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** West did say this in a movie, but not until 1978, when she was 85 years old. She asks "Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?" in the movie ''Sextette''. You can see it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC9dde6NXIY here]], with the line around 9:13.
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** West did say this in a movie, but not until 1978, when she was 85 years old. She asks "Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?" in the movie ''Sextette''.''Film/{{Sextette}}''. You can see it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC9dde6NXIY here]], with the line around 9:13.
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* In the wake of the tremendous success of TimBurton's ''{{Beetlejuice}}'' in 1988, the phrase "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!" became a well-known MemeticMutation. Problem is, while a number of characters in the movie do say "Beetlejuice" three times (or at least attempt to), on only ''one'' occasion is the name said three ''consecutive'' times; more often the speakers pause for a relatively long time before completing the triad, because a part of them really ''doesn't'' want Beetlejuice to show up.
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* In the wake of the tremendous success of TimBurton's Creator/TimBurton's ''{{Beetlejuice}}'' in 1988, the phrase "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!" became a well-known MemeticMutation. Problem is, while a number of characters in the movie do say "Beetlejuice" three times (or at least attempt to), on only ''one'' occasion is the name said three ''consecutive'' times; more often the speakers pause for a relatively long time before completing the triad, because a part of them really ''doesn't'' want Beetlejuice to show up.
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* ClintEastwood didn't say "Do you feel lucky, punk?" in ''Film/DirtyHarry''. He said, "You'd better ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well do you, punk?"
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* ClintEastwood Creator/ClintEastwood didn't say "Do you feel lucky, punk?" in ''Film/DirtyHarry''. He said, "You'd better ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well do you, punk?"
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* An inversion: sometimes Greta Garbo's quote "I want to be alone" is said to have never been said, or to have only been used in an interview. But it actually does appear in one of her movies: ''GrandHotel''.
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* An inversion: sometimes Greta Garbo's Creator/GretaGarbo's quote "I want to be alone" is said to have never been said, or to have only been used in an interview. But it actually does appear in one of her movies: ''GrandHotel''.
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* ''Film/FlashGordon'': Vultan's line ''GORDON'S ALIVE!!!'' is regularly quoted as a triumphant cry, and has become a CatchPhrase of BrianBlessed himself. In the actual movie, however, Vultan expresses the line with (for Brian Blessed) quiet incredulity.
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* Though RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain is attributed to ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead'' and even credits it as its TropeNamer, the line was actually first spoken in ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead''. The 1985 horror comedy ''Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead'' comes close, but it only mentions that in ''Night'', they killed the zombies by "[destroying] the brain", and here, removing the head only comes after destroying the brain proves to be unsuccessful (not that it was any more so). The actual quote from ''Night'' goes "Kill the brain, and you kill the ghoul." The closest any of GeorgeARomero's films gets to using the line is in ''Film/DawnOfTheDead'', where, during a news report early on, an expert on the subject of zombie survival says, "A dead body must be exterminated either by destroying the brain or severing the brain from the rest of the body."
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* Though RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain is attributed to ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead'' and even credits it as its TropeNamer, the line was actually first spoken in ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead''. The 1985 horror comedy ''Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead'' comes close, but it only mentions that in ''Night'', they killed the zombies by "[destroying] the brain", and here, removing the head only comes after destroying the brain proves to be unsuccessful (not that it was any more so). The actual quote from ''Night'' goes "Kill the brain, and you kill the ghoul." The closest any of GeorgeARomero's George Romero's films gets to using the line is in ''Film/DawnOfTheDead'', where, during a news report early on, an expert on the subject of zombie survival says, "A dead body must be exterminated either by destroying the brain or severing the brain from the rest of the body."
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* Though RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain is attributed to ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead'' and even credits it as its TropeNamer, the line was actually first spoken in ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead''. The 1985 horror comedy ''Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead'' comes close, but it only mentions that in ''Night'', they killed the zombies by "[destroying] the brain", and here, removing the head only comes after destroying the brain proves to be unsuccessful (not that it was any more so). The actual quote from ''Night'' goes "Kill the brain, and you kill the ghoul." The closest any of GeorgeRomero's films gets to using the line is in ''Film/DawnOfTheDead'', where, during a news report early on, an expert on the subject of zombie survival says, "A dead body must be exterminated either by destroying the brain or severing the brain from the rest of the body."
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* Though RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain is attributed to ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead'' and even credits it as its TropeNamer, the line was actually first spoken in ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead''. The 1985 horror comedy ''Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead'' comes close, but it only mentions that in ''Night'', they killed the zombies by "[destroying] the brain", and here, removing the head only comes after destroying the brain proves to be unsuccessful (not that it was any more so). The actual quote from ''Night'' goes "Kill the brain, and you kill the ghoul." The closest any of GeorgeRomero's GeorgeARomero's films gets to using the line is in ''Film/DawnOfTheDead'', where, during a news report early on, an expert on the subject of zombie survival says, "A dead body must be exterminated either by destroying the brain or severing the brain from the rest of the body."
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* Though RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain is attributed to ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead'' and even credits it as its TropeNamer, the line was actually first spoken in ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead''. The 1985 horror comedy ''Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead'' comes close, but it only mentions that in ''Night'', they killed the zombies by "[destroying] the brain", and here, removing the head only comes after destroying the brain proves to be unsuccessful (not that it was any more so). The actual quote from ''Night'' goes "Kill the brain, and you kill the ghoul." The closest any of Creator/GeorgeARomero's films gets to using the line is in ''Film/DawnOfTheDead'', where, during a news report early on, an expert on the subject of zombie survival says, "A dead body must be exterminated either by destroying the brain or severing the brain from the rest of the body."
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* Though RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain is attributed to ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead'' and even credits it as its TropeNamer, the line was actually first spoken in ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead''. The 1985 horror comedy ''Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead'' comes close, but it only mentions that in ''Night'', they killed the zombies by "[destroying] the brain", and here, removing the head only comes after destroying the brain proves to be unsuccessful (not that it was any more so). The actual quote from ''Night'' goes "Kill the brain, and you kill the ghoul." The closest any of Creator/GeorgeARomero's GeorgeRomero's films gets to using the line is in ''Film/DawnOfTheDead'', where, during a news report early on, an expert on the subject of zombie survival says, "A dead body must be exterminated either by destroying the brain or severing the brain from the rest of the body."
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* Though RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain is attributed to ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead'' and even credits it as its TropeNamer, the line was actually first spoken in ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead''. The 1985 horror comedy ''Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead'' comes close, but it only mentions that in ''Night'', they killed the zombies by "[destroying] the brain", and here, removing the head only comes after destroying the brain proves to be unsuccessful (not that it was any more so). The actual quote from ''Night'' goes "Kill the brain, and you kill the ghoul." The closest any of Creator/GeorgeRomero's films gets to using the line is in ''Film/DawnOfTheDead'', where, during a news report early on, an expert on the subject of zombie survival says, "A dead body must be exterminated either by destroying the brain or severing the brain from the rest of the body."
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* Though RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain is attributed to ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead'' and even credits it as its TropeNamer, the line was actually first spoken in ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead''. The 1985 horror comedy ''Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead'' comes close, but it only mentions that in ''Night'', they killed the zombies by "[destroying] the brain", and here, removing the head only comes after destroying the brain proves to be unsuccessful (not that it was any more so). The actual quote from ''Night'' goes "Kill the brain, and you kill the ghoul." The closest any of Creator/GeorgeRomero's Creator/GeorgeARomero's films gets to using the line is in ''Film/DawnOfTheDead'', where, during a news report early on, an expert on the subject of zombie survival says, "A dead body must be exterminated either by destroying the brain or severing the brain from the rest of the body."
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* Though RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain is attributed to ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead'' and even credits it as its TropeNamer, the line was actually first spoken in ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead''. The 1985 horror comedy ''Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead'' comes close, but it only mentions that in ''Night'', they killed the zombies by "[destroying] the brain", and here, removing the head only comes after destroying the brain proves to be unsuccessful (not that it was any more so). The actual quote from ''Night'' goes "Kill the brain, and you kill the ghoul." The closest any of Creator/GeorgeRomero's films gets to using the line is in ''Film/DawnOfTheDead'', where, during a news report early on, an expert on the subject of zombie survival says, "A dead body must be exterminated either by destroying the brain or severing the brain from the rest of the body."
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** Luke's line is often misquoted as "YouKilledMyFather"
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* JackNicholson's memorable line from ''AFewGoodMen'' is frequently misquoted in parodies as "You want the truth? You can't handle the truth." The dialogue between Nicholson and TomCruise actually goes, "You want answers?" "I want the truth!" "You can't handle the truth!"
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* JackNicholson's Creator/JackNicholson's memorable line from ''AFewGoodMen'' ''Film/AFewGoodMen'' is frequently misquoted in parodies as "You want the truth? You can't handle the truth." The dialogue between Nicholson and TomCruise actually goes, "You want answers?" "I want the truth!" "You can't handle the truth!"
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* The most infamous quote from ''Film/MommieDearest'' is often rendered as "''No more wire hangers!''" when in reality the quote is a very hammy "''No wire hangers '''EVAAAAR'''!!!''" (or simply "''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis No...more...]] '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis HANGEEERS!!!]]'''''")
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* The most infamous quote from ''Film/MommieDearest'' ''Literature/MommieDearest'' is often rendered as "''No more wire hangers!''" when in reality the quote is a very hammy "''No wire hangers '''EVAAAAR'''!!!''" (or simply "''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis No...more...]] '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis HANGEEERS!!!]]'''''")
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** Also, he doesn't say "goddammit", either. The line is 'Dammit, Fred! Dammit!"
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** Also, he doesn't say "goddammit", either. The line is 'Dammit, Fred! Dammit!"
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At one point Jack (as Joker) tells Bruce Wayne \"You ever dance with the devil IN the pale monlight?\", so this technically doesn\'t count.
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* In the 1989 ''Film/{{Batman}}'' movie, Batman does this in the movie: when Jack Napier kills his parents at the beginning, he asks young Bruce Wayne if he's ever danced with the devil BY the pale moonlight. Later on when Batman confronts Joker (Napier), he asks him if he's ever danced with the devil IN the pale moonlight. Even {{IMDB}} misses this one for some reason, but "by" and "in" are interchanged in the otherwise identical statements.
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* Literature/{{Tarzan}} never said "Me, Tarzan. You, Jane." Johnny Weissmueller, star of a series of Tarzan movies, gave the phrase in an interview as an indication of the ''kind'' of dialogue he was being given, but even he didn't say that exact phrase in any of the movies. This was probably paraphrased from a scene from the 1932 ''Tarzan, the Ape Man'':
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* Literature/{{Tarzan}} never said "Me, Tarzan. You, Jane." Johnny Weissmueller, star of a series of Tarzan movies, gave the phrase in an interview as an indication of the ''kind'' of dialogue he was being given, but even he didn't say that exact phrase in any of the movies.movies ([[http://openjurist.org/683/f2d/610/burroughs-v-metro-goldwyn-mayer-inc a fact notable enough to be mentioned in court proceedings regarding the film]]). This was probably paraphrased from a scene from the 1932 ''Tarzan, the Ape Man'':
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* "Come with me to the Casbah [...] we'll make beautiful music together" is not from the film ''Algiers'' (1938), but from a Yosemite Sam/Pepe [=LePew=] cartoon.
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* Neither JeanGabin in ''PepeLeMoko'' (1937) nor CharlesBoyer in ''{{Algiers}}'' (1938) says "Come with me to the Casbah [...] we'll make beautiful music together" is not from the film ''Algiers'' (1938), but together...." It comes from a Yosemite Sam/Pepe [=LePew=] cartoon.
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** The line can be heard at the start of ''MagnumForce''.
** Eastwood ''did'' in fact say "Go ahead, make my day!", but that line was uttered in the third sequel, ''SuddenImpact'', and not the original ''Dirty Harry'' film, as most believe.
