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"Dude, did you just puke up a part of your lung?"
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)Die Hard.
calikid
(579 posts)Iggo
(47,489 posts)rrneck
(17,671 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)When Harry Met Sally
dballance
(5,756 posts)Isn't that either Rob Reiner's or Billy Crystal's mother?
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)"If you're there please pick up the phone, I really want to talk to you. The fact that you're not answering leads me to believe that you're a) Not at home. b) Home, but don't want to talk to me. Or c) Home, desperately want to talk to me, but trapped under something heavy. If it's either a) or c) call me back."
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,781 posts)From "Fletch" I've used the line a lot over the years...
(driving away from police in car with startled teenager)
Teenager: Are you a cop?
Fletch: As far as you know.
Teenager: Are you gonna take me to jail for car theft?
Fletch: Why? Did you steal the car?
Teenager: I sure did.
Fletch: Well, I'm not even sure that's a crime anymore. There've been a lot of changes in the law.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)"By the way I charged the whole vacation to Mr. Underhill's creditcard. Want the number?"
Iggo
(47,489 posts)John Coctostin and Mr Sinlindin.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)one of my favorite movies and the parting line from the beautiful lady cab driver (actress Joy Barlow). She hands her card to Bogie as he gets out of the cab and says:
"If you can use me again some time, call this number."
"Day and night?"
"Uh, night's better. I work during the day."
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xudcl_the-big-sleep-cab-driver_shortfilms
charlie and algernon
(13,447 posts)From the Shawshank Redemption
pscot
(21,023 posts)The Duke: Tall in the Saddle.
rrneck
(17,671 posts)Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)Fletch
"It's all ball bearings these days"
Mr. Mom
"220, 221, whatever it takes"
Airplane
"Give me Ham on five, hold the Mayo"
And just about every line from Jaws
"Want to get drunk and fool around? Oh yeah."
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)I'm not happy til the spoon stands straight up,
He musta thought it was white boy day.
I bet you green money, that first little black dot he took a bead on was the bitch of the bunch.
You wanna get unhaunted?
He ain't so much a good guy as he is just a bad motherfucker.
We now return to Bullitt - already in progress.
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)"I don't got a pot to piss or a window to throw it out. All I got is fuckin Floyd"
"That's as good as it's gonna get and it ain't gonna get that good again"
"I haven't killed anybody since 1984"
"You're your fuckin mother through and through"
And the best
"Do I look like a beautiful blonde with big tits and an ass that taste like French vanilla ice cream."
Cheers!
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)Tobin S.
(10,418 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)The movie is a classic.
NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)great line.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Aristus
(66,096 posts)A real choice mission. And when it was over, I'd never want another one..."
tavernier
(12,322 posts)Anything about that seem unusual to you?
(Following the scene when the alien has a baby octopus in the back seat of a car)
Initech
(99,915 posts)"So these are real flying saucers and the World's Fair was a cover up for their landing?"
"Why else would we hold it in Queens?"
"You do know Elvis is dead right?"
"Elvis is not dead he just went home."
"You ever pull the wings off a fly? You care to see the fly get even?"
"So you just flash that thing, it erases her memory, and you just make up a new one?"
"Standard issue neuralizer."
"And that weak ass story is the best you could come up with?"
"The twins keep us on Centarium time. It's a 37 hour day. In a few months you'll get used to it, or you'll have a psychotic episode."
"All right kid here's the deal. At any given time there are approximately 1500 aliens on the planet, most are right here in Manhattan."
"Cab drivers?"
"Not as many as you'd think."
"Arkellian battle rules kid. First ab ultimatum, then a warning shot, then we get a galactic standard week to respond."
"A galactic standard week? How the hell long is that?"
"One hour."
mythology
(9,527 posts)From Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: "And you know that you fight for the lost causes harder than for any others. Yes, you even die for them"
Because I have found myself believing in more than one lost cause.
And from The Princess Bride: "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
Oddly I have no positive connection to my dad, but I do have an overdeveloped sense of vengeance.
From It's a Wonderful Life: "He's making violent love to me Mother."
Because I like women who are as feisty as Mary Hatch was.
Boomerproud
(7,889 posts)Dottie: It just got too hard.
Jimmy: It's supposed to be hard. If it was easy everyone would do it. The "hard" is what makes it great.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)"There's no crying in baseball!"
Iggo
(47,489 posts)That one kills me!
mysuzuki2
(3,521 posts)pipi_k
(21,020 posts)"Well what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today!"
kwassa
(23,340 posts)Bill Murray meets the perfect script.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)"What About Bob?" too.
Which I found pretty amusing, as someone with panic disorder.
One of my stepdaughters (a gregarious type) met him one day at a Padres game in San Diego when she was going to school out there about ten years ago.
She and a couple of her friends went sailing with him...she said he's a real nice guy.
