But that isn’t the best line from a movie ever.
Hell, it isn’t even the best line from that movie- my personal favorite:
Hedley Lamarr: Qualifications?
Applicant: Rape, murder, arson, and rape.
Hedley Lamarr: You said rape twice.
Applicant: I like rape.
Dreggas
WACO KID: “No no don’t shoot him, you’ll only make him mad.”
Dreggas
CONGREGATION SINGING: “Now is a time of great decision, are we to stay or up and flee? There’s no avoiding this conclusion, our town is turning into shit…”
REVEREND: “I will now read from the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Duck!”
jg
Someday I’ll see that movie. Right after It’s A Beautiful Life
jenniebee
I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I’m all out of bubblegum.
Walker
Put on the sunglasses!
Halffasthero
That whole movie was a work of art. Mel Brooks should have collaberated with Richard Pryor on another project. Those two worked together brilliantly.
Incidentally, my favorite scene was when the future sheriff was trying to convince Slim Pickens that – to tell the big family secret, a family member was Dutch or German (or something like that). I would be more precise but I can’t right now.
norbizness
Some of my favorites when I had readers submit lines for the top 100…
Dolemite: “Awwwww shit. What the hell does that rat soup-eating motherfucker want from me?”
Better Off Dead: “Now that’s a real shame when folks be throwin’ away a perfectly good white boy like that.”
The Sting: “Luther said I could learn some things from you. (pause) I already know how to drink.”
The Maltese Falcon: “It was your fault! You idiot! You bloated imbecile! You stupid fat man!”
Repo Man: “No Commies in my car. No Christians either!”
Full Metal Jacket: “Private Pyle… you had best square your ass away and start shitting me Tiffany cufflinks or I will definitely fuck you up.”
Real Genius: “Gee, Kent, and we were going to make you King of the Winter Carnival.”
and finally
Plan 9 From Outer Space / Ed Wood: “Greetings, my friends. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I will spend the rest of our lives. And remember, my friends… future events such as these will affect you… in the future!”
zmulls
In Sully’s defense, he has been running a whole series of contenders for “Best Movie Line Ever” — I don’t think he’s naming that particular one as THE best.
cleek
‘Half of writing history is hiding the truth.’
&
‘People don’t like to be meddled with. We tell them what to do, what to think, don’t run, don’t walk. We’re in their homes and in their heads and we haven’t the right. We’re meddlesome.’
&
‘Do you know what the definition of a hero is? Someone who gets other people killed. You can look it up later. ‘
Serenity
Third Eye Open
Full Metal Jacket:“the dead only know one thing; That it is better to be alive”
RSA
My personal favorite: “Where da white women at?”
And from Repo Man:
Not that I can quote the whole thing, though I have friends who can. For me, it’s enough to say, “Pernicious nonsense.”
The Other Steve
Ahh, Full Metal Jacket is just full of great quotations.
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: What is your major malfunction, numbnuts? Didn’t Mommy and Daddy show you enough attention when you were a child?
Private Joker: How can you shoot women or children?
Door Gunner: Easy! Ya just don’t lead ’em so much! Ain’t war hell?
Third Eye Open
As Good As It Gets:People who speak in metaphors can shampoo my crotch
Chad N. Freude
How about the most prophetic line?
Casablanca: “We’ll always have Paris.”
canuckistani
I thought I was the last living fan of Repo “Let’s get sushi and not pay!” Man. Glad to see there are others out there. You could fill a top 50 quote list from that film alone. The radiation quote alone is worth the price of the movie.
Mr Furious
It wasn’t Pryor, it was Cleavon Little.
Plenty of great “Blazing Saddles “quotes/exchanges here. Always enjoyed the shock value of this one:
Bart: Mornin’, ma’am. And isn’t it a lovely mornin’?
Elderly woman: Up yours nigger.
If you can’t handle that, make sure you don’t ever rent the movie…
RSA
A memorable line from a movie I saw just last night, Undead:
When I was a kid, we fucking respected our parents. We didn’t fucking eat them!
Mr Furious
Sully’s been running the movie quotes for a while, some I agree with, others not so much. There are probably fifty better quotes from “Blazing Saddles” in particular.
He did a better job with “Pulp Fiction” yesterday, but that is also fertile ground. Tarentino can really do dialogue.
