What is/are your all time favorite movie line/lines?

[Girlfriday]

I have a million, here's just a few.....

"You think you hate it now, but just wait till you drive it" - Eugene Levy in, National Lampoon's Vacation

"Well ain't this just a geographical oddity, two weeks from everywhere". - George Clooney in, (Oh Brother)

"There will be pork in the trees by morning" - Katherine Hepburn in, (Lion in Winter)

and

ANYTHING from Monty Python's Holy Grail

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. Social.....demented and sad....but social....

Judd Nelson in the Breakfast Club.

[soleft]

2. Get away from her you bitch!

Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley in Aliens

[MnFats]

3. "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."

Nicholson.
Chinatown.

oh, and there's this, from "Body Heat." Early on, Wm. Hurt meets Kathleen Turner on a boardwalk in a sweltering Florida night and they immediately begin flirting. Of course you know this will be big trouble. At one point she says to him, in response to one of his lame jokes:
"You're not too bright, are you? I like that in a man."

[PurityOfEssence]

33. Also from "Chinatown":

"Politicians, ugly buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough."

Lest we forget, these lines were written by Robert Towne. That particular one was mewed by Noah Cross, played by John Huston.

Nicholson's a bit of a writer too, you know; he co-wrote "Head", the Monkees movie...

[AP]

62. "Bad for glass," from Chinatown...I say that all the time

when I figure out clues.

That's the rigth line, right?

[Fight_n_back]

4. From "Full Frontal"

"I don't care what you do offstage, you can eat the ass out of a wolf for all I care."

[lpbk2713]

5. Paul Newman to Richard Boone in "Hombre".........

"Hey?"

"Yeah, what?"

"I got a question."

"What is it?"

"Howya gonna get back down that hill?"

[madmax]

6. 'You know I love ya more than my luggage'

Olympia Dukakis to Shirley MacLaine in 'Steel Magnolias' and

'Quiser could never stay mad at me, she worships the quicksand I walk on.' Same movie.

[radwriter0555]

49. "I wear a size 6, but a 7 feels so good I buy an 8"...

Dolly Parton's character in the same movie, discussing SHOES.

[Davis_X_Machina]

7. "Stand up, Miss Jean Louise, your father's passin'."

From To Kill a Mockingbird".

Makes me cry every time....

[Andy_Stephenson]

8. "H.L: They drumed you right out of Hollywood so....

you come crawling back to Broadway. Well Broadway doesn't go for booze and dope...now get outta my way I have a man waiting tin the lobby for me."

[ZenLefty]

9. Alien 3 has some very good lines

Think what you will of the movie, but it's really got some excellent actors and some highly comical dialogue, given the situation the characters are in.

"How do you know my name?"
"It's stenciled on the back of your shorts."

"Let me see if I have this correct, lieutenant. It's an eight foot creature of some kind with acid for blood, and it derived on your spaceship. It kills on sight and is...generally unpleasant."

"You keep telling me how dumb I am. Well I'm smart enough not to have a life sentence on this rock!"

[WilliamPitt]

10. Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world

she walks into mine.

[Journeyman]

11. From Casablanca. . .

"And what about you, Mr. Rick? What nationality are you?"

"Me? I'm a drunkard."

[kodi]

22. very good one, another from it

Claude Rains(Louis): What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?

Humphrey Bogart (Rick): My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.

Captain Claude Rains(Louis):The waters? What waters? We're in the desert.

Humphrey Bogart (Rick): I was misinformed.


we forget sometimes just how good that film's dialogues are.

[Hogarth]

12. From the movie "Arthur"...

... when the bartender gives he and his bar mate a hard time by asking, "Don't you think you've had enough?" Arthur responded, "We want more than enough!"

Or when he meets his future father-in-law to be and pats the mounted moosehead, saying, "This must be very embarrassing for you."

[MercutioATC]

15. "Arthur, take my hand".....

..."But that would leave you with one...."

[Hogarth]

19. Hahahahahahahahaha!

No text.

[Torgo]

76. Another classic 'Arthur' line...

from the second Arthur movie.

Hard-driving executive to Arthur during job interview: "Arthur, we are looking for a tireless worker, willing to give up his family for his job, etc., etc."

Arthur to executive: "Hire me, and I'll find that man for you!"

Funnnnnny!

