Robert Zemeckis and produced by Steven Spielberg about a mad scientist and his teenage boy companion (played by Michael J. Fox) and their wacky adventures with a time machine made out of a DeLorean car. As the Doc prepares to take his friend Marty into the future, where there's flying cars, he says, "Where we're going, we don't need roads." What movie is it?

Question 10

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

John Hughes wrote this movie in a matter of days, and it's one of the funniest and most beloved comedy movies of all time. Its endearing popularity continues to this day. Not bad for a script that was written in less than a week. Matthew Broderick stars as an unruly teen who often speaks to the camera. At one point throughout the movie, toward the end as lessons have been learned, he says, "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." What's the movie?

Question 11

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

The movie that this quote comes from is infamous, since it's regarded as one of the greatest films ever made and yet it glorifies the slave system, so people err a little on the fence when it comes to this one. The quote, spoken by actor Clark Gable in the lead role of Rhett Butler, always seems to top the critics' lists of the greatest movie quotes of all time. People love it. Which oldies movie from the 1930s features the quote, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn?"

Question 12

"I like the way you die, boy."

This movie was a resounding box office success back in the winter of 2012, as it raked in over $400 million at the worldwide box office. Not bad for a nearly three hour spaghetti western about slavery. The production budget was about $100 million and every cent went into crafting a beautiful and rich movie. One of the movie's most notable critics is black director Spike Lee, who believes that the movie's black comedy with regards to slavery makes a mockery of his enslaved ancestors. But the rest of the world seems to disagree, since it's a beloved modern classic. What Quentin Tarantino movie is it?

Question 13

"A boy's best friend is his mother."

This line is spoken by Anthony Perkins in the chilling role of Norman Bates, a serial killer who is revealed toward the end of the movie to be even more messed up than we were led to believe from the rest of the movie. Janet Leigh also stars in Alfred Hitchcock's horror classic as the original 'scream queen' who gets slaughtered while taking a shower. This is perhaps the very first example of the slasher genre. What movie is it?

Question 14

"I am serious, and don't call me Shirley."

This line is spoken by the late, great Leslie Nielsen in what is possibly the greatest comedy movie ever made. It's a parody of disaster films, specifically Zero Hour!, about a plane that's going down and the one man who can save the day, interspersed with hilarious and groundbreaking gags. One of those gags is this response to the question, "Surely you can't be serious." The directors cast actors like Nielsen and Robert Stack because they had previously only done dramatic work, so they could deliver the lines straight. What movie is the quote taken from?

Question 15

"You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you! Goddamn you all to hell!"

This classic science fiction movie from the 1960s is, of course, most famous for its plot twist at the end as Charlton Heston's astronaut character sees the remains of the Statue of Liberty on a beach and realizes that the strange, alien planet he's been on for all this time was Earth all along. The ending solidifies it as a cinematic classic that has remained in the pop cultural zeitgeist for half a century now. So, what movie is it?

Question 16

"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?"

This quote is often misquoted as,"Are you trying to seduce me, Mrs. Robinson?" but this is the real version. The movie was directed by Mike Nichols and stars Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft. It's a classic of the comedy drama genre, as no movie before it (or perhaps, also, after it) combined the hilarity of comedy with the touching and moving power of drama quite as beautiful and elegantly as this one. It's a bona fide classic. What movie is it?

Question 17

"You can't handle the truth!"

Jack Nicholson says this line to Tom Cruise in a legal drama movie adapted from a play by the great Aaron Sorkin. Sorkin wrote the original play based on notes that he scrawled on napkins while working as a bartender early on in his career. He has, of course, gone on to do great things since then, and it all started with this classic line from the film adaptation of his stage play. What movie is the line taken from?

Question 18

"Here's Johnny!"

Jack Nicholson utters the line "Here's Johnny!" in the role of Jack Torrance in a classic and very chilling and unnerving horror movie directed by Stanley Kubrick and adapted from a novel by Stephen King. King himself was very unhappy with the film, seeing it as too cold and icy compared to the heat and fire of his novel's original tone. He doesn't see any redemption for Jack's character in the movie, whereas he does in the book. What movie is it?

Question 19

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning."

This line is taken from a seminal Vietnam epic that ranks among the greatest war films ever made. It was directed by the great Francis Ford Coppola, whose perfectionism made the production a nightmare, but it paid off in the end as what we're left with is a trippy, dreamy, harrowing, beautiful, terrifying acid high set to the music of The Doors. This line is spoken by the odd and sociopathic Kilgore character, played by The Godfather actor Robert Duvall. So, what movie is the line from?

Question 20

"You're gonna need a bigger boat."

This line is another classic movie quote that is often misquoted. A lot of people think it's "We're gonna need a bigger boat," but it's actually "You're gonna need a bigger boat." The movie tells the story of a small down being terrorized by a gigantic great white shark, and the three guys who go out to kill it. The film became the highest grossing of all time when it was released in 1975 and became the first ever blockbuster. Which movie is it?

Question 21

"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

HAL 9000 was the first ever artificial intelligence in science fiction movies to become sentient and turn on its owner. HAL was the precursor to the Terminators and the Westworlds of cinema and television. HAL tells his owner Dave, "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that." The movie is about three hours long, but for the groundbreaking work by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke as they brought all of human evolution and our future to the screen, it's worth it. What movie is it?

Question 22

"You talkin' to me?"

