favorite movie quotes

[solgroupie]

i looked about five pages back and couldn't find a thread topic like this, so i thought i'd start one. we all have our favorite lines from movies we both love and hate.

i was flipping through the channels today and came across moonstruck just in time to hear my favorite line from olympia dukakis. when she sees her elderly father-in-law sneaking food from the dinner table to his dogs, she says, "old man, you give those dogs another piece of my food, and i'm gonna kick you till your dead."



sterling hayden had one of the best lines in film history in asphalt jungle:


"DON'T BONE ME!!"

and then chaplin's character, henri verdoux, a serial killer about to be executed in monsieur verdoux - "wars, conflicts. it's all business. one murder makes a villain; millions, a hero. numbers sanctify, my good fellow."




i know i'll think of a dozen others before i fall asleep tonight. what are some of yours?

[Mighty Jack]

• "Fill your hand you son of a b'tch!" - John Wayne, True Grit (I think Wayne delivers the line better)
  
  
• From "An Education"...
  
  David: Do you go to concerts?
  Jenny: No. We don't believe in concerts.
  David: Oh, I assure you, they're real.
  
  
• Bogart's best performance as angry, messed up writer Dixon Steele, "In A Lonely Place"...
  
  "I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me."
  
  
• Judi Dench in "Notes on a Scandal" - "People like Sheba think they know what it is to be lonely. But of the drip, drip, of long haul no-end-in-sight solitude… they know nothing.
  
  What it’s like to construct an entire weekend around a visit to the launderette or to be so chronically untouched that the accidental brush of a bus conductor’s hand sends a jolt of longing straight to your groin. Of this, Sheba and her like have no clue."
  

[solgroupie]

from the miracle of morgan's creek -
constable kockenlocker to his 14 year old daughter: Listen, Zipper-puss! Some day they're just gonna find your hair ribbon and an axe someplace. Nothing else! The Mystery of Morgan's Creek!

from secondhand lions

grown up walter reading his uncles' will: the kid gets it all. just plant us in the damn garden, next to the stupid lion.

and from napoleon dynamite:
kid on the bus: what are you going to do today, napoleon?
napoleon: whatever i feel like i wanna do! gosh!

[Crowfan]

Are you crying? There's no crying in baseball!!! Tom Hanks, A League Of Their Own

[Frameous]

The Way of the Gun

• Hale Chidduck: I'd never ask you to trust me. It's the cry of a guilty soul.
  
  
• Joe Sarno: Fifteen million dollars is not money. It's a motive with a universal adaptor on it.
  

Blue Velvet

• Frank Booth: I'll send you a love letter, straight from my heart, f/cker! You know what a love letter is? It's a bullet from a f/cking gun, f/cker! You receive a love letter from me, you're f/cked forever! You understand, f/ck? I'll send you straight to hell, f/cker!

Blade Runner

• Roy Batty: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die.

Barfly

• Wanda: I can't stand people, I hate them.
  Henry: Oh yeah?
  Wanda: Do you hate them?
  Henry: No, but I seem to feel better when they're not around.

Glengarry Glen Ross

• Dave Moss: What's your name?
  Blake: F/ck you. That's my name. You know why, mister? You drove a Hyundai to get here. I drove an eighty-thousand dollar BMW. THAT'S my name. And your name is you're wanting. You can't play in the man's game, you can't close them - go home and tell your wife your troubles. Because only one thing counts in this life: Get them to sign on the line which is dotted.

[solgroupie]

two of my favorite quotes from o brother, where art thou?

everett: damn! we're in a tight spot!

and

delmar: where's the happy little tire swing?

[Alan Bedillion Trahern]

The Garden of Evil.

I guess if the earth were made of gold, men would die for a handfull of dirt.
-Gary Cooper

[Torgo]

"This movie won't stop sucking." - Me while watching District 9

[BJ]

Feb 24, 2011 22:40:51 GMT -5 Torgo said:

"This movie won't stop sucking." - Me while watching District 9

I'm glad I'm not alone. That movie would've been great for MST.



-Buckaroo Banzai-

"No matter where you go, there you are."

[Joseph Javorsky]

I have several favorites from The Running Man, its definitely one of Arnold's quotiest movies

Ben Richards: Killian! I'll be back!
Damon Killian: Only in a rerun.

Damon Killian: You bastard! Drop dead!
Ben Richards: I don't do requests.

Ben Richards: Killian, here's your Subzero, now plain zero.

[Mighty Jack]

From my favorite Wes Anderson film, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou


"Don't point that gun at him, he's an unpaid intern." - Steve


"Son of a b'tch, I'm sick of these dolphins." - Steve


Anne-Marie Sakowitz: I think it's criminal that Steve allowed this to happen, by which I mean illegal. We're being led on an illegal suicide mission by a selfish maniac.

Klaus Daimler: I hear what you're saying, but I think you misjudge the guy.


And I love this hilarious exchange between Murray and Dafoe after a fellow diver is killed by a shark. Both are in a panic, screaming...

Steve Zissou: Esteban was eaten!
Klaus Daimler: Is he dead?
Steve Zissou: Esteban was eaten! Check the scanning monitor before it dives too deep!
Klaus Daimler: He was bitten?
Steve Zissou: Eaten!
Klaus Daimler: He was swallowed whole?
Steve Zissou: No! *Chewed*!

[BJ]

^"Oh, sh*t Swamp leeches. Everybody, check for swamp leeches, and pull them off... Nobody else got hit? I'm the only one? What's the deal? "

[Satchmo]

I'm surprised no one mentioned this line from Dr. Strangelove:

"Gentlemen! You can't fight in here- this is the War Room!"

[tokiyoke]

Leila Hyams as Venus in Freaks,"My kind of people are decent, hard working circus folk, not some bum what would kill a freak just for his cash!!"

[TurkeyVolGuessnMan]

Olivia de Havilland, The Heiress
"Yes, I can be very cruel. I have been taught by masters."

Johnny, Airplane
"This? Why, I could make a hat, a brooch, a pterodactyl..."