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There probably aren’t many of us who can’t quote entire scenes from Anchorman, Wayne’s World or Austin Powers. I know it’s hard to believe, but none of those movies made the American Film Institute’s top 10 movie quotes of all time. Maybe when they update their list, “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn,” will be replaced with “I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.” No?
The 10 Best Movie Quotes of All Time
1. “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” Rhett Butler, played by Clark Gable, in Gone With the Wind.
2. “I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” Vito Corleone, played by Marlon Brando, in the Godfather.
3. “You don’t understand! I coulda had class! I coulda been a contender! I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.” Terry Malloy, played by Marlon Brando, in On the Waterfront.
4. “Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” Dorothy Gale, played by Judy Garland, in the Wizard of Oz.
5. “Here’s looking at you, kid.” Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, in Casablanca.
6. “Go ahead. Make my day.” Harry Callahan, played by Clint Eastwood, in Sudden Impact.
7. “Alright, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.” Norma Desmond, played by Gloria Swanson, in Sunset Boulevard.
8. “May the Force be with you.” Han Solo, played by Harrison Ford, in Star Wars.
9. “Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.” Margo Channing, played by Bette Davis, in All About Eve.
10. “You talkin’ to me?” Travis Bickle, played by Robert DeNiro, in Taxi Driver.
Agree? Disagree? What’s your favorite movie quote?
Comments (156)
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Personally, I think if it were to be replaced by an Anchorman quote, it would be: “I love lamp.”
One of my favorite is:
“The earth is my body; my head is in the stars.” from Harold and Maude.
posted by Jenny on 5-22-2008 at 2:44 pm
My personal favorite is probably any line from Napoleon Dynamite. “I caught you a delicious bass” comes to mind, as well as “I guess I’ll build her a cake, or something.”
posted by adrienne on 5-22-2008 at 2:55 pm
“My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening through a cosmic vapor of invention.” -Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman) in Blazing Saddles
posted by Pete on 5-22-2008 at 3:00 pm
Not all of us who drink are poets. Some of us drink because we’re not poets.
Arthur
posted by Zane on 5-22-2008 at 3:06 pm
“My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die” - Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin) The Princess Bride
posted by KJ on 5-22-2008 at 3:08 pm
First person to post “Show me the MONEY!!!” of “You had me at ‘Hello’” should be permanently banned from this board….ooops, would that be me….DAMN!
posted by Zane on 5-22-2008 at 3:09 pm
“It’s a walkoff!” -Billy Zane, in Zoolander
posted by Geek in Heels on 5-22-2008 at 3:10 pm
Goonies never say die
posted by Ira on 5-22-2008 at 3:14 pm
“The dude abides.” The Big Lebowski
“‘Tis but a scratch!” MPATHG
“KHAAAAAAAAN!!!” ST2
posted by markmier on 5-22-2008 at 3:15 pm
2 from Better Off Dead:
“I want my two dollars!”
and
“Go that way really fast, if something gets in your way, turn.”
posted by Abby on 5-22-2008 at 3:20 pm
“These are not the droids you are looking for.”
I have tried this line and many variations of it to try and get out of work. Example- “You don’t want me to check the T1 to Phoenix”, I just can’t get the same results as Obi Wan.
posted by Kevin on 5-22-2008 at 3:21 pm
1) “You’re gonna need a bigger boat. ” from Jaws
2) “It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses. ” from The Blues Brothers
3) “I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubblegum.” from They Live
4) “I know a life of crime has led me to this sorry fate, and yet, I blame society. Society made me what I am.” from Repo Man
5) Peterboro Referee: “I got my eye on the three of you. You pull one thing, you’re out of this game. I run a clean game here. I have any trouble here, I’ll suspend ya.”
Steve Hanson: “I’m listening to the fucking song!” from Slap Shot
6) “Ok you Primitive Screwheads, listen up! You see this? This… is my boomstick! The 12-gauge double-barreled Remington. S-Mart’s top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That’s right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about $109.95. It’s got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That’s right. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. You got that? ” from Army of Darkness
7) “Oh, we got both kinds. We got country *and* western.” from The Blues Brothers
8) Frank Booth: “What kind of beer do you like to drink, neighbor?”
Jeffrey Beaumont: “Heineken.”
Frank Booth: “Heineken? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!” from Blue Velvet
9) “Put the candle back!” from Young Frankenstien
10) “The phone books are here! The phone books are here!” fom The Jerk
posted by Stuart on 5-22-2008 at 3:36 pm
“Man, that’s a shame, people be throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that.” and “Gee, Ricky, I’m sorry your mom blew up.”
from Better Off Dead
posted by Jerry on 5-22-2008 at 3:43 pm
My favorite line from a movie is from the Academy Award-nominated performance by Sigourney Weaver playing Ellen Ripley in “Aliens”–”Get away from her you bitch!”
posted by Chuck on 5-22-2008 at 3:45 pm
My vote is for these two from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation:
Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase): Where do you think you’re going? Nobody’s leaving. Nobody’s walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas. No, no. We’re all in this together. This is a full-blown, four-alarm holiday emergency here. We’re gonna press on, and we’re gonna have the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny F**ken Kaye. And when Santa squeezes his fat white ass down that chimney tonight, he’s gonna find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side of the nuthouse.
Clark: Hey. If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I’d like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is. Hallelujah. Holy shit. Where’s the Tylenol?
posted by Edward on 5-22-2008 at 3:49 pm
“it will be mine. oh yes, it will be mine.” –Wayne’s World
“I was born a poor black child.” –The Jerk
haha, my recaptcha words are “you mated” hehe
posted by the creature on 5-22-2008 at 3:50 pm
“It’s like we’re looking
down on Wayne’s basement only
that’s not Wayne’s basement” -Garth
Garth, that was a Haiku -Wayne
posted by Vankook on 5-22-2008 at 3:53 pm
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
Without a doubt.
posted by ac on 5-22-2008 at 3:55 pm
“Shitter’s full!” - Randy Quaid - Christmas Vacation
Clark: “I guess I’ll have a Coke.”
Stewardess: “Do you want that in the can?”
Clark: “No, I’ll have it right here.”
“Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!” - Bluto - Animal House
posted by AW on 5-22-2008 at 3:58 pm
I always associated “May the Force be with you” more with Obi Wan. Anyway, my favorite:
“Asps. Very dangerous. You go first.” -Sallah, from “The Raiders of the Lost Ark,” played by John Rhys-Davies
posted by gibson8or on 5-22-2008 at 4:00 pm
“Come and see the violence inherent in the system. Help! Help! I’m being repressed!” Dennis played by Michael Palin, Monty Python… Holy Grail
posted by Brad on 5-22-2008 at 4:04 pm
The Big Lebowski and Princess Bride are chock full of quotable gems, too many to list - just cut & paste the whole screenplay with those!
I swear I’m not that old, but here’s my other favs:
“I’m mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!” - Network
“I am serious - and don’t call me Shirley!” - Airplane
“Get away from her, you bitch!” - Aliens
“Nobody puts Baby in a corner” - Dirty Dancing
The ‘grab him and take him’ quote by Grace Jones in Conan the Destroyer (prob’ the only person in the whole world who loves this).
And since no one’s said it: “They’re heerrrre!” - Poltergeist
Neat post. Should be re-done with video clips though! :)
posted by tona b. on 5-22-2008 at 4:04 pm
“Some days, you just can’t get rid of a bomb.” - Batman
posted by DennisP on 5-22-2008 at 4:05 pm
“I’ll have what she’s having” Meg Ryan? When Harry met Sally
posted by Tom on 5-22-2008 at 4:06 pm
I just want to say thank you to everyone…this is beautiful…
It’s like a buffet of deserts, only they’re all lines from movies…
There are beautiful people in the world!
posted by Brucesquatch on 5-22-2008 at 4:06 pm
“This one goes to 11.”–Christopher Guest in This is Spinal Tap
posted by Karen on 5-22-2008 at 4:08 pm
From Rosemaey’s Baby:
“I can’t hear you, you’re in Dubrovnik….”
posted by Jeff on 5-22-2008 at 4:12 pm
Where’s my wandering parakeet?
- The Philadelphia Story
posted by Stefanie on 5-22-2008 at 4:12 pm
“I’m madly in love with you and its not for your brains or personality” Alan Arkin as grandpa in Little Miss Sunshine
and
“I’m already pregnant, so what other shannigans can I get into?” Ellen Page as Juno in Juno (two of the greatest movies of all time)
posted by maggie on 5-22-2008 at 4:12 pm
The thing is Obi Wan (Alec Guiness version) never said “May the force be with you.” He said, “The Force will be with you…always.” Once a bar trivia game had the answer wrong, and I about threw a fit.
Anyway, my favorite, from Holy Grail:
“There are those who call me…Tim?”
posted by Johnny Cat on 5-22-2008 at 4:13 pm
“Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need roads!” -Emmitt Brown in Back to the Future.
posted by Terry on 5-22-2008 at 4:15 pm
“A frickin 12-guage, what do you think?!” Napolean Dynamite
“I think Sebastian, therefore I am.” Bladerunner
“Ray, when someone asks you if you’re a god, you say YES!” Ghostbusters
“My whole life is a dark room. One, big, dark room.” Beetlejuice
and my personal all-time favorite (this was my answering machine message for quite a while)…
“Ah well, I attended Juilliard, I’m a graduate of the Harvard Business School, I travel quite extensively, I lived through the BLACK PLAGUE and I had a pretty good time during that, I’VE SEEN THE EXORCIST ABOUT 167 TIMES, AND IT KEEPS GETTING FUNNIER!! EVERY, SINGLE TIME I SEE IT!!!, Not to mention the fact that you are talking to a dead guy… now what do you think? Am I qualified?” Beetlejuice
posted by leaf on 5-22-2008 at 4:22 pm
The best and only one is Termanator
“I’ll be back”
I don’t know anyone who hasn’t said that at one time or another.
But other than that I agree completly.
posted by Darcy on 5-22-2008 at 4:24 pm
“It has not been a nice day” - Predator 2, in teh middle of a firefight.
posted by Jess on 5-22-2008 at 4:28 pm
Stuart–Blues Brothers, yes!
The thing about that list is it could have been made 30 years ago and it wouldn’t be any different. Star Wars is the most recent movie on there (I’m pretty sure, and that came out 31 years ago next week!
It’s interesting that most of the new lines people are referencing are from comedies, and those on the old list are mostly from dramas. What does that mean? I have no idea.
posted by Julia on 5-22-2008 at 4:29 pm
“It’s on like Donkey Kong”
-Sean William Scott, American Wedding.
posted by Travis on 5-22-2008 at 4:29 pm
Oh speaking of Arnold - that one from Kindergarden Cop is pretty good - “It’s not a Tuma!!”
posted by leaf on 5-22-2008 at 4:30 pm
Or that Clint Eastwood movie is from 83, but whatever. 25 years ago.
posted by Julia on 5-22-2008 at 4:31 pm
“You’ll get nothing and like it!” - Caddyshack
posted by K - on 5-22-2008 at 4:32 pm
Another Rosemary’s Baby.
“He has his father’s eyes.” -Roman Castevet
posted by ovaryacting on 5-22-2008 at 4:36 pm
“It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again” - Silence of the Lambs
“What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?” and “Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberiies!” - MPATHG
“Nothing shocks me. I’m a scientist.” Temple of Doom
“It’s good to be the king.” - Various Mel Brooks movies
“There’s a shortage of perfect breasts in the world - It would be a pity to damage yours.” - The Princess Bride
posted by Leah on 5-22-2008 at 4:39 pm
“They may take our lives, but they’ll never take…our freedom!” - Braveheart
“Stupid is as Stupid does.” Forrest Gump
“What’s in the box?!?” - Se7en
“I don’t know, Lloyd, the French are assholes.” - Dumb & Dumber (and really every other line from that movie)
posted by Kevin H on 5-22-2008 at 4:42 pm
“Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges.”
