Greatest Last Film Lines

2000s

"...This confession has meant nothing."

- "If you don't have a chicken, where are you going to get the egg?"
- "From the chicken that comes from the egg."
- "Yeah, but you have to have an egg to have a chicken."
- "Yeah, but you've got to get the chicken first to get the egg, and then you get the egg... to get the chicken out of... "
- "Hang on, let's go over this again?"

"Now we are free. I will see you again, but not yet. Not yet."

"I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have meaning, even if I can't remember them. I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still here. Do I believe the world's still here? Is it still out there?... (He opens his eyes) Yeah. We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are. I'm no different. Now, where was I?"
Play clips (excerpt): Memento Memento

"Let's get lost."

"Now that we know who you are, I know who I am. I'm not a mistake! It all makes sense! In a comic, you know how you can tell who the arch-villain's going to be? He's the exact opposite of the hero. And most times, they're friends, like you and me! I should've known way back when. You know why, David? Because of the kids. They called me Mr. Glass."

- "That's it?"
- "I don't want that to be it. I don't want that to be it at all."
- "Then don't let a little thing like me firing you stand in your way. I don't know what to react to first. Hey, news flash - I took the wrong road. What kind of knight in shining armor would I be if the man I love needs rescuing and I just let him walk out my door?"
- "My hero."

- "It's too late, isn't it, Forney?"
- "Too late? For what?"
- "I lied to you when you asked me if I loved you, and I said no. Remember?"
- "Yes."
- "I lied, Forney. It wasn't true, l- I love you. It's just, I lied because I thought you deserved something better."
- "Something better than you? Novalee, there isn't anything better than you."
(Song: "There You Are" by Martina McBride)
(announcer) "Attention Wal-Mart shoppers and wedding guests: Our garden center is running a special on potting soil and rakes."

- "The war is still coming, Charles, and I intend to fight it by any means necessary."
- "And I will always be there, old friend."

"Oh... it's warm...!"

"Well, I suppose it's all right. After all, as your mother tells you, and my mother certainly told me, 'It is important,' she always used to say, 'always to try new things.' Open up."

"Let's go home."

(voice-over) "...Now that I'm near the end, I'm glad that this men's magazine paid me to tell my story. Writing it has helped me sort it all out. They're paying five cents a word, so you'll pardon me if sometimes I've told you more than you wanted to know. But now, all the disconnected things seem to hook up. That's the funny thing about going away, knowing the date you're gonna die -- and the men's magazine wanted me to tell how that felt. Well, it's like pulling away from the maze. While you're in the maze you go through willy-nilly, turning where you think you have to turn, banging into the dead ends, one thing after another. But you get some distance on it, and all those twists and turns, why, they're the shape of your life. It's hard to explain. But seeing it whole gives you some peace. The men's magazine also asked about remorse. Yeah, I guess I'm sorry about the pain I caused other people, but I don't regret anything. Not a thing. I used to. I used to regret being the barber. I don't know where I'm being taken. I don't know what I'll find beyond the earth and sky. But I'm not afraid to go. Maybe the things I don't understand will be clearer there, like when a fog blows away. Maybe Doris will be there. And maybe there I can tell her all those things they don't have words for here."

"I think we're gonna be alright."

(voice-over) "Days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months. And then, one not-so-very special day, I went to my typewriter, I sat down, and I wrote our story. A story about a time, a story about a place, a story about the people. But above all things, a story about love. A love that will live forever. The end."
(singing) "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."

"Silencio..."

- "A new home and a new school. It must be a bit scary."
- "I think I can handle it."
[Lines written for the English dubbed version]

"What a day. What a motherf--kin' day."

"...if you can wake up, you should, because, you know, some day, you know, you won't be able to, so, just, uhm, but it's easy, you know - just, just wake up."

"Anyway, it's done. And that's something. So: 'Kaufman drives off from his encounter with Amelia, filled for the first time with hope.' I like this. This is good."

(voice-over) "Men gotta have fun."

- "Me and Roxie would just like to say, thank you."
- "Thank you! Believe us, we could never have done it without you."
(sung) "And all... that... jazz! That jazz!"

"I came up with a new game show idea recently. It's called The Old Game. You got three old guys with loaded guns onstage. They look back at their lives, see who they were, what they accomplished, how close they came to realizing their dreams. The winner is the one who doesn't blow his brains out. He gets a refrigerator."

