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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}'':
** "Go back to the source!"
** "Sometimes, one must be sacrificed."
* ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven'': "Surprise!"
** "You can never come back."
* ''WesternAnimation/AllStarSuperman'': "Doomed planet. Desperate scientists. Last hope. Kindly couple.", which also serves as the movie's BookEnds.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Barnyard}}'': "A strong man stands up for himself. A stronger man stands up for others."
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'':
** "Always play from your heart."
** "No retreat, no surrender!"
* ''Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon'':
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'': "Do you trust me?"
*** ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar'': "[[FateWorseThanDeath You'd be surprised what you can live through.]]", said whenever someone tries to point out to Jafar that as a genie he can't technically kill them.
** ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6''
*** "On a scale of one to ten, how would you rate your pain?"
*** "Will X improve your emotional state?" When Baymax takes Hiro's mental health into consideration.
*** "Are you satisfied with your care?"
*** "My programming prevents me from harming another human being."
*** "Look for a new angle!"
*** "He's alive in there. Someone has to help."
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' has three:
*** "Conceal, don't feel..."
*** "Open up/Close the gates".
*** "Only an act of true love can thaw a frozen heart." [[spoiler:As Anna's suffering from a case of a ''literally'' freezing heart, she learns that the act required is done ''[[HeroicSacrifice by her]]'', rather than ''for her'']].
** ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'':
*** "Water has memories."
*** "Do the next right thing."
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'': "Go the distance." It's used to inspire people to push a little harder, and give a little more effort to succeed.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''
*** "Sanctuary!"
*** "Who is the monster, and who is the man?"
*** "Kyrie eleison, kyrie eleison...", [[KnightTemplar Judge Claude Frollo's]] {{Leitmotif}}.
** ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'': "Ohana" and "Family", and the full phrase "Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind, or forgotten".
*** "Abomination" is often used to refer to Stitch.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994''
*** The Circle of Life.
*** HakunaMatata.
*** "Our/Your/My little secret." Scar says all of them thrice. It's simple as the first instance is relatively early in the first act, and the last two just near and during the movie's climax.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'' "We are one."
** ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'': "Keep moving forward". Notable for being part of a RealLife quote from [[spoiler:Walt Disney]] himself.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'':
*** "I am Moana of Motunui. You will board my boat, sail across the seas, and restore the heart of Te Fiti!"
*** "Who you are/who are you?"
*** "The ocean chose you/why did the ocean choose me?"
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'': "Honor" is the most important Chinese virtue, but by the end it has less value to Mulan's father. What's important is that she came home safe.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' has the theme of finding and choosing one's path in life.
** In ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog,'' "You got what you wanted, but you lost what you had" may count. It first appears during the opening number, but means something more sinister [[VillainSong the second time]].
*** "Almost there." It's first used as Tiana's IWantSong, celebrating how close she is to finally opening her restaurant; gets a DarkReprise when she discovers that she won't be getting it after all; and the BigBad uses it near the end while offering a DealWithTheDevil.
** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', the word "dream" crops up a lot, most notably when Rapunzel asks the thugs in the [[BadGuyBar Snuggly Duckling]] if they've ever had a dream, as a plea to get them to release Flynn. Not only does this sway them to her side, but leads into a whole ''musical number'' about them sharing their dreams. Later, after Rapunzel has finally lived her own dream and is sitting with Flynn on the boat, she ask him what does she do with her life now. His response? "Well, that's the good part I guess. You get to go find a new dream." Then finally, during Flynn's [[spoiler: DisneyDeath, he tells Rapunzel "You were my new dream."]] "And you were mine."
** ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'':
*** "Going Turbo". [[spoiler:It refers to Turbo, a character who tried to jump from one game to another, with disastrous results.]]
*** "I'm bad, and that's good. I will never be good and that's not bad. There's no-one I'd rather be than me."
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'': "Savage" and "It's called a hustle, sweetheart".
* ''Creator/DreamWorksAnimation'':
** ''WesternAnimation/TheBossBaby'':
*** The Boss Baby tries to get under Tim's skin by telling him that they'll always be together, when Tim wakes up in the morning, every Christmas and eventually growing old together. Later, when Tim [[spoiler:wants his baby brother, now the head of Baby Corp., back, he writes a letter to him using these words affectionately.]]
*** The "[[Music/TheBeatles Blackbird]]" song is used several times, first as a bedtime song to Tim, then to the Boss Baby, then the Boss Baby trying to cheer Tim up and finally [[spoiler:Tim, lonely and sad, after he has a fight with the Boss Baby in the airport and they seem to have split, Tim having said that he wished the Boss Baby had never been born.]]
** ''WesternAnimation/TheCroods''
*** "We should go there."
*** "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6...[[spoiler:''7'']]"
*** "To tomorrow!"
** ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda''
*** "There are no accidents."
*** "There is no secret ingredient."
** ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'':
*** "Who are you?"/"Who am I?"
*** "Your story may not have such a happy beginning..."
** ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'': "All I ever wanted."
*** "[[WellDoneSonGuy Weak link]]" and "[[GodEmperor the Morning and the Evening Star]]" for Ramses.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}''
*** Really really!
*** Also, "perfect", or some variant. Said almost every time by Farquaad regarding himself or Duloc.
** ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'': "Happily Ever After."
** ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots'': "[[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre You are better than this.]]"
