What are some of your favorite movie lines?

“To a New Yorker like you, a hero is some kind of weird sandwich…” -Oddball in “Kelly’s Heros.”

One of my favorite films is Casablanca. And Louis the Police Prefect (Claude Rains) had some of the best lines. Rick- “And remember Louis, this gun is aimed right at your heart”. Louis – “That’s my least vulnerable spot”.

”......A census-taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver, with some fava beans….and a nice chianti…....ftt-ftt-ftt-ftt-ftt…..”

“It’s like carrying a bag of bricks. All you gotta do, is…...put it down…..”

”.......Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch….?”

“It’s a Sicilian message…..it means ‘Luca Brazzi sleeps with the fishes….’

Bruce Willis in Jackal “i told you it’s off.”

“If you’re wrong, you know what’s gonna happen to you? You’re gonna answer to the Coca-Cola Company.” Dr. Strangelove

That’ll do pig. That’ll do

“Diplomatic immunity.”

It’s just been revoked.

Most every conversation I have will be filled with movie quotes, but I am hesitant to name a favorite.
If pressed, I’ll just say it’s “the stuff dreams are made of.”

The song of the woman in the radiator from Eraserhead

“In Heaven, everything is fine
In Heaven, everything is fine
In Heaven, everything is fine

You got your good things

and I’ve got mine…”

“I never asked for this.”

“I’ve done questionable things.” Replicant in Blade Runner

SHOW ME THE MONEY!

“It’s completely-baked” from The Graduate :

Mr. Braddock: When did you two talk this over?
Benjamin: We haven’t.
Mr. Braddock: Ben, this whole idea sounds pretty half-baked.
Benjamin: No, it’s not, Dad. It’s completely baked. It’s a decision I’ve made.

Hooray! I’m not going home in a bag!—Spaced Invaders

It’s a hilarious movie with jokes piled on jokes so you need to watch it several times to catch them all.

” I… have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career.”

“Candygram for Mongo!”

“I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.” – Ripley in Aliens

“I never touched a gun in my life. That and that alone forever doomed me to middle management.” – Vinnie in My Blue Heaven

“Hasta la vista, baby”

Bobby Blaine (Delroy Lindo) and Jimmy Silk (Sam Rockwell) are casing an airport cargo area for a hiest. Blane is an old hand at this. Silk is the son of a local crime boss. His old man wants him to get some ground floor experience, so he forces a crew to take on his son. This is Silk’s first big job.

Silk is driving and Blane notices his hands are shaking.

Blane: Sometimes adrenaline gives people the shakes, some might think it’s cowardice, so maybe you’d want to pray about it.

Silk: I’m not a religious man.

Blane: There’s nothing wrong with prayer. Back in ‘Nam, we had this dude, real gung ho, always rode point. Fucker always caried a bible next to his heart. We used to rag him about it, but one day that bible stopped a bullet.

Jimmy: No shit.

Blane: Hand of God, man, that bible stopped a bullet, would of ruined that motherfucker’s heart. And had he had another bible in front of his face, that man would be alive today.

—The Heist (1991), Gene Hackman, Rebecca Pidgeon, Delroy Lindo, Sam Rockwell.
Script by David Mamet

Wendell: [Viewing a bloody, chaotic desert crime scene] It’s a mess, ain’t it, Sheriff?
Ed Bell: If it ain’t, it’ll do till the mess gets here.

—No Country for Old Men (2007) Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin.

Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room! – Dr Strangelove

“What’s a grit?” And many others from My Cousin Vinnie.

Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.

I like those in the opening credits of North by Northwest
Oh & railway lines like in Runaway Train & such like.

When asked by Captain Renault (Claude Rains) why he came to Casablanca Rick (H. Bogart) replies, “For the waters.”

“Waters, what waters?” replies, the captain, “This is a desert.”

Bogart’s comically cynical retort: “I was misinformed.”

Love that line!!!

“Good, bad..I’m the guy with the gun”
“It’s a trick..get an axe”

“Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!”

