What’s your memorable movie line? - FUNFARE by Ricardo F. Lo

"Mahal kita hindi dahil ‘yon ang tama, kundi dahil ‘yon ang totoo."

It has a certain "ring" to it, or haven’t you noticed? When Judy Ann Santos tearfully whispers those words to a comatose Leandro Muñoz in a poignant scene in Star Cinema’s Kahit Isang Saglit, movie-watchers (like this one) know at first hearing that that line will definitely join the growing roster of memorable movie lines through the years, alongside the following:

* "You’re nothing but a second-rate trying-hard copy-cat." (Cherie Gil to Sharon Cuneta in Bituing Walang Ningning)

* "Ayoko ng masikip, ayoko ng putik!" (Maricel Soriano to Gina Alajar in Kaya Kong Abutin ang Langit)

* "Para kang carinderia na bukas sa lahat nang gustong kumain." (Vilma Santos to Dina Bonnevie in Palimos ng Pag-ibig)

* "Walang himala!" (Nora Aunor in Himala)

* "Trahabo lang, walang personalan." (Rudy Fernandez in Kaaway ng Batas, a line derived from what Arnold Schwarzenegger says, before killing a bad guy, in Terminator – "Nothing personal. It’s just a job.")

Really now, you have your own favorite "memorable movie line," don’t you?

Let’s check some of them, from Hollywood movies (as listed down by a recent issue of the US magazine Premiere in an article entitled The 100 Greatest Movie Lines of All Time):

* "E.T. phone home." (From E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial)

* "You’re tearing me apart!" (James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause)

* "You’re talkin’ to me?" (Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver)

* "I’m the king of the world!" (Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic)

* "Bond. James Bond." (first delivered by Sean Connery in Dr. No)

* "They call me Mister Tibbs!" (Sidney Poitier in In the Heat of the Night)

* "Show me the money." (Cuba Gooding, Jr. in Jerry Maguire)

* "Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me, aren’t you?" (Dustin Hoffman to Anne Bancroft in The Graduate)

* "Go, get the butter." (Marlon Brando in The Last Tango in Paris)

* "Hey, don’t knock masturbation – it’s sex with someone I love!" (Woody Allen in Annie Hall)

* "As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again!" (Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind)

* "Gentlemen, you can’t fight here! This is the war room!" (Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove)

* "The older generation are leading this country to galloping ruin!" (John Lennon in A Hard Day’s Night)

* "Wait a minute, you ain’t heard nothin’ yet!" (cited as the first spoken movie line by Al Jolson in the 1927 The Jazz Singer)

* "There’s no place like home." (Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz)

* "I’m not bad. I’m just drawn that way." (Kathleen Turner as Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit)

* "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine." ... "I stick my neck out for nobody." ... and "Here’s looking at you, kid." (spoken by Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca from which another famous line comes from – you know: "Play it again, Sam!")

* "I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse." (Marlon Brando in The Godfather I)

* "Well, nobody’s perfect." (Joe E. Brown as Osgood Fielding on discovering he’s about to marry another guy in Some Like it Hot)

* "All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up." (Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard)

* "I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!" (Peter Finch in Network)

* "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." (Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now)

* "Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death." (Rosalind Russell in Auntie Mame)

* "Rosebud." (Orson Welles in Citizen Kane)

* "Tomorrow is another day." (also by Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind)

And now, guess who said these "famous" lines in real life:

1. "God was with us when we did it!"

2. Take it! Take it!"

3. "Madali ang tumakbo. Paano kung manalo?"

4. "Ang datung!"

5. "I love you, Lucky!"