Favorite lines from movies......

[Waxing_Gibbous]

That never make it into the "Worlds favorite lines from movies" shows.
Apropos of the cinematic theme, and tonight's '50 to 1', does anyone else have any good 'uns that never seem to make it onto the lists?
Mine is William Hurt in 'Body Heat', just before Kate Turner's famous line.
Paraphrasing here,
He says;
-"I need someone to 'tend' me, to wipe my forehead, to bring me cold drinks, to clean my sheets and fluff my pillow"
-"You should get married"
-"I only want it for tonight"

Well..I thought it was funny at the time.

[GeoffW1]

Helen Hunt to Jack Nicholson in 'Good as it Gets':

"Getting louder..."

Jack to waitress:

"Look, elephant girl, go get Carol" (wasn't he a fantastic ratbag?)

Dan Aykroyd to Kathleen Freeman in 'Blues Brothers':

"Ow, you fat penguin"

Edit: this might make me seem a misogynist, but that isn't so, ladies.

[wavelandscott]

I'd add several from the Blues Brothers...

Not sure if any of them make the real list or not...

"I hate Illinois nazis"

John Belushi's spiel to Carrie Fisher in the tunnel..."It's not my fault"...

The old man in the YMCA..."What about my cheese whiz boy"...

Aretha's "2 Honkies dressed like Diamond merchants one ordered 4 fried chickens and the other ordered 2 pieces of dry white toast" (or similar)


I could go on and on....I love that show...

[tlgerdes]

Pick these?

1) "Right turn Clyde"

2) "Say goodbye to the nice officer"..........."Good bye nice officer"

[Barrykgerdes]

There is only one immortal line

"Make my day" from Dirty Harry

Barry

[Allan_L]

I know that as an Eastwood special (I think it is from Every Which Way but Loose).
Not sure about number 2 but it sounds familiar.
Do I win?

We should do a thread to identify the movie.

Not Sure if it made the show, but one of my all time favourite lines, and the epitome of ironic understatement is:

"We're gonna need a BIGGER boat..." :eyepop:

[jjjnettie]

"Frankly my dear...I don't give a damn."
hmmmm Clarke Gable

[AdrianF]

Loved Jaws although it took 5 times to see the complete movie.
:)

Adrian

[lacad01]

"No problemo", T2
"No fair, no fair", Pet Semetary :wink2:

[Octane]

It's a toss up between http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7gIpuIVE3k and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyophYBP_w4

Regards,
Humayun

[Ric]

One famous line that always cracks me up is from "Goldfinger".

Bond is strapped to a table with a laser beam about to cut him in half.

Bond: So Goldfinger do you expect me to talk?

Goldfinger" No Mr Bond, I expect you to die.

and then there's those classic lines from Goldfingers main henchman Oddjob "Ah Ha" in fact thats all he says but watch out for the steel rimmed bowler hat.

Cheers

[supernova1965]

Marty McFly: You built a time machine out of a DeLorean :einstein::driving:
BACK 2 THE FUTURE

[Robh]

Clint Eastwood again, as Harry Callahan in Magnum Force.
"A man's got to know his limitations."

Regards, Rob

[erick]

Villager: "She turned me into a newt!"
Sir Bedevere: "A newt?"

[silence, shuffling of feet, eyes down]

Villager: "............................I got better."





Bishop: "I may be synthetic but I'm not stupid"




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



Brian: "You're all different!"
The Crowd: "Yes, we ARE all different!"
Man in Crowd: "Err, I'm not..."
The Crowd: "Shush!"


Ted Arroway: "I don't know, Sparks. But I guess I'd say if it is just us... seems like an awful waste of space."

[Enchilada]

My favourite line is in "High Road to China";

"The oxen is slow, but the Earth is patient."

Funniest line...
Suleman Khan (Brian Blessed) : You will be my welcome guests for dinner
Struts : Is he going to eat us or feed us?

(On-line at YouTube at time mark "4.12" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5q4F_ISpx0&feature=related))

[anthony2302749]

"heavy"

[gman]

Heres a few:-

May the force be with you - Star Wars

I love the smell of Napalm in the morning
It smells like victory - Apocolypse Now

At my signal, unleash hell! - Gladiator

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse - The Godfather

You can't handle the truth!! - A few Good Men

Houston, we have a problem - Appollo 13

Show me the money - Jerry McGuire

[TrevorW]

“My mommy always said there were no monsters, no real ones, but there are.”


Newt, Aliens
Ripley, Alien Resurrection

[Allan_L]

:doh:
Unfortunately, like many others here, we are blocked from visiting these sites from work!

So I have no idea what you said H

[GeoffW1]

Yup, although ObiWan Kenobi never actually said this in the movies. It was Han Solo, who often does not get the credit. :thumbsup:

Cheers

[FredSnerd]

"They mostly come out at night. ... Mostly"

Newt, Aliens

[erick]

Forgot this one:-

Marcel Marceau, Silent Movie: "Non!" :D

[rogerg]

I have to admit my trekkyness here and quote a startrek film. Startrek 6, from right at the very end:

Commander Pavel Chekov: Course heading, Captain?
Captain James T. Kirk: Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning.


The thing I love about it is the freedom, the freedom to explore space and the means to do it. Actually, not sure how to put in words what I like about it :shrug:

[tlgerdes]

You only win if you get two from two.

Answer - Hooper, just before they ignite the jet car on the freeway.

