Best lines from movies.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

Excalibur:

"You and the land are one. If you succeed the land succeeds. If you fail the land fails."


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[name not needed]

1. "Today's forecast: Dark and cloudy, with chance of drive-by."

[Guava Jelly]

2. damn you thats my all time fav.. movie

My favorite quote was when arthur was speaking to guinevere before she gives him excalibur ..

" I have often thought that in the hereafter of our lives, when I owe no more to the future and can be just a man, that we may meet, and you will come to me and claim me as yours, and know that I am your husband. It is a dream I have"

[tuvor]

3. From Eraserhead: "You really ARE sick!"

(The baby really WAS sick.)

[ghostsofgiants]

9. Haven't watched that in ages.

Picked up the dvd a couple weeks ago though.

[tuvor]

11. Good going!

How did you get it? I thought it was only available through David Lynch's own site.

[ghostsofgiants]

12. It was until recently.

Got a wide retail release on January 8, I believe Something like that. And as soon as The Short Films of David Lynch is out up here, I'm getting that too.

[tuvor]

16. Hmm. Available May 2 on amazon.ca!

Thanks for the heads-up!

[ghostsofgiants]

18. Yep...

Same day as the new Thursday album, so I'm definitely making a trip to HMV that day.

[EstimatedProphet]

4. Also from Excalibur

Arthur: (to Merlin) It is like a dream...

Merlin: A dream to some, A NIGHTMARE TO OTHERS!

Nicol Williamson was outstanding in that role

[AmyDeLune]

5. "It's not the message, but our obedience to it."

Equilibrium, 2002.

[Deep13]

46. Without feelings life is just a ticking clock.

[AmyDeLune]

73. "We are the Tetragrammaton, there's nothing we can't do!"

I knew I couldn't be the only person here to have seen Equilibrium.

[beyurslf]

6. "Here! Hit Wheezer!" and "I love you more than my luggage" or

"If you aint got nothing nice to say, then come sit by me."

Steel Magnolias all.

[Nicole]

7. I'm not crazy, I've just been in a very bad mood for the last 40 years

Also from Steel Magnolias.

[SeattleGirl]

27. "Lanelle, take that bible and shove it where the sun don't shine!"

Another Steel Magnolia quote

[SofaKingLiberal]

8. You're going to look pretty silly with that knife sticking out of your ass

High Plains Drifter

Clint Eastwood - The Stranger

[KeepItReal]

10. Aliens: "Why don't you put her in charge!?!"

"Ripley: How long after we're declared overdue can we expect a rescue?

Hicks: (pause) Seventeen days.

Hudson: *Seventeen days?* Hey man, I don't wanna rain on your parade, but we're not gonna last seventeen hours! Those things are gonna come in here just like they did before. And they're gonna come in here...

Ripley: Hudson!

Hudson: ...and they're gonna come in here AND THEY'RE GONNA KILL US!

Ripley: HUDSON! This little girl survived longer than that with no weapons and no training.
(to Newt)

Ripley: Right?
(Newt gives a salute)

Hudson: So why don't you put her in charge? "



One more:

"Newt: We'd better get back, 'cause it'll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night... mostly."

[NewJeffCT]

37. that movie is filled with great lines

"We're on an express elevator to hell... going down!"

Hudson: "Hey Vazquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?"
Vazquez: "No, have you?"

[Tyler Durden]

48. "Who do I have to FUCK to get off this ship?"

Ripley, from Aliens Resurrection. I use it frequently.

[bridgit]

13. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve?

You just put your lips together and blow.

:-)

[WCGreen]

15. Oh yea.....

Steve was some lucky guy....

[bridgit]

17. sup, WC...

doing well is my wish to you :hi:

[WCGreen]

19. Back atcha.....

Tax returns....

All over the office....

Missing W-2's....

Can't find the stapler....

Fuck, I bought two reams of three hole punched paper by mistake...

Other than that....

Peachy....

