“I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”
“This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off.”
“I’ll be right here.”
‘Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads!’
“After all, tomorrow is another day.”
You may not have seen the films these closing lines are in, but chances you you’ve heard them many times before, so ingrained are they in cinematic lore.
Below is a list of all the films that have the greatest closing lines in cinema history.
Scroll through the gallery to see what made the list.
“This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off.”
20th Century Fox
“Mediocrities everywhere, I absolve you! I absolve you! I absolve you! I absolve you! I absolve you all!”
Orion Pictures
“The horror, the horror.”
United Artists
“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads!”
Universal Pictures
“You’re beautiful. Are you in pictures?”
Universal Pictures
“Baby, you are gonna miss that plane.”
Warner Independent Pictures
“It’s too bad she won’t live – but then again, who does?”
Warner Bros
“Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”
Warner Bros Pictures
“They all did it. But, if you wanna know who killed Mr Boddy, I did. In the hall. With the revolver. Okay, Chief, take ’em away. I’m gonna go home and sleep with my wife.”
Paramount Pictures
“I was scared s***less to come back here. I told Joanna, and she took me in her arms and she said, ‘It’s okay to be scared.’ I felt stronger and freer and more like a man than I’ve ever felt before in my life. Then we f***ed our brains out.”
Orion Pictures Corporation
“We will hunt him down because he can take it. Because he’s not our hero. He’s a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A dark knight.”
Warner Bros Pictures
“This girl, she didn’t know where she was goin’ or what she was gonna do. She didn’t have no money on her. Maybe she’d meet up with a character. I was hopin’ things would work out for her. She was a good friend of mine.”
Paramount Pictures
“I saw her. I know I did.”
Gala Film Dists
“I’ll be right here.”
Universal Pictures
“I said it before and I’ll say it again: life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
Paramount Pictures
“You met me at a very strange time in my life.”
20th Century Fox
“I’m in a world of s***, yes. But I am alive – and I am not afraid.”
Columbia-Cannon-Warner
“I’ll go home and I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.”
Loew’s Inc
“So, if your air conditioner goes on the fritz or your washing machine blows up or your video recorder conks out, before you call the repairman, turn on all the lights, check all the closets and cupboards, look under all the beds, ’cause you never can tell – there just might be a gremlin in your house.”
Warner Bros
“It’s so beautiful – let’s live here! We’ll rent to start.”
Columbia Pictures
“You know something, Utivich? I think this just might be my masterpiece.”
“Look, daddy. Teacher says, ‘Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.'”
“That’s right. Attaboy, Clarence.”
“I used to hate the water.”
“I can’t imagine why.”
“Oh, no. It wasn’t the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.”
“The only way to stay out of trouble is to grow old, so I guess I’ll concentrate on that. Maybe I’ll live so long that I’ll forget her. Maybe I’ll die trying.”
“One thing about livin’ in Santa Carla I never could stomach – all the damn vampires.”
Warner Bros
“Now, where was I?”
Newmarket Films
“This was the story of Howard Beale, the first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.”
United Artists
“You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!”
20th Century Fox
“Now, you’re looking for the secret. But you won’t find it because, of course, you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to work it out. You want to be fooled.”
Warner Bros
“I’m not even gonna swat that fly. I hope they are watching. They’ll see. They’ll see and they’ll know and they’ll say, ‘Why, she wouldn’t even harm a fly’.”
Paramount Pictures
It seemed reaI. It seemed Iike us. And it seemed Iike, well, our home. If not Arizona, then a land not too far away, where all parents are strong and wise and capable, and all children are happy and beloved. I don’t know. Maybe it was Utah.”
20th Century Fox
“What about the person we show it to? What happens to them?”
DreamWorks Pictures
“A polar bear fell on me.”
MGM/UA Communications Co
“When people ask me if Michael Sullivan was a good man, or if there was just no good in him at all, I always give the same answer. I just tell them he was my father.”
20th Century Fox
“Most people are so ungrateful to be alive, but not you, not any more. Game over.”
Lionsgate Films
“Ernest Hemingway once wrote, ‘The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.’ I agree with the second part.”
New Line Cinema
“I do wish we could chat longer, but I’m having an old friend for dinner.”
Orion Pictures
“I’m a man!”
“Well, nobody’s perfect.”
United Artists
“Just keeping the British end up.”
United Artists
“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?”
Columbia Pictures
“Alright Mr DeMille, I’m ready for my closeup.”
Paramount Pictures
“The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first time with a sense of hope, because if a machine – a Terminator – can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.”
TriStar Pictures
“So long, partner.”
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
“Sometimes Clarence asks me what I would have done if he had died, if that bullet had been two inches more to the left. To this, I always smile, as if I’m not gonna satisfy him with a response. But I always do. I tell him of how I would want to die, but that the anguish and the want of death would fade like the stars at dawn, and that things would be much as they are now. Perhaps. Except maybe I wouldn’t have named our son Elvis.”
Warner Bros
“They say they’re gonna repeal Prohibition. What will you do then?”
“I think I’ll have a drink.”
Paramount Pictures
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist. And like that… he is gone.”
Gramercy Pictures
“He finally got to the top of the world – and it blew right up in his face.”
Warner Bros
“Auntie Em, there’s no place like home.”
Loew’s, Incorporated
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