[tlgerdes]

Bueller...... Bueller.......Bueller!

[fringe_dweller]

The Proposition (2005)
Samuel Stote: What's a misanthrope, Arthur?
Two Bob: Some bugger who ****in' hates every other bugger.
Samuel Stote: Hey, I didn't ask you, you black *******
Arthur Burns: He's right Samuel. A misanthrope is one who hates humanity.
Samuel Stote: Is that what we are, misanthropes?
Arthur Burns: Good lord no. We're a family.

[Gallifreyboy]

without a doubt, from Monty Python and the Holy Grail,
the scene at the end with the bridgeman guarding the bridge and he asks

"What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?"

ARTHUR : "What do you mean? An African or European swallow?"

[supernova1965]

Can anyone guess this one



42

[toryglen-boy]

My two faves :

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe, i've seen attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion, i watched seabeams glitter in the dark near the Tenhausser Gate, all those moments, will be lost in time, like tears in the rain .... time to die"

and

"Aye, fight and you may die, run and you'll live. At least a while. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives.... but they'll never take our FREEDOM!!

Alba Go bragh!"




:P

[Screwdriverone]

My favourite 2 lines comes from my favourite movie: The Fifth Element.

1) Gary Oldman (Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg) : " I....am.......VERY.........DISAPPOI NTED!"
2) Bruce Willis - (Korben Dallas) : "Anybody else want to negotiate?"

So many classy lines in this movie, I could list them all....but these are two of the best. Oh, I will leave you with another one....

Milla Jovovich - Leeloo : "Leelooo Dallas - Multi Pass"

Cheers

Chris

[Ric]

John Carpenter's "The Thing"

"What was that?"
"I dunno, but it's weird and P***** off"

[lacad01]

Bladerunner :question:

[toryglen-boy]

:thumbsup:

[toryglen-boy]

'tis an excellent movie, but the best line from it must surely be :

"negative, i am a meat popsicle"

:lol:

[FredSnerd]

In Armageddon Bruce Willis lays out the Riggers' terms to the FBI for going up in space to blow up the Asteroid

“Noonan's got two women friends that he'd like to see made American citizens no questions asked. ... let's see what else. ... Um - hey, you guys wouldn't be able to tell us who actually killed Kennedy, would ya?”

[kustard]

Hard choice, I have heaps! Lines from Predator, Alien(s), Bladerunner, all the ones mentioned here...

hrm...

"Liiiiike a glove!"
"Finkle IS Einhorn!"

[Manav]

Same Movie.....

Bridgekeeper (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000416/): Stop. What... is your name?
Galahad (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001589/): Sir Galahad of Camelot.
Bridgekeeper (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000416/): What... is your quest?
Galahad (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001589/): I seek the Grail.
Bridgekeeper (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000416/): What... is your favourite colour?
Galahad (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001589/): Blue. No, yel...
[he is also thrown over the edge]

I also love Bob Hope in the Ghost breakers worth watching on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkzV5AIK8iM:

Geoff Montgomery (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0137999/): It's worse than horrible because a zombie has no will of his own. You see them sometimes walking around blindly with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring.
Larry Lawrence (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001362/): You mean like Democrats?

[ngcles]

Hi All,

Excellent thread.

Hmmm ... just concentrating on, as the thread asks, ones that usually don't make the list:

2001: a Space Odyssey, Dave Bowman: "Open the pod bay doors please Hal ..."

And the best delivered line ever in a comedy was by the little-known American actress Terri Garr playing Inga in Young Frankenstein here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9DO1BV3B0w&feature=related

at almost the 3:00 mark it is the one highlighted in Red below in the script:

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: “For the experiment to be a success, all of the body parts must be enlarged.”
Inga: “His veins, his feet, his hands, his organs vould all have to be increased in size.”
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: ... “Exactly.”
Inga: “He vould have an enormous schwanzstucker.”
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: (pause) ... “That goes without saying.”
Inga: “Woof.”
Igor: “He's going to be very popular.”

the script is funny, the delivery is amazing.

From earlier on in the same movie Elizabeth (Madeline Kahn) to Fredrick "No tongues ..." (again the delivery is everything ...)

I've watched that movie a hundred times and it's still funny every time. In fact, I'm going to watch it again right now.

And of course (as someone who spent 20-odd years in court-rooms) who could forget from The Castle:

"It's ... the vibe"

and

"Tell 'im he's dreamin' ..."


Best,

Les D

[jjjnettie]

Ok, this one is from the series though.
On entering the Restaurant at the end of the Universe.

Arthur "The things...the people...."
Ford "The things are also people." :lol:

[TrevorW]

"I see dead people and the problem is they don't even know they are dead"

but I prefer

"I see dumb people, but they don't even know they are dumb"

[Screwdriverone]

HA HA!, yes that was one of the other ones I was going to list.

and another section;

Mr. Kim (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/name/nm0150976/): You got a message.
Korben Dallas (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/name/nm0000246/): Yeah
Mr. Kim (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/name/nm0150976/): You're not gonna open it? It might be important.
Korben Dallas (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/name/nm0000246/): Yeah, like the last two I got were important. The first one was from my wife, telling me she was leaving. The second was from my lawyer, telling me he was leaving... with my wife.

Awesome movie, might have to watch it again tonight.

Cheers

Chris

[Octane]

Ah, Milla. She's married, now. :(

My one and only celebrity crush.

I'll watch it, too, Chris.

