Best movie quotes of 1980

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Midnight Madness picture

Leon: See you at the finish line... wherever that may be.

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Saturn 3 picture

Benson: Saturn 3. When they want to give the Solar System.
Adam: - give the Solar System an enema, that's where they stick the tube in. We've heard that one.

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The Private Eyes picture

Mr. Uwatsum: How about a nice bowl of fish eyes?
Inspector Winship: Will you pardon me, please?
Mr. Uwatsum: Ah... Do you like hummingbird cookies?
Dr. Tart: ...No, thank you.

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Ordinary People picture

Calvin "Cal" Jarrett: I should have gotten a handle on it somehow.
Conrad "Con" Jarrett: You know I used to think you had a handle for everything. I really admire you for that sometimes.
Calvin "Cal" Jarrett: Well, don't admire people too much. They'll disappoint you sometimes.
Conrad "Con" Jarrett: I'm not disappointed. I love you.
Calvin "Cal" Jarrett: I love you too.

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Cheech & Chong's Next Movie picture

Cheech: Shit, man, I'm gonna be late for work again. That's the fifth time this week, and it's only Tuesday, man.

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Cannibal Holocaust picture

Alan Yates: We really screwed ourselves this time, trying to, trying to stay there for the last shot. I don't even know where we are now, but I know, they... I know they, uh, followed us, and, and we lost everything trying to escape. We're screwed! We're trapped.

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The Mirror Crack'd picture

Lola Brewster: I could eat a can of Kodak and puke a better movie.

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Inferno picture

Mark Elliot: She writes poetry.
Nurse: A pastime especially suited for women.

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Stir Crazy picture

Skip Donahue: We tried to teach him charades! He didn't get it! He just didn't get it.

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Atlantic City picture

Lou: Yes, it used to be beautiful - what with the rackets, whoring, guns.

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Terror Train picture

Carne: Have you ever shoveled any coal?

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Altered States picture

Eddie Jessup: I can't live with it Emily, the pain is unbearable.
Emily Jessup: We all live with it. That unbearable terror is what makes us such singular creatures. We hide from it, we succumb to it, mostly we defy it! We build fragile little structures to keep it out. We love, we raise families, we work, we make friends. We write poems.

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Blood Beach picture

Pearson: Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, you can't get to it.

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Christmas Evil picture

Harry "Santa": But now I want you to remember to stay good boys and girls. Respect your mothers and fathers and do what they tell you. Obey your teachers and learn a whooooole lot! Now if you do this, I'll make sure you get good presents from me eeeevery year. Ha ha ha... but if you're bad boys and girls, your name goes in the 'Bad Boys and Girls' book, and I'll bring you something... horrible.

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Zombi Holocaust picture

Dr. Obrero: The patient's screaming disturbing me, performed removal of vocal chords.

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Below the Belt picture

Terrible Tommy: "Come on runt."
Rosa Carlo: "Stop calling me that."

Rob245

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The Long Riders picture

Cole Younger: First getting shot, then getting married - bad habits.

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American Gigolo picture

Julian Kaye: This is my apartment. Women don't come here.

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The Blue Lagoon picture

Young Emmeline: Mr. Button, there's a cask over hear with stuff in it that smells like the Captain's breath.

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