I was at a meeting today with some kind of university bigwig, and he said “parlance” twice, the second time even saying “in the parlance of”. They showed the Big Lebowski at my local totebagger theater last week and I almost asked him if he’d just seen it, but then thought better of it.
Here’s a few movie dialog questions.
1. What movie(s) do you quote the most frequently in conversation?
2. What movie(s) do you think has the best dialogue ever?
3. And what is the single best scene of dialogue in movie histories?
I’ll go with
1. Pulp Fiction, Big Lebowski, and Spinal Tap (not sure of order).
2. Chinatown (the various lines are little too complicated to work into conversation).
3. “How fast was I going, officer” from Double Indemnity
Update. This is good too
beth
Airplane! Most quoteworthy movie I know.
Cervantes
What on earth do you have against the word “parlance”?
gene108
Airplane! needs to be on any list of quotable movies.
Brachiator
Tombstone. I’m your huckleberry.
Matt McIrvin
The Princess Bride has one of the highest densities of quotable lines in movie history, though the movies listed in the OP are up there as well.
Mike E
Raising Arizona
Dr. Strangelove
Casablanca
Petorado
Monty Python and the Holy Grail deserves to be up there among the most quotable, and some may be shocked, shocked that Casablanca would be omitted from the list.
Carol Ryan
Blood Simple. “The world is full of complainers…”
Matt McIrvin
Also: Dr. Strangelove, and (it goes without saying) anything from Monty Python, though by this point the latter seem to be widely regarded as beaten to death.
Snarki, child of Loki
Others listed, plus Casablanca.
narya
1. Caddyshack, Holy Grail, and Young Frankenstein.
2. Casablanca, Double Indemnity, Bull Durham, My Cousin Vinnie
3. Wow; can’t really answer that one.
Annette H
All About Eve. “The cynicism you refer to, I acquired the day I discovered I was different from little boys!”
AliceBlue
1. Too many to name.
2. All About Eve
3. The “chalice from the palace” scene from The Court Jester
jeer9
“Ex – … ex- … cuse me. This is a private residence.”
Matt McIrvin
Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, though I’m not sure if it’s because the dialogue is actually worth quoting or because it’s just familiar.
bmcchgo
1. What movie(s) do you quote the most frequently in conversation?
Goodfellas. “…I’m gunna go get the papers, the papers” – Tommy Two-Times
Dan G
“The Godfather,” hands down. “Because this is the business we have chosen,” “How much justice can you afford?”, “Leave the gun, take the cannoli,” “Luca Brazzi sleeps with the fishes,” and “Whoever comes to you with this Barzini business…” just to name a few. Also, “Chinatown:” “I still have a few teeth in my head and a few friends in town. Agree on “Casablanca,” “The Princess Bride,” and “Monty Python,” although the Monty Python TV shows are also a rich source.
Matt McIrvin
Certain lines from Blazing Saddles get quoted here a whole lot.
Mike E
Would you buy your furniture at a store called Unpainted Huffheinz?
Villago Delenda Est
Holy Grail fer sure. I know most of it by heart.
For some reason, can’t put my finger on it, Blazing Saddles gets quoted a lot recently.
Yes, yes, and The Princess Bride
Star Wars: “You can write this shit, George, but you can’t say it”.
R. Johnston
@Matt McIrvin:
Absolutely, and they’re not just quotable; they’re highly usable in conversation. “Have fun storming the castle” is one of my favorite ways to say goodbye, and “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means” has regular occurrences when dealing with Republicans and the like.
DougJ
@bmcchgo:
Now go home and get your fucking shine box.
Scout211
@Matt McIrvin:
I second this.
Princess Bride.
Kylroy
I remember the first time I heard that Double Indemnity scene, I was just like “…they *let* people write movie dialogue like that in the ’40s?”
Villago Delenda Est
@R. Johnston:
For example, “freedom”. As in “religious freedom”.
srv
1) Fight Club, The Dark Knight, The Fountainhead
2) His Girl Friday
3) Network
CONGRATULATIONS!
I was a professional musician for almost 25 years. We all lived and died by Spinal Tap.
The movie is uncannily accurate. We had a party and my keyboard guy had somehow never seen the film. Someone had it on and he walked in after about the first half hour or so. He watched it for a few minutes and got up, all pissed off, and said “turn this shit off, I live this crap every day and I don’t need to see a movie about bad gigs and idiots.”
He thought it was a legit documentary. Understandable.
Lavocat
The Godfather, Parts 1 & 2 but fer gawdsake NOT Part 3 for Questions 1, 2, and 3.
Otherwise, I like any smart-ass lines from movies involving Chevy Chase or Bill Murray or Monty Python.
And, of course, ALL of Casablanca is just one long fever-dream of quotes.
Mr. Longform
Godfathers I and II – especially when my kid was little, I’d grab him around the head and say “I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart.” and wiggled his head around, and he would laugh and laugh. Years later when he saw the scene and realized how very unfunny it was he was a little taken aback – told me he would need years of therapy.
Also, since I’m old, much Woody Allen. We especially say a lot in my house: “Let’s not go into whose fault it is. It’s my fault.”
WereBear
The Coen Brothers and Monty Python probably account for 75% of my own quotes, though the others listed here are all favorites.
Mr WereBear and my brother can have long conversations that consist solely of dialogue from Clint Eastwood movies.
currants
@Matt McIrvin: Yes. “That word…” (how I wish I had less use for that line, actually!)
See also: @R. Johnston: and
@Villago Delenda Est:
Case in point.
Erin
Absolutely “The Princess Bride” is the most quoted movie in our household. After all, if you haven’t got your health, you haven’t got anything.
Villago Delenda Est
@Mr. Longform: Ah Woody Allen before he got all serious.
“Sex without love is an empty experience”
“Well, as empty experiences go, it’s one of the best.”
Chris
Favorite dialogue scene in a movie, ever? The “double negative” conversation from Clue is up there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKo7Ivssqfk
Actually, the entire movie’s up there.
Germy Shoemangler
In “The Big Sleep” (1946) Humphrey Bogart is summoned to the greenhouse of General Sternwood to investigate a mystery. The General is elderly and in a wheelchair. He spends most of his time in his greenhouse, surrounded by huge tropical plants. He says “I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.”
Big ole hound
Big and “squirrel”
WereBear
And if course, Ghostbusters.
There’s a line for any occasion.
“Nobody steps on a church in my town!”
Joel Hanes
“High School Madness”, starring Dave Casman as Porgy, and Joe Bergman as Mudhead. BW 35mm
How much am I bid?
eric
Casablanca from the obscure (“are my eyes really brown”) to the famous (I know every line in the move)
“F*^& you, pay me” goodfellas
“Do they speak english in what motherf87998?
Bounty Hunter “Man’s gotta make a living” Josey Wales “Dying aint much of living” (LOVE this one)
In Unforgiven “Deserves got nothing to with it.
“How fast are you gonna run? As fast as the leopard” Gallipoli
“Everything was fine until dickless over here shut off the power grid?” “Is that true” “Yes, this man has no dick.” Ghostbusters
Brachiator
I’ve already mentioned “Tombstone.” But I recall a couple of news stories at the time noting that some teenagers were going to see the movie again and again just to memorize Doc Holiday’s dialog.
Let’s see, now. What else? “The Godfather” is eminently quotable. And “The Maltese Falcon”
Kasper Gutman: You’re a close-mouthed man?
Sam Spade: Nah, I like to talk.
Kasper Gutman: Better and better. I distrust a close-mouthed man. He generally picks the wrong time to talk and says the wrong things. Talking’s something you can’t do judiciously, unless you keep in practice.
[sits back]
Kasper Gutman: Now, sir. We’ll talk, if you like. I’ll tell you right out, I am a man who likes talking to a man who likes to talk.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
The Godfather (I & II), Caddyshack, The Producers, the real one (Shut up! I’m having a rhetorical conversation!)
and not movies: Deadwood, The Simpsons
Germy Shoemangler
In “It’s A Gift” W.C. Fields is the depressed proprietor of a small grocery. His dimwitted assistant doesn’t follow orders, and argues with Fields: “But you said…!” Fields cuts him off “Don’t do as I say, do as I tell you!”
Matt McIrvin
Office Space. “We need to talk about your pieces of flair.” “Why should I change? HE’S the one who sucks!” “PC LOAD LETTER?!!” “…and I’m going to set the building on fire.”
A few lines from Brazil: “Are your ducts worn-out? Obsolete?” “Bloody typical! They’ve gone back to metric without telling us!” “Do you have a 27B stroke 6?”
Marcelo
I think the opening scene in the bowling alley in Lebowski is just amazing. Structurally, the way the actors pounce on each other and you get the entire dynamic between the three of them and the screwball nature of the tone. That scene sets up the entire movie in terms of plot, character, and tone. It’s a single scene masterpiece.
I think “The Seven Year Itch,” as icky as some of the objectification is, is a REALLY solid script. As is “The Apartment.” Anything by Billy Wilder (including Double Indemnity) is just dynamite scripting.
