Best mystery movie quotes of 1998

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The Big Lebowski picture

Goon: What the fuck is this?
[Picks up a bowling ball hesitatingly.]
The Dude: Obviously you're not a golfer.

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The Negotiator picture

Lieutenant Danny Roman: A quick lesson in lying. See, this is what us real cops do: We study liars. Example: If I ask you a question about something visual, like your favorite color, your eyes go up and to the left. Neurophysiology tells us your eyes go in that direction, because you're accessing the visual cortex. So you're telling the truth. If your eyes go up and right, you're accessing the brain's creative centers and we know you're full of shit.

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The Faculty picture

Coach Willis: You're not much into sports.
Casey: I don't think that a person should run unless he's being chased.
Coach Willis: "Being chased." I like that.

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Meet Joe Black picture

Allison: I should have my head examined again.

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Practical Magic picture

Children: Witch! Witch! You're a bitch! Witch! Witch! You're a bitch.
Sally Owens: You'd think after three hundred years they'd come up with a better rhyme.

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Urban Legend picture

Michael McDonnell, gas station attendant: Someone's in the back... seat.

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Ringu picture

Reiko Asakawa: So that video is.
Ryuji Takayama: It's not of this world. It's Sadako's fury. And she's put a curse on us.

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Zero Effect picture

Daryl Zero: My father was an evil, abusive man. And he killed my mother when she was sleeping. And then he slit his wrists, when I was thirteen. I don't talk about that much. I used to when it happened and then one day I woke up and, I don't know. Everything was different.

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Beloved picture

Beloved: Where your diamonds?
Sethe: Diamonds? What would I be doing with diamonds?
Beloved: On your ears.
Sethe: Wish I did. Come to think of it, I had some crystal once. Present from the lady I used to work for.
Beloved: Tell me. Tell me your diamonds.

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Following picture

Cobb: Everyone has a box.

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Dark City picture

Mr. Hand: I have become the monster you were intended to be.

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Sphere picture

Norman Goodman: I would be happy if Jerry had no emotions whatsoever. Because the thing of it is once you go down that road... here's Jerry, an emotional being cooped up for 300 years with no one to talk to... none of the socialization, the emotional growth that comes from contact with other emotional beings.
Harry: So...?
Norman Goodman: What happens if Jerry gets mad?

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The X-Files Movie picture

Special Agent Dana Scully: I have to be in Washington, D.C. in 11 hours for a hearing, the outcome of which might affect one of the biggest decisions of my life and here I am in the middle of nowhere, Texas, chasing phantom tanker trucks.

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Rear Window picture

Jason: I don't understand why you can't find the bronze, 'cause, you know, you find the bronze, you're gonna find her. I'm convinced of it. I think that he stuffed her body inside it, he sanded it, he painted it, and shipped it out right under our noses.
Charlie: Jimmy Hoffa in the Meadowlands.
Jason: Probably where he got the idea.
Charlie: Jimmy Hoffa was never found, let me remind you.

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Snake Eyes picture

Kevin Dunne: Don't give me that wounded look. You haven't got the face for it.

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Wild Things picture

Sam: Kelly Van Ryan is accusing me of rape.
Kenneth Bowden: Kelly Van Ryan? As in Sandra Van Ryan?
Sam: As in, I'm fucked.

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Psycho picture

Milton Arbogast: Oh, someone has seen her, all right. Someone always sees a girl with $400,000.

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Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island picture

Daphne Blake: What I need is a real, live ghost.
Velma Dinkley: That's an oxymoron, Daph.

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I Still Know What You Did Last Summer picture

Tyrell: Don't get her started all right. It's a long fucked up story and you probably won't believe it anyway. All I know is that this is the worst vacation of my life. I'm tired, I'm hungry, I'm fucking horny and I ain't seen one goddamn psycho killer.

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