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Igor}}'': "I'd rather be a good nobody than a bad somebody."
* ''WesternAnimation/IsleOfDogs''
** "Whatever happened to man's best friend?"
** "I bite."
* ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'':
** "You are who you choose to be."
** "Souls don't die."
** [[spoiler:"Superman."]]
* ''WesternAnimation/Klaus2019'': A true act of good will, always sparks another.
* ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'':
** "If you must blink, do it now."
** "You are my quest."
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLastUnicorn'': "The Last."
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Leap}}'': "Why do you dance?"
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'':
** "Now it's your turn to be the hero."
** "The most important, most talented, most interesting, and most extraordinary person in the universe..."
** The obsession of Lord Business [[spoiler: and The Man Upstairs]] with keeping everything "How it's supposed to be."
** ''Everything is awesome!''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie2TheSecondPart''
** "[[NotBrainwashed Brainwashed]]"
** "[[SiblingRivalry You started it!]]" This one is notable, since [[spoiler:[[BigBrotherWorship it changes it's meaning]] over the course of the movie]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOBatmanMovie'': PlayedForLaughs.
** The lyrics to [[Music/MichaelJackson "Man in the Mirror"]] show up multiple times in the film, quoted first for humor and then for meaning.
** Batman goes out of his way during serious moments in the film to state the importance of [[RunningGag "his totally ripped abs."]]
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunesRabbitsRun'': "Maybe it's time you/I had a new dream."
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'': "Unless..."
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017:'' "I/you/we got this."
* ''Noel'': "My name is Noel, and I have a happiness", which becomes "I AM a happiness" when he AscendsToAHigherPlaneOfExistence at the end.
* ''Creator/{{Pixar}}'':
** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'', the film's protagonist Miguel, uses the CatchPhrase of his idol Ernesto De La Cruz, "Seize your moment!", as his personnel motto. [[spoiler: Until he learns that said idol, [[BrokenPedestal is a complete scumbag, who murdered his best friend for his fame]] and by "Seize Your moment!" he means do [[AmbitionIsEvil whatever you have to, to benefit]] [[ItsAllAboutMe yourself, even if it comes at the cost of harming others]].]]
*** Also, in a less ironic, but still spoilery example, "Remember Me" Ernesto de la Cruz's SignatureSong. [[spoiler: Only it's not Ernesto's, it's Hector's, which he wrote for his daughter, Coco.]]
** ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'':
*** "All drains lead to the ocean."
*** "Just keep swimming," and "Swim down."
*** "You think you can do these things, but you can't, Nemo!/[[spoiler: Dory!]]"
*** "Trust me on this."
** ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'': "Rescue, rehabilitation, and release."
** ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'':
*** "To infinity, and beyond!"
*** "Falling with style."
** ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'': "Together."
** ''WesternAnimation/WallE:'' "Directive." For robot it basically means one's purpose, which can mean very different things depending on one's current level of CharacterDevelopment.
* ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'':
** ''WesternAnimation/PoohsGrandAdventure'':
*** "Forever (and ever)"
*** "[[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre You are braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.]]"
*** "[[AlwaysWithYou Even if we are apart, I will always be with you.]]"
** ''WesternAnimation/TheTiggerMovie'': "Family."
** ''WesternAnimation/PigletsBigMovie'':
*** "Big," for the movie's main theme.
*** "Aha!" for the flashback when Kanga and Roo moved in.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie'': "Make [the town] a better place."
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}''
** "Who am I?"
** "Control the water and you control everything."
** "One bullet."
** "No man can walk out on his own story."
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Robots}}'':
** "You can shine no matter what you're made of."
** "See a need, fill a need."
* ''WesternAnimation/RudolphAndFrostysChristmasInJuly'': "Nothing is forever."
* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse:''
** "Get up/get back up."
** "Expectations."
** "A leap of faith."
** "I love you. You have to/you don't have to say it back."
** "Let's do this/start at the beginning one more/last time."
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarepantsMovie: "I'm a Goofy Goober, YEAH!"
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater'': "The end".
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie'' has "Happily Ever After", specifically Steven feeling that he's finally got his well earned HappilyEverAfter after resolving the main conflict of the the series before hand, losing it, spending the movie trying to get it back, [[spoiler: and ultimately [[CharacterDevelopment realizing their was no such thing to begin with and he'll always face struggles in his life.]]]]
** "Play", "Game", and "Friend/Best Friend/Other Friends" are ones specific to the BigBad, Spinel.
** "Change" becomes one at the very climax of the film.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'':
** "Light Our Darkest Hour"
** More humorously, the 'Universal Greeting' - "Bah Weep Grah Na Weep Ninny Bong", first used by Kup in a failed attempt to befriend the Sharkticons, is later used successfully by Hot Rod to befriend the Junkions.
