Aren't movies awesome. And Ephman guess's that's why you're here. What makes a movie quote great? Easy. If after you hear it you say to yourself something like. “Wish I said that when...” Usually that “when” part is “when” you really goofed up what you really said.

A great movie quote is the perfect thing to say at the perfect situation. But life doesn't always workout that way right? So Ephman put together the official top 10 greatest movie quotes of all time so far. Did is sort of a public service announcement. When you're stuck for that perfect thing to say you might just remember these doozy's.

But a quote is not really a quote unless it's taken into context... So for your convenience Ephman has kindly sometimes provided a few lines in the scene. Just so that things make sense.
 

10. Darth Vader – Star Wars 

Admiral Motti: Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerous ways, Lord Vader. Your sad devotion to that ancient religion has not helped you conjure up the stolen data tapes, or given you clairvoyance enough to find the rebels' hidden fortress... [Vader makes a pinching motion and Motti starts choking] Darth Vader: I find your lack of faith disturbing.

Where's your faith now Admiral Motti? It was sort of here in the movie that Ephman made the decision that maybe the Dark Side wasn't as cool as Vader made it out to be. Especially since most of the Empire were wearing Nazi'esque uniforms.
 

9. Marsellus Wallace – Pulp Fiction 

Marsellus: I think you're gonna find -- when all this shit is over and done -- I think you're gonna find yourself one smilin' motherfucker. Thing is Butch, right now you got ability. But painful as it may be, ability don't last. Now that's a hard motherfuckin' fact of life, but it's a fact of life your ass is gonna have to get realistic about. This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic motherfuckers who thought their ass aged like wine.  Marsellus: Now the night of the fight, you may feel a slight sting, that's pride fuckin' with ya. Fuck pride! Pride only hurts, it never helps. Fight through that shit. 'Cause a year from now, when you're kickin' it in the Caribbean you're gonna say, "Marsellus Wallace was right."

See this is some bad ass shit motherfucker. BAD ASS... See Marsellus here has got some points to make. Don't you Marsellus? Because it's true. You're only so good for so long. And then that long runs short, and you have to make a decision. And sometimes, bargain basement blowout sales are AOK. 

8. John Winger – Stripes

Sergeant Hulka: Okay, Mr. Push-ups, let's hear your story. John Winger: Chicks dig me, because I rarely wear underwear and when I do it's usually something unusual. But now I know why I have always lost women to guys like you. I mean, it's not just the uniform. It's the stories that you tell. So much fun and imagination. [points to the soldier next to him] John Winger: Lee Harvey, you are a madman. When you stole that cow, and your friend tried to make it with the cow. I want to party with you, cowboy. If the two of us together, forget it. I'm gonna go out on a limb here. I'm gonna volunteer my leadership to this platoon. An army without leaders is like a foot without a big toe. And Sergeant Hulka isn't always gonna be here to be that big toe for us. I think that we owe a big round of applause to our newest, bestest buddy, and big toe... Sergeant Hulka. [the soldiers start clapping] Sergeant Hulka: Well, okay, hotshot. We're gonna see what kind of soldier you are.

Lee Harvey was a madman. See Ephman's best friend is Dickman (no it's not what you think, Shapo named him), and Dickman would be that guy that'd “make it with the cow”. Also, this quote makes the list because of he like the initiative John takes here, on leadership. Tough stuff to find these days.

7. Economics Teacher – Ferris Beuller's Day Off

Economics Teacher: In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the... Anyone? Anyone?... the Great Depression, passed the... Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered?... raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects? It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression. Today we have a similar debate over this. Anyone know what this is? Class? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone seen this before? The Laffer Curve. Anyone know what this says? It says that at this point on the revenue curve, you will get exactly the same amount of revenue as at this point. This is very controversial. Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980? Anyone? Something-d-o-o economics. "Voodoo" economics.

Surprisingly enough the quote from this movie isn't a Ferris one. Some of his were good, there's no debate there. But this gem just makes so much sense, and works on so many different leves now. When a quote is times, there's nothing that can come close to it.
 

6. Gold Hat - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Gold Hat: Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges.

Have to throw in the token black and white movie here. But still this is a great line. It's been used all over the place. Sampled in music, to folks using it that have no idea where it came from. Any quote that enters our lexicon is a pretty damn strong one. Oh BTW it's also one of the few b&w movies Ephman has been able to sit through.

5. Elliot - E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

Michael: Maybe an elf or a leprechaun. Elliot: It was nothing like that, penis breath!

And then comes along a quote that totally changes your world. See Ephman grew up in Canada. Land of the Polite. Ephman was also 12. This is quote is what change it all. School yards across the country were fill with “What we can swear without swearing?”. Can't wash your mouth out with soap for that line right? So penis breath changed the way a whole generation took a look at swearing. Nice. Or name calling. :)

4. Bob McKenzie - The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew
 

Bob McKenzie: I was the last one left after the nuclear holocaust, eh. The whole world had been destroyed, like U.S. blew up Russia and Russia blew up U.S. Fortunately, I had been offworld at the time. There wasn't much to do. All the bowling alleys had been wrecked. So's I spent most of my time looking for beer.

Ephman does not want to take away from Doug. Because without Doug there is no Bob. But for some reason this quote has always stuck out in his mind. Why? Simple. When a quote can also be a plot for a complete new movie, it gets to join the list. See Bob's not as dumb as you think.
 

3. Lloyd Dobler – Say Anything

Lloyd Dobler: I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.

Ain't that truth. Here's a guy with ambition Ephman's telling ya. Anybody that can do ALL THOSE THINGS, has got to have ambition. And initiative. Probably more initiative. But anyways, Lloyd was the cinematic father of the environmental movement. Think about it...

2. Kurtz – Apocalypse Now

Kurtz: I've seen horrors... horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that... but you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror... Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies! I remember when I was with Special Forces... seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate some children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there, and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried, I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out; I didn't know what I wanted to do! And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it... I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought, my God... the genius of that! The genius! The will to do that! Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we, because they could stand that these were not monsters, these were men... trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love... but they had the strength... the strength... to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men, our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral... and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling... without passion... without judgment... without judgment! Because it's judgment that defeats us.

Enough said.  Ok fine, not enough said.  Mad genius.  Now enough said.

1. You Decide

Really there are so many amazing quotes. Please help Ephman out and leave a comment below to figure out what should number one be.

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