Best drama movie quotes of 1979

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The Warriors picture

Cyrus: Can you dig it?!

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The Wanderers picture

Peewee: Nobody fucks with the Baldies.

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Apocalypse Now picture

Kilgore: I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

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Scum picture

Carlin: Right Banks, you bastard! I'm the daddy now, next time, I'll fucking kill ya.

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Stalker picture

Stalker: It is so quiet out here, it is the quietest place in the world.

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Being There picture

Abraz: Bullshit. Who sent you here, boy? Did that chickenshit asshole Raphael send you, boy?
Chance the Gardener: No. Mr. Thomas Franklin told me I must leave the old man's house. He's dead, you know.
Abraz: Dead, my ass. You tell that asshole, if he got somethin' to tell me, to get his ass down here himself! You got that, boy?

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Bull Meechum: I am Santini, the Great Santini.
Bull Meechum: I come from behind the moon, out of the dark, unannounced.
Bull Meechum: Watch out.

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Quadrophenia picture

Steph: Going to be one of the faces?
Jimmy: What do you mean going to be? I AM one of the faces.

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Hair picture

Hippy: The draft is white people sending black people to make war on the yellow people to defend the land they stole from the red people.

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Escape from Alcatraz picture

Prison Guard: Your painting privileges have been removed.
Doc: Why?
Prison Guard: I don't know.

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Breaking Away picture

Dad: I dreamed all last night, that everyone I ever sold a car to came back for a refund. And there you were, handing out the checks! One for you, and one for you.

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The Electric Horseman picture

Wendall: I'm gonna get me a bottle of tequila and find me one of them Keno girls that can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch and just kinda kick back.

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Salem's Lot picture

Straker: The master wants you. Throw away your cross, face the master. Your faith against his faith... Could you do that? Is your faith enough?.. Then do it... Throw away the cross. Face the master. Faith against faith.

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Jesus picture

Jesus: Forgive them father, for they don't know what they do.

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The Concorde: Airport '79 picture

Alicia Rogov: I want to show the whole world that you don't need to be 15 and have the figure of boy to win a gold medal.

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Hanover Street picture

David Halloran: You've got to go to him, and I've got to turn and walk away.

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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure picture

Captain Mike Turner: In times of real trouble, the one thing man can depend on is the sympathy of the bank.

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The Rose picture

Rose: What are we ladies? What are we? We are waitresses at the banquet of life! Get into that kitchen and rattle them pots and pans - and you better look pretty good doin' it too, 'else you gonna lose you good thing. And why do we do that, I'll tell you why we do that? We do that to find love - Oh I love to be in love - don't you love to be in love?

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Eddie Schuman: Beautiful. Where's she from?
Jack Flowers: Ceylon.
Eddie Schuman: Ceylon. Yeah. They call it Sri Lanka now.
Jack Flowers: Yeah, I know.
Eddie Schuman: They screwed up all the names. Zanzibar. The Congo. Siam. Persia. All gone.

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