Best drama movie quotes of 1979

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The Warriors picture

Cyrus: Can you dig it?!

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Apocalypse Now picture

Kilgore: I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

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The Wanderers picture

Peewee: Nobody fucks with the Baldies.

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Stalker picture

Stalker: It is so quiet out here, it is the quietest place in the world.

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Being There picture

Abraz: Bullshit. Who sent you here, boy? Did that chickenshit asshole Raphael send you, boy?
Chance the Gardener: No. Mr. Thomas Franklin told me I must leave the old man's house. He's dead, you know.
Abraz: Dead, my ass. You tell that asshole, if he got somethin' to tell me, to get his ass down here himself! You got that, boy?

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Bull Meechum: I am Santini, the Great Santini.
Bull Meechum: I come from behind the moon, out of the dark, unannounced.
Bull Meechum: Watch out.

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Quadrophenia picture

Steph: Going to be one of the faces?
Jimmy: What do you mean going to be? I AM one of the faces.

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Prison Guard: Your painting privileges have been removed.
Doc: Why?
Prison Guard: I don't know.

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Scum picture

Carlin: Right Banks, you bastard! I'm the daddy now, next time, I'll fucking kill ya.

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Hair picture

Hippy: The draft is white people sending black people to make war on the yellow people to defend the land they stole from the red people.

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Breaking Away picture

Dad: I dreamed all last night, that everyone I ever sold a car to came back for a refund. And there you were, handing out the checks! One for you, and one for you.

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Wendall: I'm gonna get me a bottle of tequila and find me one of them Keno girls that can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch and just kinda kick back.

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Saint Jack picture

Eddie Schuman: Ever since Kennedy and Castro, you can't get a good cigar in America.

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City on Fire picture

Albert: I don't know about this, Sam. Those fires look awfuly close and they're getting closer.
Sam: Just think of your pension.
Albert: I am thinking about it. I'm thinking about how I'm gonna live to collect it.

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Yin Chu: Golden Arm is as good as they say. With just his bare arms, he beat all of us. And if he had weapons.
Iron Feet Yang Hu Yun: Golden Arm never uses weapons. He claims he doesn't need them, and that using his bare arms is best. And, he's probably right.

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Terry 'The Toad' Fields: Oh, come on, look at me, I'm a free man! The war is over, and I win.

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Wally Stanton: I see that you're keeping up with the Agatha Christie affair. Tell me, do you think that she is dead? Everyone seems to.
Agatha Christie: They do, don't they?
Wally Stanton: That is all except her husband. I read this morning that he offered five hundred pounds for information. What do you think?
Agatha Christie: Perhaps that is all she is worth.

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LAPD Captain: Any man who gives up his gun to some punk is a coward. Any man who does can kiss his badge goodbye, if I can help it. You're policemen. Put your trust in God.

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