THE ULTIMATE 80s MOVIE QUOTE QUIZ™

How well do you know the movies of the 80s? Test your knowledge while re-living 100 of the funniest and most memorable moments of a classic movie decade. How many can you get? How many can your friends get? Keep in mind that many of those quotes that may not be immediately obvious to you can be figured out with some thought. Good luck!

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1) You realize if we played by the rules, right now we'd be in gym?
FERRIS BUELLERS DAY OFF

2) It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now.
AIRPLANE!

3) You don't have time to think up there. If you think, you're dead.
TOP GUN

4) Come on guys, by the time we get there the kid won't be dead anymore.
STAND BY ME

5) Mr. Nolan, it's for you. It's God. He says we should have girls at Welton.
DEAD POET'S SOCIETY

6) Terrific!! I've got a trig mid-term tomorrow, and I'm being chased by Guido the killer pimp.
RISKY BUSINESS

7) That's not a knife.
CROCODILE DUNDEE

8) Relax, would you? We have fifty dollars and a pair of girls underpants. We're safe as kittens.
SIXTEEN CANDLES

9) If someone asks you if you're a god, you say YES!
GHOSTBUSTERS

10) Can I borrow your towel, my car just hit a water buffalo.
FLETCH

11) So it's sorta social. Demented and sad, but social.
THE BREAKFAST CLUB

12) Why don't we just pretend he didn't die? Just for a bit.
WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S

13) When it comes down to making out, whenever possible, put on side one of Led Zeppelin IV
FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH

14) This house is clean.
POLTERGEIST

15) A varmint will never quit - ever. They're like the Viet Cong - Varmint Cong.
CADDYSHACK

16) God was singing through this little man to all the world, making my defeat more bitter with every passing bar.
AMADEUS

17) Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT? Cause of the leaks to the VC, he could end up MIA and then we'd all be put out in KP.
GOOD MORNING VIETNAM

18) Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.
ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING

19) Not to mention the fact that you're talking to a dead guy! Now what do you think?! You think I'm qualified?
BEETLEJUICE

20) That man right there is my brother and if he doesn't get to watch "People's Court" in about 30 seconds, he's gonna throw a fit right here on your porch.
RAIN MAN

21) The glass! Shoot the glass!
DIE HARD

22) Hell, I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it'd do any good!
WARGAMES

23) Yeah, I was in the show. I was in the show for 21 days once -- the 21 greatest days of my life.
BULL DURHAM

24) Did you try staples?
SCROOGED

25) 'Cause someday, believe it or not, you'll go 15 rounds over who's gonna get this coffee table!
WHEN HARRY MET SALLY

26) Do it for Johnny!!
THE OUTSIDERS

27) My girls, sir, they didn't care for the Overlook at first. One of them actually stole a pack of matches and tried to burn it down. But I... CORRECTED them, sir.
THE SHINING

28) Alonzo Mosely, F.B.I.
MIDNIGHT RUN

29) FRAH-GEE-LAY. Must be Italian.
A CHRISTMAS STORY

30) Tell Victor that Ramon, the fella he met about a week ago, tell him that Ramon went to the clinic today, and I found out that I have, um, herpes simplex 10.
BEVERLY HILLS COP

31) You see? That's the sort of crap people are always trying to lay on me! It's not my fault you wouldn't play catch with your father!
FIELD OF DREAMS

32) No such thing bad student. Only bad teacher.
THE KARATE KID

33) OK. But I get to be on top.
BIG

34) You're like one of those Chatty Cathy dolls, except I'm not pulling the string, you are. Blah! Blah! Blah!
PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES

35) You mean I'm not white?!
SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL

36) Someone once wrote "Hell is the impossibility of reason." That's what this place feels like. Hell.
PLATOON

37) Backinbowl. Backinbowl.
ALL OF ME

38) I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.
WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT?

39) I'm laughing at the superior intellect.
STAR TREK II - THE WRATH OF KHAN

40) I'll be taking these huggies and, uh, whatever cash you got.
RAISING ARIZONA

41) It can't be bargained with! It can't be reasoned with! It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead!
THE TERMINATOR

42) Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K.
BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE

43) The oxen are slow, but the earth is patient.
HIGH ROAD TO CHINA

44) Just like a Wop. Brings a knife to a gunfight.
THE UNTOUCHABLES

45) You trying to say Jesus Christ can't hit a curveball?
MAJOR LEAGUE

46) Why does the floor... move?
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK

47) Ooook-la-homa! Oklahoma! Oklahoma! Oklahoma!
DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS

48) Request permission to relieve bladder.
THE RIGHT STUFF

49) I must break you.
ROCKY IV

50) If you're so hot on discipline then, goddammit, start by accepting mine. Because contrary to popular opinion, I'm the head nigger in charge!
LEAN ON ME

51) I want her to live. I want her to breathe. I want her to aerobicize.
WEIRD SCIENCE

52) You have controlled your fear. Now, release your anger! Only your hatred can destroy me!
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

53) Knock the cover off the ball!
THE NATURAL

54) It's good to be the king.
HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART I

55) I was a better man with you as a woman than I ever was with a woman as a man.
TOOTSIE

56) Everybody in the car. Boat leaves in two minutes... or perhaps you don't want to see the second largest ball of twine on the face of the earth, which is only four short hours away?
VACATION

57) The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
Greed is right. Greed works.
WALL STREET

58) I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. That's the only way to be sure.
ALIENS

59) She says the jungle... it just came alive and took him.
PREDATOR

60) Lighten up, Francis.
STRIPES

61) I know a little German. He's sitting over there.
TOP SECRET

62) What is your major malfunction, numbnuts? Didn't Mommy and Daddy show you enough attention when you were a child?
FULL METAL JACKET

63) You shouldn't hang me on a hook. My father hung me on a hook once. Once.
JOHNNY DANGEROUSLY

64) If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious shit.
BACK TO THE FUTURE

65) One Timex digital watch, broken. One unused prophylactic. One soiled.
THE BLUES BROTHERS

66) What ever you do, don't fall asleep!
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET

67) Hold it, hold it! What is this? Are you trying to trick me? Where's the sports? Is this a kissing book?
THE PRINCESS BRIDE

68) I'm just here for the gasoline.
ROAD WARRIOR

69) I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate.
SPACEBALLS

70) I am your father, Luke. Give in to the dark side of the force, you knob.
STRANGE BREW

71) Was it a dream where you were standing in sort of sun-god robes on top of a pyramid, and there were hundreds of naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?
REAL GENIUS

72) I remember... the Alamo.
PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE

73) I'm just a compound interest program. I work at a savings and loan! I can't play these video games!
TRON

74) I wish I had someone I could really respect. Hey, look at the cans on that bimbo!
BACHELOR PARTY

75) Now that's a real shame when folks be throwin' away a perfectly good white boy like that.
BETTER OFF DEAD

76) Where does he get those wonderful toys?
BATMAN

77) You're not trying to draw a psycho pension. You really are crazy.
LETHAL WEAPON

78) Are you telling me that 200 of our men against your boy is a no-win situation for us?
FIRST BLOOD

79) Polite: Would you mind not bobbing your head; the orchestra keeps changing the tempo.
ROXANNE

80) You're out on the street trying to score an electric blanket, maybe even a quilt. Then the next thing you know, you're strung out on bedspreads.
MR. MOM

81) If your head comes away from your neck, it's over!
HIGHLANDER

82) My teenage angst bullshit now has a body count.
HEATHERS

83) My theme music. Every good hero should have some.
I'M GONNA GIT YOU SUCKA

84) If you don't go to him now, I'm never going to take you to another prom ever again, you hear me? I mean, this is an incredibly romantic moment, and you're ruining it for me.
PRETTY IN PINK

85) In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.
SCARFACE

86) You shot the invisible swordsman!
THREE AMIGOS!

87) Let me make something clear to you. He doesn't have a name. He has a program. He's product.
ROBOCOP

88) Listen! We ain't partners, we ain't brothers, and we ain't friends!
48 HOURS

89) We lost the suspect, our keys, our car, OUR PANTS!
RUNNING SCARED

90) He needs to go home, he's calling his people, and I don't know where they are, and he needs to go home.
E.T.

91) Dammit man, the Doobie Brothers broke up! Shit! When did that happen?
ROMANCING THE STONE

92) It's K-K-K-Ken c-c-c-coming to k-k-k-kill me!
A FISH CALLED WANDA

93) I thought there was a billion screamin' Chinamen.
RED DAWN

94) I had the most absurd nightmare. I was poor and no one liked me. I lost my job, I lost my house, Penelope hated me and it was all because of this terrible, awful Negro.
TRADING PLACES

95) What are you looking at? You've never seen a guy who slept with a fish before?
SPLASH

96) An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
GANDHI

97) Life is NOT a malfunction!
SHORT CIRCUIT

98) I'm not gonna be ignored, Dan!
FATAL ATTRACTION

99) If you guys know so much about women, how come you're here at like the Gas 'n' Sip on a Saturday night completely alone drinking beers with no women anywhere?
SAY ANYTHING

100) Ho no. I mean, no ho, sergeant. Just plain ho.
BILOXI BLUES

101) These go to eleven.
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