A Few Memorable (but not too familiar) Movie Quotes


There are so many great quotes from movies many of you may never have even heard of. This week we take a look at just a few of these. The quotes are listed first with their corresponding movie titles listed at the bottom of the page so you can test yourself and see if you DO know the movie in which each can be heard.

1- I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
2- You've gotta be smart to be a president. Let me be vice president; that's a real idiots job.
3- I can't decide what to do. It's a toss-up. It'll either be brain surgery or trying for that opening at the nuclear plant.
4- I'll never marry again. I've got your alimony to keep me warm.
5- Why do you make overtures to me when I need intermissions so badly?
6- Can you dig it?
7- Life's never quite interesting enough, somehow. You people who come to the movies know that.
8- Let me tell you something about true feelings. I've made quite a study of true feelings. Most of them deserve to be hidden.
9- It is foolish to kill those you hate, because, once they are dead, they are beyond pain.
10- What do you got in place of a conscience? Don't answer. I know: a lawyer.


1- Ace in the Hole, 1951, starring Kirk Douglas and Jan Sterling
2- Bananas, 1971, starring Woody Allen
3- Hardly Working, 1981, starring Jerry Lewis
4- He Married His Wife, 1940, starring Nancy Kelly and Joel McCrea
5- Whoopee! , 1930, starring Eddie Cantor
6- Superfly, 1972, starring Ryan O'Neal
7- The Matchmaker, 1958, starring Shirley Booth
8- Pete 'n' Tillie, 1972, starring Walter Matthau and Carol Burnett
9- Quo Vadis? , 1951, starring Robert Taylor and Deborah Kerr
10- Detective Story, 1951, starring Kirk Douglas
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