Bertha Venation
(21,484 posts)Mrs. V's favorite;
"I'm not crazy. I've just been in a very bad mood for forty years." Steel Magnolias
Archae
(46,262 posts)kwassa
(23,340 posts)Strother Martin in "Cool Hand Luke".
I also liked Newman's "sometime nothin' is a pretty cool hand".
Mr.Bill
(24,104 posts)when the guard is putting Luke in the box for the night and apologizes by saying he is just doing his job.
Luke says "Callin' it your job don't make it right, Boss."
kwassa
(23,340 posts)Now, I can be a good guy, or I can be one real mean sum-bitch.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,308 posts)That movie is just full of hilarious lines!
Oh, you'll fit right in here. Morgan Freeman, on hearing Tim Robbins say he was innocent of his wife's murder. The Shawshank Redemption.
Sedona
(3,769 posts)csziggy
(34,120 posts)Paulie
(8,462 posts)I say nuke em from orbit' it's the only way to be sure.
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guiness) describing Mos Eisley in Star Wars
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)Sedona
(3,769 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)blue neen
(12,308 posts)"What? Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!"
...spoken by a very inspired Bluto in Animal House!
Initech
(99,915 posts)Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)Classic.
I've used it IRL so many times. And it works.
Sedona
(3,769 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)"Deserve's got nothing to do with it."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=dpDkYZWeeVg
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like
(sniffing, pondering)
victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
bench scientist
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Aerows
(39,961 posts)Sedona
(3,769 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)We're on an express elevator to hell - going down.
yeah man, but it's a dry heat.
and, also hit with one of the great put downs, too.
"Hey Vazquez, you ever been mistaken for a man?"
Vazquez, "No, have you?"
NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)"only way to be sure" line a lot...
I've also used "they mostly come out at night... mostly" a few times, too.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Broken_Hero
(59,305 posts)"Conan, what is best in life?"
and he responds " To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women. "
his line is my favorite movie quote of all time.
Behind the Aegis
(53,833 posts)Last edited Sun Nov 3, 2013, 06:07 AM - Edit history (1)
"Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion."
"Billy, do you like gladiator movies?" "Airplane"
"Here, let me whip this out." "Blazing Saddles"
Igor: And you won't be angry?
Dr. Frankenstein: I will not be angry.
Igor: [Shrugs] Abby...someone.
Dr. Frankenstein: Abby someone? Abby who?
Igor: Abby Normal.
"Young Frankenstein"
ETA: This was my 30,000th post! LOL!
Brigid
(17,621 posts)pipi_k
(21,020 posts)Steel Magnolias is a favorite of mine.
Olympia Dukakis, especially, is a hoot
and the cemetery scene where she offers up Weezer for M'Lynn to punch...I've seen the movie so many times, yet this always makes me laugh through the tears
yuiyoshida
(41,763 posts)flying rabbit
(4,612 posts)Blazing Saddles.
Logical
(22,457 posts)Revanchist
(1,375 posts)Actually pretty much the entire movie
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Well, I wasn't usin' it."
"Dammit! I wasn't hit a train!"
"Mama said you was hit by a train."
"Blooey!"
"Nothin' left."
"Just a grease spot on the L & N."
O Brother Where Art Thou?
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)"I've got glass in my ass" Chris Rock-Bad Company (2002)
"Get busy living or get busy dying" Shawshank Redemption (1995)
"Nice coat" Batman Begins (2005)
Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)The entire Sicilian scene.
Glorfindel
(9,706 posts)from "Casablanca."
underpants
(182,279 posts)Penguin "No it's a LOT!!!"
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)The Town:
Argo from Bryan Cranston:
Mayberry Machiavelli
(21,096 posts)What I love about that is, who wouldn't want to have a friend who, if you told them you needed to fuck some people up, no questions asked about why, they're you're wing man automatically? Of course it's partly because the Renner character is a thrill seeking violence loving jerk, but still...
What I liked about "The Town" is that while the Renner character was in large part the stereotypical "off the rails" member of a crime crew who winds up blowing everything up and getting everyone arrested or killed, he did display real loyalty and was owed a certain amount of loyalty by Affleck and the others. To a point (which he crossed of course). That made it a little more complex than the usual "fuckup gangster who ruins everything" character.
Ben Affleck also had some good lines as the villainous head of a shady stockbroker firm in "The Boiler Room" essentially reprising Alec Baldwin's role from "Glengarry Glen Ross". The guy has kind of limited range but is really strong in the right roles, and as a director he's aces in my opinion.
mucifer
(23,374 posts)I love me some Billy Wilder!
BeyondGeography
(39,284 posts)and it looks like I'm going to spend the rest of it dead." - Humphrey Bogart as Duke Mantee in Petrified Forest
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Clint Eastwood in "Gran Torino.".
