From "Men in Black's" "You know the difference between you and me? I make this look good" to "Top Gun's" "I feel the need... the need for speed!" -- movies released in the summertime months lend themselves to some great quotable movie lines! Read through 30 of the best ever!
30 Best Summer Movie Quotes
"Independence Day" (1996)
“Y'know, this was supposed to be my weekend off, but noooo. You got me out here draggin' your heavy ass through the burnin' desert with your dreadlocks stickin' out the back of my parachute. You gotta come down here with an attitude, actin' all big and bad… and what the hell is that SMELL?” – Captain Steven Heller (Will Smith)
"Pirates of the Caribbean" Series
“The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can't do… And me, for example, I can let you drown, but I can't bring this ship into Tortuga all by me onesies, savvy? So, can you sail under the command of a pirate, or can you not?” — Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp)
"Sex and The City" (2008)
“And we were dressed from head to toe in love… the only label that never goes out of style.” – Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker)
“You guys might not know this, but I consider myself a bit of a loner. I tend to think of myself as a one-man wolf pack. But when my sister brought Doug home, I knew he was one of my own. And my wolf pack… it grew by one. So there… there were two of us in the wolf pack… I was alone first in the pack, and then Doug joined in later. And six months ago, when Doug introduced me to you guys, I thought, “Wait a second, could it be?” And now I know for sure, I just added two more guys to my wolf pack. Four of us wolves, running around the desert together, in Las Vegas, looking for strippers and cocaine. So tonight, I make a toast!" -Alan Garner (Zach Galifianakis)
“You're gonna need a bigger boat.” — Chief Brody (Roy Scheider)
“Hello? 911 emergency! My car's been stolen! I'm in pursuit! I need the whole squadron, bring everyone! No, no don't ask any questions, my father's the head of the neighbourhood watch!”— Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf)
“See that thing on my belt? Grab it! Whatever you do, don't let go” — Batman (Michael Keaton)
“Why so serious?”— The Joker (Heath Ledger)
“My momma always said, 'Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.'” – Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks)
“You know the difference between you and me? I make this look good.” — Jay (Will Smith)
"E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial" (1982)
“Luke, I am your father.” — Darth Vader (David Prowse)
“I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility, uh, for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now [slamming hand on the table] you're selling it!” — Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum)
"Terminator 2: Judgement Day" (1991)
“Come with me, if you want to live.” — The Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
“Whatever life holds in store for me, I will never forget these words: 'With great power comes great responsibility.' This is my gift, my curse. Who am I? I'm Spider-Man.” — Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire)
“Yippie-ki-yay, motherf***er.” — John McClane (Bruce Willis)
“I feel the need… the need for speed!” — Maverick (Tom Cruise)
“I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it.” — Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne)
"Wedding Crashers" (2005)
“I got to get outta here, pronto. I got a Stage Five clinger.” — Jeremy Grey (Vince Vaughn)
“I am the gatekeeper!” – Dana Barrett (Sigourney Weaver)
“I got to get into this dude's pelt and crawl around for a few days. Who's the gopher's ally. His friends. The harmless squirrel and the friendly rabbit.” — Carl Spackler (Bill Murray)
“Donkey, two things, OK? Shut. Up.”— Shrek (Mike Myers)
Evan (Michael Cera): “Stay calm, okay? Let's not lose our heads. It's… it's a fine ID; it'll… it's gonna work. It's passable, okay? This isn't terrible. I mean, it's up to you, Fogell. This guy is either gonna think 'Here's another kid with a fake ID' or 'Here's McLovin, a 25 year-old Hawaiian organ donor'. Okay? So what's it gonna be?”
Fogell (Christopher Mintz-Plasse): “I am McLovin!”
“Fish are friends, not food.” — Bruce (Barry Humphries)
“If you're a bird, I'm a bird.” — Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling)
“I see dead people.” — Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment)
“What we do in life echoes in eternity.” — Maximus (Russell Crowe)
"Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981)
Indiana (Harrison Ford): “The Ark of the Covenant, the chest that the Hebrews used to carry around the Ten Commandments.”
Major Eaton: “What, you mean THE Ten Commandments?”
Indiana: “Yes, the actual Ten Commandments, the original stone tablets that Moses brought down from Mt. Horeb and smashed, if you believe in that sort of thing… [the officers stare at him blankly] Didn't any of you guys ever go to Sunday school?”
“This is the best that the government, the U.S. government, can come up with? I mean, you're NASA for cryin' out loud, you put a man on the moon, you're geniuses! You're the guys that think this sh*t up! I'm sure you got a team of men sitting around somewhere right now just thinking sh*t up and somebody backing them up! You're telling me you don't have a backup plan, that these eight boy scouts right here, that is the world's hope, that's what you're telling me?” — Harry Stampler (Bruce Willis)
James T. Kirk (Chris Pine): [Spock volunteers for what could be a suicide mission] “I'm coming with you.”
Spock (Zachary Quinto): “I would cite regulation, but I know you will simply ignore it.”
James T. Kirk: “See? We are getting to know each other.”