Top 20 Movie Title Line Deliveries

It’s all in a name, right? So much is dependent on the title of a movie. Everything from the film’s marketing campaign to initial (and often premature) likeability, a title can make or break a film for many, and the way in which it is implored can often leave people intrigued or rolling their eyes.

This list is dedicated to the best-spoken uses of titles in their respective films. Hope you enjoy my picks, and feel free to share some of your favorites!

“Shane! Come back!”

 “He was smiling... that’s right. You know, that, that Luke smile of his. He had it on his face right to the very end. Hell, if they didn’t know it ‘fore, they could tell right then that they weren’t a-gonna beat him. That old Luke smile. Oh, Luke. He was some boy. Cool Hand Luke. Hell, he’s a natural-born world-shaker.”

“Concurrently, the military banned long hair on males; mini-skirts; Sophocles; Tolstoy; Euripedes; smashing glasses after drinking toasts; labor strikes; Aristophanes; Ionesco; Sartre; Albee; Pinter; freedom of the press; sociology; Beckett; Dostoyevsky; modern music; popular music; the new mathematics; and the letter ‘Z,’ which in ancient Greek means ‘He is alive!’”

“Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.”

“Seven-six-two millimeter. Full. Metal. Jacket.”

“Doctor…”

“What?!”

“Always do the right thing.”

“That’s it?”

“That’s it.”

“I got it, I’m gone.”

“Billy, listen to me: white men can’t jump.”

“A guy told me one time, ‘Don’t let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.’”

“WELCOME TO THE ROCK.”

“Some folks call it a sling blade, I call it a Kaiser blade.”

“…………….It’s Jackie Brown.”

“He got game.”

“Part of me thinks the kid’s right. He asks what he’s done to deserve this. He wants to stay here, fine. Let’s leave him and go home. But then another part of me thinks, what if by some miracle we stay, then actually make it out of here. Someday we might look back on this and decide that saving Private Ryan was the one decent thing we were able to pull out of this whole god-awful, shitty mess.”

“STOP!.......GO!”

“Do you have some coins?”

“Who wants the worm?”

“I’ll take it.”

“Hey Tenoch. Tenoch. Tenoch.”

“Yes?”

“Y tu mamá también.”

“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot/The world forgetting, by the world forgot/Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!/Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d.”

“Looked dead, didn’t I? But I wasn't. But it wasn’t from lack of trying, I can tell you that. Actually, Bill’s last bullet put me in a coma. A coma I was to lie in for four years. When I woke up, I went on what the movie advertisements refer to as a ‘roaring rampage of revenge.’ I roared. And I rampaged. And I got bloody satisfaction. I’ve killed a hell of a lot of people to get to this point, but I have only one more. The last one. The one I’m driving to right now. The only one left. And when I arrive at my destination, I am gonna kill Bill.”

“To those who say people wouldn’t look; they wouldn’t be interested; they’re too complacent, indifferent and insulated, I can only reply: There is, in one reporter’s opinion, considerable evidence against that contention. But even if they are right, what have they got to lose? Because if they are right, and this instrument is good for nothing but to entertain, amuse and insulate, then the tube is flickering now and we will soon see that the whole struggle is lost. This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box. Good night, and good luck.”

“I don't fuck with no kids. And if that girl only hope is you, well, I pray for her, because she’s gone, baby. Gone.”

“You tell me where we start, where we’re going, where we’re going afterwards. I give you five minutes when we get there. Anything happens in that five minutes and I’m yours. No matter what. Anything a minute on either side of that and you’re on your own. I don’t sit in while you’re running it down. I don’t carry a gun. I drive.”