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I'm a big fan of "Network", that 70s satire on television and what have you. It's simply great and the dialogue is catchy and intense. Some of my favorite lines (well, monologues...)
"I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad. [shouting] You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, Goddamnit! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, [shouting] 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"
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"Barbara: These are those four outlines submitted by Universal for an hour series. You needn't bother to read them; I'll tell them to you. The first one is set at a large Eastern law school, presumably Harvard. The series is irresistibly entitled "The New Lawyers." The running characters are a crusty-but-benign ex-Supreme Court justice, presumably Oliver Wendell Holmes by way of Dr. Zorba; there's a beautiful girl graduate student; and the local district attorney who is brilliant and sometimes cuts corners. The second one is called "The Amazon Squad." The running characters include a crusty-but-benign police lieutenant who's always getting heat from the commissioner; a hard-nosed, hard-drinking detective who thinks women belong in the kitchen; and the brilliant and beautiful young girl cop who's fighting the feminist battle on the force. Up next is another one of those investigative reporter shows. A crusty-but-benign managing editor who's always gett... [Diana cuts her off]"
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MrSQuciky, but I did point as much in first post.
"Well, monologues..."
And speaking of which,
"I feel lousy about the pain that I've caused my wife and kids. I feel guilty and conscience-stricken, and all of those things you think sentimental, but which my generation calls simple human decency. And I miss my home, because I'm beginning to get scared shitless, because all of a sudden it's closer to the end than the beginning, and death is suddenly a perceptible thing to me, with definable features."--Max from Network.
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Dan Rydell: At this point, the length of this conversation is way out of proportion to my interest in it.
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Casey McCall: It's a vicious circle. Dan Rydell: Yep. Just keeps going around and around. Casey McCall: Never stops. Dan Rydell: That's what makes it vicious. Casey McCall: And a circle.
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This is a quote from a TV show, "Do you like to kill horses?" (Spoken with an English accent.) From All Creatures Great and Small.
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I just love the Adams Family Values. --- "... And Mommy kissed Daddy, and the angel told the stork, and the stork left a diamond under a leaf in the cabbage patch. And the diamond turned into a baby!"
"Wow. Our parents are having a baby too."
"They had sex." --- "That's an American Bald Eagle!"
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"She's a transvestite." "You're stoned." "She's still a transvestite."
Upon the subject of the corpse of a professor's dog in his trunk:
James Leer: Professor Tripp? Can I ask you a question? Grady Tripp: Yeah, James. James Leer: What are we going to do with... it? Grady Tripp: I don't know. I'm still trying to figure out how to tell the Chancellor I murdered her husband's dog. James Leer: You? Grady Tripp: Trust me, James, when the family pet's been assassinated, the owner doesn't want to hear one of her students was the trigger man. James Leer: Does she want to hear it was one of her professors? Grady Tripp: ...I've got tenure.
James Leer: Now, that is a big trunk. It holds a tuba, a suitcase, a dead dog, and a garment bag almost perfectly. Grady Tripp: That's just what they used to say in the ads.
-Wonderboys
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Personal Note: *No further dialogue necessary at this point. My life as I know it has just fallen apart*
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quote: Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. And you may quote me.
- James Stewart, HarveyPosts: 486 | Registered: Feb 2005
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If we are going to start posting things from Sports Night, I will just have to find complete scripts to the entire series. So that's a bad idea.
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Ah! Another fan of Sports Night. I don't think I've ever even met a person that's ever watched that beloved show.
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Well now that's just silly. I have owned the series for a while now, and I've watched them so many times I have most lines memorized....I'm a fanatic. My girlfriend of almost 4 years now always says that natalie is my real girlfriend.
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I had to look for this one and, okay, it's a monologue:
From "The Cowboys" Jebediah Nightlinger: "I regret trifling with married women. I'm thoroughly ashamed at cheating at cards. I deplore my occasional departures from the truth. Forgive me for taking Your name in vain; my Saturday drunkenness; my Sunday Sloth. Above all, forgive me for the men I've killed in anger, and those I am about to..."
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"And this here's the TV. Two hours a day, either educational or football, so you don't ruin your appreciation of the finer things. "
"Do these blow up into funny shapes?" "Well, no, unless round is funny." [later on] "Do they blow up into funny shapes?" "They sure do!"
"Now, what's it gonna be young feller? You want I should freeze or get down on the ground? 'Cause if'n I freeze, I can't rightly drop. And if'n I drop, I'm gonna be in motion."
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"Mary... I desperately wanna make love to a school boy."
"Yeah I called her up, she gave me a bunch of crap about me not listening to her, or something, I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention. "
"Once, we successfully mated a bulldog with a shiatsu." "Really?" "Yeah, we called it a bullshit."
"What are the chances of a guy like you and a girl like me... ending up together? "Not good." "Not good like one in a hundred?" "I'd say more like one in a million." "So you're telling me there's a chance?"
"No way! We landed on the moon!"
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"Your mom goes to college."
"Make yourself a dang quesa-dilluh"
"You think somebody wants a roundhouse kick to the face while I'm reading these bad boys? Forget about it. Last off, my students will learn about self respect. You think anybody thinks I'm a failure because I go home to Starla at night? Forget about it!"
"Well, you have a sweet bike. And you're really good at hooking up with chicks. Plus you're like the only guy at school who has a mustache."
