The Most Common Movie Misquotes ...

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The Most Common Movie Misquotes ...
The Most Common Movie Misquotes ...

Many great movie lines make their way into pop culture annals to be wheeled out time and time again. Sadly, they often get misquoted and it is the misquotes that become the most popularly repeated, rather than the original. Want to know which you quote that are not true to the original?

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1

Dirty Harry

Misquoted line: “Do you feel lucky, punk?”

Real line: “Being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk?

2

Wall Street

Wall Street Misquoted line: “Greed is good!”

Real line: The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

3

Star Wars Episode IV: the Empire Strikes Back

Misquoted line: “Luke, I am your father.”

Real line: “No, I am your father.”

4

Apocalypse Now

Misquoted line: “I love the smell of napalm in the morning; smells like victory!”

Real line: “I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know, that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smells like victory."

5

The Graduate

Misquoted line: “Mrs. Robinson, are you trying to seduce me?”

Real line: “Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me. Aren’t you?”

Famous Quotes

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Plutarch
6

Casablanca

Misquoted line: “Play it again, Sam.”

Real line: "You played it for her, you can play it for me ... If she can stand it, I can. Play it!"

7

Field of Dreams

Misquoted line: “If you build it, they will come.”

Real line: “If you build it, he will come.”

8

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Misquoted line: “Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!”

Real line: “Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges. I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges!”

9

White Heat

Misquoted line: “Top of the world, ma!”

Real line: “Made it, Ma. Top of the world!”

10

Sons of the Desert

Misquoted line: “Well, here's another fine mess you've gotten us into!”

Real line: “Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!"

11

Jaws

Misquoted line: “We’re gonna need a bigger boat!”

Real line: “You’re gonna need a bigger boat!”

12

Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home

Misquoted line: “Beam me up, Scotty!”

Real line: “Scotty, beam us up.”

13

All about Eve

Misquoted line: “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night!”

Real line: “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride!”

14

She Done Him Wrong

Misquoted line: “Why don’t you come up and see me sometime.”

Real line: “Why don't you come up sometime and see me? I'm home every evening.”

15

… and Justice for All

Misquoted line: “I’m out of order? You’re out of order! This whole courtroom’s out of order!”

Real line: “You're out of order! You're out of order! The whole trial is out of order! They're out of order!”

16

The Silence of the Lambs

Misquoted line: “Hello, Clarice…”

Real line: “Good evening, Clarice…”

17

The Wizard of Oz

Misquoted line: “I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore, Toto.”

Real line: “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”

18

Apollo 13

Misquoted line: “Houston, we have a problem.”

Real line: “Ah, Houston, we’ve had a problem.”

19

Aliens

Misquoted line: “Stay away from her, you bitch!”

Real line: “Get away from her, you bitch!”

20

Mommie Dearest

Misquoted line: “No more wire hangers!”

Real line: “No wire hangers! No wire hangers ever!”

21

Sunset Boulevard

Misquoted line: “I’m ready for my close up, Mr. DeMille.”

Real line: “All right, Mr. DeMille. I’m ready for my close up.”

22

Planet of the Apes

Misquoted line: Get your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!”

Real line: “Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!”

23

Titanic

Misquoted line: “I’m king of the world!”

Real line: “I’m the king of the world!”

24

King Kong

Misquoted: “T’was Beauty that killed the Beast.”

Real line: “Oh, no, it wasn’t the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.”

25

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Misquoted: Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?

Real line: Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all? **

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Mimicry is a form of flattery. We should at least get them right!

Sweet of him to say punk and not ....

*article about misquoted movie lines* *makes photo of girl in bathing suit the cover photo of article*

Cool. I was watching Dirty Dancing yesterday and I noticed he doesn't say "nobody puts Baby in the corner" but "nobody leaves Baby in a corner".

Lol I always think of the mandala effect when I hear these misquotes.

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