10 Actors Who Stole Movies In A Single Scene

1. Estelle Reiner - When Harry Met Sally...

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Even folks who've never seen the classic rom-com When Harry Met Sally... are well aware of the movie's most iconic scene, where Sally (Meg Ryan) fakes an orgasm in a crowded restaurant in front of Harry (Billy Crystal) in order to prove that men can't tell when a woman is faking it.

After Sally finishes her display and returns to her meal, director Rob Reiner cuts to an elderly woman in the restaurant who pointedly tells her waiter, "I'll have what she's having."

It's by far the funniest and most memorable line in the entire movie, and was performed by none other than Reiner's own mother, Estelle Rainer, to make it even better.

No matter how terrific Ryan and Crystal's chemistry is throughout the movie, with a single line of dialogue and mere seconds on-screen, the director's own mum came in and took the whole damn thing for herself.

And when Reiner passed away in 2008, tributes flooded in commending her legendary delivery of a gut-busting one-liner.

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