The Most Overused Movie Quotes EVER!!

Pretty Much Anything Austin Powers

I like the Austin Powers movies. A lot. However, I will die a happy man if I never hear any of the following spoken by someone other than Mike Myers ever again:

“Groooooovy, baby.”

“Do I make you horny? Do I?”

“I ate a bay-bay!”

“I’ve got a crap on deck that could choke a donkey.”

“Get in mah belly!”

“Yeah baby!”

“Sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads!”

“ONE MILLION DOLLARS!”

“He’s my special boy!”

“I’m dead sexy!”

And the sad part is that in all likelihood I’m forgetting many, many more.

"You Talkin' to Me?" (Taxi Driver)

Travis Bickle, the anti-hero of this film, was a mentally unstable bad-ass with a penchant for porn and violence. You are a middle-aged man without a girlfriend, compiling a reply to someone’s YouTube video. I suppose the penchant for porn is about the same though.

"My Name i' Borat. Nice!" (Borat)

I don’t know what’s worse; that people can’t help spouting lines from this movie for about a month after seeing it for the first time, or that for some reason they think they are doing a spot-on impression of it.

"Heeeere's Johnny!" (The Shining)

This one’s directed at you Hollywood. Stop re-purposing this every time somebody does something remotely similar to putting their face through a hole in something. You ran out of fresh ideas in 1994, we get it, but please find something else to beat to death.

"You Complete Me" (Jerry Maguire)

A runner-up to this, or possibly even a tie from the same movie is “You had me at hello.” Sweet monkey Jesus; as if Renee Zellweger wasn’t annoying enough already, the overuse of this line makes me fearful she might never quietly fade into the background.

Let’s not also forget about “Show Me the Money!!”

God dammit I hate Tom Cruise.

"I'll Be Back" (Terminators 1 - 9)

This is a toughie, because odds are we all utter this phrase at least once every couple of years when — as it turns out — we plan on returning somewhere. But ohhhh no, it never gets old when whoever we say it to responds by mimicking what you just said in their best Austrian accent, which usually sounds a lot more like they’re getting skull-fucked with a tube of cookie dough than it does they’re from anywhere near Austria.

"You Can't Handle the Truth!" (A Few Good Men)

Never, ever start a sentence with the words “You can’t handle…” in a room of more than two people, because rest assured some d-bag will fire this one back at you. At which point the only possible reply would be a knife-hand strike to their esophagus. When (if) they woke up, there’s no way they would deny having needed it.

Shaken, not stirred.

I’ve never seen a single Bond movie, yet know exactly where this comes from because people say it so freaking much! Especially now that there’s a new bar called Bond in Boston…I would love to count how many times it’s said in one night there!

"Crying in baseball?!! There's no CRYING in baseball!"

I love this line even if it’s overused!!!

Ace Ventura

1. Allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll righty then.
2. Liiiiiike a glove!
3. Do NOT go in there! Whew!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Get your hands off me, you damn dirty ape!"

I personally love finding an appropriate moment to belt out this line from Planet of the Apes. The problem is that there really aren’t many appropriate times.

Charlton Heston stood for the NRA, conservatism, arrogance, intolerance. So the fact that this line came out of his mouth is pretty sweet.

By the way, if you’re watching the scene when he and the hot chick who can’t talk (yeah, I know, every guy’s wet dream, right?) are getting dragged, look for the moment when Heston’s balls pop out of his loin cloth. It was left in the movie because the director wasn’t thinking that now we’ll able to freeze frame every second of a movie.

As balls go, they’re pretty standard, but accidental exposure always gives me a giggle. Maybe it will do that for you, too.

"Say Hello to My Little Friend!" (Scarface)

I have nothing but respect for Al Pacino’s batshit crazy character, Tony Montana. That being said, this is near the very top of my most hated movie quotes. Hours and hours of a-holes dropping it over Xbox Live as they smote me with some modded weapon in Halo has completely ruined it for me. Forever.

"I'm King of the World!" (Titanic)

I realize that people are actually making of fun of this horrible movie when they stand atop anything with their arms raised in pseudo-triumph and yell this line. While I can respect the intent behind it, just please, please STFU already.

Anything Monty Python (but especially the Holy Grail)

You’re fucking with something very near and dear to a lot of people out there every time you bastardize a Monty Python line for your own stupid purpose. Keep it up and one day you’ll butcher a classic in front of five or six of the wrong guys… and well, all I’m saying is that us movie nerds can be especially brutal when the ratio is heavily in our favor.

"Freakin' Idiot!" (Napoleon Dynamite)

You either get this movie or you don’t. I for one love it. Even still, I don’t like to see Napoleon’s more memorable lines reenacted by the cashier at 7-11 just because I’m out and about in my favorite Liger t-shirt. Other lines I’m tired of hearing people try to duplicate include:

“Gosh!”

“Whatever I feel like I wanna do!”

“A freakin’ 12-gauge…”

“…I’m pretty good with a bow staff.”

“You ever take it off any sweet jumps?”

“It’s pretty much my favorite animal… bred for its skills in magic.”

Oh man. Can you imagine how much it must suck to be Jon Heder at a party? I bet the only time he even agrees to say these any more is if he thinks it’s going to get him laid.

"I'll Have What She's Having" (When Harry Met Sally)

You pretty much have to use this line directly after someone fakes an orgasm (or has a real one) for it to be even remotely relevant, yet it just never happens that way. I actually heard someone use this in church once, which was really weird considering this was the only time I have even been to church in the past 15 years. I can only imagine in what other completely nonsensical ways people are trying in vain to wedge this into conversations in hopes of being mildly funny.

"Luke, I Am Your Father" (The Empire Strikes Back)

First of all, the actual line is “No. I am your father.” You’ve been saying it wrong. But whatever, especially since I’m once again directing my angst at Hollywood. Just because virtually everyone with a pulse has seen a movie, or at the very least knows a line from it, gives you no right to hammer it into our brains to the point of no meaning. And don’t you realize that every time you do, George Lucas gets $1,000 closer to becoming supreme overlord of the world? Think about it.

"Hakuna Matata" (The Lion King)

I used to work with a woman who had this phrase on her email signature, not to mention the countless posters and assorted Lion King tchotchke all over her desk. While I hoped she was an isolated nutjob, I had the extreme displeasure of encountering a middle-aged white guy at the bus stop a few months back, who, after narrowly missing his bus, looked at me and said “Hakuna Matata, right?” with a shrug of his shoulders. Had I not almost had an aneurysm from the stupidity of it all, I might have responded with something a little more clever than a cross-eyed look of complete confusion.

Most of Forest Gump

After this came out and stole the hearts of the nation, you couldn’t really escape people saying things like “Run, Forest, Run!” or “Mama always said” or “Life is like a box of chocolates.” One good reason to be thankful the ’90s are over.

"Bond......James Bond."

Not that is comes up in daily conversation, but if I were feeling like a bad ass I’m sure I could find a way to use it.

"Hasta Lavista, BABAY"

Now more like, “I am the Govenator”.

Sweet Home Alabama

“OMG! You have a baby … in a bar!”