Mike J
The “how fast was I going” scene reminded me of Bogart and Bacall discussing horse racing.
eric
@Brachiator: Sidney Greenstreet is awesome in Casablanca as well. (When he reminds himself that he has to pay himself cigarettes after buying Rick’s
GREAT line in Real Genius (roughly from distant memory)….girl “Can you hammer a six inch spike through a 2 by 4 with your penis?” Val Kilmer “no.” Girl (shrugging him off) “girl’s gotta have her standards”
Keith P
MacGruber – any part
magurakurin
1. Apocalypse Now
“There’s no fucking C.O. here.”
2. Magnificent Seven
“You lost.”
“-You cost a lot
– Yeah, I cost a lot.
– The pay is $20.
– $20. right now that’s a lot”
“You came back – for a place like this. Why? A man like you. Why?”
” – It’s a free country
– And it’s his.”
“- The was the greatest shot I’ve ever seen!
– the worst! I was aiming at the horse.”
“I’ve been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.”
“The old man was right. Only the farmers won. We lost. We always lose.”
David in NY
I don’t know about quotable, but Casablanca’s dialogue has entered the language — “shocked, shocked” “usual suspects” etc. Did Louie (Claude Rains) have all the good lines?
WereBear
Not movies? In our house, Seinfeld has a quote for any situation.
Matt McIrvin
@Chris: “Flames! On the side of my face!” (Which is actually only in one of the possible endings that were shown in theaters, so on original release many people never saw the funniest bit in the movie.)
Bobby B.
I quote “The Simpsons” more than any movie, and why not? It’s like Shakespeare, although not as much a pussy magnet as The Bard is
Germy Shoemangler
“A NIGHT AT THE OPERA” (1935) As Groucho Marx’s and Margaret Dumont’s characters are boarding an ocean liner, Dumont asks Groucho, “Do you have everything, Otis?”; Groucho replies, “Well, I haven’t had any complaints yet.”
They had to fight the censor like hell to keep that scene from getting cut.
PST
Lots of good ones above I won’t repeat, but I’ve been quoting (or slightly misquoting in the “play it again Sam” manner) the Grand Budapest Hotel quite a bit lately, “Who wouldn’t want to …” whatever is under discussion. I do think Spinal Tap offers one of the most useful bits. When you say that someone keeps explaining that his amplifier goes all the way to 11, you’ve said everything you need to say about his susceptibility to logical persuasion.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Germy Shoemangler: Vivian is smart, spoiled, exacting and ruthless. (Reminds me of someone I know.)
She tried to sit in my lap while I was standing up.
Get up, angel, you look like a pekinese.
Mr. Longform
Holy Grail is woven into the fabric of daily conversation, too. No one can say anything remotely like “hey, good idea” without hearing “Of COURSE it’s a good idea”; or “whatever is being discussed) is no basis for a system of government”; or “bravely ran away” applied to avoidance of odious duties.
spudvol
Best dialogue- The Lion in Winter
Best Scene- Any scene in The Lion in Winter with Hepburn and O’Toole verbally clawing at each other
Germy Shoemangler
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Saw it on the big screen last summer and loved it.
eric
@David in NY: no. they are all great, but he is especially great. :)
“tomorrow i will be in with a breath taking blonde and will appreaciate it very much if she loses.”
Hawes
Miller’s Crossing: “What’s the rumpus?” Kind of my go-to greeting. For me, that’s the most tautly written of the Coen Brothers’ films.
Maybe, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, too. The scenes between Robert Downey and Val Kilmer are dizzying.
eric
@eric: Also. Bogie “I am aiming at your heart” Raines “that is my least vulnerable organ”
R. Johnston
@Villago Delenda Est: Great example!
WereBear
Must agree. Even though some of my favorite scenes have no dialogue. Like Barbara Stanwyk’s ankles coming down the stairs. By the time she gets to the bottom Fred MacMurray’s character is a goner.
Her moving the door in his hand.
And the scene where she’s sitting in the car. Listening.
DougJ
@Mike J:
Me too.
eric
@Hawes: great great film. Byrne has that and the usual suspects
I always pronounce “deposition” with a long ‘e’ as done in Usual Suspects to see who is paying attention.
The Verdict:
when jack warden refers to James Mason’s character as the “prince of fucking darkness”
Hawes
@gene108: I just want to say, Good luck. And we’re all counting on you.
Cervantes
@David in NY:
No.
“Of all the gin joints …”
“Play it, Sam.”
“We’ll always have Paris.”
“Here’s looking at you, kid.”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I don’t care for you manners, Mr Marlowe!
I don’t care for them myself, I lay awake worrying about them on long winter evenings.
Lavocat
@WereBear: Oh, Christ, I forgot about Seinfeld. Just about anything George Costanza (or his parents) have ever said is eminently quotable. Plus, a dingo ate your baby.
Punchy
Most quotable? Revenge of the Nerds. A not close second….Super Troopers.
“I’ll have a liter of cola”
p.a.
1) Holy Grail, Lebowski, Animal House. Not film, but: Seinfeld show.
2) Probably the ’30s, ’40s movies. Thin Man, or the Philadelphia Story/His Girl Friday genre. Marx Bros.
3) “Help Help I’m being repressed!” scene. Paths of Glory “You sir are a degenerate!” scene. Best line, Animal House: “You fucked up. You trusted us.”
Cckids
Agree with so many about both Princess Bride & Monty Python.
For dialogue, the last 15 minutes or so of Moonstruck is wonderful.
And for 20+ years, I always use a line from Toy Story: “Wind the frog!”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
and John Gielgud in Arthur:
Yes, “hi”. You obviously have a marvelous economy with words, madam. I look forward to your next syllable with great… eagerness.
One must usually go to a bowling alley to encounter a woman of your caliber.
If you, and your undershirt, would take two paces backwards. I could enter this dwelling.
How revolting.
RandomMonster
It doesn’t count as “movies”, but in our house Seinfeld is quoted the most.
eric
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: the t-shirt line was genius.
“I’m not stupid; I’m smart” by Fredo. I never get tired of saying like him.
“Black guys help the white guys” Stripes
“Do you know how to whistle”
Amir Khalid
This is my all-time favourite exchange of dialogue in a movie:
“Why did they assign me to you in the first place, Mulder? To rein you in, to debunk your work. To shut you down.”
“But you saved me. As – as difficult and as frustrating as it has been sometimes, your Goddamned-strict rationalism and science has saved me a thousand times over. You’ve kept me honest. You’ve made me a whole person. I owe you everything, Scully, and you owe me nothing.”
Now that’s the way to express your appreciation to a co-worker.
raven
@Hawes: ” most tautly written of the Coen Brothers’ films.”
That so few people saw. Great flick.
betty ericson
Seldom quote from movies.
Best dialogue ever? All About Eve.
Single best scene of dialogue? A draw between two very different movies, for two very different reasons.
“Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night. ” All About Eve
“He was fast–fast on the draw.” Shane musing after killing the Jack Palance character
low-tech cyclist
@Joel Hanes:
“This is no movie, this is real!”
“Which reel?”
“What is it worth? How much do I hear?”
1) Monty Python and the Holy Grail, by far. But if Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers was a movie, it would give MP&HG a pretty good run for its money.
2) Casablanca.
3) The closet scene from the Marx Brothers’ Monkey Business.
wasabi gasp
His throat hurt from smoking.
eric
Marcel Marceau from Mel Brooks’ Silent Movie.
Major Major Major Major
Lebowski, Casablanca, and I’m counting Twin Peaks
Mulholland Drive, any Whedon, and srsly dougj please come back
Inland Empire. “I’m so sorry, I… I don’t speak polish…”
Woodrowfan
Animal House, Princess Bride, Monty Python Holy Grail….
Belafon
Seems that Wal-Mart (and Hutchinson’s son) had enough influence in Arkansas: Arkansas governor will not sign hate law, calls on legislature to make changes.
NCSteve
1. The Princess Bride, Tombstone, Casablanca.
2. the Maltese Falcon,To Have and Have Not, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe, the Lion in Winter, the Princess Bride, Tombstone, Shakespeare in Love, and McKellan’s “Richard III” (kudos to whoever wrote the screenplay for that thing. It was awesome!),
3. a) “Think yuh used enough dynamite there, Butch?”
b) There are at least three contenders in “The Maltese Falcon”: the second meeting with the Fat Man, the scene where they set up Wilmer as a fall guy right there in front of his dimly comprehending eyes, and the the final scene.
c) The two scenes in Tombstone with Billy Bob Thorton plus the first meeting between Doc and Ringo
d) Every scene of the “The Lion in Winter.” Every. Single. Last. Fucking. Scene.
Waldo
Pretty much any line uttered by Charlton Heston, but a few in particular:
.
“Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!”
“Let my people go!”
“Soylent Green is people!”
“You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you!”
raven
Jeremiah Johnson: [Jeremiah and Caleb find Del Gue buried to his neck in sand] Are you all right?
Del Gue: Sure, sure, I got a fine horse under me!
[sneezes]
Del Gue: Got one of them feathers in my nose.
Jeremiah Johnson: You keep sneezing, it’ll come out all right. Haven’t seen anyone pass by recent, have you?
Del Gue: Nobody’s gone in front of me. Can’t say what’s happened behind me, though.