** Eastwood ''did'' in fact say "Go ahead, make my day!", but that line was uttered in the third sequel, ''SuddenImpact'', and not the original ''Dirty Harry'' film, as most believe.
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** The line can be heard at the start of ''MagnumForce''.
''Film/MagnumForce''.
** Eastwood ''did'' in fact say "Go ahead, make my day!", but that line was uttered in the third sequel,''SuddenImpact'', ''Film/SuddenImpact'', and not the original ''Dirty Harry'' film, as most believe.
** Eastwood ''did'' in fact say "Go ahead, make my day!", but that line was uttered in the third sequel,
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* Contrary to what ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' fans may think, Jaime Escalante doesn't say "How do I reach these kids?" in ''StandAndDeliver''.
* In ''TropicThunder'', Kirk Lazarus is often misattributed as saying "N****, you just went full retard." The actual conversation went as follows:
* In ''TropicThunder'', Kirk Lazarus is often misattributed as saying "N****, you just went full retard." The actual conversation went as follows:
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* Contrary to what ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' fans may think, Jaime Escalante doesn't say "How do I reach these kids?" in ''StandAndDeliver''.
''Film/StandAndDeliver''.
* In''TropicThunder'', ''Film/TropicThunder'', Kirk Lazarus is often misattributed as saying "N****, you just went full retard." The actual conversation went as follows:
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* In ''HappyGilmore'', Bob Barker is attributed to say "The price is wrong, bitch!" It's Happy (Creator/AdamSandler) who exclaims this line. Bob later says "Now you've had enough... [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]."
* ''JerryMaguire'': The infamous "You had me at hello" line is not spoken by the title character, but rather by Dorothy Boyd, played by Renée Zellweger.
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* In ''HappyGilmore'', ''Film/HappyGilmore'', Bob Barker is attributed to say "The price is wrong, bitch!" It's Happy (Creator/AdamSandler) who exclaims this line. Bob later says "Now you've had enough... [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]."
*''JerryMaguire'': ''Film/JerryMaguire'': The infamous "You had me at hello" line is not spoken by the title character, but rather by Dorothy Boyd, played by Renée Zellweger.
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* Biff Tannen in ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' doesn't ever actually say "Hello [=McFly=]", instead he repeats "Hello, hello, anybody in there? Think [=McFly=], think." A child character misquoting this line in the later movie ''Film/{{Jack}}'' is to blame for this.
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* Biff Tannen in ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' doesn't ever actually say "Hello [=McFly=]", instead he repeats "Hello, hello, anybody in there? Think [=McFly=], think." A child character misquoting this line in the later movie ''Film/{{Jack}}'' ''Film/{{Jack|1996}}'' is to blame for this.
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* The oft-quoted scene from ''CrocodileDundee'' or rather, oft-misquoted: "That's not a knife. This is a knife" actually goes:
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* The oft-quoted scene from ''CrocodileDundee'' or rather, oft-misquoted: "That's not a knife. knife/You call that a knife? This is a knife" actually goes:
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* People quoting the Georgie scene from ''[[Main/{{It}} Stephen King's It]]'' always say "Everything floats down here", which he doesn't even come close to saying. True he says the line "They ''all'' float down here", but that's much later in the film.
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** Yes, that line is heard. The Mariner says " Dry land is a myth." She says "I've seen it. It was in a basket we found in No Land. Dirt richer and darker than yours."
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** Yes, that line is heard. Actual quote: The Mariner says " Dry land is a myth." She says "I've seen it. It was in a basket we found in No Land. Dirt richer and darker than yours."
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* Biff Tannen in ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' doesn't ever actually say "Hello [=McFly=]", instead he repeats "Hello, hello, anybody in there? Think [=McFly=], think." A child character misquoting this line in the later movie ''{{Jack}}'' is to blame for this.
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* Biff Tannen in ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' doesn't ever actually say "Hello [=McFly=]", instead he repeats "Hello, hello, anybody in there? Think [=McFly=], think." A child character misquoting this line in the later movie ''{{Jack}}'' ''Film/{{Jack}}'' is to blame for this.
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I think everyone already knows this.
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** Also, the line from A New Hope is "These AREN'T the droids you're looking for", not "These ARE NOT the droids you're looking for".
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* In ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', the line is "'''You're''' gonna need a bigger boat?", not "We're gonna need a bigger boat." The presence of Brody (the speaker) on the boat as well undoubtedly contributes to the confusion. And it's not a deadpan remark in response to seeing the size of the shark - it's actually posed as a question, as in "You're gonna need a bigger boat, right?" in response to hearing the plan to catch the shark.
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* In ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', the line is "'''You're''' gonna need a bigger boat?", boat", not "We're gonna need a bigger boat." The presence of Brody (the speaker) on the boat as well undoubtedly contributes to the confusion. And it's not a deadpan remark in response to seeing the size of the shark - it's actually posed as a question, as in "You're gonna need a bigger boat, right?" in response to hearing the plan to catch the shark.
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** West did say this in a movie, but not until 1978, when she was 85 years old. She asks "Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?" in the movie ''Sextette''. You can see it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC9dde6NXIY here]], with the line around 9:15.
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** West did say this in a movie, but not until 1978, when she was 85 years old. She asks "Is that a gun pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?" in the movie ''Sextette''. You can see it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC9dde6NXIY here]], with the line around 9:15.9:13.
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* Many people associate the phrase "ladies and germs" with the movie OsmosisJones. This was never said in the movie itself. (Not to mention, the term was around ''long'' before 2001.)
* Many people think Zoozie of TheOogieloves said "This is the greatest movie ever!" before the movie started. She actually said "This is the most amazing movie ever!"
** Also, many are confused over the correct wording of the movie's PhraseCatcher. It varies from "Goofy Toofie, pull up your pants!" to "Goofy Toofie, pick up your pants!".
* Many people think Zoozie of TheOogieloves said "This is the greatest movie ever!" before the movie started. She actually said "This is the most amazing movie ever!"
** Also, many are confused over the correct wording of the movie's PhraseCatcher. It varies from "Goofy Toofie, pull up your pants!" to "Goofy Toofie, pick up your pants!".
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* Many people associate the phrase "ladies and germs" with the movie OsmosisJones. This was never said in the movie itself. (Not to mention, the term was [[OlderThanTelevision around ''long'' before 2001.)
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* Many people think Zoozie ofTheOogieloves TheOogielovesInTheBigBalloonAdventure said "This is the greatest movie ever!" before the movie started. She actually said "This is the most amazing movie ever!"
** Also, manyare confused over the correct wording of people quote the movie's PhraseCatcher. It varies from PhraseCatcher as "Goofy Toofie, pull up your pants!" to rather than "Goofy Toofie, pick up your pants!".pants!", the way it was actually said in the film.
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** In his American Pie/Star Wars parody, Weird Al uses the line "A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far away..."
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** In his American Pie/Star Wars parody, Weird Al uses the line "A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far away...""
*** Though that's probably less of a misquote and more because the opening lyrics of American Pie are "A long, long time ago".
*** Though that's probably less of a misquote and more because the opening lyrics of American Pie are "A long, long time ago".
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*** Though that's probably less of a misquote and more because the opening lyrics of American Pie are "A long, long time ago".
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* In the trailer of ''Film/ThreeHundred'', the quote "Spartans! Ready your breakfast and eat hearty, for tonight, we dine IN HELL!" is abridged to the often-quoted, "Spartans! Tonight, we dine IN HELL!"
* Rorschach lines from the opening monologue of ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' is often misquoted (thanks to the trailer) as "The world will look up and shout 'Save us!'... and I'll whisper 'no.'" The line in the actual film is: "All the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'Save us!' and I'll whisper 'No.'", but it was slightly censored for the [[NeverTrustATrailer trailer]]. The original line is slightly different: "[A]nd I'll look down and whisper 'No.'"
* JackNicholson's memorable line from ''AFewGoodMen'' is frequently misquoted in parodies as "You want the truth? You can't handle the truth." The dialogue between Nicholson and TomCruise actually goes, "You want answers?" "I want the truth!" "You can't handle the truth!"
* ''Film/TaxiDriver'': the monologue is ''"You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talking... you talking to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're talking to? Oh yeah? OK."'' People often get it wrong.
* ''... AndJusticeForAll'': Pacino doesn't say "I'm out of order? You're out of order! This whole court is out of order!"; it's "'''You're''' out of order! You're out of order! The whole '''trial''' is out of order! '''They're''' out of order!"
* "Play it again, Sam", (not) from ''Film/{{Casablanca}}.'' The actual quote is:
-->'''Rick:''' You know what I want to hear.\\
'''Sam:''' ''[lying]'' No, I don't.\\
'''Rick:''' You played it for her, you can play it for me!\\
'''Sam:''' ''[lying]'' Well, I don't think I can remember...\\
'''Rick:''' If she can stand it, I can! Play it!
** Earlier in the film, Ilsa (Rick's love interest) also entreats him to "Play it, Sam." But so many people remembered it as "Play it again, Sam" that Creator/WoodyAllen used that phrase as the name of his [[PlayItAgainSam homage to Bogart and the movie]].
* At no point in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' does Darth Vader say "LukeIAmYourFather." His actual line was:
-->'''Darth Vader:''' Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.\\
'''Luke:''' He told me enough! He told me ''you'' killed him!\\
'''Darth Vader:''' No -- ''I'' am your father.
** In the NPR radio dramatization, however, Vader does indeed say "No, Luke, I am your father."
** The manner in which Vader says the line and the emphasis on words is usually done wrong in parodies and spoofs. Vader puts emphasis on "I", not "am." He also says the line in a quiet, chilling manner, not the loud and dramatic fashion usually seen in imitations. Also, Luke's BigNo comes ''before'' he falls down the shaft.
*** Demonstrated [[http://wayofthemetagamer.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/30020 here]] in ''TheWayOfTheMetagamer''.
** In the making-of documentary ''Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy'', James Earl Jones himself misquotes his famous line as "Luke, I am your father". It seems "Luke, I am your father" has become so popular that even ''the guy who said the original line in the movie'' doesn't remember it correctly.
** Likewise, Obi-Wan Kenobi never says "May the Force be with you" to Luke (except in the trailer). Obi-Wan's line is, "The Force will be with you, always." A bunch of other characters ''do'' say "May the Force be with you," though. The first person to actually say "May the Force be with you" is General Dodonna after the briefing on Yavin 4, and the character it's usually next most attributed to is Han Solo (who did say it to Luke just before the Death Star mission, and again in ''Empire'').
** The first title card always reads "''A long time ago'' in a galaxy far, far away...." "Long, long ago" is seen in the inside cover of a few novels, but never in the films.
** In his American Pie/Star Wars parody, Weird Al uses the line "A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far away..."
** Also, the line from A New Hope is "These AREN'T the droids you're looking for", not "These ARE NOT the droids you're looking for".
*** Though that's probably less of a misquote and more because the opening lyrics of American Pie are "A long, long time ago".
* ''FortySecondStreet'': "But you keep your feet on the ground and your head on those shoulders of yours and go out, and, Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!'' is misquoted in many ways, e.g. "You're going out (there) a youngster, but you're coming back a star!", "You're going out (on that stage) a nobody, (kid), but you're coming back a star!", or "You're going out a chorus girl, but you're coming back a star!"
** In the stage version, though, it's "You're going out ''there'' a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!", so that technically is a correct quote...
* It's sometimes claimed that in ''BrideOfTheMonster'', Creator/BelaLugosi said his manservant Lobo (Tor Johnson) was "as harmless as a kitchen" [sic] as a sign of his diminished faculties and/or Wood's incompetent direction. But actually, he says the line fine: "Don't be afraid of Lobo; he's as gentle as a kitten."
* Quite possibly, the most famous line from ''Film/{{Waterworld}}'' is, "Dry land is not a myth, I've seen it!" And yet, the line is never heard anywhere, in any form in the entire movie.
** It is, however, present in the Universal Studios water show based on the movie, which has been seen by many more people.
