From Ferris Bueller giving life advice (“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”) to Tyler Durden giving the audience some home truths about consumerism, characters love breaking the fourth wall.

Meaning, they love crossing that fictional line and addressing the audience head-on because, you know, movies are actually real. And here’s ten of the best moments of that, picked subjectively by a random stranger who you’ll probably disagree with.