OneLiner — April 29, 2026
Three movie quotes from this date. Featuring The Godfather (1972), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Gladiator (2000).
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Answer: The Godfather ()
Richard Castellano ad-libbed the cannoli line on set. Coppola kept it in one take. AFI ranks it #68 on their 100 greatest quotes.
Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Answer: The Shawshank Redemption ()
The film bombed on release. A TNT rerun in 1997 introduced it to 11 million viewers overnight.
At my signal, unleash hell.
Answer: Gladiator ()
Scott filmed the arena sequences in Malta — the same location used for Ben-Hur forty years earlier.