** Yes, that line is heard. The Mariner says " Dry land is a myth." She says "I've seen it. It was in a basket we found in No Land. Dirt richer and darker than yours."
* Creator/BramStoker's original ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' never said the line "[[VampireVords I vont to suck your blood!]]", or anything like it. He was much too sophisticated, and had an English accent. It wasn't until Bela Lugosi played Dracula that the accent became forever rooted in our memory, but even then, the line is not spoken.
** This applies to imitations of many lines Lugosi did say, because Lugosi never pronounced ''w'' as a ''v'' but rather as ''wh''.
* ''Knute Rockne: All-American'': Knute Rockne says "And the last thing he said to me, 'Rock,' he said, 'sometime when the team is up against it and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go out there with all they got and '''win just one for the Gipper'''." Often quoted as "Win one for [[RonaldReagan the Gipper]]," or "Win this one for the Gipper."
* ''Lives of a Bengal Lancer'' (1935): it's "We have ways of making '''men''' talk," not "WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk." However, the latter has become a StockPhrase, and relatively few people have heard of the movie.
* Literature/{{Tarzan}} never said "Me, Tarzan. You, Jane." Johnny Weissmueller, star of a series of Tarzan movies, gave the phrase in an interview as an indication of the ''kind'' of dialogue he was being given, but even he didn't say that exact phrase in any of the movies. This was probably paraphrased from a scene from the 1932 ''Tarzan, the Ape Man'':
-->'''Jane:''' (pointing to herself) Jane.
-->'''Tarzan:''' (he points at her) Jane.
-->'''Jane:''' And you? (she points at him) You?
-->'''Tarzan:''' (stabbing himself proudly in the chest) Tarzan, Tarzan.
-->'''Jane:''' (emphasizing his correct response) Tarzan.
-->'''Tarzan:''' (poking back and forth each time) Jane. Tarzan. Jane. Tarzan?
* The oft-quoted scene from ''CrocodileDundee'' or rather, oft-misquoted: "That's not a knife. This is a knife" actually goes:
-->'''Sue:''' "He's got a knife!"\\
'''Crocodile Dundee:''' ''(Laughs)'' "That's not a knife." (Draws large bowie knife) "''That's'' a knife."
* The line "My God, it's full of stars" is never said or sort-of said in the movie ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''. The closest the movie gets to this line is in a moment toward the end when a starfield bursts onto the screen, but not a single word is spoken during this [[TrippyFinaleSyndrome light show]] (or after it, for that matter). The line ''does'' appear in Arthur C. Clarke's novel (part of the same project), and the film version of ''TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact''.
** In addition, the very famous and oft-quoted line "I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Dave" never appears in ''2001''. Rather HAL says "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that" and later says "I'm afraid, Dave" when being disconnected. And before that, he does say "I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen."
** And as if there weren't enough misquotations, the line, "Good morning Dave" is never uttered. "Good '''evening''' Dave" and "Good '''afternoon gentlemen'''" on the other hand are.
** "Will I dream?" This quote is often misattributed to ''2001'' (it's actually from the sequel ''2010'') and/or misquoted as "Dave, will I dream?" or "Will I dream, Dave?" In the movie, HAL addresses this question not to Dave but to Dr. Chandra.
* JohnWayne did not say, "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do" in ''Hondo''. It's actually, "A man oughta do what he thinks is best".
** There is a line much closer to this from a classic Western, though not one with JohnWayne: Alan Ladd says "A man's gotta be what a man's gotta be" in ''{{Shane}}''.
* ''Film/TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre'' never featured the line "We don't need no stinking badges!" The actual lines are:
-->'''Bandit:''' We are ''[[GratuitousSpanish federales]]''. You know, the mounted police.\\
'''Dobbs:''' If you're the police, where are your badges?\\
'''Bandit:''' Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!
** That said, if someone says, "We don't need no stinking badges!" they ''are'' quoting a movie: ''Film/BlazingSaddles''.
** Another one -- Bogart never says "Can you help a fellow American who's down on his luck?" That's from the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon short ''8 Ball Bunny''. The actual line is: "Say, mister, care to stake a fellow American to a meal?"
* In no film did JamesCagney ever say "You dirty rat!" This is a misquote of a line from the 1931 film ''Blonde Crazy'', where he refers to another character as "that dirty double-crossing rat".
** At his AFI lifetime achievement award show in 1974, Cagney set the record straight before quickly proceeding to parody the trope (see "Judy, Judy, Judy" below).
* Nor did CaryGrant ever say "Judy, Judy, Judy". Apparently, comedian Larry Storch was doing a Cary Grant impersonation in a nightclub when JudyGarland walked in. He greeted her from the stage in character and it somehow became part of the Grant mystique, mystifying even Cary, himself.
** It may have come from Cary Grant's film ''Only Angels Have Wings'' where Rita Hayworth's character is named Judy. Grant never repeats it in a row as in the quote but he says it a lot.
** In an acceptance speech for the American Film Institute's lifetime achievement award, Cagney ribbed impressionist Frank Gorshin (and poked fun at the often misattributed line) by saying "And, Frank, I never said 'Ooh, you dirty rat.' What I really said was 'Judy, Judy, Judy!'"
* Tony Curtis never said "Yonda liez da castle of me faddah". In ''Son of Ali Baba'', he said "Yonder lies the valley of the sun and beyond, the castle of my father."
** He's also quoted, in ''The Black Shield of Falworth'', as saying "We have come ta storm da castle", which is where the line in ''ThePrincessBride'' comes from.
* Mae West never said "Come up and see me sometime." The actual line, from the 1933 film ''She Done Him Wrong'', is "Why don't you come up some time, see me?" which mostly just moves words around but really changes the emphasis.
** Mae West didn't say "Is that a gun in your pocket OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe" in any film. It's sometimes said to be in ''She Done Him Wrong'', but actually she said it in RealLife to a policeman who was escorting her.
** West did say this in a movie, but not until 1978, when she was 85 years old. She asks "Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?" in the movie ''Sextette''. You can see it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC9dde6NXIY here]], with the line around 9:15.
* It's often said (rather inaccurately) that "Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, except backwards and in high heels." The original quote is from a 1982 ''FrankAndErnest'' cartoon:
--> Sure he was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did, backwards... and in high heels.
* Smith's monologue in ''Film/TheMatrix'' is often misquoted: "Human beings are a virus," or "Human beings are a disease, and we are the cure." Agent Smith's speech patterns make it easy to misquote.
-->I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species, and I found that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move into an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural existing resource is consumed, and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. ''Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.''
** May [[JustifiedTrope account]] for some confusion that at least one of the [[NeverTrustATrailer trailers]] cut this speech down to "Human beings are a disease ... and we are the cure."
** While not a line of dialogue, the iconic BulletTime sequence with Neo dodging the bullets actually has the bullets graze and hurt him - nearly every parody of this scene has the character elegantly avoid harm, unless the joke is that they get harmed regardless.
** Additionally, Morpheus never has a line beginning with "What if I told you..." at any point in the film, MemeticMutation to the contrary.
* ClintEastwood didn't say "Do you feel lucky, punk?" in ''Film/DirtyHarry''. He said, "You'd better ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well do you, punk?"
** And he says it ''two'' distinctly different ways, one at the very beginning of the movie, and then again at the very end. The first time, he says it so the gunman will think he has more ammo and will drop his weapon (he's out of bullets). The second time, he states it so the AxCrazy villain will try him (he has another bullet left).
** The line can be heard at the start of ''MagnumForce''.
** Eastwood ''did'' in fact say "Go ahead, make my day!", but that line was uttered in the third sequel, ''SuddenImpact'', and not the original ''Dirty Harry'' film, as most believe.
** Speaking of Eastwood, in ''Film/HighPlainsDrifter'' he doesn't say, "I'm faster than you'll ever live to be." He actually says, "''A lot'' faster than you'll ever live to be."
* The line from ''WhiteHeat'' is not "Top of the world, Ma!"; it's "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!" LexLuthor misquotes it in the 1st season finale of ''Series/LoisAndClark'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has done it a few times.
* ''{{Clerks}}'' has Randal quoting ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'' with "No time for love, Doctor Jones!". But Short Round's actual line was "Hey, Dr. Jones, no time for love."
* ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon'': Bogie says "The stuff that dreams are made of" at the end, not "It's the stuff that dreams are made of".
** This in turn is a variant of "... such stuff / As dreams are made on," from Shakespeare's ''Theatre/TheTempest''.
* Classic Western ''The Virginian'': Gary Cooper's taunting line was not, "Smile when you call me that!" or "When ya call me that, smile!" but "If you wanna call me that, smile." Easy to get confused, because in the original novel, he says "When you call me that -- ''smile''!"
* An inversion: sometimes Greta Garbo's quote "I want to be alone" is said to have never been said, or to have only been used in an interview. But it actually does appear in one of her movies: ''GrandHotel''.
** She said "I want to be left alone" (i.e., live a normal life without mobs of fans and paparazzi) in an interview, around the time ''Grand Hotel'' was made. Later, she had to clarify the difference between the film and reality.
** Ginger Rogers, of all people, says "I want to be alone!" on a train with a thick Swedish accent in the film ''The Major and the Minor''. So apparently Creator/BillyWilder heard Greta wrong too.
* Creator/AlfredHitchcock is supposed to have said, "Actors are cattle." However, as he himself put it, "What I said was that all actors should be ''treated'' like cattle." He corrected himself after Carole Lombard, hearing him make the comment on the set of ''MrAndMrsSmith'', set up an actual stable in the middle of the shooting set and put cattle in it with signs around the necks of the animals with the actors names on them.
* In ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', Mr. Freeze utters dozens of ice- and snow-related puns. "Ice to meet you" is not one of them. The line "Ice to ''see'' you" was previously used by [=McBain=] in a spoof of Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger's action films in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. And that line never appeared in the movie itself or the trailer.
* SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker as portrayed by Creator/HeathLedger in Creator/ChristopherNolan's ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' is often mis-quoted as asking "Do I look like a man with a plan?", when Harvey Dent says that [[spoiler: his (Harvey's) disfigurement and the death of Rachel Dawes]] was part of his (the Joker's) plan, most likely because people associate the rhyming words "man" and "plan". The quote is, however: "Do I really look like a guy with a plan?"
** Yet another from Nolan's Joker is his famous magic trick. Many seem to think it was "Wanna see a magic trick?" as though he walked into the room full of mob bosses as a living BigLippedAlligatorMoment. Instead it was more of a bizzare response to Gambol's question of "Give me a reason why I shouldn't have my boy pull your head off?" And the Joker's was "How about a magic trick?"
** His line from the hospital scene is often made into image macros, with the phrase "nobody bats an eye". Although that would have been a neat pun, that is not what he said. This is the actual quote:
-->"If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it’s all ‘part of the plan’. But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds!"
** In ''[[Film/TheDarkKnightRises Rises]]'', Bane's line to the defeated Batman is actually "We will destroy Gotham. And then, when it is done, and Gotham is ashes... Then you have my permission to die." The trailer shortened it to "When Gotham is ashes, you have my permission to die" and that's what MemeticMutation took hold of.
* In the 1989 ''Film/{{Batman}}'' movie, Batman does this in the movie: when Jack Napier kills his parents at the beginning, he asks young Bruce Wayne if he's ever danced with the devil BY the pale moonlight. Later on when Batman confronts Joker (Napier), he asks him if he's ever danced with the devil IN the pale moonlight. Even {{IMDB}} misses this one for some reason, but "by" and "in" are interchanged in the otherwise identical statements.
* "Come with me to the Casbah [...] we'll make beautiful music together" is not from the film ''Algiers'' (1938), but from a Yosemite Sam/Pepe [=LePew=] cartoon.
** No-one in ''Algiers'' utters the "Come with me" line, though HedyLamarr's Gaby does ask Charles Boyer's Pepe le Moko, "Can't you leave the Casbah?" The "beautiful music" part doesn't even come from the same movie, but from 1936's ''The General Died At Dawn'', in which Gary Cooper says to Madeline Carroll, "We could make beautiful music together."
