From the end of Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas.
Raoul Duke: We’re all wired into a survival trip now… no more of the speed that fueled the 60’s. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary’s trip. He crashed around America selling conciousness expansion, without ever giving a thought to the grim meathook realities that were lying in wait for all those peoples who took him seriously. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy peace and understanding for three bucks a hit. but their loss, and failure, is ours too. What Leary took down with him was that the central illusion of a whole lifestyle that he helped create… a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old mystic fallacy of the acid culture. The desperate assumption that somebody, or at least some force, is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.
Do you have any favorite bits of movie dialogue?
I also like: ‘Leave the gun, take the cannolis.’
you have excellent timing. apropos nothing in particular.
Boo,
Tell Mike it was only business. I always liked him. – Tessio
I am a retired investor on a pension – Hyman Roth
Nothing that I can recite, but I’m watching On Demand reruns of HBO’s John Adams miniseries, and I’m really enjoying Tom Wilkinson as Ben Franklin. Highly entertaining.
My favorite founding father & one of my all-time favorite musicals—
1776: Justice for John Adams
“Well, nobody’s perfect.”
Stormtrooper: Let me see your identification.
Obi-Wan: [with a small wave of his hand] You don’t need to see his identification.
Stormtrooper: We don’t need to see his identification.
Obi-Wan: These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.
Stormtrooper: These aren’t the droids we’re looking for.
Obi-Wan: He can go about his business.
Stormtrooper: You can go about your business.
Obi-Wan: Move along.
Stormtrooper: Move along… move along.
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi; you’re my only hope.
Damn, BooMan, you alluded directly to my Frog Pond nym!
I guess I’ll have to go to another fave of mine:
“Don’t smoke crack. It’s a ghetto drug.” –Bob Roberts
More poignant is Bugs Raplin’s soliloquy from that movie:
To which I say, “Holy shit, was he ever right.”
Henry: Well, did the channel part for you?
Eleanor: It went flat when I told it to. I didn’t think to ask for more.
The Lion in Winter
But then, almost every line in that movie is a memorable quote.
That reminded me of A Man for All Seasons. All memorable.
William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!
Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
William Roper: Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that!
Sir Thomas 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 is 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!
Yes! Another favorite, full of memorable lines.
“Run, run, run, as fast as you can. You can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man.”
“You’re a monster.”
What is that from? My niece runs around chanting that line all of the time and I’ve never heard it anywhere else. I think she learned it in school. (She’s in first grade.)
I’m thinking Shrek.
From Shrek, of course!
“Not the buttons! Not the gumdrop…buttons!”
Shrek!
Pick-up line:
But what do you have back home to play your fuzzy warbles on? Do you have, say, portable pitiful picnic players? (The girls laugh) Come with uncle and hear all proper; angel trumpets and devil trombones! You are invited!
a bit cold and pointless iddn’t m’dear?
Oh come now. You know perfectly well that’s book dialogue. Though I’ll allow the movie’s still lots of fun.
Not really dialog…from Shawshank Redemption when Andy rigs the loudspeaker all over the prison to play opera:
Red: [narrating] I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don’t want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I’d like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can’t be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free.
“Gentlemen! You can’t fight in here! This is the war room!”
Here’s just a few favorites that come to mind
Dracula
Count Dracula: Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
Duck Soup
Rufus T. Firefly: You’re a brave man. Go and break through the lines. And remember, while you’re out there risking your life and limb through shot and shell, we’ll be in be in here thinking what a sucker you are.
Stagecoach
Henry Gatewood: So you’re the notorious Ringo Kid.
The Ringo Kid: My friends just call me Ringo – nickname I had as a kid. Right name’s Henry.
Miller’s Crossing
Verna: You think you’ve raised hell.
Tom Reagan: Sister, when I’ve raised hell, you’ll know it!
Serenity
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: This record here’s about twelve years old. Parliament buried it and it stayed buried until River here dug it up. This is what they were afraid she knew. And they were right to fear. There’s a universe of folk who’re gonna know it, too. Someone has to speak for these people.
:pause:
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: Y’all got on this boat for different reasons, but y’all come to the same place. So now I’m asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything, I know this – they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They’ll swing back to the belief that they can make people… better. And I do not hold to that. So no more runnin’. I aim to misbehave.
…Later in the movie at the conclusion…
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: But it ain’t all buttons and charts, little albatross. You know what the first rule of flyin’ is? Well I suppose you do, since you already know what I’m about to say.
River Tam: I do. But I like to hear you say it.
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: Love. You can know all the math in the ‘Verse, but take a boat in the air you don’t love, she’ll shake you off just as sure as the turning of worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells ya she’s hurtin’ ‘fore she keens. Makes her home.
River Tam: Storm’s getting worse.
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: We’ll pass through it soon enough.
From Steele Magnolias. “All gay men have track lightin’. And all gay men are named Mark, Rick, or Steve.”
Two lady hairdressers took me to see the movie after they had already seen it. LOL
“The thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize.”
LOL It is one of my all time favorite movies and yes I did have track lighting when it came out.
I had track lighting too…
But I’m not Mark Rick or Steve.
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cabin,
LOL! I loved that too. Great movie as well.
The one line that kept running through my head was from Bring It On:
Torrance: So, is that your band or someting?
Cliff: The Clash? No, uh-It’s a British punk band, circa 1976 to 1979-ish. Original lineup, anyway.
Torrance: How vintage.
And then there’s Saved:
Cassandra: There’s only one reason Christian girls comes down to the Planned Parenthood.
Roland: She’s planting a pipe bomb?
Cassandra: Okay, two reasons.
And from Saved:
I am FILLED with Christ’s love! (as she chucks a bible at the other girl…)
After seeing these lines, I want to see the movie now. LOL
Is Saved! and Drop Dead Gorgeous.
The best two scenes in Drop Dead Gorgeous are when Ellen Barkin opens a beer (you have to see it to get it) and Denise Richards dancing with a cross on wheels that has Jesus velcroed to it, and the song play is Can’t Take My Eyes off of You.
From Charade (Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant):
“You know, I’d almost forgotten what your eyes looked like. Still the same. Pissholes in the snow.”
“You’re a big man, but you’re out of shape. With me it’s a full time job. Now behave yourself.”
Keyes: There it is, Walter. It’s beginning to come apart at the seams already. A murder’s never perfect. It always comes apart sooner or later. And when two people are involved it’s usually sooner. We know the Dietrichson dame is in it, and somebody else. Pretty soon we’re going to know who that somebody else is. He’ll show. He’s got to show. Sometime, somewhere, they’ve got to meet. Their emotions are all kicked up. Whether it’s love or hate doesn’t matter. They can’t keep away from each other. They think it’s twice as safe because there are two of them. But it’s not twice as safe. It’s ten times twice as dangerous. They’ve committed a murder and that’s not like taking a trolley ride together where each one can get off at a different stop. They’re stuck with each other. They’ve got to ride all the way to the end of the line. And it’s a one-way trip, and the last stop is the cemetery.
Double Indemnity
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Holly Golightly: You know those days when you get the mean reds?
Paul Varjak: The mean reds, you mean like the blues?
Holly Golightly: No. The blues are because you’re getting fat and maybe it’s been raining too long, you’re just sad that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid and you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?
Paul Varjak: Sure.
Holly Golightly: Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany’s. Calms me down right away. The quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there. If I could find a real-life place that’d make me feel like Tiffany’s, then – then I’d buy some furniture and give the cat a name!
From “Revenge of the Sith”:
The Emperor: [to the Senate] In order to ensure our security and continuing stability, the Republic will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire, for a safe and secure society which I assure you will last for ten thousand years.
[Senate fills with enormous applause]
Padmé: [to Bail Organa] So this is how liberty dies… with thunderous applause.