If you get the chance, listen to her music. Her album, The Divine Comedy, from 1995 -- it's a goodun', for anyone who likes folksy acoustic stuff. Her voice is beautiful. A couple of years later she hit the big time with The Fifth Element.

I still recall Colin Cushing's fledgling site and how it has grown to be her official site today.

Regards,
Humayun

[Screwdriverone]

Ahh yeah H, Milla is one of the best (2) bits ;)

Apparently she got married to Luc Besson (the director) for a while and they used to converse in the made up language she uses in the film all the time. Very strange....

Got to get back to thinking of those "thermal bandages" mmmmmmm.

Cheers

Chris

[supernova1965]

:thumbsup:
You got it I thought more would get it

[bloodhound31]

I have something to say..it's better to burn out, than to fade away!!!

There can be only one.

[anthony2302749]

Life of Brian

REG: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

BEN: Right. Right. Terrific race, the Romans. Terrific.

PILATE: I have a vewy gweat fwiend in Wome called 'Biggus Dickus'.

PILATE: He has a wife, you know. You know what she's called? She's called... 'Incontinentia'. 'Incontinentia Buttocks'.

[Lee]

Beat me to it - my favourite too! Sums up astronomy doesn't it....

[rider]

I was very disappointed that my all time favourite novel quote did not appear in the Master and Commander movie which was made from a compilation of some Patrick O'Brien books.

" Jack, you have debauched my sloth!"

- Possibly the only time in the history of print that this line has been seen in English literature.

[tlgerdes]

It wasnt really a line, it was The Answer:D

[Fossil]

"I was outnumbered"

"It's not hard to be outnumbered when you're a zero"

[taminga16]

"Git that fiddle under your chin like everyone else" . Evil Roy Slade to the cello player, in the film of the same name.

[DavidTrap]

You can't handle the truth! - Jack Nicholson, A Few Good Men

In fact the entire court room scene is brilliant!

DT

[Matt Wastell]

I love Jaws - the line is a classic and delivered so well!

[taminga16]

And another one,

That's some bad hat Harry,

Greg.

[matt]

"That's not a moon.....it's a space station!"

:lol:

[Matt Wastell]

Aliens - stomp, stomp, stomp 'get away from her you *****'.
We almost named our son Ripley after Sigourney's character.

'We're in the pipe, 5 by 5' Ferro the dropship pilot.

Great movies - Alien and Aliens!

[shane.mcneil]

"I thought you said your dog did not bite?"

"That is not my dog."

[FredSnerd]

Biff Tannen to George McFly in "Back to the Future"

"I can't believe you'd loaned me your car without telling me it had a blind spot. I could've been killed!"

[Waxing_Gibbous]

Ohhhhhh...
I used to have such a crush on her!

[barx1963]

Ah Scott. A fellow true believer.
How about
Jake: Well, thank you pal, the day I get out of prison, my own brother picks me up in a police car.

Elwood: I took the liberty of bull****ting you, okay?
Jake: You lied to me.
Elwood: It wasn't lies, it was just bull****.

Backup Officer (John Landis): They broke my watch!

Trooper Daniel: Boys, you're in big trouble.

Stein? You're gonna look pretty funny trying to eat corn on the cob with no f...ing teeth.

Elwood: We'll uh.. we'll talk to Bob.

Curtis: Boys, you gotta learn not to talk to nuns that way.

Mr Fabulous: It's a f...ing barn. We'll never fill it.

Elwood: Er.. what kind of music do you usually have here?
Claire: Oh, we got both kinds. We got Country, and Western.

and of course

Elwood: They're not gonna catch us. We're on a mission from God.

I could go on and on (some would say I already have!) but the beuty of the Blues Brothers is that you can use almost all these lines in everyday conversation. In fact, my two brothers and I quite regularly will have entire conversations consisting of nothing but BB quotes. Oh and Scott, the correct quote is
Aretha: We got two honkies out there dressed like Hasidic Diamond merchants.
Matt: Say what?
Aretha: They look like they're from the CIA or something.
Matt: What they want to eat?
Aretha: The tall one wants white bread, toast, dry with nothing on it.
Matt: Elwood!
Aretha: And the other one wants four whole fried chickens and a Coke.
Matt: And Jake! ****, the Blues Brothers!

[norm]

Artie Fufkin (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0787322/): Do me a favor. Just kick my as$, okay? Kick this as$ for a man, that's all. Kick my as$. Enjoy. Come on. I'm not asking, I'm telling with this. Kick my as$.

David St. Hubbins (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0571106/): It's such a fine line between stupid, and clever.

Nigel Tufnel (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001302/): You can't really dust for vomit.

"Hello Cleveland" !

Classic Spinal Tap :lol:

[barx1963]

Oh and don't forget!

Trooper Daniel: I don't believe it. It's that ****-box Dodge again!:P

[Jen]

:) Well my fav lines im not allowed to say on these forums :lol::lol:
:P
40 year Old Virgin when he is getting his chest waxed :rofl::rofl:
Cracks me up everytime :lol::lol:

[Blue Skies]

Yay! Another POB fan! I think I laughed for three days the first time I read that. :lol: And its one of my favourite books in the series too. :thumbsup:

To The Fifth Element fans - I think its a great movie too, often underated.

Trying to think of a favourite quote not mentioned....hmmm, they're probably all too esoteric. Will have to think on it a bit more.