* Not a quote, but the image from ''HomeAlone'' of Kevin [=McCallister=] with his hands to his cheeks, screaming, isn't because he has realized he has been left home alone, but because he has stung himself with aftershave. The false image comes from a trailer where the commentary mentions his being left home... alone, and then the hand-on-face scream bit.
** It doesn't help that the posters for the movie have him front and center, doing the hand-on-face scream (and wearing a sweater as opposed to a bath towel) with burglars Harry and Marv grinning in a menacing fashion behind him.
** Further adding to this is that the cover for ''Home Alone 4'' again shows [=McCallister=] with his hands to his cheeks, screaming, with the two burglars staring on menacingly. This time around, the hands-on-cheeks screaming doesn't even happen anywhere in the actual film.
* [[Creator/SamuelLJackson Jules Winnfield's]] famous hamburger speech from ''Film/PulpFiction'' is often misquoted (by putting words or phrases in the wrong order) or quoted correctly but used in the wrong context:
-->'''Jules:''' "What country you from?!"
-->'''Brett:''' W-what?
-->'''Jules:''' 'What' ain't no country ''I'' ever heard of! They speak English in 'what'?
-->'''Brett:''' ...what?
-->'''Jules:''' ENGLISH, MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU SPEAK IT?!
** The last line is often misquoted as "English, do you speak it, motherfucker?" Regarding context, Jules is sarcastically demanding that Brett give him a clearer answer than "what," but the line is often used in real life against people who are literally not speaking English well or at all.
*** The HilariousOuttakes from ''Film/TheAvengers'' has Clark Gregg hilariously misquoting it as "I said what, motherfucker", just because Creator/SamuelLJackson was in the movie.
** Jules has his own Beam Me Up Scotty with the Bible. The entire verse of Ezekiel 25:17 goes, from start to finish, "And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them."
*** While this is indeed an example of this trope, it's not because the passage doesn't match up to the Bible, but because it doesn't match up to the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LYT4JC2dd4 introduction to Sonny Chiba's ]]''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LYT4JC2dd4 The Bodyguard]]'', from which this passage (as well as its attribution as Ezekiel 25:17) is lifted almost exactly. The use in ''The Bodyguard'' would be a misquote of the Bible, translations and mistranslations aside.
** In an example that's made its way into a trope name, IJustShotMarvinInTheFace is actually "Aw man... I shot Marvin in the face..." with no "just"
* In ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', the line is "'''You're''' gonna need a bigger boat?", not "We're gonna need a bigger boat." The presence of Brody (the speaker) on the boat as well undoubtedly contributes to the confusion. And it's not a deadpan remark in response to seeing the size of the shark - it's actually posed as a question, as in "You're gonna need a bigger boat, right?" in response to hearing the plan to catch the shark.
** Also, the quote "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water" is sometimes attributed to this movie. In fact, it's the tagline to the sequel, hence the part about going ''back'' in the water.
* No ''Film/JamesBond'' villain has ''ever'' said: "Good evening, Mr. Bond. We've been expecting you." Bits of it, yes, and sometimes they were said by other people, but never the entire quote. For example, one of ''Film/DrNo'''s henchmen shouts "We've been expecting you!" Blofeld says "We've been expecting you" in ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'', and a minute later says "Good evening, Mr. Bond."
** Bond doesn't actually say "The name's Bond, James Bond" that often either ("[[TheNameIsBondJamesBond Bond... James Bond]]" however is in practically every film) and orders vodka martinis rarely too.
*** Although, in some films, he does say "''My'' name ''is'' Bond, James Bond"--for example, at the start of ''Diamonds'', while he's questioning the Egyptian's mistress about the whereabouts of Blofeld.
* ''{{Zulu}}'': the line isn't "Zulus. Thousands of 'em.", but "The sentries report Zulus '''to the south west'''. Thousands of '''them'''." Also, MichaelCaine (Lt. Bromhead) doesn't say it; it's Color Sergeant Bourne, played by Nigel Greene.
* Scarlett O'Hara says "Tomorrow '''is''' another day", not "Tomorrow's another day" at the end of ''GoneWithTheWind''.
** Rhett Butler's memorable final line, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," is sometimes misquoted as "Frankly, Scarlett, I don't give a damn." The misquotation has appeared in several places where the line was used comically, including ''Film/{{Clue}}'' and an episode of ''MamasFamily''.
** Used to a great comedic effect in [[http://pearlswine.livejournal.com/514708.html a Sunday comic]] of ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine.
** In the actual book, however, the line is simply "My dear, I don't give a damn" (with no "frankly").
** Not a line quoted particularly often, but "I don't know nothin' about birthin' babies" is sometimes changed to "I don't know nothing about birthin' ''no baby''."
* ''TheGraduate'': "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. [awkward pause] Aren't you?" is misquoted as "Are you trying to seduce me, Mrs. Robinson?"
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' - it's not uncommon for Théoden's pre-charge speeches to be merged when quoted. The line from ''The Two Towers'' is "Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath. Now for ruin. And the red dawn!" and the line from ''The Return of the King'' is "Ride now, ride now, ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending!" What you often get is combinations of the two, such as "Ride for wrath, ride for ruin and the red dawn/the world's ending" and "Now for wrath, now for ruin and the world's ending."
** "Fell deeds awake" is taken from the verses spoken by Théoden at Edoras in ''The Two Towers'':
--->Arise now, arise, Riders of Théoden!\\
Dire deeds awake, dark is it eastward.\\
Let horse be bridled, horn be sounded!\\
Forth Eorlingas!
** "Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red dawn," is taken from the last line of the verses spoken by Éomer in ''The Return of the King'' (with "nightfall" changed to "dawn" as was appropriate for Helm's Deep; a lot of people were pissed that this threw off the rhythm, not to mention the all-important alliteration):
---> Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising\\
I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.\\
To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking\\
Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!
** And the movie version is taken from Théoden's Pelennor Fields speech in the book which is this:
---> Arise! Arise, Riders of Théoden!\\
Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter!\\
Spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered,\\
A sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!\\
Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!
** Éomer also shouts, "Ride, ride to ruin and the world's ending!" in the middle of the battle after he goes berserk after seeing his sister dead (or so he thinks) and the Rohirrim cry "Death" as with one voice. The movie moves these lines to the start of the battle.
** Aragorn's [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Crowning Speech Of Awesome]] is often abridged and misquoted, mostly because of the ''Return of the King'' trailer. Ask any layman on the street what the speech was, and most who claim to remember will say "I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me! Someday, the courage of men may fail, but it is not this day! This day, ''we fight!''" The actual speech is: "Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers! I see, in your eyes, the same fear that would take the heart of me! A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day... an hour of woes and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down, but it is ''not this day!'' This day, we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you, ''stand''! '''''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Men! Of! The West!]]'''''
* Possibly the most quoted line from ''Creator/LaurelAndHardy'' is Ollie's "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into, Stanley," (the "Stanley" is often omitted). This line was never spoken in any of their films. The line that was actually frequently used by Ollie was, "This is another '''nice''' mess you've gotten me into," and he never added a "Stanley" to the line either. The confusion apparently stems from one of the L shorts entitled "Another Fine Mess."
* The line "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore!" is a misquote of Dorothy's line in ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. The actual quote is "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
** The Wicked Witch says "Fly, fly, fly!", not "Fly, my pretties! Fly!" or "Fly, my monkeys, fly!"
** Dorothy (nor anyone else) does not say "It's a twister, Auntie Em". One of the farm hands, Hunk (the "real life" counterpart of the Scarecrow) does say "It's a twister! It's a twister!"
*** Although in ''Film/{{Airplane}}'', Stephen Stucker as Johnny says (while tangling himself in phone cords) "Auntie Em! Toto! It's a Twister! It's a Twister!"
* The most famous line from ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' is actually much longer than often thought. People tend to quote it as "I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like... victory." The complete quote goes: "Do you smell that? It's napalm, son. Nothing else on the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. Y'know, one time we had a hill bombed....12 hours....and when it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of them, not one stinking dink body. The smell, y'know that gasoline smell, that whole hill. Smells like... victory."
** However, the line ''was'' quoted just as rendered above by Charlie Sheen in the very last scene of ''TheChase''.
* The actual line from Howard Beale's rant in ''{{Network}}'' is "I'm ''as'' mad as hell, and I'm not ''going'' to take ''this'' anymore!" Often misquoted as "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore!" Some people shout the latter out of windows, but Beale doesn't.
* ''ThisIsSpinalTap'': often misquoted as "There's a fine line between clever, and stupid", David St. Hubbins actually says "It's such a fine line between stupid, and clever."
** Christopher Guest never said, [[UpToEleven "This one goes to eleven."]] The correct line is "These go to eleven."
* Sally Field (in)famously gushed "You like me, you really like me!" after her 1985 Oscar win. Except [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_8nAvU0T5Y she didn't...]]
-->"I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that '''you like me, right now, you like me'''!"
* Related phenomenon: While M. Bison really ''did'' say [[MemeticMutation OF COURSE!]] in the ''Film/StreetFighter'' film the context of the line is frequently mistaken to be something he said after stating his goal to TakeOverTheWorld, instead of in response to Sagat [[CaptainObvious pointing out that Guile was alive]].
* ''ChariotsOfFire'' had plenty of triumphant scenes, some in slow motion, but ''none'' using the title music. But parodies only use that tune. (slow motion running with that theme is accurate, though)
* ''Film/SunsetBoulevard'': Norma's famous line -- "All right, Mr. [=DeMille=], I'm ready for my close-up," -- is often misquoted as "I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. [=DeMille=]."
** Such as in ''AngelsInAmerica'' when Prior is having self-deprecating dream.
* Looking for the iconic Creator/MarilynMonroe [[MarilynManeuver shot with the subway wind blowing up her skirt?]] You won't find it in ''Film/TheSevenYearItch'', it shows only her legs and reaction shots. The full-length picture appears only in publicity and posters. You have UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode to blame for it.
* People like to quote Ben Stein's character from ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' as saying, "Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?" but that's not how it happened. When he's taking attendance, he says, "Bueller... Bueller..." Later on, when he's teaching, he asks for audience participation and that's when he says, "Anyone? Anyone?" Ferris is absent, so there's no reason to be calling on him to answer a question in class.
* ''Film/TheGodfather'' doesn't say "You come to me, on the day of my daughter's wedding?" He says "You come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married and you ask me to do murder - for money." The phrase "day of your daughter's wedding" is used later, but not by Vito.
** Also -- this is a slightly nitpicky one, but that's what we're here for -- at the beginning, Michael tells Kay that "Luca Brasi put a gun to his head, and my father assured him that either his brains or his signature would be on the contract." "Brains" and "signature" are often transposed -- presumably people think it [[BreadEggsMilkSquick packs more of a punch if the horrible option comes last]], but that just ain't the way it is.
** Also, Michael never says "You broke my heart, Fredo, you broke my heart." He actually says "I know it was you Fredo. You broke my heart, you broke my heart."
** Jack Woltz never yells to Tom Hagen: "And a man in my position can't afford to look ridiculous!!". The correct phrase is: "And a man in my position can't afford to be made to look ridiculous!!"
* In the original version of ''TheFly'', there's plenty of "Help meeee! Help meeee!" but no "Be afraid. Be very afraid." The DavidCronenberg remake is the source of "Be afraid," and has "Help me, ''please'' help me."
** He actually does say "Help me, ''please'' help me" in the '58 version. The fact that almost no one knows that is a further example of this trope.
** Also, an example less of wording and more of intonation: "Help meeee!" is often done high pitched in parodies such as ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}''. In the original movie, however, it was more of a deep, nasal sound, like an insect buzzing.
*** The iconic image of the fly's body with a man's head is not in the original movie either. It comes from ''ReturnOfTheFly''. The only time the human-headed fly is seen in ''The Fly'' is when its body is wrapped in spider silk, revealing only a deformed-looking human head and hand.