Jeremiah Johnson: The Injuns put you here?
Del Gue: T’weren’t Mormons. A Chief, name of Mad Wolf. Nice fella, don’t talk a hell of a lot. Say, you wouldn’t have an extra hat on you, would you? Shade’s getting’ scarce in these parts.
eric
@Woodrowfan: “That boy is a p-i-g, pig.” “Let’s see if you can guess what i am now…” “A zit!”
Major Major Major Major
@low-tech cyclist: whose side are you on‽
(“Side B?”)
/Firesign
Joel Hanes
@low-tech cyclist:
“What is it worth? How much do I hear?”
“What are you trying to do, lieutenant? Buy your way out of these proceedings?”
raven
Jeremiah Johnson: Y’ever get lonesome?
Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Fer what?
Jeremiah Johnson: Woman?
Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Full time night woman? I never could find no tracks on a woman’s heart. I packed me a squaw for ten year, Pilgrim. Cheyenne, she were, and the meanest bitch that ever balled for beads. I lodge-poled her at Deadwood Creek, and traded her for a Hawken gun. But don’t get me wrong; I loves the womens, I surely do. But I swear, a woman’s breast is the hardest rock that the Almighty ever made on this earth, and I can find no sign on it.
raven
Del Gue: Ain’t that Hatchet Jack’s rifle?
Jeremiah Johnson: Yep. Found him froze to a tree.
Del Gue: Damn! He was a wild one, old Hatchet Jack. He was livin’ two year in a cave up on the Musselshell with a female panther. She never did get used to him.
scav
“No matter where you go, there you are.” in actuality, but then I really don’t quote much from the celluloid strips. If I could, I’d probably go for something in black and white.
Aleta
Say what again.
Pulp fiction
I’m walking here. I’m walking here.
Midnight cowb
You bolted out of no place. You bolted out of nowhere.
Tin men
You’re humping too much stuff, troop. You don’t need half this shit. Platoon
Just when I thought I was out. They pull me back in.
G father
La Luna. La Bella Luna
Armacord
I just need this lampshade. And this ashtray.
The Jerk
(And of course) You talking to me ?
Taxi dr.
dan
Vacation: Good talk, Rusty.
Shaun of the Dead: Don’t forget to kill Philip!
JustRuss
Stripes: Lighten up, Francis!
and: “It’s Czechoslovakia! It’s like going into Wisconsin!”
“I got my ass kicked in Wisconsin!”
and my favorite: You can’t leave! All the plants will die!
James E Powell
1) Godfather I & II, Casablanca, Cool Hand Luke.
2) Anything with Bogart & Bacall, Pulp Fiction, All About Eve.
3) Can’t pick just one. Every pick brings another equally good pick to mind. It’s like picking one’s favorite Beatles song. (Correct answer – the one you forgot about.)
phein55
Miller’s Crossing: Nobody knows anybody. Not that well. – Tom Reagan
If that’s not the perfect noire sentiment, I don’t know what is.
eric
@dan: “Daddy says i’m the best kisser”
NCSteve
@NCSteve: And holy crap, how did I forget “Serenity” in the “Best Dialogue in a Movie” category?
WereBear
@Waldo: Good point. Give him a good line and he could run with it.
“It’s a Roman ship.”
eric
Butch: You okay?
Marsellus: Naw man. I’m pretty fuckin’ far from okay.
Butch: What now?
Marsellus: What now? Let me tell you what now. I’ma call a coupla hard, pipe-hittin’ niggers, who’ll go to work on the homes here with a pair of pliers and a blow torch. You hear me talkin’, hillbilly boy? I ain’t through with you by a damn sight. I’ma get medieval on your ass.
Butch: I meant what now between me and you?
Marsellus: Oh, that what now. I tell you what now between me and you. There is no me and you. Not no more.
raven
Nicholson Goin South
“Lady, I wouldn’t take you to a dog fight if you was defendin champ”!
raven
Both True Grit’s
“Shot or killed”?
K488
“Well, nobody’s perfect!” from Some Like it Hot
“The Great State of Vermont will not apologize for its cheese!” from Thank You for Smoking
Both get a lot of play around K488 Haus, along with numerous cited above. Also, too, a shout-out for the Big Sleep and so many lines – but often used here, “You’re cute!” Which is what lead to the line about sitting in his lap while he was still standing up.
Thanks for this thread. It has made me very happy.
eric
The entirety of “My Man Godfrey” a very underrated film and “Topper”
JustRuss
@Matt McIrvin:
Best line in Office Space:
We notice you’ve been missing a lot of work.
Well, I wouldn’t say I’ve been missing it, Bob.
wasabi gasp
Your whole life’s the truth. Have some pity on the rest of us.
eric
Best line ever, no contest:
Mongol General: Hao! Dai ye! We won again! This is good, but what is best in life?
Mongol: The open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair.
Mongol General: Wrong! Conan! What is best in life?
Conan: Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women.
Mongol General: That is good! That is good.
rp
For monologues: It’s not that quotable, but Rutger Hauer’s speech at the end of Blade Runner is pretty great. The mad as hell speech in Network of course. Kenneth Branaugh’s version of st. crispin’s day in Henry V (is citing Shakespeare cheating?). The closing monologue in the Right Stuff:
The opening scene of Reservoir Dogs has great dialogue. All of the Foster/Hopkins exchanges in Silence of the Lambs are of course amazing.
I think many would argue this is the best scene of dialogue in movie history:
Roper: So now you’d give the Devil benefit of law!
More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
Roper: I’d cut down every law in England to do that!
More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country’s planted thick with laws from coast to coast– man’s laws, not God’s– and if you cut them down—and you’re just the man to do it—do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
EDIT: Of course post 105 is absolute correct.
Germy Shoemangler
“Hard Day’s Night” – The Beatles are talking about the nervous tv director with the outrageously woolly sweater:
John: I bet he hasn’t even got a wife. Look at his sweater.
Paul: You never know. She might have knitted it.
John: She knitted him.
Brachiator
@raven: I mentioned to a co-worker once that “Gravity” reminded me of “Jeremiah Johnson.” Both movies feature a pilgrim traveling through a hostile, forbidden landscape.
Also, once Jeremiah travels up into the mountain country, he never goes back into a town. Similarly (and some people didn’t like this), “Gravity” doesn’t intercut any shots of friends, family, or colleagues back on Earth.
Roger Moore
@Cervantes:
“I stick my neck out for nobody.”
Louise
@spudvol: This is, almost word for word, exactly what I was going to post.
Best dialogue- The Lion in Winter
Best Scene- Any scene in The Lion in Winter with Hepburn and O’Toole verbally clawing at each other
Many of mine quotables have been listed: PB, Casablanca, Princess Bride… but I also find myself quoting Steel Magnolias. The movie is mediocre – to – cringeable but I use “he’s so confused he don’t know whether to scratch his watch or wind his butt” and “you have the handwriting of a serial killer,” both in a bad southern accent, more often than I should.
Chris
No love for “Friday”? “Just a lil hit for my cataracts….” “Fired for stealin boxes?..What was you gonna do? Build a playhouse?”
Cacti
When I get a soda, I still call it a “tasty beverage” a la Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction.
K488
@K488: “led” or “leads” Drat!
eric
@Louise: I say “Have fun storming the castle” whenever a colleague goes off to court…i am sure they love it
Woodrowfan
I always wanted to quote Michael from Godfather II when one of my students tries to wheedle a better grade out me..
“My offer is this…nothing”
maybe after I get tenure…
Elizabelle
The Wizard of Oz, because, because, because, because, because:
Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.
I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
Quaker in a Basement
1) O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2) Bringing Up Baby
3) “I’ll ring your monkey skull like a Chinese gong!”–His Girl Friday
Brachiator
“The Treasure of Sierra Madre”
Gold Hat: Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges. I don’t have to show you any stinking badges.
“The Third Man”
Harry Lime: Don’t be so gloomy. After all it’s not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love – they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly.
rp
Also from the Right Stuff: “Sir, over there. Is that a man?” “You’re damn right it is.”
WereBear
@Louise: At least you have found some use for “Steel Magnolias.” I watched it at a book club meeting. It was all I could do not to go all MST3K on it but I dared not lest the weeping women murder me.
eric
@Brachiator: Now i will hear the zither all damn day…I love that flick!
eric
@Louise: “he is such a gentleman, i bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pisses in it”
Mobile Grumpy Code Monkey
1. Not direct quotes so much inspiration – crank it up to 11, stuff like that.
2. Another vote for The Lion In Winter. I want to believe Henry and Elanor sounded like O’Toole and Hepburn.
3. Any scene from The Lion In Winter, although I have a soft spot for that scene in Phantom of the Paradise where Swan says to Winslow, “I’m under contract, too.” That, and Beef explaining how he knows drug real from real real.
dad23g
1. Princess Bride.
2. Casablanca.
3. “What family doesn’t have its ups and downs?” as delivered by Katherine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter.
Betty Cracker
@raven: Yes, yes, True Grit! “He has abandoned me to a congress of louts,” and “I would not pay [insert dollar amount] for winged Pegasus,” and “I came by him honestly,” etc.
