Best movie quotes of 1981

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Wolfen picture

Dewey Wilson: They kill to protect family?
Old Indian: In the end, it's all for the hunting ground.

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Dorcas: What would you buy if you were bored?
Neville: Uh... a jar of calf's foot jelly.

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Tyrian: If he's ready to lay a dragon in its grave, he's nothing to fear from me.

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Hatch: This frigging game is ruining my life.

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Dr. John McCabe: So, what did you do in the Big Apple?
Liza Merrill: Just about everything a girl could do without losing her good English breeding and reputation. Modeling, dancing, secretary... I almost became an unsuccessful fashion designer.

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Frankie: Cheerleaders: They call us the goody goody two shoes/ We're here to cheer you with the good news/ That D-E-N-T-O-N gets T-E-N/ That's ten out of ten.

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Gregory: Go do something your own age, like demolish a phonebox!

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Vicky: What does the winner get?
Mark: What does the winner want?
Vicky: Guess.

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James A. Wells, Assistant U.S. Attorney General: We can't have people go around leaking stuff for their own reasons. It ain't legal. And worse than that, by God it ain't right.

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Lucy van Pelt: Linus, have you seen Charlie Brown?
Linus van Pelt: Nobody has seen him since Snoopy's magic show. I just talked to Sally, and she said even when you look at him, you don't see him.
Lucy van Pelt: What's that supposed to mean? That's the dumbest thing I ever heard.

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Bud: Amazing Grace, come sit on my face. Don't make me cry, I need your pie.

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Darcy: Max, please, what is the matter with you lately? I was kidding.
Max Fielder: Look at my face. I can't go to dinner like this. Look.
Darcy: Your face looks fine.
Max Fielder: I'm not going. I'm staying up here.
Darcy: Max. Max, you promised me that you would try to relax and be close to me this weekend.
Max Fielder: You were only kidding?

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Linda: We're gonna get you. We're gonna get you. Not another peep. Time to go to sleep.

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Joan Crawford: Why can't you give me the respect that I'm entitled to? Why can't you treat me like I would be treated by any stranger on the street?
Christina Crawford: Because I am not one of your fans!

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Andromeda: You are not my lord and husband, not yet. In the absence of the queen, it is I who command.

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Donna: Haven't you ever done Assertiveness Training? Before I looked into the Doc, I did it all - EST, T.M., Scientology, iridology, Primal Scream... I don't know, I figure another five years of real hard work, and maybe I'll be a real human being.

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Radish: Being brilliant has its drawbacks.

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Rudy: There's something I can't figure out.
Gloria Davis: What's that?
Rudy: I don't know.

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Damien Thorn: Oh my Father, Lord of Silence, Supreme God of Desolation, though mankind reviles yet aches to embrace, strengthen my purpose to save the world from a second ordeal of Jesus Christ and his grubby mundane creed. Show man instead the raptures of Thy kingdom. Infuse in him the grandeur of melancholy, the divinity of loneliness, the purity of evil, the paradise of pain.

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