It’s just one of my all-time faves
Mr. Hand: Am I hallucinating here? Just what in the hell do you think you’re doing?
Jeff Spicoli: Learning about Cuba, and having some food.
Jefferson’s Brother: My brother’s gonna kill us! He’s gonna kill us! He’s gonna kill you and he’s gonna kill me, he’s gonna kill us!
Jeff Spicoli: Hey man, just be glad I had fast reflexes!
Jefferson’s Brother: My brother’s gonna shit!
Jeff Spicoli: Make up your mind, dude, is he gonna shit or is he gonna kill us?
Jefferson’s Brother: First he’s gonna shit, then he’s gonna kill us!
Jeff Spicoli: Relax, all right? My old man is a television repairman, he’s got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.
Jeff Spicoli: No shirt, no shoes…
Jeff and Stoner Buds: No dice! Ohhhh.
Brad Hamilton: Right. Learn it. Know it. Live it.
Jeff Spicoli: He’s the full hot orator.
I could go on and on…I also love the discussion between Stacy and Linda about the three girls who cultivated the Pat Benatar look…
“Rosebud”
Pulp Fiction
Jules: [Vincent and Jules are cleaning the inside of the car which is covered in blood] Oh, man, I will never forgive your ass for this shit. This is some fucked-up repugnant shit.
Vincent: Jules, did you ever hear the philosophy that once a man admits that he’s wrong that he is immediately forgiven for all wrongdoings? Have you ever heard that?
Jules: Get the fuck out my face with that shit! The motherfucker that said that shit never had to pick up itty-bitty pieces of skull on account of your dumb ass.
Vincent: I got a threshold, Jules. I got a threshold for the abuse that I will take. Now, right now, I’m a fuckin’ race car, right, and you got me the red. And I’m just sayin’, I’m just sayin’ that it’s fuckin’ dangerous to have a race car in the fuckin’ red. That’s all. I could blow.
Jules: Oh! Oh! You ready to blow?
Vincent: Yeah, I’m ready to blow.
Jules: Well, I’m a mushroom-cloud-layin’ motherfucker, motherfucker! Every time my fingers touch brain, I’m Superfly T.N.T., I’m the Guns of the Navarone! IN FACT, WHAT THE FUCK AM I DOIN’ IN THE BACK? YOU’RE THE MOTHERFUCKER WHO SHOULD BE ON BRAIN DETAIL! We’re fuckin’ switchin’! I’m washin’ the windows, and you’re pickin’ up this n***’s skull!
LOL! Should I be poliically incorrect and say that I fell out laughing when Samuel was asked about Dead N storage?
I never saw Jackie Brown; only this clip–but it cracks me up every time:
“AK-47. When you absolutely, positively gotta kill every m—–f—– in the room. Accept no substitutes.”
Prince Feisal: Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution.
From Lawrence of Arabia
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056172/quotes
I just love John Waters’ early trashy movies. This one is from “Female Trouble.” Dawn’s Christmas Present. (Nice girls don’t wear Cha-Cha heels!)
I don’t have the script handy but just watch…
Narrator: There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly, and they would disintegrate. The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, seven hundred and fifty miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass. They called it the sound barrier.
Samuel Jackson in Pulp Fiction.
“The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides with the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and good will shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon those with great vengeance and with furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know that my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.”
My first sig, taken from The Insider: “The cat, TOTALLY out of the bag, and you’re still sitting there, debating.”
From the original film, The Producers: “I’m wet, I’m hysterical, and I’m in pain!”
One of many from Blazing Saddles: “How’d you like this nice pie?”
From Waiting to Exhale: “The worst thing is that he made me move out here where my children are in school with only one other black kid so they won’t be improperly influenced. Well, guess what John, YOU’RE the motherfuckin’ improper influence! Get your shit…Get your shit…and get out!
