Poll: Classic "People" Quotes

Results of 283 votes:

1. 1.
   

   A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

    

   "To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people!"
2. 2.
   

   Casablanca (1942)

    

   "Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world."
3. 3.
   

   Green Book (2018)

    

   "You know, the world's full of lonely people afraid to make the first move."
4. 4.
   

   The Imitation Game (2014)

    

   "Sometimes it's the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."
5. 5.
   

   The Ten Commandments (1956)

    

   "Let my people go."
6. 6.
   

   Chinatown (1974)

    

   "You see, Mr. Gittes, most people never have to face the fact (that at) the right time and the right place, they're capable of anything."
7. 7.
   

   The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

    

   "If more people valued home above gold, this world would be a merrier place."
8. 8.
   

   Frozen (2013)

    

   "Some people are worth melting for."
9. 9.
   

   Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

    

   "I don't know how to put this, but I'm kind of a big deal...People know me... I'm very important. Uh, I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany."
10. 10.
    

    The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

     

    "Why do I and everyone I love pick people who treat us like we're nothing?" "We accept the love we think we deserve."
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    La La Land (2016)

     

    "People will want to go to it, because you're passionate about it. And people love what other people are passionate about. You remind people of what they forgot."
12. 12.
    

    Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)

     

    "If you live long enough, you see the same eyes in different people."
13. 13.
    

    The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)

     

    "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart."
14. 14.
    

    The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

     

    "But our lives aren't just measured in years. They're measured in the lives of people we touch around us."
15. 15.
    

    Harper (1966)

     

    "The bottom is loaded with nice people, Albert. Only cream and bastards rise."
16. 16.
    

    Legally Blonde (2001)

     

    "Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don't shoot their husbands. They just don't."
17. 17.
    

    Snowpiercer (2013)

     

    "After a month, we ate the weak. You know what I hate about myself? I know what people taste like. I know that babies taste best... "
18. 18.
    

    The Producers (1967)

     

    "Not many people know it, but the Führer was a terrific dancer."
19. 19.
    

    Touch of Evil (1958)

     

    "He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people?"
20. 20.
    

    Grand Hotel (1932)

     

    "The Grand Hotel. Always the same. People come. People go. Nothing ever happens."
21. 21.
    

    Harold and Maude (1971)

     

    "I understand a lot of people enjoy being dead. But they're not dead, really. They're just backing away from life."
22. 22.
    

    The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

     

    "Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there."
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    Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

     

    "Sherif Ali, so long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous, and cruel as you are."
24. 24.
    

    Manhattan (1979)

     

    "I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics."
25. 25.
    

    Crash (2004)

     

    "It's the sense of touch...Any real city, you walk, ya know? You brush past people. People bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss th…
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    Champion (1949)

     

    "For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf? Didn't you hear 'em? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding."
27. 27.
    

    Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

     

    "People here are funny. They-they work so hard at living they forget how to live."
28. 28.
    

    The Great McGinty (1940)

     

    "If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics."
29. 29.
    

    Mrs. Miniver (1942)

     

    "This is the people's war! It is our war! We are the fighters! Fight it, then! Fight it with all that is in us, and may God defend the right."
30. 30.
    

    Trouble in Paradise (1932)

     

    "You see, François, marriage is a beautiful mistake which two people make together. But with you, François, I think it would be a mistake."
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    The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

     

    "This world's divided into two kinds of people - the hunter and the hunted. Luckily, I'm a hunter. Nothing can ever change that."
32. 32.
    

    Sullivan's Travels (1941)

     

    "There's a lot to be said for making people laugh. Did you know that's all some people have? It isn't much, but it's better than nothing in this cockeyed caravan. Boy!"
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    The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

     

    "We're the people that live. They can't wipe us out. They can't lick us. And we'll go on forever, Pa... 'cause... we're the people."
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    Manhattan (1979)

     

    "Can't you have a little faith in people?"
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    Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)

     

    "Some people say it's forgive and forget. Nah, I don't know. I say forget about forgivin' and just accept - and get the hell outta town."