And of course….“I aim to misbehave…”

I’m an excellent driver…...
Rainman.

I’m in the same camp as @filmfann (he farts very loudly) in the sense that movie quotes fill my day to day dialogue & can’t possibly pick a favourite from the many I so frequently use & love.

“Ahhh bingooooooooooooohhhhhhh!!!”

Almost any quote from any Woody Allen movie including this one from SLEEPER…

Luna (Diane Keaton): It’s hard to believe you haven’t had sex for 200 years.
Miles (Allen): 204, if you count my marriage.

And this one, from MANHATTAN…

Female Party Guest: I finally had an orgasm, and my doctor said it was the wrong kind.

Isaac Davis (Allen): You had the wrong kind? I’ve never had the wrong kind, ever. My worst one was right on the money.

“So… I lied. I cheated. I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But the most damning thing of all… I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again – I would.”

“Diein’ ain’t much of a livin’, son. Clint Eastwood, Outlaw Josey Wales

Get busy living or get busy dying.

I’m mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take it any more! Network

Of all the gin joints in all of the cities in all of the world, she has to walk in to mine… Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca.

“We gotta go to the crappy planet where I’m a hero.” – Hoban Washburne (Wash), Firefly Not technically a movie, but still great

“Eight hundred leaf-tables, and NO CHAIRS ??.....Chairs, you got a dinette set…..no chairs, you got DICK…!!”

As some of you may recall, I’m a huge film noir buff. Here is a site I created several years ago featuring my favorite noir quotes and other noir trivia.

So many great lines in NIGHT AT THE OPERA. One of my faves is what Otis B. Driftwood (Groucho Marx) says to Mrs. Claypool (Margaret Dumont) as they climb the gangplank of an ocean liner, he struggling under the weight all her luggage.

She looks back and says in her operatic voice, “Otis, do you have everything? to which he replies, “I haven’t had any complaints yet.”

Still amazed how they got that past the censors.

@Pachy That is one of my family’s favorite movies!

Mine, too, @janbb..

Yippee Ki Yay, Motherfucker. Bruce Willis.

Vivian: Speaking of horses, I like to play them myself. But I like to see them workout a little first, see if they’re front runners or come from behind, find out what their hole card is, what makes them run.

Marlowe: Find out mine?

Vivian: I think so.

Marlowe: Go ahead.

Vivian: I’d say you don’t like to be rated. You like to get out in front, open up a little lead, take a little breather in the backstretch, and then come home free.

Marlowe: You don’t like to be rated yourself.

Vivian: I haven’t met anyone yet that can do it. Any suggestions?

Marlowe: Well, I can’t tell till I’ve seen you over a distance of ground. You’ve got a touch of class, but I don’t know how… how far you can go.

Vivian: A lot depends on who’s in the saddle.

—The Big Sleep (1946). Bogart and Bacall. Screenplay by William Faulkner. Dialogue by Raymond Chandler.

“O’BRIEN: Let me ask you a question. How many changelings do you think are here on Earth right at this moment?
SISKO: I’m not going to play any guessing games with you.
O’BRIEN: Ah. What if I were to tell you that there are only four on this entire planet. Not counting Constable Odo of course. Think of it. Just four of us, and look at the havoc we’ve wrought.
SISKO: How do I know you’re telling me the truth?
O’BRIEN: Four is more than enough. We’re smarter than solids. We’re better than you. And most importantly, we do not fear you the way you fear us. In the end, it’s your fear that will destroy you.”

@Espiritus_Corvus, that was a great exchange. I also love Marlow’s line about the sexy little sister trying to sit in his lap standing up.

“It rubs the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again….”

“I’m saying that when the President does it, it’s not illegal!” – Frost/Nixon (2008)

^^Those interviews are chilling to watch. The man was alternatively apologetic, then obfuscating, then unrepentative till the very end.