[beren]

:) Been meaning to read POB novels, really enjoyed Master and Commander, read somewhere there might be another film in the works ?

This is really hard :P so many great films with memorable lines......Clint Eastwood comes to mind straight away .......

"Improvise, Adapt, Overcome"
Gunny Highway
"Heartbreak Ridge"

'I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse'.
Robert De Niro, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino
The Godfather

"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good".
Micheal Douglas
Wall Street

"Little beat big when little smart. First with the head, then with the heart"
Morgan Freeman
Power of one

"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me.
Aren't you?"
Dustin Hoffman
The Graduate

"Would you like to know what I find beautiful about your species? You are at your best when things are at their worst."
Jeff Bridges
Starman

"Who are those guys"
Paul Newman, Robert Redford
Butch Cassidy Sundance kid

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in the world, Frodo, besides the will of evil"
Ian Mckellen
Lord of the rings-fellowship of the ring

What are your legs?
Springs. Steel springs.
What are they going to do?
Hurl me down the track.
How fast can you run?
As fast as a leopard.
How fast are you going to run?
As fast as a leopard.
Then lets see you do it
Bill Kerr, Mark lee
Gallipoli

.....etc etc :)

[gman]

Kurt Russell as Jack Burton in:-
"Big Trouble in Little China"

When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the bar room wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."

[wavelandscott]

Thanks for reminding me of this one!

[wavelandscott]

It is a classic isn't it...and thanks for correcting my other paraphrase...

[tlgerdes]

"Red means stop, green means go, yellow means go faster" - Starman

[Craig.a.c]

From "Shaun of the dead"

"You've got red on you" - Don't know why, but it cracks me up every time.

[supernova1965]

This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. :juggle:

[lacad01]

Another classic from Aliens:
"We're all gonna die!! Game over man!!" :lol:

[dugnsuz]

"None more black!"

[FredSnerd]

Another Aliens classic

Don't know if you've been keeping up with current events but we just got our as##s kicked Pal

AND

Hudson: "Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?"

Vasquez: "No. Have you?"

[Allan_L]

That reminds me of a funny scene from Lethal Weapon (2 - I think)

When Danny Glover enquires about going to South Africa at the South African consolate

".....But you're......Bleck !!! "

[Terry B]

And from Ghostbusters

Where do these stairs go?

They go up.

[supernova1965]

From CRACKERJACK

Jack
Ron Not while I am eating

and

He is bowling the Flipper

[tlgerdes]

"You've been de-caffer-nated"

[tlgerdes]

"Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to take you to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction, 'cause I don't"

[jjjnettie]

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say, and I'll be your slave."
Labyrinth.

[Jen]

Oh jjj that is one of my fav movies ;)

[jjjnettie]

LOL I watched it again this afternoon. I just loooove David Bowie.

[Jen]

Yeah me too he is awsome :love2::love2:

[jjjnettie]

Swoon

[tlgerdes]

Quick get some ice...:rofl:

[mac]

From 'About A Boy' :
"It was terrible! Terrible! But driving really fast behind the ambulance was fantastic!"

From 'The Royal Tenenbaums' :
"I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman."

From 'Anchorman' :
"I'm very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany."

From 'The Graduate' :
Mrs Robinson: "Do you find me undesirable?"
Benjamin: "Oh no, Mrs. Robinson. I think, I think you're the most attractive of all my parents' friends. I mean that."

Ahh there's so many great quotes that I could list, and so little forum space...

[dugnsuz]

Withnail & I
"Monty, you terrible c*#t!"
Apologies to the kiddies - but it made me laugh out loud back in the day!!
Doug

[dpastern]

But Obi Wan does say "the force will be with you, always"

Dave

[dpastern]

Blade Runner if memory serves me correct.

Dave

[dpastern]

I've got several favourite quotes...

"Listen to them - the children of the night. What sweet music they make"

Count Dracula to Jonathan Harker in Castle Dracula. Both Francis Ford Coppola's and the original 1931 version have this line. I prefer Coppola's version as Gary Oldman is totally superb as Dracula imho - the best incarnation of this fine character on film yet.

"Fur denn die todten reiten schnell"

Dracula (original 1931). German, means "for the dead travel fast".

"The luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds [pause] true love"

Call me a romantic sucker, another fine line from Coppola's Dracula.

"You gotta be ****ing kidding me"

John Carpenter's remake of The Thing

"That's a negative, I'm a meat popsicle"

la Cinque elemente (The 5th Element). One of my favourite films. Very underrated.

"Gimme some sugar...babe"

Evil dead 3

"Laugh it up fuzzball"

Star Wars - Han Solo to Chewie

"I've got a bad feeling about this"

Star Wars - Han Solo to Obi Wan Kenobi, Chewie & Luke Skywalker

"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."

Master Yoda to the Jedi council in Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace

"You're one ugly mutha-****er"

Arnie to Predator in the original Predator movie. Also repeated in Predator 2.

These are just a few of my favourite quotes.

Dave

[dugnsuz]

There's some real corny goodies from that movie Dave...

"Anytime!"
"What the hell are you?"

Damn I've dried up - got to download it or rent it to relive the exp!
Doug

[dpastern]

Yup, I love the Predator (and Alien) movies. I'd love to see a 3rd dedicated predator movie, or a decent predator vs aliens movie. I'd also like to see an Alien 5 (loved Alien resurrection, even though most people despised it).