Martin Scorsese directed this crime thriller written by Paul Schrader. A lot of filmmakers say that New York City is a character in their movies, but that is actually true of this one. It's the story of Travis Bickle, played by the great Robert De Niro, a Vietnam War vet who comes home and picks up round the clock work as a taxi driver where he decides to take on the crime on the streets himself. What movie is it?

Question 23

"Rosebud."

This film, the defining masterpiece of the entire career of Orson Welles, is often cited as being the greatest movie ever made. It is, frankly, a little overrated, but when something is called the greatest anything of all time, that's always going to be far too much hype to live up to. It's not bad. It's great, in fact. It is perhaps the very first film epic, the kind of rise and fall story that Martin Scorsese makes. What movie is it?

Question 24

"Show me the money!"

This line is spoken by Cuba Gooding, Jr. in a beautiful romantic comedy set in the glitzy world of the sports business. Gooding, Jr. plays Rod Tidwell opposite Tom Cruise, who plays his agent in the title role. Gooding Jr. has made a comeback recently playing OJ Simpson in the FX drama series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story, produced by Ryan Murphy. "Show me the money!" will always be his crowning achievement. What movie is it?

Question 25

"I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."

The full version of this quote is: "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti." It was spoken by the brilliant Sir Anthony Hopkins in what is possibly his most iconic role, Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter, in a taut, tense thriller directed by Jonathan Demme and co-starring Jodie Foster. It swept the Oscars, with Hopkins winning Best Actor, despite only being in the movie for a few minutes of screen time. What movie is it?

Question 26

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"

The Pink Panther star Peter Sellers plays a number of different roles in this movie, which is the most overtly comedic film that the brilliant Stanley Kubrick ever made. He says this line in the role of US President Merkin Muffley in this Cold War satire. Of course, there's an inherent irony to the quote, "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!" which makes it the perfect joke, full of wit. What movie is it from?

Question 27

"Go ahead, make my day."

Does it get any more badass than this? Clint Eastwood as "Dirty" Harry Callahan, holding his Magnum pistol up with the barrel pointed toward the face of a bad guy and his finger on the trigger, telling him through gritted teeth with a gruff facial expression, "Go ahead, make my day." Callahan is quoted twice on the AFI's list of 100 best movie quotes for the 100 years or so that cinema has been around. Which of the Dirty Harry movies is this beautiful nugget of badassness taken from?

Question 28

"I'll have what she's having."

This line was delivered by the wonderful Estelle Reiner, wife of Dick Van Dyke Show creator and star Carl Reiner and mother of movie director Rob Reiner. The film was directed by Rob Reiner and starred Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal, and this moment comes right after Ryan finished faking an orgasm in the middle of a restaurant. This line is a classic moment in comedy history and it was Estelle Reiner's final film role before her death. What movie is it?

Question 29

"I coulda been a contender!"

This quote is the best remembered part of a longer monologue delivered by the great Marlon Brando, an Academy Award winner who has influenced just about every actor of all time, despite the fact that toward the end of his life, he went totally off the rails and became self obsessed, demanding, and pretty darn crazy. "You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am." What movie is it?

Question 30

"We rob banks."

This movie starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway tells the story of a pair of bank robbers who fall in love and go on a crime spree, while being pursued by the police, ultimately getting blown to death by a barrage of bullet fire. The movie has influenced the likes of Terence Malick's Badlands and Oliver Stone's extremely violent and extremely controversial Natural Born Killers, which also tell the stories of crime and love. So, what movie is this one?

Question 31

"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

The character Howard Beale from Network is one of the most iconic in the history of cinema. He becomes known as The Mad Prophet of the Airwaves as he spouts off on the air when he's handed his two week notice of unemployment. He jokingly threatens to kill himself on live television and then says, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" in the middle of a newscast. What movie is the quote from?

Question 32

"Attica! Attica!"

This movie, a blend of comedy and drama, follows Al Pacino as a man named Sonny who is trying to rob a bank in order to pay for his lover's gender transition, and it all goes a little haywire from there. The movie is based on the true story of John Wojtowicz, although this man claims that the movie and its story and characters are only 30% factually accurate. It's a great movie that defines the feel of the 1970s. What movie is it?

Question 33

"What we've got here is failure to communicate."

This line is delivered by the Captain in a classic prison movie. He says, "You gonna get used to wearing them chains after a while. Don't you never stop listening to them clinking, 'cause they gonna remind you what I been saying for your own good." The prisoner says, "I wish you'd stop being so good to me, Cap'n." And then the Captain hits the prisoner and says, "Don't you ever talk that way to me. NEVER! NEVER! What we've got here is failure to communicate." What movie is it?

Question 34

"I'm walking here! I'm walking here!"

Dustin Hoffman improvised this line when they were shooting. The budget was so low for the movie that they couldn't afford to shut down the streets of New York City for filming. Hoffman was walking with Jon Voight, shooting, when a taxi came out of nowhere and nearly wiped out Hoffman, who yelled out, "I'm walking here! I'm walking here!" so they wouldn't have to re-do the scene. It's a great, albeit harrowing movie about a male prostitute. What movie is it?

Question 35

"I am big! It's the pictures that got small."

The classic character Norma Desmond, a has been movie starlet whose popularity and fame are fading as she ages, speaks the line, "I am big! It's the pictures that got small." The movie that this is from is perhaps the greatest film noir ever made. It was directed by Billy Wilder and it's famous for that opening shot of the dead man in the swimming pool, being looked down on by some police officers. So, what movie is the quote from?

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