What's your favorite movie quotation? Nothing too inspirational as something from Bartlett's.
"I was just trying to be nice." - Joel Barish, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
you mean apart from the entire scripts of The Princess Bride, Monty Python and he Holy Grail, and Real Genius?
Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
This is far to general for me to even get started on. Need to narrow it down to a genre of movies, or favorite of a certain type of quote, favorite quote by a certain type of character/archetype. Something like that.
--Enigmatic
Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
I'm sure I'll have a new one after I see Serenity.
P.S. I will pie anyone who mentions the "that's the beauty of it" quote. Posted by JaimeBenlevy (Member # 6222) on :
Every line from the Star Wars prequels. That dialogue was unbelievable.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
quote:that's the beauty of it
That would be mine....
Actually one of my favorites is "What are you doing? said the Girl. "Ending our friendship." he replied, and kissed her.
From With Honors .
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
"Names Ash. Housewares."
"Aw, baby, that's just what we call pillow talk."
"Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun."
"What's that on your face?" "Huh?" *throws dirt into the open grave on Bad Ash's head*
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
"Serpentine, Shel, serpentine!"
[ August 11, 2005, 10:44 AM: Message edited by: Elizabeth ]
Posted by His Savageness (Member # 7428) on :
"Life is pain, princess! Who ever says differently is selling something."
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Your nickname is Shawshank and you don't quote the Shawshank Redemption?!
Posted by beatnix19 (Member # 5836) on :
"Did you motorboat her? You did, din't you? You motor Boating son of a b****!"
From Wedding Crashers. Funniest movie I 've seen in a long time.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
quote:Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.
Shawshank Redemption
Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
"A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true." - LA Story.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
"I'll have what she's having."
When Harry Met Sally
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
"I'm shocked, shocked by all of the gambling going on in here."
"Here are your winnings sir."
"Oh THANK you very much!"
Casablanca
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
Jimmy Stewart in Shenandoah: "Well I might as well tell you right now that I can’t think of another thing I want to hear you say."
Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
From the TV movie Shakleton:
[preparing to shoot a group photo] Frank Hurley: And look right into the camera. That's where the rest of the world is! Straight into the lens, right here. Think of your wives, your sweethearts, your children, your grandchildren, your great-grandchildren! That's where they are, behind there.
Sir Ernest Shackleton: After today, nothing will be hard, ever again.
Posted by SpiffWilkie (Member # 8464) on :
"Gee, I'm real sorry your mom blew up, Ricky."
Better Off Dead
of course, my favorite sort of cheesey quote:
"Faint hearts never won fair lady."
Robin Hood Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
"Wars have been started for less, when I want your opinions I'll give them to you!"
-Mok, "Rock & Rule"
"The ships! Get to the ships! It's our only chance!"
-Kranix, "Transformers the Movie"
"Death is just another path, one we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back and all turns to silver-glass. And then you see it! White shores...and beyond...a far green country under a shift sunrise."
-Gandalf, "ROTK"
Posted by Vadon (Member # 4561) on :
Hm, for humor I'd have to go with the marketing slogans in Crazy People. Too many have profanity, so I'm not going to post any... but they're classical.
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
"Big gulps, huh? See ya later."
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
quote:Originally posted by Elizabeth: "Serpentine, Mel, serpntine!"
Excellent Choice, Elizabeth, but it's "Shel", as in "Dr. Sheldon Cornpett".
also, while I'm picking nits, from the Princess Bride, earlier, it is "Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."
From "The In-Laws" referenced above-- "oooooh Kay".
From "Better Off Dead", which someone quoted earlier-- "Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way... turn!"
From the Princess Bride, mentioned above, "Ever heard of Plato? Aristotle? Socrates?... morons!"
From "The Odd Couple", which no one has mentioned, " You leave me little notes on my pillow. Told you 158 times I can't stand little notes on my pillow. 'We're all out of cornflakes. F.U.' Took me three hours to figure out 'F.U.' was 'Felix Ungar'!"
Posted by not hansenj (Member # 8066) on :
The Importance of Being Earnest
quote:Jack: How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless.
Algernon: Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.