We also quote “O Brother” a fair amount, including, “We thought you wuz a tooooaaad!” and “Well ain’t this place a geographical oddity,” and “I suppose it would be the acme of foolishness to inquire…” etc.
MomSense
So many great movies and quotes in this thread.
Since it hasn’t been mentioned yet, we quote Mystery Men all the time.
The Shoveler: Oh yeah, well, maybe if we had a billionaire benefactor like Lance Hunt, then we could afford some advertising.
Mr. Furious: I think that’s because Lance Hunt is Captain Amazing.
Blue Raja: Oh, here we go.
Shoveler: Oh, don’t start that again! Lance Hunt wears glasses. Captain Amazing doesn’t wear glasses.
Mr. Furious: He takes them off when he transforms.
Shoveler: That doesn’t make any sense. He wouldn’t be able to see!
Crusty Dem
tv and movie, I find the Simpsons to be perfectly cromulent.
Woodrowfan
I still love the dialog in 1776, some of which are real quotes. Since my wife is a New England Yankee I always liked this exchange between Adams and Abigail…..
Adams
Winters are soft in Virginia.
Abigail
And their women, John?
Adams
Fit for Virginians, Madam, but pale, puny things beside New England girls.
rp
Seriously…all of you should drop what you’re doing and go watch this right now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bu2wm0Z7yM
orogeny
“And what is the single best scene of dialogue in movie histories?”
The Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper scene in “True Romance.” Without a doubt.
WereBear
Our circle of friends is also fond of the highly quotable Father Ted.
“Go on go on go on.”
“Heaven and hell and everlasting life and all that? We’re supposed to believe that?”
“I want the only rabbits in this place to be the one working the controls inside your head.”
Beatrice
@Germy Shoemangler: Hard Day’s Night is full of great quotes.
Man: Don’t take that tone with me, young man. I fought the war for your sort.
Ringo: I bet you’re sorry you won.
Man: I’ll call the guard!
Paul: Ah, but what? They don’t take kindly to insults you know.
raven
@Brachiator: Have you watched the voice over with Redford, Pollack and Milius? There is so much really cool info on there but, to your point. They talk about the economy of language, half the film with Jeremiah, a woman who doesn’t speak English and a boy who doesn’t speak at all. The dialogue that is there is so terse yet crucial. They were trying to figure out HOW they were going to translate that very specific American dialogue into other languages and they ended up contacting Kubrick to find suitable translators in Europe.
The other thing that I found fascinating is that Jeremiah was actually buried in the Los Angeles National Cemetery next top the San Diego Freeway. Before they dug him up and moved him to Cody, Wyoming, MIlius filmed a drunken goodbye scene with Jan Michael Vincent and Gary Busey in Big Wednesday at his grave.
If you have not seen the bio of Milius it’s well worth it. He’s a wingnut for sure but, damn, could he write.
WereBear
@Betty Cracker: “Care for some gopher?”
“I’m a Dapper Dan man!”
“He’s got bonafides!”
raven
@orogeny: “The Moor’s”
rdldot
@Louise: Steel Magnolias would have been a great movie if someone other than Julia Roberts played the daughter. She was so miscast in that movie it’s pathetic. I still think it’s better than mediocre, though
Sonora
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Think you used enough dynamite there Butch?
Rules!? in a knife fight?!!
Hell, the fall will probably kill you!
You just keep think in’ Butch. That’s what you’re good at…
Elizabelle
Again, from the Wizard of Oz, channeled by Gary Larson.
Aleta
Single best line: I could have been a contender.
You was my brother Charlie you should have looked out for me. I could have had class. I could have been a contender. From On the waterfront
Oh yeah, we also say The Horror. The Horror. (From apocalypse now) a lot.
And my pardner loves to say, about today’s world:
“They used to take them up to Red Rock. Now they’re hanging them. ” (maybe from One- eyed jacks ? Some weird western title I can’t recall.)
Turner Hedenkoff
“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.”
lymie
Quotable – Animal House, Blazing Saddle, Holy Grail
Best dialogue – Philadelphia Story
That’s a fact, Jack.
jl
I’m not sure whether this thread is about waxing wroth or polishing Bernstein.
Mike E
@orogeny: Eggplants.
Legalize
I say “Dr. Strangelove”. But that’s deceptive; some of the best spoken moments in that movie are monologues.
“Fargo” is replete with masterful scenes of dialogue.
Turner Hedenkoff
Oh, and just about anything from Repo Man, but my favorite: “The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.”
Chris
@Betty Cracker:
“I am struck that LaBoeuf is shot, trampled, and nearly severs his tongue, and not only does not cease to talk, but spills the banks of English!”
Brachiator
@raven:
I previously read some interviews with Milius, but he’s such a blowhard that I just gave up. But now I am curious to hear Redford, Pollack, and Milius talk about the film. The silences and lack of dialog (or lack of communication) really works for the film. Many of the later fight scenes appear to simply erupt from the landscape with no warning or verbal challenge.
And although this thread is all about movie dialog, it helps to remember that movies are as much about visual story telling as dialog, and “Jeremiah Johnson” is much like a visual tone poem of the mountain man.
raven
Well then:
Chris
@low-tech cyclist:
Oh God, ANYTHING in a Marx Brothers movie is quotable. We’d need a separate thread just to get through that one.
I always loved
“Do you want to be wage slaves? Answer me that!”
“No!”
“No, of course not. But what do you think makes wage slaves? Wages! I don’t want you to be slaves. I want you to be free!”
Growing up, I always thought it was funny because it was absurd. But given the kind of stupidities I’ve heard from our teabagger Congress in the last five years, I’m increasingly inclined to believe that some 1%er from that era in fact made that exact argument, and that Groucho was just quoting him verbatim.
charles pierce
1) His Girl Friday
1a) Casablanca
3) In Bruges
“Take Hitler and stick him on the funny pages!”
skerry
“What we have here is a failure to communicate.”
raven
@Brachiator: Yea, the Milius doc is full of his blowhardeness but I never really knew how many great films he wrote. I didn’t like Big Wednesday when it cam out but I do now.
You will really enjoy the commentary on Jeremiah, mush of it is about how they shot it on such a shoe-string. One tip, they existing DVD’s really don’t do the visuals justice but the BluRay is much much better.
KXB
In no particular order – dramas include Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs. Comedies – Fletch, A Fish Called Wanda, Monty Python (Holy Grail & Life of Brian).
“Can I borrow your towel? My car just hit a water buffalo.” – Fletch
canuckistani
1) Repo Man is my favourite quotable film. Plate of shrimp is just so useful, as is “I blame society”
2) Palm Beach Story has the best dialog. I often fire it up just for the scenes with the Weenie King.
3) I first saw Casablanca in a crowded rep cinema, and the cheer at “Round up the usual suspects” made a great line golden for me.
BruceFromOhio
@Cckids:
Glad it ain’t just my house.
raven
@Chris: “I like cigars but I take them out of my mouth once in a while”! You Bet Your Life.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Yer darn tootin’!
MomSense
@charles pierce:
Mike E
@raven: Boorman’s commentary on Excaliber is pretty funny, lotsa “Wah, Helen Mirren’s bodice!” in there (for good reason, I might add)…the actors commentary on Dude, Where’s My Car? is funnier than the film itself, and totally unrelated to filmmaking.
burnspbesq
There has to be room in category 1 for The Fugitive.
“My my my my my, what a mess.”
raven
Burt Lancaster in Go Tell the Spartans as he explains to a “fucking draftee” how he ended up in such a dead end unit. “I was the General’s Aide and we were at a garden party in the White House. I ended up with the General’s wife in the garden and she was servicing me. . .orally when the General walked up”. Draftee, “what did you do sir”? “I did what any good officer would do son, I saluted”!
fuckwit
There are so many, and the catalog above is pretty exhaustive.
But I’ve noticed something.
When I was in the corporate world, people would throw cultural references and movie lines around all over the place. It was a glue, a kind of cultural currency. It was all derivative though; we were just repeating stuff we heard and memorized. It was mechanistic, uncreative. And I noticed that younger people tend to get their quotable lines and cultural references from the internet and games as much as from movies and TV.
Also, lately I’ve hung around some artist types. They do not use pre-cooked cultural references or clever lines from movie/TV/games/memes/etc at all. It’s frowned upon, considered lame. Instead they make up their own, create their own. And that’s considered the valuable currency: to come up with something new. The more odd and unpredictable, the better.
I also noticed when I lived in LA that making up neologisms were considered cooler than quoting things or saying things normally. Perhaps because there were so many screenwriters around. I noticed too that when ABL was posting here she’d do that LA-screenwriter type of writing, and some people would cringe at it, but I’d seen that particular tic before.
But among my generation? I’m right there with the rest of y’all… these movie quotes from the 1970s-1980s in particular are burned into my consciousness, though I don’t use them much in conversation anymore.
dan
Over? Did you say “over”? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8lT1o0sDwI
raven
@Mike E: Boorman is one of my faves. Hope and Glory was wonderful and I understand there is a sequel coming soon
Nick
Wet Hot American Summer
“Jazz shoes lycras et all”
“If you want to smear mud on your ass smear mud on your ass”
“I want you inside me”
raven
@dan: And in “Fury” one of the first things we get in this “authentic” WW2 drama is someone on the radio saying “Over and Out”. sheesh.