** "[[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/%27Til_all_are_one 'Til all are one.]]" Associated with the [[PlotDevice Matrix of Leadership]] and serving as a [[RousingSpeech rallying cry]] for the Autobots, the phrase has since transcended its source to become part of the greater MythArc of the [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} entire franchise]]. It can be interpreted in different ways, as either "until all Cybertronians shed their factions and unite as one race", such as Primus hoped would happen to counter the threat of Unicron in the [[ComicBook/TheTransformers original comics]], or (as conceived in early scripts for the film) "until all the [[OurSoulsAreDifferent life sparks]] of the Transformers are united in the afterlife", concepts not fully fleshed out until ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars''.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* The D is for D[[spoiler:eloused]] segment of ''Film/ABCsOfDeath2'': "You pay for life."
* ''Film/AllThePresidentsMen'': "Follow the money."
* ''Film/AlmostFamous'': "Mystique". Also, "The enemy."
* ''Film/AmericanPsycho'': "This is not an exit".
* ''Film/{{Annie|2014}}'': Annie's words to Stacks become significant enough that he puts them into his speech.
-->"Whenever someone says 'no', it's because they're scared of saying 'yes'".
* ''Film/AssassinsCreed2016'': "For the Creed" describes the motivations of many characters, both Assassin and Templar.
* ''Film/{{Avatar}}'': "I see you."
* ''Film/BagdadCafe'': "Magic!"
* ''Film/BicentennialMan'':
** During the first half of the film, Andrew's line "One is glad to be of service" indicates that he is enjoying his work. In the second half, however, after he's stopped using "[[ThirdPersonPerson one]]" as a personal pronoun, it's a sign that he is seeing himself as a robot and not happy. At the very end, Galatea [[BorrowedCatchphrase quotes him]] to express her gratitude in helping.
** "That will not do." The first time he says these words, right after Little Miss passes away, Andrew memorizes every medical textbook available ''in the world'' to begin designing [[ArtificialLimbs artificial organs]] and DNA elixirs that mix the technological with the biological, making a profound leap in medical technology. When he says those words again after Portia tells him [[RoboticSpouse their marriage will never be accepted]], he goes on a campaign to earn full rights as a human being.
* ''Film/BigFish'': "Story/ies."
* ''Film/BlackChristmas2006'': "...My family now." These words persist in the heads of the Lenz children.
* ''Film/BlackSwan'':
** "Lose yourself."
** "Live a little."
** "Perfect."
** "Sweet girl."
* ''Film/BladeRunner'':
** "To live in fear."
** "Time to die."
* ''Film/BladeRunner2049'':
** "Cells interlinked within cells interlinked within cells."
** "What's it like to hold the hand of someone love? What's it like to hold your child in your arms?"
** "Because you have never seen a miracle."
** "Dying for the right cause is the most human thing we can do."
* ''Film/BloodDiamond'': " T.I.A. This Is Africa."
* ''Film/BloodOfTheTribades'': "The blood is the life". It appears to be a religious phrase for the vampires, denoting their equivalent of communion, as the blood of Bathor is believed to have provided their eternal life.
* ''Film/BohemianRhapsody'': "Family" is used many times in reference to both [[Music/{{Queen}} the band]] and their personal lives. Also, to a lesser extent: "Good thoughts, good words, good deeds."
* ''Film/TheBourneSeries'': "Look at us. Look at what they make you give."
* ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid'' often ask "who are those guys?" in reference to the posse chasing them across the west but it also symbolizes the EndOfAnEra for western outlaws. They can't run away from progress.
* ''Film/ChristopherRobin'': Two contrasting phrases are brought up throughout the film and recur frequently: "Nothing comes from nothing" and "Doing nothing often leads to the very best kind of something."
* ''Film/AChristmasStory'': "You'll shoot your eye out!"
* ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'': "In our faith, we keep what we kill."
* ''Film/{{Cinderella 2015}}'': "Have courage and be kind", told to Ella by her dying mother. What starts out as a simple platitude ends up becoming a challenging SurvivalMantra for Ella, as she determines herself to keep finding ''something'' in this world to keep hopeful about, even when all she ever seems to receive is hatred and cruelty.
* "Rosebud." from ''Film/CitizenKane'' is a possible UrExample. Of course, [[ItWasHisSled it's not really enigmatic anymore.]]
* ''Film/CitySlickersIITheLegendOfCurlysGold'' -- "Come and get me".
* In the original draft of the screenplay, Dante's constant complaint that "I'm not even supposed to be here today!" in ''Film/{{Clerks}}'' was intended to foreshadow the tragic irony of Dante getting shot to death by a criminal at the film's conclusion. As the script was revised, this particular meaning is lost: however, Randall still references Dante's use of the phrase in his rant near the end about how Dante refuses to accept responsibility for his own actions or attempt to make change in his miserable life. The same with the other arc phrase: "Bunch of savages in this town."
