Vol. 06 · Misquoted ·Film ·64 of 348
"Do you feel lucky, punk?"
They never said that.
What people say
"Do you feel lucky, punk?"
What was actually said
"You've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?" Harry Callahan — Dirty Harry (1971)
Why it stuck
The real line is a 23-word monologue. Memory compresses it to the punchiest six words — and flips the pronoun from "I" to "you."
Know another line by heart?
Play the duel and see how many you can spot. Or browse the whole shelf.