Ohio Joe
(21,656 posts)Paladin
(28,204 posts)From "Body Heat."
Closely followed by: "Forget the Alamo." The closing line of "Lone Star."
MotorCityMan
(1,203 posts)"So throw another log on the fire, Reverend"
Kathleen Turner had another great part in "Crimes of Passion", with lines like above.
Also:
"A reverend tried to save me once. So I chased him all the way around the church until I caught him by the organ".
(While playing stewardess): "I'll be there to unbuckle your belt and watch that big bird rise and rise... And while we may run out of Pan Am coffee, we never run out of TWA tea".
juanrodriguezn248
(8 posts)"Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!" - Treasure of the Sierra Madre
"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore" - Network
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" - Gone with the Wind.
warrior1
(12,325 posts)Dusty: Meg's gravy is famous. It's practically a food group. (Twister)
Ruby: Every piece of this is man's bullshit. They call this war "a cloud over the land" but they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say "Shit, it's rainin'!" (Cold Mountain)
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)"You and that other dummy better start getting more personally involved in your work, or I'm gonna stab you through the heart with a fuckin' pencil. Do you understand me?"
"Soylent Green is people!"
mockmonkey
(2,778 posts)One of my favorite lines from my favorite movie "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
KansDem
(28,498 posts)Ah, excuse me, mister, I never knowed it was you. I never looked at your face - I just looked at your hands and the money you gave me. Beg pardon, mister, I promise I'll never put the bite on you again.
American in Tampico in white suit: [gives him a peso] This is the very last you get from me. Just to make sure you don't forget your promise, here's another peso.
[puts another peso in Dobbs' hand]
Fred C. Dobbs: Thanks, mister. Thanks.
American in Tampico in white suit: But from now on, you'll have to make your way through life without my assistance.
"Treasure of the Sierre Madre" (1948)
Followed closely by:
Bob Curtin: You said it, brother. If I could just get me a job that would bring in enough to buy passage, I'd shake it's dust off my feet soon enough, you bet.
(Try reciting Curtin's line quickly several times!)
GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)"...This is the War Room!"--Dr. Strangelove
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Don't recognize it.
mucifer
(23,374 posts)I saw the movie a while ago - don't remember the line, but I like it!
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)RebelOne
(30,947 posts)Said by Vin Diesel in the movie Pitch Black after he killed one of the alien planet's monsters.
my2sense
(2,645 posts)"What" ain't no country I've ever heard of. They speak English in What?
vademocrat
(1,089 posts)from "Whatever happened to Baby Jane" -another one of Bette Davis' excellent roles....
Auggie
(31,067 posts)Caddyshack
DFW
(54,055 posts)Maybe it was used in both?
Auggie
(31,067 posts)If it was in Porky's as well, it was plagiarized.
DFW
(54,055 posts)When the gang was about to meet Miss "Cherry Forever."
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)"Doctor. Doctor. Doctor. Doctor. Doctor. Doctor. Doctor. Doctor aaand Doctor."
UTUSN
(70,497 posts)B Calm
(28,762 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)The Outlaw Josie Wales
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)HAL: I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave.
Rambis
(7,774 posts)Sognefjord
(229 posts)"Not the way I play it," -W.C. Fields
in Mississippi.
abq e streeter
(7,658 posts)DFW
(54,055 posts)abq e streeter
(7,658 posts)Grey
(1,581 posts)DFW
(54,055 posts)DFW
(54,055 posts)"I didn't get that"
and
"Wait! Where are you going? I was going to make espresso!"
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)PassingFair
(22,434 posts)Myrina
(12,296 posts)~ Alma Mobley, the ghost/witch/femme fatale in the cheesy 80's film "Ghost Story"
rrneck
(17,671 posts)Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)geardaddy
(24,924 posts)sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)From Galaxy Quest
Said by Guy Fleegman (Sam Rockwell) when Fred Kwan (Tony Shaloub) makes out with Laliari (Missi Pyle) the Thermian squid like Alien.
mainer
(12,013 posts)My fave movie of all time. I watch it every New Year's Eve.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)girlfriend, now my wife, to this movie. She complained and whined all the way thorough the previews about how many chick flicks she was going to make me watch.
15 minutes in she shut up and 40 minutes in she was laughing harder than I was. Now it's one of her favorite movies, Tony Shalouub won her over.
"That was one hell of a thing"
I absolutely love this movie.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Rambis
(7,774 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)Same movie.
aurora the great
(71 posts)"I was a better man to you as a woman as I ever was to a woman as a man. You know what I mean?"
Ghost of Tom Joad
(1,352 posts)you haven't seen enough movies, all of life's riddles are answered in the movies."
Steve Martin to Kevin Kline in Grand Canyon
Rebellious Republican
(5,029 posts)Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)"No ma'am, we're musicians."
