Best movie quotes of 1978

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KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park picture

Star Child: We've got to find Devereaux.
Cat Man: That's good with me, Star Child. I'm down to my last few lives.

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Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! picture

General: You'd better bring a coat Mr. Richardson, there's a little Jap in the air.
Dr. Morrison: He means nip.

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Cheech and Chong's Up In Smoke picture

Sgt. Stedenko: The only kind of meat a priest could eat on Friday was nun.

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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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The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash picture

Archie Macaw, Record Producer: Well, one day this rather odd chap hopped into the office. He'd been to see virtually everyone in the business and been shown the door. He asked to see MY door, but I wouldn't show it to him. Instead, he showed me the photographs and tapes of the Rutles. They were pretty rough, but they had something.
Narrator: What was it?
Archie Macaw, Record Producer: I think it was the trousers.

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Hooper picture

Singer: Everyone get drunk and be somebody.

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The Cat from Outer Space picture

Jake - voice: My name is Zunar J 5 Slash 9 Doric 4 7.
Frank: Uh, Z-Zunar.
Jake - voice: ...Let's just stick with 'Jake', okay?

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Simone Legree: But I saw your funeral on TV.
Clouseau: Yes, even the Poop was there, you know?

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Jasper Blubber: And what is the charge, may I ask?
Lieutenant DiMaggio: The murder of Floyd Merkle and five unimportant people.

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Goin' South picture

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

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Foul Play picture

Tony Carlson: I think we got off on the wrong foot.
Gloria Mundy: Yes, and it seems to be in your mouth.
Tony Carlson: OK, I deserve that. Listen, it's Gloria, right? You're a really nice girl and I'm a nice guy, and you're very pretty with or without cleavage, and what do you say... would you like to take a shower?
Gloria Mundy: I don't pick up strange men.
Tony Carlson: Well, that's your problem.
Gloria Mundy: So why don't you try it?

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The Wild Geese picture

Faulkner: Thirty men in the valley of the shadow, and he wants to take over an entire country.

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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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Starcrash picture

Elle: I only have logic and emotion circuits. No room for craziness.

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The Swarm picture

Brad Crane: Are you endowing these bees with human motives? Like saving their fellow bees from captivity, or seeking revenge on Mankind?
General Thalius Slater: I always credit my enemy, no matter what he may be, with equal intelligence.

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

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Peter Sandza: I killed her. I knew I would, the first time I said "Hello."

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Boromir: What is this? Why do you speak of hiding and destroying? The Ring could save all Middle Earth.
Elrond: This is Sauron's Ring! To wield it, you would have to become Sauron.

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