Best opening/closing movie lines?

These are my favorites mango babies.

1. "I was born a poor black child."- Steve Martin in The Jerk

2."...Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."- George C. Scott in Patton

3. "There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence."- Malcolm Mcdowell in A Clockwork orange.

4. "Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family, Choose a f---ing big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suit on hire purchased in a range of f---ing fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the f--k you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sittin' on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing f---ing junk food into your mouth. Choose rottin' away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarassment to the selfish, f--ked-up brats that you've spawned to replace yourself. Choose a future. Choose life...But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?"- Ewan Macgreggor in Trainspotting

5. "Squeal like a pig. So, squeal." Kare Hedebrant in Let the right one in.

6. "What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?"- John Cusack in High Fidelity

7. "God will forgive them. He'll forgive them and allow them into Heaven. I can't live with that."- Paddy Considine in Dead man's shoes

8. "Made it, Ma! Top of the world…He finally got to the top of the world. And it blew right up in his face." James Cagney in White heat

There are more, but I can't think of any because my brian is turned off.

3. "There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence."- Malcolm Mcdowell in A Clockwork orange.

8. "Made it, Ma! Top of the world…He finally got to the top of the world. And it blew right up in his face." James Cagney in White heat

Film-Guy

I came in here to say the first one.

I love the second one. I just watched it for the first time not too long ago. Cagney was so damn good in it.

"Madness! Madness!" - James Donald (Bridge on the River Kwai). The whole ending is just spectacular.

The last line in Kill Bill vol 1 had me saying "holy ****."

Patton perhaps has the most epic start of a movie I've ever seen.

Oooo ooo ooo
RAWR!!!
Aahh! Aahh! Aahh!
~2001: A Space Odyssey

[spoiler] On a slightly more serious note, the closing sequence of Amadeus gets me EVERYTIME, even in isolation from the rest of the film here.

Raging Bull's 'On The Waterfront' monologue [/spoiler]

Closing:

A man's got to know his limitations - Clint Eastwood, Magnum Force

Here's the ending of clas*ic movie Magnum Force:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2JnCXvm_Qc

"SHOOT HER!!! SHOOOOOOT HER!!!" - Jurassic Park (opening)

"Some Mother-F^ckers are always trying to ice skate uphill" - Blade (ending, right before he fights Decon Frost)

I was going to do the Trainspotting one, but have been beaten to it.

Instead:

"We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold." (opening)

"There was only one road back to L.A. - U.S. Interstate 15. Just a flat-out high speed burn through Baker and Barstow and Berdoo. Then onto the Hollywood Freeway, and straight on into frantic oblivion. Safety. Obscurity. Just another freak, in the freak kingdom." (closing)

- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

"Way out west there was this fella... fella I wanna tell ya about. Fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least that was the handle his loving parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. Mr. Lebowski, he called himself "The Dude" - The Big Lebowski

Someone got his quotes from filmsite.org ;)

"I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn't a second at all, it stretches on forever, like an ocean of time... For me, it was lying on my back at Boy Scout camp, watching falling stars... And yellow leaves, from the maple trees, that lined our street... Or my grandmother's hands, and the way her skin seemed like paper... And the first time I saw my cousin Tony's brand new Firebird... And Janie... And Janie... And... Carolyn. I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me... but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life... You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry... you will someday." - American Beauty

"Saigon. S--t! I'm still only in Saigon. Every time I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle..." - Apocalypse Now

"Mein Fuehrer, I can walk!" - Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learnt To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb

"I was cured all right." - A Clockwork Orange (the final part in the novel is infinitely better than this line. WELL I'M GONNA POST IT EVEN IF IT IS A BOOK.)

"That's what it's going to be then, brothers, as I come to the like end of this tale. You have been everywhere with your little droog Alex, suffering with him, and you have viddied some of the most grahzny bratchnies old Bog ever made, all on to your old droog Alex. And all it was was that I was young. But now as I end this story, brothers, I am not young, not no longer, oh no. Alex like groweth up, oh yes. But where I itty now, O my brothers, is all on my oddy knocky, where you cannot go. Tomorrow is all like sweet flowers and the turning vonny earth and the stars and the old Luna up there and your old droog Alex all on his oddy knocky seeking like a mate. And all that cal. A terrible grahzny vonny world, really, O my brothers. And so farewell from your little droog. And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip-music brrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries. But you, O my brothers, remember sometimes thy little Alex that was. Amen. And all that cal." - Ending to ACO novel

Film-Guy already posted it for me. The Trainspotting one.