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)"Strange women, lying in ponds distributing swords, is no basis for a system of government"
"We'd better not risk another frontal assault-- that rabbit's dynamite!"
"Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!"
lame54
(35,141 posts)and other gems in this scene
bif
(22,560 posts)name not needed
(11,660 posts)ailsagirl
(22,838 posts)Bette Davis in "All About Eve" (1950)
(The film won six Academy Awards)
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)(Actually, the whole script. Brilliant.)
hamsterjill
(15,214 posts)Sir John Gielgud - a classic:
BarbaRosa
(2,684 posts)Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)Rambis
(7,774 posts)Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
rudolph the red
(666 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)"Swim? Hell, the fall will kill you."
"No, just good friends."
Both lines from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
B Calm
(28,762 posts)sir pball
(4,726 posts)Last edited Thu Nov 7, 2013, 01:23 PM - Edit history (2)
Many people know the line, far fewer know the poem. So I'll break the rules and include it, even though it isn't a movie line:
leaning into the diner and dawn
and hearing a juke box mockery of some better
human sound
I wanted rhetoric
but could only howl the rotten truth
Norman Luboff
should have his nuts ripped off with a plastic fork.
Then howled around like a man with the
final angst,
not knowing what I wanted there
Probably the waitress, bend her double
like a safety pin,
Deposit the mad seed before they
tie off my tubes
. . .
Suddenly a man with wild eyes rushed
out from the wooden toilet
Foam on his face and waving a razor
like a flag, shouting
. . .
We'll take our vengeance now!
. . .
We rang for Luboff
on the pay phone, but there was
no contact
. . .
Get a Lawyer, I said. These swine have gone
far enough.
Now is the time to
lay a writ on them,
Cease and Desist
. . .
The legal man agreed
We had a case and indeed a duty to
Right these Wrongs, as it were
The Price would be four thousand in front and
ten for the nut.
I wrote him a check on the Sawtooth
National Bank,
but he hooted at it
While rubbing a special oil on
his palms
To keep the chancres from itching
beyond endurance
On this Sabbath.
. . .
Later, from jail
I sent a brace of telegrams
to the right people,
explaining my position.
- Hunter S. Thompson, "Collect Telegram from a Mad Dog", Spider Magazine, October 3, 1965
Morning Dew
(6,539 posts)that I lost all interest in life."
- Cyril
(Breaking Away)
Also:
"I'd buy that for a dollar"
from Robocop.
Ryano42
(1,577 posts)"I might have me a stick"
"Well loan me some willya, I'll pay ya back later"
"Fair enough!"
"I think I see a plane over here with my name on it..."
The Right Stuff (1983)
Calista241
(5,584 posts)Egon Spengler: There's something very important I forgot to tell you.
Peter Venkman: What?
Spengler: Don't cross the streams.
Venkman: Why?
Spengler: It would be bad.
Venkman: I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad"?
Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Ray Stantz: Total protonic reversal.
Venkman: Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.
Steerpike
(2,692 posts)But I love this one...
"You mean the movie Lied?!!!"
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Why shoot something once when you can shoot it 46 more times?"
"Refresh my memory. Didn't we used to win these things back in the old days?"
"'Please take to an animal shelter for proper disposal as a warship is not an appro--' Oh, that is NOT ok. He messed with my hamster guys. Now it's personal."
"Great, see this is where it starts, but when we're all just organic batteries, guess who'll they'll blame? 'This is all Joker's fault, what a tool he was! I have to spend all day computing pi because he plugged in the overlord.'"
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)So if that's true, tell me: Am I lying? - True Romance
Let's not go sucking each others dicks just yet. - Pulp Fiction
You can have my offer right now, Senator. Nothing. - Godfather Part II
Excuse me, friend, but some of your folding money has come unstole. - O Brother Where Art Thou?
Get busy living or get busy dying. - Shawshank Redemption
If you gotta talk at all, talk about WHAT YOU'RE GONNA DO. - Reservoir Dogs
You've got me? Who's got you? - Superman
I'm not even supposed to be here today. - Clerks
-Network
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)Botany
(70,291 posts)deutsey
(20,166 posts)shebornik
(127 posts)Mrs. Claypool " Otis do you have everything?"
Otis Driftwood " I haven't had any complaints yet."
bif
(22,560 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Mayberry Machiavelli
(21,096 posts)Very relevant for this website.
Bonus from the same film:
Duppers
(28,094 posts)You know how lucky you are....
Where'd you learn that? From some Panama sailor wanna hump hump bar?
Go sell crazy somewhere else.
Try not to ruin everything by being you.
If there's a mental health organization that raises money for people like you, please let me know.
You make me wanna be a better man.
http://.
bif
(22,560 posts)a la izquierda
(11,784 posts)Hell Hath No Fury
(16,327 posts)Nick Frost in "Paul" -- still makes me laugh.