"The file in the vault was erased and this is the only copy.
(He tosses the blue computer disc into the ocean.)
Now there's no copy at all."

- "I'm still not quite sure how good you are."
- "I am so good."
- "Especially when you're bad."

"Only in my dreams."

"My father once told me we was all born of blood and tribulation; so then, too, was our great city. But for those of us who had lived and died in them furious days... it was like everything we knew was mightily swept away. And no matter what they did to build this city back up again -- for the rest of time -- it would be like nobody even knew we was ever here."

"Dear Leonard. To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard, always the years between us, always the years. Always the love. Always the hours."
Play clip (excerpt): The Hours

"Let me sleep."

(voice-over) "And that's how it ended. Yet not a day goes by without at least one thought about the passion. Maybe I was so blinded by it that I missed all the clues to his past. I often wonder what would have happened if I hadn't looked up that morning. Two years later, I saw him once more. I don't know. Maybe a flatlander like me can't live at that altitude. Maybe it never would have been possible to sustain what we had. Maybe. Well, that's what I tell myself."

- "I was scared that you wouldn't come."
- "Well, I was trying to decide what panties I should wear."
- "Which ones did you choose?
- "None."

"What is her name?"

"All I wanna do is make it back to Sidnaw, sit down for Christmas dinner, watch some ball with my old man, sleep in my own bed, have leftovers for about six months, eat some of that Christmas turkey. Like I said, I never was much for the holidays...until now."

"It's going to keep killing, isn't it? She'll never stop...What about the person we show it to? What's happens to them?"

"I saw then that my father's only fear was that his son would follow the same road. And that was the last time I ever held a gun. People always thought I grew up on a farm. And I guess, in a way, I did. But I lived a lifetime before that in those six weeks on the road in the winter of 1931. 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'."

- "How long will this time of peace last?"
- "Nothing lasts forever, my king. That is the destiny of all kingdoms."
- "Then we'll make our own destiny."

"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."

(voice-over) "...You forget your old life, you can't come back, you can't call, you can't write. You never look back. You make a new life for yourself and you live it, you hear me? You live your life the way it should have been. But maybe, this is dangerous, but maybe after a couple of years, you send word to Naturelle. You get yourself a new family and you raise them right, you hear me? Give them a good life, Monty. Give them what they need. You have a son, maybe you name him James. It’s a good strong name. And maybe, one day, years from now long after I'm dead and gone, reunited with your dear Ma, you gather your whole family together and tell them the truth: who you are, where you come from. You tell them the whole story. Then you ask 'em if they know how lucky they are to be there. It all came so close to never happening. This life came so close to never happening."

- "We can spend the rest of our lives on that beach, and when we die, we can just push out to sea. What do you think?"
- "Perfect, sounds perfect."

"Hell's Kitchen is my neighborhood. I prowl the rooftops and alleyways at night. Watching from the darkness. Forever in darkness. A guardian devil."

- "Yeah!"
- "Ha, ha, ha, ha!"
- "We did it!"
- "Now what?"
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(after end credits)
'Chomp!'

(voice-over) "Stella was right. It wasn't about the money. Of course that didn't stop the guys from having a little bit of fun. Handsome Rob got his Aston Martin. He took it for a ride to break it in. He got off with a warning. Left Ear got his dream house in the south of Spain, with a room just for his shoes. (- "Buenos dias" - "Buenos dias.") Lyle finally made the cover of Wired Magazine. (- "Are you really the Napster?" - "Yes, I am.") And he got that kick-ass stereo he wanted, (- "Um, would you listen to something for me") with speakers so loud, they could blow a woman's clothes off. (-"If you would?") And me? I took John Bridger's advice. I found somebody I want to spend the rest of my life with, and I'm gonna hold onto her forever."

- "I have a son. I shall call him Mini-Roo."
- "Now, that should be the way you end a film. With the star."
- "Someone call my agent!"
- "That's all, blokes!"

"One more thing, Sofie. Is she aware her daughter is still alive?"

"Well, I'm back."

- "Bye."
- "Bye."
- "Bye."
(To driver] "All right."

- "God, you weigh a lot."
- "Oh, shut your face."
- (refrain of song repeating) "God only knows what I'd be without you..."

- "Once the machines were done with us, they started digging again. We made a quick pass to look for survivors."
- "You found one."
- "Only one."