Too many from A Few Good Men, including the most famous one, but this is also one of our favorites between the Black judge and the white colonel:
Col. Jessep: I’d appreciate it if he would address me as “Colonel” or “Sir”… I believe I’ve earned it.
Judge Randolph: Counsel will refer to the witness as “Colonel” or “Sir.”
Col. Jessep: I don’t know what the hell kind of unit you’re running here.
Judge Randolph: And you will refer to this court as “Your Honor” or “Judge”… and I’m quite certain I’ve earned it. Take your seat, Colonel.
From Syriana: “I want pig bacon!”
And of course, my current sig, from Finding Nemo.
Crush: Okay. Squirt here will now give you a rundown of proper exiting technique.
Squirt: Good afternoon. We’re gonna have a great jump today. Okay, first crank a hard cutback as you hit the wall. There’s a screaming bottom curve, so watch out. Remember: rip it, roll it, and punch it.
Do you have your exit buddy?
Heh. Thanks. I just LOVE Finding Nemo!! Between Allison Janey’s vocal talent, the fact that Peach is a play off my family nickname and the fact that Mr. AP often says, “Can’t hear ya, Peach” when he can’t hear me…well, it was just perfect.
Marlin: I think it’s trying to tell me something!
I use that line when my daughter’s voice goes into the higher ranges and she’s just tosses in every word she’s ever heard.
From “Indiana Jones” after the wild bar room fight which ends up with the bar burning down and Indy’s old flame looking at the wreckage and saying something like, “Gee, Indy, you still know how to give a girl a good time.”
Laughter is the breath of God. His language as well.
“i believe in God and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Souze” Mr. Kint..
“The greatest thing the devil ever did was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” Mr. Kint
The Usual Suspects
No one has yet mentioned the single greatest quote movie of all time:
And my all time favorite movie scene ever (copied from IMDb):
“This fellow here has sold his soul to the devil, and that other guy, he’s born again. As for me, I’m unaffilliated…”
“I don’t want to come out of that (men’s room) with only my $%^& in my hand…”
I like this dialog from Dr. Strangelove:
Group Captain Mandrake: Do I take sir, you are threatening a brother officer with a gun?
General Ripper: Mandrake, I suppose it never occurred to you that while we’re chatting here so enjoyably, a decision is being made by the president and the joint chiefs in the War Room at the Pentagon. When they realize there is no possibility of recalling the Wing, there will be only one course of action open. Total commitment.
Mandrake, do you recall what Clemanceau once said about war?
Group Captain Mandrake: No, I don’t think I do, sir. No.
General Ripper: He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that 50 years ago he might have been right. But today war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
I guess two come to mind immediately, one long, and one short. First, the long one. From Good Will Hunting, when Will is asked “Why wouldn’t you want to work for the NSA?”:
And the other, short and sweet, from The Lord of the Rings:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0zJSgHDnpw[/youtube]
From Fargo:
Carl is driving. Grimsrud stares out front.
After a beat:
CARL:
Look at that. Twin Cities. IDS Building, the big glass one. Tallest skyscraper in the Midwest. After the Sears, uh, Chicago… You ever been to Minneapolis?
GRIMSRUD:
No.
CARL:
Would it kill you to say something?
GRIMSRUD:
I did.
CARL:
“No” That’s the first thing you’ve said in the last four hours. That’s a, that’s a fountain of conversation, man. That’s a geyser. I mean, whoa, daddy, stand back, man. Shit, I’m sittin’ here drivin’ – doin’ all the drivin’, man, the whole fuckin’ way from Brainerd, drivin’, just tryin’ to chat, you know, keep our spirits up, fight the boredom of the road, and you can’t say one fucking thing just in the way of conversation? (Grimsrud fails to respond and looks straight ahead.) Well, fuck it. I don’t have to talk either, man. See how you like it. (Pause) Just total fuckin’ silence. Two can play at that game, smart guy. We’ll just see how you like it. Total silence.