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11 Misquoted Movie Lines

It's not: 'Luke, I am your father'

By John Johnson,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 21, 2012 11:15 AM CST

(Newser) – Sam Greenspan's 11 Points blog runs down some of most commonly misquoted lines in movie history, including:

  • Wrong: If you build it, they will come (Field of Dreams)
  • Right: If you build it, he will come
  • Wrong: Luke, I am your father (Empire Strikes Back)
  • Right: Darth Vader: Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father. Luke: He told me enough. He told me you killed him. Darth Vader: No. I am your father.
  • Wrong: Hello, Clarice (Silence of the Lambs)
  • Right: Good evening, Clarice
  • Wrong: Play it again, Sam (Casablanca)
  • Right: Play it once, Sam, for old times' sake, play As Time Goes
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Click here for the full list, including the misquoted "greed is good" line from Wall Street.

An original Darth Vader costume from the Star Wars films on display in Christie's auction house on October 27, 2010.
An original Darth Vader costume from the Star Wars films on display in Christie's auction house on October 27, 2010.   (Getty Images)
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COMMENTS
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ThaSupernova
Jan 22, 2012 4:53 AM CST
I swear they had a story just like this one a couple of months ago...
finkster
Jan 21, 2012 11:50 AM CST
Wrong Chorus:  There's no business like show business  If you tell me it's so  Right Chorus: There's no nepotism in business like show business If you tell me it's so
Observer
Jan 21, 2012 11:32 AM CST
Tip 'o the hat to Ingrid Bergman. Great line, great scene. When the Free French Moroccans outsing the Nazis in Rick's American - it may be the most emotional scene ever filmed. Casablanca remains the best American movie of all time (among many exceptional peers).
 

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