* ''Film/CloudAtlas'', being an a film built largely on symbolism, has a huge number of shared ideas, visuals and -- of course -- phrases. Sometimes coincidence, sometimes an instance of in-universe quoting, a few stand out:
** "Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others; past and present..."
** "The weak are meat, and the strong do eat."
** "There is a natural order to this world..."
** "I will not be subjected to criminal abuse!"
* ''Film/{{Colette}}'': "I am the real Claudine."
* ''Film/{{Congo}}'': "We are watching you."
* ''Film/{{Contact}}''. "If there is no one out there, it's an awful waste of space."
* ''Film/TheConversation'': "He'd kill us if he had the chance."
* ''Film/TheCuriousCaseOfBenjaminButton'' "You never know what's coming for you" represents one of the film's themes that deal with the unexpected ways life will change.
* ''Film/DarkCity'': "Do you know the way to Shell Beach?"
* ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy''
** "Why do we fall?" in all three movies.
** In ''Film/BatmanBegins'':
*** "If you make yourself more than just a man..."
*** "It's not who I am underneath, it's what I do that defines me."
** In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'':
*** "You wanna know how I got these scars?"
*** "Why so serious?"
*** “You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
** In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'':
*** "Rise."
*** "Anyone can be a hero."
* Creator/DavidLynch, in keeping with his affinity for mystery and ambiguity, sometimes uses these.
** ''Film/LostHighway'': "Dick Laurant is dead". "We've met before, haven't we?"
** ''Film/MulhollandDrive'': "This is the girl".
** ''Film/InlandEmpire'' has a few; most obvious is "look at me and tell me if you've known me before", but there's also "[=AXXoN N.=]", "just down the way" and "the horse to the well" (which is hard to spot since it's mostly muffled or spoken in Polish).
* ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'': "Ape not kill ape."
* ''Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse''
** ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'':
*** For Superman, any variation of "my world" is frequently uttered. It showcases how he sees Earth as his home and Lois Lane as his life/soul mate.
** For Batman, the words "men" and "good" being used in the same phrase/sentence. It highlights how cynical he is, and it also illustrates his journey on regaining a bit of his idealism.
** ''Film/WonderWoman2017'':
*** "I used to want to save the world" used as BookEnds.
*** "They do not deserve you", in various variations, concluding with: "It's not about what they deserve, it's what you believe."
** ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'': "Hope" and "Fear"
** ''Film/{{Shazam 2019}}'': "All hands on deck."
* ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'': "Carpe diem"/"Seize the day".
* ''Film/{{Deadpool 2}}'': "Your heart is not in the right place." Spoken by Vanessa and repeatedly haunt Wade [[spoiler:after [[StuffedIntoTheFridge her death]]. It later turns out, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold his heart]] ''[[JerkWithAHeartOfGold is]]''.]]
* ''Film/DirtyHarry'': "Do you feel lucky, punk?"
** ''Film/MagnumForce'': "Man has to known his limitations."
** ''Film/TheEnforcer'': "Marvellous."
** ''Film/SuddenImpact'': "Go ahead, make my day."
** ''Film/TheDeadPool'': "You're shit outta luck."
* ''Film/{{Dunkirk}}'': "Home."
* ''Film/EaglesGathered'': "Golden boy, golden boy, where have you been?"
* ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'' has several sets of repeated phrases that the audience uses to track Cage's progress through the GroundhogDayLoop.
** "On your feet, maggot!" The DrillSergeantNasty saying this as he kicks Cage awake marks the beginning of a new loop. The only times Cage wakes up without hearing this phrase, [[spoiler: first after he's [[BroughtDownToNormal lost the ability to loop]] and second after he's destroyed the Omega]] are ''huge'' moments as a result.
** "You keep coming here every day and I'll train you." Rita's words to Cage show us that he's not the first person to have this power, eventually Cage interrupts her by saying that ''he already has'' come there and trained with her, hundreds if not thousands of times.
** "Hey mate, there's something wrong with your suit! There's a dead guy in it!" Skinner taunts Cage with this in the dropship, highlighting how ridiculously [[NewMeat out of]] [[ArmchairMilitary his depth]] Cage is at the beginning. By the end, Cage has died so many times and become such a [[ShellShockedVeteran hardened warrior]] that he finishes the joke himself, and it's Skinner who feels intimidated when he looks at [[TookALevelInBadass Cage]].
* ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'': "I've been dreaming of a true love's kiss..."
* ''Film/EscapeRoom2017'': "It's all part of the game."
* ''Film/EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind'': "Meet me in Montauk".
* ''Film/FieldOfDreams'':
** "If you build it, he will come."
** Ease his pain.
** Go the distance.
* ''Film/ForrestGump'': "Run, Forrest, run!"
* ''Film/TheFugitive'': [[BlatantLies "I don't care."]]
* ''Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare'': "I Won't Tell."
* ''Film/GalaxyQuest'': "Never give up! Never surrender!"
* ''Film/TheGallows'': "He wants me. He's coming for me."
