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What are yours ?
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March 27th, 2014, 11:46 AM
I think almost every experience in life has a quote from some film which describes real life. Yes, I love film. The good, the bad, and the ugly (except for The Good the Bad and the Ugly; too many close-ups of sweaty guys)
What are yours ?
I adore many of the lines from the pithy Hollywood scripts of the 1930s and 40s. Humphrey Bogart had his fair share of these:
Ugarte: "You despise me don't you Rick"
Rick: "Well, if I gave you any thought I probably would."
Animal House -
Otto: I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part!
Bluto: We're just the guys to do it.
And -
Otter: Flounder, you can't spend your whole life worrying about your mistakes! You fucked up... you trusted us!
"Tell me, my friend, have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?"
~The Joker in Batman
Dedicated to the beautiful Jean Seberg.
Q: What is your greatest ambition in life?
A: To be immortal, and then die.
À bout de souffle - the interview - YouTube
There we go, fellas. Humor isn't un- or anti-intellectual. I sits very near intellect, as shown above. Thanks, keep 'em coming. I have about a thousand quotes in mind.
Also, these don't have to be funny. Insightful, profound, ironic, any of these is welcome.
Grapes of Wrath (great novel, great film): "...wherever children are laughing 'cause they know it's suppertime, I'll be there. Wherever some cop's beatin'-up some guy, I'll be there, too." I loved Henry Fonda and his body of work.
Gort: Klaatu barada nikto
I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.
Make it so.
Engage.
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its 5-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
Paul Edgecomb: "Your name is John Coffey?"
John Coffey: "Yessir, Boss. Like the drink, only not spelled the same."
from The Green Mile (1999).
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
"Stand up, Scout; Your father's passing."
"To Kill a Mockingbird" Great book, great film. Thank you, Harper Lee
"Alright then; I'll go to hell". Huckleberry Finn, trying to decide whether to rat-out the runaway slave he's traveling the Missouri River with. A defining decision in a young boy struggling with ethical/social decision. He made the right one. Few illuminated the Human Condition as well as Twain. Dickens, perhaps.
Doc Ostrow: Morbius was too close to the problem. The Krell had completed their project. Big machine. No instrumentalities. True creation.
Commander John J. Adams: Come on, Doc, let's have it.
Doc Ostrow: But the Krell forgot one thing.
Commander John J. Adams: Yes, what?
Doc Ostrow: Monsters, John. Monsters from the Id.
Commander John J. Adams: The Id? What's that? Talk, Doc!
[Doc slumps and dies]
Commander John J. Adams: Doc?
Commander John J. Adams: [sadly] Oh, Doc. Doc.
Like this?Originally Posted by cosmictraveler
"Round-up the usual suspects".
Also from "Casablanca", which had about a hundred memorable lines. Maybe more.
Yes, one of my favorite. That film (and I even read the novel, whew, about 900 pages as I recall) has so many great lines. here's one: Rhett, "I've always had a penchant for lost causes, once they're truly lost." Excusing the privateer's guilt for not enlisting in "the Cause". Then, he goes off and does just that. Just great.
Scarlet O'hara has some good lines, too. "That's all of Tara you'll ever get", as she throws a handful of Tara soil at Slattery.
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 Tannhuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!
Charlie Croker - The Italian Job
"We're both a part of the same hypocrisy, Senator".
Michael Corleone to Sen. Geary, Godfather II.
"Michael, you're being so naïve,...Presidents and Senators don't have people killed !" Michael; "Oh...who's being naïve, Kay ?" The Godfather
Pipped me to the post Shlunka - I love this quote.
i had actually watched it for the first time a week or so ago. I almost cried... When I saw the lack of traffic laws.Pipped me to the post Shlunka - I love this quote.
WHAT???!!!???
You never it saw until a week ago?
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I was usually too busy poisoning my mind with modern action movies. EDIT: I can see fine as long as I'm not looking for silly deliberate misconstruings.
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Khan Noonien Singh: He tasks me. He tasks me, and I shall have him. I'll chase him round the Moons of Nibia and round the Antares Maelstrom and round Perdition's flames before I give him up.
"I'm Batman".
But I can't remember which film that's from.
Gib: Women. Can't live with 'em. Can't kill 'em!
And
Helen: : Have you ever killed anyone?
Harry: Yeah, but they were all bad.
Both from True lies.
[QUOTE=scoobydoo1;544853]Like this?