An Ideal Husband
quote:Lord Arthur Goring: To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
quote:Lord Arthur Goring: A good buttonholer is the only link between art and reality
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
"Excellent Choice, Elizabeth, but it's "Shel", as in "Dr. Sheldon Cornpett". "
Ah, thank you! Going back to edit, though.
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
happy to be of service...
Has anyone been able to find that movie (the original "In-Laws") on DVD? I have not, and my video taped copy is so worn as to be unwatchable...
and now, to correct myself... according to IMDB, it's "Kornpett"
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
"Sorry, guys. I got to go and see about a girl."
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
"This story, like all stories, is about a girl."
Posted by SC Carver (Member # 8173) on :
Any line from Doc Holiday in Tombstone.
"I have not yet begun to defile myself."
"It seems poker's just not your game, Ike. I know: let's have a spelling contest!"
"Why Johnny Ringo, you look like someone just walked over your grave."
Along with about an dozen lines from Lonesome Dove.
"My wife is in Hell, where I sent her. She could make good biscuits, but her behavior was intolerable"
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Jim-Me, we rented it a few years ago. I will check later on Netflix. A classic for sure.
"I was born a poor black child."
Naven Johnson(Steve Martin) in The Jerk
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
"Last one to get a job sleeps under the home!"
Lost in America
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
"You guys think you're unappreciated scholars, so you sh*% on everyone who knows less than you."
"No..."
"...Which is everybody."
"Yeah..."
(High Fidelity)
Posted by His Savageness (Member # 7428) on :
"Breakfast, schmeakfast! Breakfasts come and go; Hartford, the whale? They beat Vancouver once, maybe twice in a lifetime."
Posted by His Savageness (Member # 7428) on :
Ooh, just thought of some more from my favorite movie ever:
"That's not the issue Delmar. Even if that did put you square with the Lord, the State of Mississippi's a little more hard-nosed."
"D*mn! We're in a tight spot!"
"Well, ain't it a small world, spiritually speaking. Pete and Delmar just been baptized and saved. I guess I'm the only one that remains unaffiliated."
"Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?"
"A woman is the most fiendish instrument of torture ever devised to bedevil the days of man."
Posted by Shawshank (Member # 8453) on :
I couldn't think of anything from Shawshank- but here's one...
"Maybe I should get me a gun and rob the Food Way, so they could send me home. I could shoot the manager while I was at it.. sorta like a bonus."
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
ooh, the western stuff reminds me of some great ones:
Chico:"That was the greatest shot I've ever seen!" Britt:"The worst... I was aiming for the horse!" -The Magnificent Seven
"Today my jurisdiction ends here." -Sheriff Langston, Silverado
Posted by BunnV (Member # 6816) on :
A lot of good ones are in this thread. Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
quote:Originally posted by Shawshank: I couldn't think of anything from Shawshank-
some of my faves from there...
"Get busy living, or get busy dying."
"I hope..."
"This boy's gonna have himself an accident!"
"Put your trust in the Lord... your @$$ belongs to me."
"Andy Dufresne - who crawled through a river of $h1t and came out clean on the other side. "
Andy:"I don't suppose it would help if I told them that I'm not homosexual." Red:"Neither are they. You have to be human first. They don't qualify."
"Maybe we should file it [The Count of Monte Cristo] under educational?"
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
"There's a shortage of perfect breasts in the world. 'Twould be a pity to damage yours."-- Wesley, Princess Bride.
Posted by Crotalus (Member # 7339) on :
Gene Hackman: "I'm building a house. I don't deserve to die like this."
Clint Eastwood: "Deserve's got nothing to do with it."
Unforgiven
Posted by Little_Doctor (Member # 6635) on :
From "Tommy Boy"
quote:[trying to convice a buyer to switch to his brake pads] Tommy: Umm, let's say your driving along the road with your family and your driving along, lay le lay, woo whoo, Then all of a sudden there a truck tire in the middle of the road. And you hit the brakes EERRRRRGGGHH! Whoa. That was close.