Don’t know the actor but it was from the movie Treasures of the Sierra Madre.
posted by OU812 on 5-22-2008 at 4:43 pm
1. “Ah, yeah…ummm, no, that’s not going to work for me.” - Lunquist, Office Space
2. “Well, okay, but I’m going to have to set the whole building on fire.” - Milton, Office Space
3. “Have fun storming the castle!” - Max, The Princess Bride
4. “Take it easy. You’ve been mostly dead all day.” - Fezzig, The Princess Bride
5. “Rodents of Unusual Size? I don’t think they exist. Ooof!” - Dread Pirate Wesley, The Princess Bride
6. “I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen.” - Lloyd Dobler, Say Anything
7. “Well, no, not monumentally busy.” - Diane Court, Say Anything
8. “Fran, you know what I said about the Rumba being pretend?” - Scott, Strictly Ballroom
9. “Can you bring me my Chapstick? But my lips hurt really bad!” - Napoleon Dynamite
10. “I like your sleeves; they’re real puffy.” - Napoleon Dynamite
11. “I spent three hours shading the upper lip.” - Napoleon Dynamite
12. “Do chickens have large talons?” - Napoleon Dynamite
13. “I’m picking out a thermos for you..[snip]..and a rectal thermometer, too!” - The Jerk
14. “I’m not dead yet. I’m getting better!” - Holy Grail
15. “King of the who?” - Holy Grail
16. “She turned me into a newt! I got better.” - Holy Grail
17. “Big, sharp, pointy teeth!” - Holy Grail
18. “Waiter, there is too much pepper..[snip]..but I would love to partake of your pecan pie.” - Harry, When Harry Met Sally
19. “And I’m going to be 40!” “When?” “Someday!” “In eight years!” - Sally and Harry, When Harry Met Sally
20. “Promise me I’m never going to have to go back out there.” - Carrie Fisher’s character, When Harry Met Sally
And, Tom, the character who offers your line after Meg’s famous scene in the diner is played by Rob Reiner’s mother…who got to watch him prep Meg by demonstrating - awkward!
God, I could go on and on! Love it, love it, love it.
posted by frodopal on 5-22-2008 at 4:46 pm
” badges ? We don’t have to show you any stinkin badges ” TOSM
” Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped ” Groucho
” We couldn’t get the tusks out of the elephant, so we took him to Alabama where the the Tuskaloosa ” Groucho again
posted by mike berneathy on 5-22-2008 at 4:53 pm
To Tona B. The Grace Jones quote is great, a bit frightening considering who is saying it, but great.
“Son, you got a panty on your head!” - Raising Arizona
“What are you, Some kind of doomsday machine? We gotta cage that can hold you.” After being informed of the identity of James Bond. “Secret agent!!! On whose side?” - Live and Let Die
posted by E. King on 5-22-2008 at 5:02 pm
“Is this the man…who wrecked the buffet…at the Harrow’s club this morning?” - Beverly Hills Cop
posted by E. King on 5-22-2008 at 5:09 pm
“Your mother ate my dog!” … “Not all of it” - Dead Alive
posted by mcker on 5-22-2008 at 5:18 pm
As far as classic movies go, I would have to say your list is perfect. However, I have a few favorites:
“Think it’ll work?”
“It’ll take a miracle… bye bye!”–Vivian and Miracle Max, The Princess Bride
“‘Tis only a flesh wound!”–the Black Night, MP and the Holy Grail
“But why’s the rum gone?”–Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean
Keep in mind, these three movies are all incredibly quotable. I could make lists and lists just of the quotes from them…
posted by Allison on 5-22-2008 at 5:22 pm
Just a few:
“I’d hate to take a bite out of you, Sidney. You’re a cookie full of arsenic.” Burt Lancaster, “Sweet Smell of Success”
“It ain’t got no gas in it.” Billy Bob Thorton, “Sling Blade”
“BITE YOUR TEETH INTO THE ASS OF LIFE!” Ian Holm, “Big Night”
“Big John? Ya think this boy is a hustler?” Jackie Gleason, “The Hustler”
“Lemme explain something to you, Walsh. This job requires a certain amount of finesse.” Jack Nicholson, “Chinatown”
“F**k the machine? F**k the machine? F**K THE MACHINE!” Ed Harris, “Glengarry Glen Ross”
“Well, now, H.I. Looks like you been up to the devil’s bidness.” John Goodman, “Raising Arizona”
posted by C. Michael on 5-22-2008 at 5:28 pm
Almost every line in The Princess Bride is a classic.
“Wuv, twoo wuv.”
“Inconceivable!”
“I don’t think that word means what you think it means.”
And of course the Inigo Montoya line.
posted by Lindsey on 5-22-2008 at 5:35 pm
“Twins, Max! 16 years-old. Can you imagine the mathematical possibilities?” (”Annie Hall”)
“Here’s Johnny!” (”The Shining”)
“Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool.” (The Hustler)
posted by ramon on 5-22-2008 at 5:47 pm
“Does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe?” - The Breakfast Club
“We’ve got Armadillos in our trousers. It’s really quite frightening.” - Spinal Tap
“You’ll shoot your eye out, kid.” - A Christmas Story
posted by Megan on 5-22-2008 at 5:52 pm
Some of my personal favorites I haven’t seen here yet:
“He’d kill us if he got the chance” - The Conversation
“You’re gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company” - Dr. Strangelove
“Mother… my mother, what is the phrase? She isn’t quite herself today” Psycho
“Beavers and ducks!” - Bandits
posted by Dave Allen on 5-22-2008 at 5:57 pm
“You think that you’re too cool for school, but I’ve got a news flash for you, Walter Cronkite…you aren’t.”
Derek Zoolander
Go ahead and bash my “lowbrow” taste in movies, serious cinema people, but I think that movie is nothing but pure win.
posted by Sandy on 5-22-2008 at 6:34 pm
“Mongo only pawn in game of life”
~ Alex Karas in Blazing Saddles
posted by Boffin on 5-22-2008 at 7:14 pm
“I have never met a woman who had half as much sense as a horse.” Sheriff John T. Chance (John Wayne), “Rio Bravo”
posted by Owen on 5-22-2008 at 7:15 pm
“You don’t have to say anything, you don’t have to do anything. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.” Lauren Bacall, To Have and to Hold
“His wind can’t be very good.” The little girl (don’t remember her name) in The Philadelphia Story.
“What we have here is a failure to communicate.” Paul Newman and George Kennedy in Cool Hand Luke
posted by Judy on 5-22-2008 at 7:26 pm
Waldo: That library over there is worth millions.
Willie: So?
Waldo: And people keep telling me — you’re a worthless piece of slime.
-Ragtime
posted by Parq on 5-22-2008 at 7:28 pm
I don’t think those are the “best”. Maybe ‘best KNOWN’.
posted by Dawn on 5-22-2008 at 7:31 pm
“There’s no crying in baseball!”
posted by Matt on 5-22-2008 at 7:33 pm
(I meant the ones listed by the American Film Institute).