No like this.....
lets not forget some of Arnies...lesser... quotes... "Here's Sub Zero! Now... Plain Zero!" -Running Man. "Wanna be a farmer? Here's a couple of achers." *kicks man between legs*
The best lines from Raiders of The Lost Ark
• “I’m going after a find of incredible historical significance, you’re talking about the boogie man. Besides, you know what a cautious fellow I am.” — Indiana Jones
• “You Americans, you’re all the same. Always overdressing for the wrong occasions.” — Major Arnold Toht
• “I don’t know what kind of people you’re used to dealing with, but nobody tells me what to do in my place.” — Marion Ravenwood
• “Well Jones, at least you haven’t forgotten how to show a lady a good time.” — Marion Ravenwood
• “Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?” — Indiana Jones
• “I don’t know. I’m making this up as I go.” — Indiana Jones
• “You want to talk to God? Let’s go see him together. I’ve got nothing better to do.” — Indiana Jones
• “It’s not the years, honey, it’s the mileage.” — Indiana Jones
My favorites in blue.
Dr. Evil: Scott, I want you to meet daddy's nemesis, Austin Powers.
Scott: What, are you feedin' him? Why don't you just kill him?
Dr. Evil: No, Scott, I have a better idea. I'm going to place him in an easily escapable situation involving an overly elaborate and exotic death.
Scott: Why don't you shoot him now? I mean, come on, I'll go get a gun. We'll shoot 'im together. It'll be fun. BANG! Dead. Done.
Dr. Evil: One more peep out of you and you are grounded, mister! And I am not joking!
Ya just don't get it, do ya?
I wish I could watch it for the first time "again". Lucky you!i had actually watched it for the first time a week or so ago. I almost cried... When I saw the lack of traffic laws.Pipped me to the post Shlunka - I love this quote.
from dirty harry:
"A man's got to know his limitations"
from indiana jones:
"They weren't you honey"
"This is the one. This is the one I'll be remembered for."
~ Johny Depp as Ed Wood (during the Plan 9 from Outer Space premier in the movie Ed Wood)
What Rick said to Merle from S#3 of The Walking Dead; Do you even know why you do the things you do?
Arthur: All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's something big and sinister going on in the world.
Slartibartfast: No, that's perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the universe gets that.
Ghostly Image: It is most gratifying that your enthusiasm for our planet continues unabated. As a token of our appreciation, we hope you will enjoy the two thermonuclear missiles we've just sent to converge with your craft. To ensure ongoing quality of service, your death may be monitored for training purposes. Thank you
Arthur: Let's go somewhere.
Trillian: Definitely. Where'd you have in mind?
Ford: I know this great restaurant at the end of the universe.
Humma Kavula: Even an improbability drive needs coordinates which I happen to have.
Ford: You're looking for the Ultimate Question.
Zaphod: Yep.
Ford: You.
Zaphod: Me.
Ford: Why?
Zaphod: No, I tried that: Why? 42. Doesn't work.
Hitchhikers Guide To The Universe
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Ya just don't get it, do ya?
Let me tell you a little story about a man named shhh! shhh! even before you start. That was a pre-emptive shh!
All I asked for is some friggin sharks with friggin lazers on their heads. Is that too much to ask for ?
Austin Powers
Gene Hackman as a corrupt sheriff in "Unforgiven"; " I don't deserve to die like this"
Clint Eastwood, former hired gun: "What's deserve got to do with it ?" (Bang !)
"Of all the gin-joints in all the towns in the world, she walks into mine" Bogey- Casablanca
From National Velvet:
Mrs. Brown: That'll be a dispute to the end of time, Mr. Brown: whether it's better to do the right thing for the wrong reason or the wrong thing for the right reason.
Mi Taylor: Some day you'll learn that greatness is only the seizing of opportunity - clutching with your bare hands 'til the knuckles show white.
Mr. Herbert Brown: It's one thing to out-think a man, quite another to outsmart him.
Mrs. Brown: And who will say which is which?
Judge Randolph: *Consider yourself in Contempt!*
Kaffee: *Colonel Jessep, did you order the Code Red?*
Judge Randolph: You *don't* have to answer that question!
Col. Jessep: I'll answer the question!
[to Kaffee]
Col. Jessep: You want answers?
Kaffee: I think I'm entitled to.