Origuy
Regarding Spinal Tap, the streaming video player on the BBC website has a volume control that goes up to 11. I don’t think that’s an accident.
raven
@fuckwit: Every see “Decade Under the Influence“?
Mike E
@raven: Wow…I hope they can rev up production without delay! These projects are notoriously mired in pre-production, and Mr Boorman doesn’t have all day!
eta “Deliverance” is a Gothic masterpiece.
different-church-lady
The chicken conversation between Bergman and Grant in Notorious — perfect, because the dialog only exists to stretch out the kiss.
raven
@Mike E: Actually it’s done and that review ain’t all that great. I shall see it either way.
Elizabelle
Quentin Tarantino’s “Jackie Brown” is in heavy rotation on The Sundance Channel, and it’s a wonderful movie. You can just listen to it. Lots of good music too; the characters kind of have their own soundtracks, and the villain’s is the most eclectic.
Ordered a copy of “Rum Punch” to see how much of the dialog came from Elmore Leonard, and how much was Tarantino.
Max Cherry, the bail bondsman: “Is white guilt supposed to make me forget that I run a business?”
The Golux
There’s always Five Easy Pieces:
raven
@Elizabelle: “I ain’t gettin in no goddamn trunk” That is one hilarious scene.
Anonymous At Work
Ronin: Whenever there is any doubt, there is no doubt.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122690/quotes?item=qt0248369
ThresherK
Looks like I picked the wrong time to catch up on my sleep, but:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail is oft quoted, and “If she weighs the same as a duck…” applies to all spurious science. Getting quite the workout lately.
Casablanca, It’s A Wonderful Life, and The Wizard of Oz are almost “perfect” movies. “They’re made up of almost nothing but scenes”, as Sam Goldwyn might say.
Tom Levenson
@Joel Hanes: David Ossman. My former roommate (not kidding).
Chris
@raven:
“Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.”
raven
@Chris: yes!
Brachiator
Ben-Hur
Quintus Arrius: Your eyes are full of hate, forty-one. That’s good. Hate keeps a man alive. It gives him strength.
And
Quintus Arrius: Now listen to me, all of you. You are all condemned men. We keep you alive to serve this ship. So row well, and live.
The Golux
@canuckistani: I was also fortunate to see Casablanca for the first time (in the mid-eighties) in a full house, somehow never having seen more than a few seconds of it previously. The crowd erupted in the biggest roar of laughter after that last line.
eric
When they’re dead they’re just hookers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW0NtG7X8Ys
and “that chick is the pele of anal.” My all time favorite line
Elizabelle
@raven: Yes. Chris Tucker. Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles seals the deal.
And what a use of “Strawberry Letter 23.”
Robert Forster was excellent and deserved his Oscar nomination, but I’ve really enjoyed Samuel L Jackson and his various moods. He looks like death incarnate, driving to his final scene.
m.c. simon milligan
1. Repo Man, Wrath of Khan, Young Frankenstein
2. Miller’s Crossing
3. “The way your dad looked at it, this watch was your birthright. He’d be damned if any slopes gonna put their greasy yellow hands on his boy’s birthright, so he hid it, in the one place he knew he could hide something: his ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable piece of metal up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you.”
catbirdman
For better or worse the dialogue from the original The Office runs through my head constantly.
One remarkably funny scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6Eaz-1_3iA
wasabi gasp
If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
Chris
@The Golux:
The first time I saw it was with the movie club in high school. At the time, I was fully prepared to hate it because I knew nothing about it other than it was one of the “classics” that my parents said everybody should watch just for their general culture… and the last one of these they’d foisted on me was Gone With The Wind.
Imagine my pleasant surprise, then, when I watched Casablanca and it turned out that the movie wasn’t depressing; the main characters weren’t scumbags; the politics weren’t abhorrent; and the movie didn’t drag on forever. Huh, maybe Mom and Dad DO know what they’re talking about! (sometimes)
Anniecat45
1. Casablanca
2. His Girl Friday
3. North by Northwest elevator scene
SFAW
@Aleta:
The scene from On The Waterfront is a great one, but I’m not sure that it’s really a dialogue. Steiger’s part is really just to provide a lead-in to Brando’s speech. Which, by the way, you should have included in its entirety.
Karl Malden had some good stuff in the movie, too. (Although, his ascent from Hell was a nice visual, no real dialogue.)
Waldo
@Turner Hedenkoff: Yeah, Repo Man is a goldmine.
“Look at those assholes over there. Ordinary fucking people. I hate ‘em.”
Debbi: Duke, let’s go do some crimes.
Duke: Yeah. Let’s go get sushi and not pay.
“It happens sometimes. People just explode. Natural causes.”
cmorenc
“Princess Bride” has to be at the top of any list. Though I agree “Spinal Tap” and “Big Lebowski” are deserving nominees as well.
OH! and of course, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”. No telling how many times I’ve actually found spot-on occasions to stick that line about African v. Europeans sparrows …”well, you have to know these things when you’re a king, you know”.
SFAW
@Tom Levenson:
I once tried to explain Firesign to a friend or two, something about a lot of sight gags, but for your ears. Kind of like the jars in the background at the Mayo Clinic in Airplane. Their first four or five LPs were great. Some of their radio stuff was pretty good, too.
Quicksand
@Matt McIrvin:
It’s just a flesh wound.
PIGL
@DougJ: I amuse you?
bluefoot
@Germy Shoemangler: “A Hard Day’s Night” has some brilliant dialogue. The older I get, the more I appreciate it.
Not a movie, but I probably quote old Warner Bros cartoons more than anything.
Germy Shoemangler
@SFAW: Firesign: To this day, I still hear “Department of Redundancy Department” quoted by folks of a certain age.
gogol's wife
I’ll second you on Double Indemnity. But you have to have Stanwyck and MacMurray doing the lines. They’re inimitably perfect.
Tree With Water
1) Can’t say I have one.
2) Casablanca
3) In Casablanca, the scene in which Rick first sits down and meets Major Strasser: “Are my eyes really brown?”… “There are no waters in Casablanca”; “I was misinformed”…”There are parts of NYC I would advise you [avoid?]”.*
*(I forget the exact phrasing on that one).
Germy Shoemangler
@bluefoot: I saw it in a movie theater in 1964. Girls in the audience were screaming like it was a concert.
It wasn’t until I saw it many years later that I “got” the dialogue. At one point, Ringo is called an “aborigine” by the police sergeant!
Paul’s grandfather is a class warrior, hates the british police. When he encounters the upper-class man on the train, though, he bows and smiles.
low-tech cyclist
@Joel Hanes:
“You’ll never work in this town again, Tirebiter!”
“What town?”
“So kids, tell your moms to get on it and do it every day.”
-Lt. Bradshaw
@Tom Levenson:
I’m envious.
gogol's wife
After six million Indiana threads, this fascinating thread comes in the middle of the work day. Curse you, DougJ!
We quote Gone with the Wind a lot, in the voice of Clark Gable. “There isn’t a cannon factory in the entire South.” “What difference does that make to a gentleman, suh?” “It will make a great deal of difference to a great many gentlemen.”
gogol's wife
@Tree With Water:
not to invade
Hawes
From Kiss Kiss Bang Bang:
Gay Perry: How about you, Harry, did your father love you?
Harry: Ah, sometimes, you know – like when I dressed up like a bottle. How about yours?
Gay Perry: Well, he used to beat me in Morse code, so it’s possible, but he never actually said the words.
Harry: Do you think I’m stupid?
Gay Perry: I don’t think you’d know how to feed yourself, if you didn’t flap your mouth so much. Yes I think you’re stupid.
Gay Perry: Look up idiot in the dictionary. You know what you’ll find?
Harry: A picture of me?
Gay Perry: No! The definition of the word “idiot”! Which you fucking are!
Gay Perry: Go. Sleep badly. Any questions, hesitate to call.
Harry: Bad.
Gay Perry: Excuse me?
Harry: Sleep bad. Otherwise it makes it seem like the mechanism that allows you to sleep…
Gay Perry: What, fuckhead? Who taught you grammar? Badly’s an adverb. Get out. Vanish.
maurinsky
Clerks “I’m not even supposed to be working today!”
Ghostbusters “dogs and cats, living together!”
all Monty Python
Galaxy Quest “Never give up, never surrender!”
“I’ll get one of my guys down here with some WD-40”
Donnie Darko “I question your commitment to Sparkle Motion!”
Psycho Beach Party: “I’m just panting for a cocktail, darling”
TV is harder. We quote Buffy all the damn time. “Your logic does not resemble our earth logic” is suprisingly useful. Simpsons, Seinfeld.
Chris
@Tree With Water:
“Are you another one of these people who can’t imagine us in your beloved Paris?”
“It’s not particularly my beloved Paris.”
“Can you imagine us in London?”
“When you get there, ask me!”
“How about New York?”
“Well, there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn’t advise you to try to invade.”
Germy Shoemangler
Went to see “Sullivan’s Travels” last summer. The screening was followed by a local professor of cinema discussing the film and answering questions.
