I want to dance. I want to win. I want that trophy. So dance good.

Uma Thurman as Mia Wallace, Pulp Fiction

This is the best bad idea we have sir. By far.

Argo

I killed you, Mr. Anderson, I watched you die; and with a certain satisfaction, I might add. And then something happened. Something that I knew was impossible, but it happened anyway: you destroyed me, Mr. Anderson.

Agent Smith, The Matrix Reloaded.

Neo, sooner or later you’re going to realize just as I did, there’s a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path.

Morpheus, The Matrix.

I shouldn’t tell you this Mandrake but you’re a good officer and you have a right to know … it looks like we’re in a shooting war.

General Jack D. Ripper, in Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Still my favorite movie.

When you’re married you’ll understand the importance of fresh produce!

Tony Soprano to Christopher Moltisanti, The Sopranos, Episode 20, “D-Girl”

So how about you? How’s your life?

In progress.

John Cusack, Grosse Pointe Blank

Do you expect me to talk?
No Mr. Bond. I expect you to die.

Sean Connery as James Bond and Gert Fröbe as Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger (1959). Yes, getting kind of excited for the unkillable 007 around here.

Well let me ask you this, have those people even met themselves?

Tom Cruise, as Stacee Jaxx, in Rock of Ages. Thanks to British Airways in flight entertainment for this. I have to admit part of me loves this because the title is shared with an epic Morrison JLA arc.

I’m looking at you and I’m thinking: if it could be like this. If it could always be like this.

Playwright, in ”The Model and the Playwright,” Act 7 of The Blue Room by David Hare. (Based on Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde.)

Gym four times a week. Hour and a half, plus stretching. Life circle. Life step. Life circuit. Gus Petch don’t pussyfoot around.

Cedric The Entertainer as Gus Petch in Intolerable Cruelty. 

My analyst warned me, but you were so beautiful I got another analyst.

Woody Allen as Isaac Davis in Manhattan. Headed to NY in a few days.

The harder you try and keep a secret in, the more it wants to get out.

James Coburn, The Last of Sheila (1973). Incredibly fun film with an even more interesting backstory.

Oleanna (David Mamet, 1992)

• John:

  . . . Yes. All right. You find me pedantic. Yes. I am. By nature, by birth, by profession, I don't know. . . I'm always looking for a paradigm for . . .

• Carol:

  I don't know what a paradigm is.

• John:

  It's a model.

• Carol:

  Then why can't you use that word?

Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer, 2000)

• Teddy Bass:

  What are you staring at?

• Harry:

  The back of your head.

• Teddy Bass:

  Well don't. Stare at the back of your own ******* head.