- "Check it out."
- "What's the yellow thing?"
- "Man, they really do eat anything. I wonder if it works."

"Now, bring me that horizon.
(He hums the tune to: "Ho Ho (A Pirate's Life For Me)")
And really bad eggs. Drink up, me hearties. Yo ho!"

(voice-over) "By the time SkyNet became self-aware, it had spread into millions of computer servers across the planet. Ordinary computers in office buildings, dorm rooms; everywhere. It was software - in cyberspace. There was no system core. It could not be shut down. The attack began at 6:18 PM, just as he said it would. Judgment Day. The day the human race was nearly destroyed by the weapons they'd built to protect themselves. I should have realized our destiny was never to stop Judgment Day. It was merely to survive it, together. The Terminator knew. He tried to tell us, but I didn't want to hear it. Maybe the future has been written. I don't know. All I know is what the Terminator taught me. Never stop fighting. And I never will. The battle has just begun."

- "Is that it, then? Is it over, do you think? Hmm? What have you got to say to Grandma, eh?"
- "Yes, I think that's probably it. It's over, Grandma."

(voice-over) "Mutation: it is the key to our evolution. It is how we have evolved from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow, normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundred millennia, evolution leaps forward."

"The way of the future. The way of the future."

- "Baby... you are gonna miss that plane."
- "I know."

"A guy gets on the MTA here in LA, dies. Do you think anybody will notice?"

"Have you ever seen the air so clear?"

- "By believing, Peter. Just believe."
- (whispered) "I can see her."

- "How do I look?"
- "You look ready."

(voice-over) "Frankie never came back at all. Frankie didn't leave a note, and nobody knew where he went. I'd hoped he'd gone to find you and ask you one more time to forgive him. But maybe he didn't have anything left in his heart. I just hope he found someplace where he could find a little peace. A place set in the cedars and oak trees. Somewhere between nowhere and goodbye. But that's probably wishful thinking. No matter where he is I thought you should know what kind of man your father really was."

"On the drive home."

(voice-over) "Two days later the miracle was made complete. My boys defeated Finland to win the gold medal, coming from behind once again. As I watched them out there, celebrating on the ice, I realized that Patti had been right. It was a lot more than a hockey game, not only for those who watched it, but for those who played in it. I've often been asked in the years since Lake Placid what was the best moment for me. Well, it was here - the sight of twenty young men of such differing backgrounds now standing as one. Young men willing to sacrifice so much of themselves all for an unknown. A few years later, the US began using professional athletes at the Games - Dream Teams. I always found that term ironic because now that we have Dream Teams, we seldom ever get to dream. But on one weekend, as America and the world watched, a group of remarkable young men gave the nation what it needed most. A chance, for one night, not only to dream, but a chance, once again, to believe."

- "Most people are so ungrateful to be alive, but not you, not any more...Game over."
- "Don't! Don't! No!"

"'I know I can do it,' Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. 'I'm sure that in time, every bit of her will be gone, and her death will be a mystery even to me.'"

"Look at our little mutant babies. I got to get a job."

"I'm back, Lucius."

"Jack, I swear..."

- "What were you all doing in the wardrobe?"
- "You wouldn't believe us if we told you, sir."
- "Try me."

"Good night, and good luck."

"Not that anyone cares what I say, but the restaurant is at the other end of the Universe."

- "Jesus, Joey."
- "Jesus, Richie."

"How much time do we have?"

- "Let's open the bar."
- "Champagne?"
- "Oh, anything but a Bay Breeze."
- "OK."

- "You f--king bitch!"
- "Game over."
- "I'll f--kin' kill you! You f--kin' bitch! You f--kin' bitch! I'll f--kin' kill you! No, no!"

- "Storm's getting worse."
- "We'll pass through it soon enough...What was that?"

"We should go to the forest. To seek a new beginning. Come Turtles Run..."

- "I love you."
- "I love you."

"The name's Bond. James Bond."

"I found 12. I turned 12 people over to the Gestapo. That's how I survived. It was all to survive, everything. Now you know. The last piece in the puzzle."

"Everything you have seen is an illusion. It's a trick."

"Come on, honey, the handcuffs are getting cold."
Play clip (excerpt): Inside Man

- "Shall I gift-wrap it?"
- "No. It's for me."