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"Okay, here's what I want. We both get naked...except we're both wearing sailor hats. Then we get into a jacuzzi full of Pepto-Bismol, I clip your toenails, and you shave my buttocks."
[paraphrased:] "Dad, I need to go." "Nope, can't stop honey. Jason, look for a bottle." "Girls don't pee in bottles." "Okay, Jason, we're going to need a bottle and a funnel." "But Dad, I've got to go #2." "Sorry honey." "Dad, I'm prairie dogging back here." "Well, what the hell does that mean?" "You know, like when a prairie dog sticks his head in and out of the ground." "Oh." [Five seconds later] "Oh, god, I do not wanna picture that!"
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"Do you like my dress?" "Whatever takes the focus off your head!"
"The pen is blue. The goddamn pen is blue."
"My teacher tells me beauty is on the inside." "That's just something ugly people say."
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"They cannot arrest a husband and wife for the same crime." "Yeah, I don't think that that's true, dad. "Really? I've got the worst (bleep) attorneys!"
"I'd rather be dead in California than alive in Arizona."
"Well, they expect a certain amount of theft, Michael. It's built into the price. If I didn't take it, then people would be overpaying for nothing."
"We're all just going to have a more normal arrangement. I'm going to sleep with my daughter, and you're going to sleep with my husband."
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Or I guess I could just say everythingon "Raising Arizona", "Dumb and Dumber", "Napoleon Dynamite", "Rat Race", "Liar Liar", and "Arrested Development".
And, of course, there's The Princess Bride and Monty Python's Holy Grail. But I'm sure everybody here's memorized those scripts by now.
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From now on we are enemies, You and I. Because You choose for Your instrument a boastful, lustful, smutty, infantile boy and give me only the ability to recognize the incarnation. Because You are unjust, unfair, unkind I will block You, I swear it. I will hinder and harm Your creature on Earth as far as I am able. I will ruin Your incarnation.
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His funeral! Imagine it, all of Vienna there, Mozart's coffin, Mozart's little coffin in the middle, and then suddenly, in that silence, music! A divine music bursts out over them all. A great mass of death! Requiem mass for Wolfgang Mozart, composed by his dear friend, Antonio Salieri! Oh what sublimity, what depth, what passion in the music! Salieri has been touched by God at last. And God is forced to listen! Powerless, powerless to stop it! I, for once in the end, laughing at him!
COUNSELOR: Most men your age, Hi, are getting married and raising up a family. They wouldn't accept prison as a substitute... Would any of you men care to comment?
GALE: But sometimes your career gotta come before family.
EVELLE: Work's what's kept us happy.
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"What you are talking about is desire - just brutal Desire. The name of that rattle-trap streetcar that bangs through the Quarter, up one old narrow street and down another."
"Haven't you ever ridden on that streetcar?"
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Richard: (as Audrey walks into his office unannounced) I trust you have an appointment? Audrey: Yes, and if this takes too long, I shall be late for it.
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This is one of MANY from "To the Manor Born"... a British comedy series that I am addicted to. It's about twenty five years old, it's not a currently running thing. But it's soo funny. I highly recommend you check it out!
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"I'm the chaperone on this trip. The chaperone's job is to see that nobody else has any fun. But nobody chaperone's the chaperone. That's why I'm so right for this job."
-Dorothy Shaw, played by Jane Russell, in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
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Luke: "She's rich, powerful, if you were to rescue her, the reward would be..." Han: "What?" Luke: "Well more wealth than you can imagine." Han: "I dunno, I can imagine quite a bit"
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quote: But I don't understand! I don't understand how this all happens. How we go through this. I mean, I knew her, and then she's, there's just a body, and I don't understand why she just can't get back in it and not be dead anymore! It's stupid! It's mortal and stupid! And, and Xander's crying and not talking, and, and I was having fruit punch, and I thought, well Joyce will never have any more fruit punch, ever, and she'll never have eggs, or yawn or brush her hair, not ever, and no one will explain to me why.
quote: You listen to me. I've been alive a bit longer than you, and dead a lot longer than that. I've seen things you couldn't imagine, and done things I prefer you didn't. I don't exactly have a reputation for being a thinker. I follow my blood, which doesn't exactly rush in the direction of my brain. So I make a lot of mistakes, a lot of wrong bloody calls. A 100+ years, and there's only one thing I've ever been sure of: you. Hey, look at me. I'm not asking you for anything. When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman. You're the one, Buffy.
quote: I gotta say something 'cause I don't think I've made it clear. I'm in love with you. Powerfully, painfully in love. The things you do... the way you think... the way you move... I get excited every time I'm about to see you. You make me feel like I've never felt before in my life -- like a man. I just thought you might wanna know.
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I'm just beginning to get hooked on Sports Night. I am in complete and total love with Dan Rydell.
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quote: Dan Rydell: At this point, the length of this conversation is way out of proportion to my interest in it.
My friend and I quote this line so often that now all we have to say when someone's off on a tangent is, "The length of this conversation..." and we both burst out laughing.
This is a great show, and it makes me happy to know there are other fans out there. Posts: 186 | Registered: Dec 2000
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Oh, who can forget this one? Vader: Where is Padme? Palpatine: It seems that in your anger, you killed her. Vader: NNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Posts: 3389 | Registered: Apr 2004
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