“I think this is the beginning of a wonderful friendship.”
“This is Ripley, the last survivor of the Nostromo, logging off.”
“I will be here.”
“Streets? We don’t need roads where we’re going!’
“After all, tomorrow is another day.”
You may not have seen the movies these closing lines appear in, but you’ve probably heard them many times, they’re so ingrained in film history.
Below is a list of all the movies with the best closing lines in cinema history.
Scroll through the gallery to see what made the list.
“This is Ripley, the last survivor of the Nostromo, logging off.”
20th century fox
“Mediocre everywhere, I acquit you! I absolve you! I absolve you! I absolve you! I absolve you all!”
Orion images
“The horror, the horror.”
United artists
“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads!”
Universal images
“You are beautiful. Are you in pictures?”
Universal images
“Baby you’re gonna miss the plane.”
Warner Independent Pictures
“It’s a pity she won’t live – but then again, who does?”
Warner Bros
“Louis, I think this is the beginning of a wonderful friendship.”
Warner Bros. Pictures
“They all did it. But if you want to know who killed Mr. Boddy, I did. In the hall. With the revolver. Okay, chief, take her away.
Paramount Pictures
“I was just afraid to come back here. I told Joanna and she put her arms around me and she said, ‘It’s okay to be scared.’ I felt stronger and freer and more like a man than I had ever felt in my life. Then we racked our brains.”
Orion Pictures Corporation
“We will hunt him down because he can take it. Because he’s not our hero. He is a silent guardian. A vigilant protector. A dark knight.”
Warner Bros. Pictures
“This girl didn’t know where she was going or what she was going to do. She didn’t have any money with her. Maybe she would meet a character. I was hoping it would work out. She was a good friend of mine.”
Paramount Pictures
“I saw her. I know I did it.”
Gala Film Dist
“I will be here.”
Universal images
“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around every once in a while, you could miss it.”
Paramount Pictures
“You met me at a very strange time in my life.”
20th century fox
“I’m in a shitty world, yes. But I’m alive – and I’m not afraid.”
Columbia-Cannon-Warner
“I’ll go home and figure out how to get him back.
Loew’s Inc
‘So if your air conditioner breaks or your washing machine explodes or your VCR cuts out, turn on all the lights, check all the closets and closets, look under all the beds before you call the mechanic.’ Because you never know – it could just be a goblin in your house.”
Warner Bros
“It’s so beautiful – let’s live here!
Columbia images
“Do you know something, Utivich? I think this could be my masterpiece.”
“Look, daddy. The teacher says, ‘Every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings.’”
“That’s right. Attaboy, Clarence.”
“I used to hate the water.”
“I can’t imagine why.”
“Oh no. It wasn’t the planes. It was beauty that killed the beast.”
“The only way to avoid trouble is to get old, so I think that’s what I’m going to focus on. Maybe I’ll live long enough to forget her. I may die trying.”
“One thing about life in Santa Carla I could never take was all the damn vampires.”
Warner Bros
“Well, where was I?”
Newmarket Films
“This was the story of Howard Beale, the first known case of a man being killed for having lousy ratings.”
United artists
“You madmen! You blew it up! Oh damn! God damn you all to hell!”
20th century fox
“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 find out. You want to be deceived.”
Warner Bros
“I’m not even going to smack that fly. I hope they watch. You will see. They’ll see and they’ll know and they’ll say, ‘Why, she wouldn’t even harm a fly. “
Paramount Pictures
It seemed real. It seemed like us. And it seemed, well, to be our home. If not Arizona, then a country not too far away where all parents are strong and wise and capable and all children are happy and loved. I do not know. Maybe it was Utah.”
20th century fox
“What about the person we’re showing it to? What is happening to her?
DreamWorks images
“A polar bear fell on me.”
MGM/UA Communications Co
“When people ask me if Michael Sullivan was a good man or if he had no good at all, I always give the same answer. I’ll just tell them he was my father.”
20th century fox
“Most people are so ungrateful to be alive, but you aren’t, not anymore.
Lionsgate Movies
“Ernest Hemingway once wrote: ‘The world is a beautiful place and worth fighting for.’ I agree with the second part.”
Newline cinema
“I wish we could talk longer, but I have an old friend for dinner.”
Orion images
“I’m a man!”
“Well, nobody’s perfect.”
United artists
“Only keep the British in the end.”
United artists
“I never had friends like I did when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone have?”
Columbia images
“All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.”
Paramount Pictures
“The unknown future is rolling towards us. I look forward to 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.”
TriStar images
“See you partner.”
Movies from the Walt Disney Studios
“Sometimes Clarence asks me what I would have done if he had died if the bullet had been two inches to the left. I always smile at that, as if I couldn’t satisfy him with an answer. But I always tell him how I would like to die, but that the fear and desire for death would fade away like the stars at dawn, and that things would be the way they are now. Maybe. Except maybe I wouldn’t have named our son Elvis.”
Warner Bros
“They say they’re going to end prohibition. Then what will you do?”
“I think I’ll have a drink.”
Paramount Pictures
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist. And so… he’s gone.”
Gramercy images
“He’s finally reached the top of the world – and he’s blown away.”
Warner Bros
“Aunt Em, there’s no place like home.”
Loew’s, Incorporated
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