- "I'll send you a postcard."
- "Fair enough."

(voice-over) "And it is said the Princess returned to her father's kingdom. That she reigned there with justice and a kind heart for many centuries. That she was loved by her people. And that she left behind small traces of her time on Earth, visible only to those who know where to look."

"So tell me, what's become of my ship?"

"Now you're looking for the secret. But you won't find it because, of course, you're not really looking. You don't really want to work it out. You want to be fooled."
Play clips (excerpt): The Prestige (short) The Prestige (2006) (extended)

"Yo, Adrian, we did it. We did it."

- "I thought you were...? Will I see you around?"
- "I'm always around. Good night, Lois."

- "Good morning."
- "Hello, Moira."
- "Charles?"

(voice-over) "...There would be no eulogies for Bob, no photographs of his body would be sold in sundries stores, no people would crowd the streets in the rain to see his funeral cortege, no biographies would be written about him, no children named after him, no one would ever pay twenty-five cents to stand in the rooms he grew up in. The shotgun would ignite, and Ella Mae would scream, but Robert Ford would only lay on the floor and look at the ceiling, the light going out of his eyes before he could find the right words."

(voice-over) "At 6:32 this morning, on Thursday, the first of November, Clayton Beresford, Jr. died on my operating table. Two and a half hours later, his life was saved. There are no excuses for what we did. There's no defense, no one to blame but us. We got what we deserved. Clay would have his revenge, and justice would finally be served. For despite all the secrets, despite all the lies and a - a terrible loss, only one thing really matters now. He...is...awake."

(voice-over) "The unexpected is always upon us. And of all the gifts arrayed before me, this one thought at this moment in my life is the most precious. And so, we begin again."

- "Ann sent me over 'cause some guests dropped by, and she was wonderin' if you could help her out with some eggs."
- "Well, I guess so."
- "It's okay?"
- "Yeah, come on in. Wait a second."

"Even though we've got a fight ahead of us, we've got one thing that Voldemort doesn't have...Something worth fighting for."

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time and enjoying one moment at a time, accepting hardships as the pathway to peace. Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is and not as I would have it, trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His will, that I may be reasonably happy in this life, and supremely happy with Him forever in the next. Amen."

(voice-over) "Here's the thing about the future. Every time you look at, it changes because you looked at it. And that changes everything else."
- "You ready?"
- "Yeah."

"And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and he was fixin' to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold. And I knew that whenever I got there, he'd be there. And then I woke up."

"Drink up me 'earties. Yo ho!"

- "Can I interest you in some dessert?"
- "Don't you always?"
- "What would you like?"
- "Surprise me!"

"I got it."

"I'm finished."

"Jesus f--king Christ!"

- "We got like three seconds left. What do you want to say? What do you want to say? Last thing to the cam."
- "Um... I had a good day."

"Some people are born to sit by a river. Some get struck by lightning. Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim. Some know buttons. Some know Shakespeare. Some are mothers. And some people dance."

"...So we'll hunt him because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight."

"Will I get in trouble for that?"

"There's a Christmas tree somewhere in London with a bunch of presents underneath it that'll never be opened. And I thought: 'If I survive all this, I'll go to that house, apologize to the mother there, and accept whatever punishment she chose for me.' Prison, death, it didn't matter. Because at least in prison and at least in death, you know, I wouldn't be in f--kin' Bruges. But then, like a flash, it came to me, and I realized: 'F--k, man, maybe that's what Hell is. The entire rest of eternity spent in f--kin' Bruges!' And I really, really hoped I wouldn't die. I really, really hoped I wouldn't die."
Play clip (excerpt): In Bruges

"The truth is...I am Iron Man."
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(after end credits)
"I'm here to talk to you about the Avenger initiative."

- "(You) Wanna get something to eat?"
- (sighing) "Uh...Yeah."

(voice-over) "...I ask this, that If there be an assassination, I would want five, ten, a hundred, a thousand to rise. If a bullet should enter my brain, let it destroy every closet door. I ask for the movement to continue because it's not about personal gain, it's not about ego and it's not about power. It's about the 'us's' out there. Not just the gays, but the blacks and the Asians and the seniors and the disabled. The 'us's'. Without hope, the 'us's' give up. And I know you can't live on hope alone. But without hope, life is not worth living. So you, and you, and you, you got to give them hope. You got to give them hope."