* In ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', the Black Knight's most memorable quote is [[OnlyAFleshWound "It's only a flesh wound!"]] and has even been merchandised as such when he really said [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKhEw7nD9C4 "Just a flesh wound."]] The misquotation is possibly influenced by the scene where the knights first see Camelot and one of the servants remarks [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGAYk5VWkTw "It's only a model."]] Additionally, the Black Knight does not make the "flesh wound" comment until ''both'' of his arms have been cut off and Arthur points it out. What he says after Arthur slices off his first arm is, "'Tis but a scratch."
** Also, Dennis the peasant says, "Help, help, I'm being repressed!" -- not "oppressed."
* Discussed in ''FrostNixon''. Frost is known for starting his broadcasts by saying "Hello, good evening and welcome," but, according to Frost, "I don't actually say that." In broadcasts shown within the film, he says "Hello. Good Evening." and "Good evening and welcome," but never says all three at once.
* And, of course, Film/ForrestGump never said "I love you Jenny". But he did say (after trying to rescue her from the guys grabbing her on stage) "I can't help it. I love you".
* GeneWilder as [[Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]] says "good day, sir!" and "I said 'good day'!" but never "I said 'good day, sir!'"
* In ''AnatomyOfAMurder'', JimmyStewart's character defense attorney Paul "Polly" Biegler did not say "now I'm no big city lawyer" or "I'm just a SimpleCountryLawyer". What he said was, "I'm just a humble country lawyer doing the best I can against the brilliant prosecutor from the big city of Lansing". Also he was using ObfuscatingStupidity to allow a surprise witness when he said that, he was a very accomplished lawyer and politician who know how to play to the jury by positioning himself as the local underdog. Lansing, Michigan is not a very big city but by calling it one he shows just what a small town guy he is.
* Gordon Gekko's famous "greed is good" speech from ''WallStreet'' doesn't actually say "greed is good", which is only said in the trailers.
-->"The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms -- greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge -- has marked the upward surge of mankind."
** The sequel actually opens with Gekko saying, on being released from prison:
--->"Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal, because everybody is drinking the same Kool-Aid."
** In an episode of ''Series/TheDailyShow'', John Hodgman answers a question by quoting the speech. Perhaps to get around the contradiction between the original and remembered quote, he begins by saying "The answer, for lack of a better word, is that greed is good." Except that instead of "greed", he says [[PerfectlyCromulentWord "greeb"]].
* The most infamous quote from ''Film/MommieDearest'' is often rendered as "''No more wire hangers!''" when in reality the quote is a very hammy "''No wire hangers '''EVAAAAR'''!!!''" (or simply "''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis No...more...]] '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis HANGEEERS!!!]]'''''")
* Ellen Ripley never says "nuke it from orbit" in ''Film/{{Alien}}s''. The actual line is "I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
** And it's often attributed only to Corporal Hicks, who repeated it in concurrence with Ripley.
** Also, "Game over man" didn't appear until well after "We're screwed!". And it's "Get away from her, you bitch", not "Stay away", that mistake was popularized by ''Film/{{Scream 2}}'' where they correct the right line with the wrong.
* Not once in ''TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' does Hannibal Lecter say "Hello, Clarice." What he actually says is "Good evening, Clarice."
** He does say in ''Hannibal'', "Is this Clarice? Well, hello Clarice."
*** And without the comma between "Hello" and "Clarice," the intonation is different. A pedantic point, but this is a pedantic article.
** Subverted with Buffalo Bill. He does indeed say "It puts the lotion in the basket," but most people quote the line in some kind of creepy voice, when the actual delivery is deadpan.
* Although the "WE HAVE TO GO DEEPER" meme has spread like wildfire, that line's never actually said in ''{{Inception}}.''
** The meme "X within X, Inception" is also problematic. Inception isn't an X within an X, but rather the business of planting an idea in someone's dream. This turns out to be easiest if you use several nested layers of dreams (the X-within-X), so the meme works if it's a listing of steps, but not if the X-within-X is supposed to be ''named'' "inception". Once again we have trailer splicing to blame.
* A case of intonation, rather than actual words: In ''Film/TheTenCommandments'', God, speaking through the Burning Bush, does call out Moses's name twice. However, it is not prolonged, with a descending pitch. Just "Moses...Moses...." in a flat monotone. The pharaoh does but with rising intonation.
** And the Creator/EdwardGRobinson character never said "[[WhereIsYourXNow Where's your Messiah now, Moses]]?" Creator/BillyCrystal made the line up for his routine about the movie. (Nobody in the movie talks about the Messiah.)
* Film/NapoleonDynamite advises Pedro, "just listen to your heart," not, "just follow your heart."
* The famous line from ''FieldOfDreams'' is "If you build it, ''he'' will come," not, as is often misquoted, "If you build it, ''they'' will come."
* Jake Gyllenhaal's line from ''BrokebackMountain'' is actually "I wish I ''knew how to'' quit you," not "I wish I ''could'' quit you" or "I can't quit you".
* ''LethalWeapon'': Roger Murtaugh is not ''getting'' too old for this shit, he already is.
** But to be fair, he does say it that way in both the second and third movie, ("I'm getting too old for this shit!")
* ''Film/AlexanderNevsky'': A variation of the phrase "all who draw the sword will die by the sword", tends to be attributed to Alexander since it appears in the movie. In reality, there is no mention of him ever saying it in public, and the phrase is actually attributed to {{Jesus}}.
* Another ''Franchise/StarTrek'' example: Some people mistakenly think that "[[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan KHAAAAAN!]]" was a SkywardScream, when Kirk actually just yelled it facing forward into his communicator, which was followed by an exterior shot of the planet.
** Also, as far as intent, people often portray it as a classic example of how [[LargeHam hammy]] Creator/WilliamShatner is, when in fact Kirk (the character) was purposely hamming it up, to make Khan think he had outsmarted Kirk.
** Similarly, the line is often quoted as a long shout ("KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!"). As performed, the line is just slightly longer than it would be if simply spoken.
* In ''Film/TheRoom'', Johnny's "What a story, Mark" sometimes gets remembered as "What a funny story, Mark" or "Crazy story, Mark".
* Contrary to what ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' fans may think, Jaime Escalante doesn't say "How do I reach these kids?" in ''StandAndDeliver''.
* In ''TropicThunder'', Kirk Lazarus is often misattributed as saying "N****, you just went full retard." The actual conversation went as follows:
-->'''Lazarus:''' Everybody knows you never go full retard.
-->'''Tugg:''' What do you mean?
-->'''Lazarus:''' Check it out. DustinHoffman, ''Film/RainMan'', look retarded, act retarded, not retarded. Count toothpicks to your cards. Autistic, sure. Not retarded. Then you got TomHanks, ''ForrestGump''. Slow yes, retarded maybe, braces on his legs, but he charmed the pants off Nixon and won a ping-pong competition? That ain’t retarded. He's a goddamned war hero, you know any retarded war heroes?
-->'''Tugg:''' ''*Pauses, then shakes his head*''
-->'''Lazarus:''' You went full retard, man. Never go full retard. You don't buy that? Ask Sean Penn. 2001, ''IAmSam''? Remember? Went full retard, went home empty-handed.
* WillSmith's character in ''Film/IndependenceDay'' never said "Welcome to ''Earf''!", despite what the [[MemeticMutation Internet]] would like you to believe. He actually said the word "Earth" correctly.
* Speaking of Will Smith, the film adaption of ''Film/IAmLegend'' spawned a minor internet meme called "Goddamnit Frank!", which references a scene in which Neville freaks out after seeing a mannequin in the middle of the road and begins incoherently screaming at it. The mannequin's name was actually ''Fred.''
* Minor example: Will Ferrell's character in AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy is often quoted as saying "Well, that escalated quickly" when the correct quote is "Boy, that escalated quickly."
* Another minor example: Bane's line in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', "Your punishment must be more severe", is often quoted with an emphasis on the ''severe''. While he does state the line as such in the trailer, he does not in the final film.
* In ''HappyGilmore'', Bob Barker is attributed to say "The price is wrong, bitch!" It's Happy (Creator/AdamSandler) who exclaims this line. Bob later says "Now you've had enough... [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]."
* ''JerryMaguire'': The infamous "You had me at hello" line is not spoken by the title character, but rather by Dorothy Boyd, played by Renée Zellweger.
* Biff Tannen in ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' doesn't ever actually say "Hello [=McFly=]", instead he repeats "Hello, hello, anybody in there? Think [=McFly=], think." A child character misquoting this line in the later movie ''{{Jack}}'' is to blame for this.
* The final line in Film/PlanetOfTheApes is "YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! OH, DAMN YOU! GODDAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!" Most recitations of the line leave out "God" in the last sentence.
* Many people associate the phrase "ladies and germs" with the movie OsmosisJones. This was never said in the movie itself. (Not to mention, the term was around ''long'' before 2001.)
* Many people think Zoozie of TheOogieloves said "This is the greatest movie ever!" before the movie started. She actually said "This is the most amazing movie ever!"
** Also, many are confused over the correct wording of the movie's PhraseCatcher. It varies from "Goofy Toofie, pull up your pants!" to "Goofy Toofie, pick up your pants!".
* In the wake of the tremendous success of TimBurton's ''{{Beetlejuice}}'' in 1988, the phrase "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!" became a well-known MemeticMutation. Problem is, while a number of characters in the movie do say "Beetlejuice" three times (or at least attempt to), on only ''one'' occasion is the name said three ''consecutive'' times; more often the speakers pause for a relatively long time before completing the triad, because a part of them really ''doesn't'' want Beetlejuice to show up.
** However, Lydia normally said it without an interrupting pause on the animated series.
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* Rorschach lines from the opening monologue of ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' is often misquoted (thanks to the trailer) as "The world will look up and shout 'Save us!'... and I'll whisper 'no.'" The line in the actual film is: "All the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'Save us!' and I'll whisper 'No.'", but it was slightly censored for the [[NeverTrustATrailer trailer]]. The original line is slightly different: "[A]nd I'll look down and whisper 'No.'"
* JackNicholson's memorable line from ''AFewGoodMen'' is frequently misquoted in parodies as "You want the truth? You can't handle the truth." The dialogue between Nicholson and TomCruise actually goes, "You want answers?" "I want the truth!" "You can't handle the truth!"
* ''Film/TaxiDriver'': the monologue is ''"You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talking... you talking to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're talking to? Oh yeah? OK."'' People often get it wrong.
* ''... AndJusticeForAll'': Pacino doesn't say "I'm out of order? You're out of order! This whole court is out of order!"; it's "'''You're''' out of order! You're out of order! The whole '''trial''' is out of order! '''They're''' out of order!"
* "Play it again, Sam", (not) from ''Film/{{Casablanca}}.'' The actual quote is:
-->'''Rick:''' You know what I want to hear.\\
'''Sam:''' ''[lying]'' No, I don't.\\
'''Rick:''' You played it for her, you can play it for me!\\
'''Sam:''' ''[lying]'' Well, I don't think I can remember...\\
'''Rick:''' If she can stand it, I can! Play it!
** Earlier in the film, Ilsa (Rick's love interest) also entreats him to "Play it, Sam." But so many people remembered it as "Play it again, Sam" that Creator/WoodyAllen used that phrase as the name of his [[PlayItAgainSam homage to Bogart and the movie]].
* At no point in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' does Darth Vader say "LukeIAmYourFather." His actual line was:
-->'''Darth Vader:''' Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.\\
'''Luke:''' He told me enough! He told me ''you'' killed him!\\
'''Darth Vader:''' No -- ''I'' am your father.
** In the NPR radio dramatization, however, Vader does indeed say "No, Luke, I am your father."
** The manner in which Vader says the line and the emphasis on words is usually done wrong in parodies and spoofs. Vader puts emphasis on "I", not "am." He also says the line in a quiet, chilling manner, not the loud and dramatic fashion usually seen in imitations. Also, Luke's BigNo comes ''before'' he falls down the shaft.
