Best action movie quotes of 1988

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Wyatt Earp: It's all true, give or take a lie or two.

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Roger: Hey, this Blueheart's music is great, huh?
Bo: Yeah, it's making me horny.

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Harry Washello: I know how this sounds, but I answered the phone out there and the guy on the other end he was very, very frantic. He thought I was his dad for a minute, I think he just had the wrong area code.
Fred the Cook: Yeah, so what?
Harry Washello: So he was calling from a missile silo! He said that they were locked in, 50 minutes and counting, to shoot off their nuclear wad. We would be getting it back in an hour and 10. I mean he meant that we're at war! Nuclear war.

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Albert: Jackson, why did you have to bring me along in the first place?
Action Jackson: You remind me of a old friend.
Albert: Then why didn't you bring your old friend?
Action Jackson: He's dead.
Albert: Damn, man why did you have to tell me that?

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Sharkey: What the fuck is this?
Frank McBain: Your worst nightmare, Butt-horn.

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Art Ridzik: Oh, great. We got a pro basketball team coming toward us - with guns.

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Tangina: My God! he found heR.

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Brian Flagg: In the meantime, we're your prisoners?
Dr. Meddows: Not at all, you're my patients.

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Richard Walker: This is an emergency. Do you understand?
U.S. Security Officer: Yes sir, I do.
Richard Walker: You understand but you don't give a damn? Is that it?

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Kalgan: It was cruel fate to be born in space, but I have vowed we will not die here. It is my destiny to set my feet upon a real world to accumulate wealth and power beyond our wildest dreams. I have offered the people of the Southern Sun a rich, new life, and now they have no alternative but to accept my generosity and alter course for Corona Borealis.

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Kiyoko: The future is not a straight line. It is filled with many crossroads. There must be a future that we can choose for ourselves.

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Sinclair: Man, if we get outta this thing, I want you to come to the States. I'll show you some stuff that you'll never believe.
Vodovsky: No way, my friend. I'm told in the States they shoot Communists in the streets.
Sinclair: Hell, man. In Detroit, my hometown, they shoot everybody in the streets.

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Nico Toscani: You guys think you're above the law... well you ain't above mine.

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The Tall Man: You think that when you die, you go to Heaven. You come to us.

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Mousa: You do not look like men Griggs sent before. You not look like you are with military.
Rambo: I'm not.
Mousa: What you are? Mercenary?
Rambo: No.
Mousa: You're not with military, not mercenary - what you are? Lost tourist?
Rambo: I'm no tourist.

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Sgt. Major Ross Maclure: You open your mouth one more time, and I'll shove your head so far up your ass, you'll be talking out of your armpit.

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Harry Callahan: Oh you can set yourself into a bonfire and we'll break out the marshmallows and the weenies but you ain't gonna be on News at Eleven.

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