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"Why do these films always forget to put their most famous lines in?"

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Kyon: "Nyoro~n" is a portmanteau of "nyoro" (Tsuruya's idiosyncratic speech quirk, her "desu" what have you) and the Japanese onomatopeia for dejection. The tilde isn't "pronounced" anything, it's a damn sound lengthener, as in "nyorooooon", so all you idiots going "nyoroOoOon" can shut the fuck up! Furthermore (and this is important), Tsuruya never, ever, says "Nyoro~n." She says nyoro, do you fucking understand? "Nyoro~n" is a creation of Eretto, the author of the Churuya comics. She doesn't fucking say it. Do you understand? She doesn't fucking say it. She doesn't fucking say it. She doesn't fucking say it. She doesn't fucking say it. She doesn't fucking say it. There.
Churuya: Nyoro~n...
—Danbooru post #99340 (shopped churuya 4koma)

Commander Frack: Baroness, Baroness! I can't find my nail file! Call a meeting, call a meeting!
Destro: I've never said that, you idiot!

"Beam me up, Scotty!"
Nobody in any Canon installment of the Star Trek franchise.

"A friend of mine once told me nobody on Star Trek ever said "Beam me up, Scotty." I nodded at his knowledge of this, picked up his pet turtle, and hurled that sonuvabitch down the street."

"'Lead On, MacDuff,' is a common and perfectly acceptable phrase. It appears in important works of fact and fiction from a dozen different worlds. Even if it was originally a misquotation, it's earned its own place in any idiomatic pantheon."
Jack Frost, Jack of Fables

So, he pretty much says every possible variation: "Beam us up, Scotty", "Scotty, beam us up", "Scotty, beam me up", but wait, oh no no, he doesn't say "Beam me up, Scotty"! [...] It's almost as if it originated by someone trying to find the only way he doesn't say it!
James Rolfe discussing the Trope Namer

"Well that's another fine mess you've gotten us into!"
People who quote Oliver Hardy

"Luke, I Am Your Father."
Everyone who has ever imitated Darth Vader

Lewton: Play it again, Sam.
Samael: You know what? No one's ever going to believe you said that.

"First off, it's 'Frankly, my dear' not 'Frankly, Scarlett'."

Kayaba: "Dry land is not a myth! I HAVE SEEEEN IT!!"
Kirito: Ah, gettin' tricky are we? While that line is famously attributed to the 1995 film Water World, it is never actually spoken in the movie.

Everyone knows the scene where Lassie barks at her family, and the family responds: "What is it girl? Timmy's fallen down the well again?" Well, first of all, Timmy never actually fell down a well. Just down mine shafts, off cliffs and into rivers, lakes and quicksand. Don't you feel dumb now.

Rick: You played it for her, now play it for me.
Sam: Boss, I played it once already.
Rick: Then play it again, Sam.
Sam: Now, Boss, you know you never actually said that line. And besides, this tape ain't rewound.

Rick Blaine: Play it!
Kevin Murphy: Again! Sam! Though technically the again might not apply since you haven't played it to me tonight and really no reason to address you as Sam since you are the only one here so let's just stick with play it!

While this is pretty funny, why does everyone say "I knew him well"? That's not the quote.
Charriii5, Everything Wrong With Sonic Lost World in 10 Minutes, referring to the Alas, Poor Yorick gag in the game

I didn't really say everything I said.
Yogi Berra

"Don't believe everything you read on the Internet."
Abraham Lincoln, invoking the trope

"'Oh, creatures of the night, what beautiful music they make, I have to save Metropolis!' Superman!"
Jackson Baily, Plumbing the Death Star, "How Effective is the Suicide Squad?"

"It's easy to quote Thom Yorke. But for it to actually be a real quote, well, that's the difficult part. *laughs*"
This website, which contains fake quotes allegedly uttered by Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke.

Then, for the only time in my hearing (despite the countless times the phrase has been attributed to him), Holmes turned to me and cried: 'Quick, Watson! The game's afoot!'

And by the way? Your quotes from George Carlin aren't really George Carlin!
"Weird Al" Yankovic, "Stop Forwarding that Crap to Me"

Some people criticised me for violating Sun Tzu's most basic tenet: "Whatever you do, don't reveal all your techniques in a YouTube video, you fool, you moron."

Did you know that he never actually says "Think, Mark, Think!" He just says "Think, Mark!" But the internet loves to misquote and so it's forever "Think, Mark, Think"?

I quoted the line ‘They were no longer little girls. They were little women’ in a school essay and found out later it wasn’t in the book and it was just something Moe said
— Glenn Moore, source tweet

There is a famous poem whose name is used no more
You've heard of it by title it never really wore
(And if you haven't heard... well, kid, you just don't know the score!)
As time has passed, the newer name has substuted for
The Face on the Barroom Floor for...
The Face Upon the Floor!

Raiden: Nice argument, Senator. Why don't you back it up with a source?
Armstrong: My source is that I made it the fuck up!
Max0r - An Incorrect Summary of Metal Gear Rising | Part 2 | Sons of Obesity

Doh, I missed!
— A misinterpretation of Wario's lose quote from the first three Mario Party games

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