And here’s a quote I think is one of the best:
“I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don’t want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don’t want to do that.” - Lloyd Dobler (Say Anything)
posted by Dawn on 5-22-2008 at 7:45 pm
Has no one mentioned the classics
You mean to tell me you you made a time machine out of a Delorian!
1 point 21 jiggawatts!
You are my density, what I mean to say is that you are my destiny.
I asked for a car. I got a computer.
Abe Froeman? The sausage king of Chicago?
lane, his name is Blane. Thats not a name that’s a major appliance!
What about prom Blane? What. About. Prom.
posted by Shannon on 5-22-2008 at 8:10 pm
Has no one mentioned the classics
You mean to tell me you you made a time machine out of a Delorian!
1 point 21 jiggawatts!
You are my density, what I mean to say is that you are my destiny.
I asked for a car. I got a computer.
Abe Froeman? The sausage king of Chicago?
Blane, his name is Blane. Thats not a name that’s a major appliance!
What about prom Blane? What. About. Prom.
posted by Shannon on 5-22-2008 at 8:11 pm
So long and thanks for all the fish!
I fart in your general direction!
posted by Jess on 5-22-2008 at 8:44 pm
Mind if we dance wif yo dates?
Thank you sir, may I have another.
Fat drunk and stupid is no way to go through life son.
That boy is a P I G pig!
I not going to stand here and listen to you bad mouth the United States of America!
Remain Calm! All is well!
-Animal HOuse
posted by val on 5-22-2008 at 8:48 pm
Christ, Seven years of college down the drain, Bluto Animal House
Over? Did you say “over”? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Bluto, Animal house
posted by Jack on 5-22-2008 at 9:20 pm
Too many, but here’s a start (I’ll probably come up with more!)
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From Midnight Cowboy -
I’m walking here! I’m walking here!
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from Wonder Boys -
Okay, James, I wish you hadn’t shot my girlfriends dog. Even though Poe and I were not exactly what you’d call simpatico that’s no reason he should’ve taken two in the chest
________________________________
From Carlito’s Way -
F*** you and your self-righteous code of the g***** streets. Did it pull you out of a 30 year stint in only 5 years? No, it didn’t, I did. Did it get you acquitted 4 f******* times? No, it didn’t, I did, so f*** you, f*** the streets, your whole g****** world is this big, and there’s only one rule, you save your own a**.
________________________________________
from Kill Bill Vol 2:
Oh, and for the record, letting someone think that someone they love is dead when they’re not is quite cruel. I mourned you for three months. And in the third month of mourning you… I tracked you down. Now, I wasn’t trying to track you down. I was trying to track down the f****** a******* who I thought killed you. So, I find you. And what do I find? Not only are you not dead, you’re getting married to some f****** jerk and you’re pregnant. I… overreacted.
posted by Amy on 5-22-2008 at 9:48 pm
See, here’s two more already:
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from The Godfather
Do you know who I am? I’m Moe Greene! I made my bones when you were going out with cheerleaders!
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from The Warriors
[clicking beer bottles together] Waaaarrrrrriiiorsss, come out to pla-ay!
posted by Amy on 5-22-2008 at 9:55 pm
The odd thing about these quotes is that a majority of them are among the most oversaid quotes of all time. I’m personally sick of a lot of them and I haven’t even seen them yet.
And how can we not love
“When i’m good, I’m good. When I’m bad, I’m better.” -
“Sorry to be rude, but…we’re French.” -Collette, Ratatouille
and how has no one gotten
“fra-gee-lay. Must be Italian!” -Mikey’s dad - a Christmas story
posted by heather on 5-22-2008 at 9:56 pm
Ah! Amy’s first post reminded me of
*spanking a kid with her sword after fighting the yakuza* “This…Is what…You get…For working…For the Yakuza!” *tosses kid out of the room* “Go home to your mother!” - the bride. Kill Bill Vol. 1(or 2, I forget)
posted by heather on 5-22-2008 at 10:02 pm
“I bid you stand, Men of the West!”
–Aragorn, Return of the King
I’m a military brat. That speech gets me every time. Also,
“It’s the dwarves that go swimming with little hairy women!”
–Gimli, RotK
posted by Denise on 5-22-2008 at 10:43 pm
Sorry for the all italics on that last comment! (And on this one, if it’s not fixed. I’m not sure what I did.)
posted by denise on 5-22-2008 at 10:49 pm
“…The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist.” - Kaizer Soze aka Verbal from The Usual Suspects.
“Rosebud.” - Citizen Kane
posted by TxDeeDee on 5-22-2008 at 11:00 pm
Yipee Kiya Mother Fuc*er!!
posted by Christian on 5-22-2008 at 11:03 pm
“No matter where you go, there you are.” Buckaroo Banzai
“Why is there a watermelon there?” Buckaroo Banzai
“We mock what we do not understand.” Ghostbusters
“Klaatu nikto barata.” The Day the Earth Stood Still
“Have fun storming the castle!” Princess Bride
“No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die.” Goldfinger
posted by PartiallyDeflected on 5-22-2008 at 11:10 pm
one word…
plastics.
