67 Summer Movie Quotes

In case the triple digit temps (or is that only here in Texas?) have confused you into thinking it was already summer, let me set the record straight and let you know today is the official start of summer.

While some summer movie lists may be the must-have movies for that summer – these are all great quotable flicks that take place in summer.

So if you find yourself with some extra time today on the longest day of the year, check out these great summer flicks to set the tone for your summer!

1. Dirty Dancing: “I carried a watermelon.”
2. Dazed and Confused: “You just gotta keep on livin’, man. L-I-V-I-N.” “Alright, alright, alright.” This one is so popular that Matthew McConaughey trademarked it!
3. Point Break: “Vaya con Dios, Brah.”
4. Almost Famous: “Rock stars have kidnapped my son!”
5. Caddyshack: “Thank you very little.”
6. Stand By Me: “I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?”
7. The Goonies: “Goonies never say die!”
8. Vegas Vacation: “Where the hell is the damn dam tour?”
9. Animal House: “Food fight!”
10. One Crazy Summer: “If I give in, I’m giving into all the cute, fuzzy bunnies in the world.”
11. Dirty Dancing: “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.”
12. Dirty Dancing: “You just put your pickle on everybody’s plate, college boy, and leave the hard stuff to me.”
13. Dirty Dancing: “It takes a real saint to ask Daddy.”
14. Dirty Dancing: “Oh, come on, ladies. God wouldn’t have given you maracas if He didn’t want you to shake ’em.”
15. Dirty Dancing: “Oh, come on, ladies. God wouldn’t have given you maracas if He didn’t want you to shake ’em.”
16. Dirty Dancing: “When I’m wrong, I say I’m wrong. You looked wonderful out there.”
17. Dirty Dancing: “You were right, Johnny. You can’t win no matter what you do!”
18. Dirty Dancing: “That was the summer of 1963—when everybody called me Baby, and it didn’t occur to me to mind. That was before President Kennedy was shot, before the Beatles came, when I couldn’t wait to join the Peace Corps, and I thought I’d never find a guy as great as my dad. That was the summer we went to Kellerman’s.”
19. Dirty Dancing: “I’ll never be sorry.”
20. Dazed and Confused: “You cool man?!”
21. Dazed and Confused: “Be a lot cooler if you did.”
22. Dazed and Confused: “Wipe that face off your head, b*tch!”
23. Point Break: “Little hand says it’s time to rock and roll.”
24. Point Break: “Utah, get me two.”
25. Point Break: “If you want the ultimate, you’ve got to be willing to pay the ultimate price. It’s not tragic to die doing what you love.”
26. Point Break: “Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.”
27. Point Break: “Six seconds. We’re going to be meat waffles.”
28. Almost Famous: “I always tell the girls, never take it seriously, if ya never take it seriously, ya never get hurt, ya never get hurt, ya always have fun, and if you ever get lonely, just go to the record store and visit your friends.”
29. Almost Famous: “Adolescence is a marketing tool.”
30. Almost Famous: “I am telling secrets to the one guy you don’t tell secrets to.”
31. Almost Famous: “It’s all happening.”
32. Almost Famous: “You’ll meet them all again on the long journey to the middle.”
33. Caddyshack: “The last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.”
34. Caddyshack: “You’re rather attractive, for a beautiful girl with a great body.”
35. Caddyshack: “I’m going to give you a little advice. There’s a force in the universe that makes things happen. And all you have to do is get in touch with it, stop thinking, let things happen, and be the ball.”
36. Caddyshack: “Remember Danny – Two wrongs don’t make a right, but three rights make a left.”
37. Caddyshack: “I have no idea what I’m doing with my life. But I have a beard, so I got that going for me, which is nice.”
38. Stand by Me: “We Knew Exactly Who We Were And Where We Were Going. It Was Grand.”
39. Stand by Me: “Everybody’s Weird.”
40. Vegas Vacation: “I haven’t seen a beatin’ like that since somebody stuck a banana in my pants and turned a monkey loose.”
41. Vegas Vacation: “I don’t care if you ruined my life. I love you!”
42. Vegas Vacation: “It is a blazer out there. You’re lucky you got air conditioning in here like mother nature intended.”
43. Vegas Vacation: “Don’t think unnatural thoughts about your cousin, Russ.”
44. Vegas Vacation: “Who knew, my sister has the legs of a thoroughbred? Am I right?”
45. Vegas Vacation: “Are you feeling lucky tonight, Sparky?”
46. One Crazy Summer: “You ever notice how people die in alphabetical order?”
47. The ‘Burbs: “Safety is my middle name.”
48. National Lampoon’s Vacation: “Why aren’t we flying? Because getting there is half the fun.”
49. Flamingo Kid: “There only two important things in living – finding out what you do well and finding out what makes you happy. And if God is smiling on you, they’re both the same thing.”
50. Overboard: “But darling, if you have a baby, you won’t be the baby anymore.”
51. Overboard: “Well, the entire civilized world knows that ALL closets are made of CEDAR.”
52. The Beach: “I still believe in paradise. But now at least I know it’s not someplace you can look for. Because it’s not where you go. It’s how you feel for a moment in your life when you’re a part of something. And if you find that moment, it lasts forever.”
53. The Beach: “Never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It’s probably worth it.”
54. The Beach: I had nothing left to offer but pure reflex. Pure reflex and mankind’s basic drive for survival, that somehow shouts: “I will not die today”.
55. The Beach: “Anywhere you go, desire is desire. The sun cannot bleach it, nor the tide wash it away.”
56. Thelma and Louise: “I don’t ever remember feeling this awake.”
57. Thelma and Louise: “Now if nobody loses their head, nobody will lose their head.”
58. Thelma and Louise: “You’ve always been crazy, this is just the first chance you’ve had to express yourself.”
59. What About Bob?: “There are two types of people. Those who like Neil Diamond, and those who don’t.”
60. What About Bob?: “Baby Steps, get on a bus. Baby Steps, get on a bus.”
61. What About Bob?: “I feel good, I feel great, I feel wonderful…”
62. Say Anything: “You must chill.”
63. Say Anything: “I am looking for a dare to be great situation.”
64. Say Anything: “She gave me a pen.  I gave her my heart, she gave me a pen.”
65. Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead: “I’m Right on Top of that Rose!”
66. Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead: “Why Don’t You Save Your Last Three Brain Cells?”
67. Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead: “Don’t feel overwhelmed, just do one thing at a time.”

What are your favorite summer movie quotes?