Yes, of course.
Thinking through it again, it’s hard to define what “finest” is.
I’ll go with memorable 
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There are so many wonderful scenes in Saving Private Ryan, like the whole movie, but the one where Tom Hanks talks about his mission is just to feel like he’s getting closer to going home.
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Or both.
But definitely iconic.
Go ahead. Make my day.
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The confrontation between Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman in Doubt. In my opinion, Hoffman was one of the most talented actors of my generation. This scene between him and Streep is electric.
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Another movie with so many great scenes. A sci-fi classic IMO, The Matrix with at least two real life truisms:
“Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet.”
“There’s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.”
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Diehard, is it a Christmas movie or not is an ongoing debate, but here’s a great scene in honor of Bruce Willis, who’s now retired as an actor.
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The end of Schindler’s List, where the survivors are walking across the open field and segue into the actual survivors escorted by the actors who played them. Then laying the stones on the grave. I tear up even if I just run into the scene in passing.
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One could make the argument that actors/filmmakers have indeed done a fine job if their memorable scene is seered favorably into viewers’ memories years or even decades later.
Sideways: “If anybody orders Merlot, I’m leaving! I am NOT drinking any f-in Merlot!”
Tanked the demand for Merlot almost overnight. Pretty memorable.
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Oh Captain, my Captain!
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Obscure lines I use as a joke:
When anyone comments on my driving I say in my best Dustin Hoffman very flat “Rainman” voice: “Dad always said I was an excellent driver”.
From “National Lampoon’s Vegas Vacation” when at a no so good buffet Randy Quaid’s line: “umm, the bread pudding is extra runny tonight”. (For some reason that just cracked me up).
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In “Saving Private Ryan”, the D-Day scenes of the soldiers landing on the beaches of Normandy moved me greatly as I imagined the horror of that event and the incredible bravery of the troops tasked to that event. And yet I know that it cannot even remotely compare to the real thing. In a movie theater on a HUGE screen with Surround Sound BLASTING the noise. OMG, I was shaken. You can stream it these days to your living room but it’s nowhere near the same as that theater experience.
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The whole premise of that movie was so flawed that I didn’t like it. I don’t think the Army in the midst of D Day would try to find one private because his brothers were killed and risk so many doing it. (I know it was a metaphor, but still).
Here’s mine -
Will Ferrell in Zoolander - " I feel like I’m taking CRAZY pills! "
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Unforgiven, starring Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman.
Here’s the short clip near the end of the movie, where after killing almost everyone in the saloon to avenge the death of his friend, played by Morgan Freeman, the wounded sheriff, played by Gene Hackman, says to Clint, “I’ll see you in hell.” And William Munny (Eastwood) responds “ya.”
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Often relevant to this site, especially since we have a current thread on careers 
, the famous Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) “Greed is good” scene from Wall Street:
“Blue Horseshoe loves Anacot Steel.”
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Paperwork. Not a dangerous mission.