[Note: Because no one wants to read (and I hate to write) anything serious on Fridays, I have a rotating list of features for this day. “The Lists” is yet another occasional Friday feature that has been added to the mix.]
"Great movie quotes become part of our cultural vocabulary," said American Film Institute director Jean Picker Firstenberg last year as he unveiled AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movie Quotes: America’s Greatest Quips, Comebacks and Catchphrases. The AFI list is as comprehensive as it is dull; a mix of the classic ("Here's looking at you, kid."), the banal ("I feel the need - the need for speed!), and the downright silly ("Nobody puts Baby in a corner."). Left off of the list were many of the enduring favorites of our misspent youths (think anything from Caddyshack or the Monty Python movies) that are repeated ad nauseum by college freshman as if they were fresh inside jokes.
Somewhere there is a middle ground between the trite classics and the trite cult standards. To fill that gap I offer the following fifty quotable lines of dialogue from movies that are neither overly familiar nor exceedingly obscure. The criteria for making the cut was that the quote had to be relatively short, profanity-free, and provide either a kernel of wisdom, insight, or humor. Some of them come from exceptional films while others are gleaned from movies that are merely watchable. I tried to choose representative quotes so your feelings about the snippet of dialogue are likely to mirror your appreciation of each movie. These are not necessarily the best or even my favorite movie quips (though some are) but they are all, in my opinion, deserving of more attention.
Here then is my list of 50 memorable (but obscure) movie quotes:
Principal: Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Billy Madison: Okay, a simple no would've done just fine.
Barcelona
(There are very few movies that can be charming, funny, urbane, and champion conservative social mores all at the same time. Director Whit Stillman, however, has managed to make three such movies: Barcelona, Metropolitan, and Last Days of Disco. While the dry wit may not appeal to everyone, I recommend them to anyone who can appreciate a subtly humorous examination of an almost extinct social class: preppies.)
Fred: You are far weirder than someone merely into S&M. At least they have a tradition. We have some idea what S&M is about. There's movies and books about it. But so far as I know, there is nothing to explain the way you are.
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Marta: I think there is something fascist about a boy who immediately talks of marrying a woman he likes.
Fred: I don't think Ted is a fascist of the marrying kind.
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Fred: Maybe you can clarify something for me. Since I've been, you know, waiting for the fleet to show up, I've read a lot, and...
Ted: Really?
Fred: And one of the things that keeps popping up is this about "subtext." Plays, novels, songs - they all have a "subtext," which I take to mean a hidden message or import of some kind. So subtext we know. But what do you call the message or meaning that's right there on the surface, completely open and obvious? They never talk about that. What do you call what's above the subtext?
Ted: The text.
Fred: OK, that's right, but they never talk about that.
Charlie: Fourierism was tried in the late nineteenth century... and it failed. Wasn't Brookfarm Fourierist? It failed.
Tom: That's debatable.
Charlie: Whether Brookfarm failed?
Tom: That it ceased to exist, I'll grant you, but whether or not it failed cannot be definitively said.
Charlie: Well, for me, ceasing to exist is - is failure. I mean, that's pretty definitive.
Tom: Well, everyone ceases to exist. Doesn't mean everyone's a failure.
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Nick Smith: It's a tiny bit arrogant of people to go around worrying about those less fortunate.
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Nick Smith: Rick Von Slonecker is tall, rich, good looking, stupid, dishonest, conceited, a bully, liar, drunk and thief, an egomaniac, and probably psychotic. In short, highly attractive to women.
Tom Platt: The environmental movement of our times was sparked by the rerelease of Bambi in the 1950s.
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Josh Neff: [Describing the Disney movie Lady and the Tramp]There is something depressing about it and it's not really about dogs. Except for some superficial bow-wow stuff at the start, the dogs all represent human types which is where it gets into real trouble. Lady, the ostensible protagonist, is a fluffy blond cocker spaniel with absolutely nothing on the brain. She's great looking but, let's be honest, incredibly insipid. Tramp, the love interest is a smarmy braggart of the most obnoxious kind, an oily jail bird...
