15 Cheesy Movie Quotes (That Were Awesome At The Time)

15. Roddy Piper's Kicking Ass - They Live

They Live was John Carpenter's scathing indictment on America's warped capitalist culture. Cleverly explored through the medium of an alien invasion the movie saw Roddy Piper learning of hidden subliminal messages in advertising, and of the virtues of wearing sunglasses indoors. Oh, and it happened to feature one of cinema's most badass moments in which Piper's spouts his iconic line before shooting up a bank full of those fiendishly disguised aliens. Take that, rampant consumerism! The Quote: "I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum." I'm not quite sure what made this line work: was it that possessed the brutally efficient formality of a T-1000 disguised as Hugh Grant? The nonsensical innocuousness of a Dr Seuss line? That's for the ages to decide. Regardless, anyone delivering a line this cheesy, and in such a deadpan manner, surely has to be backing it up with stones the size of Turtle Rock.

14. Breaking People With Chong Li - Bloodsport

Attempting to describe Jean Claude Van Damme's career as an exercise in cheese, is as redundant as the free DVD copy of a film which comes bundled with combo Blu-Ray discs. The man does three things well: carefully choreographed fights, bad dialogue, and convoluted plots in which he plays dual roles. His 1988 vehicle Bloodsport was a delightful romp through eighties culture, which could only be topped by Quantum Leaping back in time to one of Elton John's cocaine parties. The Quote: "You break my record, now I break you, like I break your friend." They say every great hero needs a suitably worthy villain, and this must also be true of heroes in campy martial arts movies. And villains really don't come much campier than Chong Li; the man not only overacted his role - he also murdered it, kidnapped its kids, and fled to Sweden. The above quip came as a particular highlight, but there's practically a Zerg Rush of quotes to pick from.