[MercutioATC]

13. "Now let's kill that fu**ing band"

"From Dusk Till Dawn"

[Vikingking66]

14. Johnny Depp as Hunter S. Thompson

"We were fifteen miles outside of Barstow when the drugs started to kick in."

[VelmaD]

16. "Scoundrel...

I like that. There haven't been enough scoundrels in your life."

*sigh* Still got that crush on Han Solo.

DV

[REP]

17. "Go Ahead and Shoot Her - She Ain't My Woman"

Paul Newman in "Hombre."

[Swede]

18. Roy Baty's soliloquy at the end of Blade Runner

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 Tannhauser Gate.

All those moments will be lost in time

Like tears in rain.

[toddzilla]

21. unforgiven

"deserve's got nothin to do with it"

[jayfish]

47. Another From Unforgiven.

"It's a hell of a thing kill'en an man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever going to have."

Great movie.

Jay

[cprise]

68. From Boomerang:

"You are going to turn down this p#**y, staring you SMACK in your face?!!"

and

"You're got gay, you just don't wanna f##k me!!!"

Hooooo boy... Grace Jones (to Eddie Murphy).

[populistmom]

20. Fred McMurray as Walter Neff in Double Indemnity:

"I never knew that murder could smell like honeysuckle."

(A great line at the beginning of this old classic that draws you in.)

[AP]

63. That whole scene that ends with Neff saying "That tears it,"

is one of the best scenes in any movie ever.

[Jim Sagle]

23. To MIke Hammer from his assistant Velda in "Kiss Me Deadly":

"Sure. First you have a thread, and then you'll have a string, which will lead you to a rope from which you can hang yourself. And for what? For the Great Whatsit."

[Jim Sagle]

24. Simon Oakland to Steve McQueen in "Bullitt":

"Do what you think is best. I'll try to back you up."

[arinite7]

25. Struther Martin in Cool Hand Luke

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

[newyawker99]

43. Hi arinite7!!

Welcome to DU!!

[gmoney]

26. Kevin Bacon from "Diner"

"Do you ever get the feeling that there's something going on that we don't know about?"

[TroubleMan]

27. Okay, I know NONE of you have seen this but...

In the movie Taoist Drunkard, which has been re-released recently under the name Drunken Wu-Tang, Knight in Armor says to Rat Faced Drunken:

"I'm not going....I'm going to give you a taste of your own Sloppy Fist Style!!"

He then proceeds to breakdance and do the robot while trying to fight and gets his ass kicked.

(It's one of those moments you gotta see to get it)

[oustemnow]

28. "And then that no-talent ass-clown came along..."

Re: Michael Bolton, from Office Space, uttered by a character unfortunate enough to have the same name as the aforementioned no-talent ass-clown.

[Richardo]

55. One of the best from Office Space (among MANY):

Samir: "This is a fuck!!"

[proud patriot]

29. "It could be worse , .........It could be raining "

Young Frankenstein ...Mel brooks

[Blue_State_Elitist]

30. steve mcqueen from maginificent seven

One day a man jumped head first into a cactus. A man asked him why he did it, he said he though it was a good idea at the time.

[HawkerHurricane]

31. Beginning and end of Spider-Man

Tobey McGuire's voice
"Who am I? Do you really want to know? If someone told you that mine was a happy little tale, somebody lied."

"I will always remember the words of my Uncle Ben. 'With great power, comes great responsibility'. This is my gift. This is my curse. Who am I? I'm Spider-Man."

[JackDragna]

32. Two of my favorites.

"Let's go." - The Wild Bunch.

"Now, remember what we talked about, if there were a little accident with the bomb?" - Dr. Strangelove.

"You've got two empty halves of a coconut and you're banging them together." - Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail.

[devilgrrl]

34. From the movie 'Slacker'

"Every commodity you produce is a piece of your own death!!!!!"

[AP]

66. Also, "That's a whole nother reality."

[Skittles]

35. You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man.

Maddy Walker (kathleen Turner) in Body Heat

[VOX]

36. "They can't do that to our pledges--only *we* can do that to our pledges!"

From the excess-amok classic, "Animal House."

[Samuraimad]

37. "If I had a tumor, I'd name it marla"-fight club

.

[Spirochete]

38. Corey Haim, in the Lost Boys...

"My own brother - a goddam shit-sucking vampire. You just wait till mom finds out!"

