Best thriller movie quotes of 1980

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The Shining picture

Jack: Wendy, darling, light of my life, I'm not gonna hurt ya. You didn't let me finish my sentence. I said, I'm not gonna hurt ya, I'm just gonna bash your brains in. Gonna bash 'em right the f*ck in!

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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back picture

Luke: All right, I'll give it a try.
Yoda: No. Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

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Friday the 13th picture

Crazy Ralph: You're doomed! You're all doomed.

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Flash Gordon picture

Dr. Hans Zarkov: We are only interested in friendship. Why do you attack us?
The Emperor Ming: Why not? Pathetic earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would've hidden from it in terror.

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The Long Good Friday picture

Harold: The Mafia? I've shit 'em.

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The Changeling picture

John Russell: It's my understanding... that there are, uh... twenty-three students registered... for this series of lectures on advanced musical form. Now, we all know it's not raining outside, and unless there's a fire in some other part of the building that we don't know about, there's an awful lot of people here with nothing better to do.

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The Stunt Man picture

Eli Cross: It's not what he's eating, but what's eating him that makes it... sort of interesting.

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The Fog picture

Elizabeth Solley: Listen, I never hitchhiked before. I just really want to be careful. Can I ask you something?
Nick Castle: Sure.
Elizabeth Solley: Are you weird?
Nick Castle: Yes, I am. Yes, I am weird.
Elizabeth Solley: You are weird. Thank God you're weird. The last one was so normal, it was disgusting.

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Dressed to Kill picture

Liz Blake: Thank god, straight fucks are still in style.

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Altered States picture

Emily Jessup: Fight it, Eddie! You made it real. You can make it unreal. If you love me... If you love me, Eddie, fight IT.

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American Gigolo picture

Michelle Stratton: How many languages do you speak?
Julian Kaye: Five or six.
Michelle Stratton: Plus the, uh, international language?
Julian Kaye: That's right.

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Terror Train picture

Carne: Have you ever shoveled any coal?

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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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The Mirror Crack'd picture

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

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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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