Dave

[Craig.a.c]

Ridley Scott is going to make a prequel to all the Alien movies.

[JimmyH155]

The African Queen, for me! Classic
Humphrey Bogart is drunk on gin and Katharine Hepburn is throwing the bottles over the side.
Bogart says "I'm sorry, Miss - it's only human nature!"
Hepburn replies, "Human nature, Mr Alnark, is what we are put on this Earth to rise above!"
:lol::lol::lol:

[lacad01]

What about "I haven't got time to bleed" :)

[Allan_L]

Romancing the Stone.

So many good lines, !

How about after they slide down the mud-hill, Colton looks up (from an awkward position) and says something like:

"wooh - one helluvah ride"

Best lines from Danny DeVito, while funny in context, are probably best not repeated here, lest they play havic with the censors.

[dpastern]

I heard that, but I think it was just a rumour (nothing official).

Dave

[jjjnettie]

You beat me to it.
That's one of my favourite quotes.
But you didn't get Katherines husky voice right.

[Stormrider]

Bring It On

[FredSnerd]

If you’re bored by old films you might want to skip this and go to the next post. But if you’re not and you like good dialogue, IMO the 1941 film, The Maltese Falcon, has to be one of the all time great dialogue films. Bogart (Sam Spade) is a private detective and Mary Astor (Miss O'Shaughnessy) is his client who is never honest with him and everyone wants to get their hands on the black bird.

Sam Spade: We didn't exactly believe your story, Miss O'Shaughnessy. We believed your 200 dollars. I mean, you paid us more than if you had been telling us the truth, and enough more to make it all right.
...................................
Sam Spade: Haven't you tried to buy my loyalty with money and nothing else?
Miss O'Shaughnessy: What else is there I can buy you with?
...................................
Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation...
Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter.
.............................
Kasper Gutman: I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, it's possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon.
................................
Kasper Gutman: Now, sir. We'll talk, if you like. I'll tell you right out, I am a man who likes talking to a man who likes to talk.
................................... ........
Kasper Gutman: Mr. Spade, have you any conception of how much money can be got for that black bird?
Sam Spade: No.
Kasper Gutman: Well, sir, if I told you... If I told you “half”... you'd call me a liar.
Sam Spade: No, not even if I thought so.
................................... .....
Sam Spade: If you kill me, how are you gonna get the bird? And if I know you can't afford to kill me, how are you gonna scare me into giving it to you?
...........................
Sam Spade: When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it.
.......................
Sam Spade: I hope they don't hang you, precious, by that sweet neck. Yes, angel, I'm gonna send you over. The chances are you'll get off with life. That means if you're a good girl, you'll be out in 20 years. I'll be waiting for you. If they hang you, I'll always remember you.

[JimmyH155]

Yes,jjjnettie, a fabulous film
Remember that bit when they were captured on the
German ship.
They are about to be hanged as spies
Bogart says to the Captain, " Sir, your are empowered to marry people. It would mean so much to the lady if you could marry us"
The German captain duly obliges and says - after the vows are exchanged -
" I now prounounce you man and wife, proceed with the execution!"
MAGIC I have watched that film dozens of times, and still enjoy it. It will be on my Christmas viewing list:D:D:D

[Enchilada]

What about the Wizard of Oz…

Dorothy: Weren't you frightened?
Wizard of Oz: Frightened? Child, you're talking to a man who's laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom, and chuckled at catastrophe... I was petrified.

or

"Ding dong, the witch is dead!"

or

Wizard of Oz: They have one thing you haven't got: a diploma. Therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Universitartus Committiartum E Pluribus Unum, I hereby confer upon you the honorary degree of ThD.
Scarecrow: ThD?
Wizard of Oz: That's... Doctor of Thinkology.


… but of course the real classic line is by Dorothy;

Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas any more!

[Enchilada]

The Best Bogart / Bacall movie is "To Have and Have Not" (1944

It has the classic line (among many), said by the Lauren Bacall character Marie "Slim" Browning;

"You know you don't have to act with me, Steve. You don't have to say anything, and you don't have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and... blow."

Steve (Bogart!) : slow wolf whistle ...

Eddie's (Walter Brennan) line is classic too….

Was you ever bit by a dead bee?

[supernova1965]

If you build it they will come

Field of Dreams

[kinetic]

Great thread, you guys have fine tastes in movies:thumbsup:
I searched through just before posting one of mine and
sure enough, Les beat me to it :)
Well sorta...I was going to write:
" I'm afraid I can't do that Dave"

and: DeNiro: ''Are you talkin' to me?"

Another line from a favourite fillum of mine:
" I am Juan Sanchez Villa Lobos Ramirez, chief metallurgist to
King Charles the fifth of Spain, and I am at your service"

Steve

[Enchilada]

Another is "The Naked Jungle" (1954) with Charlton Heston [Christopher Leiningen] and a young (32 years) and absolutely yummy Eleanor Parker [Joanna Leiningen] (oh la la).
:jawdrop: :jawdrop: :jawdrop:
The story is set in the South American jungle, where Langdon grows cocoa for making chocolate. Being so busy, he is unable so he orders a mail order bride (in the older sense, being married by proxy) to marry. He plays the physically brave guy, but he rejects her because she had been married before. This created one of the best lines in this movie;

"If you knew anything about music, you’d know that the best piano is one that’s been played."

