History ArcWords / LiveActionFilms

** "Life finds a way" is first said by Ian Malcolm in ''Film/JurassicPark'', then later gets paraphrased by Alan Grant when he and the kids come across a dinosaur nest. It gets further paraphrased by John Hammond in ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' in reference to the surprising survival of the dinosaurs on Isla Sorna. This also serves as the TagLine for ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' (incidentally the first film to include an appearance by Malcolm since ''Lost World'').

** ''Film/{{Iron Man|1}}'': "This is your legacy." reflecting on both the titular protagonist's dark familial history as well as the new one he will make upon atonement, which is fitting since this movie launched the SharedUniverse.
** ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'': Variants on "avenge". (In addition to the title and The Avengers Initiative, there's the unspoken but implied last word of Coulson's assertion that the team were never going to work together "if they didn't have something [[KilledMidSentence to...]]" and finally Tony's threat to Loki that they will avenge the world if they can't save it.)

%%** ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'':

** ''Film/ThorRagnarok'':
*** Thor has been called "God/Lord of Thunder" throughout the film, and for good reason. [[spoiler: Realizing that his powers are lightning and thunder themselves and not Mjölnir is what finally allows him to turn the tide of the FinalBattle in his favor.]]
*** Thor is told that he's "Home" many, many times in many, many different locations. [[spoiler: This is related to Odin's words that Asgard can be anywhere — thus, Thor can be "home" anywhere.]]
%%*** "Asgard isn't a place, it's a people."
%%*** "That's what heroes do."
** ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}''
*** "We/You do not/will not speak of this". Said by characters in order to preserve Wakanda's masquerade as an impoverished nation, but at the same time coinciding with the film's plot that is driven by a DarkSecret.
*** "Who are you?" Plays into the overall themes of who we are versus who we choose to be versus who outside forces make us into.
%%*** "Praise the ancestors."
%%*** "Wakanda forever!"
** ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' uses "misdirection" multiple times. It comes from Scott's ChekhovsSkill of close-up magic tricks, and comes into play when outsmarting the BigBadEnsemble.
** ''Film/AvengersEndgame''
*** "Whatever it takes." Showcasing how much of a {{Determinator}} the protagonists are but also [[DespairEventHorizon how dire the situation is]].
*** "Move on." It relates to how the characters must try to adjust to the new status quo.
*** "I am inevitable." Uttered by ComicBook/{{Thanos}}, who believes that he is the "be all, end all" of all existence.
** ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'': "It's what we do." First said by Aunt May to Peter when he expresses doubt about trying to help Norman and May reinforcing the "great power, great responsibility" idiom, and later reiterated by both [[spoiler:Raimi-verse]] and [[spoiler:Webb-verse's Peters]] about the responsibility they and [[spoiler:MCU]] Peter share [[spoiler:as Spider-Men]].
** ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'': "Are you happy?" [[spoiler:Stephen is asked this by his universe's Christine at her wedding and later by variant Christine from universe 838. Both times he claims he is, but Sinister Strange calls him out on the lie. At the end of the movie Stephen asks the question of Wong who admits he wonders if alternate versions of him are happier, but that he's content with the universe he lives in.]]
%%* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' series:

%%* ''Film/{{Reincarnation 2005}}'': "Together Forever".

* ''Film/{{Serenity}}'': "Lie down".

* ''Film/Godmothered'': Agnes says it sounds like Mackenzie "doesn't believe in happy." Later, Mackenzie's daughter Mia says "Mom doesn't believe in happy, or crafts, or Christmas."

%%** ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout.'' manages to turn the IMF's very CatchPhrase "This is your mission, if you choose to accept it." into both this and an ArmorPiercingQuestion. John Lark's manifesto is often quoted many times throughout the movie. "There cannot be peace without first, a great suffering. The greater the suffering, the greater the peace."

* ''Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare'' has "I Won't Tell." These three words are a constant in Maggie's nightmares throughout the film. [[spoiler:It turned out that said nightmares are actually repressed childhood memories once it's revealed that her real name is Katherine and she's the daughter of Freddy. Her mother Loretta said it once she discovered the truth about her husband's "special work", and it was the last thing little Katherine had said to her father after she watched him murder her mother. The terrified little girl didn't keep that promise however, and it led to not only his arrest, but her being put into the Springwood orphanage where she was eventually adopted.]]

* ''Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare'' has "I Won't Tell." These three words are a constant in Maggie's nightmares throughout the film. [[spoiler:It turned out that said nightmares are actually repressed childhood memories once it's revealed that her real name is Katherine and she's the daughter of Freddy. Her mother Loretta said it once she discovered the truth about her husband's "special work", and it the last thing little Katherine had said to her father after she watched him murder her mother.]]