[bridgit]

20. don't get me going about tax returns, we haven't gotten a thing back...

that'll even pay half our bar tab since this bush kid rolled into to town and started giving all we the people's money a-fucking-way x(

[WCGreen]

24. Oh yea....

I hear ya....

I get that all the time from my clients...

who, by the way, mostly supported the fool back in 2000......

[Sugar Smack]

34. kitten.

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[WCGreen]

14. You make me want to be a better man......

As Good As it Gets...

Jack Nicholson to Helen Hunt....

[CTyankee]

79. You ladies like lunch

Nicholson to Shirley McLaine in Terms of Endearment.

[Catchawave]

21. "I'll have what she's having"

When Harry Met Sally

[Shine]

22. Star Wars: Princess Leia, to Han: "I love you! " Han to Princess: "I know"

:rofl: Classic.

I LOVED Excalibur, btw! I'm a sucker for all that King Arthur shit. :hi: Remember that scene where they go riding through the orchard with all the falling apple blossoms? It's funny how I can still remember that....Cool movie.

[NewJeffCT]

31. That was a perfect line at the time

perfect for Han Solo & his character.

[Shine]

23. You complete me.

:puke:

[LouisianaLiberal]

25. See you in the next life

Yeah, see you in the next life

[Porcupine]

26. "Laugh while you can, monkey boy!"

Buckaroo Bonzai in the 8th Dimension.

[mykpart]

28. Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

Sorry to state the obvious.

Hubby's fave from Apollo 13: "Failure is not an option."

[SeattleGirl]

29. "I see dead people"

The Sixth Sense

[Squeech]

30. Repo Man

Not the standard ones, but some quotes from Agent Rogersz (the woman with the metal hand) came up in conversation the other day.

"There is no beer needed here!"

And "No one is innocent," when she's supervising the torture of Emilio Estevez.

[NewJeffCT]

32. "Luke - I am your father"

Empire Strikes Back.

[Random_Australian]

41. "Lone Star: I am your Father's Mother's Brother's Son's

favourite neice's former room-mate!"

(Space Balls)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

33. "That's not a knife. THIS is a knife."

[Random_Australian]

35. I was going to say that! n/t

[Starbucks Anarchist]

36. Sorry, mate!

Looks like your neighbor across the pond beat ya to it! :hi:

[Random_Australian]

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[Starbucks Anarchist]

39. AAAAGH! MY EYES!

:scared:

[Random_Australian]

40. Glad you liked it.

I must admit a twinge of pride as to how good a response in how short a time.

[flygal]

42. Forget it Jake - it's Chinatown

I watch that movie at least once a year - along with The Three Amigos. Not sure what that says about me.

[Saboburns]

43. Hey Man

There's a beverage involved.

[Deep13]

44. "Our Germans are better than their Germans."

The Right Stuff. Von Braun responds to concerns from LBJ that the German rocket scientists captured by the USSR gave them an early lead in the space race.

[wildhorses]

45. "Snap out of it!!"

Moonstruck

[SiobhanClancy]

47. "In a world where carpenters get resurrected, everything is possible"

From the Lion in Winter...

another one: "What should we hang...the holly,or each other?"

[Tyler Durden]

49. "If I were on fire, no one would piss on me to put out the flames."

"Let's strike a flint and see."

MORE Lion in Winter reparte between the brothers.

[SiobhanClancy]

54. John :"He's got a knife!"

Eleanor: "Of course he's got a knife. You've got a knife. I've got a knife. We've all got knives. It's 1183 and we're barbarians"
I love the dialogue in that movie!

[CBHagman]

68. The Lion in Winter is one of the most quotable movies ever.

Besides the beauties listed above, check out some more here:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063227/quotes

Eleanor of Aquitaine on an excursion she took during her first marriage:

"I even made poor Louis take me on Crusade. How's that for blasphemy. I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn... but the troops were dazzled."

I love that movie.

[Brigid]

50. O Brother Where Art Thou?

Delmar: Oh, son -- for that you sold your everlasting soul?