From Mallrats (voice-over) "One time my cousin Walter got this cat stuck up his ass. True story. He bought it at our local mall, so the whole fiasco wound up on the news. It was embarrasing for my relatives and all, but the next week, he did it again. Different cat, same results, complete with another trip to the emergency room. So, I run into him a week later in the mall and he's buying another cat. And I says to him: 'Jesus, Walt! What are you doing? You know you're just gonna get this cat stuck in your ass too. Why don't you knock it off?' And he said to me: 'Brodie, how the hell else am I supposed to get the gerbil out?' My cousin was a weird guy."

=D

Casablanca - "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

It was Beauty that killed the Beast: King Kong

IN BRUGES

[first lines]
"After I killed him, I dropped the gun in the Thames, washed the residue off me hands in the bathroom of a Burger King, and walked home to await instructions. Shortly thereafter the instructions came through - "Get the f*** out of London, you dumb ****s Get to Bruges." I didn't even know where Bruges f***ing was.
[pause]
It's in Belgium."

[last lines]

"There's a Christmas tree somewhere in London with a bunch of presents underneath it that'll never be opened. And I thought, if I survive all of this, I'd go to that house, apologize to the mother there, and accept whatever punishment she chose for me. Prison... death... didn't matter. Because at least in prison and at least in death, you know, I wouldn't be in ****in' Bruges. But then, like a flash, it came to me. And I realized, f*** man, maybe that's what hell is: the entire rest of eternity spent in ****in' Bruges. And I really really hoped I wouldn't die. I really really hoped I wouldn't die."

"... now lets end the day with those three little words we all love to hear. Lets. Get. Naked."

- Valentines Day.

Had me in hysterics for 10 minutes.

"Life's always likes a box of chocolates, you never know what one you're gonna pick." - Forest Gump

It isn't an opening/closing movie line, but still pretty good :D

My favorite opening ever hands down for dramatic effect and presentation started like this.

"Long ago in the Underground Realm, where there are no lies or pain, there lived a Princess who dreamt of the human world..."

Not going to say what it is, but it's a film I see people talk and praise a lot in Off-topic and one of many peoples favorites. Actually it's pretty easy to guess.

I'm having trouble thinking of any, so I'll just post these two.

"Mr. Hammond, I've decided not to endorse your park." -Jurassic Park

"Now, where was I?" -Memento

Best closing line that I can think of:

"Well... I'm back."

-Sam, The Return of the King

(so predictable of me; I know)

As the world's electronic systems are slagged by his hand and civilisation is thrown back to the Stone Age, Snake Plissken holds his last match in front of his face. Contemplating the enormity of what he has wrought, he blows out this last point of light in a darkness that will last for decades to come:

"Welcome to the human race."

Escape from LA, 1996

Ive always loved the ending line in Wanted:

This is me taking control of my life...what the **** have you done lately!?

"Its just been revoked" Family Guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U27el4GC-q4

"There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is: How do we arm the other 11?"- Lord of WarJing16

Lord of war proves that Nicholas Cage is still a good actor. I hate it when people call him bad just because he has done a few bad roles recently. Most actors have bad runs, some even worse than Cage.

[QUOTE="Jing16"]"There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is: How do we arm the other 11?"- Lord of WarFilm-Guy

Lord of war proves that Nicholas Cage is still a good actor. I hate it when people call him bad just because he has done a few bad roles recently. Most actors have bad runs, some even worse than Cage.

[QUOTE="Film-Guy"]

[QUOTE="Jing16"]"There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is: How do we arm the other 11?"- Lord of Warcpo335

Lord of war proves that Nicholas Cage is still a good actor. I hate it when people call him bad just because he has done a few bad roles recently. Most actors have bad runs, some even worse than Cage.

If you say so, I personally thought the movie was amazing.

I love the conversation at the start of Pulp Fiction.

"you met me at a very strange time in my life"

that line with the combination of the buildings blowing up and the great pixies song where is my mind make fight club's ending very memorable.

Wanted - closing line: "What the F*** have you done lately?" haha I loved that one..

"forget it, jake. its chinatown."-chinatown

"i'm finished!"-there will be blood