*** Demonstrated [[http://wayofthemetagamer.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/30020 here]] in ''TheWayOfTheMetagamer''.
** In the making-of documentary ''Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy'', James Earl Jones himself misquotes his famous line as "Luke, I am your father". It seems "Luke, I am your father" has become so popular that even ''the guy who said the original line in the movie'' doesn't remember it correctly.
** Likewise, Obi-Wan Kenobi never says "May the Force be with you" to Luke (except in the trailer). Obi-Wan's line is, "The Force will be with you, always." A bunch of other characters ''do'' say "May the Force be with you," though. The first person to actually say "May the Force be with you" is General Dodonna after the briefing on Yavin 4, and the character it's usually next most attributed to is Han Solo (who did say it to Luke just before the Death Star mission, and again in ''Empire'').
** The first title card always reads "''A long time ago'' in a galaxy far, far away...." "Long, long ago" is seen in the inside cover of a few novels, but never in the films.
** In his American Pie/Star Wars parody, Weird Al uses the line "A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far away..."
** Also, the line from A New Hope is "These AREN'T the droids you're looking for", not "These ARE NOT the droids you're looking for".
*** Though that's probably less of a misquote and more because the opening lyrics of American Pie are "A long, long time ago".
* ''FortySecondStreet'': "But you keep your feet on the ground and your head on those shoulders of yours and go out, and, Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!'' is misquoted in many ways, e.g. "You're going out (there) a youngster, but you're coming back a star!", "You're going out (on that stage) a nobody, (kid), but you're coming back a star!", or "You're going out a chorus girl, but you're coming back a star!"
** In the stage version, though, it's "You're going out ''there'' a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!", so that technically is a correct quote...
* It's sometimes claimed that in ''BrideOfTheMonster'', Creator/BelaLugosi said his manservant Lobo (Tor Johnson) was "as harmless as a kitchen" [sic] as a sign of his diminished faculties and/or Wood's incompetent direction. But actually, he says the line fine: "Don't be afraid of Lobo; he's as gentle as a kitten."
* Quite possibly, the most famous line from ''Film/{{Waterworld}}'' is, "Dry land is not a myth, I've seen it!" And yet, the line is never heard anywhere, in any form in the entire movie.
** It is, however, present in the Universal Studios water show based on the movie, which has been seen by many more people.
** Yes, that line is heard. The Mariner says " Dry land is a myth." She says "I've seen it. It was in a basket we found in No Land. Dirt richer and darker than yours."
* Creator/BramStoker's original ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' never said the line "[[VampireVords I vont to suck your blood!]]", or anything like it. He was much too sophisticated, and had an English accent. It wasn't until Bela Lugosi played Dracula that the accent became forever rooted in our memory, but even then, the line is not spoken.
** This applies to imitations of many lines Lugosi did say, because Lugosi never pronounced ''w'' as a ''v'' but rather as ''wh''.
* ''Knute Rockne: All-American'': Knute Rockne says "And the last thing he said to me, 'Rock,' he said, 'sometime when the team is up against it and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go out there with all they got and '''win just one for the Gipper'''." Often quoted as "Win one for [[RonaldReagan the Gipper]]," or "Win this one for the Gipper."
* ''Lives of a Bengal Lancer'' (1935): it's "We have ways of making '''men''' talk," not "WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk." However, the latter has become a StockPhrase, and relatively few people have heard of the movie.
* Literature/{{Tarzan}} never said "Me, Tarzan. You, Jane." Johnny Weissmueller, star of a series of Tarzan movies, gave the phrase in an interview as an indication of the ''kind'' of dialogue he was being given, but even he didn't say that exact phrase in any of the movies. This was probably paraphrased from a scene from the 1932 ''Tarzan, the Ape Man'':
-->'''Jane:''' (pointing to herself) Jane.
-->'''Tarzan:''' (he points at her) Jane.
-->'''Jane:''' And you? (she points at him) You?
-->'''Tarzan:''' (stabbing himself proudly in the chest) Tarzan, Tarzan.
-->'''Jane:''' (emphasizing his correct response) Tarzan.
-->'''Tarzan:''' (poking back and forth each time) Jane. Tarzan. Jane. Tarzan?
* The oft-quoted scene from ''CrocodileDundee'' or rather, oft-misquoted: "That's not a knife. This is a knife" actually goes:
-->'''Sue:''' "He's got a knife!"\\
'''Crocodile Dundee:''' ''(Laughs)'' "That's not a knife." (Draws large bowie knife) "''That's'' a knife."
* The line "My God, it's full of stars" is never said or sort-of said in the movie ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''. The closest the movie gets to this line is in a moment toward the end when a starfield bursts onto the screen, but not a single word is spoken during this [[TrippyFinaleSyndrome light show]] (or after it, for that matter). The line ''does'' appear in Arthur C. Clarke's novel (part of the same project), and the film version of ''TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact''.
** In addition, the very famous and oft-quoted line "I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Dave" never appears in ''2001''. Rather HAL says "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that" and later says "I'm afraid, Dave" when being disconnected. And before that, he does say "I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen."
** And as if there weren't enough misquotations, the line, "Good morning Dave" is never uttered. "Good '''evening''' Dave" and "Good '''afternoon gentlemen'''" on the other hand are.
** "Will I dream?" This quote is often misattributed to ''2001'' (it's actually from the sequel ''2010'') and/or misquoted as "Dave, will I dream?" or "Will I dream, Dave?" In the movie, HAL addresses this question not to Dave but to Dr. Chandra.
* JohnWayne did not say, "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do" in ''Hondo''. It's actually, "A man oughta do what he thinks is best".
** There is a line much closer to this from a classic Western, though not one with JohnWayne: Alan Ladd says "A man's gotta be what a man's gotta be" in ''{{Shane}}''.
* ''Film/TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre'' never featured the line "We don't need no stinking badges!" The actual lines are:
-->'''Bandit:''' We are ''[[GratuitousSpanish federales]]''. You know, the mounted police.\\
'''Dobbs:''' If you're the police, where are your badges?\\
'''Bandit:''' Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!
** That said, if someone says, "We don't need no stinking badges!" they ''are'' quoting a movie: ''Film/BlazingSaddles''.
** Another one -- Bogart never says "Can you help a fellow American who's down on his luck?" That's from the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon short ''8 Ball Bunny''. The actual line is: "Say, mister, care to stake a fellow American to a meal?"
* In no film did JamesCagney ever say "You dirty rat!" This is a misquote of a line from the 1931 film ''Blonde Crazy'', where he refers to another character as "that dirty double-crossing rat".
** At his AFI lifetime achievement award show in 1974, Cagney set the record straight before quickly proceeding to parody the trope (see "Judy, Judy, Judy" below).
* Nor did CaryGrant ever say "Judy, Judy, Judy". Apparently, comedian Larry Storch was doing a Cary Grant impersonation in a nightclub when JudyGarland walked in. He greeted her from the stage in character and it somehow became part of the Grant mystique, mystifying even Cary, himself.
** It may have come from Cary Grant's film ''Only Angels Have Wings'' where Rita Hayworth's character is named Judy. Grant never repeats it in a row as in the quote but he says it a lot.
** In an acceptance speech for the American Film Institute's lifetime achievement award, Cagney ribbed impressionist Frank Gorshin (and poked fun at the often misattributed line) by saying "And, Frank, I never said 'Ooh, you dirty rat.' What I really said was 'Judy, Judy, Judy!'"
* Tony Curtis never said "Yonda liez da castle of me faddah". In ''Son of Ali Baba'', he said "Yonder lies the valley of the sun and beyond, the castle of my father."
** He's also quoted, in ''The Black Shield of Falworth'', as saying "We have come ta storm da castle", which is where the line in ''ThePrincessBride'' comes from.
* Mae West never said "Come up and see me sometime." The actual line, from the 1933 film ''She Done Him Wrong'', is "Why don't you come up some time, see me?" which mostly just moves words around but really changes the emphasis.
** Mae West didn't say "Is that a gun in your pocket OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe" in any film. It's sometimes said to be in ''She Done Him Wrong'', but actually she said it in RealLife to a policeman who was escorting her.
** West did say this in a movie, but not until 1978, when she was 85 years old. She asks "Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?" in the movie ''Sextette''. You can see it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC9dde6NXIY here]], with the line around 9:15.
* It's often said (rather inaccurately) that "Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, except backwards and in high heels." The original quote is from a 1982 ''FrankAndErnest'' cartoon:
--> Sure he was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did, backwards... and in high heels.
* Smith's monologue in ''Film/TheMatrix'' is often misquoted: "Human beings are a virus," or "Human beings are a disease, and we are the cure." Agent Smith's speech patterns make it easy to misquote.
-->I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species, and I found that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move into an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural existing resource is consumed, and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. ''Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.''
** May [[JustifiedTrope account]] for some confusion that at least one of the [[NeverTrustATrailer trailers]] cut this speech down to "Human beings are a disease ... and we are the cure."
** While not a line of dialogue, the iconic BulletTime sequence with Neo dodging the bullets actually has the bullets graze and hurt him - nearly every parody of this scene has the character elegantly avoid harm, unless the joke is that they get harmed regardless.
** Additionally, Morpheus never has a line beginning with "What if I told you..." at any point in the film, MemeticMutation to the contrary.
* ClintEastwood didn't say "Do you feel lucky, punk?" in ''Film/DirtyHarry''. He said, "You'd better ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well do you, punk?"
** And he says it ''two'' distinctly different ways, one at the very beginning of the movie, and then again at the very end. The first time, he says it so the gunman will think he has more ammo and will drop his weapon (he's out of bullets). The second time, he states it so the AxCrazy villain will try him (he has another bullet left).
** The line can be heard at the start of ''MagnumForce''.
** Eastwood ''did'' in fact say "Go ahead, make my day!", but that line was uttered in the third sequel, ''SuddenImpact'', and not the original ''Dirty Harry'' film, as most believe.
** Speaking of Eastwood, in ''Film/HighPlainsDrifter'' he doesn't say, "I'm faster than you'll ever live to be." He actually says, "''A lot'' faster than you'll ever live to be."
* The line from ''WhiteHeat'' is not "Top of the world, Ma!"; it's "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!" LexLuthor misquotes it in the 1st season finale of ''Series/LoisAndClark'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has done it a few times.
* ''{{Clerks}}'' has Randal quoting ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'' with "No time for love, Doctor Jones!". But Short Round's actual line was "Hey, Dr. Jones, no time for love."
* ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon'': Bogie says "The stuff that dreams are made of" at the end, not "It's the stuff that dreams are made of".
** This in turn is a variant of "... such stuff / As dreams are made on," from Shakespeare's ''Theatre/TheTempest''.
* Classic Western ''The Virginian'': Gary Cooper's taunting line was not, "Smile when you call me that!" or "When ya call me that, smile!" but "If you wanna call me that, smile." Easy to get confused, because in the original novel, he says "When you call me that -- ''smile''!"
* An inversion: sometimes Greta Garbo's quote "I want to be alone" is said to have never been said, or to have only been used in an interview. But it actually does appear in one of her movies: ''GrandHotel''.
** She said "I want to be left alone" (i.e., live a normal life without mobs of fans and paparazzi) in an interview, around the time ''Grand Hotel'' was made. Later, she had to clarify the difference between the film and reality.
** Ginger Rogers, of all people, says "I want to be alone!" on a train with a thick Swedish accent in the film ''The Major and the Minor''. So apparently Creator/BillyWilder heard Greta wrong too.
* Creator/AlfredHitchcock is supposed to have said, "Actors are cattle." However, as he himself put it, "What I said was that all actors should be ''treated'' like cattle." He corrected himself after Carole Lombard, hearing him make the comment on the set of ''MrAndMrsSmith'', set up an actual stable in the middle of the shooting set and put cattle in it with signs around the necks of the animals with the actors names on them.