[caledesi]

39. You can't handle the truth - Jack Nicholson ( A Few Good Men)

and of course, one of the favorites:

STELLA! (Streetcar Named Desire - Marlon Brando)

[VermontDem2004]

40. ....

"Mary...I desperately wanna make love to a school boy. ."-Loyd Christmas

Dumb and Dumber

[coda]

41. From HUD

Lonnie, little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire. You'll just have to make up your own mind one day about what's right and wrong."

Melvyn Douglas as Homer Bannon in "HUD"

Won the Academy Award for that.

Patricia Neal won one too.

"I done my time with one cold-blooded bastard. I'm not looking for another."

Patricia Neal as Alma


Great movie.(Larry McMurty)

[Lindsey]

42. Best in Show..

soo many lines but one of my favs is "Leslie and I could talk, or not talk, all day."

[ProfessorGAC]

44. A Simple One That May Not Get Mentioned

In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, he is in the cave with the Nazi's and ancient Crusader. (Knight of Templar, i think.)

The room is full of the chalices, and one of them is the cup of Christ. The Nazi drinks out of the cup he thinks is the right one and melts in front of everyone's eyes.

The Ancient Knight says "He chose poorly!" No kidding! The most solid, and understated movie line i've ever heard.
The Professor

[Aristus]

45. "Gentlemen!

You can't fight in here! This is the WAR Room!"

Dr. Strangelove. Less and less satire and more and more dire prediction every day.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

46. Some of mine

"You fill me with inertia." --Peter Cook in the original Bedazzled, as the devil playing a haughty disdainful rock star, spoken to his screaming fans.

"Some men are born two drinks below par." --from Whiskey Galore. I don't remember the actor's name, but it's said in reference to Gordon Jackson (who later played Hudson on Upstairs, Downstairs), who is playing a mama's boy who finally stands up to his domineering mother after having some whiskey.

"I tried on some women's silk underwear once. What a sensation! No wonder they want it all the time." One of the kidnappers in Shoot the Piano Player.

"Richer better." The Chinese-born bride mangling her repetition of the wedding vows in A Wedding Banquet.

"My father was a missionary, but he was eaten by his Bible class." Nanette Newman in The Wrong Box.

"Oh, I just turned gay all of a sudden." Cary Grant in Bringing Up Baby. This is a prime example of "slip it past the censors." In this film, made in 1938, Cary Grant has gotten his clothes soaked, and Katherine Hepburn lends him one of her frilly bathrobes. He absent-mindedly answers the door dressed like that.

"You can't see anything in a car." from Men With Guns. As a great believer in exploring places on foot, I agree with that line.

[nedlogg]

48. From Pulp Fiction

Christopher Walken telling the young Bruce Wilis character about the gold watch:

"I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass for two years. And now, little man, I give the watch to you."

[BigMcLargehuge]

54. Oh I'm sorry, did I break your concentration?

Pulp Fiction is RIFE with quotables.

[WoodrowFan]

50. Badges? We don't have no Badges!

We don't have to show you no stinkin badges!!

[JanMichael]

51. Are you an assassin? No, I'm a soldier. You're neither...

...you're an errand boy, sent by store clerks, to collect a debt.

Apocalypse Now.

[Kamika]

52. from MST3K and Monty python

Ok first theres two lines from mst3k the movie

1st is when the big brain alien chases the girl while the hero is trapped, the alien eventually gets crushed from the lack of preassure in the alien ship and like 4 seconds after he died the hero runs up to the girl and the guys making the jokes go "THANK GOD I SAVED YOU"

2nd is from the same movie when they watch the ending credits and it says "All rights reserved" they go
"-all rights reserved callahan". and then in a clint eastwood voice, "-oh yeah? well what about the rights of that little girl"

Same from the credits it says like "color by Eastman" the guys go "-EASTMAN! he came from the EAST!"

and finally there are times in life of brian the main characters have great speeches, brian yells YOU ARE ALL UNIQUE!! and everyne shouts WE ARE ALL UNIQUE!! then one single lonely voice goes.. "im not"

Same when regis says how EVERYONE would die for the cause then "i wouldnt" regis go oh yeah theres one but apart from the one we would ALL gladly die

[CBHagman]

53. Just for starters

"It's even better when you help." Lauren Bacall to Humphrey Bogart, after their SECOND kiss in "To Have and Have Not."

