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Ryu-Ren's 15 Top Movie One-liners

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President Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers): "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the war room!"
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.

Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss): "Well, this is not a boat accident, and it wasn't any propeller, it wasn't any coral reef, and it wasn't Jack the Ripper. It was a shark."
- Jaws

Howard Beale (Peter Finch): "Yesterday, I announced on this program that I was going to commit public suicide. Admittedly, an act of madness. Well, I'll tell you what happened. I just ran out of bullshit."
- Network

Margo Channing (Bette Davis): "Fasten you seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night!"
- All About Eve

Ida (Eve Arden): "Personally, Veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young."
- Mildred Pierce

Lt. Colonel Kilgore (Robert Duvall): "I love the smell of napalm in the morning – it smells like… victory."
- Apocalypse Now

Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi): "I never drink – wine."
- Dracula

Clark W. Griswold Jr. (Chevy Chase): "If I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn o the carpet, I couldn't be more surprised."
- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Nick Condon (James Cagney): "Sure, forgive your enemies, but first get even."
- Blood on the Sun

Barbara Morton (Patricia Hitchcock): "Oh, daddy doesn't mind a little scandal. He's a senator."
- Strangers on a Train

Virgil Starkwell (Woody Allen): "After 15 minutes, I wanted to marry her, and after 45 minutes, I completely gave up the idea of stealing her purse."
- Take the Money and Run

Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant): "Insanity runs in my family … It practically gallops."
- Arsenic and Old Lace

Tom (James Fleet): "The great advantage of having a reputation for being stupid: People are less suspicious of you."
- Four Weddings and a Funeral

Franz Liebkind (Kenneth Mars): "You are the audience. I am the author. I outrank you."
- The Producers

William Wallace (Mel Gibson): "Every man dies. Not every man really lives."
- Braveheart
This is the first part of my "I'm having art-block so I'm gonna make lists of my favorite movie quotes until I get inspired by something"

This will not be my last list. But hey it's fun.
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