Crza
The Big Lebowski: “Well, now you’re privy to all the new shit…”
Tom Hilton
RSA, Repo Man is just chock full of great lines. Like
and
and
and an exchange that may well be my favorite:
The Disenfranchised Voter
I like the line from the opening scene of the Usual Suspects:
Gimme the keys you cocksuckamothafucka!
jenniebee
Time Bandits:
Wally: Do you mean you knew what was happening to us all the time?
Supreme Being: Well, of course. I am the Supreme Being, I’m not entirely dim…
ccham
Is the first 45 minutes of Full Metal Jacket too long to count as one quote?
“This is my rifle.
This is my gun.
This is for shooting.
This is for fun.”
“Five foot nine! I didn’t know they stacked shit that high.”
Vlad
Just one more vote here for Repo Man as an awesome movie.
Another one that’s riddled with classic dialogue: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. “When you have to shoot, shoot, don’t talk!” … “Such ingratitude, after all the times I’ve saved your life.” … “You see, in this world, there’s two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.”
Etc.
myiq2xu
My favorite is from Unforgiven:
Little Bill (Gene Hackman): “You sir, are a cowardly son-of-a-bitch! You just shot an unarmed man!”
Will Munny (Clint Eastwood): “Well he should have armed himself, if he was gonna decorate his saloon with my friend.”
cleek
The Outlaw Josue Wales has some good ones, too.
JW: “You a bounty hunter?”
BH: “A man’s gotta do something for a living these days.”
JW: “Dyin’ ain’t much of a livin’ boy.”
*bang*
cleek
“The Outlaw Josue Wales” being the Hungarian remake of “The Outlaw Josey Wales”, of course.
jenniebee
Repo Man, pfft. Big Trouble in Little China is a veritable treasure trove:
Sit tight, hold the fort and keep the home fires burning. And if we’re not back by dawn… call the president.
Like I told my last wife, I said, “Honey, I never drive faster than I can see, and besides… it’s all in the reflexes.”
and…
When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, looks you crooked in the eye and asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol’ Jack Burton always says at a time like that: “Have ya paid your dues, Jack?” “Yessir, the check is in the mail.”
Wilfred
The Outlaw Josey Wales:
Old Indian to JW: In Washington, they told us to ‘endeavor to persevere’. We thought about it for a long time. Endeavor to persevere. And when we had thought about it long enough, we declared war on the Union.
Vlad
“Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?”
Halffasthero
The screen play writers for “Blazing Saddles”
Mel Brooks
Norman Steinberg
Andrew Bergman
*Richard Pryor*
Alan Uger
Focus On Your Own Damn Family!
Clevon Little starred in Blazing Saddles, but Richard Pryor was one of the writers.
“Look at this hand”
“Steady as a rock!”
“Yeah, but I shoot with this one…”
Tax Analyst
Yup…I was about to make the commment Mr. Furious did…then I looked it up on “IMDB” and noticed Pryor was a collaborator on “Blazing Saddles”. I got a little busy with some actual “work” to do here at work and didn’t get back until just now. Halffasthero is correct here. But Little sure was funny in that flick. It worked much better than if Pryor had done that role.
Jack Roy
Shoot, that’s not even the best line from that scene. When Wilder pulls from a bottle of whiskey under the bed and refuses breakfast because “Food makes me sick.”
Sheriff: “A man drinks like that, and he don’t eat, he is going to die.”
Wilder: (hopefully) “When?”
Mike P.
Just quote any line from “Raising Arizona.” Sully already highlighted one of my favorites – “Sometimes I get the menstrual cramps real hard.” But there are plenty more to choose from. “Ed’s womb was a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase,” or any of a dozen others.
Zifnab
Because mafia movies kick ass –
Chad N. Freude
I think “This is my rifle …” occurred in Battle Cry (1955). It’s not quoted for that film on IMDB, but this is:
RSA
One of my guilty pleasures is The Big Hit, which is chock full of great lines. My favorite:
I like the irony of “you non-word remembering motherfucker.” This line runs through my head regularly, though it only comes out of my mouth occasionally.
Oh, also, when I saw “Sully” in the thread title and “Movies” in the category, I thought John was making a reference to Commando, but it’s not quite the same:
Halffasthero
Since we are throwing out favorite lines, one I always liked from “The Matrix”
AGENT SMITH “You hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability…”
Sort of OT: He is my favorite bad guy character.