From "Casablanca":

Peter Lorre: "You despise me, don't you, Rick?"

Bogart: "Well, if I ever thought about you, I suppose I would."

From "The Ref":

Dennis Leary to mean, manipulative widow Glynis Johns:

"Lady, your husband ain't dead. He's hiding."

Cary Grant in "Arsenic and Old Lace": "Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops!"


And those are just for starters. "Casablanca" and "The Ref" are eminently quotable, as are "The Lion in Winter" and "Young Frankenstein."

[av8rdave]

56. Some of mine

"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!" Wizard of Oz

"Seven years of college down the drain!" Animal House

"Looks like I picked a bad week to quit sniffing glue" Airplane

[Bossy Monkey]

57. Eddie Dane (J.E. Freeman) in Miller's Crossing:

"Because if you told me and I killed you and you were lying I wouldn't get to kill you then. Where's Leo?"

[MissMillie]

58. Some of mine:

"Looks like we just had our glitch for this mission." Jim Lovell at takeoff, Apollo 13.

"I can't think with all this hair." Ellen Barkin in Switch

"Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'." To Kill a Mockingbird.

and this exchange from Airplane:

Striker: My orders came through. My squadron ships out tomorrow, we're bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri at 18:00 hours. We're coming in from the North, below their radar.
Elaine: When will you be back?
Striker: I can't tell you that. It's classified.

[bmbmd]

59. I can't say for sure it's the best line

but the best scene in all of moviedom has to be the last few seconds of "Godfather" when the boys kiss Michael's ring and say"Don Corleone" while Robert Duvall shuts the door.....

[rucky]

60. Raising Arizona

"Sometimes I gets the menstrual cramps reeeeal haaard."

"And when there was no crawdad, we ate sand."

"Son, you've got a panty on your head."

"I'll just take these Huggies, and anything you may have in the register."

"We released ourselves on our own recognisance."
"We felt the system had nothing left to offer us."

[Darth_Ole]

61. "Mrs. Robinson, are you trying to seduce me?" - The Graduate

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." - Patton

"All hail the great prophet from Nebraska!" (Henry Drummond referring to Matt Brady) - Inherit the Wind

[cprise]

64. "I am not in the business. I am the business.” Sean Young

...Bladerunner.

[Tyler Durden]

65. Jack Nicholson as Melvin Udall: "As good as it gets"

"Where did they teach you to talk like this? At some Panama City sailor-wanna-hump-hump bar, or is this getaway day and your last shot at his whiskey? Sell crazy someplace else . . . we're all stocked up here."

That film had so many GREAT lines.

[ronnykmarshall]

67. Slap!

"Snap out of it!" - Moonstruck

[bif]

69. Wayne's World

"If she was a president, she'd be Baberaham Lincoln."

[eauclaireliberal]

70. "You had best unfuck yourself or I will unscrew your head...

...and SHIT down your NECK!"
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-R. Lee Ermey: Full Metal Jacket

[Lydia Leftcoast]

73. That scene in Full Metal Jacket

where R. Lee Ermey brags about Lee Harvey Oswald learning to shoot in the Marines.

[lpbk2713]

77. "In that book suppository, Sir!"............... Pvt Snowball

.....

[SiouxJ]

71. There is more to life than a little money. Don't you know that?

- Marge Gunderson from Fargo.

Just tops off the whole movie perfectly.

[Aristus]

74. "I doan't agree a hunnert p'rcent with yer p'leecework there!

DLR could stand fer 'deeler'"

"Oh yah?"

"Yah. So this feller musta boosted a car fr'm a deeler."

"Oh shure."

Love those accents in 'Fargo.'

[Not a robought]

72. "Another drink for my friends! Yeaaah!"

- Mickey Roarke sitting beside Faye Dunaway in Barfly.

[GumboYaYa]

75. "Dyin ain't much of a livin, boy"

From the "Outlaw Jossie Wales" right after the bounty hunter told Jossie that "A man's gotta make a livin somehow."

[Mass_Liberal]

78. Are you suggesting

that coconuts are migratory- holy grail (of course)

Im not... not licking toads!- Homer Simpson (I know its TV)

[RebelOne]

79. Vin Diesel in Pitch Black

After fighting and killing the creature -- "He didn't know who he was fucking with."

[TrogL]

80. Pooty Tang!!

The entire movie is incomprehensible.