“You Can’t Handle the Truth!” (A Few Good Men)

With Jack Nicholson, Tom Cruise, and Demi Moore in the leading roles and Aaron Sorkin as the screenwriter, the 1992 drama A Few Good Men was bound to be good. The movie did make a huge impact, but it’s still hard to believe that one of the best lines in the entire film was made up on the spot by Nicholson.

The script read: “I want the truth!” but Nicholson wasn’t a big fan of the line. So he changed it a little bit, coming up with the more impactful “You can’t handle the truth!” It fitted perfectly within the plot and Nicholson’s character, the self-entitled Colonel Nathan R. Jessup.