Tim Roth plays the best bad guys in general though. Excellent roles in “Rob Roy” and “The Musketeer”.
Dulcie
Richard Pryor was originally slated to star in the movie, but the studio had a hissy fit.
And my favorite line: “It’s twue…it’s weally twue!”
Tom Hilton
Because you just can’t get enough Repo Man quotes:
and
and
and of course
Tom Hilton
As far as I’m concerned, there’s only one movie-related “Sully”, and it’s this one. “With a little sex in it…”
Wilfred
Gary Busey’s character in D.C. Cab:
“Bruce Lee ain’t dead you know. They got him frozen in carbonite down under Chatsworth. They’re gonna melt him down as soon as the economy gets better.”
semper fubar
“New shit has come to light.”
“Say what you like about National Socialism, Dude… at least it’s an ethos.”
“I’ll suck your cock for a housand dollars. But Brant can’t watch. or he has to pay a hundred.”
Mr Furious
LOL! Forgot all about that one. Classic.
Nice catch on the Pryor credit, guys. I stand corrected and informed.
Dreggas
WRT Blazing Saddles,
Clevon Little played Sheriff Bart, Richard Pryor wrote the part.
Mr Furious
Outlaw Josey Wales definitely had the best Clint lines ever. Perfect without going over the top. Cleek named my favorite already, but there’s always:
“You boys gonna pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?
Fred F.
Also from Josey Wales I believe:
“Don’t piss down my back and tell me it’s raining”
Or something to that affect.
myiq2xu
Oooh yeah, The Outlaw Josey Wales!
Chief Dan George: “I didn’t surrender. But they took my horse and made him surrender.”
Mary
Is it just me who remembers a tv pilot from the early seventies that was obviously meant to be a ripoff of Blazing Saddles, with a black sheriff called Sheriff Off-White?
(Just me? OK.)
conumdrum
I have it on excellent authority that one of the funniest lines in Blazing Saddles ended up on the cutting room floor, no doubt due to squeamish studio execs.
It’s from the scene where Sheriff Bart is seduced by the saucy Lily Von Shtup.
(Lily dims the lights. In the dark we hear her purr…)
Lily: “So, is it twue that you people are, how you say, gifted?”
(we hear the sound of a zipper slowly being tugged downward)
Lily (moaning): “Oh, it’s twue… it’s twue!”
A long pause.
Bart: “Uh, excuse me, ma’am, but you’re sucking on my elbow.”
Cain
*sigh* there goes my netflix queue. Thanks guys.
Randy Paul
Actually, you’re both wrong.
Krista
Loved Blazing Saddles…the whole bit where Bart held himself hostage was classic. “Oh lod’y lo’d, he’s despit! Do what he sayyyy!”
The scenes with Dom DeLuise were great too…”They hurt Buddy! Let’s get ’em, girls!”
Geoduck
There actually was an unsuccessful attempt made at a Blazing Saddles spin-off sitcom called Black Bart, with Lou Gossett Jr. starring. It’s included as an extra on the Blazing Saddles DVD. Unfortunately, it’s awful.
And Brook’s Young Frankenstein is equally quotable:
“Are you telling me that I put an abnormal brain into a seven and half foot long, fifty-four wide gorilla? IS – THAT – WHAT – YOU’RE TELLING ME!?!”
Chris Johnson
*snrk*
“What hump?”
“IT!! COULD!!! WOOORRRRK!!!!!”
Wilder’s role of a lifetime full of great roles :D though of course he’s also incredible in ‘The Producers’… and Charlie (not that that’s a Mel Brooks…)
DougJ
Truly a great scene.
A line I always like (I realize this is corny and hackneyed) is at the end of Tootsie when Dustin Hoffman tells Jessica Lange “I was a better man with you as a woman than I ever was with a woman as a man.”
BIRDZILLA
Come to BEDFORD FALLS and say MERRY CHRISTAMS ot MR POTTER no matter how sour he is
Mr BBi
[ Ghostbusters II ]
Peter Venkman: “Kitten, I think what I’m saying, is that sometimes, shit happens, someone has to deal with it, and who ya gonna call?”