10 Best Lines In Film

I was sat watching the fabulous Shaun of the Dead the other night and had a good old chuckle at the second appearance of the line, 'You've got red on you', that time of course referring to the blood splatterings of a knocked-off zombie, and I started thinking about my own favourite lines in films. I jotted a fair few down and below are a selected 10 from my list. This is of course by no means exhaustive, and definately by no means meant to impress, staying clear as I have of cuckoo speeches and contender lines that would have made me look great. Instead, it is a personal list, which will hopefully reflect something about me, and on that front I invite the formations of other lists for the same purpose. A final note, I kept this strictly to film in order to avoid a 50/50 list of X-Files and Buffy quotes. The same goes for you Rullsenberg!

In no order:

1. 'Dodge This' - Trinity to an agent as she sneaks up on him, thus saving Neo's life in The Matrix. Underdog human race gets one back. And in leather.
2. 'I know' - Jesse to Celine in Before Sunset, the best ending of any film, like ever.
3. 'My God, It's Full of Stars' - Dr Dave Bowman as he enters the stargate in Stanley Kubrick's 2001. Possibly the best harnessing of science fiction's potential for captivating the public's mind, taking the genre beyond spaceships and aliens to an embodiment of all that we do not understand, and all of it summed up in one line.
4. 'Don't knock masturbation, it's sex with someone I love' - Annie Hall. I had to pick just one Woody line, and this never fails to give a giggle with its self-effacing charm.
5. 'You are what you love, not what loves you' - mythical Donald Kaufman to Charlie Kaufman in Adaptation. Keeps me coming back to think, 'Hang on, that's pretty deep'. Hold your head up high people.
6. 'Were you in the shit?', 'Yes, I was in the shit' - exchange between Max and Herman in the delightful Rushmore referring to Herman's days in 'Nam.
7. 'This is from Mathilda' - Stansfield (Gary Oldman) gets his due (in his face) in the classic revenge/innocent-love tale that is Leon.
8. 'We want the finest wines available to humanity' - Withnail in Withnail & I, well I had to have one quote from it didn't I?
9. 'You've got red on you' - the uniquely British humour of Shaun of the Dead.
10. 'No one fucks with the King' - Elvis whilst fighting the giant cockroach-like pet of the Egyptian soul-sucking mummy in the bonkers-yet-utterly-brilliant Bubba Ho-tep, "thankyou very much".