posted by shawn on 5-22-2008 at 11:13 pm
How’s about:
“You can’t handle the truth!” Jack Nicholson, A Few Good Men
“Nobody puts Baby in a corner!” Can’t remember who said it, from Dirty Dancing
posted by The Rog on 5-22-2008 at 11:21 pm
“Love means never having to say you’re sorry.”,spoken by Ali MacGraw in ‘Love Story’
posted by Melinda on 5-22-2008 at 11:52 pm
Now that I’m home, here’s more from me (and my honey, too). :D
1. “Now that’s what I call a campfire.” - Jack Colton, Romancing the Stone
2. “I’ve should have listened to my momma and been a plastic surgeon. I’d be up to my neck in tits and ass.” - Jack Colton, Romancing the Stone
3. “I love him so much!” “I know you do, dear, I know you do.” - Ed and H.I., Raising Arizona
4. “He was especially hard on the little things.” - H.I., Raising Arizona
5. “Well, which is it, youngster? Iffin’ we freeze, we can’t drop and iffin’ we drop, we’ll be in motion.” - Old Man in the Bank, Raising Arizona
6. “How much for the women? How much for the little girl? We want to buy your women.” - Jake, The Blues Brothers
7. “I’ve got a bad feeling about this.” - Various characters in any of the six Star Wars movies
8. “You don’t normally see that type of activity in the major appliances.” - Dr. Peter Venkman, Ghostbusters
9. “I like a woman who sleeps above the covers. Now FOUR FEET above the covers…?” - Dr. Peter Venkman, Ghostbusters
10. “Even though you do your own taxes, which you really shouldn’t do, I’d still like you to come to my party.” - Louis Tully, Ghostbusters
11. “Yes, it’s true, Mayor, this man has no dick.” - Dr. Peter Venkman, Ghostbusters
12. “Imagine this twinkie is the normal amount of psychokinetic energy in New York City. Based on this morning’s readings, the twinkie would be 35 feet long and weigh 600 pounds.” - Dr. Egon Spengler, Ghostbusters
13. “‘Without you, I dwell in darkness’ and it went away?!” - Sorscha, Willow
14. “I stole the baby from the daikini while he was taking a peepee!” - Rool, Willow
15. “Elora Danan doesn’t want a hairy chest!” - Willow himself
16. “Colonel Bat Guano, if that really is your name…” - Lionel Mandrake, Dr. Strangelove
17. “Gentlemen, there is NO fighting in the War Room.” - President Muffley, Dr. Strangelove
18. “We’ll have a mine shaft gap!” - General Turgidson, Dr. Strangelove
19. “My Tzeitel?” “No, the Tsar’s Tzeitel!” - Golda and Yenta, Fiddler on the Roof
20. “My hair!” - Ulysses McGill, O Brother Where Art Thou
21. “Well, isn’t this a geographical conundrum, two weeks from everywhere.” - Ulysses McGill, O Brother
22. “I don’t want that Fop crap; I’m a Dapper Dan man!” - Ulysses McGill, O Brother
23. “We thought you was a toad.” “Do not seek the treasure.” - Delmar and Pete, O Brother
24. “He’s going to marry me.” - Sloan, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
25. “So that’s how it is in their family.” - Principal Rooney, Ferris Bueller
26. “Do you want a gummy bear? They’re all warm and squishy from my pocket.” - Girl on the Bus, Ferris Bueller
27. “That’ll do, pig, that’ll do.” - Farmer Hoggett, Babe
28. “You could have anything you wanted and you ask for her phone number?!” - Martin Bishop, Sneakers
29. “Did I ever tell you why I had to leave the CIA? My temper!” - Donald Crease, Sneakers
30. “Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O. And on his farm, he shot some guys.” or “Lee Harvey Oswald was a pussy.” - Michael MacManus, The Usual Suspects
posted by frodopal on 5-23-2008 at 12:00 am
My personal favorites:
“Right turn Clyde”
Clint Eastwood, Ever Which Way But Loose
“I’ll have a steak sandwich and a steak sandwich and put it on the Underhill’s bill”
Fletch
“Can I borrow your towel, I just hit a water buffalo with my car”
Fletch
“I say ‘Hay Dali how bout a little something for the effort’ and he says ‘there will be no money involved but on your deathbed you will receive total consciousness’….so I got that going for me”
Bill Murray, Caddyshack
“Snakes. Why’d it have to be snakes?”
Raiders of the Lost Ark
And many, many more
posted by Van on 5-23-2008 at 12:16 am
Heineken? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!
posted by Rich on 5-23-2008 at 12:16 am
“Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son” - Dean Vernon Wormer
“Over? NOTHING is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! And it ain’t over now!” US Sen. John Blutarski
“Can I have 10,000 marbles please?
- Brother Flounder
From the greatest cinematic tour-de-force in American History, “Animal House”.
posted by Niedermeyer on 5-23-2008 at 12:39 am
Two more classics that I’m surprised haven’t made the list…
“Soylent Green is people!” from Soylent Green
“Get you paws off of me you damn dirty ape” from Planet of the Apes…
This could really go on for ever…
posted by stuart on 5-23-2008 at 12:49 am
Bueller?
posted by hugh janus on 5-23-2008 at 5:05 am
Wow, thanks guys. This got my morning started well. I still like the quote from Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s character in Almost Famous, “The most valuable currency we have in this bankrupt world is what we share with another person when we’re uncool.”
posted by Melissa on 5-23-2008 at 6:19 am
I drink your milkshake.
posted by fixedgear on 5-23-2008 at 6:27 am
“That is not my dog.” from The Pink Panther Strikes Again
posted by A. Non on 5-23-2008 at 6:48 am
“F**k the bonus…” Rutger Hauer, Dead or Alive. Horrible movie, great quote.
posted by Li on 5-23-2008 at 6:54 am
I think you have a great top 10. The classics are where they should be and there is a well rounded content from different types of movies.
posted by Will on 5-23-2008 at 6:57 am
“I crap bigger than you.” - Curly in City Slickers
posted by Jim on 5-23-2008 at 7:21 am
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from the original Italian Job :
It’s a very difficult job and the only way to get through it is we all work together as a team. And that means you do everything I say.
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Forget ‘Make my day’… I’ll take this one from Dirty Harry over it:
I know what you’re thinking. “Did he fire six shots or only five?” Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?
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from Withanil & I:
I don’t advise a haircut, man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. Hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight.
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posted by Amy on 5-23-2008 at 7:25 am
ROSEBUD! -Citizen Kane
posted by Ginny on 5-23-2008 at 7:49 am
“The painting was a gift Todd. I’m taking it with me.” - Wedding Crashers
posted by Kelly J on 5-23-2008 at 7:59 am
How could I forget Shawshank Redemption :
Lord! It’s a miracle! Man up and vanished like a fart in the wind
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And for silly films, I have seen Foul Play enough times that I can now re-enact the whole scene that introduces Stanley Tebbitts (Dudley Moore)
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There are also a lot of scenes from Tootsie that I love and that - as w/ Foul Play - I can regugitate ‘Rocky Horror’style whenever the film is on. Three exs. :
[Dorothy Michaels’ screen test]
Rita: I’d like to make her look a little more attractive, how far can you pull back?
Cameraman: How do you feel about Cleveland?
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…I was a stand-up tomato: a juicy, sexy, beefsteak tomato. Nobody does vegetables like me. I did an evening of vegetables off-Broadway. I did the best tomato, the best cucumber… I did an endive salad that knocked the critics on their a**.
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(in the Russian Tearoom)
George. George. George.
It’s Michael Dorsey, okay?
Your favourite client. How are you?
Last job you got me was a tomato.
-Oh, no, no, no–
-Yeah.
-Swear to God.
-Michael?