Josh Neff: [Still talking about Lady and the Tramp] No, [Tramp's] a self confessed chicken thief; an all around sleaze ball. What's the function of a film of this kind? Essentially it's a primer about love and marriage directed at very young people, imprinting on their little psyches that smooth talking delinquents recently escaped from the local pound are a good match for nice girls in sheltered homes. When in ten years the icky human version of Tramp shows up around the house their hormones will be racing and no one will understand why. Films like this program women to adore jerks.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
God: What are you doing now?
King Arthur: Averting our eyes, oh Lord.
God: Well, don't. It's just like those miserable psalms, always so depressing.
Ponette
(You haven't seen this movie yet? What are you waiting for? Oh, and don't forget the tissue. Watching this film about a four-year-old grieving the loss of a parent is guaranteed to break your heart.)
La Fille de l'Internet: You shouldn't be so sad.
Ponette: Yes, I should.
La Fille de l'Internet: Your mother was sad, too. She cried on her way to Heaven. God cried as He waited for her. When God was on earth as Jesus, He cried, too. But usually He was as joyful as a child.
Ponette: It isn't joyful to be a child.
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Ponette: I'm waiting for my mommy.
Matiaz: Dead people don't come back.
Ponette: Jesus did it for his friends. I'm more than a friend. I'm my mommy's daughter.
Matiaz: Grandpa never came back.
Ponette: That's because no one was waiting for him.
Evil Dead 3: Army of Darkness (Starring Bruce Campbell, the greatest B-movie actor alive.)
Ash: (Bruce Campbell) Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand things with alloys and compositions and things with... molecular structures.
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Arthur: Are all men from the future loud-mouthed braggarts?
Ash: Nope. Just me baby... Just me.
Miller's Crossing (An undderrated ganster film.)
Eddie Dane: How'd you get the fat lip?
Tom Reagan: Old war welt. Acts up around morons.
PCU (An underrated frat movie.)
Droz (Jeremy Piven): These, Tom, are the Causeheads. They find a world-threatening issue and stick with it for about a week.
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Droz: What's this? You're wearing the shirt of the band you're going to see? Don't be that guy.
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Jock #1: [at a party] What's up, babes?
Womynist #1: Pack up your rape culture and take a hike!
Jock #1: [holds up a beer] You want a brewdog?
Womynist #1: We're not interested in your penis!
Womynist #2: Wait, wait, I think he's offering us a beer.
[turns to jock, speaks slowly]
Womynist #2: Um... Yes. We, would like, a beer.
Jock #1: Okay!
[turns around to get a beer]
Womynist #1: So it's like, if you're nice to them, they bring you things?
Womynist #2: Exactly.
Kicking and Screaming (An all around underrated film that can only be found on VHS.)
Grover: Oh, I've been to Prague. Well, I haven't "been to Prague" been to Prague, but I know that thing, that, "Stop shaving your armpits, read the Unbearable Lightness of Being, date a sculptor, now I know how bad American coffee is thing..."
Jane: They have good beer there.
Grover: "...now I know how bad American beer is thing."
Harry Morant: Live each day as though it were your last; one day you're sure to be right.
Sir Robert Morton: I wept today because right had been done.
Catherine Winslow: Not justice?
Sir Robert Morton: No, not justice. Right. Easy to do justice. Very hard to do right.
Janet Livermore: Somewhere around 25, bizarre becomes immature.
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Linda Powell: I think that, a) you have an act, and that, b) not having an act is your act.
Mabel: To look at a thing is quite different from seeing a thing, and one does not see anything until one sees its beauty.
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Sir Robert Chiltern: Do you know, Arthur, I sometimes wish I were you.
Lord Arthur Goring: Do you know, Robert, sometimes I wish you were too. Except that you would probably make something useful out of my life, and that would never do.
Antonia: This is no time for Schopenhauer. This is important.
Mrs. Crisp: What kind of doctor are you?
Dr. Mumford: Ph.D. in psychology.
Mrs. Crisp: Oh. Not a real doctor.
Dr. Mumford: That's right, the fake kind.