As a point of history, Nixon died in ‘94 and the actual interviews took place in 1977. The Hollywood dramatization came out in 2008. Many of Nixon’s alternative interpretation of key facts during the interviews have since been proven to be false based on the release of Judicial documents in the subsequent decades. The man went down a liar.

I consider the documentary listed below to be a very important historical document concerning Watergate. In 2002, twenty years after the Watergate breakin, Mike Wallace interviewed many of the main players long after they had done their time and no longer feared further prosecution:

Nixon: The Secret Story

The true identity of Deep Throat had not yet been revealed. Three years later, in 2005, former assistant FBI director Mark Felt confessed to being Deep Throat. Journalists Woodward and Burnstein, the only people who ever had direct, face-to-face communications with Deep Throat, concurred.

*Bernstein

Doc Holliday : In vino veritas.
Johnny Ringo : Age quod agis.
Doc Holliday : Credat Judaeus Apella, non ego.
Johnny Ringo : Juventus stultorum magister.
Doc Holliday : In pace requiescat.

Tombstone

@josie I love Tombstone.

One of my favs. from the same.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u5A0H6PkqE

Two more from arguably the best movie ever made:

“The Germans wore gray; you wore blue”

“Is that cannon fire, or is it my heart pounding?”

@zenvelo – the second one (cannon fire) is one of the sappiest lines ever shown in a film. It makes me retch every time I hear it.

It is rivaled by the uber-sappy line that Andie MacDowell says way at the end of Four Weddings and a Funeral, when she and Hugh Grant are hugging outside after having decided to NOT get married for the rest of their lives.

Hugh Grant: There I was, standing there in the church, and for the first time in my whole life I realised I totally and utterly loved one person. And it wasn’t the person next to me in the veil. It’s the person standing opposite me now… in the rain.

Carrie: Is it still raining? I hadn’t noticed.

and then the thunder claps.

Utter kitsch.

I’d expect nothing less (or more) from Hugh (“It’s a metabolic meltdown !”) Grawwnt

Drax:“You, Quill, are my friend . . . . This dumb tree is my friend . . . . And this green whore is now my . . .”
Gamora: “You must STOP!”

@elbanditoroso Now I know you are heartless, how could anyone retch at anything said by Ingrid Bergman?

“What is the purpose of your face?”
Said by Oh, in the movie Home.

Boss Paul Vitti: So, did you take care of that thing I asked you about?

Carlo Mangano: It’s all right to talk business in front of your friend?

Boss Paul Vitti: It’s okay.

Carlo Mangano: I took care of it.

Boss Paul Vitti: How about the other thing?

Carlo Mangano: I got to wait for the first thing to come through, before I can move on the second thing.

Boss Paul Vitti: That guy give you a problem or…?

Carlo Mangano: The guy on the first thing?

Boss Paul Vitti: Yeah.

Carlo Mangano: He’s a lunatic.

Boss Paul Vitti: What did he say?

Carlo Mangano: The usual.

Boss Paul Vitti: Did you tell him you weren’t going for it?

Carlo Mangano: What am I gonna do, Paul?

Boss Paul Vitti: You gotta nip that shit right in the bud.

Carlo Mangano: But if the first thing comes through, that’ll fix everything.

Boss Paul Vitti: Exactly. Including the second thing.

Carlo Mangano: Absolutely.

Boss Paul Vitti: Exactly.

[Paul Vitti turns to Ben Sobel]

Boss Paul Vitti: Don’t repeat what you hear here. You hear?

Dr. Ben Sobel: What? The first thing or the second thing?

Boss Paul Vitti: Don’t be a smartass.

—Analyze This (1999) Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal.

Yes, funny movie.

@zenvelo The kind of person who hides under their bed when people give pet names to inanimate objects.

“You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I91DJZKRxs

It has been said that Roy Scheider ad-libbed that line, and Spielberg knew immediately that it was going to stay in the movie….

“omae wa mou shindeiru”

^^^^
Also improvised, as I understand it…..

“At the first sign of betrayal I will kill him, but I promise to return the body intact.”