* ''Film/GetOut2017''
** From the trailer: "A mind is a terrible thing to waste".
** From the film itself, variations on "just like one of the family".
** "Dead by the side of the road" comes up a lot — it's how Chris' mother dies, how the deer Chris and Rose hit with their car dies, what Dean says he thinks should happen to all deer, and how [[spoiler: Chris leaves [[ManipulativeBitch Rose]] at the end]].
* ''Film/TheGodfather'': "Make him an offer he can't refuse."
* ''Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel'': "Enchanting old ruin." This phrase is only explicitly used to describe the hotel itself, but is implicitly applicable to M. Gustave, the country of Zubrowka, post-UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Eastern Europe as a whole, and anyone or anything else that seems to be [[BornInTheWrongCentury an out-of-place relic of a bygone time]].
* ''Film/TheGrey'': "Live and die on this day...Live and die on this day."
* ''Film/TheGreenMile'': "Miracle." and "I tried to take it back... but it was too late."
* ''Film/HellraiserInferno'': During his pursuit of the serial killer, Detective Joseph Thorne keeps hearing the phrase "Hunt the Engineer, and the Engineer hunts you." [[spoiler:This is because they're the same person.]]
* ''Film/{{Highlander}}'': "There can be only one."
* ''Film/HotFuzz'': "The Greater Good."
* ''Film/TheHouseOfTheDevil'': Get a grip.
* ''Film/TheHungerGamesCatchingFire'': "Remember who the real/true enemy is".
* ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart1'': "If we burn, you'll burn with us!"
* ''Film/TheIllusionist'' fires off a series of arc words in a montage at the end of the movie, giving context to everything that was said earlier which takes on a new meaning when the truth is exposed at the end. The most significant being [[spoiler:"Everything you have seen is an illusion."]]
* ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}'': "Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way." Joe prefers to get out of the way and his CharacterDevelopment involves him learning that sometimes being neutral isn't an option.
* ''Film/{{Inception}}'':
** "You're waiting for a train. A train that will take you far away. You know where you hope the train will take you, but you can't know for sure. Yet it doesn't matter. Now, tell me why?" [[spoiler:"Because we'll be together!"]]
** "An old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone."
** "Take a leap of faith."
* "Fortune and Glory" from ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom''.
* ''Film/{{Interstellar}}'':
** All or parts of Dylan Thomas's poem "Literature/DoNotGoGentleIntoThatGoodNight".
** "90%" [honesty]
* ''Film/IntoTheStorm2009'': "Out spoke Brave Horatius, Captain of the gate, to every man upon this earth, death cometh soon or late. And how can a man die better, than by facing the fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his gods?" a phrase repeated by UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill twice in the movie.
* ''Franchise/JamesBond''
** ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService''
*** "[[TearJerker We have all the time in the world]]", for this film and the beginning of ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''
** ''Film/GoldenEye'':
*** "For England, James?"
** ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough''
*** "There's no point in living if you can't feel alive."
** ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'':
*** "Skyfall" is mentioned early on in the movie and is the only part in the word association that James Bond didn't have a witty answer to. It turns out to be [[spoiler:Bond's family home, where his parents had died in a freak accident.]]
*** "Think on your sins."
*** "Sometimes, the old ways are the best."
* ''Franchise/JohnWick'': The series as a whole has "Be seeing you", [[spoiler: generally used as a final exchange between a defeated (and [[FamousLastWords possibly dying]]) opponent and John.]]
** [[Film/JohnWick The first film]] also has "Let's go home", symbolizing John's return to the criminal underworld.
** ''Film/JohnWickChapter3Parabellum'' has several:
*** Several characters repeat and comment upon the phrase "I have served. I will be of service", which appears to be an oath of loyalty among the Table and those who serve under it. [[spoiler: This adds some ambiguity to Winston's betrayal of Wick and re-pledge to The High Table at the end of the film, as while he claims to "have served", he doesn't complete the whole phrase, and instead goes on about how he's a valuable pillar of stability for New York City.]]
*** The phrase "choices and consequences" also pops up quite a bit, mostly in relation to the fallout of John's actions at the end of the second movie and what path he wants to take now.
*** "Above/Below/Under The Table" pops up quite a bit.
*** Characters proclaim their loyalty to the High Table by pledging their "fealty". The Bowery King, notably, thinks it's a load of horseshit.
--> '''Bowery King:''' I'm gonna shove so much "fealty" up your ass it's gonna come spilling out your mouth.
* ''Franchise/JurassicPark'':
** "Life finds a way" is first said by Ian Malcolm in ''Film/JurassicPark'', then later gets paraphrased by Alan Grant when he and the kids come across a dinosaur nest. It gets further paraphrased by John Hammond in ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' in reference to the surprising survival of the dinosaurs on Isla Sorna. This also serves as the TagLine for ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' (incidentally the first film to include an appearance by Malcolm since ''Lost World'').
