Best comedy movie quotes of 1986

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off picture

Ferris: Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

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Three Amigos picture

Mexican girl: Which one do you like?
Carmen: I like the one that's not so smart.
Mexican girl: Which one is that?

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About Last Night... picture

Bernie: I stole it.
Danny: You did not.
Bernie: Oh, that's great, Dan. I tell you I'm a thief and you call me a liar.

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Big Trouble in Little China picture

Jack Burton: Hey, I'm a reasonable guy. But I've just experienced some very unreasonable things.

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The Golden Child picture

Chandler Jarrell: I don't know, maybe he cut himself shaving and bled to death looking for a kleenex.

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Back to School picture

Thornton Melon: Listen, Sherlock. While you were tucked away up here working on your ethics, I was out there busting my hump in the real world. And the reason guys like you got a place to teach is 'cause guys like me donate buildings.

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Street Thug: You got a light, buddy?
Mick Dundee: Yeah, sure, kid. There you go.
Street Thug: [Opens a switchblade] And your wallet.
Sue Charlton: Mick, give him your wallet.
Mick: What for?
Sue: He's got a knife.
Mick. Ha ha ha. That's not a knife. [Pulls out his 16" Bowie knife]. That's a knife.

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Howard the Duck picture

Phil: Get out of there! Duck!
Howard: And proud of it.

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Peggy Sue Got Married picture

Peggy Sue: We had one glorious night together, someday you'll remember and write about it.
Michael Fitzsimmons: Yeah, I can dig that. Bittersweet perfection. Dogs of lust on leashes of memory.

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My Chauffeur picture

Casey: They send me out last. You get me, you've hit bottom. I'm the last cookie in the jar.

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Short Circuit picture

Number 5: Hey, laser lips! Your momma was a snow-blower.

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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home picture

Kirk: Mr. Spock, have you accounted for the variable mass of whales and water in your time re-entry program?
Spock: Mr. Scott cannot give me exact figures, Admiral, so... I will make a guess.
Kirk: A guess? You, Spock? That's extraordinary.
Spock: [to Dr. McCoy] I don't think he understands.
McCoy: No, Spock. He means that he feels safer about your guesses than most other people's facts.
Spock: Then you're saying... It is a compliment?
McCoy: It is.
Spock: Ah. Then, I will try to make the best guess I can.
McCoy: Please do.

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Night of the Creeps picture

Detective Cameron: Corpses that have been dead for twenty-seven years do not get up and go for a walk by themselves.

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Heartbreak Ridge picture

Gunnery Seargant Thomas Highway: The United States Marines is lookin' for a few good men - and you ain't it.

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Firewalker picture

Patricia: Fruitcake? fruitcake? Listen Bucko, I happen to be a highly educated, intelligent girl with an I.Q. that would put you pea-brain in the cellar. So remember, If it weren't for me, you wouldn't be here. Call me for dinner.

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Margaret 'Meg' Magrath: Why'd you do it, Babe? Why'd you put your head in the oven?
Rebeca 'Babe': I don't know... I'm having a bad day.

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Clockwise picture

Brian Stimpson: It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.

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Terry: This is great. I'm down on the docks at 1:30 in the morning. I might as well pin a hundred dollar bill to my ass and scream "Victim here! Victim here!"

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