Best drama movie quotes of 1942

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Casablanca picture

Rick: I'm saying it because it's true. Inside of us, we both know you belong with Victor. You're part of his work, the thing that keeps him going. If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.
Ilsa: But what about us?
Rick: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have, we, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.
Ilsa: When I said I would never leave you.
Rick: And you never will. But I've got a job to do, too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now... Here's looking at you kid.

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Holiday Inn picture

Jim Hardy: For that kinda of money you oughta be able to go by way o' Medicine Hat.

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To Be or Not To Be picture

Capt. Schultz: But what if he doesn't talk?
Colonel Ehrhardt: Then we try a little physical culture.

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Yankee Doodle Dandy picture

Mary: George, I didn't know you could yodel.
George M. Cohan: Learned it on the farm. Nothing but pig callin' with frost on it.

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Bambi picture

Friend Owl: You know, just the other day, I was talking to myself about you, and we were wondering what had become of you.

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Mrs. Miniver picture

Kay Miniver: But in war, time is so precious to the young people.

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Lady Houston: I don't love the government, but I do love my country.

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Lou Gehrig: All the arguing in the world can't change the decision of the umpire.

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Random Harvest picture

Smithy: 1920. Three years gone. Three years. France - I remember distinctly. But after that - what after that? Liverpool - what am I doing here? Where have I been? Better go home. Yes - may clear things up. Better go home -.

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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon picture

Braun: French! English! How I hate those languages.
Mueller: Calm yourself, my dear Braun. In a short time there will be only one language.

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Rick Leland: Sam, you can help me. People tell you things.
Sam Wing On: People tell me because I don't tell. I tell, they don't tell me any more.

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Kings Row picture

Dr. Alexander Q. Tower: Oh, have you read this?
Parris Mitchell: Yes, sir. I didn't understand it entirely, I'm afraid.
Dr. Alexander Q. Tower: Well, it's a new field. They've even a new word for it: psychiatry.
Parris Mitchell: It's something I never thought about. I mean, for a doctor to want to cure diseases of people's minds instead of their bodies. I suppose it's a pretty big field, sir.
Dr. Alexander Q. Tower: Maybe too big. Maybe a hundred years off.

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Ygor: Better death... than a life like this.

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