Oh, God! I begged you to get therapy.
posted by Amy on 5-23-2008 at 8:11 am
“that you too could not die in a freak gasoline fight accident” zoolander-zoolander
“i gave her my heart and she gave me a pen” lloyd dobler-say anything
“i carried a watermelon” baby-dirty dancing
“a gun rack? a gun rack? yah! i don’t even have a gun! let alone many guns to necessitate an entire rack” wayne campbell-waynes world
posted by Emily on 5-23-2008 at 8:24 am
Jessica Rabbit: You don’t know how hard it is being a woman looking the way I do.
Eddie Valiant: You don’t know how hard it is being a man looking at a woman looking the way you do.
Jessica Rabbit: I’m not bad. I’m just drawn that way.
-Jessica Rabbit to detective Eddie Valiant in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?”
posted by Doug R on 5-23-2008 at 8:29 am
A lot of good ones posted here. Here’s two more…
“What if there is no tomorrow? There wasn’t one today.” - Groundhog Day
“The fool looks at the finger that points to the sky.” - Amelie
posted by Michelle on 5-23-2008 at 8:31 am
I’m amazed this hasn’t been put up yet.
“Your best? Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and f**k the prom queen”
The Rock
posted by Bryan on 5-23-2008 at 8:46 am
Still one of my favorites: from Lean on Me, after Principal Joe Clark (Morgan Freeman) had the fire chief escorted out of his school for interfering with his efforts to keep drug dealers from sneaking into the school:
“You know what he’s saying right now? ‘Black bastard can’t throw me out.’ You know WHERE he’s saying it? Out in the parking lot.”
posted by Sandy on 5-23-2008 at 8:49 am
Benjamin: Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me.
from The Graduate
posted by Sheila on 5-23-2008 at 8:55 am
“when you marooned me on that godforsaken spit of land, you forgot one thing… i’m captain jack sparrow…”
-Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
“feel the rythm, feel the rhyme, get on up, its bobsled time, COOL RUNNINGS!!”
-Cool Runnings
there will be more when i think of them…
posted by sean on 5-23-2008 at 8:58 am
NO WIRE HANGERS! - Faye Dunaway
You can’t get any more camp than that
posted by Bill on 5-23-2008 at 8:58 am
“All great men have mustaches!” Rod Kimble, Hot Rod
posted by Codius on 5-23-2008 at 9:04 am
This quote is at the very end of “The Professionals” starring Lee Marvin as Rico, a bounty hunter paid by a wealthy white man (J.W. Grant) to get his wife back from the man that she loves. Great movie and great quote.
J.W. Grant: “You bastard!”
Rico: “Yes, Sir. In my case an accident of birth. But you, Sir, you’re a self-made man.”
posted by D W Griffith on 5-23-2008 at 9:25 am
There are lot of comments and I didn’t read them all, so someone might have already said this–
but why is “May the force be with you” attributed to Han!? And not Obi Wan!?!?
posted by Katie D. on 5-23-2008 at 9:33 am
“You’re stupid. I always knew you were stupid.” Mary Stuart Masterson as ‘Watts’ in Some Kind of Wonderful
“It is forbidden to touch anything. Close the door.” an old Charlie Chan movie, I don’t remember the title.
posted by thetimethief on 5-23-2008 at 9:48 am
What about:
“It’s Czechoslovakia, it’s like going to Wisconsin…”
“I got the sh*t kicked outta me in Wisconsin”
Bill Murray in Stripes
posted by Chicagoan on 5-23-2008 at 9:56 am
(note to mods: having trouble entering a second post, so i’m using my name backwards!)
“You took the box! What’s in the box? ….. Nothing! Absolutely nothing! Stupid! You’re so stupid!”
- UHF
“Conan! What is best in life?”
“Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamenation of the women.”
- Conan the Barbarian
“Goddamn, you bitch! You never backed down from anything before in your life! Now fight! Fight! FIIIIIIIGHT!”
- The Abyss
(Wash playing with dinosaurs on the ship’s console) “This is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it… This Land.
“I think we should call it your grave!”
“Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!”
“Ah ha ha! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!”
“Ah! Oh God! Dear God in heaven!”
- Serenity
Lastly:
“NERRRRDS!!!”
Thanks for the nod, King E. I actually like the 2nd Conan movie better than the first. Cheesetastic!
posted by b anot on 5-23-2008 at 10:04 am
“Kick his ass, Seabass!”
posted by Brent on 5-23-2008 at 10:15 am
1. “Yo, gimme some extra moozarella on that mothatfucka an’ shit.” from DO The Right Thing
2. “Who am I?!! I’m the guy who put the bathrooms in this joint.”
“Oh. Now I know why the place always smells like shit.” Back to School
posted by Boba Fett on 5-23-2008 at 11:27 am
“I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti” Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs
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“Quick, Like a Bunny! Hop, Hop!” Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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“It’d be a lot cooler if you did, man.” Slater, Dazed and Confused
posted by Valerie on 5-23-2008 at 11:36 am
“…and I’m not even supposed to BE here today!” - Dante from Clerks
“What the matter, Colonel Sanders…CHICKEN?” - Dark Helmet from Spaceballs
and - one of my all-time favorites:
“Well, someone’s got to break the ice and it might as well be me, I mean I am used to being a hostess; it’s part of my husband’s work and it is always difficult when a group of new friends meet together for the first time to get aquainted so I’m perfectly prepared to start the ball rolling, I mean, I have absolutely no idea what we’re doing here or what I’m doing here or what this place is about, but I am determined to enjoy myself and I’m very intrigued and oh my this soups delicious isn’t it?” - Mrs. Peacock from Clue.
posted by Jamie on 5-23-2008 at 11:48 am
WOW people GREAT quotes!!!
No, Professor, I don’t think, I’m exceptional. - KH, The Philidelphia Story
A very Famous plan - John Lennon, Help
What a clean old man! - almost everyone, A Hard Day’s Night
I just went GAY all of a sudden. - Cary Grant, Bringing Up Baby
You know, for kids. - Hudsucker Proxy
Would you like to smell the bottlecap? - Steve Martin, The Muppet Movie
The little insect was just waiting for that to happen. - Tom Selleck, Three Men and a Baby
there’s too many more!!!
posted by Em on 5-23-2008 at 12:20 pm
AAhh, how can I forget that Serenity quote? That’s one of the best EVER.
