23 One-Word Lines That Were Delivered Perfectly

Acting is a lot more than just reading lines. There’s body language, the inner life of the character, convincingly making out with someone who has a “sexual misconduct allegations” section on their Wikipedia page, etc. But you can’t deny the power of a masterful line reading. Like, can you even imagine Tommy Lee Jones saying, “I don’t care” in any other way? Or Daniel Day-Lewis saying, “I drink your milkshake”? Or Posh Spice saying, “This dress is dry-clean only, Melanie”?

Even a single word, spoken by a true artist, can have as much impact as a whole soliloquy. For Redditor FewAdhesiveness7146, it’s Gary Oldman in Léon: The Professional shouting, “Everyone!” It’s hard to argue with that, but other Redditors did their best when they asked r/Film for the “greatest delivery of a single word in film history?”