Best movie quotes of 1978

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Force 10 from Navarone picture

Maj. Schroeder: Ah, tell me what has all this to do with that, uh, suitcase case you keep looking at?
Mallory: Well, that suitcase is full of our penicillin.
Maj. Schroeder: Oh, indeed. Perhaps I could see some it?
Mallory: Certainly, Major. Open it Miller.
Miller: You can't do that here, sir. You'll ruin the lot. You know perfectly well that any contamination will destroy it. It's got to be opened under laboratory conditions.

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Dawn of the Dead picture

Peter: Ain't it a crime.
Stephen: What?
Peter: The only person who could miss with this gun is the sucker with the bread to buy it.

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Midnight Express picture

Billy Hayes: It looks like a cheap hotel.
Jimmy: Only the room service is lousy. I'm Jimmy Booth. This is Erich - something Swedish, I don't know.
Erich: Just Erich.
Jimmy: He cleaned you up.
Billy Hayes: Thanks. I'm Billy Hayes. At least, I used to be.

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Snake in the Eagle's Shadow picture

Grandmaster Pai Cheng-Cheh: What a bitch. I hope she drops dead.

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Goin' South picture

Henry Moon: We was just sayin' how much we needed a figurine.

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Starcrash picture

Elle: It's so nice to be turned on again.

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Every Which Way But Loose picture

Cholla: You Philo Beddoe?
Philo Beddoe: Do I know you?
Cholla: You're gonna.

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Pretty Baby picture

Violet: Madame Nell says there's something wrong with you, that you're a cream puff or something. She says you're pathetic, missing all the fun in life.
Bellocq: Perhaps Madame Nell is imagining she knows more than she does. Do you think she's having fun?
Violet: She's as happy as anybody. Are the afraid you'll get the little casino? The clap?
Bellocq: No.
Violet: Well, why, then?
Bellocq: Do I ask you questions? I don't have to explain myself to a child.
Violet: I am not a child.

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Coma picture

Nurse: Doctors make the worst patients. They know too much.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles picture

Doctor Watson: Where and at what time does the train leave for Baskerville?
Dr. Mortimer: Tomorrow, 12 o'clock, Victoria.
Doctor Watson: Oh no, you can call me John.

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Laserblast picture

Kathy Farley: Just you and me and the sky... like a cup! A giant cup.

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Gollum: My Precious. My Precious.

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Return from Witch Mountain picture

Dr. Victor Gannon: Where you from?
Tony: Witch Mountain.
Sickle: Sounds like some hick town to me.

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Foul Play picture

Delia Darrow: We were attacked, laughed at, and finally imprisoned. But it was there, in those hellholes, where the mind is bound and the spirit is shackled, that we realised that the single most effective way to bring about radical change is the historically proven path of violence.

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Joe Pendleton: We don't care how much it costs, just how much it makes. If it costs too much, we charge a penny more. Would you pay a penny to save a fish who thinks?

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The Swarm picture

Dr. Andrews: Billions of dollars have been spent to make these nuclear plants safe. Fail-safe! The odds against anything going wrong are astronomical, Doctor.
Dr. Hubbard: I appreciate that, Doctor. But let me ask you. In all your fail-safe techniques, is there a provision for an attack by killer bees?

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