* In ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', Mr. Freeze utters dozens of ice- and snow-related puns. "Ice to meet you" is not one of them. The line "Ice to ''see'' you" was previously used by [=McBain=] in a spoof of Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger's action films in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. And that line never appeared in the movie itself or the trailer.
* SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker as portrayed by Creator/HeathLedger in Creator/ChristopherNolan's ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' is often mis-quoted as asking "Do I look like a man with a plan?", when Harvey Dent says that [[spoiler: his (Harvey's) disfigurement and the death of Rachel Dawes]] was part of his (the Joker's) plan, most likely because people associate the rhyming words "man" and "plan". The quote is, however: "Do I really look like a guy with a plan?"
** Yet another from Nolan's Joker is his famous magic trick. Many seem to think it was "Wanna see a magic trick?" as though he walked into the room full of mob bosses as a living BigLippedAlligatorMoment. Instead it was more of a bizzare response to Gambol's question of "Give me a reason why I shouldn't have my boy pull your head off?" And the Joker's was "How about a magic trick?"
** His line from the hospital scene is often made into image macros, with the phrase "nobody bats an eye". Although that would have been a neat pun, that is not what he said. This is the actual quote:
-->"If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it’s all ‘part of the plan’. But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds!"
** In ''[[Film/TheDarkKnightRises Rises]]'', Bane's line to the defeated Batman is actually "We will destroy Gotham. And then, when it is done, and Gotham is ashes... Then you have my permission to die." The trailer shortened it to "When Gotham is ashes, you have my permission to die" and that's what MemeticMutation took hold of.
* In the 1989 ''Film/{{Batman}}'' movie, Batman does this in the movie: when Jack Napier kills his parents at the beginning, he asks young Bruce Wayne if he's ever danced with the devil BY the pale moonlight. Later on when Batman confronts Joker (Napier), he asks him if he's ever danced with the devil IN the pale moonlight. Even {{IMDB}} misses this one for some reason, but "by" and "in" are interchanged in the otherwise identical statements.
* "Come with me to the Casbah [...] we'll make beautiful music together" is not from the film ''Algiers'' (1938), but from a Yosemite Sam/Pepe [=LePew=] cartoon.
** No-one in ''Algiers'' utters the "Come with me" line, though HedyLamarr's Gaby does ask Charles Boyer's Pepe le Moko, "Can't you leave the Casbah?" The "beautiful music" part doesn't even come from the same movie, but from 1936's ''The General Died At Dawn'', in which Gary Cooper says to Madeline Carroll, "We could make beautiful music together."
* Not a quote, but the image from ''HomeAlone'' of Kevin [=McCallister=] with his hands to his cheeks, screaming, isn't because he has realized he has been left home alone, but because he has stung himself with aftershave. The false image comes from a trailer where the commentary mentions his being left home... alone, and then the hand-on-face scream bit.
** It doesn't help that the posters for the movie have him front and center, doing the hand-on-face scream (and wearing a sweater as opposed to a bath towel) with burglars Harry and Marv grinning in a menacing fashion behind him.
** Further adding to this is that the cover for ''Home Alone 4'' again shows [=McCallister=] with his hands to his cheeks, screaming, with the two burglars staring on menacingly. This time around, the hands-on-cheeks screaming doesn't even happen anywhere in the actual film.
* [[Creator/SamuelLJackson Jules Winnfield's]] famous hamburger speech from ''Film/PulpFiction'' is often misquoted (by putting words or phrases in the wrong order) or quoted correctly but used in the wrong context:
-->'''Jules:''' "What country you from?!"
-->'''Brett:''' W-what?
-->'''Jules:''' 'What' ain't no country ''I'' ever heard of! They speak English in 'what'?
-->'''Brett:''' ...what?
-->'''Jules:''' ENGLISH, MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU SPEAK IT?!
** The last line is often misquoted as "English, do you speak it, motherfucker?" Regarding context, Jules is sarcastically demanding that Brett give him a clearer answer than "what," but the line is often used in real life against people who are literally not speaking English well or at all.
*** The HilariousOuttakes from ''Film/TheAvengers'' has Clark Gregg hilariously misquoting it as "I said what, motherfucker", just because Creator/SamuelLJackson was in the movie.
** Jules has his own Beam Me Up Scotty with the Bible. The entire verse of Ezekiel 25:17 goes, from start to finish, "And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them."
*** While this is indeed an example of this trope, it's not because the passage doesn't match up to the Bible, but because it doesn't match up to the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LYT4JC2dd4 introduction to Sonny Chiba's ]]''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LYT4JC2dd4 The Bodyguard]]'', from which this passage (as well as its attribution as Ezekiel 25:17) is lifted almost exactly. The use in ''The Bodyguard'' would be a misquote of the Bible, translations and mistranslations aside.
** In an example that's made its way into a trope name, IJustShotMarvinInTheFace is actually "Aw man... I shot Marvin in the face..." with no "just"
* In ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', the line is "'''You're''' gonna need a bigger boat?", not "We're gonna need a bigger boat." The presence of Brody (the speaker) on the boat as well undoubtedly contributes to the confusion. And it's not a deadpan remark in response to seeing the size of the shark - it's actually posed as a question, as in "You're gonna need a bigger boat, right?" in response to hearing the plan to catch the shark.
** Also, the quote "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water" is sometimes attributed to this movie. In fact, it's the tagline to the sequel, hence the part about going ''back'' in the water.
* No ''Film/JamesBond'' villain has ''ever'' said: "Good evening, Mr. Bond. We've been expecting you." Bits of it, yes, and sometimes they were said by other people, but never the entire quote. For example, one of ''Film/DrNo'''s henchmen shouts "We've been expecting you!" Blofeld says "We've been expecting you" in ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'', and a minute later says "Good evening, Mr. Bond."
** Bond doesn't actually say "The name's Bond, James Bond" that often either ("[[TheNameIsBondJamesBond Bond... James Bond]]" however is in practically every film) and orders vodka martinis rarely too.
*** Although, in some films, he does say "''My'' name ''is'' Bond, James Bond"--for example, at the start of ''Diamonds'', while he's questioning the Egyptian's mistress about the whereabouts of Blofeld.
* ''{{Zulu}}'': the line isn't "Zulus. Thousands of 'em.", but "The sentries report Zulus '''to the south west'''. Thousands of '''them'''." Also, MichaelCaine (Lt. Bromhead) doesn't say it; it's Color Sergeant Bourne, played by Nigel Greene.
* Scarlett O'Hara says "Tomorrow '''is''' another day", not "Tomorrow's another day" at the end of ''GoneWithTheWind''.
** Rhett Butler's memorable final line, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," is sometimes misquoted as "Frankly, Scarlett, I don't give a damn." The misquotation has appeared in several places where the line was used comically, including ''Film/{{Clue}}'' and an episode of ''MamasFamily''.
** Used to a great comedic effect in [[http://pearlswine.livejournal.com/514708.html a Sunday comic]] of ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine.
** In the actual book, however, the line is simply "My dear, I don't give a damn" (with no "frankly").
** Not a line quoted particularly often, but "I don't know nothin' about birthin' babies" is sometimes changed to "I don't know nothing about birthin' ''no baby''."
* ''TheGraduate'': "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. [awkward pause] Aren't you?" is misquoted as "Are you trying to seduce me, Mrs. Robinson?"
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' - it's not uncommon for Théoden's pre-charge speeches to be merged when quoted. The line from ''The Two Towers'' is "Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath. Now for ruin. And the red dawn!" and the line from ''The Return of the King'' is "Ride now, ride now, ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending!" What you often get is combinations of the two, such as "Ride for wrath, ride for ruin and the red dawn/the world's ending" and "Now for wrath, now for ruin and the world's ending."
** "Fell deeds awake" is taken from the verses spoken by Théoden at Edoras in ''The Two Towers'':
--->Arise now, arise, Riders of Théoden!\\
Dire deeds awake, dark is it eastward.\\
Let horse be bridled, horn be sounded!\\
Forth Eorlingas!
** "Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red dawn," is taken from the last line of the verses spoken by Éomer in ''The Return of the King'' (with "nightfall" changed to "dawn" as was appropriate for Helm's Deep; a lot of people were pissed that this threw off the rhythm, not to mention the all-important alliteration):
---> Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising\\
I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.\\
To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking\\
Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!
** And the movie version is taken from Théoden's Pelennor Fields speech in the book which is this:
---> Arise! Arise, Riders of Théoden!\\
Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter!\\
Spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered,\\
A sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!\\
Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!
** Éomer also shouts, "Ride, ride to ruin and the world's ending!" in the middle of the battle after he goes berserk after seeing his sister dead (or so he thinks) and the Rohirrim cry "Death" as with one voice. The movie moves these lines to the start of the battle.
** Aragorn's [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Crowning Speech Of Awesome]] is often abridged and misquoted, mostly because of the ''Return of the King'' trailer. Ask any layman on the street what the speech was, and most who claim to remember will say "I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me! Someday, the courage of men may fail, but it is not this day! This day, ''we fight!''" The actual speech is: "Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers! I see, in your eyes, the same fear that would take the heart of me! A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day... an hour of woes and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down, but it is ''not this day!'' This day, we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you, ''stand''! '''''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Men! Of! The West!]]'''''
* Possibly the most quoted line from ''Creator/LaurelAndHardy'' is Ollie's "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into, Stanley," (the "Stanley" is often omitted). This line was never spoken in any of their films. The line that was actually frequently used by Ollie was, "This is another '''nice''' mess you've gotten me into," and he never added a "Stanley" to the line either. The confusion apparently stems from one of the L shorts entitled "Another Fine Mess."
* The line "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore!" is a misquote of Dorothy's line in ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. The actual quote is "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
** The Wicked Witch says "Fly, fly, fly!", not "Fly, my pretties! Fly!" or "Fly, my monkeys, fly!"
** Dorothy (nor anyone else) does not say "It's a twister, Auntie Em". One of the farm hands, Hunk (the "real life" counterpart of the Scarecrow) does say "It's a twister! It's a twister!"
*** Although in ''Film/{{Airplane}}'', Stephen Stucker as Johnny says (while tangling himself in phone cords) "Auntie Em! Toto! It's a Twister! It's a Twister!"
* The most famous line from ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' is actually much longer than often thought. People tend to quote it as "I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like... victory." The complete quote goes: "Do you smell that? It's napalm, son. Nothing else on the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. Y'know, one time we had a hill bombed....12 hours....and when it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of them, not one stinking dink body. The smell, y'know that gasoline smell, that whole hill. Smells like... victory."
** However, the line ''was'' quoted just as rendered above by Charlie Sheen in the very last scene of ''TheChase''.
* The actual line from Howard Beale's rant in ''{{Network}}'' is "I'm ''as'' mad as hell, and I'm not ''going'' to take ''this'' anymore!" Often misquoted as "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore!" Some people shout the latter out of windows, but Beale doesn't.
* ''ThisIsSpinalTap'': often misquoted as "There's a fine line between clever, and stupid", David St. Hubbins actually says "It's such a fine line between stupid, and clever."
** Christopher Guest never said, [[UpToEleven "This one goes to eleven."]] The correct line is "These go to eleven."
* Sally Field (in)famously gushed "You like me, you really like me!" after her 1985 Oscar win. Except [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_8nAvU0T5Y she didn't...]]
-->"I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that '''you like me, right now, you like me'''!"
* Related phenomenon: While M. Bison really ''did'' say [[MemeticMutation OF COURSE!]] in the ''Film/StreetFighter'' film the context of the line is frequently mistaken to be something he said after stating his goal to TakeOverTheWorld, instead of in response to Sagat [[CaptainObvious pointing out that Guile was alive]].
* ''ChariotsOfFire'' had plenty of triumphant scenes, some in slow motion, but ''none'' using the title music. But parodies only use that tune. (slow motion running with that theme is accurate, though)
* ''Film/SunsetBoulevard'': Norma's famous line -- "All right, Mr. [=DeMille=], I'm ready for my close-up," -- is often misquoted as "I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. [=DeMille=]."