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Althea Brockett: You know what this feels like? - When I was in high school the thing I wanted most when I was stuck in class, the thing that I was desperately in pursuit of, was a hall pass. That's all I ever wanted. I loved moving freely around the school while everybody else was trapped in there. That's how I feel right now. Like I have some giant - all day - hall pass.
Lester Bangs: The only true currency in this bankrupt world... is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.
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Dennis Hope: I didn't invent the rainy day, man. I just own the best umbrella.
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Elaine Miller: Adolescence is a marketing ploy.
Will: The thing is, a person's life is like a TV show. I was the star of The Will Show. And The Will Show wasn't an ensemble drama. Guests came and went, but I was the regular. It came down to me and me alone. If Marcus' mum couldn't manage her own show, if her ratings were falling, it was sad, but that was her problem. Ultimately, the whole single mum plotline was a bit complicated for me.
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Christine: You will end up childless and alone.
Will: Well, fingers crossed, yeah.
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Will: In my opinion, all men are islands. And what's more, now's the time to be one. This is an island age.
John: So, what do you reckon to our new Prime Minister, then?
Judy: I like him. Can't understand why he's not married, though.
John: Oh, you know the type. Married to his job. Either that or gay as a picnic basket.
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Prime Minister (Hugh Grant): [to a portrait of Margaret Thatcher] Did you ever have this kind of problem? Yeah - of course you did, you saucy minx.
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Daniel (Liam Neeson): Option One: ask her out.
Sam: Impossible.
Daniel: Fair enough. Option Two: become her friend.
Sam: She's the most popular girl in school and she hates boys.
Daniel: Okay. Option Three: kidnap her and keep her tied up in your room until she agrees to marry you.
Sam: It's a route I've considered.
Daniel: And quite rightly rejected on the grounds of...
Sam: Hygiene.
Paul: Supermodels are beautiful girls, Will. A beautiful girl can make you dizzy, like you've been drinking Jack and Coke all morning. She can make you feel high full of the single greatest commodity known to man - promise. Promise of a better day. Promise of a greater hope. Promise of a new tomorrow. This particular aura can be found in the gait of a beautiful girl. In her smile, in her soul, the way she makes every rotten little thing about life seem like it's going to be okay. The supermodels, Willy? That's all they are. Bottled promise. Scenes from a brand new day. Hope dancing in stiletto heels.
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Andera: So why the sad face?
Willie Conway: Job requirement. Happy piano players work the circus.
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Willie Conway: I can't play Pooh to your Christopher Robin.
Helen: What does your therapist say about all of this?
Jessica: Oh, I could never tell my therapist.
Helen: Why not?
Jessica: Because it's private.
Daryl Zero (Bill Pullman): Now, a few words on looking for things. When you go looking for something specific, your chances of finding it are very bad. Because of all the things in the world, you're only looking for one of them. When you go looking for anything at all, your chances of finding it are very good. Because of all the things in the world, you're sure to find some of them.
Madeleine (Kate Winslet): Some things belong on paper, others in life. It's a blessed fool who can't tell the difference.
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Royer-Collard: If you're going to martyr yourself Abbe, do it for God, not the chambermaid.
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Royer-Collard: You prefer a book to your husband's company? Well no wonder, I'm only flesh and blood - that's no match for the printed page
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Coulmier (Joaquin Phoenix): [To the Marquis De Sade] You're not the anti-Christ. You're only a malcontent who knows how to spell.
Saved! (Overall, this satire about a Christian school is a disappointment. But it has some razor sharp lines that are worthy mentioning.)
Hilary Faye: Mary, turn away from Satan. Jesus, he loves you.
Mary: You don't know the first thing about love.
Hilary Faye: [throws a Bible at Mary] I am FILLED with Christ's love! You are just jealous of my success in the Lord.
Mary: [Mary holds up the Bible] This is not a weapon! You idiot.
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Cassandra: There's only one reason Christian girls comes down to the Planned Parenthood.
Roland: She's planting a pipe bomb?
Cassandra: Okay, two reasons.
Ginger Rogers This is the end! The absolute end!