Ouch! :help:

*****************
I also like the following interchange;

Christopher: The jungle's corrosive. It swallows up everything.
Joanna : Even men, sometimes.
Christopher: You've been reading…Joanna?
Joanna : I found it in your library. Poetry.
Christopher: I don't read much myself. I bought all those books by weight. Eight hundred pounds of books is what I ordered.
Joanna : Whoever selected them for you has very good taste. It was you, wasn't it? Why lie about it? Are you afraid I might think you weak for reading poetry?
Christopher: Perhaps. (pause) As Fontaine says somewhere in there, "Each man is three men: "What he thinks he is, what others think he is and what he really is."
Joanna : And which Leiningen is this?
Christopher: The last. The real Leiningen.

*******************
and...
Christopher : You surprise me. You're very beautiful, intelligent, accomplished... There must be something wrong with you. I'm not that lucky, to get a perfect woman, just like that, out of the grab bag. There's something wrong somewhere.
Joanne: I thought you didn't like me. I thought you were disappointed in me. And instead, you're afraid of me.
Christopher : You think so?
Joanne: You're looking for a fault in me, anything so you can ignore me.
Christopher : You know a lot about men, don't you?
Joanna (trying to ignore him): Something nice-looking to go with the rest of the furniture. Brought up the river with great difficulty, just keep it dusted and see that the termites don't get at it. That's the kind of a wife you wanted. Instead, you got a woman. And you're afraid of me.
Christopher : I said, you know a lot about men.
Joanna : More than you know about women.

Ouch!! :rolleyes:

********************
or him summarising

You'd better see exactly what you're up against down here. Come with me, madam. Without these locks, my whole plantation would be six feet under the river, where I got it from. It took me five years to get a foothold here. I started with acres and four men. I nearly forgot the English language in that time. I was twenty years old.

My irrigation moat. Built by men who had never seen one in their lives. I had men by that time.I used to lose two or three a week. Headhunters. This is what we get. (shows her the cocoa beans)

Eight hundred Indians working for me on nearly acres of river bottom, eaten by flies, worms, lice. With a half a dozen diseases men get in the jungle, all for that. So that your friends can drink chocolate with their breakfast in New Orleans. Go ten miles in any direction from here and it's civilised. But go ten paces beyond where I stopped and you're in the bush, the living jungle, where no man has a name and the only law is to stay alive, even if you live like a beast.

In the jungle, man's just another animal.

**************************
or braking the ice…

Christopher : You were right about that piano. It's much better when it's played.
Joanna : It needs tuning.
Christopher : Tell me about women.
Joanna : Where shall I begin?
Christopher : Anywhere. I find the subject interesting.
Joanna : Well, there's very little to tell, really. There are men and there are women. They're like, oh, spoons. If they are alike, they go together quite well. Tell me about spoons.
Christopher : I do believe you're developing a sense of humour.

************************
or, when facing the soldier ants - the Marabunta - who are just about to wipe out his while livelihood...

Joanna : Christopher?
Christopher : Come in. You might as well see this. Caught him this afternoon. He's an advance scout of some kind. Handsome devil, isn't he? I've been studying him all evening. The face of my enemy. Who knows? Perhaps he's been studying me.
Joanna :Even alone they look frightening.
Christopher : Well, where they go, no life is left but their own. That's what we're up against. If I were a sensible man, Joanna, what would I do? Fight or run?
Joanna : You have to fight. A man like you doesn't run. In any case, you're not a sensible man. You wouldn't have chosen a wife by mail if you were.
Christopher : I'm beginning to think the only sensible thing I ever did was send for you.
Joanna : Why do you say that now?
Christopher : Maybe because it's too late.

**************
or when facing the end…

Christopher : I never leave you now. For whatever it's worth to you, now that I have nothing else to give… ...I love you.
Joanna : That's all I've ever wanted. We'll start from here. This is where we meet, Christopher.
Christopher : And where we say goodbye too. The ants are still out there…

***************

Sadly, they don't make movies like this anymore! :(

IMO it is possibly the sexiest movie of all time. Worst Eleanor Parker does not even take her clothes off! :D

COMMENTS:

The title music of this film is great, composed by Russian Daniele Amfitheatrof (1901-1883) He wrote the music to the 1946 Walt Disney's children movie "Song of the South", with the song "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" winning an Oscar. It was condemned for its racist overtones to African Americans. It was shown in Sydney on 15 May 1947, and was reasonably popular. Amfitheatrof also made the title and incidental music for the TV series "The Time Tunnel', which I remember for some odd reason. He did many others movies scores in US films during WII.


Eleanor Parker was also in "The Sound of Music" playing the nastie Baroness Elsa Schraeder. This was one of her last film roles. Took away some of the mystique for me, sadly! Pity.


She appears with some nice 'cigarette card' photos of movie stars that was made by the studio "Träume aus Hollywood". No. 103 http://film.virtual-history.com/cigcard.php?seriesid=203 (See attachment)

[Craig.a.c]

Nope, I read it in the latest Sci Fi mag. Ridley said himself that he has been wanting to do it for a while and has decided to go ahead with it.

[Craig.a.c]

"I feel the need, the need for speed" - Top Gun.

[FredSnerd]

My favirite line from Naked Jungle is when Christopher is surveying his mail order bride (Jaonna) for the first time and he hasnt seen a woman for quite some time and they have this exchange

Christopher: Madam...
Joanna: My name is Joanna.
Christopher: I know that, madam.
Joanna:Leave something on me.I'm getting chilly.