I
posted by Leah on 5-23-2008 at 12:22 pm
“The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
” - Jules. Pulp Fiction
posted by Ed Hands on 5-23-2008 at 12:23 pm
“Dodge this.” Trinity - Matrix
posted by CK on 5-23-2008 at 12:35 pm
I aim to misbehave.
Serenity
posted by Me on 5-23-2008 at 12:46 pm
This very long, but it’s worth it. Hard to believe it was written before the PNACenturions launched government by invasion. And Matt Damon’s delivery is spectacular:
Why shouldn’t I work for the N.S.A.? That’s a tough one, but I’ll give it a shot. Say I’m working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. So I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I’m real happy with myself, ’cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never had a problem with get killed. Now the politicians are sayin’, Send in the marines to secure the area ’cause they don’t give a shit. It won’t be their kid over there, gettin’ shot. Just like it wasn’t them when their number was called, ’cause they were pullin’ a tour in the National Guard. It’ll be some guy from Southie takin’ shrapnel in the ass. And he comes home to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, ’cause he’ll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile my buddy from Southie realizes the only reason he was over there was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the skirmish to scare up oil prices so they could turn a quick buck. A cute little ancillary benefit for them but it ain’t helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. And naturally they’re takin’ their sweet time bringin’ the oil back, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain’t too long ’til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So my buddy’s out of work and he can’t afford to drive, so he’s got to walk to the job interviews, which sucks ’cause the schrapnel in his ass is givin’ him chronic hemorroids. And meanwhile he’s starvin’ ’cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they’re servin’ is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what do I think? I’m holdin’ out for somethin’ better. Why not just shoot my buddy, take his job and give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president.
posted by caliban on 5-23-2008 at 12:56 pm
Ratso Rizzo: I’m walking here! - Midnight Cowboy
posted by Laura on 5-23-2008 at 12:59 pm
I smell ice cream!!! -Goonies
Say hello to my little friend! -Scarface
(can’t believe that hasn’t been said yet)
posted by Alyssa on 5-23-2008 at 1:09 pm
“We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off. ” Brad Pitt in Fight Club
“He spared my life so I would have to live in shame. This was a great man!” - Daniel Day Lewis in Gangs of New York
posted by Jeremy on 5-23-2008 at 1:53 pm
It’s a hell of a thing killin’ a man
You take everything he’s got… and everything he’s ever gonna have
Clint Eastwood
In Unforgiven
posted by Lee on 5-23-2008 at 3:01 pm
“There are two kinds of people in the world my friend. Those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.”
Clint Eastwood in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
posted by Steve on 5-23-2008 at 3:18 pm
The first rule about fight club; don’t talk about fight club!
posted by Kelly on 5-23-2008 at 3:33 pm
“Say hello, to my litte friend.”
-Scarface
posted by Q on 5-23-2008 at 3:43 pm
My Suggestions:
1. “Think not. Do or do not.” (Yoda: The Empire Strikes back)
2. “A man’s gotta know his limitations.” (Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry Callahan)
3. “It would be kinda like killing a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?” (Scout Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird)
4. “I may not be much but I’m still Sheriff of Maycomb County…and Bob Ewell FELL on his knife.” (Sheriff Hec Tate in To Kill a Mockingbird)
5. “It’s more of a guideline.” (Dr. Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters)
6. “Now there’s something you don’t see every day.” (Dr. Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters)
7. “The truth? You can’t HANDLE the truth.” (Col. Nathan Jessep in A Few Good Men)
posted by Blaise MacLean on 5-23-2008 at 3:48 pm
“I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” Captain Renault in Casablanca
I find that describes the American politician.
:-)
posted by reinkefj on 5-23-2008 at 4:00 pm
” Ever hear of Lady Fair Cigarettes? Twice the taste in half the time for the girl on the go. I invented the quick burning paper.”
Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion
” Look everybody, it’s the new Jan Brady!”
Brady Bunch Movie.
posted by Kelly on 5-23-2008 at 6:20 pm
oh,
” I should have known, you’d know where to find the boys and the booze.”
&
” Because I am not one of your FANS!!!”
Mommie Dearest.
posted by Kelly on 5-23-2008 at 6:28 pm
I’m a little late to the party but here’s my contribution:
-How many husbands have you had?
-Mine, or other womens’?
Clue (pretty much the rest of that movie as well)
“Just keep swimming” - Finding Nemo
“I wouldn’t touch you with a 39 ½ foot pole.” –How the Grinch Stole Christmas
“Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.” –Monty Python and the Holy Grail
“I’d call you a sadistic, sodomistic necrophile, but that’s beating a dead horse.” –What’s Up, Tigerlily?
“There is no spoon.” –The Matrix
“You can’t fight in here – This is the War Room!” –Dr. Strangelove
posted by Sara on 5-23-2008 at 6:34 pm
from Marathon Man :
Is it safe?
posted by Amy on 5-23-2008 at 7:02 pm
This orginally came from Stephen King, but counts because it was in the Shawshank Redemption -
“Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.” - Red
posted by Jill on 5-23-2008 at 7:55 pm
First off, how did I spell WITHNAIL incorrectly earlier? My brain has either ‘gone on holiday by mistake’ or else ‘my thumbs have gone weird’!
Anywho… here’s another, from Grosse Pointe Blank (admittedly having only seen some of the film):
They all have husbands and wives and children and houses and dogs, and, you know, they’ve all made themselves a part of something and they can talk about what they do. What am I gonna say? “I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork. How’ve you been?
posted by Amy on 5-23-2008 at 9:32 pm
What about…
“Bond. James Bond.”
posted by Enter_Narne on 5-23-2008 at 9:47 pm
I already mentioned the ‘Fart in the Wind’ line from Shawshank: , but I really like (and can practically reenact all of Norton’s dialogue leading up to it):
What do you mean “he just wasn’t here?” Don’t say that to me, Haig! Don’t say that to me again!
HAIG
But sir! He wasn’t! He isn’t!
NORTON
I can see that, Haig! You think I’m
blind? Is that what you’re saying? Am I blind, Haig?
HAIG
No sir!
Norton grabs the clipboard and thrusts it at Hadley.
NORTON
What about you? You blind? Tell me what this is! You see Dufresne’s name? I sure do.Right there, see? “Dufresne.” He was in his cell at lights out! Stands to reason he’d still be here this morning! I want him found! Not tomorrow, not after breakfast! Now!
NORTON
Well?
RED
Well what?
