Best final lines In movies - 50 great movie quotes
Saving the best for last... now, this is how you end a movie.
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Starting a script is a hard task but finding just the right line to end things on can be just as tough. But get it right, as this best final lines in movies list proves, then you can turn a great movie into a classic.
Great final lines are key: while your audience may have started watching with a feeling of expectancy and excitement, chances are that come the conclusion, their eyes may be falling deeper into the destructive world of sleep.
Now's the time to fuel their dreams/nightmares with a catchy one-liner.
We've assembled 50 of the best here but would like to hear if you think we've missed any out. Comments are at the bottom.
Best closing lines in movies
"I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner..."Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins)
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once and a while you might miss it.”Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick)
"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads!"Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd)
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist. And like that... he is gone."Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey)
"In case I don't see you, good afternoon, good evening, and goodnight.”Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey)
"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."Rick (Humphrey Bogart)
“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12. Jesus, does anyone?”The Write (Richard Dreyfuss)
"Well, nobody's perfect."Osgood Fielding III (Joe E Brown)
"The truth is...I am Iron Man."Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr)
"You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!"George Taylor (Charlton Heston)
"The name's Bond. James Bond."James Bond (Daniel Craig)
"That'll do, Pig. That'll do."Farmer Hoggett (James Cromwell)
“There’s no place like home!”Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland)
"Ernest Hemingway once wrote, "The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part."William Somerset (Morgan Freeman)
"We will hunt him down because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A dark knight..."Lt. James Gordon (Gary Oldman)
"So long... partner."Woody (Tom Hanks)
"You met me at a very strange time in my life."The Narrator (Edward Norton)
"This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off."Ripley (Sigourney Weaver)
"After all, tomorrow is another day."Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh)
"A man’s got to know his limitations."Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood)
"I'll be right here..."E.T. (E.T.)
"Why don't we just wait here for a little while... see what happens..."MacReady (Kurt Russell)
"I'm not even gonna swat that fly. I hope they are watching. They'll see. They'll see and they'll know and they'll say, 'Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly'..."Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins)
"Now, where was I?"Leonard (Guy Pearce)
"This is my gift, my curse. Who am I? I'm Spider-man."Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire)
"Yo, Adrian, we did it. We did it."Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone)
"This place makes me wonder... Which would be worse, to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?"Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio)
"Oh, no! It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast."Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong)
"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.Lawrence Walsh (Joe Mantell),
"Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you."Neo (Keanu Reeves)
"Hang on, lads; I've got a great idea."Charlie Croker (Michael Caine)
"You know somethin', Utivich? I think this just might be my masterpiece."Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt)
"The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope. Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too."Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton)
"The horror, the horror..."Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Marlon Brando)
"Right after I got here, I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce and I got egg noodles and ketchup. I'm an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook."Henry Hill (Ray Liotta)
"Hail to the king, baby."Ash (Brce Campbell)
"Some men get the world. Others get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona."Lynn Bracken (Kim Basinger)
"There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it. Always."Mahatma Gandhi (Ben Kingsley)
"I was perfect."Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman)
"Go ahead! I take your fucking bullets! You think you kill me with bullets? I take your fucing bullets! Go ahead!"Tony Montana (Al Pacino)
"When people ask me if Michael Sullivan was a good man, or if there was just no good in him at all, I always give the same answer. I just tell them, he was my father."Frank Sullivan Jr (Tyler Hoechlin)
"One more thing, Sofie... is she aware her daughter is still alive?"Bill (David Carradine)
"Still, things won't ever be the way they were before he came. But that's alright because if you hang onto the past you die a little every day. And for myself, I know I'd rather live."Danielle Bowden (Juliette Lewis)
"Baby, you are gonna miss that plane."Celine (Julie Delpy)
"I was cured all right!"Alex (Malcolm McDowell)
"Oh yes, I believe in friends. I believe we need them, but if one day you find that you just can't trust them anymore then what then? What then?"David Stephens (Christopher Eccleston)
"Oh, God."Steve Rodgers (Chris Evans)
"I'm da boss, I'm da boss, I'm da boss, I'm da boss, I'm da boss... I'm da boss, I'm da boss, I'm da boss, I'm da boss, I'm da boss, I'm da boss."Jake La Motta (Robert De Niro)
"Heil Hitler."Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes)
"What about the person we show it to? What's happens to them?"Aidan Keller (David Dorfman)
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As Content Director of Shortlist, Marc likes nothing more than to compile endless lists of an evening by candlelight. He started out life as a movie writer for numerous (now defunct) magazines and soon found himself online - editing a gaggle of gadget sites, including TechRadar, Digital Camera World and Tom's Guide UK. At Shortlist you'll find him mostly writing about movies and tech, so no change there then.