This topic was suggested to me by Dave T. Great idea and it got me thinking.
So here is my list. Some of these may be familiar and some are my favorites because they stood out to me as beautiful lines or funny lines.
Warning - these may not be word-for-word but close enough.
"...All I want is for you to come here and get in my bed!" - Nicolas Cage to Cher in Moonstruck. That entire monologue is fantastic.
"Lets meet at that place where we went that one time." - Albert Brooks to Holly Hunter in Broadcast News.
" I was a short, fat, slut?"Goldie Hawn to Kurt Russel in Overboard I also love it when she says to herself "I guess I belong here in this hovel...I didn't marry very well, did I?" and there are a million more from that movie...
"So I will always know where it is". (she says this after throwing the bracelet he gave to her in the ocean.) from Harold and Maude. there are too many to count from this movie.
"To my brother, the richest guy in town" - from It's a Wonderful Life. That line never fails to make me cry.
Jennifer Tilley:"Masochistic....what is that?" "
Tracey Ullman:"It is someone who enjoys pain."
Jennifer Tilley: "Enjoys pain! What is he, retarded?"
Very funny exchange and one of the Hilarious moments in Bullets Over Broadway.
"Because of G-d." Meg Ryan in response to why they don't have Sunday in days of the week underwear from"When Harry Met Sally".
"Well, love is a gift, lot of people don't remember that. So you two better brace yourselves for a whole lota ugly comin' at you from a neverending parade of stupid." Motormouth Maybelle (Queen Latifa) in Hairspray.
"By the authority vested in me by the German Reich, I pronounce you husband and wife. Proceed with the execution. " The African Queen.
"I don't want to hurt you. I just want to make you Kosher." - Gene Wilder in Frisco Kid. This should have definitely been on my Favorite movie list. Picture Young Gene Wilder dressed like a rabbi and speaking in a thick Russian accent traveling across the wild west from New York to San Fran. Not to mention a very young Harrison Ford as a cowboy and his reluctant side kick.
BONUS: a great exchange from that movie:
Chief Gray Cloud: [in reference to Avram's god] What does he do?
Avram (Gene Wilder): He... He can do anything!
Chief Gray Cloud: Then why can't he make rain?
Avram: Because he doesn't make rain. He gives us strength when we're suffering. He gives us compassion when all that we feel is hatred. He gives us courage when we're searching around blindly like little mice in the darkness... but He does not make rain!
[Thunder and lightning begin, followed by a downpour]
Avram: Of course... sometimes, just like that, he'll change His mind.
I could go on and on but now it is your turn.....
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This one, because it's so bad: "Jump Back! There's no dancing in this town?" (Footloose)
Harry: Frances, you're crazy.
Frances: Don't tell anybody.
(Frances)
"I'll get you my pretty...and your little dog, too!"
Ogie (to Dawn): If I had a penny for everything I love about you, I would have many pennies. (Waitress)
It's Hebrew, it's from the Talmud. It says, "Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire." (Schindler's List)
Primo: Sometimes the spaghetti likes to be alone. (Big Night)
I'm a short, fat slut. (from Overboard)
That is one nutty hospital. (from Tootsie)
Sissy - these are great and make me smile big time - I had forgotten about Big Night - what an awesome movie that is!
these are all gonna be fun to read I bet!
I agree. We both love Overboard, there are a bunch from that movie... all hilarious!
can't believe you forgot, "I don't know nothing about birthing babies." (Gone With The Wind). I can't remember when you used this, but it was very funny!
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I always liked the line from a Rowdy Roddy Piper film called "They Live"
it went like this:
"I came to kick ass, and chew bubble gum...and I'm all out of bubble gum"
great topic JB
It seems when I cross check lists, there is a high degree of correspondence between my list of favorite movies and my list of favorite lines. Hmmm… And, as you’ll see, I’m a real fan of highly intellectual humor (ha!).
From Monty Python / Holy Grail.
Castle Guard: Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
From Beetlejuice.
Beetlejuice (with growing hysteria): I've seen the Exorcist about a hundred and sixty-seven times and it keeps getting funnier every single time I see it…
From Ghostbusters.
Bill Murray: Dog and cats, living together – mass hysteria!
Three great ones from Fight Club.
Tyler: With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.
Marla: My God. I haven't been fucked like that since grade school.
Narrator: I am Jack's smirking revenge.
Two great exchanges from Real Genius (I had to look up the character names…).
Chris: Have you ever seen a body like this before in your life?
David: She happens to be my daughter.
Chris: Oh. Then I guess you have.
Chris (to a hot chick): So, if there's anything I can do for you, or, more to the point, to you, you just let me know.
Susan: Can you hammer a six-inch spike through a board with your penis?
Chris: Not right now.
Susan: A girl's gotta have her standards.
From Blue Velvet.
Frank: Heineken? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!
Two great lines that bookend a great scene in Michael Clayton, which I just saw on DVD and which was awesome.
George Clooney character (Michael Clayton): You're so fucked. Here let me get a picture while I'm at it.
Tilda Swinton character (Karen): You don't want the money?
MC: Keep the money. You'll need it.
Enter Company CEO: Karen, I've got a board waiting in there. What the hell's going on? Who are you?
MC: I'm Shiva, the God of death.
I'll have to come up with some more that are more interesting, but these two came to me right away.
This is Spinal Tap: "This one goes to eleven." Note - one of my infant twins, Alex, can cry like no other child I've met. I can hear him through the house (our bedrooms are on different floors), with a pillow over my head and earplugs in WITHOUT the use of a baby monitor. Anyway, I will be making him a t-shirt this summer with this quote on it.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Mmm, Juicy Fruit.
