Best drama movie quotes of 1986

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Stand By Me picture

[Gordie is dreaming about Denny's funeral.]
Mr. LaChance: It should have been you Gordon.

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off picture

Ferris: Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

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Top Gun picture

Iceman: The plaque for the alternates is down in the ladies room.

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River's Edge picture

Matt: The only reason you stay here is so you can fuck my mother and eat her food. motherfucker. food eater.

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Platoon picture

Barnes: Everybody gotta die sometime, Red.

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About Last Night... picture

Bernie: I stole it.
Danny: You did not.
Bernie: Oh, that's great, Dan. I tell you I'm a thief and you call me a liar.

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Hoosiers picture

Coach Norman Dale: If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your potential, to be the best that you can be, I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book we're gonna be winners.

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Peggy Sue: We had one glorious night together, someday you'll remember and write about it.
Michael Fitzsimmons: Yeah, I can dig that. Bittersweet perfection. Dogs of lust on leashes of memory.

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Heartbreak Ridge picture

Gunnery Seargant Thomas Highway: The United States Marines is lookin' for a few good men - and you ain't it.

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Mosquito Coast picture

Allie Fox: We eat when we're not hungry, drink when we're not thirsty. We buy what we don't need and throw away everything that's useful. Why sell a man what he wants? Sell him what he doesn't need. Pretend he's got eight legs and two stomachs and money to burn. It's wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

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The Mission picture

Sebastian: Your Christian community is commercially competitive.
Altamirano: Yes. It's very prosperous. Isn't that precisely why you want to take it over?
Sebastian: No. You should've achieved a noble failure if you wanted the state's approval. There's nothing we like better than a noble failure. It's deeply reassuring to a trading nation such as my own.

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When the Wind Blows picture

Hilda: The grass looks a funny color.
Jim: Yes. I'll pop down to Mr. Sponge's tomorrow and get some bone meal and dried blood.
Hilda: He may be closed due to the bomb dear.
Jim: What, old Sponge? Heh heh. Miss a day's trade? Oh not him. He'd rather die.

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Sid and Nancy picture

Nancy: Boring, Sidney, Boring.

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Margaret 'Meg' Magrath: Why'd you do it, Babe? Why'd you put your head in the oven?
Rebeca 'Babe': I don't know... I'm having a bad day.

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Pretty in Pink picture

Duckie: This is a really volcanic ensemble you're wearing, it's really marvelous.

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An American Tail picture

Gussie: We awe going to have a wawwy.
Honest John: A wawwy? What's a wawwy?
Gussie: You know. A wawwy. A wawge gathewing of mice fow a weason.
Honest John: Oh. A rally.
Gussie: That's what I said. A wawwy.

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Alba Bewick: In the land of the legless the one-legged woman is queen.

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At Close Range picture

Brad Whitewood Sr.: I just bought this car. It's cherry. Will you give me $4600 for her?

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