One elderly man in the audience said that he’d seen it when it was first released! He was a teenager, and wanted to see Veronica Lake.
Sullivan’s Travels is full of great lines:
[discussing a prior ‘serious’ film]
LeBrand: It died in Pittsburgh.
Hadrian: Like a dog!
John L. Sullivan: Aw, what do they know in Pittsburgh…
Hadrian: They know what they like.
John L. Sullivan: If they knew what they liked, they wouldn’t live in Pittsburgh!
Keith
Like many others – I’d nominate The Lion in Winter for best dialogue.
The scene I would take is one not dominated by O’Toole nor Hepburn.
Hawes
Sorry, one more:
Harmony: [about the blonde woman in the room] She’s been f**ked more times than she’s had hot meals.
Harry: Mmmm, I heard about that. It was neck and neck until she skipped lunch.
gogol's wife
Hot Fuzz has a lot of good dialogue. The greater good, Fascist / Hag, God rest his soul
gogol's wife
@Germy Shoemangler:
LOL
Chris
@gogol’s wife:
I hate that movie, but I do love that quote.
bluefoot
@Germy Shoemangler: I forgot when I first saw it, but probably the best time was in 2000-ish in a theater with Richard Lester (IIRC) doing Q&A.
I love that there’s all kinds of blink-and-you’ll miss it subtle things going on, dialogue and otherwise. And some lines that stop you five minutes later when its full meaning finally hits you.
And when we’re discussing someone we’ve just met, a disturbing number of conversations in my family end with, “He looks awfully clean to me.” Also guaranteed to stop a conversation that’s going off the rails.
WereBear
@gogol’s wife: “Decaffeinated?”
“Light up the roof!”
“You’re off the freakin’ chain.”
Tree With Water
@bluefoot: I’m a Beatlemaiac, yet just found out that line (“He’s clean old man, isn’t he”?) was a play on a catch phrase then associated with the actor that played Paul’s grandfather- that line being different variations of: “He’s a dirty old man”. The TV series in which he appeared was later bought by American TV and re-christianed Sanford & Son.
WereBear
Home sick in bed and watching The Naked Gun.
“My father went the same way.”
piratedan
I’ll toss some out that haven’t been mentioned yet….
Animal House
Fat, Drunk and Stupid is no way to go through life, son….
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzaii
Laugh while you can Monkey Boy!”
Where are we going….. Planet Ten!!!!!!!!!!!! When will we get there? Real Soon!!!!!!!!!!!!
No matter where you go, there you are….
Big Trouble in Little China
You were not put here on this Earth to “get it” Mr Burton
I like to think of myself as a reasonable man and now I’ve experienced a bunch of unreasonable things and when is someone going to me what the hell is going on around here!
Other films I’ve stolen from, Sixteen Candles, Used Cars
Tree With Water
@Keith: One of the greatest opening bits of dialogue in film history is when Katherine Hepburn smiles radiantly at Peter O’Toole and says, “Thank you for letting me out of your prison”. That might not be a spot-on quote, but it was something like that..
ThresherK
@Tree With Water: “We mustn’t underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918.”
The nitpicker in me knows that the German military held their borders intact when they surrendered to end WWI. But it’s too good a line to leave.
Mnemosyne
A couple of obscure 80s favorites:
Head Office — not a great movie, but with some of the greatest lines of all time, especially when it comes to working at a corporation:
“I didn’t make that decision, I approved that decision! Don’t you people know the difference between a decision and an approval?”
“Beware the furniture movers. People see them coming and they shit.”
Better Off Dead
“I’m sorry your mom blew up, Ricky.”
“Go that way, very fast. If something gets in your way, turn.”
“Lane, I’ve been thinking, and I think it would be in my best interest if I dated someone better looking. More popular. Who drives a nicer car.”
Also, too, “The Simpsons.” My now-husband says he knew he was going to marry me because I always had an appropriate “Simpsons” quote for every occasion.
Tree With Water
@gogol’s wife: That was the gist of the conversation Tecumseh Sherman had with his colleagues at the (now) University of Louisiana, immediately prior to submitting his resignation and heading north.
ThresherK
@maurinsky: Galaxy Quest:
“Now let’s get out of here before one of these things kills Guy.”
MaryRC
@magurakurin: My favorite line from The Magnificent Seven:
If God had not wanted them sheared, he would not have made them sheep.
Also:
Generosity – that was my first mistake.
We deal in lead, friend. (maybe this one needs Steve McQueen’s delivery)
I admire your notion of fair odds, mister.
SFAW
@Germy Shoemangler:
Me included
John Revolta
@Waldo: “John Wayne was a fag.”
“The hell he was!!”
“Oh yes he was too, you boys. I installed two-way mirrors in his pad in Brentwood……….and he come to the door in a dress.”
Also: “Put it on a plate, son. You’ll enjoy it more.”
WereBear
“I DONT ROLL ON SHABBOS!”
DCrefugee
Aliens: “They can bill me!”
Jaws: “Mary Ellen Moffat. She broke my heart.”
N by NW: “I’ve got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don’t intend to disappoint them all by getting myself ‘slightly’ killed.”
Scenes? Anything from 2001, Casablanca, Young Frankenstein, Airplane, Princess Bride and even The Right Stuff.
joel hanes
@Sonora:
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Who are those guys?
Matt McIrvin
@maurinsky: “By Grabthar’s hammer……. …………… …..what a savings.”
“This episode was badly written!”
“I’ve got one job on this lousy ship, and it’s stupid, but I’m gonna do it.”
Grumpy Code Monkey
From The Lion in WInter:
And my favorites…
tsquared2001
@spudvol:
Henry: Give me a little peace
Eleanor: A little peace? Why so modest? How about eternal peace? Now there’s a thought.
Omnes Omnibus
The Third Man for the Ferris wheel scene and “Oh, I don’t know, I’m just a hack writer who drinks too much and falls in love with girls.”
Matt McIrvin
Kelly’s Heroes: “Always with the negative waves, Moriarty!”
Matt McIrvin
@DCrefugee: 2001 is more an endless source of visual quotes; there’s so little dialogue in it, but nearly all of HAL 9000’s lines are actually quoteworthy. “I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.”
tsquared2001
No Scarface love???
All I have in this world is my balls and my word and I don’t break them for no one.
The world, chico, and eveything in it.
My best friend is Nick the Pig!
HeartlandLiiberal
The Princess Bride. Hands down.
Now, revealing my age, Marlon Brando in On the Water Front: “I coulda been a contender.”
And a phrase I use all the time, from the Outlaw Josey Wales, Chief Dan George’s character: “We must endeavor to persevere.”
Another favorite as it sums up the anger one feels when confronted with seeing one’s existence extinguished do to the hubris of another, from Red October: as the submarine Konovalov’s own torpedo is about to strike the Konovalov and blow it to hell and back: Andrei Bonovia: You arrogant ass. You’ve killed *us*!
maurinsky
The conversation on the dining car in North by Northwest is sweltering hot.
john b
Rushmore, but largely because I saw it so many times at a formative age
“I saved Latin, what did you ever do?”
“What happened to your nose?”
“I got punched in the face. What’s your excuse?”
“Now, for some of you it doesn’t matter. You were born rich and you’re going to stay rich. But here’s my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can’t buy backbone. Don’t let them forget it. Thank you”
“I like your nurse’s uniform guy”
“They’re OR scrubs”
“O.R. they?”
“So tell me Curly, how do you know Miss Cross?”
“We went to Harvard together”
“Oh that’s great. I wrote a hit play and directed it, so I’m not sweating it either.”
“Never in my wildest imagination did I ever dream I would have sons like these.”
lumpkin
And not a one of ya’ll ordered or offered an oat soda.
gogol's wife
@Waldo:
Then you have to throw in Anne Baxter, “Moses, Moses!”
Aleta
@Grumpy Code Monkey: unsurpassed to this day
Chris
@MaryRC:
My favorite line from Magnificent Seven isn’t a line. It’s when Steve McQueen’s character comes in to talk to Yul Brynner’s when he’s recruiting, and asks “how many have you got?” Yul just holds up one finger. Steve looks at it, and then holds up two.
Aleta
@SFAW:
“The scene from On The Waterfront is a great one, but I’m not sure that it’s really a dialogue. Steiger’s part is really just to provide a lead-in to Brando’s speech. Which, by the way, you should have included in its entirety. ”
Agreed !
John Revolta
@john b: OT but this reminded me of a story from when B.S. Pulley was rehearsing Maxie Rosenbloom to take over his role as Big Julie in “Guys and Dolls”:
“Goddamn it, Maxie, how come you talk so funny?”
“I had 47 fights. What’s your excuse?”
“I got this way from bettin’ on you!”
DougJ
@Omnes Omnibus:
Oh, yeah. Among my favorites.
philly
Fast TImes and Ridgemont High has hardly any representation, which is ludicrous.
jayackroyd
Well I’m late but I don’t care.
1. What movie(s) do you quote the most frequently in conversation?
Wizard of Oz, Young Frankenstein
2. What movie(s) do you think has the best dialogue ever?
Dr Strangelove
3. And what is the single best scene of dialogue in movie histories?
The ” I’m sending you over sister.” scene in Maltese Falcon
Bitter Scribe
Slap Shot:
“They brought their fuckin’ toys with them!”