And this

Christopher:You have a sense of humor.I don't like humor in a woman.

[Enchilada]

I like this exchange too…

Christopher : Well... I wanted to say these things. We won't have time to talk on the way.

Joanna : Then this is goodbye.

Christopher : I'm sorry it started the way it did. I don't know what went wrong. I guess I'd never be able to get it out of my head that you loved someone before me. I don't know how to be second. I can only be first.

Joanna : That's very important, I know. Christopher... You don't dislike me anymore?

Christopher :I never did.

[Enchilada]

Christopher : What is it?

Commissioner (William Conrad) Marabunta!!! Soldier ants. Billions and billions of them on the march. For generations, they stay in their anthills. Then for no reason they start to move, gathering up others as they go. Until they become a flood of destruction.

Christopher How do you stop them?

Commissioner : You don't. You just get out of their way.

[Enchilada]

One of the greatest piece of dialogue in a movie that has deep meaning for the world today and through the ages. Truly moving and unforgettable.

High Lama: "It is the entire meaning and purpose of Shangri-La. It came to me in a vision, long, long ago. I saw all the nations strengthening, not in wisdom, but in the vulgar passions and the will to destroy. I saw the machine power multiplying, until a single weaponed man might match a whole army. I foresaw a time when man, exalting in the technique of murder, would rage so hotly over the world, that every book, every treasure, would be doomed to destruction. This vision was so vivid and so moving, that I determined to gather together all things of beauty and of culture that I could, and preserve them here, against the doom toward which the world is rushing. Look at the world today. Is there anything more pitiful? What madness there is! What blindness! What unintelligent leadership! A scurrying mass of bewildered humanity, crashing headlong against each other, propelled by an orgy of greed and brutality. A time must come my friend, when this orgy will spend itself. When brutality and the lust for power must perish by its own sword. Against that time, is why I avoided death, and am here. And why you were brought here. For when that day comes, the world must begin to look for a new life. And it is our hope that they may find it here. For here, we shall be with their books and their music, and a way of life based on one simple rule: Be Kind! When that day comes, it is our hope that the brotherly love of Shangri-La will spread throughout the world. Yes, my son; When the strong have devoured each other, the Christian ethic may at last be fulfilled and the meek shall inherit the earth."

Robert Conway: I understand you father.

Brilliant!! :thumbsup:

Oh and Chang, answering the question on eternal life…

"You'd be surprised, Mr. Conway, age is a limit we impose upon ourselves."

Indeed! :thumbsup:

[Enchilada]

Absolutely a brilliant film, far too many quotes to mention;

E. K. Hornbeck: [about Barry] He's the only man I know who can strut sitting down.

E. K. Hornbeck (Gene Kelly): Disillusionment is what little heroes are made of.

E. K. Hornbeck : Mr. Brady, it is the duty of a newspaper to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

E. K. Hornbeck: I may be rancid butter but I'm on your side of the bread.

E. K. Hornbeck: Aw, Henry! Why don't you wake up? Darwin was wrong. Man's still an ape. His creed's still a totem pole. When he first achieved the upright position, he took a look at the stars - thought the were something to eat. When he couldn't reach them, he decided they were groceries belonging to a bigger creature; that's how Jehovah was born.

*************

Henry Drummond: Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says, "All right, you can have a telephone but you lose privacy and the charm of distance. Madam, you may vote but at a price. You lose the right to retreat behind the powder puff or your petticoat. Mister, you may conquer the air but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell of gasoline."

**********

Matthew Harrison Brady: Why is it, my old friend, that you've moved so far away from me?
Henry Drummond: All motion is relative, Matt. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.

**********

E. K. Hornbeck: You know, that's a typical lawyer's trick - accusing the accuser.
Henry Drummond: What am I accused of?
E. K. Hornbeck: Contempt of conscience, sentimentality in the first degree.

I could probably quote the whole movie by memory - especially the closing argument. One of the Top 5 movies of all time!! :thumbsup:


Oh. ANd the quote of the movie title….

Matthew Harrison Brady: Remember the wisdom of Solomon in the book of Proverbs. "He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind."

[Enchilada]

Another brilliant quote;

Atticus Finch: I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted - if I could hit 'em; but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Jem Finch: Why?

Atticus Finch: Well, I reckon because mockingbirds don't do anything but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat people's gardens, don't nest in the corncrib, they don't do one thing but just sing their hearts out for us.

Another very thought provoking American movie… ★★★★★

[mac]

From High Fidelity:

"What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?"

[TrevorW]

Andrew you're such a romantic !!!!

"You can't handle the truth"- "A Few Good Men"

Commander John J. Adams (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000558/): Nice climate you have here. High oxygen content.
Robby the Robot (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0730498/): I seldom use it myself, sir. It promotes rust.
"Forbidden Planet"

[Waxing_Gibbous]

From "Lawrence of Arabia"

Batman: "Doesn't that hurt sir"? as TE slowly extinguishes a match between his fingers.
"Of course it hurts'. The trick is not minding that it hurts"

[FredSnerd]

Robin Hood
Lady Marian: Why, you speak treason!
Robin Hood: Fluently.

I Heart Huckabees
Tommy: What are you doing tomorrow?
Albert: I was thinking about chaining myself to a bulldozer. Do you want to come?
Tommy: What time?
Albert: Mmm, 1, 1:30.
Tommy: Sounds good. Should I bring my own chains?
Albert: We always do.

