A catch phrase (or catchphrase) is a phrase or expression recognized by its repeated utterance. Such phrases often originate in popular culture and in the arts, and typically spread through a variety of mass media (such as literature and publishing, motion pictures, television and radio), as well as word of mouth. Some catch phrases become the de facto “trademark” of the person or character with whom they originated.

We all know someone who’s a walking catchphrase waiting to happen; they relish that moment when they can slip in to a conversation their favorite over-used movie catchphrases. The interesting thing is that most people use the same ones, over and over again. – moviefone.com

Moviephone’s The 10 Most Over-Used Movie Catchphrases:

1. “You had me at hello.” Jerry Maguire (1996)
2. “I’m the king of the world!” Titanic (1997)
3. “Say hello to my little friend!” Scarface (1983)
4. “Run Forrest, run!” Forrest Gump (1994)
5. “Show me the money!” Jerry Maguire (1996)
6. “You can’t handle the truth!” A Few Good Men (1992)
7. “May the force be with you.” Star Wars (1977)
8. “Houston, we have a problem.” Apollo 13 (1995)
9. “… Bond. James Bond.” (James Bond)
10. “I’ll be back.” The Terminator (1984)

Other catchphrases that we’ve heard people use:

The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)
David: You know how I know you’re gay?

Kindergarten Cop (1990)
Detective John Kimble: It’s not a tumor!

Pulp Fiction (1994)
Jules: English, motherfucker, do you speak it?

Jules: Say ‘what’ again. Say ‘what’ again, I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker, say what one more … time!

Vincent: Bacon tastes gooood. Pork chops taste gooood.

Jules: Then why you try to fuck him like a bitch, Brett?

Jules: If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.

Jules: Shit Negro! That’s all you had to say!

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
Ace Ventura: Do *not* go in there! Pheeww!

Ace Ventura: All righty, then.

Dirty Harry (1971)
Harry Callahan: …you’ve got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?

Taxi Driver (1976)
Travis Bickle: You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me?

Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: You are nothing but unorganized grabastic pieces of amphibian shit.

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Five-foot-nine, I didn’t know they stacked shit that high.

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: I bet you’re the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the …common courtesy to give him a reach-around.

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: What is your major malfunction, numbnuts?

Pogue Colonel: Then how about getting with the program? Why don’t you jump on the team and come on in for the big win?

Da Nang Hooker: Well, baby, me so horny. Me so HORNY. Me love you long time.

RoboCop (1987)
RoboCop: Dead or alive, you’re coming with me.

Clarence Boddicker: Bitches, leave!

The Sixth Sense (1999)
Cole Sear: I see dead people.

The Matrix (1999)
Neo: I know kung fu.

Snakes on a Plane (2006)
Neville Flynn: Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!

Die Hard (1988)
John McClane: Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
Austin Powers: Do I make you horny? Randy? Do I make you horny, baby, yeah, do I?

Austin Powers: Smashing Baby!
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
Fat Bastard: [to Mini Me] Get in my belly.

They Live (1988)
Nada: I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubblegum.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Gandalf: You shall not pass!

300 (2006)
King Leonidas: For tonight, we dine in hell!

King Leonidas: Madness…? [shouting] This is Sparta!

Predator (1987)
Blain: I ain’t got time to bleed.

Dutch: [lying on the ground after being hit by Predator shoulder cannon, he motions to Anna] Run! Get to the chopper!

Blain: Bunch of slack-jawed faggots around here. This stuff will make you a god damned sexual Tyrannosaurus, just like me.

Dutch: If it bleeds, we can kill it.

Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Thunder: Play your cards right… you live to talk about it!

Lethal Weapon (1987)
I’m too old for this shit!

Sudden Impact (1983)
Harry Callahan: Yeah… you’re a legend in your own mind.

Poltergeist (1982)
Carol Anne: They’re here.

Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
Napoleon Dynamite: You know, like nunchuku skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills… Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills.

What’s a liger? Napoleon Dynamite: It’s pretty much my favorite animal. It’s like a lion and a tiger mixed… bred for its skills in magic.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Knight 1: We are the Knights who say… NI.

Tombstone (1993)
Wyatt Earp: You gonna do somethin’? Or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?

Major League (1989)
Lou Brown: You may run like Hayes. but you hit like shit.

Ghost Busters (1984)
Dr. Peter Venkman: Let’s show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown…

Dr. Egon Spengler: Sorry, Venkman, I’m terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.

Dr. Peter Venkman: We came, we saw, we kicked its ass!

Dr Ray Stantz: Listen… do you smell something?

Dr. Peter Venkman: Back off, man. I’m a scientist.

Janine Melnitz: I’ve quit better jobs than this.

Red Dawn (1984)
Robert: Wolverines!

Aliens (1986)
Apone: All right, sweethearts, what are you waiting for? Breakfast in bed? Another glorious day in the Corps! A day in the Marine Corps is like a day on the farm. Every meal’s a banquet! Every paycheck a fortune! Every formation a parade! I LOVE the Corps!

Hudson: We’re on an express elevator to hell; going down!

Hot as hell in here. Hudson: Yeah man, but it’s a dry heat!

Hudson: Hey, you may not been keeping up on current events, but we just got our asses kicked, pal!

Hudson: That’s it man, game over man, game over!

Apone: Allright, sweethearts, you heard the man and you know the drill! Assholes and elbows!

Hudson: We got tactical smart missiles, phase-plasma pulse rifles, RPGs, we got sonic electronic ball breakers! We got nukes, we got knives, sharp sticks…

Hudson: [puts his rifle against Burke's head] I say we grease this rat-fuck son-of-a-bitch right now.

Office Space (1999)
Drew: If things go well I might be showing her my O-face.

Michael Bolton: That’s the worst idea I’ve ever heard in my life.

Looks like you’ve been missing a lot of work lately. Peter Gibbons: I wouldn’t say I’ve been *missing* it, Bob.

Peter Gibbons: …when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That’s my only real motivation is not to be hassled, that and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.

Michael Bolton: You and me both, man. That thing is lucky I’m not armed.

Peter Gibbons: Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door – that way Lumbergh can’t see me, heh heh – and, uh, after that I just sorta space out for about an hour… I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I’m working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I’d say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.

Peter Gibbons: …every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that’s on the worst day of my life.

Star Wars (1977)
Han Solo: Punch it, Chewie!

Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Han Solo: Laugh it up, fuzzball.

Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)
Admiral Ackbar: It’s a trap!

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