Sexiest Movie Quotes
A round-up of racy dialogue through the years
From a surprisingly erotic Gone With the Wind quote uttered by Clark Gable to a tantalizing come-on from Ryan Gosling in Crazy, Stupid Love, here are PROVOKR’s picks for the hottest lines in film history.
“Women! What can you say? Who made ’em? God must have been a fuckin’ genius. The hair… They say the hair is everything, you know. Have you ever buried your nose in a mountain of curls… just wanted to go to sleep forever? Or lips… and when they touched, yours were like… that first swallow of wine… after you just crossed the desert. Tits. Hoo-ah! Big ones, little ones, nipples staring right out at ya, like secret searchlights. Mmm. Legs. I don’t care if they’re Greek columns… or secondhand Steinways. What’s between ’em… passport to heaven. I need a drink. Yes, Mr. Sims, there’s only two syllables in this whole wide world worth hearing: pussy.”
—Al Pacino as Lt. Colonel Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman (1992)
“Well, I believe in the soul, the cock, the pussy, the small of a woman’s back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing AstroTurf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.”
—Kevin Costner as minor-league baseball player Crash Davis in Bull Durham (1988)
“You should be kissed—and often—and by someone who knows how.”
—Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind (1939)
Ned: “Maybe you shouldn’t dress like that.”
Matty: “This is a blouse and a skirt. I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Ned: “You shouldn’t wear that body.”
—William Hurt as Ned Racine, seducing Kathleen Turner’s Matty Walker in Body Heat (1981)
“You’re really wearing that dress like you’re doing it a favor.”
—Ryan Gosling as womanizing Jacob Palmer in Crazy, Stupid Love (2011)
“Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?”
—Jean Harlow as the seductive Helen in Hell’s Angels (1930)
“You have no idea how bad it gets. And I’m not you. I can’t make it on a couple of high-altitude fucks once or twice a year! You are too much for me, Ennis. You son-of-a-whoreson-bitch. I wish I knew how to quit you!”
—Jake Gyllenhaal as Jack Twist to Heath Ledger’s Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain (2005)
“Listen, I-I appreciate this whole seduction scene you’ve got goin’, but let me give ya a tip: I’m a sure thing. OK? So, I’m on an hourly rate. Could we just move it along?”
—Julia Roberts’s prostitute, Vivian Ward, to Richard Gere’s Edward Lewis in Pretty Woman (1990)
Karen: “I never knew it could be like this. Nobody ever kissed me the way you do.”
Sgt. Warden: “Nobody?”
Karen: “No, nobody.”
—Deborah Kerr as Karen Holmes to Burt Lancaster’s First Sergeant Milton Warden in From Here to Eternity (1953)
Eve Kendall: It’s going to be a long night.
Roger Thornhill: True.
Eve: And I don’t particularly like the book I’ve started.
Roger: Ah.
Eve: You know what I mean?
Roger: Ah, let me think. Yes, I know exactly what you mean.
—Eva Marie Saint as Eve Kendall to Cary Grant’s Roger Thornhill in North by Northwest (1959)
Maggie: “You know what I feel like? I feel all the time like a cat on a hot tin roof.”
Brick: “Then jump off the roof, Maggie, jump off it. Now, cats jump off roofs and they land uninjured. Do it. Jump.”
Maggie: “Jump where? Into what?”
Brick: “Take a lover.”
—Elizabeth Taylor as Maggie Pollitt to her husband, Paul Newman’s Brick Pollitt, in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
“You know you don’t have to act with me, Steve. You don’t have to say anything, and you don’t have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together—and blow.”
—Lauren Bacall as Marie “Slim” Browning to Humphrey Bogart’s Harry “Steve” Morgan in To Have and Have Not (1944)