Casablanca
Cpt Renault: What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?
Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
Cpt Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert.
Rick: I was misinformed.

[dpastern]

Damn well awesome! I can't wait.

Dave

[dpastern]

That's a classic movie. I even have a first edition (13th printing) of this fine book. A classic. And yes, I have the DVD too.

Dave

[TrevorW]

I'm amazed by how many movie's I;ve watched in common with those listed by others here and I bet I'm not the only one

It's creepy

[DeanoNZL]

From Blazing Saddles
"Excuse me while I whip this out"

[Enchilada]

How about this one;
Q: "Surely you can't be serious?"
A: "I am, and don't call me Shirley!" :rofl:

[jjjnettie]

Flying High
You could quote the whole film, it's full of one liners.

[Allan_L]

"What we have here, is a Failure to Communicate ! "

[jjjnettie]

"Get me something deep fried and covered in chocolate."
Fairy Godmother
Shrek 2.

[BerrieK]

"I like the pretty lights"
Myca, played by Ling Bai
The Crow 1994

[Matt Wastell]

'Why build one when you can build 2 at twice the price'

Something with Jodie Foster

[Waxing_Gibbous]

"Takin' 'em off here boss"
Sweatiest film ever made.:D

[Waxing_Gibbous]

From "Volunteers";
She: "You mean all that time on the plane you were pretending, just so I'd sleep with you?"
He: Well I think I've put in the hours, don't you?"

[Enchilada]

Altaira: [swimming the pool] Come on in.
Commander Adams: I didn't bring my bathing suit.
Altaira: What's a bathing suit?
Commander Adams[embarrassed] Oh, murder!

or

Altaira Morbius: Robbie, I must have a new dress, right away.
Robbie the Robot: Again? :rofl:

or

Commander Adams: Nice climate you have here. High oxygen content.
Robby the Robot: I seldom use it myself, sir. It promotes rust. :lol:

[Enchilada]

Forbidden Planet. Nah! Old Hat!

See thread on Shakespeare :thumbsup:

[Craig.a.c]

"Hey you! Whats your name, Skank? You don't feel that?"

"I feel like a little worm on a big BEEPING hook"

The Crow.

[supernova1965]

All that I can remember is a women in a hospital bed having a baby and a man next to her (Husband) and a doctor and nurse



You might feel a little prick
That's what got me into this situation

Please :help:it's driving me mad :screwy: google didn't help:P

[tlgerdes]

I think that one might have been "Nine Months" with Hugh Grant, Robin Williams , Julianne Moore, Tom Arnold and Joan Cusack.

I believe the line was said between Robin Williams as the doctor and Joan Cusack as the wife referring to Tom Arnold as the husband.

[Allan_L]

Romancing the Stone...

"What did you do, wake up this morning and say, "Today, I'm going to ruin a man's life"? "

[supernova1965]

Yes that's the one I can come back to a sane mind now:thanx:

[mac]

and

"Where da white women at?!!"

[lacad01]

Some of the best insults and one liners I've ever heard in one sitting were from "Full Metal Jacket". Extremely crude, can't post any here :ashamed:

[TrevorW]

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Smells like........ Victory (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/title/Victory).
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- Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/title/Lieutenant+Colonel+Kilgore).
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[jjjnettie]

K81 at Shoelwater Bay, our Colonel used to get his lacky to play THAT music from Apocalypse Now every single morning, full bore too.

[mojo]

Grosse Pointe Blank. One of my favourite movies.

I like the scene where the psychiatrist (Alan Arkin) explains why he doesn't want to be Martin's (John Cusack's) psychiatrist any more since he found out that Martin is a hit man...

Psychiatrist: Martin, I'm emotionally involved with you.
Martin: How are you emotionally involved with me?
Psychiatrist: I'm afraid of you! And that constitutes an emotional involvement.

Or...
Girl: You're a psychopath!
Martin: No! No! Psychopath's kill for no reason. I kill for money... errr... That didn't come out right.

[jjjnettie]

Thelma and Louise
is so full of quotable quotes
I don't know where to start.

Louise: You've always been crazy, this is just the first chance you've had to express yourself.

Max: If she calls, just be gentle, you know? Like you're really happy to hear from her. Like you miss her. Women love that shyte.

Louise: You finally got laid properly, I'm so proud.

Thelma: You're a real live outlaw, aren't ya?
J.D.: Well I may be an outlaw, darlin', but you're the one stealing my heart.
swoon

THELMA: (watching J.D.)
Yup. That's him goin'. I love to watch him go.
double swoon:love:

[Jen]

:lol::lol: yep love that movie :rofl::rofl:

[TrevorW]

Bilbo:

"Alas, eleventy-one years is far too short a time to live among such excellent and admirable hobbits."
"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."

[rider]

"This is Mr Death, Mister Death is a Reaper!"

[jjjnettie]

LOLOL Terrific movie

"Can I 'ave your liver then?"

[rider]

"This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then - explode."

Serenity

[Enchilada]

Some classic quotes in this brilliant movie;

The Phantom says;
"My music is for Phoenix. Only she can sing it. Anyone else who tries, dies."

and later as said by Winslow Leech and Swan when signing the contract;

WL "All art… All articles which have been excluded shall be deemed included. What does that mean?"

Swan "That's a clause to protect you, Winslow"

The best however was;

"Man, you better get yourself a castrato for this, 'cause it's a little out of my range." :lol: