Best movie quotes of 1971

Please vote as you browse around to help the best rise to the top.

Movie Quote Quiz
More Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory quotes
Big Jake picture

Martha McCandles: This is going to be a very harsh and unpleasant business, and will take an equally harsh and unpleasant person to see to it.

More Big Jake quotes
Duel picture

David Mann: I'd like to report a truck driver who's been endangering my life.

More Duel quotes
Fiddler on the Roof picture

Tevye: As Abraham said, "I am a stranger in a strange land... "
Mendel: Moses said that.
Tevye: Ah. Well, as King David said, "I am slow of speech, and slow of tongue."
Mendel: That was also Moses.
Tevye: For a man who was slow of tongue, he talked a lot.

More Fiddler on the Roof quotes
THX 1138 picture

OMM: Let us be thankful we have an occupation to fill. Work hard, increase production, prevent accidents and be happy.

More THX 1138 quotes
Vanishing Point picture

Super Soul: This radio station was named Kowalski, in honour of the last American hero to whom speed means freedom of the soul. The question is not when's he gonna stop, but who is gonna stop him.

More Vanishing Point quotes
Summer of '42 picture

Oscy: Not even the best of friends go halfsies on a rubber.

More Summer of '42 quotes
A Clockwork Orange picture

Alex: Initiative comes to thems that wait.

More A Clockwork Orange quotes
More Play Misty For Me quotes
The Omega Man picture

Matthias: You are discarded. You are the refuse of the past.
Neville: You are full of crap.

More The Omega Man quotes
Dirty Harry picture

Harry Callahan: I know what you're thinking."Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?

More Dirty Harry quotes
Carnal Knowledge picture

Bobbie: I need a life.
Jonathan: Get a job.
Bobbie: I don't want a job. I want you.
Jonathan: I'm taken, by me. Get out of the house, do something useful, Goddammit.

More Carnal Knowledge quotes
Shaft picture

Ben Buford: A lot of hyped-up black people give you that money you're spendin', pimp.
Bumpy Jonas: Don't you try to bullshit me, boy. We're all on the hustle. I sell broads and dope and numbers. You sell crap and blue sky. It's all the same game.

More Shaft quotes
More Billy Jack quotes
Nicholas and Alexandra picture

Tsar Nicholas II: All my life. My whole life I've done what you want. I gave mother up. You hated her, so we don't see her anymore. I gave my friends up. Do you know I haven't a single friend? I've got my family. Four girls, one sick boy... and you. I ask myself, before I eat, sleep, or change my clothes, is this what Sunny wants? And it never is. There's always more! Sweet Jesus how much do you want of me?

More Nicholas and Alexandra quotes
Escape from the Planet of the Apes picture

Tailor: May I measure your inside leg, sir?
Cornelius: No.

More Escape from the Planet of the Apes quotes
Bedknobs And Broomsticks picture

Paul Rawlins: What's that got to do with my knob?

More Bedknobs And Broomsticks quotes
More Bananas quotes
The French Connection picture

Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: This is Doyle. I'm sittin' on Frog One.
Bill Mulderig: Yeah, I know that. We got the Westbury covered like a tent.
Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: The Westbury my ass! I got him on the shuttle at Grand Central, now what the hell's going on up there?

More The French Connection quotes
Dad's Army picture

Captain Mainwaring: I intend to mould those men out there into an aggressive fighting force. I'm not going to get very far if you keep inviting them to "step this way."

Neil Jones

More Dad's Army quotes

Join the mailing list

Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback.