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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat is the single greatest line in movie history...?
...there are so many to choose from. It's hard to overlook, "this man may look like an idiot, and he may talk like an idiot--but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot". Or--"it's only a flesh wound". But I think my choice would be, "forget it, Jake. it's Chinatown". What are your picks?
Maru Kitteh
(28,344 posts)Moostache
(9,897 posts)Kidding...LOL!!
May the Force Be With You... (Star Wars)
Do. Or do not. There is no try...(The Empire Strikes Back)
It ain't the years, its the mileage...(Raiders of the Lost Ark)
You're gonna need a bigger boat...(Jaws)
He made him an offer he couldn't refuse... (The Godfather)
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli... (The Godfather)
I know it was you Fredo, you broke my heart... (The Godfather Part II)
Blue_playwright
(1,568 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Except, maybe....Rosebud.
Foolacious
(497 posts)Beartracks
(12,827 posts)Response to Beartracks (Reply #16)
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DBoon
(22,415 posts)nt
rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)nolabear
(42,001 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)sorcrow
(421 posts)Frankly, Scarlett, I don't give a damn.
Regards,
Crow
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)You beat me to Rhett!
Karadeniz
(22,600 posts)3catwoman3
(24,092 posts)...my dear, I don't give a damn.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." Or so the script informs me
Prosper
(761 posts)World ended with: "if he fires one I'll fire one." "Fire one!"
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,722 posts)Great movie. Goes to show how, oops, accidents happen.
Chin music
(23,002 posts)SP is excellent.
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)"There's no place like home"....Wizard of Oz
"Jean Louise, Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing"....To Kill a Mockingbird
"What's in the box!"....Se7en
"Be cool honey bunny".... Pulp Fiction
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)These may not be 100% right but I'm quoting from memory:
"It's the one that says 'Bad Motherf***er' on it!"
"Oh, you sending the Wolf? Shit, Negro, that's all you had to say!"
"Oh, well, allow me to retort!"
"In fact, what the f*** am I doing in the back? You the motherf***er should be on brain detail!"
Just to name a small sample of my faves.
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)"And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."
Samuel is the man!
Docreed2003
(16,890 posts)A few others:
"A sewer rat might taste like a pumpkin pie, but I'd never know cuz I wouldn't eat the filthy mothafucka"
And
"Normally, both of your asses would be dead as fucking fried chicken, but you happen to pull this shit while I'm in a transitional period. So I don't want to kill you, I want to help you"
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Travolta, Keitel, Quentin hisownself, and Willis all get some great lines, too, but it was a huge bounty for Jackson.
Chin music
(23,002 posts)Docreed2003
(16,890 posts)Chin music
(23,002 posts)Chin music
(23,002 posts)IADEMO2004
(5,575 posts)Mitch Henessey : I'm always frank and earnest with women. Uh, in New York I'm Frank, and Chicago I'm Ernest.
TlalocW
(15,394 posts)"In a way, all of us has an El Guapo to face. For some, shyness might be their El Guapo. For others, a lack of education might be their El Guapo. For us, El Guapo is a big, dangerous man who wants to kill us. But as sure as my name is Lucky Day, the people of Santa Poco can conquer their own personal El Guapo, who also happens to be *the actual* El Guapo!"
Also from the same movie... "You shot the Invisible Swordsman!"
And...
"Gozer the Gozerian? Good evening. As a duly-designated representative of the City, County and State of New York, I order you to cease any and all supernatural activity and return forthwith to your place of origin, or to the next convenient parallel dimension."
TlalocW
Docreed2003
(16,890 posts)Love Three Amigos!
dchill
(38,594 posts)ZZenith
(4,133 posts)Some men, you just can't reach.
So you get what we had here last week -- which is the way he wants it.
Well, he gets it.
And I don't like it anymore than you men.
highmindedhavi
(355 posts)SweetieD
(1,660 posts)Cicada
(4,533 posts)To find that gamblings going on in here
Submariner
(12,513 posts)You slut!
DFW
(54,480 posts)Igor from Young Frankenstein
Also: "They call me Mister Tibbs" from In The Heat Of The Night
But my all-time favorite is the two word line from Putney Swope's "commercial" for Ethereal Cereal:
csziggy
(34,139 posts)IcyPeas
(21,932 posts)And
Rosebud
royable
(1,266 posts)--It's a Wonderful Life
royable
(1,266 posts)--Dr. Zhivago
[ripping at the heartstrings]
TexasBushwhacker
(20,233 posts)"You're not too smart. I like that in a man."
Kablooie
(18,645 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,869 posts)tblue37
(65,526 posts)rainy
(6,095 posts)WILL in Good Will Hunting
Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army...
*Cut to Sean's office*
... in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never met, never had no problem with, get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Oh, send in the Marines to secure the area" cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number got called, cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass.
And he comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile, he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And, of course, the oil companies used the skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them, but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon.
And they're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, of course, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's got to walk to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks cause the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starvin', cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat, the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State.
So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure fuck it, while I'm at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)It sounds like his style.
Ilsa
(61,710 posts)Which could have actually been a soliloquy.
Behind the Aegis
(54,044 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,980 posts)
"You ain't heard nothing' yet!" by Al Jolson. Granted, other lines were spoken, even on title cards, and Jolson is not recalled as much... but, historically, the line was important. I would also cite "Rosebud" from Orson Welles - it showed me that film writers and directors could (and would) turn filmmaking into a limitless creative process. For stars (actors) maybe "I want to be alone" from Greta Garbo in Grand Hotel. She put the "movie star" on a throne... and, when the lights go off in the cinema, there you are... alone with the film.
Botany
(70,635 posts)Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)MaryMagdaline
(6,859 posts)FM123
(10,054 posts)Freddie
(9,275 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I love that line!
Another one of my favorites from Animal House...
"Christ! Seven years of college down the drain. Might as well join the fucking Peace Corps!"
rampartc
(5,453 posts)flying rabbit
(4,645 posts)appalachiablue
(41,188 posts)shanny
(6,709 posts)unblock
(52,442 posts)shanny
(6,709 posts)just classic
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)sweetroxie
(776 posts)from When Harry Met Sally
Karadeniz
(22,600 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I loved those movies!
Reporter: Say listen, is he working on a case?
Nora Charles: Yes, he is.
Reporter: What case?
Nora Charles: A case of scotch. Pitch in and help him.
hotrod0808
(323 posts)Power 2 the People
(2,437 posts)Ohiya
(2,249 posts)marked50
(1,373 posts)Badges? We aint got no badges! We dont need no badges!
I dont have to show you any stinking badges!
kstewart33
(6,551 posts)Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)Anne Bancroft owned me
She still does
kstewart33
(6,551 posts)I saw the movie when I was a very young girl. Changed my life because I realized that almost any obstacle can be overcome.
Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)- and I still cant, really!!
You picked the best line, no question!
kstewart33
(6,551 posts)I was about the same age, and watched it on the ABC Sunday Night Movie telecast. I lay awake half the night thinking about it.
Cartoonist
(7,323 posts)And
What's up Doc?
unblock
(52,442 posts)Chipper Chat
(9,702 posts)I need to know what you know.
3Hotdogs
(12,456 posts)katmondoo
(6,457 posts)TlalocW
(15,394 posts)Rick: You know what I want to hear.
Sam: No, I don't.
Rick: You played it for her, you can play it for me!
Sam: Well, I don't think I can remember...
Rick: If she can stand it, I can! Play it!
TlalocW
unblock
(52,442 posts)shanny
(6,709 posts)especially the "drunk" poker play on the train
and totally did not see that end twist coming
unblock
(52,442 posts)So many cons in that movie. Of course the main con on lonnegan, but Snyder got conned, the western union con was hilarious, and even the audience gets conned (who is the glove?)
Plus great acting, great score, great period piece.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...Snyder and Lonnigan were still right there on the street, Lonnigan still crying about his money. And the "dead" Hooker and Gondorph walk right into them. And of course, they--the heroes--have to go underground and stay underground the rest of their lives, in case Lonnigan ever discovers them alive and well. And he didn't strike me as somebody who had a sense of humor about these things...
SHRED
(28,136 posts)maveric
(16,446 posts)Paladin
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From the future movie version of Aaron Sorkin's "To Kill A Mockingbird" play. I had the privilege of seeing the play on Broadway, a few days ago. I cannot possibly recommend it strongly enough.
CrispyQ
(36,553 posts)Sean Connery as Capt. Ramius in The Hunt For Red October. I've probably watched that movie more than any movie ever.
I also love, "We kill him. We make it fun, but we kill him." William Hurt as Marshall in Mr. Brooks.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)An Affair to Remember - Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr
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"All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."
Sunset Boulevard - Gloria Swanson
shanny
(6,709 posts)(kidding) although I have to say Rosie O'Donnell mimed it very well
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)keithbvadu2
(37,011 posts)So many great ones... I'll go with Rhett Butler.
Mr Tibbs
(539 posts)CTyankee
(63,926 posts)Margaret Thatcher to her all male Parliament.
Harker
(14,069 posts)A great line that puts all of the action of "The Maltese Falcon" into context.
Brother Buzz
(36,490 posts)Afromania
(2,771 posts)Mad Lib
(86 posts)Leave the gun; take the cannoli.
gopiscrap
(23,766 posts)joanbarnes
(1,723 posts)JenniferJuniper
(4,515 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
intheozone
(1,103 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)"I love you, but you don't know what you're talking about." Moonrise Kingdom
"You and I remember Budapest very differently." The Avengers
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,601 posts)The only two words ever uttered by the Hulk in the Avengers series. He said them after he had pummeled Loki into the floor of Stark's penthouse.
TlalocW
(15,394 posts)Hulk was quite talkative in, "Thor: Ragnarok." And he did scream, "No," when Banner was trying to change in Infinity War.
TlalocW
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,601 posts)Not surprisingly, in those brief statements the Hulk reveals both a larger vocabulary and stronger ability to express himself coherently than our [p]resident, and reveals more introspection than Fat Donnie ever has.
The question now is, what additional powers does Captain Marvel have that may enable her to join in defeating Thanos and restoring the universe he so casually destroyed? Is she the key to that 1-in-14 million solution to vanquishing Thanos?
BTW, how did Scott Lang (Ant Man) escape the quantum realm, anyway?
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)and we're wearing sunglasses. - Ben Hur
broiles
(1,370 posts)From an old Bette Davis movie. Line delivered by Davis herself.
LakeArenal
(28,863 posts)broiles
(1,370 posts)BarbaRosa
(2,685 posts)Uh did you say yutes?
Larissa
(790 posts)It bears repeating the greatest quote from, in my humble opinion, the greatest film ever made. Although I have lived nearly six decades, I had never seen it until recently. I immediately watched it again and then purchased the DVD. At first I really didn't understand everything that happens in "Chinatown." The film demands that you pay attention. It's far more than a murder mystery/government corruption story. It's far more than Faye Dunaway's famous scene about her daughter's father. This film is about the aspects of life that few escape. Even if the film turns out not to be your cup of tea, it is worth watching for the most breathtaking cinematography I've ever seen in a film. I created a new account for DM just for this. I never hype a film because I don't want to color the opinion of a person who's never seen it. I make this my only exception for "Chinatown."
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...and welcome to DU!...
gopiscrap
(23,766 posts)ADX
(1,622 posts)"...I always tell the truth, even when I lie..." "Scarface"
Zorro
(15,753 posts)From A Clockwork Orange -- still a visionary film after almost 50 years.
Zorro
(15,753 posts)Interesting how a lot of lines from Kubrick movies are so memorable.
Runningdawg
(4,529 posts)Say hello to my little friend
I'm your huckleberry
The Figment
(494 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,926 posts)The prescience of that line, and this scene is remarkable. I first saw this movie in 1982 and nearly fell out of my chair when that line came up. It's grown more true over the decades.
Tikki
(14,560 posts)"Stay away from the cans."
Tikki
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I also loved these lines:
Waiter: Would monsieur care for another bottle of Chateau Latour?
Navin: Ah yes, but no more 1966. Lets splurge! Bring us some fresh wine! The freshest youve got this year! No more of this old stuff.
Tikki
(14,560 posts)Love, love the movie, also.
Tikki
Tikki
(14,560 posts)Tikki
Tikki
(14,560 posts)Tikki
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)"It could be worse" - Princess Leia"
MH1
(17,619 posts)From Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Then the corollary "swim away, swim away!!" in Finding Nemo. The first time I watched that was with people who are not Python fans. They had no idea why I laughed so hard at that line.
benld74
(9,911 posts)Butch: I'll jump first.
Sundance: Nope.
Butch: Then you jump first.
Sundance: No, I said!
Butch: What's the matter with you?!
Sundance: I can't swim!
Butch: [laughing]
Why, you crazy the fall'll probably kill ya!
oldlibdem
(330 posts)Animal House
Freddie
(9,275 posts)oldlibdem
(330 posts)Forget it, he's on a roll.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)BarbaRosa
(2,685 posts)samnsara
(17,658 posts)DBoon
(22,415 posts)Sunset Boulevard
DBoon
(22,415 posts)Repo Man
wryter2000
(46,127 posts)"Elwood (she always called me Elwood), in this life you must be oh so clever or oh so pleasant." Well, I tried clever, and I recommend pleasant.
Harvey
One of my favorite movies of all time.
skypilot
(8,854 posts)TNNurse
(6,931 posts)mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)Love Story
Also "Phone Home "
Snerd
(16 posts)"You're a sick f*ck, that's a sick f*cking question, and I'm not going to be sick enough to f*cking answer it."
doc03
(35,432 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,483 posts)"While private gunrunners continue to thrive, the world's biggest arms suppliers are the U.S., U.K., Russia, France, and China. They are also the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council."
TNNurse
(6,931 posts)Shrek
(3,986 posts)"He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue! That's the Chicago way!"
somaticexperiencing
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(315 posts)Yes, I may be engendering some hatred as this post has inspired me to include some political one-liners. Last one, on my part.
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AZ8theist
(5,524 posts)patphil
(6,240 posts)Rhett Butler to Scarlett O'Hara:
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
Patrick Phillips
Raven123
(4,919 posts)- The incomparable Bette Davis in All About Eve.
BHDem53
(1,061 posts)Marcel Marceau in Silent Movie.
argyl
(3,064 posts)The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
Dr Vegas
(456 posts)You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!
ailsagirl
(22,904 posts)"...he never learned to read and write. No, sir. Had no brains at all. Was stuffed with rice pudding between th' ears.
Shortchanged by the Lord, and dumb as a jackass. Look at him now! Yes, sir, all you've gotta be is white in America..."
GREAT film!!
Dem2theMax
(9,658 posts)The line is spoken by Walter Huston, playing the character of Sam Dodsworth. He says this line twice in the film, both times to his wife Fran, played by Ruth Chatterton.
The first time he says it, it is said with absolute love.
The second time he says it, he says it with the utter loss one can only know from having an absolutely broken heart.
The second time he says that line, it tears me apart.
Every time.
And I have seen this movie many times.
It's one of the best movies that I bet a lot of people have never seen.
packman
(16,296 posts)AKRicky
(29 posts)Last edited Wed Mar 20, 2019, 09:15 PM - Edit history (1)
"Go ahead, punk, make my day."
Dirty Harry
Piratedog
(256 posts)Enough is enough! Ive had it with these m-fing snakes on this m-fing plane!
shadowmayor
(1,325 posts)Ive been working here for forty-four years. Aint nobody ever ordered nothing but a T-Bone steak and baked potato. Except one time, this asshole from New York ordered a trout, back in 1987. We aint got no goddamned trout. Hell or High Water
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)"Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like Im working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, Id say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work."
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)"Oh, Lawrence! This is the happiest day of my life! I think my testicles are dropping!"
LisaM
(27,848 posts)Moves me to tears every time, in fact even now, as I type this.
AwakeAtLast
(14,134 posts)is a failure to communicate!"
JustFiveMoreMinutes
(2,133 posts)Not really... but it popped into the head so it had to escape into a reply. HA!
Talitha
(6,635 posts)And crawling on the planet's face
Some insects, called the human race...
Lost in time, and lost in space,
And meaning.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)bmbmd
(3,088 posts)Nobody's perfect.
Beartracks
(12,827 posts)========
Mr.Bill
(24,354 posts)Callin' it your job don't make it right, boss.
Hotler
(11,473 posts)Beartracks
(12,827 posts)=========
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)Being as "The Blues Brothers" is my very favorite movie of all time, I have to submit the one line that was used repeatedly in that film.
Iggo
(47,586 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)as well as the heavenly appeal to Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, but the repeated line is the most remembered line for many fans of that film.
So many great musicians, the best comedy from the genius of John Belushi, and the car crashes were real, not CGI!
Hassler
(3,395 posts)Richluu
(80 posts)Captain Renault: I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here. ... Casino Worker: Your winnings, sir. ...
stevil
(1,537 posts)Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)Also..."They're baaaaack"...
Poltergeist
vsrazdem
(2,177 posts)man4allcats
(4,026 posts)We ain't got no badges. We don't need no stinking badges!
Brother Buzz
(36,490 posts)aaaaaa5a
(4,667 posts)2 Moments:
Princess Leia to Han Solo- I love you.
Han Solo to Princess Leia- I know.
Darth Vader to Luke Skywalker- I am your father!
rownesheck
(2,343 posts)like a woman scorned for Sega.
-- Brody to TS in the movie Mallrats.
yuiyoshida
(41,869 posts)skamaria
(329 posts)N/T
hurl
(938 posts)there you are.
Tikki
(14,560 posts)Tikki
CrispyQ
(36,553 posts)Yaphet Kotto as Laughlin in The Running Man.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Tikki
(14,560 posts)Tikki
Leith
(7,814 posts)The line comes right after this setup:
Two cops from NJ are trying to find a bank robber who escaped into the wilderness of Montana. They are having a terrible time. They got lost, fell into a river, clothes floated away in the river, no food, the bank robber got the gun from one of them.
Right after the above clip, the one who still had his clothes suggests that they give it up and get help from the local sheriff. The other refuses to give up the chase. When asked why, he yells
yellowdogintexas
(22,288 posts)Rod Steiger "In The Heat of the Night"
yellowdogintexas
(22,288 posts)Dustin Hoffman to Ann Bancroft in "The Graduate"
also: "He was.......my boyfriend" Cloris Leachman as Frau Blucher in Young Frankenstein
"Dadgumit, somebody go back to town and fetch a roll of dimes" Slik Pickens in Blazing Saddles
Texasgal
(17,049 posts)- A street car named desire
lpbk2713
(42,772 posts)...
So many of the others have been taken.
mulsh
(2,959 posts)[link:
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(26,117 posts)Tikki
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I cant drive an automatic..
Probably women who were young in the mid-70s into the 80s and could only afford
small foreign cars would get it.
Tikki