Tommy: Well, I wasn't using it.

[Deep13]

51. "Dude, what does that mean, totally sharky complete?"

The Blair Thumb.

[khashka]

52. Not a movie but this gets me

"I could save the world but lose you....."

"Do it!"


Khash.

[DanCa]

53. "You will kneel before Zod , Jor-el, you and one day your heirs,"

Do I really need to say what movie? :evilgrin:

[CanuckAmok]

55. "The first person through that door gets a.....LEAD SALAD!"

[CanuckAmok]

56. "Fifteen's my limit on Schnitzengruben"

[speedoo]

57. "leave the gun. Take the Cannoli."

Goodfellas. That line captures the ovie perfectly.

[SaveElmer]

58. Planet of the Apes...

"Get your stinkin paws off me you damn dirty ape"

[SaveElmer]

59. Also Steve Martin line from "My Blue Heaven"

"I'm the worst case scenario of Thomas Jefferson's dream."

[Crazy Dave]

60. I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse

n/t

[Zynx]

61. "Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?"

[lpbk2713]

62. "How are you gonna get back down that hill?"

Paul Newman to Richard Boone in Hombre.

[Radio_Guy]

63. The first "best" line I ever heard

"You're gonna need a bigger boat."

:hide:

[noonwitch]

64. Burgess Meredith in "Foul Play"-"She was one bad mama"

After using karate on the bad woman and dumping her inside a grand piano.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

65. "The usual high school party: sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll;

chips, dips, chains, whips"

[imperialismispasse]

66. Nobody can eat fifty eggs nt

[Jade Fox]

67. "I could've been in the NSA, but they found out my parents were married."

Robert Redford in "Sneakers" said to an NSA agent hassling him.

[BrklynLiberal]

69. Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being

I've ever known in my life.


The Manchurian Candidate.

[DinahMoeHum]

70. "What we have here is a. . .failure to communicate."

Movie: Cool Hand Luke

[long_green]

71. Goodfellas

"Now go get your fuckin' shinebox."

[misanthrope]

72. "Get up out of your chairs,...

...go over to your window, stick your head out and yell, 'I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!'"

-Howard Beale, Network

[mduffy31]

74. Untouchables

"They bring a knife you bring a gun, they put one of your men in the hospital you put one of them in the morgue...that's the Chicago way."

"What are you prepared to do?"

"Just like a Dago...bring a knife to a gun fight..."

[NMMNG]

75. “I'd also like to add that I have my father's gun

and a scorching case of herpes.”

Jeanie in Ferris Bueller's Day Off

[AussieDave]

76. "Surely you can't be serious?" "I am serious - and don't call me Shirley."

Leslie Nielsen to perfection.

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[pokerfan]

77. Aliens

A somewhat butch looking Jenette Goldstein's retort to Bill Paxton:


Hudson: Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?
Vasquez: No, have you?

Edited to add: NewJeffCT did it.

[pokerfan]

78. Band of Brothers

Webster: Hey, you! That's right, you stupid Kraut bastards. That's right. Say hello to Ford, and General fuckin' Motors. You stupid fascist pigs. Look at you. You have horses. What were you thinking? Dragging our asses half way around the world, interrupting our lives. For what, you ignorant, servile scum. What the fuck are we doing here?

[CTyankee]

80. "We've come from the Lunacy Committee"

from "Tom and Viv" which nobody saw. Willem Dafoe played T.S.Eliot. He has his wife, Vivien, put away for insanity (she had a lot of money and he got a pile when he divorced her). Two well dressed men from the Lunacy Committee come to get her in a tea shop in London and she puts up a helluva fight.She was later found to have suffered from an extreme case of PMS. Of course, she became "sane" when she reached menopause.

Great story.

[CTyankee]

81. "Human nature, Mr. Allnut, is something we are placed in this world

to rise above." Katharine Hepburn to Humphrey Bogart in "The African Queen" when he objects to her pouring out all of his gin and tells her drinking is just "human nature."