** Such as in ''AngelsInAmerica'' when Prior is having self-deprecating dream.
* Looking for the iconic Creator/MarilynMonroe [[MarilynManeuver shot with the subway wind blowing up her skirt?]] You won't find it in ''Film/TheSevenYearItch'', it shows only her legs and reaction shots. The full-length picture appears only in publicity and posters. You have UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode to blame for it.
* People like to quote Ben Stein's character from ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' as saying, "Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?" but that's not how it happened. When he's taking attendance, he says, "Bueller... Bueller..." Later on, when he's teaching, he asks for audience participation and that's when he says, "Anyone? Anyone?" Ferris is absent, so there's no reason to be calling on him to answer a question in class.
* ''Film/TheGodfather'' doesn't say "You come to me, on the day of my daughter's wedding?" He says "You come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married and you ask me to do murder - for money." The phrase "day of your daughter's wedding" is used later, but not by Vito.
** Also -- this is a slightly nitpicky one, but that's what we're here for -- at the beginning, Michael tells Kay that "Luca Brasi put a gun to his head, and my father assured him that either his brains or his signature would be on the contract." "Brains" and "signature" are often transposed -- presumably people think it [[BreadEggsMilkSquick packs more of a punch if the horrible option comes last]], but that just ain't the way it is.
** Also, Michael never says "You broke my heart, Fredo, you broke my heart." He actually says "I know it was you Fredo. You broke my heart, you broke my heart."
** Jack Woltz never yells to Tom Hagen: "And a man in my position can't afford to look ridiculous!!". The correct phrase is: "And a man in my position can't afford to be made to look ridiculous!!"
* In the original version of ''TheFly'', there's plenty of "Help meeee! Help meeee!" but no "Be afraid. Be very afraid." The DavidCronenberg remake is the source of "Be afraid," and has "Help me, ''please'' help me."
** He actually does say "Help me, ''please'' help me" in the '58 version. The fact that almost no one knows that is a further example of this trope.
** Also, an example less of wording and more of intonation: "Help meeee!" is often done high pitched in parodies such as ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}''. In the original movie, however, it was more of a deep, nasal sound, like an insect buzzing.
*** The iconic image of the fly's body with a man's head is not in the original movie either. It comes from ''ReturnOfTheFly''. The only time the human-headed fly is seen in ''The Fly'' is when its body is wrapped in spider silk, revealing only a deformed-looking human head and hand.
* In ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', the Black Knight's most memorable quote is [[OnlyAFleshWound "It's only a flesh wound!"]] and has even been merchandised as such when he really said [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKhEw7nD9C4 "Just a flesh wound."]] The misquotation is possibly influenced by the scene where the knights first see Camelot and one of the servants remarks [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGAYk5VWkTw "It's only a model."]] Additionally, the Black Knight does not make the "flesh wound" comment until ''both'' of his arms have been cut off and Arthur points it out. What he says after Arthur slices off his first arm is, "'Tis but a scratch."
** Also, Dennis the peasant says, "Help, help, I'm being repressed!" -- not "oppressed."
* Discussed in ''FrostNixon''. Frost is known for starting his broadcasts by saying "Hello, good evening and welcome," but, according to Frost, "I don't actually say that." In broadcasts shown within the film, he says "Hello. Good Evening." and "Good evening and welcome," but never says all three at once.
* And, of course, Film/ForrestGump never said "I love you Jenny". But he did say (after trying to rescue her from the guys grabbing her on stage) "I can't help it. I love you".
* GeneWilder as [[Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]] says "good day, sir!" and "I said 'good day'!" but never "I said 'good day, sir!'"
* In ''AnatomyOfAMurder'', JimmyStewart's character defense attorney Paul "Polly" Biegler did not say "now I'm no big city lawyer" or "I'm just a SimpleCountryLawyer". What he said was, "I'm just a humble country lawyer doing the best I can against the brilliant prosecutor from the big city of Lansing". Also he was using ObfuscatingStupidity to allow a surprise witness when he said that, he was a very accomplished lawyer and politician who know how to play to the jury by positioning himself as the local underdog. Lansing, Michigan is not a very big city but by calling it one he shows just what a small town guy he is.
* Gordon Gekko's famous "greed is good" speech from ''WallStreet'' doesn't actually say "greed is good", which is only said in the trailers.
-->"The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms -- greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge -- has marked the upward surge of mankind."
** The sequel actually opens with Gekko saying, on being released from prison:
--->"Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal, because everybody is drinking the same Kool-Aid."
** In an episode of ''Series/TheDailyShow'', John Hodgman answers a question by quoting the speech. Perhaps to get around the contradiction between the original and remembered quote, he begins by saying "The answer, for lack of a better word, is that greed is good." Except that instead of "greed", he says [[PerfectlyCromulentWord "greeb"]].
* The most infamous quote from ''Film/MommieDearest'' is often rendered as "''No more wire hangers!''" when in reality the quote is a very hammy "''No wire hangers '''EVAAAAR'''!!!''" (or simply "''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis No...more...]] '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis HANGEEERS!!!]]'''''")
* Ellen Ripley never says "nuke it from orbit" in ''Film/{{Alien}}s''. The actual line is "I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
** And it's often attributed only to Corporal Hicks, who repeated it in concurrence with Ripley.
** Also, "Game over man" didn't appear until well after "We're screwed!". And it's "Get away from her, you bitch", not "Stay away", that mistake was popularized by ''Film/{{Scream 2}}'' where they correct the right line with the wrong.
* Not once in ''TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' does Hannibal Lecter say "Hello, Clarice." What he actually says is "Good evening, Clarice."
** He does say in ''Hannibal'', "Is this Clarice? Well, hello Clarice."
*** And without the comma between "Hello" and "Clarice," the intonation is different. A pedantic point, but this is a pedantic article.
** Subverted with Buffalo Bill. He does indeed say "It puts the lotion in the basket," but most people quote the line in some kind of creepy voice, when the actual delivery is deadpan.
* Although the "WE HAVE TO GO DEEPER" meme has spread like wildfire, that line's never actually said in ''{{Inception}}.''
** The meme "X within X, Inception" is also problematic. Inception isn't an X within an X, but rather the business of planting an idea in someone's dream. This turns out to be easiest if you use several nested layers of dreams (the X-within-X), so the meme works if it's a listing of steps, but not if the X-within-X is supposed to be ''named'' "inception". Once again we have trailer splicing to blame.
* A case of intonation, rather than actual words: In ''Film/TheTenCommandments'', God, speaking through the Burning Bush, does call out Moses's name twice. However, it is not prolonged, with a descending pitch. Just "Moses...Moses...." in a flat monotone. The pharaoh does but with rising intonation.
** And the Creator/EdwardGRobinson character never said "[[WhereIsYourXNow Where's your Messiah now, Moses]]?" Creator/BillyCrystal made the line up for his routine about the movie. (Nobody in the movie talks about the Messiah.)
* Film/NapoleonDynamite advises Pedro, "just listen to your heart," not, "just follow your heart."
* The famous line from ''FieldOfDreams'' is "If you build it, ''he'' will come," not, as is often misquoted, "If you build it, ''they'' will come."
* Jake Gyllenhaal's line from ''BrokebackMountain'' is actually "I wish I ''knew how to'' quit you," not "I wish I ''could'' quit you" or "I can't quit you".
* ''LethalWeapon'': Roger Murtaugh is not ''getting'' too old for this shit, he already is.
** But to be fair, he does say it that way in both the second and third movie, ("I'm getting too old for this shit!")
* ''Film/AlexanderNevsky'': A variation of the phrase "all who draw the sword will die by the sword", tends to be attributed to Alexander since it appears in the movie. In reality, there is no mention of him ever saying it in public, and the phrase is actually attributed to {{Jesus}}.
* Another ''Franchise/StarTrek'' example: Some people mistakenly think that "[[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan KHAAAAAN!]]" was a SkywardScream, when Kirk actually just yelled it facing forward into his communicator, which was followed by an exterior shot of the planet.
** Also, as far as intent, people often portray it as a classic example of how [[LargeHam hammy]] Creator/WilliamShatner is, when in fact Kirk (the character) was purposely hamming it up, to make Khan think he had outsmarted Kirk.
** Similarly, the line is often quoted as a long shout ("KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!"). As performed, the line is just slightly longer than it would be if simply spoken.
* In ''Film/TheRoom'', Johnny's "What a story, Mark" sometimes gets remembered as "What a funny story, Mark" or "Crazy story, Mark".
* Contrary to what ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' fans may think, Jaime Escalante doesn't say "How do I reach these kids?" in ''StandAndDeliver''.
* In ''TropicThunder'', Kirk Lazarus is often misattributed as saying "N****, you just went full retard." The actual conversation went as follows:
-->'''Lazarus:''' Everybody knows you never go full retard.
-->'''Tugg:''' What do you mean?
-->'''Lazarus:''' Check it out. DustinHoffman, ''Film/RainMan'', look retarded, act retarded, not retarded. Count toothpicks to your cards. Autistic, sure. Not retarded. Then you got TomHanks, ''ForrestGump''. Slow yes, retarded maybe, braces on his legs, but he charmed the pants off Nixon and won a ping-pong competition? That ain’t retarded. He's a goddamned war hero, you know any retarded war heroes?
-->'''Tugg:''' ''*Pauses, then shakes his head*''
-->'''Lazarus:''' You went full retard, man. Never go full retard. You don't buy that? Ask Sean Penn. 2001, ''IAmSam''? Remember? Went full retard, went home empty-handed.
* WillSmith's character in ''Film/IndependenceDay'' never said "Welcome to ''Earf''!", despite what the [[MemeticMutation Internet]] would like you to believe. He actually said the word "Earth" correctly.
* Speaking of Will Smith, the film adaption of ''Film/IAmLegend'' spawned a minor internet meme called "Goddamnit Frank!", which references a scene in which Neville freaks out after seeing a mannequin in the middle of the road and begins incoherently screaming at it. The mannequin's name was actually ''Fred.''
* Minor example: Will Ferrell's character in AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy is often quoted as saying "Well, that escalated quickly" when the correct quote is "Boy, that escalated quickly."
* Another minor example: Bane's line in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', "Your punishment must be more severe", is often quoted with an emphasis on the ''severe''. While he does state the line as such in the trailer, he does not in the final film.
* In ''HappyGilmore'', Bob Barker is attributed to say "The price is wrong, bitch!" It's Happy (Creator/AdamSandler) who exclaims this line. Bob later says "Now you've had enough... [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]."
* ''JerryMaguire'': The infamous "You had me at hello" line is not spoken by the title character, but rather by Dorothy Boyd, played by Renée Zellweger.
* Biff Tannen in ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' doesn't ever actually say "Hello [=McFly=]", instead he repeats "Hello, hello, anybody in there? Think [=McFly=], think." A child character misquoting this line in the later movie ''{{Jack}}'' is to blame for this.
* The final line in Film/PlanetOfTheApes is "YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! OH, DAMN YOU! GODDAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!" Most recitations of the line leave out "God" in the last sentence.
* Many people associate the phrase "ladies and germs" with the movie OsmosisJones. This was never said in the movie itself. (Not to mention, the term was around ''long'' before 2001.)
* Many people think Zoozie of TheOogieloves said "This is the greatest movie ever!" before the movie started. She actually said "This is the most amazing movie ever!"
** Also, many are confused over the correct wording of the movie's PhraseCatcher. It varies from "Goofy Toofie, pull up your pants!" to "Goofy Toofie, pick up your pants!".
* In the wake of the tremendous success of TimBurton's ''{{Beetlejuice}}'' in 1988, the phrase "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!" became a well-known MemeticMutation. Problem is, while a number of characters in the movie do say "Beetlejuice" three times (or at least attempt to), on only ''one'' occasion is the name said three ''consecutive'' times; more often the speakers pause for a relatively long time before completing the triad, because a part of them really ''doesn't'' want Beetlejuice to show up.
** However, Lydia normally said it without an interrupting pause on the animated series.
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