I can't come close to quoting it, but I love the scene in Best in Show where Parker Posey's character and the character's husband were talking about how they met at Starbucks, but that they weren't at the same Starbucks, they were at Starbucks across the street from each other and how they both like catalogs.
My chest is constricted - I can't shout! (The Money Pit)
Johnny: It's a big pretty white plane with curtains in the windows, and wheels, and it looks just like a great big Tylenol. (Airplane!)
Heather C.: I brought you to a Remington party and what's my thanks? It's on the hallway carpet. I got paid in puke.
Veronica: Lick it up, baby. Lick. It. Up. (Heathers)
My kid brother looked like a tick about to pop. (A Christmas Story)
Elizabeth: Oh, you men are all alike. Seven or eight quick ones and then you're out with the boys to boast and brag. (Young Frankenstein)
While we're on Madeline Kahn:
Mrs White: Yes. Yes, I did it. I killed Yvette. I hated her, SO MUCH... it... it... The F- it..flam - flames. Flames, on the side of my face. Breathing Breathle- , heaving breaths... (Clue)
Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch? (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
Glad to meet ya, Kid. You're a real horse's ass. (The Sting)
I could go on all day.
"There's no crying in baseball!" A League of Their Own - Tom Hanks
OMG -- Airplane!
"I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue."
"Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?"
"Hospital? What is it?"
"It's a big building with patients and doctors, but that's not important right now."
"Johnny, what do you make of this?"
"Oh, I can make a hat or a brooch or a pteradactyl..."
...and so on...and so on...
Excuse me, Stewardess. I speak Jive.
A few lines from Unforgiven:
English Bob: I heard you were dead
Little Bill: Hell, I thought was dead. Then I woke up and realized I was in Nebraska.
or Will Munney's line to the kid:
"It's a hell of thing killing a man. You take away all he's got, and all he's ever gonna be."
Kid: I guess he had it coming
Will: We all got it coming, kid.
More Airplane! classics:
Striker: Surely you can't be serious!
Doctor: I am serious. And don't call me Shirley.
or "I need ideas people!"
"How about a game show for kids? Gary Coleman could host"
How about Night at the Opera:
(insolent hotel customer, after Groucho insults his wife)
Man: This is my wife, you should be ashamed!
Groucho: Sir, if this is your wife, then YOU should be ashamed
Jack Nicholson's line in Batman:
"This town needs an enema!"
The classic end of Otter's speech in Animal House after the Delta house finds they are expelled:
"I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part."
I won't quote it again, but J.B.'s quote from It's a Wonderful Life definitely makes my list.
Matthew McConaughey's line in Dazed and Confused:
"Thing I like about high school girls, you get older, they stay the same age."
Blues Brothers:
"I hate Illinois Nazis"
or
"What kind of music do you usually have here?"
"We got both kinds. Country and Western."
Blazing Saddles:
"Excuse me while I whip this out"
or
"No thanks. Fifteen is my limit on schnizengruben"
"Somebody's gotta go back for a shitload of dimes!"
Bart: Well, can't you see that's the last act of a desperate man?
Howard Johnson: We don't care if it's the first act of Henry V, we're leaving!
Bonus: Maybe worst movie quote of all time. Jack Black's badly delivered bad line at the end of King Kong: "Twas beauty that killed the beast."
these are great people! I love all the Airplane lines too.
Todd - ypur quote made me laugh for about an hour last night! I am going to see that movie now.
another one from Broadcast News:
Aaron Altman: And in the middle of all this, I started to think about the one thing that makes me feel really good and makes immediate sense... and it's you.
Jane Craig: Oh, Bubba.
Aaron Altman: I'm going to stop right now. Except that I would give anything if you were two people, so that I could call up the one who's my friend and tell her about the one that I like *so much*!
oh Sissy - that reminded me of even more from Broadcast News ...
"It must be nice to always believe you know better. To always think you are the smartest person in the room."
"No, It's awful!"
and
"Wouldn't it be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?"
and I misquoted earlier:
"OK, I will meet you at the place near the thing where we went that one time."
jb, in "Broadcast News"...one of my FAVORITE things/lines was when they are laying off people in the d.c. news division and the corporate smarm guy says "if there's anything I can do..." and the guy who is getting fired says (and sorry if I'm not getting it exactly right)"well, I certainly hope you die soon". Hilarious!
yes Debra - that is the exact quote I think. I was going to add that too. Hilarious!!
Arties - that's the quote I was going to list! You read my mind!
Sparki
More gems from Broadcast News...
"I can read, while I sing. I am reading, and singing....BOTH!"
"A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors."
And from Gone with the Wind....
"I can shoot straight, if I don't have to shoot far."
"Whole Confederate army got the same problem - crawling clothes and dysentery..."
Sparki
haha Sparki - I think the entire quote is:
"That's a lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts."
I know Sparki! Great quote- isn't it???
There are so many good ones, it is as hard as the favorite movie list to think of them all within a day or two.
Yes, I went home and put the subtitles on the DVD so I could get it right. In The Cowboys, Bruce Dern is about to hang Roscoe Lee Browne, who asks if he can first "atone to [his] maker."
"I regret having trifled with married women. I'm thoroughly ashamed of having cheated at cards. I deplore my occasional departures from the truth.
"Forgive me for having taken your name in vain, my Saturday drunkenness, my Sunday sloth. Above all forgive me for the men I've killed in anger, and for those I'm about to."
oooo - good quote Anj.
Just about any line from Pulp Fiction. Including:
"Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead."
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