* ''Film/ThirteenHoursTheSecretSoldiersOfBenghazi'': Joseph Campbell's quote "All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you."
* The D is for D[[spoiler:eloused]] segment of ''Film/ABCsOfDeath2'': "You pay for life."
* ''Film/AllThePresidentsMen'': "Follow the money."
* ''Film/AlmostFamous'': "Mystique". Also, "The enemy."

* ''Film/AmericanPsycho'': "This is not an exit".

* ''Film/{{Avatar}}'': "I see you."
* ''Film/BagdadCafe'': "Magic!"

* ''Film/BigFish'': "Story/ies."
* ''Film/BlackChristmas2006'': "...My family now." These words persist in the heads of the Lenz children.
* ''Film/BlackSwan'':
** "Lose yourself."
** "Live a little."
** "Perfect."
** "Sweet girl."
* ''Film/BladeRunner'':
** "To live in fear."
** "Time to die."
* ''Film/BladeRunner2049'':
** "Cells interlinked within cells interlinked within cells."
** "What's it like to hold the hand of someone love? What's it like to hold your child in your arms?"
** "Because you have never seen a miracle."
** "Dying for the right cause is the most human thing we can do."
* ''Film/BloodDiamond'': " T.I.A. This Is Africa."

* ''Film/TheBoyWhoCriedWerewolf'': [[Literature/TheJungleBook "The strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack."]]
* ''Film/TheBourneSeries'': "Look at us. Look at what they make you give."

* ''Film/ChipNDaleRescueRangers2022'': "The biggest risk is not taking any risk at all."

* ''Film/AChristmasStory'': "You'll shoot your eye out!"
* ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'': "In our faith, we keep what we kill."

* "Rosebud." from ''Film/CitizenKane'' is a possible UrExample. Of course, [[ItWasHisSled it's not really enigmatic anymore.]]
* ''Film/CitySlickersIITheLegendOfCurlysGold'' -- "Come and get me".

* ''Film/CloudAtlas'', being an a film built largely on symbolism, has a huge number of shared ideas, visuals and -- of course -- phrases. Sometimes coincidence, sometimes an instance of in-universe quoting, a few stand out:
** "Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others; past and present..."
** "The weak are meat, and the strong do eat."
** "There is a natural order to this world..."
** "I will not be subjected to criminal abuse!"
* ''Film/{{Colette}}'': "I am the real Claudine."
* ''Film/{{Congo}}'': "We are watching you."
* ''Film/{{Contact}}''. "If there is no one out there, it's an awful waste of space."
* ''Film/TheConversation'': "He'd kill us if he had the chance."

* ''Film/DarkCity'': "Do you know the way to Shell Beach?"
* ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy''
** "Why do we fall?" in all three movies.
** In ''Film/BatmanBegins'':
*** "If you make yourself more than just a man..."
*** "It's not who I am underneath, it's what I do that defines me."
** In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'':
*** "You wanna know how I got these scars?"
*** "Why so serious?"
*** “You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
** In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'':
*** "Rise."
*** "Anyone can be a hero."
* Creator/DavidLynch, in keeping with his affinity for mystery and ambiguity, sometimes uses these.
** ''Film/LostHighway'': "Dick Laurant is dead". "We've met before, haven't we?"
** ''Film/MulhollandDrive'': "This is the girl".
** ''Film/InlandEmpire'' has a few; most obvious is "look at me and tell me if you've known me before", but there's also "[=AXXoN N.=]", "just down the way" and "the horse to the well" (which is hard to spot since it's mostly muffled or spoken in Polish).

** ''Film/WonderWoman2017'':
*** "I used to want to save the world" used as BookEnds.
*** "They do not deserve you", in various variations, concluding with: "It's not about what they deserve, it's what you believe."
** ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'': "Hope" and "Fear".
** ''Film/{{Shazam 2019}}'': "All hands on deck".
** ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'': "Not alone".
* ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'': "Carpe diem"/"Seize the day".
** "O Captain! My Captain!"

* ''Film/TheDescent'': "Love each day."
* ''Film/DirtyHarry'': "Do you feel lucky, punk?"
** ''Film/MagnumForce'': "Man has to known his limitations." Unlike the others, which are mostly said in passing, this one actually intergrades into part of the main plot.
** ''Film/TheEnforcer'': "Marvellous."
** ''Film/SuddenImpact'': "Go ahead, make my day."
** ''Film/TheDeadPool'': "You're shit outta luck."
* ''Film/{{Dunkirk}}'': "Home."

* ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'': "I've been dreaming of a true love's kiss..."
* ''Film/EscapeRoom2017'': "It's all part of the game."
* ''Film/EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind'': "Meet me in Montauk".
* ''Film/{{Exam}}'': "What is the question?"
* ''Film/FieldOfDreams'':
** "If you build it, he will come."
** Ease his pain.
** Go the distance.
* ''Film/FightClub'':
** "[[ShroudedInMyth Do you know Tyler Durden?]]"
** "I am Jack's [insert body part here]"
** "[[NarratorAllAlong I know this because Tyler knows this.]]"
** "[[WeAllDieSomeday On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.]]"
** "[[SacrificialLamb Space monkeys.]]"
** "[[SchmuckBait The first rule of Fight Club is; you do not talk about Fight Club.]]"
** "[[FreezeFrameBonus It's called a changeover. The movie goes on, and nobody in the audience has any idea.]]"
* ''Film/ForrestGump'': "Run, Forrest, run!"
* ''Film/TheFugitive'': [[BlatantLies "I don't care."]]
* ''Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare'': "I Won't Tell."
* ''Film/GalaxyQuest'': "Never give up! Never surrender!"
* ''Film/TheGallows'': "He wants me. He's coming for me."
* ''Film/GetOut2017''
** From the trailer: "A mind is a terrible thing to waste".
** From the film itself, variations on "just like one of the family".
** "Dead by the side of the road" comes up a lot — it's how Chris' mother dies, how the deer Chris and Rose hit with their car dies, what Dean says he thinks should happen to all deer, and how [[spoiler: Chris leaves [[ManipulativeBitch Rose]] at the end]].
* ''Film/TheGodfather'': "Make him an offer he can't refuse."

* ''Film/TheGrey'': "Live and die on this day...Live and die on this day."
* ''Film/TheGreenMile'': "Miracle." and "I tried to take it back... but it was too late."

* ''Film/{{Highlander}}'': "There can be only one."

* ''Film/TheHouseOfTheDevil'': Get a grip.
* ''Film/TheHungerGamesCatchingFire'': "Remember who the real/true enemy is".
* ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjay Part 1'': "If we burn, you'll burn with us!"

* ''Film/{{Inception}}'':
** "You're waiting for a train. A train that will take you far away. You know where you hope the train will take you, but you can't know for sure. Yet it doesn't matter. Now, tell me why?" [[spoiler:"Because we'll be together!"]]
** "An old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone."
** "Take a leap of faith."
* "Fortune and Glory" from ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom''.
* ''Film/{{Interstellar}}'':
** All or parts of Dylan Thomas's poem "Literature/DoNotGoGentleIntoThatGoodNight".
** "90%" [honesty]

* ''Film/JamesBond''
** ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService''
*** "[[TearJerker We have all the time in the world]]", for this film and the beginning of ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''
** ''Film/GoldenEye'':
*** "For England, James?"
** ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough''
*** "There's no point in living if you can't feel alive."
** ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'':
*** "Skyfall" is mentioned early on in the movie and is the only part in the word association that James Bond didn't have a witty answer to. It turns out to be [[spoiler:Bond's family home, where his parents had died in a freak accident.]]
*** "Think on your sins."
*** "Sometimes, the old ways are the best."
** ''Film/NoTimeToDie'':
*** "We have all the time in the world", again.

*** "Above/Below/Under The Table" pops up quite a bit.

* ''Film/KillBill'': "You and I have unfinished business."

* ''Film/AKnightsTale'': "[[ScrewDestiny A man can change his stars.]]"
* ''Film/LettersToJuliet'': "If it's true love, then it is never too late".

* ''Film/{{Logan}}'':
** "So that's what it feels like."
** The closing dialogue from ''Film/{{Shane}}'' is quoted significantly twice: "There's no living with a killing. There's no going back from it. Right or wrong, it's a brand. A brand that sticks. There's no going back. Now you run on home to your mother and tell her... tell her everything's alright, and [[EndOfAnEra there aren't any more guns in the valley.]]"
* ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'': "We are not things."
** "Who killed the world?"
** "Witness me!"
** "I live. I die. I live again!"
* ''Film/MarathonMan'': "Is it safe?