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Unforgiven (The coolest western ever)
Munny: "It's a funny thing killing a man, you take all he's got and all he's ever going to have."
Munny: "That's right. I've killed women and children. I've killed everything that's walked or crawled at one time or another and now I'm going to kill you little Bill."
posted on 12.09.2005 7:59 AM2
I must be culturally illiterate. I haven't even heard of most of these movies! You must not have children.
Love your blog.
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Absolutely outstanding, Joe.
I realize that your criteria for these quotes explicitly stated that there could be no curse words, but as long as PCU is on the table, I cannot help but add this all-too-true quote, which applies equally well to college and to post-graduate work (this may not be word-for-word):
Droz: "Pigman is attempting to prove the Cane-Hackman theory: no matter what time of day it is you can find a Michael Cane or Gene Hackman movie on TV."
Tom (pre-frosh): "That's his thesis?"
Droz: "Yes, that's the beauty of college these days! You can major in Gameboy if you know how to bull%$#t."
posted on 12.09.2005 9:25 AM4
I'm not sure if Joe watches too many movies or if I don't watch enough. Or neither. Either way, I think "O Brother Where Art Thou?" could have rated some memorable (but obscure) quotes.
Pete: Wait a minute. Who elected you leader of this outfit?
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well Pete, I figured it should be the one with the capacity for abstract thought. But if that ain't the consensus view, let's put it to a vote.
Pete: Suits me. I'm voting for yours truly.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well I'm voting for yours truly too.
Delmar O'Donnell: Okay... I'm with you fellas.
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Great list, Joe. Just added a couple of movies to my NetFlix queue.
But nothing from THE BIG LEBOWSKI?
Too long to list, but The Dude's priceless soliloquy upon being picked up by the mobster. Also ...
WALTER "They're nihilists, Donny, nothing to be afraid of."
THE DUDE: "Look, let me explain something. I'm not Mr. Lebowski; you're Mr. Lebowski. I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. That, or Duder. His Dudeness. Or El Duderino, if, you know, you're not into the whole brevity thing--"
Also, from ALMOST FAMOUS, although I can only paraphrase:
Set in the early '70s, the band members debate whether they do what they do for the art or for the money. One says, "The money, man. You gotta get it while you can. Can you imagine the Rolling Stones still touring with they're 50 years old?!"
posted on 12.09.2005 10:24 AM6
hehe. PCU! What a great movie!
Gotta go watch it again. If I can find it on this continent. Which, so far, I can't.
Sigh.
Thanks, Joe!
PGE
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Sonspot Unforgiven (The coolest western ever)
Unforgiven is not only the coolest Western ever but a near perfect movie. It also contains one of the greatest exchanges of dialogue in the history of film:
Bill Munny: Hell of a thing, killin' a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.
The Schofield Kid: Yeah, well, I guess he had it comin'.
Bill Munny: We all got it comin', kid.
Brian I must be culturally illiterate. I haven't even heard of most of these movies! You must not have children.
For several years I didn’t have cable TV and so would rent and watch movies almost every single night of the week (and then go to the theater on weekends). I saw literally hundreds of films a year. Then I married a woman who absolutely hates going to the movies and can only rarely tolerate watching a DVD at home. She has definitely squelched my ability to keep up with films.
Bryan …, I cannot help but add this all-too-true quote, which applies equally well to college and to post-graduate work…
I loved that quote. The reason I think PCU is superior to Animal House is that it contains spot-on satire and yet is still absolutely hilarious.
Tom But nothing from THE BIG LEBOWSKI?
I wanted to include something from TBL but all the best lines contained the F-word and I didn't want to bowdlerize them just to make them palatable.
posted on 12.09.2005 10:58 AM8
Army of Darkness is eminently quotable:
Ash: Good... Bad... I'm the Ash with the gun.
Ash: It's a trick. Get an axe.
Mumford has some other great quotes too, but they're too delivery dependent. The conversation Skip has with Mumford about professional ethics always struck me as funny.
posted on 12.09.2005 12:08 PM9
From PCU:
President Garcia-Thompson: You passed out cigarettes for a smoke-a-thon on Earth Day. You installed speed bumps on the handicapped ramps and, most recently, you dumped 100 pounds of... MEAT on a peaceful vegan protest!
Droz: Oh, come on! That was way more than 100 pounds.
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When it comes to opinions about movies Joe, you make a great evangelist. In other words, don't quit your day job.
Sorry to harsh your buzz, but anybody who disses Caddyshack and thinks PCU is better than Animal House is not going to be one of my primary sources for advice on movies.
posted on 12.09.2005 4:02 PM11
The Elder Sorry to harsh your buzz, but anybody who disses Caddyshack and thinks PCU is better than Animal House is not going to be one of my primary sources for advice on movies.
I know it's almost heretical to question the genius of Caddyshack but I have a recommendation for all those who think I'm wrong: watch it again. Once you get past the nostalgia and realize:
--it is a movie where Ted Knight Chevy Chase have the starring roles,
--Bill Murray has a lame role as a bit player,
--it involves far too many scenes with a cheesy gopher,
--it involves far too many unnknown young actors (i.e., the caddies),
--it has almost no direction,
--it has no plot,
...then I think you'll see that I'm right. It is movie for adolescents so watch it with a teenager (who isn't stoned) and see how rarely they laugh.
Also, Animal House is a decent movie. But its just not nearly worthy as the praise that is heaped on it. And the movie should have been made with Jim instead of John Belushi. Jim is funnier and can act. If John could imitate a zit in every movie then he might have made it as an actor.
posted on 12.09.2005 4:21 PM12
No Princess Bride? A goldmine of classic quotes:
Westley: I told you I would always come for you. Why didn't you wait for me?
Buttercup: Well... you were dead.
Vizinni: INCONCEIVABLE!
Inigo: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Inigo: Who are you?
Westley: No one of consequence.
Inigo: I must know.
Westley: Get used to disappointment.
Miracle Max: Bye-bye boys! Have fun storming the castle!
Humperdink:That may be the first time in my life a man has dared insult me.
Westley: It won't be the last.
Humperdink:I think your bluffing.
Westley: It's possible, Pig.
Vizinni: You've heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates? Morons!
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The Outlaw Josie Wales was better'n Unforgiven.
Kid: Ain't we gonna bury 'em, Josie?
Josie: Nah, kid, a buzzard's gotta eat, same as a worm.
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Outlaw Josey Wales
Wales: Seems whenever I get to liking someone, they don't stick around.
Chief: I've noticed when you get to not liking someone, they don't stick around long either
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SHANGHAI NOON:
JACKIE CHAN CHARACTER: "My name in Chon Wang"
ROY O'BANNON (Owen Wilson): John Wayne?! What kinda stupid cowboy name is that?
posted on 12.09.2005 5:46 PM16
Love your blog. You have inspired me to re-rent The Metropolitan/Barcelona/Last Days of Disco. Isn't there a great line in The Metropolitan about reading literary criticism instead of actually reading literature?
posted on 12.09.2005 7:16 PM17
geosluggo Isn't there a great line in The Metropolitan about reading literary criticism instead of actually reading literature?
Thanks for the kinds words. Yeah, there is a great line that I should have included in the post:
Audrey Rouget: What Jane Austen novels have you read?posted on 12.09.2005 8:12 PM
Tom Townsend: None. I don't read novels. I prefer good literary criticism. That way you get both the novelists' ideas as well as the critics' thinking. With fiction I can never forget that none of it really happened, that it's all just made up by the author.
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Bounty Hunter: A man's got to do something for a living.
Josey Wales: Dying ain't much of a living, boy.
~from "The Outlaw Josey Wales"
posted on 12.09.2005 10:40 PM19
The Year of Living Dangerously: when the journalist commented that an Indonesian prostitute was hot for him, the dwarf says"yes starvation is a strong aphrodesiac."
If someone could help me remember a western where the hero caught the bad guy and asks "do you believe in God?"
Villian: No!
Hero then shoots villian and says " well when you get there tell them I made believer out of you."