** "More teeth" is first used by Claire Dearing in ''Film/JurassicWorld'' to describe one of the things they are looking for in [=InGen=]'s new hybrid dinosaur, the ''Indominus rex''. Later, Gray says it to his aunt Claire [[spoiler:after seeing they and the raptors are outmatched against ''Indominus'', inspiring her to go and lure out the ''TyrannosaurusRex'']].
* ''Film/KillBill'': "You and I have unfinished business."
* ''Film/AKnightsTale'': "[[ScrewDestiny A man can change his stars.]]"
* ''Film/LettersToJuliet'': "If it's true love, then it is never too late".
* ''Film/LiberalArts'': "Fortune never smiles on those who say no."
* ''Film/{{Logan}}'':
** "So that's what it feels like."
** The closing dialogue from ''Film/{{Shane}}'' is quoted significantly twice: "There's no living with a killing. There's no going back from it. Right or wrong, it's a brand. A brand that sticks. There's no going back. Now you run on home to your mother and tell her... tell her everything's alright, and [[EndOfAnEra there aren't any more guns in the valley.]]"
* ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'': "We are not things."
** "Who killed the world?"
** "Witness me!"
** "I live. I die. I live again!"
* ''Film/MarathonMan'': "Is it safe?
* In ''Film/TheMartian'', the entire world takes up the rally of "Bring him home." Several NASA officials say it throughout the film and once Watney's perilous rescue begins, [[NationsOfTheWorldMontage millions and millions of people]] are shown holding signs, wearing T-shirts, and posting hashtags emblazoned with the pleading words.
* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** If there are any arc words for the franchise as a whole, or at least Iron Man's character arc, they would be "I am Iron Man". Said in Iron Man I to admit he was responsible for everything in the film, Iron Man II [[ObstructiveBureaucrat at congress]] to defend his continued control of his suits, Iron Man III after he spent the whole movie showing us that he was more than his suits, and [[spoiler: Endgame [[ShutUpHannibal in defiance of Thanos's "I am inevitable"]] [[FacingTheBulletsOneLiner right before]] [[HeroicSacrifice he snaps his fingers.]]]]
** ''Film/{{Iron Man|1}}'':
*** "This is your legacy." reflecting on both the titular protagonist's dark familial history as well as the new one he will make upon atonement, which is fitting since this movie launched the SharedUniverse.
** ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'':
*** "It's an old-fashioned notion."
*** "Soldiers".
*** "Sentiment."
*** Variants on "avenge". (In addition to the title and The Avengers Initiative, there's the unspoken but implied last word of Coulson's assertion that the team were never going to work together "if they didn't have something [[KilledMidSentence to...]]" and finally Tony's threat to Loki that they will avenge the world if they can't save it.)
** ''Film/IronMan3''
*** "You know who I am."
*** "We create our own demons." May also be applicable to [[spoiler: Avengers: Age of Ultron, given its premise.]]
*** "When is a bomb not a bomb?" "A bomb is not a bomb [[spoiler: when it's a [[SuperPowerMeltdown misfire]].]]"
** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'':
*** "Captain's orders."
*** "On your left."
*** "I'm with you till the end of the line."
** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'':
*** "[[TakeMyHand Take/Hold my hand!]]"
** ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'':
*** "Monsters"
*** "Together"
*** "Strings" (especially in the context of Pinocchio references)
** ''Film/AntMan1'':
*** "I know a guy..."
*** "Become the hero she already thinks you are."
*** "Go Subatomic."
** ''Film/ThorRagnarok''
*** "Asgard isn't a place, it's a people."
*** Thor has been called "God/Lord of Thunder" throughout the film, and for good reason. [[spoiler: Realizing that his powers are lightning and thunder themselves and not Mjölnir is what finally allows him to turn the tide of the FinalBattle in his favor.]]
*** Thor is told that he's "Home" many, many times in many, many different locations. [[spoiler: This is related to Odin's words that Asgard can be anywhere — thus, Thor can be "home" anywhere.]]
*** "That's what heroes do."
** ''Film/BlackPanther2018''
*** "We/You do not/will not speak of this". Said by characters in order to preserve Wakanda's masquerade as an impoverished nation, but at the same time coinciding with the film's plot that is driven by a DarkSecret.
*** "Who are you?" Plays into the overall themes of who we are versus who we choose to be versus who outside forces make us into.
*** "Praise the ancestors."
*** "Wakanda forever!"
** ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' uses "misdirection" multiple times. It comes from Scott's ChekhovsSkill of close-up magic tricks, and comes into play when outsmarting the BigBadEnsemble.
** ''Film/AvengersEndgame''
*** "Whatever it takes." Showcasing how much of a {{Determinator}} the protagonists are but also [[DespairEventHorizon how dire the situation is]].
*** "Move on." It relates to how the characters must try to adjust to the new status quo.
*** "I am inevitable." Uttered by ComicBook/{{Thanos}}, who believes that he is the "be all, end all" of all existence.
* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' series:
** "What is the Matrix?" were arc words throughout the marketing and right up until a third of the way through the film.
** "Everything that has a beginning has an end."
* ''Film/MillionDollarBaby'': "Mo Cuishle" which is Gaelic for "My Darling, my blood".
* ''Film/MissionImpossible''
** ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'': "Desperate times, desperate measures."
** ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout.'' manages to turn the IMF's very CatchPhrase "This is your mission, if you choose to accept it." into both this and an ArmorPiercingQuestion. John Lark's manifesto is often quoted many times throughout the movie. "There cannot be peace without first, a great suffering. The greater the suffering, the greater the peace."
* ''Film/{{Mongol}}'': All Mongols fear thunder.
* ''Film/MoulinRouge'': "Truth Beauty Freedom Love"
* ''Film/TheMummy1999'': "Death is only the beginning"
* ''Film/MysteryTeam'': "Someone stole that man's face"; in a weird way, the f word.
* ''Film/OnTheWaterfront'' has "bum", usually spoken in regards to its protagonist, Terry Malloy.
* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'':
** "The Dutchman must have a captain."
** "It's just good business."
** "Part of the ship, part of the crew."
** "Hoist the colours."
* ''Film/ThePrestige'': "Are you watching closely?" "Every magic trick consists of three acts." [[spoiler:"No one cares about the man in the box."]]
* ''Film/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'': "Have I told you about the Ngbaka?"
* ''Film/ThePrincipal'': "No more."
* ''Film/RedRidingHood'': "During the Blood Moon, a man bitten is a man cursed."
* ''Film/RedSparrow'': Various permutations of "identify what the target needs, and give it to them" form the mantra for the sparrows, a class of Russian spies trained as {{Honey Trap}}s.
* ''Film/{{Reincarnation}}'': "Together Forever".
* ''Film/TheRightStuff'': "Who's the greatest pilot you ever saw? You're lookin' at him!"
* ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'': "No", as well as "Home".
* "Rise and rise again, until lambs become lions" from ''Film/RobinHood2010''.
* ''Film/SafeHouse'': "We'll take it from here."
* ''Franchise/{{Saw}}''
** "I want to play a game."
** "Live or die. Make your choice/The choice is yours."
** "Game over."
* ''Film/Scarface1983'': "The world is yours."
* ''Film/TheScribbler'': "Unzip Your Head."
* ''Seeking Justice'' had "The hungry rabbit jumps", a phrase linked to the secret vigilante organization Will Gerard found himself involved with. In fact, the working title for the movie actually was ''The Hungry Rabbit Jumps''.
* ''Film/{{Serenity}}'': "Lie down".
** River first says "They never lie down" about the dead Reaver on the ship. Later, it is found out the words haunt her dreams.
** Mal asks the Operative "Me and mine gotta lie down and die so you can live in your perfect world?"
** [[spoiler:The people of the planet Miranda really did lie down and die after they were accidentally poisoned. Those who didn't die became Reavers.]]
* ''Film/ShakespeareInLove'': "I don't know. It's a mystery."
* ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'':
** "We're all innocent in here."
** "Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'."
** "Brooks was here."
** "Rehabilitated.".
* ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'': "You've got red on you".
* ''Film/TheShining'': REDRUM... REDRUM...
* ''Film/ShortCircuit'': "Alive".
* ''Film/{{Signs}}'': When Colleen was dying, she [[spoiler:tells Graham to tell Morgan to have fun and to be silly, for Bo to always listen to her brother because he will take care of her. She tells Graham to "see" and tells Merrill to "swing away"]].
* ''Film/SonOfAGun'': "Never trust a pawn".
* ''Film/{{Speed}}'': "Pop quiz, hotshot/asshole" and "What do you do?".
* ''Star Trek [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan II]]'', ''[[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock III]]'', and ''[[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome IV]]'' have "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few... or the one".
* ''Franchise/StarWars''
** "I've got a bad feeling about this."
** Any time "midichlorians" are brought up, it's basically going to change Anakin's life forever.
*** The first is when his jedi talent is discovered and he's rescued from slavery.
*** The second is when Yoda reveals his dark destiny and refuses to let him be trained.
*** The third is when Qui Gon reveals he intends to train him regardless of what the council orders, sealing both their fates.
*** The fourth is when Palpatine tells him the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise, the exact reveal needed to get Anakin on his side.
** [[MeaningfulBackgroundEvent Almost inaudible]] every time it comes up, [[TheChosenOne "Son of the Suns"]].
** For one that stretches across the [[Film/TheForceAwakens sequel]] [[Film/TheLastJedi trilogy]] [[Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker films]], a variation on the phrase "I know what I have to do (but I don't have the strength to do it)" is spoken by Kylo Ren once per film. Each time it appears signifies a ''massive'' shift in his character arc.
** Someone asks Rey "Who are you?" once in each of the sequel trilogy films:
*** ''Film/TheForceAwakens:'' Maz Kanata asks her on Takodana.
*** ''Film/TheLastJedi:'' Luke Skywalker asks her on Ahch-To.
*** ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker:'' An old woman asks her [[spoiler:at the ruins of the Lars homestead on Tatooine.]]