Col. Jessep: *You want answers?*
Kaffee: *I want the truth!*
Col. Jessep: *You can't handle the truth!*
A Few Good Men
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"We're on a mission from God."
~Elwood Blues
Dudley Moore to street- walker: "How much ?" She: " A hundred dollars". He: "I'll give you two, but I WILL ask you to Simonize my car".
Arthur ("sometimes I just 'think' funny")
Dudley Moore was funny and a really funny guy
Charming, too, I meant
Mel Brooks' "Men in Tights"
Maid Marian, pining for her new love, Robin Hood, is offered hope by her lady-in-waiting.
She gazes-off, wistfully, replying: "Ah, t'were it true, t'would be....t'werrific."
'Well, they conceal information like that in books' Hector Cyr, Lake Placid
Commentary: No one would have believed in the middle of the 20th Century that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than Man's. Yet, across the gulf of space on the planet Mars, intellects vast and cool and unsypathetic regarded our Earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely joined their plans against us. Mars is more than 140 million miles from the sun, and for centuries has been in the last status of exhaustion. At night, temperatures drop far below zero even at its equator. Inhabitants of this dying planet looked across space with instruments and intelligences that which we have scarcely dreamed, searching for another world to which they could migrate.
Major General Mann: [handing binoculars to Dr. Forrester] Look at it will you!
Pastor Dr. Matthew Collins: Beings from another world.
Major General Mann: Is that some kind of a flying machine?
Forrester: No, no. It's supported from the ground by rays, probably some form of magnetic flux, like invisible legs. This is amazing. They must keep the opposing poles in balance and lift the machine.
Col. Ralph Heffner: All command posts - stand by to fire!
Pastor Dr. Matthew Collins: But, Colonel! Shooting's no good!
Col. Ralph Heffner: It's always been a good persuader.
War Of The Worlds
"Fasten your seatbelts. It's gonna' be a bumpy ride"
Betty Davis in...."All about Eve", I think.
"Strange, isn't ? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he ?"
It's A Wonderful Life
this has gotten me thru many a Camus mood
not a movie, but an old tv series..."the many loves of dobie gillis"
dobie and his best friend Maynard G krebbs are camping in the tropics and maynard is running around the inside of the tent, banging on the canvas and shouting
"Go away polar bears!"
Dobie says: "But maynard, there are no polar bears in the tropics."
and Maynard responds: "See, it works doesn't it."
"I'll have what she's having."
When Harry Met Sally.
"Wait a minute, wait a minute I tell yer, you ain't heard nothin' yet"
Al Jolson, The Jazz Singer, 1927.
I think they might have been the first spoken lines in an American talking movie.
'Tawanda!'
[Retribution.]
"What are you doing? Are you crazy?"
"Face it, girls...
I'm older and I've got more insurance."
Possibly the best scene from Fried Green Tomatoes.
Rob Reiner directed the movie, and the lady customer who told the waiter that line was Rob's mother.
Still can't name the film. Don't you hate when that happens ? Another line: Joker: (Nicholson) "Do I look like I'm joking ?"
Obviously a Godfather fan: "Leave the gun; take the cannoli".
After aliens give a long speech explaining why humans must be wiped out because they are destroying planet earth, Gary King says....
'To err is human, so..errr....'
The Worlds End
I thought the best Joker line was, "Why so serious?"Still can't name the film. Don't you hate when that happens ? Another line: Joker: (Nicholson) "Do I look like I'm joking ?"
"Where does he get al those marvelous toys". Jack
"Wizard of Oz -a classic---"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain". This is a metaphor for life. We never know how much we're being deceived. Not by Wizards, by
less-comical types. We are no longer citizens as much as consumers, manipulated and assaulted by Madison Avenue into believing we need every product sold. And we obey.
From The Aviator--
Kate: "Howard, we're not like everyone else. Too many acute angles, too many eccentricities. We have to be careful not to let people in, or they'll make us into freaks."
From The Empire Strikes Back--
Leia: "I love you!"
Han: "I know."
From A Beautiful Mind--
Dr. Rosen: Imagine if you suddenly learned that the people, the places, the moments most important to you were not gone, not dead, but worse, had never been. What kind of hell would that be?"
From Jaws
"You're gonna need a bigger boat." Martin Brody
Juror #8: It's always difficult to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And wherever you run into it, prejudice always obscures the truth. I don't really know what the truth is. I don't suppose anybody will ever really know. Nine of us now seem to feel that the defendant is innocent, but we're just gambling on probabilities - we may be wrong. We may be trying to let a guilty man go free, I don't know. Nobody really can. But we have a reasonable doubt, and that's something that's very valuable in our system. No jury can declare a man guilty unless it's sure.
12 Angry Men
Juror # 8 was Henry Fonda. That was an Interesting film; 12 men; not all were "angry". Fonda showed the power of reason, the meaning of doubt. One of my favorite films.
Simple yet profound.
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
- Atticus Finch”
Thanks LuciDreaming; "To Kill a Mockingbird" was a great book and a great film. Maybe the best of each. Never do I miss it's showing. One of the best moments, though not a 'quote': When confronted outside the home of the family of the convicted man, having just informed them of his death while 'escaping' Justice, Finch encounters one of the local racists and is spat in the face by the racist. Finch takes half a step toward this bigot, pauses while staring directly at him, then reaches into his back pocket (to extract 'something ?') and pulls out his handkerchief, wipes his face very purposefully, steps around the guy, and gets into his car. One of the best moments of all film history.
John Galt: The goal of the "liberals" as it emerges from the record of the past decades was to smuggle this country into welfare statism by means of single, concrete, specific measures, enlarging the power of the government a step at a time, never permitting these steps to be summed up into principles, never permitting their direction to be identified or the basic issue to be named.
Ellis Wyatt: Who the hell are you?
John Galt: My name is John Galt. I live in a place we call Atlantis, and I think you'd fit in there. It's a place where heroes live; where those who *want* to be heroes live. The government we have there respects each of us as individuals and as producers. Actually, beyond a few courthouses there isn't much government at all. Bottom line, Mr Wyatt; if you're weary of a government that refuses to limit its power over you, if you're ready at this moment to claim the moral right to your own life, then we should leave, and I'll take you there. I'll take you to Atlantis.
Atlas Shrugged
Interesting tripe. I never wanted to read Rand. I don't want to even more, now. Thanks.
"they're back". Poltergiest
I'm 'them"
"I'm Clark Kent" Superman
This just needed at least one more posting. Maybe a thousand.
Sounds like the nights when more than 2000 labels (price changes) come down and my regular label assistant is unavailable. It is physically impossible but we roll up our sleeves and do 'damage control' with the objective being to get all (or as many as possible) of the price up changes done first, for those are the ones that we will get a 'Code 33' on, as we follow the Scanner Price Accuracy Voluntary Code of Canada.This just needed at least one more posting. Maybe a thousand.
Scanner Accuracy | Retail Council of Canada1. THE ITEM FREE SCANNER POLICY
Retailers will implement an Item Free Scanner Policy as follows:
1.1 On a claim being presented by the customer, where the scanned price of a product at checkout is higher than the price displayed in the store or than advertised by the store, the lower price will be honoured; and
(a) if the correct price of the product is $10 or less, the retailer will give the product to the customer free of charge; or
(b) if the correct price of the product is higher than $10, the retailer will give the customer a discount of $10 off the corrected price.
Oh, wait. This is a 'great lines' thread and I'm not famous (yet).
Here's a 'classic' for you.
Charlie Allnut: How'd you like it?
Rose Sayer: Like it?
Charlie Allnut: White water rapids!
Rose Sayer: I never dreamed...
Charlie Allnut: I don't blame you for being scared - not one bit. Nobody with good sense ain't scared of white water...
Rose Sayer: I never dreamed that any mere physical experience could be so stimulating!
"My God, it's full of stars!"
As Dave enters into the monolith.
2001 A Space Odyssey
You have ride the roller-coaster to be scared by it. Kinda' the point, after all. Thanks,Sher; African Queen was, is great ! ... more about the war between men and women, later. I'm partial to the girl's side. And Adventure is for the adventure of it. Canada is great; someday my country will be.
"Nobody, I mean nobody, puts ketchup on a hotdog."
"We all got it coming, kid."
Inspector Clouseau: "I thought you said your dog did not bite!"
Hotel clerk "That is not my dog."
Dr Strangelove : Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you KEEP it a SECRET!
( a person could probably quote the entire movie. Practically every line is funny)
I'm still a kid. I hope to remain one, forever. Peter Pan, Alice, and Pinocchio, are my friends, still. So are Albert, Galileo, and Epicurus. The kids get to sit at the big table, at my house.
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