1.    Dirty Dancing – ‘Nobody puts baby in a corner.’

There’s a big fan base for ‘I carried a watermelon?’ but there’s something about a smouldering Patrick Swayze – complete with ruffled mullet and too-tight trousers – that makes this line the winner.

2.    Pulp Fiction – ‘What do the French call a Big Mac with cheese?’

Yes, we all know it’s a Royale. Just because you’re in MacDonalds steaming drunk at midnight doesn’t make the line original or funny. Now hurry up and order, we’re hungry.

3.    Wall Street – ‘Lunch is for wimps.’

Even if we got to wear red braces, shout a lot and make heaps of cash, we’re not giving up our daily cheese sandwich.

4.    Top Gun – ‘You can be my wingman any time.’

There are a plethora of lines to choose from as any Top Gun geek will attest, but beyond writing out the entire lyrics to ‘You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling’, this is probably the most heavily quoted. Best accompanied by a white vest and some heavy homoerotic overtones.

5.    Zoolander – ‘Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don’t play their game.’

Evidently they’re not up for teaching you much at the ‘Derek Zoolander Center For Children Who Can’t Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too’. There is more to life than being really, really good-looking but if you can master the walk off and Blue Steel look, it certainly opens doors.

6.    The Princess Bride – ‘My name is Inigo Montoya – you killed my father, prepare to die.’

It’s essential to accompany this line with an Italian accent while brandishing a fake sword. Even better if you can hunt down a 6-fingered man to act as your opponent.

7.    Anchorman – ‘I don’t know how to put this but I’m kind of a big deal.’

Will Ferrell’s Ron Burgandy is a walking one-liner with a moustache to die for. We must have watched this movie 647 times and somehow it still inspires stomach-ache-inducing laughter.

8.    Withnail & I – ‘I must have some booze. I demand to have some booze.’

Withnail is quite heavy on the booze quotes, and the hangover ones too. After a heavy night, most people can probably relate to: ‘I feel like a pig shat in my head’.

9.    The Italian Job – ‘You’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off.’

It’s hard to imagine an everyday scenario when this quote might come in handy but people manage to quote it with alarming frequency – usually in an imitation Michael Caine cockney accent that would be more at home on the set of Eastenders.

10.    The Terminator – ‘I’ll be back.’

While, unlike the rest of the flicks on this list, The Terminator didn’t generate a large number of oft-repeated quotes from its fanboys, it did spawn the hugely irritating German-English catchphrase, ‘I’ll be back’.

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