"Yeah. Ciao, ciao, Shanghai. Peru, here I come."
[Ending caption: Soon after, mummies were found in Peru.]

(voice-over) "And it is said that the Princess returned to her father's kingdom. That she reigned there with justice and a kind heart for many centuries. That she was loved by her people. And that she left behind small traces of her time on Earth, visible only to those who know where to look."

- "Bond, I need you back."
- "I never left."

(voice-over) "I was 15. I was coming home from school. I was feeling ill. And a woman helped me."

- "You must be Emily."
- "Yes."
- "It's so nice to meet you."

- "I knew you'd be watching."
- "I thought we'd meet again only in death."
- "This is our destiny."
- "Kiss me."
(superimposed on black screen) D: It is written

(voice-over) "...This is me taking back control of my life." (turning toward the camera) "What the f--k have you done lately?"

"I'm not dead!"

(voice-over) "All the things I never said for so very long, look up, they're in my eyes. Everyone has oceans to fly. As long as you have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries? I think about the hands I have held, the places I've seen, the vast lands whose dirt is caked on the bottom of my shoes. The world has changed me."

- "Mr. Langdon, thanks be to God for sending someone to protect his Church."
- "I don't believe he sent me, Father."
- "Oh, my son, of course he did..."

"Let's get started."

- "My name's Tom."
- "Nice to meet you. I'm Autumn."

- "I'm not coming back, Hermione. I've got to finish whatever Dumbledore started, and I don't know where that'll lead me, but I'll let you and Ron know where I am when I can."
- "I've always admired your courage, Harry. But sometimes, you can be really thick. You don't really think you're going to be able to find all those Horcruxes by yourself, do you? You need us, Harry."
- "I never realized how beautiful this place was."

"You know somethin', Utivich? I think this just might be my masterpiece."

"Like I said, Clyde, it's a decision you'll have to live with for the rest of your life, which I figure by now is about 25 more seconds."

(voice-over) "Nobody notices when we leave. I mean, the moment when we really choose to go. At best, you might feel a whisper, or the wave of a whisper, undulating down. My name is Salmon, like the fish. First name, Susie. I was 14 years old when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. I was here for a moment and then I was gone. I wish you all a long and happy life."

- "In chess, it's called 'zugzwang' - when the only viable move is not to move. (chuckles) Come see."
- "It's the sea."
- "The child is taking it apart. He doesn't need it anymore. Before, he was unable to make a choice because he didn't know what would happen. Now that he knows what will happen, he is unable to make a choice."
- "Oh!" (gasping)
- "Thank you. Thank you. Thank you."
- "Nemo. (laughing) I don't believe it."
- (alarm ringing) (moans) "Ahh. This is the most beautiful day of my life." (soft laughter) "Anna." (gasps, increased beeping) "Anna!" (breathing stops, continuous tone, clock ticking, ticking slowing, beeps, metallic creaking, clanking, ticks, whirring, clanking - reversal of time - loud mechanical humming, gasping, monitor beeping, exhales, croaking laughter)
(Song: "Mr. Sandman")

- "What happens next?"
- "I'm not sure, exactly. But this world is ours now. It's what we make of it."

- "They say you're the man who shot him."
- "That's right. One of 'em."
- "So why are you coming here to see me? To see the damage you done?"
- "No. I came here because he asked me to. When he went down, he said somethin'. I put my ear next to his mouth, and what I think he said was this. He said, 'Tell Billie for me: Bye bye, Blackbird.'"

(voice-over) "Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Her ongoing mission, to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life-forms and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before."

(voice-over) "In an us-versus-them world, someone puts up a flag, another person tears it down and puts up his own. Pretty soon, no one remembers what started the war in the first place, and the fighting becomes all about those stupid flags."

(voice-over) "There is a storm on the horizon. A time of hardship and pain. This battle has been won, but the war against the machines rages on. Skynet's global network remains strong. But we will not quit, until all of it is destroyed. This is John Connor. There is no fate, but what we make."

"Tonight most people will be welcomed home by jumping dogs and squealing kids. Their spouses will ask about their day. Tonight they'll sleep. The stars will wheel forth from their daytime hiding places, and one of those lights, slightly brighter than the rest, will be my wingtip passing over."

"Rorschach's Journal: October 12th, 1985. Tonight, a comedian died in New York."