Hah ha! Now, lets see what happens when your driving with the "other guys brake pads". Your driving along, your driving along and all of sudden the kids are yelling from the back seat, "I gotta go the bathroom daddy." Not now damnit! Truck tire. Errrragggghhh! I can't stop! [smashes a model car on desk] There's a cliff. Ahhhhh! And your familys screaming, "Ohh my god we're burning alive! No, I can't feel my legs!" Here comes the meat wagon. WE-OH! WE-OH! WE-OH! And the medic get's out and says, "Ohh my god." New guy is in the corner puking his guts out. All because you wanna save a couple extra pennies.
Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :
"Freeeeeeedddddommmmmmmm!"
Braveheart
--j_k
Posted by beatnix19 (Member # 5836) on :
quote: Any line from Doc Holiday in Tombstone.
"I have not yet begun to defile myself."
"It seems poker's just not your game, Ike. I know: let's have a spelling contest!"
"Why Johnny Ringo, you look like someone just walked over your grave."
How could you forgetthe best one...
"I'm your huckleberry"
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Eli: I did find it odd when you said you were in love with her. She's married you know.
Richie: Yeah.
Eli: And she's your sister.
Richie: Adopted.
The Royal Tenenbaums
Posted by SC Carver (Member # 8173) on :
quote:Originally posted by beatnix19:
quote: Any line from Doc Holiday in Tombstone.
"I have not yet begun to defile myself."
"It seems poker's just not your game, Ike. I know: let's have a spelling contest!"
"Why Johnny Ringo, you look like someone just walked over your grave."
How could you forgetthe best one...
"I'm your huckleberry"
I didn't forget it, I just didn't think it was as much fun to quote in normal conversation.
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
"My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." Princess Bride
"Negative, Ghost Rider, the pattern is full." Top Gun
"Only one man would dare to give me the raspberry." Spaceballs
Posted by His Savageness (Member # 7428) on :
Some more good "Royal Tenenbaums" Quotes:
Eli: Well, everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this book presupposes is... maybe he didn't.
Eli: I'm not in love with you any more. Margot: I didn't ever know that you were. Eli: Let's not make this any more difficult than it already is.
Royal: That's the last time you put a knife in me! Y'hear me?
Royal: I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman.
Royal: I thought I'd start by taking you out to visit your grandmother. Richie: God, I haven't been out there in years. Margot: I've never been at all. I was never invited. Royal: Well she wasn't your real grandmother, and I didn't know how much interest you had. But you're invited now!
Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
Someone mentioned Unforgiven, but not my favorite line from it. Gene Hackman: Mister, you just shot an unarmed man! Clint Eastwood: He shoulda armed himself.
And, when I'm having a hard day trying to write something, I like to think of Dan Goodman from Barton Fink: "Gaze upon me! I will show you the life of the mind!"
--Enigmatic
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
More Tommy Boy:
Tommy - Hey, you can't just go in and out, you gotta finesse 'em a little bit. Richard - Hmm... by finesse, do you mean sputtering out sentence fragments and lighting things on fire? Tommy - No... but, it's nice to see you again, Mr. Insult. Say, if you see Richard...
I use that one all the time.
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
Mikey, lookit, little Wayne's head's bleedin! Posted by Peter Howell (Member # 8072) on :
From the Peacekeeper wars: John Crichton: Is there anything I can do to help? Aeryn Sun: Oh, I think you've done enough already. If this was a Sebacean child, a pure one, it would've been born long ago. So how long is this going to take? John Crichton: Well, on Earth it can last days. Aeryn Sun: ...I have killed men for less.
from the firefly trailer: Wash: This is going to get pretty interesting Mal: Define interesting Wash:(completely calm): Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die!?
Mal:(speaking into microphone to crew): This is the captain, we're having a little problem with our engien sequence so we may experience some slight turbulence and then, explode.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
"You soaked his UNDERWEAR in MEAT!"
Cheaper by the Dozen(the modern)
Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
"You're not the anti-Christ. You're only a malcontent who knows how to spell."
Quills Posted by SenojRetep (Member # 8614) on :
I could just copy this whole page and paste it, but if I have to choose a single quote, it might be:
quote:I think that when statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.