** ''Film/{{Iron Man|1}}'':
*** "This is your legacy." reflecting on both the titular protagonist's dark familial history as well as the new one he will make upon atonement, which is fitting since this movie launched the SharedUniverse.
** ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'':
*** "It's an old-fashioned notion."
*** "Soldiers".
*** "Sentiment."
*** Variants on "avenge". (In addition to the title and The Avengers Initiative, there's the unspoken but implied last word of Coulson's assertion that the team were never going to work together "if they didn't have something [[KilledMidSentence to...]]" and finally Tony's threat to Loki that they will avenge the world if they can't save it.)
** ''Film/IronMan3''
*** "You know who I am."
*** "We create our own demons." May also be applicable to [[spoiler: Avengers: Age of Ultron, given its premise.]]
*** "When is a bomb not a bomb?" "A bomb is not a bomb [[spoiler: when it's a [[SuperPowerMeltdown misfire]].]]"
** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'':
*** "Captain's orders."
*** "On your left."
*** "I'm with you till the end of the line."
** ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'':
*** "[[TakeMyHand Take/Hold my hand!]]"
** ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'':
*** "Monsters"
*** "Together"
*** "Strings" (especially in the context of Pinocchio references)
** ''Film/AntMan1'':
*** "I know a guy..."
*** "Become the hero she already thinks you are."
*** "Go Subatomic."
** ''Film/ThorRagnarok''
*** "Asgard isn't a place, it's a people."

*** "That's what heroes do."

*** "Praise the ancestors."
*** "Wakanda forever!"

* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' series:
** "What is the Matrix?" were arc words throughout the marketing and right up until a third of the way through the film.
** "Everything that has a beginning has an end."
* ''Film/MillionDollarBaby'': "Mo Cuishle" which is Gaelic for "My Darling, my blood".
* ''Film/MissionImpossible''
** ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'': "Desperate times, desperate measures."
** ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout.'' manages to turn the IMF's very CatchPhrase "This is your mission, if you choose to accept it." into both this and an ArmorPiercingQuestion. John Lark's manifesto is often quoted many times throughout the movie. "There cannot be peace without first, a great suffering. The greater the suffering, the greater the peace."
* ''Film/{{Mongol}}'': All Mongols fear thunder.
* ''Film/MoulinRouge'': "Truth Beauty Freedom Love"
* ''Film/TheMummy1999'': "Death is only the beginning"
* ''Film/MysteryTeam'': "Someone stole that man's face"; in a weird way, the f word.
* ''Film/OnTheWaterfront'' has "bum", usually spoken in regards to its protagonist, Terry Malloy.
* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'':
** "The Dutchman must have a captain."
** "It's just good business."
** "Part of the ship, part of the crew."
** "Hoist the colours."
* ''Film/ThePrestige'': "Are you watching closely?" "Every magic trick consists of three acts." [[spoiler:"No one cares about the man in the box."]]
* ''Film/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'': "Have I told you about the Ngbaka?"
* ''Film/ThePrincipal'': "No more."
* ''Film/RedRidingHood'': "During the Blood Moon, a man bitten is a man cursed."

* ''Film/{{Reincarnation 2005}}'': "Together Forever".
* ''Film/TheRightStuff'': "Who's the greatest pilot you ever saw? You're lookin' at him!"
* ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'': "No", as well as "Home".
** ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'': "Ape not kill ape."
** And for the entire [[Film/WarForThePlanetOfTheApes trilogy]]: "Apes together strong."
* "Rise and rise again, until lambs become lions" from ''Film/RobinHood2010''.
* ''Film/SafeHouse'': "We'll take it from here."
* ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'':
** "I want to play a game."
** "Live or die. Make your choice/The choice is yours."
** "Game over."
* ''Film/Scarface1983'': "The world is yours."
* ''Film/TheScribbler'': "Unzip Your Head."

* ''Film/ShakespeareInLove'': "I don't know. It's a mystery."
* ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'':
** "We're all innocent in here."
** "Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'."
** "Brooks was here."
** "Rehabilitated."
** "His Judgement Cometh and that Right Soon...."
* ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'': "You've got red on you".
* ''Film/TheShining'': REDRUM... REDRUM...
* ''Film/ShortCircuit'': "Alive".
* ''Film/{{Signs}}'': When Colleen was dying, she [[spoiler:tells Graham to tell Morgan to have fun and to be silly, for Bo to always listen to her brother because he will take care of her. She tells Graham to "see" and tells Merrill to "swing away"]].
* ''Film/SonOfAGun'': "Never trust a pawn".
* ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy'':
** [[BeYourself "Be me/you".]]
** The contrasting ways of being "looney" and "fundamental" are brought up frequently.
* ''Film/{{Speed}}'': "Pop quiz, hotshot/asshole" and "What do you do?".

* ''Star Trek [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan II]]'', ''[[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock III]]'', and ''[[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome IV]]'' have "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few... or the one".
* ''Franchise/StarWars''
** "I've got a bad feeling about this."

