"It's no trick to make a lot of money...if what you want to do is make a lot of money. " - Mr. Bernstein (Everett Sloane), Citizen Kane (1941)

"I have money and property. If I don't look after the interests of the underprivileged, maybe somebody else will - maybe somebody without any money or property - and that would be too bad." - Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles), Citizen Kane (1941)

"...I think men's minds are going to be changed in subtle ways because of automobiles... It may be that in ten or twenty years from now, if we can see the inward change in men by that time, I shouldn't be able to defend the gasoline engine but would have to agree with George: that automobiles had no business to be invented." - Eugene Morgan (Joseph Cotten) - The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

"No man is a failure who has friends." - Clarence (Henry Travers), It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 

"I came to in the Crazy House and for a while there, I thought it was me that was crazy!" - Michael O'Hara (Orson Welles), The Lady from Shanghai (1948)

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." - Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas), Paths of Glory (1957)

"You can't fight in here - this is the War Room!" - President Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

"Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales?" - Sir Thomas More (Paul Scofield), A Man for All Seasons (1966)

"Time starts now." - Steve McQueen, Bullitt (1968)

"I'm a Catholic, I don't wanna hurt nobody." - Sonny Wortzik (Al Pacino), Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

"The one constant through all the years... has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. " - Terence Mann (James Earl Jones), Field of Dreams (1989)

"If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny." - Lester (Alan Alda), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

"Always tell the truth.  It's the easiest thing to remember." - Ricky Roma (Al Pacino), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

"I think this is a case of the chickens coming home to roost.  And being from a farm, chickens coming home to roost never made me sad.  In fact, it's only made me glad." - Malcolm X (Denzel Washington), Malcolm X (1992) 

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." - Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey), The Usual Suspects (1995)

"Some of us have great stories, pretty stories, that take place at lakes with boats and friends and noodle salad. Just no one in this car. But a lot of people, that's their story. Good times, noodle salad." - Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson), As Good As It Gets (1997)

"Well, everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this book presupposes is... maybe he didn't!" - Eli Cash (Owen Wilson), The Royal Tenebaums (2001)

"No caffeine after mid-day." - Sgt. Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg), Hot Fuzz (2007)

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