NORTON
I see you two all the time, you’re thick as thieves, you are! He must’a said something!
posted by Amy on 5-23-2008 at 9:53 pm
“Get him a body bag Johnny”-Karate Kid
“ET phone home”-ET
posted by Mikey on 5-23-2008 at 10:13 pm
Rushmore: “These are OR scrubs.” “Oh, arrrrre they?”
Streetcar Named Desire: “Stellaaaaaaa!”
Graduate: “Elaaaaaaine!”
Beaches: “Enough about me… What do YOU think about me?”
posted by Nori on 5-23-2008 at 11:00 pm
Oh, and
Golden Child: “I-I-I-I-I want the kniiiiife… Pleeeeeeaaase….”
posted by Nori on 5-23-2008 at 11:08 pm
The quote from Gone With the Wind is one of my favorites. However, in my opinion, the actual quote from the novel is much better. Unfortunately I don’t have my copy of the book right here to look it up and post it.
posted by amanda on 5-24-2008 at 12:27 am
“Crying? There’s no crying in baseball” - Tom Hanks in “A League of Their Own”
posted by CoachWall on 5-24-2008 at 8:38 am
With all the Ghostbusters quotes I can’t believe no one’s posted: “There is no Dana, only Zule.”
posted by Rachel on 5-24-2008 at 1:39 pm
Anchorman!
Champ Kind: I will take your mother out to a nice seafood dinner and NEVER call her again!
Wes Mantooth: Dorothy Mantooth is a Saint!
Ron Burgundy: Hey, let’s leave the mothers out of this.
posted by christy on 5-24-2008 at 2:38 pm
From ‘My Darling Clementine’ (1946):
Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda) to the bartender: “Mac, you ever been in love?”
Bartender Mac: “No, I’ve been a bartender all me life.”
posted by Morjana on 5-24-2008 at 3:16 pm
Ah but the first “Serenity” quote is NOT from the movie; it is from the series Firefly. If we’re quoting from TV shows, I got about a billion from that one (”You know what the chain of command is? It’s the chain I beat you with so you know I’m in command.” “Did he just, like, go crazy and fall asleep?” “No, THIS is what going insane feels like.” “Yes, you’re pretty. Were I unmarried, I would take you in a manly way.”) but so far I’ve stuck with movie quotes. :D Oh the delights…how long can we keep this going, people?!
posted by frodopal on 5-24-2008 at 3:59 pm
“I’ll be your Huckleberry” - Tombstone
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love and be loved in return” - Moulin Rouge
“Good Morning Vietnam!”
“Luck be a lad tonight” - Guys and Dolls
posted by Cass on 5-24-2008 at 7:23 pm
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posted by matrix15 on 5-25-2008 at 1:05 am
“Wax on, wax off.”
I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse.”
posted by hw on 5-25-2008 at 1:35 am
“Put your trust in the Lord; your ass belongs to me.” Warden Norton played by Bob Gunton in The Shawshank Redemption
posted by mds on 5-25-2008 at 5:36 am
I love a lot of Alan Arkin’s dialogue - and his delivery of it (for some reason I’m always reminded of Walken , another of my favorites) as Harry Roat in Wait Until Dark. Here’s the long and short exs :
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Well, this goes back a little.
Alrighty.
Once upon a time…
…there was a fairy princess named Lisa.
And she had two very good friends,who shall remain nameless.
Now, these three were fond of performing little dramas for select audiences.
Their most memorable performances were that of outraged husband…
…and detective breaking in upon guilty wife in the arms of her lover..
…or vice versa.
They were adaptable.
The detective, it’s worth mentioning, was particularly convincing in his performance…
…but then he had had the benefit of previous on-the-job training.
Things went trippingly for our three heroes…
…until one day, a certain stockbroker,a Charles F. Parker, wasn’t it? Got nasty.
And then our poor heroes went to jail,or two of them did.
Lisa, well….
Well, she….
She escaped.
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l cannot negotiate in an atmosphereof mistrust.
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posted by Amy on 5-25-2008 at 11:27 pm
Warden Norton/Bob Gunton RULES!!!! -
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And that cupcake on the wall! Let’s ask her, maybe she knows. [to poster] What say you there, fuzzy-britches? Feel like talking?
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…And the library? Gone… sealed off, brick-by-brick. We’ll have us a little book barbecue in the yard. They’ll see the flames for miles. We’ll dance around it like wild Injuns! You understand me? Catching my drift?… Or am I being obtuse? [beat] Give him another month to think about it.
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posted by Amy on 5-25-2008 at 11:35 pm
One final chunk of dialogue from Pulp Fiction :
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The Wolf : Jimmie, lead the way. Boys, get to work.
Vincent: A please would be nice.
The Wolf: Come again?
Vincent: I said a please would be nice.
The Wolf: Get it straight buster - I’m not here to say please, I’m here to tell you what to do and if self-preservation is an instinct you possess you’d better f****** do it and do it quick! I’m here to help - if my help’s not appreciated then lotsa luck, gentlemen.
Jules: No, Mr. Wolf, it ain’t like that…
Vincent: I don’t mean any disrespect, I just don’t like people barking orders at me.
The Wolf: If I’m curt with you it’s because time is a factor. I think fast, I talk fast and I need you guys to act fast if you wanna get out of this. So, pretty please… with sugar on top. Clean the f****** car! ________________________________________
posted by Amy on 5-26-2008 at 12:01 am
“You got me hotter than Georgia asphalt.” Luna from Wild at Heart.
posted by gttim on 5-27-2008 at 9:56 am
The Lion in Winter: King Henry II (Peter O’Toole) greets Eleanor of Aquitaine (Katharine Hepburn), whom he’s let out of prison for Christmas:
Henry: How was your crossing? Did the Channel part for you?
Eleanor: It went flat when I told it to. I didn’t think to ask for more…How dear of you to let me out of jail.
Henry: It’s only for the holidays.
posted by astrotter on 5-27-2008 at 2:34 pm
As the poster of the Tootsie quotes, I’ll mention what most of us already know, that director Sydney Pollack passed away Mon from cancer at age 73.
I’ll miss his work as director and actor.
posted by Amy on 5-27-2008 at 5:07 pm
“I’m the Anti-Christ. You got me in a vendetta kind of mood. You tell the angels in heaven you never seen evil so singularly personified as you did in the face of the man who killed you.”
Christopher Walken
Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead!
posted by Willie on 5-30-2008 at 5:09 pm