Or maybe this one, which I don't think is listed on the previously linked page
quote:- If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that needs no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all . . . why then perhaps we must stand fast a little-even at the risk of being heroes. - But in reason! Haven't you done as much as God can reasonably want? - Well . . . finally . . . it isn't a matter of reason; finally it's a matter of love.
Posted by DarkKnight (Member # 7536) on :
"This is what I do, Darlin.....this is what I do" - Mal to River, Serenity
Posted by Ryoko (Member # 4947) on :
(3 glass bottles on fingers, clinking ominously)
War-ree-ors..come out to play-ee
....
The streets are ours suckers...can you dig it?
CAA-AAN you DIIGGG it?
Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
"If you're really in love, then money shouldn't matter."
"Why, thank you, bank robber."
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
"No matter where you go, there you are" --Buckaroo Banzai, from Buckaroo Banzai through the Eighth Dimension
"Laugh-a while you can, monkey boy!" --Emilio Lizardo, from Buckaroo Banzai through the Eighth Dimension
"That's the beauty of it, see? It doesn't do anything!" --Someone or other, from some movie or other
"We're on a mission from God." --Elwood Blues, from The Blues Brothers
"I hate Illinois Nazis." --Jake Blues, from The Blues Brothers
"I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part." "And we're just the guys to do it." --Eric "Otter" Stratton and John "Bluto" Blutarsky, from Animal House
"And then... depression set in." --John Winger, from Stripes
"We're all very different people. We're not Watusi, we're not Spartans, we're Americans. With a capital 'A', huh? And you know what that means? Do you? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We're the underdog. We're mutts." --John Winger, from Stripes
"Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?" --Vic Deakins, from Broken Arrow
Posted by fiddle_stix (Member # 9941) on :
Elizabeth Bennet: "Did I just agree to dance with Mr. Darcy?" Charlotte Lucas: "I dare say you will find him amiable." Elizabeth Bennet: "It would be most inconvenient since I have sworn to loathe him for all eternity."
-Pride and Prejudice, 2005
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
"Surely there's something you can do for them." "I'm doing all I can, and quit calling me Shirley."
Airplane.
"We have to get these sick people to the hospital."
"The Hospital? What is it?"
"Its a big building with patients, but that's not important now."
Airplane.
Posted by martha (Member # 141) on :
[shrug] "No ticket."
- Silent Bob
Posted by Reshpeckobiggle (Member # 8947) on :
"We trained Wimp-lo wrong on purpose...as a joke!"
Master Wang, Kung-Pow: Enter the Fist
Posted by Reshpeckobiggle (Member # 8947) on :
And not from a movie, but one of my absolute favorites:
"Well, you know what they say: You are what you eat. And you obviously ate a big fat guy, didn't you?"
-Dr. Cox, Scrubs
Posted by Ecthalion (Member # 8825) on :
"Impressive....... Most impressive"-Darth vader-Empire
V-"Who? Who is but the form, following the function of what, and what i am is a man in a mask" Eve-"Well i can see that" V-"Of course you can, we are not commenting on your powers of observation, merely remarking on the paradox of asking a masked man "who" he is"-V for vendetta
"Cry havoc!! And unleash the dogs of war!!" Chang-undiscovered country
"Mr. Anderson. Welcom back. We missed you"-Mr. Smith-the matrix
"And then i sent him on that outragious crusade, ah-ha!" Prince john-Robin hood
"T'was the Drink that killed him" "Oh, i'm sorry, he was an alcoholic?" "No, he was hit by a Heinekin Truck"-Mrs Doubtfire
Posted by Little_Doctor (Member # 6635) on :
Ecthalion: I was reading through to see if anyone would quote this movie. How could you only quote the first part of that conversation?
V: But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace sobriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis persona. V: Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V. Evey Hammond: Are you like a crazy person? V: I am quite sure they will say so.
Posted by Ecthalion (Member # 8825) on :
actually i was going to put the rest, i just figured it woulda been bothersom for people to read.....
Posted by Little_Doctor (Member # 6635) on :
I don't think people pay much attention to my posts anyway, haha. I got your back.
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