Princes Bride after the Giant is knocked out by Wesley, Wesley states " sleep well and dream of large women."
posted on 12.09.2005 10:41 PM20
Now I have something to look for next time I'm in Blockbuster.
posted on 12.10.2005 5:42 PM21
The Big Lebowski:
John Goodman's character:
Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, at least it's an ethos.
posted on 12.10.2005 7:30 PM22
How about the movie That Thing You Do with Tom Hanks and Liv Tyler. The band is called the "Oneders," pronounced "Wonders." I can't remember exactly how the line goes but at one of their first big gigs the announcer brings them onto the stage and mispronounces their name, saying something to the effect of "let's welcome the 'oh-need-ers.'"
posted on 12.10.2005 9:08 PM23
AT THE CIRCUS
Groucho Marx tries to get all over Margaret Dumont after a date.
Dumont : "Please, please, we must have regard for certain conventions."
Groucho (facing the screen) : "One man is not enough, she's gotta have a convention !"
posted on 12.10.2005 9:13 PM24
GOOD MORNING VIETNAM
(Robin Williams as Manic DJ, Adrian Cronauer)
After receiving a stern lecture on how to behave when VP Johnson (a VIP) visits. The Commanding officer asks : "Any Questions ?"
Cronauer ( rapid fire response) : Excuse me sir. Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT, because if it leaks to the VC, you could end up an MIA, and then we'd all be put on KP.
posted on 12.10.2005 9:18 PM25
From "Groundhog Day":
Phil: I'll give you a winter prediction: It's gonna be cold, it's gonna be grey, and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life.
posted on 12.10.2005 11:12 PM26
Speaking of great lines, how about these from high school students . . .
He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again.
The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.
McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty Bag filled with vegetable soup.
From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and "Jeopardy" comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30.
posted on 12.11.2005 4:18 PM27
Great post.
That Thing You Do-
Steve Zhan's character (The Fool) says:
What, are you crazy? A man in a really nice camper
wants to put our song on the radio. Give me a pen. I'm signing, you're signing, we're all signing.
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A few observations:
(1) I'm not sure Whit Stillman's movies exactly "champion" conservative values. They feature conservatives - but as they're moronic, it's not a good advertisement.
(2) The "fake kind of doctor" line from Mumford is funnier when you note that he really is faking being a doctor (of any kind).
(3) I wanted to include something from TBL but all the best lines contained the F-word and I didn't want to bowdlerize them just to make them palatable.
Just say the word, Joe. It's just a word.
(4) Unforgiven . . . contains one of the greatest exchanges of dialogue in the history of film:
[Yes, but not the one you quote. Try this:]
Morgan Freeman: You ever go into [the brothel in] town, get a room?
Clint Eastwood: Nah.
Freeman: What, you just use your hand?
Makes every Western look different in retrospect.
posted on 12.12.2005 12:18 PM29
Almost the entirety of "Holy Grail" is quote-worthy IMO, likewise "Princess Bride".
"You can't go claiming Supreme Executive Power just because some watery bint lobbed a scimitar at you!"
"Now go away or we shall taunt you a second time-eh."
"I hate to kill you"
"I hate to die"
And two new favorites from "Narnia - LWW":
Lucy: "I TOLD you he was real!"
and
Peter: "You wouldn't believe us."
Professor: "Try me!"
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Bowfinger has lots of good ones:
Bowfinger: Do you have any experience in motion pictures?
Jeff: Quite a bit actually, I have quite a bit of experience. I am an...uh...active...uh...renter at Blockbuster.
posted on 12.12.2005 7:21 PM31
Great post!
Also from Unforgiven....
Before Munny kills Little Bill...
Little Bill: Common' Munny, I don't deserve to go like this..
Munny: Deserve's got nothin' to do with it...
That's close, anyway...
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"I know this ring will fit you, I got it from the nose of a savage."
Groucho to the rich widow in Duck Soup (I think)
posted on 12.19.2005 2:22 PM33
One of my favorites (believe it or not) comes from The Swamp Thing. The Thing has been urged to run away and he replies,
No. The only way out is through.
Story of my life.
posted on 12.19.2005 3:52 PM