“I’d rather have them playing with their toys than playing with themselves.”
“If she underlined the fuck scenes for you, she must really love you.”
“Yeah, well, they teach you how to underline in college.”
Charley E
1. Soldier of Orange (Soldaat van Oranje), most of Billy Wilder’s work(Some Like it hot, One,Two, three, Stalag 17) , Blazzing Saddles
2. Stalag 17
3. The vessel with the pessel
Quaker in a Basement
@WereBear: “Consider the lilies of the goddam field!”
Quaker in a Basement
@Betty Cracker: “I’m with you fellers!” “More of a kicking sitcheyation, if you ask me.”
montanareddog
Heartily agree with many of the films mentioned; but I would add “The Blues Brothers”:
“We’re on a mission from God”
“I hate Illinois mazis”
“We’ve got both kinds – country, and western”
“You’ll look kinda funny trying to eat corn on the cob…with no fucking teeth”
and many others
John
@raven: Another vote for Miller’s Crossing.
Tom and Verna:
Tom Reagan: If I’d known we were gonna cast our feelings into words, I’da memorized the Song of Solomon.
Verna Birnbaum: Maybe that’s why I like you, Tom. I’ve never met anyone who made being a son of a bitch such a point of pride.
Tom and Leo:
Leo O’Bannion: They took his hair, Tommy. Jesus, that’s strange, why would they do that?
Tom Reagan: Maybe it was injuns.
Tom and Bernie:
Tom Reagan: If you want me to keep my mouth shut, it’s gonna cost you some dough. I figure a thousand bucks is reasonable, so I want two.
Hell, pretty much the whole movie from start to finish. Every single scene with J.E. Freeman as Eddie Dane makes me happy. His volcanic rage when he confronts Tom about Mink’s fate is brilliant.
Eddie Dane: I am gonna send you to a deep, dark place and I am gonna have fun doing it!
And on the way to look for Bernie:
Eddie Dane: You understand that if we don’t find a stiff out here, we leave a fresh one.
Eddie Dane: Hey, Tic-Tac! You ever notice how the snappy dialogue dries up once a guy starts soiling his union suit?
Now I have to go watch it again.
John
But yeah, also Casablanca, the Godfather and the Godfather Part II, Chinatown, Pulp Fiction, Stripes, Caddyshack, Fletch, Ghostbusters, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Princess Bride, Cyrano De Bergerac (Jose Ferrer edition), Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb). The Conversation doesn’t have a huge amount of dialog, but it is the only movie I can think of where the plot turns on a misinterpreted inflection.
“He’d kill us if he knew”.
Brachiator
@jayackroyd:
Rosebud.
wasabi gasp
@Bitter Scribe:
Dave’s a mess.
mclaren
1. 1984 (1984), Dr. Strangelove (1964), Spartacus (1960), Casablanca (1942), My Man Godfrey (1939)
2. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944 ), The Great McGinty (1940), The Thief of Baghdad (1940), The Usual Suspects (1998)
[The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek]
Newspaper editor: There’s only one thing more, Mr. Governor – the marriage!
Gov. McGinty: What’s the matter with the marriage? She’s married to Norval Jones,
she always has been! The guy married them, didn’t he? The boy signed his right name, didn’t he?
Newspaper editor: But he gave his name as Ratzkywatzky!
Gov. McGinty: He was trying to say Jones, he stuttered!
The Boss: What are you looking for, a needle from a haystack?
…
Mr. Johnson: The responsibility for recording a marriage has always been up to woman. If it wasn’t for her, marriage would have disappeared long since. No man is going to jeopardize his present or poison his future with a lot of little brats hollering around the house unless he’s forced to. It’s up to the woman to knock him down, hogtie him, and drag him in front of two witnesses immediately if not sooner. Anytime after that is too late.
[The Great McGinty]
Skeeters: If it wasn’t for graft, you’d get a very low type of people in politics. Men without ambition. Jellyfish.
Catherine: Especially since you can’t rob the people anyway.
Skeeters: Sure. How was that?
Catherine: What you rob, you spend, and what you spend goes back to the people. So, where’s the robbery? I read that in one of my father’s books.
Skeeters: That book should be in every home.
…
Skeeters: You can’t steal that money!
McGinty: Why not? We stole this whole country from the Indians.
Catherine: Borrowed.
[The Thief of Baghdad]
Princess: Who are you?
Ahmad: Your slave.
Princess: Where have you come from?
Ahmad: From the other side of time, to find you.
Princess: How long have you been searching?
Ahmad: Since time began.
Princess: Now that you’ve found me, how long will you stay?
Ahmad: To the end of time.
Ahmad: For me, there can be no more beauty in the world, than yours.
Princess: For me, there can be no more pleasure in the world, than to please you.
…
Jaffar: Forget Ahmad. He’s no longer blind. For a man with eyes the world is full of women. Only I am cursed, that I can see only you.
…
Genie: You’re a clever little man, little master of the universe, but mortals are weak and frail. If their stomach speaks, they forget their brain. If their brain speaks, they forget their heart. And if their heart speaks [laughs uproariously]… they forget everything!
…
Abu: I am Abu the thief. Son of Abu the thief. Grandson of Abu the thief.
…
Princess: You don’t look wicked. Are you a good Djinni?
Ahmad: Not too good. Very good Djinni are just as tiresome as very good men.
[The Usual Suspects]
Dave Kujan: Do you believe in him, Verbal?
Verbal: Keaton always said, “I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of him.” Well I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Söze.
…
Verbal: Who is Keyser Söze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say his father was German. Nobody believed he was real. Nobody ever saw him or knew anybody that ever worked directly for him, but to hear Kobayashi tell it, anybody could have worked for Söze. You never knew. That was his power. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist. And like that, poof. He’s gone.
…
Fenster: They treat me like a criminal. I’ll end up a criminal.
Hockney: You are a criminal.
Fenster: Why you gotta go and do that? I’m trying to make a point.
…
Dave Kujan: First day on the job, you know what I learned? How to spot a murderer. Let’s say you arrest three guys for the same killing. You put them all in jail overnight. The next morning, whoever’s sleeping is your man. You see, if you’re guilty, you know you’re caught, you get some rest, you let your guard down.
…
Dave Kujan: You know a dealer named Ruby Deamer, Verbal?
Verbal: You know a religious guy named John Paul?
Dave Kujan: You know Ruby’s in Attica?
Verbal: He didn’t have my lawyer.
…
Interrogation Cop: I can put you in Queens on the night of the hijacking.
Hockney: Really? I live in Queens. Did you put that together yourself, Einstein? What, do you got a team of monkeys working around the clock on this?
…
Verbal: Where’s your head, Agent Kujan? Where do you think the pressure’s coming from? Keyser Söze – or whatever you want to call him – he knows where I am right now. He’s got the front burner under your ass to let me go so he can scoop me up ten minutes later. Immunity was just a deal with you assholes. I got a whole new problem when I post bail.
Dave Kujan: So why play into his hands? We can protect you.
Verbal: Oh, gee, thanks, Dave. Bang-up job so far. Extortion, coercion. You’ll pardon me if I ask you to kiss my pucker. The same fuckers that rounded us up and sank us into this mess are gonna bail me out? Fuck you. You think you can catch Keyser Söze? You think a guy like that comes this close to getting caught and sticks his head out? If he comes up for anything, it will be to get rid of me. After that… my guess is you’ll never hear from him again.
…
Arkosh Kovash: [in Hungarian] Why are you just standing there, you idiot? I’m not speaking English am I? Wouldn’t it make sense to find someone who could talk to me so you could find the person that set me on fire, perhaps? He is the Devil. You’ve never seen anyone like Keyser Söze in all your miserable life, you idiot. Keyser Söze. Do you at least understand that? Keyser Söze. The Devil himself. Or are you American policemen so stupid that you haven’t even heard of him? Keyser Söze, you ridiculous man. KEYSER SÖZE!
3. Miller’s Crossing (1990)
Johnny Caspar: It’s gettin’ so a businessman can’t expect no return from a fixed fight. Now, if you can’t trust a fix, what can you trust? For a good return, you gotta go bettin’ on chance – and then you’re back with anarchy, right back in the jungle.
…
Johnny Caspar: When you’re right you’re right, but you never say ‘I told you so’.
Tom Reagan: So what am I right about?
Johnny Caspar: Well, I’ll tell ya, but first you gotta promise not to say ‘I told you so’.
Tom Reagan: I don’t say that and I don’t like people who do.
Johnny Caspar: Mink was robbin’ me right along with the shmatte.
Tom Reagan: What convinced you of that?
Johnny Caspar: Mink Larouie took a powder. We can’t find him. Bluepoint’s makin’ excuses for him, but personally, I think you were right. I think Mink and Bernie was in it together. I think Mink heard you’d bumped the shmatte, and lit out. The lousy sonofabitch.
Tom Reagan: I told you so.
….
Leo O’Bannion: You hear about Rug?
Tom Reagan: Yeah, RIP.
Leo O’Bannion: They took his hair, Tommy. Jesus, that’s strange, why would they do that?
