# The best quotes from The Big Lebowski

The lines from the Coen brothers' 1998 cult comedy that fans still repeat at every bowling alley, with who says them.

- 42 votes · 12 items
- Jun 17, 2019 · yogi_sf
- https://even.best/en/l/1385/the-best-quotes-from-the-big-lebowski

## Top 12

1. **The Dude abides.** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — The Dude (Jeff Bridges), near the end of the film; the line that gave its name to Dudeism.
2. **Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, uh, your opinion, man.** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — The Dude, the most quoted comeback in internet arguments.
3. **Donny, you're out of your element!** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Walter, every single time Donny (Steve Buscemi) tries to join the conversation.
4. **Nobody calls me Lebowski. You got the wrong guy. I'm the Dude, man.** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — The Dude to the thugs who mistake him for the millionaire.
5. **This aggression will not stand, man.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The Dude, borrowing George H. W. Bush's words about the Gulf War, which plays on TV at the start.
6. **Over the line! … Mark it zero.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Walter, refusing to accept Smokey's foot over the foul line.
7. **That rug really tied the room together.** (1 · ▲3 ▼2) — The Dude's grievance that starts the whole plot.
8. **It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' 'er easy for all us sinners.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The Stranger (Sam Elliott), the cowboy narrator, at the end.
9. **This is a very complicated case, Maude. You know, a lotta ins, lotta outs, lotta what-have-you's.** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — The Dude trying to sound like a detective.
10. **Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.** (-1 · ▲2 ▼3) — Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) during a league game.
11. **I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. That, or His Dudeness, Duder or El Duderino…** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — The Dude to the other Jeffrey Lebowski: «…if you're not into the whole brevity thing.»
12. **Saturday, Donny, is Shabbos, the Jewish day of rest.** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — Walter explaining why he doesn't roll on Saturdays.

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