** ''Film/RogueOne'' has several of its own, separate from most of the other saga entries:
*** "Hope."
*** "Stardust."
*** "I am one with the Force and the Force is with me."
** ''Film/TheForceAwakens''
*** "Complete."
*** "Run as far as you can."
*** "I feel it again."
** ''Film/TheLastJedi''
*** "We are the spark that will light the fire."
*** "Raw power/strength."
*** "Godspeed, rebels."
*** "Let the past die."
*** "Go on. Say it."
*** "Impressive. Every word in that sentence was wrong."
* ''Film/StrictlyBallroom'': "A life lived in fear is a life half-lived."
* ''Film/TheSuicideTheory'': "You're lucky to be alive."
* ''Film/TheTreeOfLife'':
** "The Way of Nature and the Way of Grace".
** "Where were you?"
** "Brother..."
* ''Film/TallTale'': "The Code of the East/North/South/West"
-->"Respect the land! Defend the defenseless! And don't ever spit in front of women or children!" [[RunningGag *Spit*]]
* ''Film/TheTenCommandments'': "Moses, Moses" and "So let it be written, so let it be done".
* ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'':
** ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'': "[[ScrewDestiny No fate.]]"
** ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'': "I am a machine." and "[[YouCantFightFate Judgement Day is inevitable.]]"
** ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'': "[[CosmicRetcon Keep going forward and don't look back.]]"
* ''Film/ThatThingYouDo:'' Guy Patterson is fond of quoting the line "I am Spartacus." (The film is set in 1964, and ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'' came out four years before that.) He says it as a sign-off to his girlfriend, shouts it in triumph as the band rockets to stardom... and at the end, alone in the studio as the last of the Wonders, sardonically gives "I am Spartacus" as the title for his noodling around on the drums when the techs ask if he wants to lay it down.
* ''Film/{{Transcendence}}'': "Humans fear what they don't understand."
* ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie'': "Wanna see something REALLY scary?"
* ''Film/VanHelsing'': "In the name of God, open this door."
* ''Film/VanillaSky'': "Open your eyes."
* ''Film/VoyageOfTheUnicorn'': "Credendo Vides" (by believing, one sees) and "faith precedes the miracle".
* ''Film/WarForThePlanetOfTheApes'': "Apes together strong."
* ''[[Film/WeAreMarshall WE ARE! MARSHALL!]]'' Also doubles as a TitleDrop.
* ''Film/WhatLiesBeneath'': "YOU KNOW".
* "Even a man who is pure in heart..." poem in films featuring ''Film/TheWolfMan1941.''
* ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'':
** "Have/having a good time."
** "We wanna be free, we wanna get loaded, and we wanna have a good time! And that's what we're going to do!"
* ''Film/XMenApocalypse'':
** [[Film/XMen1 Once upon a time]], Magneto asked Xavier what would he do if some day the secret is outed and the people come to take him and his students. The latter replies, "I feel a great swell of pity for the poor soul that comes to my school looking for trouble." This is another year, another timeline, another context, a Magneto and an Xavier with other lives (and played by different actors), but their dialogue is repeated, word by word.
** "All will be revealed." Apocalypse himself uses this phrase often, both to reassure the Horsemen and to not divulge details of his plan to Xavier and the rest of the X-Men. [[spoiler:When Jean Grey unleashes the Phoenix Force against him, this changes to "All is revealed" just before he is disintegrated. It is left unclear if causing this event was one of his goals.]]
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* ''Film/{{Bicentennial}}'':

** "That will not do." The first time he says these words, right after Little Miss passes away, Andrew memorizes every medical textbook available ''in the world'' to begin designing [[ArtificalLimbs artificial organs]] and DNA elixirs that mix the technological with the biological, making a profound leap in medical technology. When he says those words again after Portia tells him [[RoboticSpouse their marriage will never be accepted]], he goes on a campaign to earn full rights as a human being.

* ''Film/Bicentennial'':

* ''Film/AKnightsTale'': "[[ScrewDestiny A man can change his stars.]]"

* ''Star Trek [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan II]]'', ''[[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock III]]'', and ''[[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome IV]]'' have "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. . .or the one".

** Any time "midi-chlorians" are brought up, it's basically going to change Anakin's life forever.

** For one that stretches across the [[Film/TheForceAwakens sequel]] [[Film/TheLastJedi trilogy]] [[Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker films]], a variation on the phrase "I know what I have to do (but I don't have the strength to do it" is spoken by Kylo Ren once per film. Each time it appears signifies a ''massive'' shift in his character arc.

*** "I am inevitable." Uttered by ComicBook/Thanos, who believes that he is the "be all, end all" of all existence.

*** "I am inevitable." Uttered by the BigBad, who believes that he is the "be all, end all" of all existence.

*** "[[TearJerker We have all the time in the world]]." for this film and the beginning of ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''

*** "Going Turbo". It refers to Turbo, a character who tried to jump from one game to another, with disastrous results.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'': "Savage" and "It's called a hustle, sweetheart"