** [[MeaningfulBackgroundEvent Almost inaudible]] every time it comes up, [[TheChosenOne "Son of the Suns"]].

** Someone asks Rey "Who are you?" once in each of the sequel trilogy films:
*** ''Film/TheForceAwakens:'' Maz Kanata asks her on Takodana.
*** ''Film/TheLastJedi:'' Luke Skywalker asks her on Ahch-To.
*** ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker:'' An old woman asks her [[spoiler:at the ruins of the Lars homestead on Tatooine.]]
** ''Film/RogueOne'' has several of its own, separate from most of the other saga entries:
*** "Hope."
*** "Stardust."
*** "I am one with the Force and the Force is with me."
** ''Film/TheForceAwakens''
*** "Complete."
*** "Run as far as you can."
*** "I feel it again."
** ''Film/TheLastJedi''
*** "We are the spark that will light the fire."
*** "Raw power/strength."
*** "Godspeed, rebels."
*** "Let the past die."
*** "Go on. Say it."
*** "Impressive. Every word in that sentence was wrong."
** ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker:''
*** "A feeling."
*** "They win by making you think you're alone."
*** "Be with me."
* ''Film/StrictlyBallroom'': "A life lived in fear is a life half-lived."
* ''Film/StuartLittle 2'': “Every cloud has a silver lining.”
* ''Film/TheSuicideTheory'': "You're lucky to be alive."
* The [[Film/SupermanTheMovie Superman]] [[Film/SupermanII movies]] by [[Creator/RichardDonner Richard Donner]] have "The son becomes the father and the father becomes the son".
* ''Film/TheTreeOfLife'':
** "The Way of Nature and the Way of Grace".
** "Where were you?"
** "Brother..."
* ''Film/TallTale'': "The Code of the East/North/South/West"
-->"Respect the land! Defend the defenseless! And don't ever spit in front of women or children!" [[RunningGag *Spit*]]
* ''Film/TheTenCommandments1956'': "Moses, Moses" and "So let it be written, so let it be done".
* ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'':
** ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'': "[[ScrewDestiny No fate.]]"
** ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'': "I am a machine." and "[[YouCantFightFate Judgement Day is inevitable.]]"

* ''Film/{{Transcendence}}'': "Humans fear what they don't understand."
* ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie'': "Wanna see something REALLY scary?"
* ''Film/{{Upgrade}}'': "You now have full control" and "A fake world is less painful than the real world."
* ''Film/VanHelsing'': "In the name of God, open this door."
* ''Film/VanillaSky'': "Open your eyes."
* ''Film/VoyageOfTheUnicorn'': "Credendo Vides" (by believing, one sees) and "faith precedes the miracle".
* ''Film/WarForThePlanetOfTheApes'': "Apes together strong."
* ''[[Film/WeAreMarshall WE ARE! MARSHALL!]]'' Also doubles as a TitleDrop.
* ''Film/WhatLiesBeneath'': "YOU KNOW".
* "Even a man who is pure in heart..." poem in films featuring ''Film/TheWolfMan1941.''
* ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'':
** "Have/having a good time."
** "We wanna be free, we wanna get loaded, and we wanna have a good time! And that's what we're going to do!"
* ''Film/XMenApocalypse'':
** [[Film/XMen1 Once upon a time]], Magneto asked Xavier what would he do if some day the secret is outed and the people come to take him and his students. The latter replies, "I feel a great swell of pity for the poor soul that comes to my school looking for trouble." This is another year, another timeline, another context, a Magneto and an Xavier with other lives (and played by different actors), but their dialogue is repeated, word by word.
** "All will be revealed." Apocalypse himself uses this phrase often, both to reassure the Horsemen and to not divulge details of his plan to Xavier and the rest of the X-Men. [[spoiler:When Jean Grey unleashes the Phoenix Force against him, this changes to "All is revealed" just before he is disintegrated. It is left unclear if causing this event was one of his goals.]]

* ''Film/EaglesGathered'': "Golden boy, golden boy, where have you been?"

* ''Film/ThirteenHoursTheSecretSoldiersOfBenghazi'': "All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you."

* ''Film/{{Reincarnation}}'': "Together Forever".

* ''Film/TheIllusionist'' fires off a series of arc words in a montage at the end of the movie, giving context to everything that was said earlier which takes on a new meaning when the truth is exposed at the end. The most significant being [[spoiler:"Everything you have seen is an illusion."]]

** ''Film/MagnumForce'': "Man has to known his limitations."

* ''Film/LiberalArts'': "Fortune never smiles on those who say no."