Tom Reagan: Maybe it was injuns.
…
Johnny Caspar: Friends is a mental state. Wuddya say, kid?
Tom Reagan: I’ll think about it.
Johnny Caspar: He’ll think about it. Hear that, Bluepoint? That’s terrific. The kid’s a thinker.
Frankie: Does he want a pillow for his head?
Johnny Caspar: Okay kid, think about it. It’s a mental state. But make it quick, my family’s waitin’.
Tom Reagan: I’ll think about it and tell you later.
Frankie: He needs to think in the thinking room.
Johnny Caspar: Kid, if it’ll help you think, you should know that if you don’t do this you won’t be in any shape to walk outta here.
Tom Reagan: Would that be physically… or just a mental state?
…
Tom Reagan: All in all not a bad guy – if looks, brains and personality don’t count.
Verna: You better hope they don’t.
…
Eddie Dane: Where’s Leo?
Hitman at Verna’s: If I tell you, how do I know you won’t kill me?
Eddie Dane: Because if you told me and I killed you and you were lying I wouldn’t get to kill you *then*. Where’s Leo?
Hitman at Verna’s: He’s moving around. He’s getting his mob together tomorrow night. Whisky Nick’s.
Eddie Dane: You sure?
Hitman at Verna’s: Check it. It’s gold.
Eddie Dane: You know what, yegg? I believe you.
[Shoots him]
…
Verna: Shouldn’t you be doing your job?
Tom Reagan: Intimidating helpless women is my job.
Verna: Then go find one, and intimidate her.
…
Verna: Leo’s got the right idea. I like him, he’s honest and he’s got a heart.
Tom Reagan: Then it’s true what they say. Opposites attract.
…
Eddie Dane: Very smart. What were you doing at the club, talking things over with Leo?
Tom Reagan: Don’t think so hard, Eddie. You might sprain something.
Eddie Dane: You are so goddamn smart. Except you ain’t. I get you, smart guy. I know what you are. Straight as a corkscrew. Mr. Inside-Outski, like some goddamn Bolshevik picking up his orders from Yegg Central. You think you’re so goddamn smart. You join up with Johnny Caspar, you bump Bernie Bernbaum. Up is down. Black is white. Well, I think you’re half smart. I think you were straight with your frail, I think you were queer with Johnny Caspar… and I think you’d sooner join a ladies’ league than gun a guy down. Then I hear from these two geniuses they never even saw this rub-out take place.
Frankie: Boss said to have him do it. He didn’t say nothing about…
Eddie Dane: Shut up! Or maybe you still got too many teeth. Everyone is so goddamn smart. Well, we’ll go out to Miller’s Crossing… and we’ll see who’s smart.
…
Tom Reagan: Hello Bernie.
Bernie: Hello Tom. What’s the rumpus? How’d you know it was me?
Tom Reagan: You’re the only one I know who’d knock and then break in.
Bernie: Your other friends wouldn’t break in, huh?
Tom Reagan: My other friends want to kill me so they wouldn’t’ve knocked.
…
Tom Reagan: Last I heard, Leo was still running this town.
O’Doole: Yeah, well, he won’t be for long if this keeps up. It’s no good for anyone. You said as much yourself…
Tom Reagan: First off, O’Doole, I can say what I please to Leo and about him. You can’t. Second, once Leo decides, that’s that. If that sticks going down, there are plenty of coppers I know who wouldn’t mind bein’ chief and could swallow it clean.
O’Doole: Jesus, Tom, I was just speculatin’ about a hypothesis. I know I don’t know nothin’. It’s just a damn mess, is all.
[a flurry of gunshots erupts behind them]
O’Doole: A goddamn mess!
…
Tom Reagan: If I’d known we were gonna cast our feelings into words, I’d’ve memorized the Song of Solomon.
Suzy P
@Cckids:Soon enough – you’ll die and Ill come to your funeral in red dress!
Princess Bride, Spinal Tap, Raising Arizona, Lebowski, and in our house we quote the Jerky Boys a bunch-I know not a movie.
Charles Pierce
“Goats and Jehovah!”
— Pontius Pilate, Ben Hur
tsquared2001
@mclaren: Well done with the Miller’s Crossing, although you missed:
Leo: You ain’t got a license to kill bookies and today I ain’t selling any so take your flunky and dangle
and
Tom: Where’s me hat?
wasabi gasp
It’s called a confidence game. Why? Because you give me your confidence? No. Because I give you mine.
catatonia
@Hawes:
More Miller’s Crossing —
(Verna) “I suppose you think you raised hell.”
(Tom) “Sistah! When I’ve raised hell you’ll know it.”
(Tom) “Drink,O’Doul?”
(O’Doul) “I’m on duty.”
(Leo) “Tom, you know O’Doul and the Mayor.”
(Tom) “I ought to, I voted for him six times in the last election.”
(The Mayor) “And that ain’t the record, either.”
(Bernie) “Til then, I’ll stay out of sight. But if Johnny Caspar isn’t dead and cold in the ground in a few days, I start eating in restaurants.”
(Mink) “He asked you to ask him to ask him to ask …” I’ve seen Miller’s Crossing a hundred times and I still can’t get Buscimi’s line down
mclaren
@Brachiator:
lncidentally, did you know that the speech Harry Lime gives about the cuckoo clock was not in the script? Orson Wells improvised it.
wasabi gasp
So, Ahab, can I bum my doobage?
mclaren
@tsquared2001:
Yeah, it’s impossible to remember all the great quotes from Miller’s Crossing. There are just too many of them.
tsquared2001
@catatonia:
(Verna) “I suppose you think you raised hell.”
(Tom) “Sistah! When I’ve raised hell you’ll know it.”
The scene that took place in the impossibly large powder room and Tom leans drunkenly against the table and the camera pulls back – just terrific
Although it does have a continuity problem with the cracks in the mirror after Tom fling his shot glass.
tsquared2001
@mclaren: I have “what’s the rumpus” as my sametime message at work and EVERYBODY asks me what does it mean and where is it from.
Philistines, I tell ya.
John
My favorite bit about that powder room scene? When Tom comes in and clears all the ladies except Vera out, a large woman in a maid’s uniform (presumably the attendant) is Albert Finney in drag.
wasabi gasp
Anyway, so the police came and looked in her freezer and found baggies filled with the doorman’s genitals.
I use baggies.
Me too.
Everyone uses baggies, that’s why we can all relate to this crime.
ochone
robert downey in tropic thunder, when asked why he’s still minstreled up: ‘i stay in character until the DVD comes out.’
i destroyed many friendships through years’ worth of quoting that apropos of nothing.
and of course ‘full retard’.
Cpl Cam
Ringo: Your boss makes you do his dirty laundry?
Jules: When when he wants it clean.
Ringo: Sounds like a shit job.
Jules: Funny, I was just thinking the same thing.
Winston: What do they look like, Jimmie?
Jimmie: Dorks… They look like a couple of dorks.
Jules: Haha. They’re your clothes motherfucker.
Marcellus: Don’t tell nobody about this. This is between me, you and Mr. “Soon to be living the rest of his short-ass life in excruciating pain” rapist over there.
Jules: …or maybe you’re the righteous man and I’m the shepherd protecting your ass and it’s the world that’s evil and inequitable. I’d like to believe that but that shit ain’t the truth. The truth is: you’re the weak and I’m the tyranny of evil men. But I’m trying to change that, Ringo, I’m trying real hard.
Cpl Cam
Oh, and how could I forget?
Fabienne: Whose motorcycle is this?
Butch: It’s not a motorcycle, it’s a chopper, baby.
Fabienne: Whose chopper is this?
Butch: Zed’s.
Fabienne: Who’s Zed?
Butch: Zed’s dead, baby. Zed’s dead.
Aleta
@Cpl Cam:
Be cool, Honey Bunny.
Tehanu
@Germy Shoemangler:
Preston Sturges, what a genius. Pittsburgh will never live that one down.
@Joel Hanes:
Peorgie: “But Dad, I don’t have any friends at Commie Martyrs!”
Mudhead: “I’ve never even seen anybody from there!”
And who can forget my favorite line from “Parallel Hell”: “Who wonna Seconda Worlda War, you so smart?!”
Chris
Welp, thanks to this thread, I just had to go out and rent Casablanca from the local library. Which I’m now watching. Again.
Thanks, people!
Chris
“Play La Marseillaise!”
Fan. Tastic. The most glorious act of trolling in the history of Hollywood.
Jeff in Chiang Mai
True Romance- Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken discuss history
artem1s
damn, can’t believe no one mentioned Firefly (yea TV but so’s Seinfeld)
my favs…
well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle
and of course
I can kill you with my mind
and the best
Wash [as Stegosaurus]: Yes… yes. This is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it… This Land.
Wash [as Allosaurus]: I think we should call it… your grave!
Wash [as Stegosaurus]: Ah! Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
...now I try to be amused
Little Big Man.
“It is a good day to die.”
“Every enterprise has a particle of risk!”
“I have repaid the life that I owed you. Now I can kill you and not become an evil person.”
“Nothing is more surprising than the attack without mercy!”
I know I’ve forgotten many other lines.